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Download Mozilla Firefox 3, release date is today: where will this leave Linux users?

Mozilla has finally announced that today is the day for downloading the much anticipated Firefox 3, oh yes June 17th 2008 is a good day for all those that want the new Firefox 3 download. Open source software enthusiasts and developers are planning major parties all over the world to celebrate this brilliant occasion.

Mozilla are trying to get into Guinness World Records, the Firefox team are hoping to set the record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and the total number of unique downloads that take place on release day will be submitted for potential inclusion in the Guinness World Records, it has been said that over one million users have already signed up to pledge their support. So what is the status of Firefox 3 add-on compatibility? Many readers have asked this question, they have also asked that they will not be ready to upgrade their best add-on until the add-ons are supported. Alex Polvi, Mozilla’s Product Manager has written a brief overview that explains the current status of the most popular add-ons. Some of my favorites, like Greasemonkey, Firebug, and Stylish are now all compatible with Firefox 3. Unfortunately, Google Browser Sync is being discontinued and will no longer be supported. Google recommends that users adopt Mozilla Weave or Foxmarks.

Mozilla’s add-on team has been hard at work getting a brand new version of the add-on web site ready in time for the release. The new site now includes a theme browser that displays thumbnails and a new advanced search system, as well as numerous improvements for developers. There are already plans in the works for Firefox 3.1 which has been given the codename of “Shiretoko” (Bless what a nice name), obviously this is in its early stages of development but the schedule indicates that alpha releases could be available as early as July, Prominent user interface features planned for the 3.1 release include tab previews and tag auto-completion. Developers also plan to add several new features to Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine such as the HTML 5 video element and CSS text shadows.

Now we want to know “where will this leave Linux users? Many people know that most users of Linux distributions do not get their Firefox browser directly from Mozilla. Instead, they get Firefox packages through their Linux distributions. The Linux version of Firefox which are sometimes customized by the distribution’s creator, also do not have the “Check for Updates” button enabled in the browser — while the button is enabled on Windows editions. The issue most recently came to the forefront after both Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu shipped their recent Linux versions with Firefox 3 Beta 5. When the browser’s later Release Candidates 1 (RC1) and Release Candidate 2 (RC2) versions came out, users of the both popular distributions did not immediately get update notifications like their Windows counterparts.

So as said where will this leave Linux users and will they get Firefox at the same time as Windows users?

Visit the Mozilla Firefox 3 download page here

Microsoft Xbox Live spring update: Details leaked, support for motion sensor devices

Details have just been leaked about the Microsoft Xbox Live spring update, but more interesting is the fact something saying “ready to introduce support for “motion sensor devices”. There is no date to the leaked information of the spring feature list but we do know last year it was up and showing on 6th June and many people heard about it around April, so this tells us good things really.
Below is a vast list of everything you need to know, most of it is boring if you ask me but a few things that smashed me in the face with excitement was “Calibration options for motion sensor devices.” And “Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID,” motion sensors hey oh Nintendo better watch out.

