Opera announced renunciation of registration fees: Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download – completely free of charge This is a good news because another cross-platform free web browser has appiared in the computer world!
TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2005
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. It’s updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The first 8 languages you can in the table below: Position Programming Language Ratings (Ratings) 1 Java 22.442% +6.55% 2 C 19.160% +2.04% 3 C++ 11.168% -3.75% 4 Perl 9.274% […]
Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 is released
Right after Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Mozilla Foundation has released Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1. Among novelties are spell check right after typing, auto save as draft for mail composition etc. Have a look that page for more details. Be free to download and test the new version of Thunderbird!
Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond!
Microsoft surprised the world again. It tried to offer job to Eric Raymond who is one of the most famous person in the open source community. Eric Raymond is well known fighter for open code. His open letters give rise to stormy discussions. You can read original letter from Microsoft, Raymond’s answer and comments here.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is released!
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 which has a work name Deer Park is released! You can download it here, test it and help to developers to make Firefox 1.5 perfect! Changelog is here. Persinally, I’ve already downloaded Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and I’m ready to try to use it :). Updated: Note that after upgrate current version of Firefox to 1.5b1 many useful extensions (Web Developer, […]
Yet Another Photo Hostings
Lately I’ve found a free hosting for my pictures – Flickr which is a part of Yahoo! now. It gives an opportunity to upload, organize, describe, comment your pictures. Flickr has user friendly interface, many useful features like post a picture into your blog (it supports all famous blog systems like wordpress :)), manipulate picture – rotate or scale, organize pictures in the sets, share […]
Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked
Recently, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It can be easy cracked within 24 hours. After you run Windows Update and the program found updates but before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to […]
Fox + IE = Foxie
Foxie is a new Mozilla project which should help to people move from IE to Firefox. It contains a big list of useful extension which come with distributive: AdBlock, Desktop Search, Smarter Search, Security Firewall etc. I don’t like IE and I don’t use it. If Firefox is not installed I try to do it (if I use the computer often). Feel free to download […]