Okay, this one was a little bit of a tongue twister so I wasn't quite sure how to say it. Technically I should say Firefox 2 RC1 RC1 but I guess it would make more sense if I refer to it as the first Release Candidate of Firefox RC1. Well, it doesn't really matter how you say it, instead all that matters is that the download is available.
It has been slightly over a month since Opera 9.01 was released but they are nearing another updated build. Just today they made Opera 9.02 RC2 available to the public for testing purposes. Here is the current list of changes that they have announced:
I just received an email from the Writely team that says they are switching to Google authentication soon:
Take a trip down memory lane with the Nerd Watch Museum, (part of pocketcalculatorshow.com) and you'll come across some of the oldest most unusual 'nerd' watches. Their selection is impressive with a huge amount of calculator watches (don't you remember when a calculator watch was THE watch to own?) as well as other classics.
It looks like Google is handling the scalability issue very well with Google Analytics. They now allow you to to create up to 50 profiles. Typically you'll have just one profile per site or subdomain but you can combine them if you want to.
I thought I would give the non-registered users a heads up about our new Spam filter that is used if you are commenting here at CyberNet.
Microsoft is stepping up to YouTube, Google, and Yahoo by offering their own video sharing service called Soapbox. At this stage it is only open by invite only but you shouldn't be disappointed if you don't get in right away. Why? CNet's initial review concludes by saying
When I went to take a look at My Way, one of my first thoughts was that it looked a lot like the old Yahoo! I looked at it for another minute and realized it was really similar to any search engine but with one major difference.... there are no banners or overwhelming advertisements to get in my way.
Well, some of you were skeptics that Picasa 2.5 had officially launched but Google has finally made the announcement themselves. Their list of changes hasn't really been altered since the other day:
Bribe sounds a little harsh so maybe I should say that Yahoo will be offering you an "incentive" to set them as your homepage. There have been a few different sites reporting that this Friday Yahoo will give you a coupon for a free Dunkin Donuts coffee if you set your browser's homepage to Yahoo.
