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For Windows, Mac and Linux: The Mozilla Thunderbird team released today the fourth beta of its popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3. This new beta release is available for download for all major operating systems, Linux included and has supports for 42 different languages. The release notes of Thunderbird 3 beta 4 is a long run-down of improvements and confirmations. [Update:1] Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 is the last planned beta before Thunderbird 3 final. More»
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Google has released a plug-in for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 called Google Chrome Frame that brings Google Chrome’s rendering engine inside IE. This open source plug-in practically turns IE into Chrome, so users of Internet Explorer can as well try web applications like Google Wave from their favorite web browser. Google Chrome Frame compensates the absence of features like HTML5 and open web technologies that are available in modern browser. Developers can enable Chrome plug-in for IE by adding this single meta tag in their HTML code:
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For Mac, Linux and Windows: Spon.gy is a free web-application that helps you to download your Facebook albums in just two steps; login and download. Spon.gy downloads all “Photos Tagged of You” with the option to include photos in your own albums. You don’t have to install Spon.gy and its accessible from every computer with a web browser and an internet connection.
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Twitter adds power to your web browser by rolling out new design tweaks to the web browser that are quickly noticeable when you go to a user’s profile page. Formerly the ‘Follow’ button was the only option under the username, but now there is a newly designed follow button, and close to it there is a drop-down menu button that when clicked reveals the menu “@Mention”, “Direct Message”, “Unfollow”, “Block”. The “Direct Message” is present only when the Twitter user follows you back.
Added too the above, popular trending topics might also have a short explanation about why it is trending topic, as TechCrunch reports. When i tried that only the ‘Jay-Z’ search gave a short explanation. Unfortunately Kanye West is out of hot trends.
Lastly the default avatar for those users that do not personalize their avatars by uploading a proper profile image is now, guess what, a little Twitter Bird.
via [TechCrunch]
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My Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” will soon explode with the growing number of web browsers I dump into it each day and punctually each newly installed web browser has this message when you run it the very first time run it; “Make me your default browser”. I just ignore the message cause I’m never really sure which browser should be the default --at times i change the default twice, thrice a day. The easy way to do it on my Ubuntu is from the command-line, its faster and easier than using the GUI tool. More»
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