Firefox 3.5 Stable is finally here. What has changed from the betas we have seen? Not much.
Coming from 3.0 to 3.5? Then you will notice considerable differences/improvements such as the ability to drag a tab from one window to the other or to the desktop to open a new window. The new private browsing feature is great as well. Now if you are at school, in the library or another public location you can go to Tools and select Start Private Browsing. You can browse normally. Cookies, etc will still be stored but as soon as you exit private browsing everything will be destroyed.
From the the Mozilla Firefox site:
- Available in more than 70 languages. (Get your local version!)
- Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
One unmentioned(unimportant?) difference that probably no one would have noticed was the change in icon.
Notice it? The new logo has been smoothed out, the continents are less defined and fox is a little more red…. Ok yes it is a very slight change but I noticed. They tried to pull a fast one over on us. Nice try Firefox. Nice try.
But none of this really matters does it? We just like to upgrade. If every few days they released a new update that was nothing other than an update that changed the version number of the browser we were using we would still be happy wouldn’t we? It is the update that makes us happy not the bug fixes, additional languages and extra themes.
So what are you waiting for? Apply the updates or download Firefox 3.5 now!
Not much to say about this one. It can speak for itself. This is simply one of the most beautiful PC mods I have ever seen. Not sure of the specs but he is using some type of ATi/AMD build with a complete water cooling system.
Over 5 years now Google Apps has been a great solution for businesses. Up until now you have had the option of choosing from the $50/month or the free plainly laid in front of you. Now the free version of Google Apps is no where to be seen on the homepage.
Now a few years ago the homepage changed to be a huge ad for the paid version with one little link for the free version. But now…
As soon as you go to the homepage you are asked a new question…. Are you a Business IT Manager or School IT? Hrm… lets go with business that will take us to the free vs paid options right?
Nope! You get to try Google Apps for free for 30 days after which you will begin to get billed the $50/user or you can try a 14-day demo.
So where do you go? With some searching through the Google interwebs you will eventually be able to find it but, we have done that for you!
Here you go — http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new
Its true. Using your PC and some special hardware–along with included software that looks like something from a video game made in the 90s–you can aim and fire USB powered missiles–ok foam darts–from your PC.
Need to be able to perform a remote attack? Get a rocket launcher with mounted web cam to take a shot beyond view. Not good with a crosshair? Get your laser guided missile system–seen in the picture above.
Choose from 3 different version available at ThinkGeek.
In May of this year the National Ignition Facility officially dedicated the world’s largest and highest-energy laser facility. This monster, housed in a 10 story 3 football field sized building, contains a cluster of 192 laser beams that, NIF hopes, when all focused on one BB sized ball of frozen hydrogen gas will achieve nuclear fusion, in essence creating a star on Earth.
The good? If–being the key word–they are successfully able to achieve this it will be one of the biggest discoveries of our life times. This would be one of the first effective ways to create more energy than what was used to create it and could possibly solve global power issues in the future.
The bad? Maybe they haven’t seen Spider Man 2. The ‘star’ would have the same mass, gravitational pull and temperature-over 100 million Kelvin- as a star its same size. As you can see from the pictures below they have a special chamber to perform their experiments in which is an improvement to a bionic man with octopus arms and definitely a step in the right direction.
They will begin testing next year with an estimated live date of 2040 unless things go well from the start.
Worst case scenario we find out how black holes are made–just a little too late.
Too busy with your hectic life? Too lazy? Now you don’t even have to play those troublesome video games.
Nintendo has confirmed(currently unannounced) that the ‘Super Mario Bros: Wii’ coming out this holiday season will have an auto-pilot feature….
This has got to be one of the most unorthodox(ridiculous?) ideas in video game history possibly with the exception of a video game based on Michael Jackson rescuing little children from kidnappers.
Despite how dumb this seems there are some cases where this could be useful, I guess. We have all been stuck at one point or another and we begin to get frustrated beyond all reason and our tv is at risk of a controller being hurled at it. If this “auto-pilot” was setup to kick in after you had died several times in a row or if it was limited to a few uses per level depending on difficulty I could see this being a good idea. This could also be useful for kids who couldn’t quite play a certain game without some help.
For more details you can view the article on USA Today.
What will they think of next? Hopefully, a video game that will turn itself on, beat itself, turn off and put the controllers away.
This exciting image from the Spaceport America portrays their vision of “the next chapter in space transportation”. Construction officially begins tomorrow on this New Mexico. If you happen to be in the neighborhood or have been waiting for this moment your whole life make sure to get yourself to the groundbreaking event starting around 5PM tomorrow! If the spaceport isn’t enough to get you out to the event then the live music from “Liquid Cheese” will be sure to get you off of that bean bag and into some decent clothes.
This commercial spaceport will be the first in history and will host operations by-most likely-all the private space travel companies, such as Virgin Galactic.
Strap on your space boots everyone. I see this being the first of many starports. One day I think this will just sit in the shadow of a much larger widespread system of starports.
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