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What do you call this? I call it bullshit propaganda. Microsoft pits up
IE8 against Firefox and Google Chrome and in all ten cases, IE8 comes out victorious or almost. It seems the browser-war is driving Microsoft crazy. Howdid they come-up with blatant lies like
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you’d want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box.
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The popular open source music player Songbird goes 1.2. The new version is said to include full integration with iTunes. The 2-way Sync with iTunes permits those who buy content from iTunes Music Store to export iTunes library tracks and playlists into Songbird and vice versa, that is, you can also export your Songbird tracks and playlists to iTunes, hence into your iPhone or iPod. More»
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For Windows, Mac OS X, Linux: Desktop virtualization application, VirtualBox announced the release of a major update, VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1.
New features added in this major update include:
– Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
– Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)
– Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
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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 like a portable application on your USB key/drive. On installation, it imports shortcuts from your start menu and quick launch menu. If used on a USB key, it imports your portable applications, documents and multimedia.
Free, Open Source, feather-weight, portability – all qualities that put Appetizer amongst the best application launchers – – on windows.
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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 4 leaves beta and becomes a full release for Pc and Mac. It claims to “The world’s fastest browser”when compare to others like IE8 (Opera also claims to be the fastest browser around). Download
AbiWord v2.7.3 Released: AbiWord, the Microsoft Word open source alternative gradually moves towards the version 2.8 landmark. The changes from v2.7.2 to v2.7.3 include, amongst others: “Make AbiWord work on Maemo again, and improve its interface for the small form factor Make work AbiWord on Maemo again, and improve its interface for the small form factor” – – More
GRUB 2 now default for new installations: The boot loader of existing installations will not be modified, not even when you upgrade to new versions of GRUB Legacy. But if you’re eager to try GRUB 2 then get instructions Here. Read-on
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