As the title says: go grab a copy of Mozilla Fennec for your platform and start testing your websites in it! Or start building addons…
Builds running on Linux, MacOS X and Windows (as XULRunner application). Lots of fun guaranteed!
You can find the release notes on the Mozilla project page
PS: GarageTV.be doesn’t look too bad using Fennic for Windows!
Or this is what a teacher from some middle school in the USA. She found out that a student of her was giving a demonstration of Linux to classmates and handing out discs of the HeliOS Project. She confiscated the discs and told her students not to use Linux. She also send an email to the people of the HeliOS Project claiming she wasn’t sure that installing Linux is legal and saying that software isn’t free.
Some people seem to be very afraid of the unknown. The story has a happy ending, though, so check out Tags: HeliOS Project, Linux
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Indeed, Google Chrome is out of beta! You can download the 1.0 release by updating your current installed version or by downloading it!
Not all users are convinced that Chrome is ready to be called “stable”.
Check out the official statement on the Google Chrome Releases blog. Don’t forget to read the comments!
Besides computers, programming, cars, movies, friends, family and my girlfriend, I’ve another interest: planes! I don’t have a flying license, but I hope to get one some time. In the meantime I enjoy flying RC models when the weather in Belgium allows me to.
My plan is to get a license to fly ULM’s one day and maybe move onto something bigger later on. In my search for information I came across different types of planes that are affordable (Afford a Plane), but now I came across a “green” one: the ElectraFlyer – C. It’s a modified glider that has an electrical motor which can make the plane fly for 90 minutes at +/- 110 km/h. When you decides to start “gliding” to land, you can turn the propeller into wind powered generator to charge the batteries.
Maybe this will become my private company plane, one day, maybe, whenever, we’ll see, …
Not that the install base of Silverlight is so big, but it might still be nice to have a working browser plug-in for non-Windows platforms.
The brave developers of the Mono Project have released a beta version of Moonlight 1.0, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.
Check this nice article on Ars Technica for more details or surf to the Moonlight website to grab it right away.
After about 2 years of development, we can finally embrace the first major release of Songbird. It’s an open-source media player using the Mozilla Application Framework that has the capability to surf the web and is able to play, queue or subscribe to embedded media from a web page. Video support isn’t all that super, yet!
There is support of portable media devices, although the support of iPod devices is limited. As a (might-be-maybe-we-will-see) future owner of an iPhone, I would love to see Songbird supporting it. I do not like iTunes at all.
And of course… it’s cross platform! So your Mac, Linux box or Windows PC will happy to run it for you.
UPDATE: After writing this post I searched around a little and came upon this page: 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod. Enjoy :o)
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