Linux can be a pain to get use to if you have been using Windows for years and years. Freespire is aiming to capture those Windows users and win their hearts over. A review of Freespire RC1 (with screenshots) talks about how smooth it runs even on machines that already have an Operating System installed:
Installing the operating system to co-exist with another OS is still
It looks like Lycos is finally jumping into the email competition by upgrading users to 3GB of storage! GMail continues to approach that number so that isn't anything super special. Do you want to know why I will be creating a Lycos email account though?
Lycos is setting the email standard, in my opinion, because you can send files of ANY size. If you have that
Meebo just launched a new service called MeeboMe which lets you put a chat widget on your Web site. Users will then be able to see when the publisher is online and chat with them directly. This only allows one-on-one conversations at this point but could be expanded to group chats in the future.
The weirdest thing about MeeboMe is that the
The ever popular Yahoo! Music Engine has been given a new name, Yahoo! Music Jukebox and some upgrades. The new version is a combination of Yahoo Music Engine and Musicmatch Jukebox. Highlights of the new upgraded version mentioned in their press release are:
- New Audio Equalizer: A new 5-band equalizer allows users to adjust the sound of their favorite music in a
Opera has updated their wonderful new browser with some great bug fixes. Opera 9.01 has a pretty long list of changes and they recommend everyone to update to this release. Here are a few of the things I am glad to see they fixed:
- Newsfeeds can be renamed again.
- Right-click to save images no longer puts the file in the list of transfers.
- Solved upload problems with
Microsoft is very well known for charging hundreds of dollars for their flagship products like Office and Windows, but did you know that they offer more than 150 programs for free? I had no clue it was that much until this site put together a list of all the software. Some of the things on the list are from the Window XP PowerToys and
Even though we were hoping and dreaming of a Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 as early as next week you might be disappointed to find out that it has been pushed back to August 15. I have to admit that I was very unhappy to find this out because I really want to see the Visual Refresh first-hand, but I wasn't surprised. The refresh
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