Despite protests, petitions and lobbying to keep Windows XP as an alternative to Vista, Microsoft has announced today they are still planning on phasing out Windows XP on June 30th (which had been extended from January 31st). After this date Windows XP will no longer come pre-installed on most new PC’s. There is however an exception, “ultra-low cost” machines. These include Asus Eee PC, Intel Classmate PC and those PCs generally lack the hardware needed to run Windows Vista. In this case Windows XP will still be available for these machines until June 30, 2010 or one-year after the release…
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The Guru is finally having a chance to dig through his Contact Us mailbox. After shoveling out a thick layer of the spam messages, I came across a message from Richard Kershaw, developer of The Domain Lookup Extension. This neat little extension that will allow you to see if a domain name based on the highlighted text is available. Once installed Domain Lookup add-on will add a ‘Domain Lookup for…’ option to the context (right-click) menu. There is also suppose to be a short cut key (CTRL+SHIFT+D) but that does not seem to work as Firefox keeps asking me where…
There has been one feature lacking in Firefox for some time now, the ability to ‘run’ or ‘open’ a downloaded file. The main difference is this file is downloaded to a temporary folder (where it will eventually be deleted) and immediately ran. Firefox allows you to download the file (to your default downloads folder or the folder of your choice) then you have the option to open/run the file. The OpenDownload add-on gives you the functionality like you would fine in Internet Explorer. Depending on what type of file you are downloading you will be presented with one of two…
More and more I find myself ordering products and services online. Almost every online retailer has a place for ‘promo code’ or ‘coupon codes. You could hunt around on Google for coupon codes only to discovered they have expired or are no longer supported. RetailMeNot.com claims to be the world’s largest coupon source with some 13,000 stores. What I really like about RetailMeNot is the coupon success ratings based on feedback from community members. The way the extension work is quite simple. When you go to a website of one of the over 13,00 stores in the RetailMeNot database, Firefox…
Here is the second new Get a Mac commercials just released. Yoga, PC trying to relax from all the stressed caused by Vista, takes up Yoga. I thought this commercial was the better of two, especially with the unexpected twist… [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=2N1RWZH0nRk]
Here is one of two new Get a Mac commercials just release. Breakthrough, PC has a major breakthrough while in group therapy with Mac. This is an okay commercial, but still not good as they use to be. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqGmO-CsTc&NR=1]
It was in late June 2007 when I saw the ‘other’ marketing Video for The Big Ass Table, otherwise known as Microsoft Surface. Microsoft has announced beginning April 17th, select (Atlanta, San Antonio, San Fransisco and New York City) AT&T wireless stores will get the tables. More stores will be added, but only within the these four markets come May. The big U.S. wireless provider says its retail customers will be able to place specific mobile phones on Surface’s 30-inch screen to learn about features, accessories and rate plans. They also will be able to compare two phones at a…
The last Beta milestone, Beta 5 was released today. Only a few days later than the original March 27th date. The release had been delayed due to Bug 424719 as mentioned in the Firefox 3 Beta 5 Delayed post. You can download Firefox 3 Beta 5 from the Firefox beta page. Firefox 3 Beta 5 Release Notes News Sources: mozillaZine Mozilla Developers News
Firefox 3 Beta 5 was suppose to be released last Thursday the 27th. However, on Sunday, March 23rd a major bug was discovered. Bug 424719: Firefox leaks nsDocument on http://www.freearcade.com/ when playing a game. Since the next developmental release after Beta 5 is suppose to Release Candidate 1 (which should not contain major bugs) there were faced with two options: Option #1: continue with the Beta 5 release as scheduled then fix this bug with a Beta 6 release. Option #2 : delay the Beta 5 release until this bug is fixed I believe part of the reason they went…
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.13 Released: March 25 Fx 2.0.0.14 Schedule in development Planning meeting later this week. Firefox 3 Beta 4 Beta 4 Shipped on March 10th Firefox 3 Beta 5 Code freeze: March 18 Builds start: March 27 QA: In Progress Release to beta channel: Final Release: March 27 Week of March 31st Status: Delayed due to ‘showstopper’ bug 424719 Firefox 3 Final 53 Blockers resolved in the last week 54 Blockers added in the last week 100 blockers remain for final 20+ blockers have patches waiting on review/landing Character of the bugs…