The Mozilla development community has rolled out the latest beta of its Firefox 3.6 browser.
In addition to the usual round of bug fixes, Firefox 3.6 beta version 5, comes with a number of new features and performance enhancements. The browser offers the ability for users to easily reskin the browsers with a new visual theme. The new version can also run scripts asynchronously, which should speed load times of pages that have multiple scripts.
Mozilla Messaging hopes to release Thunderbird 3.1 in early April, a date that reflects a new frequent-release strategy adopted from the better-known Firefox effort at Mozilla. Dan Mosedale, a programmer for the open-source e-mail software, published the date in a Thunderbird schedule draft he announced Thursday.
Two developers said they created a tool, called DECAF, that compromises Microsoft's COFEE computer-forensics tool by killing its processes, disabling a computer's connection ports and even conjuring up fake MAC addresses. It's fake.
After numerous media outlets reported this week that there were delinquent hackers trying to thwart COFEE-assisted cyber-crime investigations, the DECAF developers on Friday revealed their creation as a publicity stunt. They said the COFEE tool Microsoft gives to police is luke-warm.
The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways.
While startups and established data warehousing vendors such as Sybase and Teradata are embracing Hadoop and its Google-developed progenitor, MapReduce, Microsoft is resisting it.
Desktop virtualization is one of those technologies that confound the experts. Just when you think you've got it figured out, along comes some interloping development to upset the apple cart. Most recently, that role has fallen to Sun's VirtualBox, the plucky open source VM solution that's quickly gobbling up the general-purpose desktop virtualization space left vacant by Microsoft and VMware. Users from the three major platforms -- Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux -- are flocking to VirtualBox for its scalability, robust networking, and bargain price point (it's free).
Now that Google Wave has opened up to one million users and there are countless unused invites floating around, just about anyone who wants to take Google’s new collaboration tool for a spin can do so. Sure, some users are disappointed with the platform, but if you’re among them you’ll have to admit that whether it’s going to catch on or not, it’s been used for some neat stuff.
Adobe's Flash player has had its share of security issues, so much so that some users have refused to install it. Here's technique that will allow you to keep Flash installed, but allow it to run under your control. It's called ClicktoFlash, and it'll speed up your Safari browsing too.
Less than two weeks ago, the source code for Google’s Chrome OS was released on November 19, 2009 under open source licensing as Chromium OS. It took less than a day, for the first hacked Chrome OS developer build to go live on the Internet. Very soon it got torrented and hosted, courtesy of a geek celeb who goes why the name of Hexxeh.
The first build required 4GB, but a new and vastly improved ‘diet build’ is now available as a 300MB direct download, it extracts to a 950MB image that can run off a USB stick.
The Sony PS3 is in line to receive yet another firmware update, although it will be optional this time around. Version 3.15 will probably see support for PSP Minis on the PS3. Similar to PSone classics, a solitary purchase from the PlayStation Store will function on both platforms, which is how it should be in the first place anyways. Folks who have picked up a Mini and want to enjoy it over the PS3 can access it via the Store's archived Download List. Update 3.15 will also make life much simpler when you move data from one PS3 to another as well.
Mozilla is a company that is great at making free, yet high quality, software. Though it is most famous for Firefox, the company has many other projects, which also boast a high userbase. A great example of these projects is Thunderbird, which has just hit version 3.0 earlier today.
Some of changes include:
New Search with Advanced Filtering Tools
New Global Search Field with Autocomplete
Tabbed Email Messages
New Add-ons Manager
IMAP Folder Synchronization
