Tag: 2.0

John T. Haller's Portable Apps suite sets the standard when it comes to one-stop-shopping for programs for your USB flash drive. Today on the official Platform blog, Haller has shared details and screenshots of the upcoming 2.0 release -- and it's looking good. Currently in beta for about two more weeks, the final release is slated for some time later this month. Among the improvements you'll ...

New and improved, and ready to download today! Get ready to get your mobile application on because Yahoo just launched a new version of Go that brings users faster speeds, calendar and address books, better email, and more powerful maps. Yahoo Go 2.0 has reduced data loading times which is not only good on your time, but also great on your data plan if you aren't on the unlimited. Some new tools ...

BEA Systems, known for its leading enterprise infrastructure software, is getting set to launch its suite of corporate search and collaboration products. These three new applications look ready to help businesses with some Web 2.0 technologies including RSS feeds, tagging, and mashup platforms. Hey, enterprise business, here's your chance to roughly equal the kind of community building web ...

It's not very often that you hear of a bug attack with Firefox. A new little bug popped up in the newly released Firefox 2.0. It's only the second one though, so no biggie, it is a new version, and little things like this can happen. The newest Firefox bug can cause the browser to crash if the webpage a user is visiting has been intentionally coded to target the bug via JavaScript. The initial bug ...

GAIM 2.0 is now in its beta 4 testing phase and I must say that it is simpler, a little easier, and seems to work a bit better. This version seems to be same as the last in most ways, though I do like the new system tray icon turned on by default. This keeps the GAIM program running instead of exiting when you click close, which brings GAIM to the level of many other IM clients. That's the thing, ...

Firefox extension and IE plugin Browster recently reached the big 2.0, and with it, brought some sexy new features that might just make the internet a friendlier place. Most notably, Browster 2.0 will strip out all of the badly written buggy CSS, annoying song previews, and all that other crap that helps make MySpace profiles the scourge of the internets. Yes, Browster does other things, such as ...

Ahh, Technorati, what would we do without you. You are the reason we obsessively tag all our posts, and you dutifully respond to our pings in mere minutes (under 5 according to Technorati Principal Engineer Kevin Marks) to crawl our data. On today, your third birthday, you provide us with even more excitement, in the form of a spiffy re-design and some interesting new features. The new design is ...

Mozilla has released a 2nd alpha version of Firefox 2.0. As usual, this release is not recommended for any kind of serious use, but if you're salivating at some of the new version's features, check out what has been incorporated in this 2nd development milestone: Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behavior is slightly ...

While a maybe-it's-official alpha version of Firefox 2.0 showed up late last week, today we finally have a definitely-official version. Mozilla has put  up a download site for the official release of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1, codename "Bon Echo." On the list of changes are new tabbed browsing features, a new storage system for bookmarks and history, and improvements to the extension and ...

"The default [user interface] of Firefox has not been altered since the launch of Firefox 1.0. It would be presumptuous to assume that the way in which users interact with their browsers has gone unchanged between that time and our planned 3Q2006 release date for [Firefox 2.0], and even more presumptuous for us to assume that we got things 100% right with Firefox 1.0." That's how ...

RSS bigwig Dave Winer has released a draft specification for OPLM 2.0, the second major milestone for the XML outline format. You can read the draft at OPML.org, and in his blog Winer has a podcast explaining "why the improvements in OPML 2.0 will help users." If you're into OPML, you can read the spec and then post your feedback at the OPML group on Yahoo! ...

Mozilla Corp.'s Ben Goodger has a post on his blog describing the changes anticipated in Firefox 2.0, the next major release of the browser expected in about a year's time. Whereas the bulk of development in Firefox 1.5 went into improvements to the Gecko rendering engine, Firefox 2.0 will focus on user interface improvements, including new bookmarks and history systems, enhancements to tabbed ...

Back in November I posted about how much I was enjoying a WordPress 2.0 beta, and today I'm happy to say it has fortunately gone official. WordPress 2.0 is now available for your blogging pleasure, but there's just one problem for those of you who use external blogging clients like Ecto: WordPress 2.0 breaks file uploads. A post at Ecto's blog explains the whole situation, including good news for ...