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Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

The popular open-source browser Firefox has been downloaded more then 400 million times. From its launch in 2004, it took one year to reach 100 million downloads. A year later, it hit 200 million downloads.

"With your amazing efforts, Firefox has reached 400 million downloads and demonstrated that not even the world's most powerful companies can keep people from a better, safer, and faster Web experience," the Firefox team thanked users for helping to achieve the latest download figures with this message posted on Firefox Web site.

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Microsoft

Windows Live Translator

Microsoft launched Windows Live Translator Beta site. Like the name implies, the page allows you to translate web pages. There is also a "computer related content" checkbox. Though not all of the languages appear to work, the site has a nice look and allows you to switch between different layout views with ease.

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jQuery 1.2 released

There is a massive new release of jQuery with many enhancements. Although some features are removed, so please be sure to read the notes on how to upgrade before doing so.

jQuery is JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

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Skype worm affects Windows Users

Skype warned about a computer virus that is spread by a chat message which includes a malicious link. The chat message, of which there are several versions, is cleverly written and may appear to be a legitimate chat message, which may fool some users into clicking on the link.

Leading antivirus software companies already released new updates of their software to block this worm.

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What's new in .NET Framework 3.5

The .NET Framework 3.5 will be released sometime towards the year end. Sunny Talks Tech has made a nice line up what features are to be expected.
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Adobe

Adobe gives peek at online Photoshop

Adobe demonstrated Photoshop Express at the Photoshop World conference on Thursday in Las Vegas. Photoshop Express is the lightweight online version of Photoshop.

"It's a new member of the Photoshop family that's meant to make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible...to large numbers of people," says John Nack, Adobe Photoshop product manager.

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Google

Google Phone All But Confirmed by New Plates of Details

Judging upon the Boston Globe article and Om Malik's five facts "from a reliable source", it seems like the Google Phone is very likely to be more then just a rumour.

Sources say the Google Phone will be Linux-based and will run Java apps.



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Winners of the Essential ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns book competition

Thanks to the friendly people of O`Reilly & Associates we had 5 copies to give away of;  Essential ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns. Take a look to see the correct answer and if you're one of the lucky winners. Read More
Adobe

Opera 9.5 alpha released

Opera released Opera Browser 9.5 alpha codenamed Kestrel. The new browser contains many cool new features, improvement of existing features, fixed bugs, and it is 50% faster! Read More
Adobe

Flash Player 9 above 90% limit

Adobe's Flash stats show that its Flash Player has a 90% reach in June 2007. From today, Flash Player 9 and AS3 should be the preferred format for publishing Flash content. Read More
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