Posts Tagged ‘beta’

Bulk edit in Delicious

20, Jan 2009

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

13, Nov 2008

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

23, Oct 2008

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 [...]

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 released

23, Sep 2008

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.
Some of the important changes;
Linux kernel 2.6.27rc5.
GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1.x will be the default desktop choices. KDE 3.5.10 will still available under the “other window managers” section. I’m not a big fan of KDE 4 yet but for testing I’ll take it for a [...]

OpenOffice.org 3 beta released

10, May 2008

OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is out. The Beta is available to all those who wish to test, evaluate and report bugs about the next major release scheduled to be released in September.
The new release is packed with tones of new improvements. See the full feature list.

New “Start Centre”.
New icons.
Zoom capabilities.
Improved spreadsheet features. Columns now increased from [...]


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