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I’ve been following Ubuntu since it’s inception in 2005 with Warty Warthog which was labelled 4.10. Each year since then they’ve released two versions a year – one in April and one in October – and this is where the version number comes from. For example, the 8 in 8.04 is from the year 2008, […]

On the TV1 Breakfast show this morning, Paul Henry was interviewing Peter Griffin about security software for home computers. In my previous field engineer roles, and my current role as "IT guy" for my extended family, I’ve got a lot of experience setting up and securing home computers as well as small business computers (ones […]

The next version of IE has a feature that displays all of your open tabs as thumbnails in a seperate tab. Not to be outdone, a plugin has released which does the same thing for Firefox. It’s really cool – you can add the button to any toolbar or click on the icon in the […]

Hot off the press… Thunderbird 1.5 has just been released by Mozilla. I’ve been using the betas and release candidates and am very impressed with the new features. Best feature for me is the inline spell checking, but there are a whole heap of other improvements too. Read more here: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

News just in…. Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. Project page here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Release notes: […]

Just noticed that Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 has also been released so I’ve downloaded and installed it and will give it a good testing over the next couple of weeks. First impressions: Offline support has been removed from the installation options, this is now part of the standard build Product version shows up as Thunderbird […]

I’ve been using the new beta 1 version of Firefox 1.5 since it came out and so far I’m impressed. It’s extremely stable for a beta 1 product, and although you don’t notice any significant changes at first, there’s definitely been a whole heap of changes made under the hood. The first thing you notice […]

I’ve been using Plaxo for a while now to manage my contacts, and apart from some of the quirks (like repeatedly spamming all your contacts with updates requests) I really like the service. My biggest complaint has been that it doesn’t support Thunderbird which I use at home with my IMAP accounts. Well that has […]

Mozilla have released Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 which are both security and bug-fix releases. They have also announced that the 1.1 release of Firefox has been delayed by several months and will become Firefox 1.5 when released. Download here: Firefox 1.0.6 – (Release Notes) Thunderbird 1.0.6 – (Release Notes)