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Archive for November, 2009

Updating to Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Filed under: Ubuntu, Windows

Adobe AIR gets a major upgrade as it moves to version 2.0. This is still a beta release, but a beta worth trying given the many improvements this beta has with respect to Adobe AIR 1.0. Despite the many flaws in version 1.0 it still succeeded in pushing to our desktops great applications like the […]

Google Chrome Frame Bug Fixing Update

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Windows

Google Chrome Frame plug-in that plugs Chrome into Internet Explorer browser has been update to version 4.0.245.1. This update tries to stop Chrome Frame from crashing, to fix a security issue present in earlier versions that made them vulnerable to a cross-origin bypass and fixes several bugs like;

Open-Source Sumatra PDF Reader Goes 1.0

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Windows

Windows: Sumatra, the lightweight, open source PDF reader has reached version 1.0. This free PDF reader for Windows only made its way into the PDF-world back in 2008 and (was mentioned on this blog) immediately became an alternative to the rather bulky Adobe Reader (with its boring updates). Sumatra focuses mainly on PDF viewing, it […]

Fedora 12 Officially Out

By • Nov 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Distros, Open-Source

The Fedora project is very proud to present their latest innovative work, Fedora 12. This free and open source Linux operating system with its six months release cycle consider Fedora 12 their greatest release ever. What’s new in Fedora 12;

Google Chrome for Linux Gets Bookmarks Sync

By • Nov 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Chromium builds for Linux recently got Bookmark Sync, Google Chrome for Linux followed suit by updating to Google Chrome 4.0.249.0 builds with built-in bookmark sync. Like with Chromium you’ll have to add --enable-sync to your launching command from the command-line to enable “Sync my bookmarks” in the wrench. Your bookmarks will also be synced to […]