It seems like every few days someone is digging up some dirt on a new Google service or at least sniffing out some upcoming features. Tony Ruscoe really went above and beyond when he realized that registering for a new account at sandbox.google.com created an account but it was not a normal Google account. Once he created an account he was presented with the available
Thus far, Microsoft's Office Beta 2 has been downloaded over 3 million times for free. According to a spokeswoman for Microsoft, that is 500% more than what was originally expected. Because of the high costs of downloading from the servers, beginning next Wednesday at 6 p.m. those who download the new beta will be charged a $1.50 fee.
While new downloads will cost a
John Haller from PortableApps.com has finally released Firefox 1.5.0.5 and 2.0 Beta 1 with some snazzy new features. Here is what he has to say about the what's new:
Live/CD Support - Firefox Portable supports running from a CD or other read-only media right out of the box. You just need change one setting to do it, too. Best of
The Windows Vista RC1 release is scheduled for August 15. Hopefully those people who downloaded Beta 2 actually installed it and activated it because you will be receiving RC1 as well. It is kind of Microsoft's way of saying "Thanks for putting up with a buggy operating system" (to put it nicely :D ).
It also looks like another build of Vista has been leaked to the
With back to school coming up, there will be herds of college students (most with parents in tow) out to buy laptops. Dell is offering a free notebook skin to try to entice people to purchase any Inspiron or XPS M1210 notebook. They've got a wide variety of skins to choose from with several college or university designs as well as patterned designs. Here you can find the
Matt Goyer who is part of the Windows Media Center team has now said that they are working on adding tag capabilities to the Windows Vista Media Center. This would mean that users could easily find their photos without the need to organize them into a folder structure. If you really wanted to you could throw all of your photos into one folder
Since Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 I decided to put together a portable version for the several requests that I had. If you are looking for a more stable version John Haller has it over at PortableApps.com.
All you have to do is download the Portable Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 file below. Then you unzip the file and browse for the file PortableThunderbird.exe. Just
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