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After a lengthy Beta cycle, Mozilla has made available the first Release Candidate for Firefox 3.  I’ve been on the beta for several months now, and with the RC1 release we can be reasonably certain to see a full release of Firefox 3 before the summer is out.
Download FF3Rc1 today!
Image Credit: nitot on Flickr

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Wordpress 2.5 is out, warts and all, for public consumption today.  Many users are opting to wait for a burn-in period to take place before taking the plunge.  Several major updates from Wordpress have had a point-release take place within days, usually to fix a security flaw.
I have installed it on the sandbox where I’m [...]

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Please Apple, heed my call.  We’re not all n00bs.
I performed a series of software updates on my computer today.  Apple has learned that some of us would like to know what our update contains, beyond the simple “bug fixes” or “compatibility fixes” that it typically lists with each update.
My ask is simple, whenever there’s a [...]

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Yesterday marked the passing of a legendary figure in the literary world.  Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and dozens of other works, passed away in his adopted homeland of Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
Clarke was a pioneer of science-fiction, along with others like Isaac Asimov, helping to build the genre into [...]

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Today when I checked my email I was given a rather pleasant surprise.  A comment on one of my blog posts from the folks at Flickr Fight.
Hi,
we considered this blog post as a claim and updated our site.
Now we are giving a reference and link to photographer under full sized photos.
Thank you
Flickr Fight Team
Great News!  [...]

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Messaging and “GTD-ish” service Jott has just launched new local numbers in many major cities in Canada. The service has gone from one local number in Toronto, to twenty nation-wide.
Here is an excerpt from the email sent to Canadian Jott users today:
In an effort to protect your privacy, most Canadian mobile providers have blocked [...]

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Pouring through my ever overflowing RSS reader tonight I came across a post on AppScout by Alan Henry about Flickr Fight.  This is a site that allows you to search for two terms, and then determines how popular the term is based on the number of hits returned in a Flickr search (Google Fight knockoff??).  [...]

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It’s been a busy week this week, and there’s some news items that I just didn’t get to yet.  This one comes to us courtesey of TechCrunch.
One of the most popular photo editing programs for Windows has to be Google’s Picasa.  Though it’s not the most full-featured image editing on the market it’s free and [...]

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced yesterday that they have acquired the Open-Source database platform MySQL. This is a huge purchase and one of the largest acquisitions of an Open Source entity that we’ve ever seen.
The goal, says Schwartz, is to put a Fortune 500 vendor behind the innovative technology powering many next generation web-based [...]

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Announced at MacWorld yesterday, the MacBook Air is an ultra-thin laptop that is… well… ultra-thin. It skimps out in almost every other facet from storage to expansion ports and still has the same footprint as larger thicker models.
Kevin Naits put together a great little video montage poking fun at the obsessive nature of the [...]

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