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Apr 27 2009

Browser Bonanza

Opera (recently made free), Firefox and Flock have all released new versions, and they all come with great new features from feed handling to eye candy.

Firefox 2.0b1

firefox2b1 Browser Bonanza

New in 2.0:

  • Inline Spell Check (not shown) checks spelling in input boxes
  • New Feed Interface supports different feed readers including Google Reader and Bloglines
  • Search While You Type suggestions
  • Close Tab Buttons on the tab

Opera 9

opera9 Browser Bonanza

New in 9:

  • Widgets! Cool, but I wish you cold resize them
  • Integrated Bittorrent
  • Hover-over Tab Previews show you thumbnails and page info
  • Improved Richtext Formatting

Flock beta 1

flock07 Browser Bonanza

New in .7:

  • Drag and Drop Flickr integration
  • Search Auto-complete from history, bookmarks and more
  • RSS News View with a newspaper style layout and nice feed management
  • Better Support for Firefox Extensions

Wow. Unless you’re still hung on IE 5, there’s at least one cool new browser to try out. Have fun.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

In the Know Updates

Keeping up to date is a big deal. Fortunately, theres a heap of free software to help you stay in the know and stay on the bleeding edge. This week we’re looking at a couple must have widgets that will help keep you informed as well as a couple spanking new updates of major applications.

mu In the Know UpdatesWoot Widget

For those of you who don’t know, Woot! is one insanely great deal a day. These deals are often so good they sell out in a matter of hours. Of course, with the Woot! Widget you’ll be able to see the daily deals right on your Dashboard.

mu In the Know UpdatesNews Reader

There are plenty of great RSS news readers out there. This one’s great because it brings your feeds to your Dashboard as a widget. The slick interface organizes your feeds and stories for quick access.

mu In the Know UpdatesFirefox 1.0.5 and And Deer Park Alpha 2

Here we’ve got an update for everybody. For the security conscious, there’s the newest security update for Firefox. For those who like to live dangerously, there’s the new Deer Park Alpha 2, the second development release of what will be Firefox 1.1. New in Alpha 2: migrate your Safari profile and try out the new shell service.

mu In the Know UpdatesMacromedia Flash 8 beta (player)

Talk about an old favorite. Grab the beta of the new Flash player and see if the speed improvements they’re talking about are real.

mu In the Know UpdatesKennedy Space Center Video Feeds

With our crazy friends busting open comets, you never know what they might be up to at NASA. They may be shooting off that shuttle any minute now. Keep your eye on the happenings with this widget. Chose from NASA TV, Kennedy Space Center video and launch pads.

There you are, hooked up with the newest of the new and sure to be there when the next something big drops. See you next week…

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

iPod Access – Notes, Photos, Music and More

Apple has created an easy to use, closed system in its iPod+iTunes duo. But, what if you want to get at your iPod’s contents without using iTunes or iPhoto? With the following free downloads you’ll be able to access and extract music, photos and notes with no help from iLife applications.

iPod Notes

This new release is the best iPod notes manager I’ve seen yet. iPod Notes allows you to see your complete notes heirarchy and edit them right on the iPod.

ipodnotes iPod Access Notes, Photos, Music and More

And that’s only the beginning. The application also helps you create links to other notes, create notes and folders and sync your notes folder with your Mac.

Keith’s iPod Photo Reader

Keith has come up with a utility that previews the images on your iPod – not the full size copies it puts in the folder, the actual photos in the iPod’s database.

keithsipodphotoreader iPod Access Notes, Photos, Music and More

You can also extract photos as pict files – making this a great recovery tool if something goes wrong. Its a great tool for examining and extracting images from your iPod.

expod

There are a hundred solutions for pulling music off your iPod, but this is the newest.

expod iPod Access Notes, Photos, Music and More

expod is fast, and includes a search feature. Browse by playlist and send selected songs to a directory on your Mac. Simple and sweet.

todoPod

Eager to get tasks on your iPod? Of course once you ‘pod them, you’ll never remember to browse your notes to check you list. That’s why todoPod doesn’t use notes. Instead of adding your tasks as text, this free application converts your text to audio and sends it to your player.

Brian

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