New Media + IT

This is neat.
I just discovered, that Firefox, at least in the latest Minefield edition which I'm using, has a button, that inserts the ID of the build, that you're using into a text box of your own choice. I can't imagine how much easier this will make it, when people need help or support [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Software, Tips ]

A week ago a friend of mine asked me to try out PubSub.
But that day the site was offline, and today it still is. Anyone who knows why and for how long PubSub.com is offline?

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[ categorized as: Search ]

Via Geek News Central I found out, that Microsoft actually has replied to the story, posts and rumours on the RSS reader patent.
Read Microsoft's Sean Lyndersay's post on it. He's "Program Manager Lead, RSS" at Microsoft.
He doesn't however, in my view, really tell us why they have applied for the patent. The closest he gets [...]

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[ categorized as: Feeds, Microsoft, Patents, RSS ]

To all alpha testers: Mozilla has now released Alpha 2 of Minefield, the name of the browser versions built off the Firefox trunk.
You can download Alpha 2 (firefox-3.0a2pre) from the Mozilla Nightly FTP directory.
Note: I was using Minefield Alpha 1, and I didn't get noticed of the Alpha 2 via auto update but had to [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, News, Open source, Software ]

I just saw the article "Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers" at ZDNet.
Apparently Microsoft is seeking a patent covering:
»A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Patents, RSS ]

Microsoft has released a Danish version of Internet Explorer 7.
Maybe now we can get rid of Internet Explorer 6 for good.
Nice to see that the pressure from Firefox and other browsers got the IE team back together on track… anyone who as tried to view a website in IE7/Firefox/any other browser and IE6 will be [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Microsoft ]

This is indeed very exciting.
BBC is partnering with P2P firm Azureus:
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.
[...]
The new deal means that users of the software will be able to download high-quality versions of BBC programmes, including Red Dwarf, Doctor Who [...]

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[ categorized as: File Sharing ]

When the first talk about the social browser Flock started to surface the web in September 2005 I took it for a test drive. Only to leave it again, since I thougt that it at the time couldn't give me anything, that I couldn't get in Firefox.
But now I'm back in Flock for yet another [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Software ]

Mozilla has just release Firefox 2.0.0.1 with some security fixes.
View the Firefox 2.0.0.1 release notes and the list of security issues fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.1.
Get Firefox.
Mozillas has also just released Firefox version 1.5.0.9 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.9.
If everything works as planned users of Firefox 2, Firefox 1.5.x and Thunderbird 1.5.x should recieve these as auto-updates.
And, from [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, News, Software ]

I'm using Google Calendar, and I really like it.
But one thing I'm missing is a feature that would enable me to syncronize my Google Calendar with my Outlook and cell phone calendar.
I know there are some 3rd party solutions out there, but I want a GOOGLE solution, like a Java app for my phone, or [...]

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[ categorized as: Google ]