Task Coach is an open source to-do application that improves calendar systems by adding composite tracking of tasks and events – with date and time for each task, and reminder. You can add a task by simply dragging an e-mail message from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer. Task Coach also takes detailed descriptions for entries, URLs and more – it is also the capable of assigning to each job a priority and a color. Recently released version 1.0 amongst many other new features tries to render the applications user interface more intuitive – it can be viewed as a list or as a tree. More
Firefox 3.6.2 security and stability update has been released for all platforms, you can download the new version from the Mozilla website or simply update your current Firefox 3,6, yes Firefox 3.6. Now, don’t think you missed Firefox 3.6.1, it was never released, Mozilla skipped “the version number of Firefox 3.6.1 in order to stay in sync with platform”. More
Mozilla’s developer, Pavlov has announced that the development of a Firefox version for Windows Mobile has been frozen due to lack of collaboration from Microsoft. Pavlov, in this blog post had this to say, as concerns Firefox Mobile and Windows Phone 7
While we think Windows Phone 7 looks interesting and has the potential to do well in the market, Microsoft has unfortunatelydecided to close off development to native applications. Because of this, we won’t be able to provide Firefox for Windows Phone 7 at this time. Given that Microsoft is staking their future in mobile on Windows Mobile 7 (not 6.5) and because we don’t know if or when Microsoft will release a native development kit, we are putting our Windows Mobile development on hold.
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Google has announced the end of hostilities with China, and has stopped censoring its (Google) services in China,
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over
but this is the state of Google Services in China, many blocked services; YouTube, Sites, Blogger.
More here on the Google blog ~ A new approach to China: an update
Ubuntu One Music Store, one of the big features in upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 goes into public beta. Users and testers of Lucid Lynx can give a hand to the developers of this new feature by using (buying and downloading music) and giving feedback to the developers. The hope is to drive lots of feedback that will help build a more stable and flawless Ubuntu One Music Store by the time Ubuntu 10.04 is finally released. More
