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The beta is back for Google Chrome

Yesterday marked a new release of Google Chrome, the new version is yet again in beta (Google like its beta stuff). They are implementing some new features, we’ve even gotten to a point where there’s a pretty neat one not available in other browsers by default. In their own words:
The first thing you might notice [...]

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Categories: Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Release

Is anyone else feeling that the Google Chrome developers are desperately trying to raise the version number of the Google Chrome browser to be on pair with Mozilla Firefox and probably Internet Explorer? It is hard to see another reason if you look at the release schedule. The Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta was released less [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Windows Live Wave 3 is Available

Martin pointed out a few hours ago Windows Live Wave 3 would be up for download soon, well good news! It’s finally here and you download it right away!
I’m typing this is as I sit here waiting for the 134mb file to download so I can’t give you my opinions on the update yet but [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Sep 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Alphas, Betas and Why we’re all Guilty

It’s been remarked upon of late that the concept of beta software has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Perhaps Google was a major influence (sigh… Gmail) or perhaps the Internet in general.
The terms ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ have become muddied and confused over the years. Here is what these initial releases once meant:
Alpha Builds: [...]

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Categories: Online Services, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 11

Kwippy Invites

While I do have Twitter, Facebook and several other accounts I barely use them and cannot see a real gain for using them extensively. Quite the opposite. Still, I was invited by Joe from Webby’s World to Kwippy which from first looks seems to be some sort of Twitter clone. It is currently in private [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jun 18th, 2008
  • Comments: None

Windows Longhorn Blog

It may be a little late to be discussing leaks of Windows Longhorn seeing as the project was reset over 4 years ago and we are now looking at Windows 7 on the horizon.
However I just discovered a very interesting blog today called UX.Unleaked which has been providing regular dialogues over the past month on [...]

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Categories: Windows

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jun 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Flock 2 Beta

Well this month has been all about browsers as both Firefox and Opera release new versions and people compare each of the 4 main competitors Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Flock is built on top of Firefox and the team have been working hard over the last couple months to upgrade Flock to the new [...]

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Categories: Browsing

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