Archive for the 'software' Category
Firefox v3.0.1
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 26th Jul, 2008
I’ve just upgraded to FireFox v3.0.1 which seems like a minor issuefix release. Here’s what has changed:
Firefox 3.0.1 fixed several issues found in Firefox 3.
Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly [...]
Outlook vs Google Mail
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Jul, 2008
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Ever wondered if you should be using Outlook or Gmail? Well, Lifehacker have put together a great write-up comparing features between the two ways of approaching email. Now, strictly speaking, the two mechanisms are totally different beasts, with Outlook designed for the corporate [...]
FireFox 3 Release Date
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 12th Jun, 2008
FireFox 3 will be available on Thursday 17th June. I picked it up this morning from Techeme and the news is already spreading like wildfire. The developer ecosystem has been preparing for this for some time now with lots of plugins already supporting the new version and it’s nice to see Google Gears have got [...]
FireFox 3 RC2 now available
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 5th Jun, 2008
I’ve just upgraded my browser to Release Candidate 2 of FireFox 3 which has some bug fixes over the previous version. I had some problems with Beta 5, but have been using RC1 without any issue ever since it was made available. It seems like there’s quite a bit of effort put into the quality [...]
Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th May, 2008
It seems like WorldWide Telescope is now available for people to download by Mac and PC users around the world. It’s a pretty heavy application so make sure you have a decent PC to run it on. It needs 1Gb of RAM with 2Gb recommended, 1Gb of hard disk space (10Gb for offline viewing) and [...]
Giving up on FF3b5
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 9th May, 2008
What a shame! I’ve tried switching back to using FireFox 3 Beta 5, but I just can’t get it to keep running on my Vista laptop. It runs for a bit, crashes, then Windows reports a Data Execution Prevention issue with it. This morning I just get getting DEP errors every time I ran [...]
New Look on StrivePR
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 31st Mar, 2008
Spent some time over the weekend playing with Strive Notes, the blog a friend of mine uses for her PR firm. It was my first installation of the finished version WordPress 2.5 and I was pretty impressed at how smoothly it all went. The blog upgrade was flawless, took around 20 seconds and everything just [...]
