Written by Ant on 12 December 2008
Google’s Chrome, the simple & fast web browser from Google is changing its status to non-beta version, this is a great news from Google, since Google has a knack of keeping its products in beta stage for a very long time (Gmail & recently Picasa), this news comes mostly as a surprise as Chrome is leaving its beta status in just 100 days. Chrome is just not another Web Application but it is a software product that has to compete very aggressively with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (the most dominant web browser), it has to be released in 1.0 version as early as possible, but what is surprising is that there is no news of much anticipated Mac or Linux versions.
I look forward to this non beta release and with great expectation let’s hope that this is ready for prime time.
How to Download it
You can get the non beta version of the browser directly from Google’s Chrome website, existing users of Chrome will get the update automatically.
Posting by Ian Fette, Product Manager on Chrome Blog says :
Today we announced that with Google Chrome’s fifteenth release, we are taking off the “beta” label. We set goals around improving the stability and performance of the browser, and many of you have helped us meet these goals. We are grateful to the many people around the world who have contributed patches to Chromium (we had our first come from Korea after only five hours), the dedicated volunteers who have filed and triaged bugs in our issue tracker, the loyal users who braved the sometimes rocky dev channel releases, and everyone who took the simple step of opting-in to sending usage statistics and crash reports.
Google Chrome wouldn’t be where it is today without your help. Of course, there’s still a ton more to do, so keep the feedback, patches, bug reports, and moral support coming!
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Written by Ant on 11 December 2008
Mozilla Messaging released the first milestone preview of “Thunderbird 3″ their email Client, It seems Mozilla is updating its email client aggressively, and making it more and more competitive with Microsoft’s Outlook, This beta version of Thunderbird 3 looks good and the new release has added many good new features including a new database technology, improved search capabilities and more polished client. It seems Microsoft’s Outlook does have some real good competition in the time to come.
In case you are not aware about “Thunderbird”, its a Free, Open Source, Cross Platform e-mail and news client developed by Mozilla Corporation, As of Nov 2008 Thunderbird has been downloaded more than 75 million times.
Here’s more info :
Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality of the new features and platform changes that will be included in Thunderbird 3. Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 includes new database technology that will make it possible to build fast new ways of navigating mail. For more background and for previews of experimental add-ons
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
- Tab interface for Mail
- Improvements to IMAP for faster message viewing
- Improved message reader view
- New Add-ons Manager
- Improved Address Book interface
- Improved import of mail from other Mail clients
- Integration with Windows Vista search
- Integration with Mac OS X Address Book
More release details can be checked directly from Mozilla Messaging website, but more detailed information can be found at Mozilla Messaging’s David Ascher’s Blog
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Written by Ant on 10 December 2008
Opera Software recently released alpha version of its Opera 10 Web Browser, here’s more info from Opera Software Website :
Today, Opera Software introduces the first look at Opera 10. An alpha version of Opera 10 is now available at http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.
This release gives people a taste of Opera’s new rendering engine, Opera Presto 2.2 — the foundation of all future Opera 10 products. Opera Presto 2.2 offers approximately a 30-percent-faster browsing experience as compared to Opera Presto 2.1, introduced in Opera 9.5 in June 2008.
Opera has fine-tuned its standards support and, as a result, Opera 10 alpha achieves an Acid3 100/100 Test score. This version also provides Web developers with a whole range of new technologies for building better Web sites.
Other new features in Opera 10 alpha include spell-checking as you type, as well as auto-updating to the latest versions as they become available. Opera Mail also has added support for HTML formatting of e-mails.
“My favorite development in this release is the support for new Web technologies, which allows people to explore new ways of using the Internet,” says Johan Borg, Vice President of Consumer Engineering, Opera Software. “Our 100/100 Acid3 Test score is only a first indication of the impact these new Web technologies will have. We look forward to your feedback on Opera 10.”
To read more and download Opera 10 go to http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.
The Alpha Version of the browser is available for free download.
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Written by Ant on 09 December 2008
Along with Pyramid of Giza, the Great Sphinx is one of the most studied ancient monument of Egyptian civilization, the Great Sphinx has always been an enigma, the Egyptians wrote little about it and did not leave documented records of its constructions, there have been many theories regarding its construction, some suggests that it was constructed during the reign of Khafre (2520-2494 B.C.), but a new theory based on geological evidence suggests that the Great Sphinx may have been far older than the accepted time period, this is based on severe weathering and erosion were caused not by winds and blowing sand, but by rain.
Furthermore researchers also discovered that the Sphinx’s body and head were disproportionate, suggesting it may not originally be head of a pharaoh, but of a lion which the researcher suggests was later carved into the face of pharaoh.
Robert Bauval, a Belgian construction engineer saw that the monuments in the Giza region on the earth mimic various constellations in the sky. Using his method, archaeology-astronomy and the computer model for stars for 2,500 B.C. and 10,500 B.C. shows why the Sphinx has the form of a lion’s body. He showed that the Sphinx facing east or the raising sun is clearly a marker for the spring equinox. Now Leo is the zodiac sign that conforms to a lion’s body. The sun rose in the constellation or house of Leo during the time of the spring equinox 10,500 B.C. This was also at the same time the Orion constellation lined up with the pyramids and other monuments had aligned with various other constellations.
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) in some of his trances has stated that Egypt was the repository for records of the alleged civilization of Atlantis, about 10,500 B.C. This repository was an underground library, called the Hall of Records,” that contains the wisdom of Atlantis, he claimed that the Sphinx points in the direction of the “Hall of Records.”
More information can be found from this article
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