Posts Tagged ‘beta’
VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 released
VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 was just released. This is a major update bundled with quite a few cool and much anticipated features. The release also includes bug fixes for version 3.0.10.
Teleportation (Live migration) – You can now move VMs across machines.
2D video acceleration for Windows hosts.
Snapshot got smarter. You can now restore from any snapshot [...]
No more Beta for Google
Google’s finally out of BETA. Yup, no more “BETA” in the their logos.
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk are all now stable products. Both for consumers and enterprise users.
Gmail itself has been in BETA for 5 years. The other aps in Google’s suite have also done their years in BETA. Come to think [...]
Bulk edit in Delicious
Delicious now supports bulk edits on your bookmarks! This has been a feature that I have been waiting for a long time now.
You can now share, unshare, tag and untag multiple bookmarks at a time.
The feature’s currently in beta but is available to all delicious users. The shortcut’s on the top right corner.
Time to start [...]
Installing Adobe AIR and twhirl on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid
Dropped my TwitterFox for twhirl today. Runs flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10.
Installation was a breeze, here’s the walkthrough.
1. Download Adobe AIR Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
2. Install Adobe AIR
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ls
adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$
3. Download twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl
4. Double click the twhirl file to start the installation. The installer will install twhirl to /opt/twhirl/ .
That’s it! you now [...]
Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out
Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out.
What’s new?
Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
Support for new web technologies such as the [...]
