Being that I like to try out software before it's ready for release, or maybe due to the fact that I'm just a glutton for punishment, I decided to try out the Beta 3 release of Firefox 3 even though I'd not had good experiences with previous pre-release versions.

Make sure you stop by and find out how things went. (Hint

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Blizzard sign ups for the Wrath of the Lich King are open and waiting for all dedicated World of Warcraft fans. You could be one of the select few that gets the opportunity to play the new expansion of World of Warcraft before it is made public to the rest of the world. Wrath of the lich king is available for preorder now and

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Mebane Faber over at WorldBeta consistently has good useful posts. This one is no exception where he points out some research that he has come across to better understand inflation numbers as well as how you can supposedly duplicate the RenTec Inst

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I had applied to be on the Hulu Beta back in October but I didn't get an invite until a couple of days ago. This is a new online video service that's being offered by NBC, Universal and some other TV studios. To demo it, I've used their clip embed service to place two classic Saturday Night Live skits in this post. Check them out and let m

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fruux is a social dotmac like service. this article explains a new function which resolves conflicts (e.g. data was changed on the server and locally) when syncing. including screenshots of the upcoming application. in previous posts the whole system is described. there are also a bunch of videos and graphs. maybe this is the next facebook.

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What exactly does the term "beta version" mean? Find out what beta is all about. What are the advantages of releasing a product, or a website in beta first? There are several reasons for both releasing a beta version, as well as, moving it out of beta quickly. Read more to find out why beta versions are ultimately necessary,

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Tonight I received my Jooce beta invite. If you have not heard of Jooce, it is a Web based virtual desktop. What this means is that it can be accessed from any Internet enabled computer. If that was all it offered, it wouldn’t provide too many advantages over similar offerings. Jooce goes a bit further, by providing both personal and public d

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I was surprised with the new beta version of Firefox (Swiftfox) when Ubuntu updated. Most of my extensions were broken but I fixed them with about:config (details in the article). There are some impressive new features (screenshots included), but there's also a fair amount of bugs and glitches!

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Google toolbar brings with it a lot of interesting and handy features. Now the Google Toolbar team is publicly releasing the next generation of the toolbar for beta testing.

The new Google Toolbar features a bunch of new enhancements including online synch of bookmarks, buttons and all your customizations which you can take with you.

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