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I’m a guy who likes all things updated, that is why when they announced the released of Firefox 3, I just had to grab it pronto!  Today, it has been downloaded close to 20 MILLION times! 
Wall Stree Journal has called Firefox 3 a “record breaking release”, within 24 hours of […]

As a Windows, Linux, and Mac user, I am always interested when something says cross-platform, and LifeHacker doesn’t disappoint with their tutorial on how to create your own cross-platform backup server, something I am currently working on, so the timing couldn’t be better.
I was originally thinking about going the Drobo route, but in the end, […]

The first mobile telephones showing off Google’s own Android software have now gone on show.  Companies including ARM, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm have all demonstrated working prototypes at the annual Mobile World Congress.
The free system was launched way back in November 2007 and is being developed by an alliance of software developers including Google.  The […]

Firefox users are probably aware of the wonders of Greasemonkey but, for those of you that aren’t,  it’s an addon that allows you to customize the way pages look. Although development of a script will be out of reach for most users, customizing a website with a premade one isn’t.

Dailybits did us a favor and […]

In what I see as a very strange change, Sun Microsystems now owns the open source database system MySQL. They were sold to Sun for one billion dollars, which isn’t the IPO that many people were expecting from the company.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote about the purchase on his blog.

MySQL is by far the […]

KDE is one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux, so popular, that it’s led Ubuntu developers to create a “separate” version of Ubuntu using it (the “original” one uses Gnome). KDE developer, Stephan Binner, recently released a new Live CD of the fourth iteration of the program that not only tries to make […]

While Adobe stretches the Photoshop brand into many different programs, the popular open-source alternative: GIMP, continues to catch up to the features of the world’s best image editing tool.

Despite only having a decimal increase, the developers could have very well called this new version of Gimp 3.0, and no one would complain. Not only does […]

If you’re a Mac user, you don’t have as many choices of Office suites as you do with Windows, but that doesn’t mean that the current offering of Microsoft’s Office, or the Mac OS port of OpenOffice, named NeoOffice, are bad.
Even so, Mac OS users have been cursed with countless delays for the upcoming version […]

Even though people love Mozilla products, there is no denying that Thunderbird simply hasn’t grasped as much attention as ThunderBird has. Although it’s more noticeable now than before, Thunderbird updates were always relatively slower than Firefox ones.
Due to these two reasons Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla CEO, is asking the community of Thunderbird users what they […]

If you were hoping to test a near-finished version of the next major Firefox build before Summer was over, then you might be out of luck, as Mozilla has just announced that the release date for the official Beta of Firefox 3 has been delayed, due to performance regressions on the front-end development.
“We are driven […]

Mozilla has a wide number of offsprings, from the “social” browser Flock to the lightweight, Mac adapted one: Camino. It hasn’t been an easy road for them, but after a year of hard work, they have finally released the next major version of the popular browser.
So what are the main features of this new […]

The latest version of the popular browser, which we featured here not too long ago, has just been released. Unfortunately, there are no new features for it. It is simply a security update that increases compatibility with the Vista Operative System.
There are also two new language translations of the browser in Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian […]

We previously covered iBegin when they opened up business data, allowing everyone to download it for free.
Today they’ve added another interesting feature - ‘Embed This’
I do some local web design from time to time, and it is always important to make sure that customers know how to get to your clients. This new […]

After was seemed to be never-ending delays, Pidgin 2.0 final has finally been released. I haven’t noticed many graphical changes since the last Beta release which I wrote about not too long ago. If you use Windows the tray icon changed, and that’s about it in terms of appearance I think.
I tried to find a […]

The team behind (formerly known as Gaim) have released what they are calling the final beta before the final version, and have finally given the program a much needed “beauty treatment”, although in terms of layout, it remains pretty much the same.
Other than that, this is a bugfix release. So there are no new […]

HandBrake is a handy Open Source application that allows you to rip your DVDs into other video formats. Although it used to be a Mac-only application, the latest build is compatible with the 3 most popular Operative Systems: Windows, Mac and Linux.
Besides being multi-platform, it now supports the media formats of some of the most […]