Posted in Software on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
The Firefox 3 download day is over. Their download serves were reported to be offline for 1-2 hours (I wrote about that in previous post). Anyway they have reggistered 8,349,074 downloads in 24 hours period. There is also a very nice flash download map where you can see downloads count by the region / country. [...]
Posted in Development on Aug 8th, 2006 No Comments »
In dark times of DOS the devs were using Borland Turbo products such as Turbo Pascal or Turbo C. According to this post the Turbo products are back and released also as free versions (similar to MS Express products line).
Posted in Software on Jul 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Two days ago I was writing about MS Virtual PC released for free and yesterday I’ve got an newsletter from VMware with links to free full version of its VMware Server. Now we have two great virtualization softeware packages available for free, how great.
Posted in Software on Feb 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Thank’s to the Kevin’s blog from the Sitepoint (and their brillant newsletter too), I’ve installed IE7 beta 2 on my development machine. The first positive thing about it is that it even works under non-english versions of Windows XP. Previous ‘not so public version’ I’ve tried has worked only under english version of os. At [...]
Posted in Software on Jan 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Yesterday Skype 2.0 hit the streets. It has a beta video calling ability, contacts grouping, status texts and a lot of smaller changes. The changes are going definitely in right direction as Skype still remains free for Skype to Skype talk. The biggest drawback of Skype for me is the memory usage - about 20MB [...]