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Apr 27 2009

Firefox Updates

Just when you thought all things Firefox had settled down, new extensions and updates get things fired up again. This week I’ll point you to the first public alphas of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.1as well as two cool new add-ons.

For those of you who like doing it all in Firefox, you have two less reasons to leave your browser with these free applications…

FoxiPod

This free Mac application works with the Greasemonkey extension (required) to allow you to send podcasts from a link in your browser directly to iTunes.

FoxiPod Firefox Updates

FoxiPod’s user script marks all mp3′s with a special button, and with one click FoxiPod downloads podcasts and sends them to a specified playlist or iPod.

AIMfire

There are a lot of great, full-featured chat applications out there. But, if all you need to do is jump on AIM to drop someone a note, you’ll be interested in AIMfire.

AIMfire Firefox Updates

With the AIMfire extension, a quick visit to Firefox’s Tools menu will fire up your buddy list and let you chat (with rich text support) from within Firefox.

Of course, progress is always being made in the quest to make Firefox the perfect browser. Since the 1.0 release, the Open Source team has been busy. If you’re the daring type, you can grab the bleeding-edge Alphas of the 1.1 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird.

I don’t need to remind you of the dangers of pre-release software, so beware.

Deer Park AKA Firefox 1.1 Alpha

New in this release we’ve got improved display options in OS X, image thumbnails on tabs and full keyboard access.

Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha

Naturally, the ‘Fox’s little brother is improved as well. the 1.1 Alpha includes default inline spell checking, Podcast support and improved feed reading and POP/IMAP access.

Have fun with the Alphas and extensions. And remember, there’s never a dull moment with Mozilla.

Brian

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Nov 2 2007

Pirated copies of Adobe InDesign CS3 don’t like Leopard. Adobe unconcerned.

In case you haven’t been following the blog of Adobe’s Tim Cole, since October 26th, he has been keeping us updated on the Leopard compatibility status of Adobe InDesign CS3.

In installment one we were told InDesign CS3 would not require an update to run without problems on Leopard.

Next, in his second post, we learned that problems had been reported but only on using Leopard’s archive and install process, as opposed to doing a completely clean installation.

Then, yesterday, Tim asked for people to submit crash logs and other information to help track down any further problems.

And now, today, he reveals what all those crash logs told him:

the crash logs continue to indicate that it is pre-release versions of the software (which are not made legally available to the public, I should hasten to add) that are having these compatibility problems on Leopard, not the release versions of InDesign CS3 (versions 5.0 and 5.0.1).

Tim goes on to say…

I think most users out there will regard it as rather obvious that Adobe feels no obligation whatsoever to make sure that pirated or otherwise (knowingly or unknowingly) illegally acquired and used pre-release software updated to run on the latest operating systems (and I would strongly suspect that Apple has a similar attitude). One might go even further and say that even suggesting such a thing is very silly indeed.

So… sounds like Apple and Adobe have created an accidental anti-piracy feature in InDesign! If you do have a legal version of InDesign CS3 (5.0 or 5.0.1) and really do have a problem running it under a clean install of Leopard, Tim’s blog has links and instructions for submitting your reports.

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