Archive for December, 2009
WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1
WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1 has been released – see http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/ It contains 23 fixes, which can be seen at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&order=priority&milestone=2.9.1&resolution=fixed
Adobe Air 2.0.0.10760 Beta
The Adobe(R) AIR(TM) runtime enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provide all the convenience of a desktop application. Companies like eBay and AOL are using Adobe AIR to create exciting new applications [...]
Wireshark 1.3.2 Beta
Wireshark 1.3.2 beta is available for download at http://www.wireshark.org/download.html Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto standard across many industries and educational institutions. Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time Live capture and offline analysis Standard three-pane packet browser Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, [...]
WinSCP 4.2.5
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Features: Graphical user interface Translated into several languages Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons) U3 support All common operations with [...]
What happens when you post a link on Twitter?
When a link is put into a Twitter posting, the link gets crawled very quickly by the following agents: @hourlypress Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; abby/1.0; +http://www.ellerdale.com/crawler.html) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 [...]
OneRiot Beta
For those of you who have recently started seeing the OneRiot user agent string appear and wondered what it was, here is the answer: Here is an example of searching for a recent posting we had done via Twitter, which showed up instantly (well just after we’d posted and then the bot had been in [...]
WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”
The coolest new stuff from a user point of view is: Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete. Built-in image editor [...]
Firefox 3.6 beta 5
Beta 5 of Firefox 3.6 has now been released. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run [...]
Firefox 3.0.16
Firefox 3.0, has been updated with the release of version 3.0.16. The release contained seven patches, two of them marked critical. The browser will also will loose security support next month.
Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla has patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components.
