The KDE Community announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 Beta 1, the first preview of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop, applications and development platform.KDE 4.3 focuses on polishing and completing the user experience by providing a modern and beautiful Free working environment.
Last week Microsoft's officials said that the company would release a new test build of its Office 2010 suite in July. In January, screenshots of the alpha were leaked a week after select testers got them. This time, testers don't even have the Technical Preview yet, but new screenshots have already arrived.
Mozilla has released Fennec alpha 1 - a Windows Mobile-targeted version of it's mobile browser. A pre-alpha build of Fennec for Windows Mobile 6 was released in February, but that version was plagued by memory-management issues.These early memory issues had been ironed out for the alpha, through the use of the JeMalloc memory-management library.
The second version of the NY Times Reader has been released recently and according to First Look blog it's way better then the first one. It's powerd by Adobe Air and runs equally well on Windows, Mac and Linux computers. With this latest release, Times Reader resembles the printed paper even more closely, and it updates every five minutes with the latest news from the Web.
Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva have proposed that EU consumer protections for physical products be extended to software. The suggested change in the law is part of an EU action agenda put forward by the commissioners after identifying gaps in EU consumer protection rules.
After months of hard work our developers create a piece of art far beyond your imagination. A completely unique version of the popular Lightbox but with fully customizable presets that allows you to explore your creativity and fit the Lightbox perfectly to your site design.
A week before the official release, we've decided to pull back the curtain and introduce some of the features included in the DMXzone version of the Lightbox.
Support for chatting in landscape mode is the most noticeable new capability hammered into version 1.1. Turning the iPhone to the side slides up the virtual QWERTY, but it also shrinks the visible chat space to a line or two, the typical trade-off.
One of the greatest strengths of the Firefox Web browser is its powerful extension system, which gives third-party developers the ability to expand the browser's capabilities. The darker side of Firefox add-ons was exposed last week when a conflict between the developers of the two popular extensions got out of hand. The situation has compelled Mozilla to propose a policy change aimed at curbing bad behavior in add-ons.
Viigo has been the favorite for Windows Mobile phones to date, but the new application iBrowz beta provides a familiar widget paradigm for subscribing to feeds, and a sharp-looking reader.