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New Releases: Firefox 3.5 Preview Available

By • Jun 9th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Ubuntu, Windows

Firefox 3.5 Preview is not a direct download, you can obtain it via an update of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, from the Help -> Check For Updates menu. Firefox 3.5 preview release aims at fixing stability and JavaScript issues. It also offers better support for Ogg-coded audio and video codecs. Safari 4 Browser Released: Safari […]

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Round-Up

By • Jun 9th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Round-Up started from here: Quick and Simple Tips to Personalize your Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope It will be a good start to mention some of the annoyances Ubuntu 9.04 comes along with, and their respective solutions, gathered from the web/Ubuntu Community. The first is; Reinstating the Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace […]

Official Google Chrome Alpha for Ubuntu/Debian

By • Jun 5th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu

“DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!”: Google has made available Chrome browser for Mac and Linux on its Chromium blog, but it does not advise you to download them – – this early version for Linux is said to be incomplete and unpredictable. If you still want to test and try Chrome on your Intel Ubuntu 9.04 box, […]

Opera 10 Beta ‘Turbo’ Released

By • Jun 3rd, 2009 • Filed under: Opera-Browser, Ubuntu, Windows

Opera Software releases the first edition of Opera 10. Opera 10 Beta is to be noted for it’s enhanced speed and performance. Turbo Opera 10 is said to “offer a variety of new features, including compression technology that can cut by a third the time it takes pages to load on slow networks.”

Mumbles Brings Growl-like Notifications to your Gnome/Ubuntu Desktop

By • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

You’ve certainly have bumped into Gmail Notifier for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the awesome little python-install application that brings Growl-like, transparent Gmail notifications to your desktop, Mumbles goes a lot further than that. Mumbles is a promising open source, plugin-driven, python application that can be re-baptised as “Growl for Linux”. Using the DBus notification system […]