Below is the full massive list -

Xbox LIVE
• Option to delay sign-in to Xbox LIVE upon booting console (to allow user to set Online Status).
• Option to promote Child Account from Family Settings.
• Disallow Child Accounts (over 18) to override Family Settings by launching Privacy Settings through a title.
• Option in Family Settings for Child Accounts to enable child-oriented/non-mature advertisements.
• Introduce a group chat (4) for Private Chat and conferences through Video Chat.
• Support to indicate media being watched to gamercard status (video content from Marketplace only).
• Extend height for Bio field in Personal Profile, easier navigation through text.
• More fields present in Personal Profile - recent achievements, interests, games, movies, links, and custom section.
• Compact Personal Profile for new fields (navigating to field will open it up).
• Mandatory option to delete duplicate titles from gamercard (excludes Games for Windows - LIVE). User disconnected from Xbox LIVE when booting any title until action complete.
• Option to remove payment information from gamertag.
• New payment methods for international users.
• Download History on Account Management better organized - games, genre, type, download date, miscellaneous.
• Long descriptions of items on Marketplace can be scrolled using right stick.
• Better organization of free content on Marketplace.
• Option to ‘ping’ when testing connection.
• Allow re-connection to Xbox LIVE if Ethernet cable is re-inserted whilst powered on.
• New strip colors available to developers, staff gamercards.
• New corner icon available to ambassadors.
• Re-introduce Messages button for Inside Xbox updates only.
• Option to store up to 10 messages permanently on server (excludes invites, status messages).
• Increase character limit for text messages between friends only.
• Option to disable invites from non-friends or all players.
• Option to disable invites from titles not on gamercard (excludes demos).
• Option to have smaller items moved up in Active Downloads.
• Automatically re-connect to Xbox LIVE if disconnected unexpectedly (set intervals).
• Option to download gamer picture (if available) from a gamercard being viewed.
• Display random tips to replace static text on Xbox LIVE and Games blades.
• New button on Marketplace for optional dashboard features - uses Storage Device memory.
• Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.
• Option to purchase Membership for charities (includes benefits).
• Integrate file-sharing for selected titles on Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows - LIVE.
• Disable notifications to friends of user repeatedly signing into service (set period).
• Option to see ’snippet’ of text message in notification.
• Windows Live Mail integration - includes support for Xbox LIVE Vision.
• Web feeds integration - text, images, audio. Includes support for specific item codes on Marketplace.
• Option to display gamer picture or standard picture as display picture in Windows Live Messenger.
• Support for headset, Xbox LIVE Vision in Windows Live Messenger.
• Support for limited ‘winks’ that display on dashboard interface. Option to disable ‘winks’ and ‘nudges’ added.
• Notifications separate from Windows Live Messenger to Xbox 360 notifications.
• Disable multiple languages from being used in any Xbox LIVE editable fields.

Media
• Option to hold LT and RT for rewinding/fast-forwarding video content.
• Option to delete individual music tracks from storage device.
• Option to rip music CD at different quality.
• Copy non-protected files (pictures, music, videos) from USB storage devices, CDs and computers to proprietary storage devices.
• Support for menu, top-menu features on video content downloaded from Marketplace.
• Section added for audio delivered through feeds (podcasts). Option to stream, download to Storage Device.
• Support added for video titles/description to gamercard status.

Dashboard/Miscellaneous
• Option to navigate quickly out of several menus back to respective blade home (applies to Games, Media, and System).
• New blade trim styles added.
• Introduce expanded Inside Xbox as a portal to news, weather, entertainment, help and community features.
• New sounds for various functions (notifications, blades, navigation).
• Calibration options for display/sound.
• Calibration options for motion sensor devices.
• New effects for Xbox LIVE Vision and dashboard background.
• Disable changing of Theme when on Memory to prevent ‘hanging’.
• Preload recent, limited items upon dashboard boot up on Memory.
• Faster loading of Themes section on guide.
• Option to see what items will not work offline due to DRM license changing from Memory.
• Option to automatically associate new DRM to items downloaded for free.
• Indicate ‘charging’ status on guide when Play & Charge kit is connected.
• Option to change text colors on guide to better contrast some backgrounds.
• Language improvements.
• Word censor updated for fields.
• Privacy Settings/Family Settings updated for new features.
• Voice, picture messages can be read at Xbox.com (Gold accounts).

Games
• Option to delete titles from gamercard with 0 gamerscore and 0 achievements (excludes some titles that will be re-added to launch another title).
• Organize My Games at the Games Library section better (includes disc-based titles) - sort by genre, platform (Games for Windows - LIVE), percentage completion.
• Support to display friend’s leader boards for disc-based titles.
• Show dates of an achievement unlocked when comparing.
• Preload Games Library upon dashboard boot up for faster access.
• Game updates now shown as items in Memory, increased amount of updates on Storage Device.
• Option to delete game updates, removed ‘cheat code’ as no longer needed.
• Support for more titles to display banner when accessing guide in-game.
• Option to re-introduce awarded gamer pictures from titles that do not have their own re-introduce feature (requires saved game).
• Disable gamer pictures from being awarded from trials.
• Support for titles to store installation data on Storage Device for faster loading.
• Synchronization to achievements offline/online that were deleted and then re-added from developers.

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Motley Crue releasing Saints of Los Angeles single on Rock Band

Video games are the future as well as music, so combine the two together and you have something really special. Well the latest news is that the rock ‘n’ roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single called “Saints of Los Angeles” through the game Rock Band.

