On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer. This not a good sign for the future development of Thunderbird when the lead engineer leaves Mozilla Corp. I am beginning to wonder if Mozilla has a death sentence for Thunderbird. First back in July there was the “announcement” but then there was some good news with the announcement of the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. Now the lead project engineer announces…
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Really, they do. Running an unregistered/illegal copy of Windows? Removed the Windows Genuine Authority (WGA) adware crap for your system? No problem! Microsoft will let you download and install IE7. Form the Internet Exploiter Explorer Blog: Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users. With today’s “Installation and Availability Update,” Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users. If you are not already running…
On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer. This not a good sign for the future development of Thunderbird when the lead engineer leaves Mozilla Corp. I am beginning to wonder if Mozilla has a death sentence for Thunderbird. First back in July there was the “announcement” but then there was some good news with the announcement of the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. Now the lead project engineer announces…
Could it be a sign that there is a major consumer resistance to migrating to Windows Vista? Last week Microsoft extended the cut-off date for Windows XP sales. Microsoft says this was brought on by consumer feedback. With the extension, major computer makers will be allowed to continue offering Windows XP through June 30, 2009. For the smaller makers though, the cut-off is still January 30, 2009. However the Windows XP Starter Edition which is available on ‘ultra-low-cost’ PC’s will be available through June 30, 2010. Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Code Freeze: Wednesday -October 3rd Release Candidate: Friday – October 5th Target Ship Date: Tuesday – October 16th TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.8 – May be released with Fx 2.0.0.8 (note no TB 2.0.0.7 build) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx3.0.m9/Gecko 1.9m9 – Code Freeze: October 17th 27 Beta Blockers Complete Meeting Notes.
September 27th marked the 9th anniversary of the founding of Google. CyberNet News’ Ashley has taken a look back at these past 9 years.
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Fire Drill (Security) Release on Tuesday, September 18th Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Triage on-going Code Freeze: TBD Target Ship Date: 10/4 but will likely be pushed back by week or two. TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.7 – No Report TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx 3.0a8/Gecko 1.9a8 – Released on Thursday, September 20th Fx3.0.m9/Gecko 1.9m9 – Currently tracking and focusing on security bugs in…
You can easily view (and do other basic operations) your OpenOffice.org documents in Firefox. No extensions or software to install, just a simple plug-in to activate: Start OpenOffice From the Tools menu select Options… At the end of the list select the category Internet At the of this list select Mozilla Plug-In Click Enabled Click OK That’s all you need to do! No reboot needed, you now can view, save, print, make into PDF, e-mail and zoom any OpenOffice.org document right from Firefox. Want to edit the document simply click the Edit File icon and it will launch OpenOffice.org with…
For quite some time I had been using Flock as my news reader. I liked the interface of having all my feeds listed in a sidebar. However over the past couple weeks I noticed something odd the blogs I normally visit we’re not showing any new entries. Didn’t think much of it until the other day when I saw the Thunderbird Organization Established — MailCo article on CyberNet News. I noticed on of the references listed was Mozilla Links, which according to Flock had no new articles. I had already had problems with another feed refusing to load in Flock…
Foxit Reader is great alternative to Adobe Acrobat for viewing PDF files. But what if you want to create a PDF file? Sure you could pay for a program that will take your files and convert them to PDF. Or you could use MS Office saves as PDF option. Even OpenOffice has an Export as PDF option but that does the whole document as a PDF file. I ran into this problem with an OpenOffice spreadsheet I had. I wanted each sheet or page to be its own PDF document. After a quick search on the CyberNet Forum, I found…