Firefox has a new exciting extension, called Yip. In Linux/Ubuntu, it brings standard Mozilla pop-up notifications ( the Thunderbird type of Taskbar tray pop-up mail-notification) for web applications to your Firefox browser. Tests can be carried out with web applications that have notifications implemented like Meebo, Filttr – – a twitter web application and client. […]
WordPress 2.8 code-named Baker is now available for download. This full release comes with a bunch of bug fixes – – over 790 bugs, widgets, taxonomies, improvements to themes and overall speed. The upgrade bar at the top of the WordPress Dashboard that says “Word 2.8 is available! Please update now” is not yet available, […]
Appetizer is a free open source application launcher for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Appetizer is highly customizable – it is skin-able, resizeable, with vertically and horizontally display, it supports plugins and keyboard shortcuts – – you can assign a hotkey to hide and show the launcher, for example. Appetizer can be installed or used […]
Ubuntu One Beta, the Dropbox type of service by Canonical has finally kicked off, but not for all. When my invitation arrived I quickly moved on to test it. A quick look; it is very intuitive, yes, but damn slow and often breaks – – that certainly why it’s still a beta. To install, just […]
With Su.pr is a new service by StumbleUpon that permits you to shorten a URL and share it across Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. It’s a closed beta, and you need an invitation to get-in.