The single called “Saints of Los Angeles,” is indeed the first single from Motley Crue’s upcoming album which will be available for download for 99 cents (50 pence), you can download this via Sony Corp’s PlayStation store on Thursday and Microsoft Corp’s Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday Viacom Inc’s MTV Games said.

In the Rock Band game all gamers will be able to play along to songs with their guitar controllers, microphone or drum set. The game is sold for around about $170 for consoles such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it is similar to that of Guitar Hero.

Using big named bands is a new way to earn money via games such as this and with CD sales dropping fast can see this being the next big step forward. The game Rock Band went on sale last year in November and now has more than 80 tracks available for download and in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game.

MTV Games themselves have said that players have bought more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band which is staggering, the details of the Motley Crue album is expected to be announced during a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday.

The question is “Are you a Motley Crue fan?

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TrackMania Nations Forever will be available for free download from April 16

TrackMania Nations Forever, the highly awaited sequel to TrackMania Nations, the free downloadable racing game launched two years ago, will be available as a free download from April 16th 2008.

TrackMania Nations has been installed more than 30 million times by players worldwide, becoming a video game phenomenon.

The new version, TrackMania Nations Forever, features:

• 65 brand new, progressively difficult tracks
• A new ‘Forever’ version of the Stadium environment
• Engaging multiplayer modes
• A solid solo mode
• A brand new track editor
• Innovative communications between competing racers via PC

Florent Castelnerac, Director of Nadeo studio, explains:
“The PC is the premiere gaming platform when it comes to the number of casual and expert players. To satisfy this wide range of players, we designed the game for everyone instead of trying to focus on the average gamer. We have put a lot of effort into developing the competitive spirit between players in order to present a game adapted to big e-sports competitions, while remaining captivating and accessible to players who have less gaming experience.

Even if you play Nations Forever alone, you can still be ranked in the world, your country, your city or even in your list of friends that you can create by inviting friends to join in a similar way to Facebook or MySpace. It is up to each player to set his/her goals - become one of the best players in the world or just impress friends. These ladders are adapted to everyone and they add ten times more interest to solo or multiplayer modes. Always searching for new ways to add interest and unite an even larger number of players, we explored the possibilities the PC offers as a universal communication platform: for example, a system that allows you to challenge your friends by mail or Messenger. Since the game is free, fun and works on most computers, there is a big chance that many people that you know will play it.

Finally, in terms of creativity, the PC is the only game platform that allows players to easily create additional game content. TrackMania Nations Forever comes with powerful creative tools such as the track editor. We increased creative possibilities with richer, more complete editors while making creation more accessible to a larger number of players with a simplified track editor. Tomorrow, we will see exceptional creations from the four corners of the world that players can exchange freely and easily. It’s a tremendous motivation for the entire development team.”

Players of TrackMania Nations Forever will join the extensive TrackMania online community, encompassing players from the free version and the forthcoming retail version, TrackMania United Forever (releasing 23rd May 2008). Nations Forever and United Forever players will be able to compete on the same servers, challenging for the best times on all of the compatible Stadium tracks.

TrackMania Nations Forever will be available for free download from April 16th. Visit the TrackMania Web site

Apple release new Keynote 4.0.3 download for performance & stability issues

Apple have recently released the Keynote 4.0.3 which is ready for download now, Keynote 4.0.3 will apparently address performance and stability issues when working with large documents.

If you want to download you must have Keynote 4.0.2 installed on your computer to install this new update.

System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later
• Mac OS X 10.5 or later
• Keynote 4.0.2

Keynote 4.0.3 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer; the file size is 20.5MB which you download directly from here.

Source – Apple

New launch of Blinkx Broadband Television, interact with TV: Download Now

A great new service has just been launch by the name of Blinkx Broadband Television (BBTV) which you can download right now. A new web service where you can interact with TV.

Blinkx is California-based and is the world’s largest video search engine which will allow you to search more than 18 million videos across the web; the question is “How good is it?

It will however give you high picture quality videos on a full screen unlike the small screen typical of much online video and in addition all users will be able to interact with the videos they are watching.

The new BBTV service will create a speech track of the video which also allows users to go to certain points just by searching for a particular word, you will be able to click on these certain words in the transcript for additional information on people or places featured, while the videos also link through to other websites which have related information.

