Archive for the 'software' Category

Eight Million…

… The number of Firefox 3.0 downloads the Mozilla Foundation claim took place within 24 hours of the browser’s launch. At least three of them was me. Thanks to nerd. for reminding me! The Telegraph’s Claudine Beaumont reports that the world record attempt almost ended in failure.

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Firefox3 Download Day

Mozilla, the makers of popular web browser Firefox want to break the record for the most software downloads in one day. Download Day 2008 will coincide with the launch of Firefox3 (codename “Gran Paradiso”).
You can try-out Release candidate by downloading from the Mozilla website. However I suggest using the Firefox 3 RC1 Portable [...]

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Keithblog on Vista

Just as a follow up to the last post.
I hate getting used to new operating systems. They move the important bits about just to annoy people. Whatever happened to My Documents? Was removing the two extra characters (three if you include the space) some sort of cost cutting measure?

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Microsoft discount software for LDCs

Microsoft have announced that it will be providing a discounted version of its software applications to “qualifying governments” beginning later this year for around US$3.00. The package is called the “Student Innovation Suite“. It will include a range of Microsoft software including;

Windows XP Started Edition,
Office Home and Student 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Including learning [...]

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Picasa Web Albums

Well, that’s it. I have deleted my Flickr account for good. Decided to stick with Google and their Picasa Web service. For one I kept forgetting my user name and password for Flickr and most importantly it’s owned by Yahoo!, so there was always a theological question mark over my membership.
Picasa Web is much [...]

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Firefox is back and better than ever…

Firefox is back with a shiny new interface. Upgrading was as easy as ever, all my add-ons and themes were upgraded during the installation process, so everything works fine.
A very nice addition is the ability to save your browsing session, whenever you log on you can start where you left off. Search suggestions are [...]

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Microsoft Expression Web - the new FrontPage

Just downloaded one of the replacements for Microsoft Frontpage - Microsoft Expression Web. Basically there are two types of FrontPage replacements, SharePoint (which is part of the new office suite) and Expression (a new group of graphic programs aimed at developers and designers) . I’m using Expression simply because my host doesn’t support SharePoint extensions.
I [...]

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