Mozilla has hit another huge milestone, this time with their email management software called Thunderbird. The newest Thunderbird 2 contains a whole list of new features that I normally just point out really quick.
After lots of speculation, Google has officially announced the addition of “Presentations” to the Google Docs and Spreadsheets family. Along side that, the additional announcement was made that they have acquired Tonic Systems.
According to BetaNews, Microsoft is preparing to launch their Windows Live Hotmail service in the United States sometime in May. It has already been launched in India and Belguim, and other countries like France and the UK should expect it in the next few days.
Microsoft has created a new bar code system that replaces the standard black and white vertical bars with specific patterns of colored triangles. By doing this they are able to pack in more information into such a small space.
YouTube is just about done with their automated copyright filtering system that was originally supposed to launch last year. Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls it “Claim Your Content” and it will help keep copyrighted material off of YouTube by preventing it from being uploaded in the first place. Schmidt says that they’re “very close to turning this on.”
Lifehacker just got done putting together a great guide on supercharging your Gmail account. They mostly cover things like Greasemonkey scripts that you can use, but throw in a few other things, too. They also mention a Firefox extension they created that incorporates almost all of the scripts so that you don’t have to worry about having Greasemonkey installed.
Less than a month ago I wrote about a new meta search engine called Younanimous that aggregated search results from Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. With each search result it would list the position on each particular search engine as well as the PageRank and Alexa Rank.
Tellme which was recently acquired by Microsoft, has released a new 411–like service for people on the go. You can get information via voice, SMS, or even Mobile Web.
Many Linux applications don't have to be installed manually because most distributions have implemented a package management system to make it easier for you to install software. But that's not always the case. Some programs only offer tarball packages for download, which have to be compiled from source. We'll show you how to do that.
Yesterday Netvibes introduced Netvibes Universe, a compilation of both personal and branded universes that will give you access to more information. Netvibes is known as being one of the best personalized Ajax-based homepages organized with tabs, and filled with user selected widgets.
Wikipedia is an absolute phenomenon when it comes to aggregating the knowledge of people around the world. There are over 75,000 active contributors working on more than 5,300,000 articles in more than 100 languages (source).
