A quick note for any developers out there: Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Sever 2005 have finally gone gold, meaning that the code has been finalised and the master CDs have been sent off for pressing.
MSDN subscribers can download the CD images now, the rest of us will have to wait until November 7.
(Via Microsoft Watch)
If the rumours are to be believed Google are readying another weapon in the quest to assimilate the entire internet. Google Base looks like a sort of information free-for-all where you can put “stuff”, tag it, and get it indexed.
Ars Technica have a more coherent and detailed look at the idea.
With Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) taking up at least 90% of the market, Mozilla’s Firefox as the next contender to compete with Microsoft, there are also other handful of website browsers, such as Opera, Netscape, as well as Mozilla’s own browser. This time, Flock Developer has released a cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed ‘Flock’, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing. Flock is completely independent from Mozilla but Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base. In addition to Firefox, the Seamonkey, Camino, Netscape, Epipheny, Galeon and K-Melon browsers are also built on Mozilla project codebase.
According to Flock, the current code is available under GPL license, and that the code is planned to be open-sourced. Flock has added some of the most popular tools from social networking sites, i.e.bookmark tagging system; integration with del.icio.us, a service for storing and sharing Web bookmarks; integration with Flickr, Yahoo’s photo management and sharing service. Furthermore, users can install additional services. Flock also has a built-in RSS reader, which appears to work perfectly well. As most users today are starting to become professional “blog-writers”, Flock has introduced a Blog-publishing tools to allow users the ease of publishing blogs and works to websites easily. It compatible with some of todays’ blogging tools, i.e. WordPress, TypePad and Blogger. I have personally tried it with WordPress, and it’s an excellent way to publish your blogs.
Available in Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platform, both the binaries and source codes are available for the public. The latest version is 0.5 preview both lightweight and powerful. It is one of the prospective browsing engine to compete with Microsoft’s IE dominance in the market. Download the latest version for a trial today.
Click here for a screenshot of Flock.
As RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is becoming part of desktops and laptops users, how about having an RSS feed directly on your hand held devices, such as PDA, small screen smartphone or PocketPC? iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, announced the release of new RSS features for its popular AvantGo(R) mobile Internet service, in beta version,
Several new features packaged in the beta version, include allowing users greater ease-of-use for viewing mobile RSS subscriptions both online and offline. AvantGo users can add any RSS feed to their account, without installing additional software, and then synchronizing using wireless device, or desktop Internet connection to receive updated feeds in a format optimised for their device.
Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 200 or XP. Jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, Paint.NET is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions. In addition, it is equipped with many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.
As part of a project at Washington State University, Paint.NET is currently offering to be used for free! This is certainly a cool piece of software to replace your current Microsoft Paint, that comes with Windows.
Reg Organizer 3.1 Beta 2 offers a variety of tools required for effective System Registry and configuration files management. This software lets you view, edit and clean the Registry and preview the registry files you want to import (preview files directly from Windows Explorer). The automatic Registry cleanup mode helps you optimize your system performance. You can thoroughly search the Registry to find all the keys related to a certain application.
Released: October 12, 2005
Publisher: Chemtable Software
Homepage: Reg Organizer
License: Shareware
OS Support: Windows (All)
Screenshot: Reg Organizer 3.1
According to several people who use Reg Organizer, they were fascinated with the existence of this kind of aggressive tool, that could clean up system registry and truly manage the keys and identify unnecessary ones. Unfortunately, under shareware mode, many of these strong functions are reduced.
Nonetheless, the shareware is free to download and worth a try.
Download Reg Organizer 3.1 Beta 2.
The software costs $29.95 for a registered license.
It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend viewing video clips online, and Internet video advertising is booming.
Thank goodness Rupert Murdoch didn’t buy YouTube.
This is one of those posts with a loose gadget connection. Google always seem to be busy and have just released into yet another Beta (surprise surprise) Google Reader. It looks like being another online RSS reader where you can subscribe to feeds that are of interest to you. To be honest at the moment it looks a bit ropey but as with many things Google do it will probably become a market leader and hot new product soon enough.
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