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Mozilla Aims For Firefox 3.0 Download Record
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
For the upcoming release of Firefox 3, Mozilla aims to set a new world record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The company has put out a call to its global community of users to pledge to download the new 3.0 version of Firefox on the day the browser is made available to the public. Continue Reading
Windows 7 Shows Microsoft Hasn’t Learned Vista Lessons
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
The project was called MinWin, a Microsoft effort to slim down the next version of Windows. The company said it had heard, loud and clear, that another bloated OS like Vista wouldn’t fly. Then Windows 7 galumphed into the room. Microsoft is spending much of this week offering glimpses of its next operating system at the All Things Digital Conference. If the previews are any indication, MinWin has joined BOB on the ash heap of Redmond’s abandoned projects. Indeed, Windows 7 looks like it’s going to include many of Vista’s useless CPU and memory hogging “features” and then some. In other words, it will be time to upgrade the hardware again when Windows 7 ships in the next year-and-a-half or so. Continue Reading
Adobe offers sneak peek of CS4 apps
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
Adobe Systems is offering two-day trials of three beta applications from its next Creative Suite package. The previews of Dreamweaver for Web design, Fireworks for image editing, and Soundbooth for audio editing became available Monday. Trials expire after 48 hours for most people, but registered CS3 users get to keep using the CS4 betas until the final applications replace them. Adobe hasn’t publicly confirmed its planned shipping date or the name for the next Creative Suite, which we’re nicknaming CS4. Adobe Creative Suite 3 was released in March 2007. Continue Reading
Windows 7 info officially revealed
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
With Vista struggling Windows 7 it’s the OS on everyone’s lips at the moment. It could be set for an early release in Q4 2009. Chris Flores, from the official Windows Vista Team Blog brings us up-to-date. Flores has conceded that Microsoft is working on Windows 7, but has stated that this is normal in the Windows OS cycle. “…we started working on Windows Vista even before we released Windows XP. So naturally, we’ve been thinking about the investments we made in Windows Vista and how we can build on these for the next version of Windows,” he said. Continue Reading
6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
If you are a die-hard Firefox user then I am sure you are always on the look-out for tips and tweaks to get more out of Firefox in less time and hence be more productive.Keeping that in mind, I decided to list six Firefox extensions, which I use in my daily life and which have been extremely helpful in saving me a great deal of time. I hope you will find them useful too. Continue Reading
The 100 Best Products of 2008
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
This year’s tech gems–as picked by PC World editors and readers–will leave you more productive, connected, and entertained.
After a good deal of–ahem–lively discussion, the editors at PC World have completed this year’s list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services we knew to be good, we rated each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact; the ones garnering the highest total scores made our list. Note that we chose not to rate products specifically on their price or value, focusing instead on their overall quality. After the scoring was over and the dust had cleared, we had a list that served, among other things, to remind us of what an exciting time in tech this truly is, with game-changing product development happening on many fronts. Continue Reading
Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
Santa Clara (CA) – GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely new class of software. It appears that the next Photoshop will be one of the first mainstream applications that will tap into the GPU for a speed up. And, at least from what we have seen during a first demonstration, the progress is simply stunning. Continue Reading
Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
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The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla’s finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it’s time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make “Gran Paradiso” the browser to beat. Nearly everything in the open-source app has gotten a second look from the minds at Mozilla, from back buttons to bookmarks, address bars to add-ons, passwords to performance, and the changes will make Firefox 3 worth the upgrade come its official release date, slated for sometime next month. Let’s take a look at the 10 best upgrades in Firefox 3, and how they’ll bolster your browsing, after the jump. Continue Reading
Firefox 3 On Track To Be Speediest Browser
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
Now that Mozilla’s locked down Firefox 3′s final feature set with Friday’s push of release candidate 1, it’s official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager, the best reason to upgrade will be for the performance improvements. Firefox 3 is noticeably faster and more stable than Firefox 2 to the casual user and Mozilla engineers have numbers that show it will be the fastest browser on the market. Tech site TechWeb reports: Continue Reading
Intel to update desktop CPU lines in 3Q08
// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News
Intel is planning to cut desktop CPU prices in the third quarter this year, along with the launch of more quad-core and dual-core models, according to sources at motherboard makers. The performance-level Core 2 Quad Q9650 with a core frequency of 3GHz will launch priced at US$530 in thousand-unit tray quantities, while the Core 2 Quad Q9550 will drop around 40% from its original price of US$530 to US$316. The Core 2 Quad 9450, currently priced at US$316, will be phased out of the market to be replaced by the Core 2 Quad 9400 at 2.66GHz and a price of US$266. The Core 2 Quad Q9300 and Q6700 will both be phased out at the same time too, leaving the Q6600 as the only 65nm quad-core CPU left in Intel’s lineup, and which will drop from US$224 to US$203. Continue Reading