Recent Posts Tagged With 'beta'

• Microsoft Office 14 screeshots leaked

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 22:58 in Microsoft, productivity, office, beta

  Someone get a mop, the leaks are everywhere.Several screenshots of Microsoft Office 14 - which is currently in alpha testing- have been leaked by Russian site Wzor. beta versions are scheduled to appear sometime in May with the full release slated f...

• Search Twitter with Windows 7's federated search

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 22:53 in search, internet, windows, beta, os updates, windows x64

  It wasn't that long ago that you had a chance to look at a gallery of seven different Windows 7 federated search connectors at work. At the time, I'd found .osdx files for sites like Flickr, YouTube, and DeviantArt.As more people play with the beta, ...

• Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac brings screensharing and more

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 06:40 in voip, freeware, video, Macintosh, web services, utilities, beta

  If you're a Mac-using fan of Skype you'll probably be quite excited about version 2.8 beta of their ubiquitous Voice over IP application. Bringing in a raft of new features, the beta includes the ability to screenshare between machines - a feature no...

• Net2ftp is a solid web-based FTP client

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 13:51 in internet, web, utilities, beta

  Every now and then I need to ftp something from a computer that doesn't have an FTP client installed. Since it always seems to happen when I forget my flash drive, I like the option of using net2ftp's web-based client.The basic interface is all PHP, ...

• Windows 7 beta ISO the hottest download on the net?

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 12:14 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  , the torrents for Windows 7 build 7000 have become more numerous - and extremely healthy.Pirate Bay's now has more than 5,500 seeders and more than twice that number leeching. Mininova's top two torrents have almost 6,000 seeders and 17,000 leechers...

• Windows 7 Beta ISO leaked on torrent trackers

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 01:23 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  Apparently you won't even have to wait until January to get your hands on the Windows 7 Beta release as I mentioned in a previous post. That's right, there's already been an ISO file leaked to several torrent trackers.The ISO appears to contain the ...

• Livedrive provides unlimited online storage

  Posted on Thursday December 25th, 2008 at 10:35 in internet, windows, Security, beta

  Livedrive is an online storage service that offers two advantages over most services in this space: Unlimited file storage Integration with Windows Explorer When you install Livedrive (and reboot your computer), you'll notice an L drive show up in...

• Windows 7 Beta to ship in early January

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 14:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  A number of sources were reporting a mysterious Windows 7 Beta download link that appeared on Microsoft's Windows 7 page. Of course, it would be fairly easy to screenshot a page, make a few edits, and post the doctored image as "proof," so I took th...

• Zviewer beta 2 turns Firefox into a web-based media center

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 21:15 in windows, web, video, beta

  Over the weekend the folks at ZeeVee released a new beta of Zviewer, a PC-based browser for finding and watching web video. ZeeVee makes a set top box that's designed to provide a similar service for $499. But the desktop software is free while in be...

• Limewire 5 Alpha screenshot tour

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 02:55 in internet, freeware, open source, p2p, commercial, beta, social software

  Limewire is one of the oldest filesharing programs around, and it's by far the most popular. The Limewire development team continues to work hard on version 5, which promises to bring some very big changes to the application. After taking a look at W...

• Google Chrome hits 1.0

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 13:35 in google, beta, browsers

  Just in case you needed any proof that software version numbers are meaningless, Google has updated Google Chrome, it's web browser to version 1.0 (or 1.0.154.36 to be exact). Yesterday the latest version of the software was version 0.4.154.29.So why...

• Windows Vista SP2 beta now publicly available

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 08:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  It's December 5, 2008 and - as promised - Microsoft has made the Vista SP2 beta publicly available. Early adopters can install it now and take advantage of improvements like 10% better power saving, reduced resource consumption in sidebar gadgets, W...

• Microsoft to start testing Windows Vista SP2 Beta next week

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 20:57 in windows, beta, os updates

  It looks like the rumors were true. Microsoft is hoping to roll out Windows Vista SP2 before Windows 7 is publicly available. How soon? We don't know for sure. But the company is delivering the first beta version of Vista SP2 to a handful of Technolo...