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Kindle for PC beta
I see Amazon has pre-announced the Kindle for PC beta. When I first saw this I’ll admit I was pretty excited – for about 30 seconds. Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required Access your Kindle books even if you ...
Opera Unite Beta: I Don’t Get It
Have you read about (or tried) the Opera Unite beta yet? Announced in the middle of June, the Opera folks say it will “reinvent the web.” I’ve read the Opera articles and some reviews (for instance) but so far haven’t had the urge to try it...
Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta
Last week, Opera announced the latest beta version of their Mobile browser on the Windows Mobile platform. The Dev.Opera site has a nice breakdown of the latest features: New rendering engine: Opera Mobile 9.7 uses our Opera Presto 2.2 rendering e...
Windows 7 Release Candidate
Have you grabbed the Windows 7 Release Candidate yet? No big hurry (it’ll be available into July of 2009) but I think it is definitely worth a look. I upgraded my work laptop earlier today. Well, perhaps upgrade is the wrong term to use… it was a...
Firefox 3.5 beta 4 Out
If you’re into browsers and betas, you’ll likely want to go have a look at the Firefox 3.5 beta 4 release. Most interesting aspect to me? JavaScript, the “J” in “AJAX,” is sped up dramatically in Firefox 3.5 with the new T...
Windows 7 RC Coming May 5th (?)
Word on the street is that the Windows 7 Release Candidate will be coming May 5th. I can’t wait! Not to be total fanboi here, but I’ve been running the Win 7 beta since it came out – not casually either. I installed it on my main work machine a...
Quick Look at Expression Web SuperPreview
If you do web work on Windows, you know what a pain it is to test sites in various flavors of Internet Explorer. The newly announced SuperPreview for Internet Explorer aims to help with that challenge. Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explore...
Quick Followup on Knoppix 6.0.1
Yesterday I mentioned how impressed I was with Knoppix 6.0.1. While I’m still impressed, I have run into a few snags that I figure I should mention. 1) Based on the support forums, this is a beta release. Perhaps that is pointed out somewhere o...
Browser Related Notes: Evernote / Safari / Google Toolbar
A few browser oriented items of note: New Evernote Add-on For the Evernote users, a new take on their Web Clipper. Adding tags, choosing the notebook – heck, all the things you’d go to Evernote to do after a clipping – can now be done on the fl...
Windows 7 Beta
As most of you already know, the Windows 7 Beta has been around for about a week now (beta download). If you’re already a Microsoft Windows user there is some interesting stuff here and you might find it worth a look. However, make sure you think i...
Vista and Windows 2008 Service Pack 2 BETA
As announced at the Vista Team Blog, brave folks and testers can now get their hands on the Service Pack 2 beta for Vista and Windows 2008. While it was announced earlier in the week, the files just recently showed up. Note: You must have Service Pac...
A Quick Look at the WebNotes beta
I was invited to join the WebNotes beta last week and I’ve been kicking it around for a few days now. If you’re looking for an interesting take on research or online collaboration, this tool is definitely worth a look. Oh, and before I forget, I ...
A Quick Look at Google Friend Connect
Earlier this week Google announced that their Friend Connect is now generally available (still in beta though). After watching the intro video I have to confess I still had a bit of a “why do I want this?” attitude. Like I often do in such situ...
Remember Scrybe?
While doing some cleanup work in an oft-neglected email account I stumbled over a beta invite to Scrybe. I had to go check out the site to remember what exactly Scrybe was all about – that invite was from August of last year! But hey, it was still ...
Windows Mobile Browsing Updates
Two of the more full-featured mobile web browsers have offered upgrades recently. I’m not sure which has the edge and think both are worth a look if you’re running a supported device. Today the Opera folks announced an update for Opera Mobile bet...
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
I caught an interesting post on the Windows Server blog earlier today about the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer beta. This thing is pretty slick and if you do any web development in the Microsoft world, it’s something you’ll want ...
Dropbox for Linux
According to a forum post (behind a registration wall) Dropbox has released their beta Linux client. The download page has some good info (and great ASCII art too!) Currently Dropbox for Linux consists of two major components. dropboxd is a per-user ...
Chrome Adoption
Looking at browser stats for this site, yesterday and today, I see: 53.99% - Firefox 32.58% - Internet Explorer 7.24% - Chrome 2.88% - Opera 2.14% - Safari Wow. That’s some fast adoption for a beta browser! I’m a bit stunned. Possibly...
Initial Chrome Thoughts and Reactions
As you’ve likely heard, Google released the first beta of Google Chrome (windows only at this time). This is their entrance into the browser field and is based on WebKit (like Apple’s Safari browser). I haven’t used it enough to have much for o...
Oh Good, We Need More Web Browsers
Yeah, the title for this is sarcasm. I just read Matt Cutt’s post about Google Chrome. I’ve also paged through Google’s “prematurely leaked” (aren’t there pills for that now?) comic book. All very interesting and I’m sure it’ll be fas...
Interesting Updates
BeTwittered – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular micro-blog. I haven’t used it for the past few months (Socialthing has become my favorite/easiest way to monit...
