I have been working the past couple days to finish a bookmarking feature that was requested. At first I was thinking how would our own bookmark system be beneficial when everyone stores their bookmarks with del.icio.us, Google, or on their own computer. After a little while it made some sense to me.
Many people from around the world can test out the new Yahoo! Mail Beta but there is another alternative if you want that fancy AJAX functionality without the slow loading time. As a compromise you will have to be using Firefox because this feature is only available as an extension.
Most of us have probably seen those stickers that read "Be Kind, Please Rewind" on VHS videos that you rent. I bet you have always forgotten to rewind your DVD's though!
Paul Thurrot has a great article for those people who plan on sticking with Windows XP even after Vista is released. He discusses some of the applications that you can use in XP that will give you the same functionality as the ones offered in Vista. Here is a brief overview of the software replacements that that he mentions:
Google is diving even further into the world of search engines by releasing a new site called SearchMash.com. This new site provides users with a slightly different experience than what you get with Google. The biggest difference is that you'll see search results for both the web and images side-by-side for each search that you perform.
Mozilla has released version 0.3 RC1 of their calendar products called Sunbird and Lightning.
I used to use the standard Windows Notepad for a lot of different things until someone made me aware of Notepad++. It is a light text editor that is a great replacement for the Notepad that comes with Windows. It does everything from syntax highlighting for many of the popular programming languages all the way to letting you view two files side-by-side.
Back in November of 2004 Firefox 1.0 was released as a simple Netscape-based web browser that quickly caught the attention of millions of people. Ever since I started using Firefox back then I never really thought to look back to see what Netscape was doing.
