New Mozilla releases
Firefox v.3.6, released January 21st, 2010
What is new in this release:
Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s appearance with a single click.
Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
Also: Mozilla’s desktop email client: Thunderbird 3.0.1 update is now available.
- New in Thunderbird 3.0.1:
Several fixes to improve stability and security
Several fixes to the user interface and attachment handling.
Avast Antivirus 5.0 and Avast Internet Security
Great news from Alwill Software! They released the brand new version of Avast Internet Security and major update for their award winning Avast Professional Antivirus:
Three products (Free Antivirus, Pro Antivirus, and Internet Security) and a new website are being released today. Even though we have expanded our product portfolio, our philosophy of having and promoting a top-notch free antivirus is paramount. This philosophy has enabled us to achieve 100 million users and we are continuing it. As you read through our new website and launch information, you will see that not only is the new free product easier to use and more visually appealing than the old product, it provides even more security protection. And it is still free and free from annoying pop-ups and requests for money.
And one some more here is a big discount on this products already available.
You can save 20% from regular price on both Avast! 5 Pro and Avast5 IS using avast coupon website. Exact section for Avast 5 Family is : http://www.avastcoupon.com/avast5/
and some more information :
- Built an entirely new user interface. The old car stereo interface is gone replaced with a very modern and easy to use graphical interface.
- Eliminated the email registration process. The free product still lasts for a year but now it only takes seconds online to register the product. All a person has to now do is to click a “register” button—no forms to fill out and no email information to provide.
- Added a gaming mode—elements of this were there in 4.8 but now we have made this a central function. No need to buy someone else’s “gaming” product. All the capability is right here in the free product.
- Ensured protection is top-notch. This was also a hallmark of the 4.8 version. We have long believed that free products should provide just as much malware protection as paid products. So in addition to the signature-based AV protection that you would expect, you also get all the modern detection techniques. Central to this is protection against web threats. These are 85% of the threats our users see—and the free product provides protection against them. There are also heuristic detections, behavioral detections, and just about any type of protection you can think of.
- Continued our hands-off approach to asking for money. We don’t agree with how many free products try to monetize their free users. So with us, we don’t hide the free product (it is front and center on our home page); you will not see a daily pop-up asking you to upgrade; the product will not find problems and then ask for money to fix them; and we won’t scare you into upgrading. Now of course, there are sales messages. There is a message when you download the free product. There is a message when you register the free product. And at expiration time a year later, there is a message. But in all of this messaging, you are presented two choices: download/register the free product or upgrade to a premium product. The choice is yours.
- Today January 19th, the free product (and all products) is being released in English and French. Over the next 10 days we will be rolling out the product in Czech, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
source info: http://blog.avast.com
avast antivirus is ready to release version 5.0
Aliwll software announced on their blog:
As we get ready to launch our new Avast! Free Antivirus Version 5, we are proud to announce that Google has chosen this product for inclusion in Google Pack. Google Pack is a package of free software that Google assembles and distributes to its users around the world. Google Pack includes Avast for the following languages: French, German, Italian, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Polish.
The Avast Free Antivirus included in the Google Pack is the same as our regular Avast Free Antivirus. Following the philosophy of Google and Avast, the product is fully featured and does not constantly try to up-sell users to a premium product.
Avast Antivirus Professional 5.0 features:
- Antivirus
- Antispyware
- Blocking of malicious websites
- Blocking of hijacked or infected websites
- Behavior blocking
- Heuristics and signature detections
- Scheduled, on-demand, and real time scanning
- Gaming and full screen mode
Sounds pretty cool. And to save some money on avast pro I would recommend this website: http://www.avastcoupon.com/
apple tablet definitely will have 10’1 inch OLED screen
TG Daily claims that an “anonymous designer” complained to them that it’s currently nearly impossible to order a 10.1 LCD or OLED screen from any Asian manufacturer, since Apple has preordered them all. It makes sense: if Apple plans to move a million and a half (as some predict) units every quarter, they need all the screens they can get.
Movable Type 5 is here!
Movable Type 5 is ready for you to download and give it a roll.
- Movable Type 5.01 – commercial license
- Movable Type Open Source 5.01 – open source license
Some new features:
- Websites for grouping blogs together.
- Themes with full support for custom fields, static files, templates, categories, folders, etc for blogs and websites.
- Revision History for entries, pages, and templates.Custom Fields for all objects.
- User Dashboard for quick access to the most used blogs and websites.
