All Google Voice related apps were banned from the app store. Google Voice lets you do a lot of stuff for free You can place free calls in the US, you can send and receive free SMS messages. The application is still in beta, invite only stage, but several cool applications that use the service already exist for the iPhone. Sean Kovacs, the developer of GV Mobile, has said on his site that Apple has rejected the application.
Design ideas show Firefox 4.0 with a Chrome lookMozilla showed some mockups for the nearer-term Firefox 3.7 that eliminated the browser's title bar, replacing it with two drop-down menu buttons on the right, just like Chrome has had since its September 2008 debut. The Firefox 4.0 mockups show two options, one similar to the 3.7 ideas, and the other taking another step in the Chrome direction.
European antitrust officials shared the fact that Microsoft was offering to provide Windows users a choice of browser via the so-called “ballot screen” option as part of its settlement talks with the European Commission. Microsoft originally was dead-set against the ballot screen option; officials said the company would rather ship Windows 7 with no browser included at all than to ship one with a ballot screen.
The new beta is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.1.1 platform, keeping it up to date with the latest changes that affect Firefox. Mozilla also claims that there are more than 500 changes in this version. On his blog, Chief Technical Officer of Mozilla Messaging Dan Mosedale said that many of the improvements will help support the new global database search engine. Based on these comments, more betas of Thunderbird 3 are expected.
Two weeks after the official release of Universal Form Validator, we are glad to announce that our developers are also ready with the PHP version. The user input is validated both client as well as server side - so there is no escape! You can choose from many predefined validation rules, conditional validation and even Ajax style inline validation! The validation errors and hints can be displayed in great tooltips and input masking can be applied. All fully customizable to your layout and needs!
Check out the product page for more details, videos and demos! Read MoreA week before the official release for Folder View 2.0 our developers created a demo to show you some of the new features that are included in the second version of the extension. You can choose from different tree styles, bullets and sources.
Two new Flash-related open source projects were released by Adobe this week: The Text Layout Framework which promises to deliver advanced, easy-to-integrate text and typography layout features for more sophisticated and innovative typography on the Web, and the Open Source Media Framework (formerly known as “Strobe”) which can be used for building robust, feature rich video players and applications based on the Adobe® Flash® Platform.
Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and customers alike, and will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
A week before the official release for Universal Form Validator PHP we offer you a sneak preview to demonstrate the strengths of the upcoming release. The Swiss knife validation added due to the Universal Form Validator PHP technology shows the user input that is validated both client as well as server side.
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