Source – Product Page

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Update: Download now available

Updating Daniels news on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 coming on April Fools Day (See Here) we thought we would let you know that it is now available for download.

A quick recap, the new version of the Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center has key improvements and new added features to support Windows Mobile 6 devices, Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 is only supported on Windows Vista.

Much more information and option to download here.

Apple iPhone SDK beta 2 software ready for download: We want your views

Apple have recently released their new Apple iPhone SDK beta 2 software and is now ready for download, just so you all know some people have had trouble downloading and sometimes had to wait as their servers are being pushed to the limit.

This second iPhone SDK beta version now includes Xcode IDE, Interface Builder, Shark analysis tool, frameworks and samples, Instruments, iPhone simulator and compilers and no doubt a lot more.

If you wish to test your code directly onto the iPhone and distribute your application on the App Store just apply to the iPhone Developer Program.

If you have already downloaded this, please let us know what you think of it.

Source – Phones Review

ATI Radeon HD graphic Cards gets a Stuttering Fix: AMD download hot fix released

If you have an ATI Radeon HD graphics card you might have been experiencing some stuttering issues with 3D applications, this problem has occurred predominately on games such as TimeShift and Battlefield 2.

There is now some great news to fix the Stuttering problem, all you need to do is get yourselves over to the AMD site where you can download a hot fix which is now available.

What we all would like is the details of what the problem was but this has not been disclosed, there was a lossless compression that ATI uses inside its GPUs. The new fix will be implemented in Catalyst 8.4, if you are not experiencing any stuttering issues then we say wait until the official Catalyst driver which will be here around about mid April.

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Download WOW add ons: Deadly Boss Mods 3.10 & Omen Threat Meter from curse gaming

The Deadly Boss Mods 3.10 is now available for you right now for download, we all love WOW (World of Warcraft) and this new download updates DBM for 2.4 and has boss mods for Sunwell!

This latest World of Warcraft patch updates the combat log API, Raid Encounter Add-on, The original require add-on DBM is a set of timers and warnings that provide detailed insights into the workings of boss fights. DBM is required by nearly every raiding guild and is a good idea for anyone who plans on doing Player versus Environment Play.

Anyway instead of me banging on go download now links below.

Download - Omen Threat Meter

Download – Deadly Boss Mods

Firefox Version 1.5 eBay tool released: Download ready now

Firefox have just updated their new companion tool for eBay users which was launched last May, this is a new update which you can download now.

To break it down in simple terms the new tool makes it a lot easier for Firefox users to access their eBay items and bids that they are selling using a cool side bar.

It also offers you status alerts which will provide you with very important trading updates like for example if you have been outbid on an item. Well the brand new tool update which has been released by Firefox will offer you a new drag and drop functionality within the eBay Sidebar, notifications for alerts when using Apple Macs and audio alerts and integration into any type of computer (Apple Mac, Linux and Windows).

Oh it also has something where is uses Firefox’s built-in anti-phishing protection.

Download here

Microsoft Windows Vista with SP1 download official: Boxed version on sale 19th March

Oh yes it is finally here and official, you can as of today get your hands on Microsoft Windows Vista with SP1, you will be able to download SP1 as of today or get boxed copies from Amazon (Details Below).

The exact date was a little scare of when we would get to see the real SP1, well now you can rest your mind easy. The details below are definitely showing that you can get the 3 different boxed versions of Microsoft Windows Vista with SP1.

The boxed versions will be ready for release tomorrow (19th March).

Microsoft did drop the price of Windows Vista Ultimate (Full), Windows Vista Ultimate (Upgrade), and Windows Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) to $319, $219, and $129, but what is interesting is the fact Amazon are selling these products as of tomorrow (19th March) and the software prices range from -

Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade - $94.99

Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 Upgrade - $194.99

Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 - $299.99

Firefox 3 Beta 4 now available: has Mozilla done a good job

Mozilla have now launched their Firefox 3 Beta 4 OS, this updated version is now available for download. Mozilla claim that there are over 900 enhancements for this updated operating system. A couple of the main enhancements are from the overall performance and from the memory usage.

The download manager has been improved; there is also a full-page zoom great if you come to a site with smaller text.

Source - Web User

So with over 900 enhancements it looks as if Mozilla has done a good job, if you have downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 4 please let us know what you think.

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