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Is it just me or since upgrading to Firefox 2.0.0.4, it get stuck much more often. Actually before the upgrade Firefox hardly even froze on, at least not when i had less than 30 tabs open. Now it seems like it get stuck sporadically with no regard to the operation I’m performing.
It starts with
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Even though the official lunch is not here yet, you can already download Firefox 2.0 Final version now from Mozilla’s FTP site.
Here are a few of the available releases:
For Windows:
Firefox 2.0 for Windows (English).
Firefox 2.0 for Windows (French).
Firefox 2.0 for Windows (German).
Firefox 2.0 for Windows (Italian).
For Mac:
Firefox 2.0 for Mac (English).
Firefox 2.0 for Mac
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When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Its hard drive space is made available for use, but until that space is overwritten, your old data is usually intact. Restoration by Brian Kato recovers such files on either FAT or NTFS partitions.
Restoration is a freeware program that restores deleted files
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It’s not on any of the official sites/blogs yet, but can already be download from Mozilla’s FTP site.
No official word on what does this update include.
You can check out all available versions here: Mozilla FTP site

Feel like trying out Windows Vista? Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is ready for public testing. Grab it and test it for yourself.

At first is seemed like yet another blooper hits a big company. Microsoft Canada supposedly accidentally released Windows Vista pricing on Microsoft’s Canadian website. When the mistake was “found” the listings were remove promptly.
Here are the prices as presented on the Canadian site (in US$):
Vista Ultimate
Upgrade: $269.931
Full Retail: $450.581
Vista Home Premium
Upgrade: $179.691
Full Retail: $269.931
Vista Home
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Preloadr is a tool that offers free photo editing for your Flickr photos without the need to download them back to your computer. Preloadr fully utilizes the Flickr API to bring you very useful photo manipulation capabilities.
One of the service advantages is that you’re not required to make an account, just login through
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Google is rolling out two new features onto Gmail. The first allows you to delete all spam mails messages with a single click. The second will allow you to apply new filters to existing emails (retroactively) and not only new arriving mails as it was before.
A one-button click to delete all messages in the
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When Microsoft bought Visio and added it to their Offile line of products I thought it was a brilliant move. Now comes what might become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser.
Gliffy makes it easy to publish a diagram you create to the Web. It keeps a live
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Both Ed Bott and Chris Pirillo think WinZip is heading toward extintion, why? Thats what Ed Boot have to say: “In fact, the new, $29.95 license (the pro version is a mind-boggling $50) doesn’t include any upgrade rights unless I pay an extra $6.95 for upgrade assurance. (I think that’s close to what I paid
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Let’s pretend we’re all surprised… ooh haa…. Why? Microsoft Windows Vista will be delayed, again! According to latest reports, Windows Vista will be available only around the second quarter of 2007, months after Microsoft has promised.
Microsoft will release a second test version of Vista this month or next, which won’t give the company enough
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PHP 5.1.3 has been released, not many additions, but many important bug fixes.
This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3
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Need old versions of Firefox to test your web application? Here are two good ones:
The ulmimate resource Mozilla FTP site.
Firefox at OldVersion.com.
Firefox at OldApps.com.
Mozilla old versions (FTP).
Netscape old versions.
Opera at OldVersion.com.
Opera FTP site.

Mozilla has released a security and stability update for the Thunderbird E-mail client. This release is here to fix a pretty big list of bugs.
From the release:
Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 provides stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safer email experience for our users. We recommend that all Thunderbird users
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Not many people hesitanted to install the beta version of Google Desktop 3 in various available languages. Now Google Desktop 3 is out of beta and ready for everyone. Available languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian. We’ll see if other languages follow.