For Mac, Linux, Windows; Opera, the browser of the moment (according to Kabatology) has good news for web developers. After landing in-grand-style on the iPhone planet, and making a record one million downloads in first 24 hours, has released ‘Opera Mobile Emulator’ – a desktop version of Opera’s smart phone browser. Opera Mobile emulator allows you to test and debug your mobile-friendly sites in Opera Mobile browser out-of a smartphone, on your desktop. The native application renders web pages as close as you can get on a real mobile phone.
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As Shuttleworth often puts it – Canonical has full confclassence in its ability to deliver in time a really reliable desktop infrastructure even though it has relatively new code on it.
We are a week-away from the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and here comes a punctual pre-release that as usual anticipates the final release – if no major issues arise the pre-release/release candidate will become the final release.
The other members of the Ubuntu 10.04 family, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, reach the beta status today. More
NoteSync is a cross-platform note-taker application that also offers a two-way sync with your Google docs, meaning the notes you take with NoteSync finish in a ‘NoteSync’ folder in your Google docs account – if you drop any documents into the ‘NoteSync’ folder in Google docs, they’ll be uploaded to NoteSync, where you can easily keep your notes updated and accessible. More
The Canonical Launchpad team is happy to announce that Launchpad web application and website has been completely open sourced. All components of Launchpad including codehosting and soyuz, now have open codes. Launchpad that counts over 13,000 active projects was developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3. For more information on how to be part of it move the Launchpad Blog.
BitLet is a web-based BitTorrent client that makes BitTorrent available to the occasional user, and to those who can’t install a regular BitTorrent client like µTorrent or Transmission on their computers. No configuration is needed to use BitLet, just drop-in the URL of the torrent file and you’ll get a pop-up window that shows the download speed, download bar, number of seeders, and a download status led that signals potential problems. (see screenshot above). Anyway if you default settings are not OK for you, then go to BitLet Settings where you can modify BitLet’s incoming connection port and maximum upload rate. More
