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Archive for January, 2010

Firefox 3.6 now Available for Download

By • Jan 21st, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

As announced yesterday Firefox 3.6 Final has punctually been released. You can now download this new version of Firefox for your Mac, Linux or Windows platforms. The release notes are not yet available, but hey who needs it after closely following its development from the very first alpha. Linux users (x86) can use this line […]

GNOME Activity Journal hits the Road

By • Jan 21st, 2010 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

GNOME Activity Journal is a nascent but promising tool for the Gnome desktop environment (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva etc ) that provides a simple User Interface to browse and find files on your computer.

Opera and Firefox Downloads in Germany Skyrocketed after Warning against Internet Explorer

By • Jan 21st, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source

First came the warning from the German, Australian, and French governments respectively against Internet Explorer, then came the rush to get safer web browsers like Opera and Firefox. The graph above (from The Register) is very explicit, in Germany alone, Firefox got 300,000 extra downloads in just four days.

Get Google’s Android Platform on Your PC

By • Jan 20th, 2010 • Filed under: Linux Distros, Open-Source

A port of Google’s Android platform is now available for your x86 (32-bit) architecture PC. It is called Android-x86, and has a download-able ISO file you can grab and burn into a Live CD Linux distribution, this means you don’t have to install – with the ISO file you can run it via VirtualBox – […]

Thunderbird 3.0.1 now Available for Download

By • Jan 20th, 2010 • Filed under: Email, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Mac and Linux: After the huge success, here comes the first security and stability update for Thunderbird 3, Mozilla’s desktop email client. Thunderbird 3.0.1 changelog (complete list of changes) is a list of 125 fixed bugs, 25 of which were critical bugs. Several fixes also regarded the user interface and attachment handling.