Aug 08

Greasemonkey for Firefox 3

Posted in: Firefox 3, Firefox Extensions, Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on June 05, 2008 by CyberNet.

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Greasemonkey is one of the extensions that I know many of you are waiting to get upgraded before making the jump to Firefox 3. If that’s the only extension you’re holding out for then I’ve got good news for you… there’s a pre-release version of Greasemonkey that was assembled a few weeks ago (May 19, 2008), and it’s completely compatible with Firefox 3. You can install the latest Greasemonkey 0.8 RC here.

The new version includes some enhancements and, as you can see in the screenshot above, a hip new icon. The release of Greasemonkey 0.8 RC was originally announced in this forum, but after looking around a little bit I noticed that there was an even newer version available. So I recommend directly downloading this latest release if you’re using Firefox 3.

The main developer, Aaron, hasn’t been heard from in a little while. He’s the one that has control over what gets posted to the official Add-ons site, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the new Greasemonkey will be stumbling on to there any day now. In the mean time you can use the Release Candidate.

Greasemonkey for Firefox 3 Download (Release Candidate)
Thanks Max for the tip!

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Aug 08

How To Get Yahoo! Mail Beta To Work With Internet Explorer 7

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on February 02, 2006 by CyberNet.

How To Get Yahoo! Mail Beta To Work With Internet Explorer 7

If you are testing Yahoo! Mail Beta right as well as Internet Explorer 7, then you might already know that there are some conflicting issues. Yahoo! Mail Beta is set up to only allow certain web browsers to use its services to help them ensure that the users get the best experience. They have not setup Internet Explorer 7 as one of those browsers yet. If you are using Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 then you can change your User Agent so that IE7 will pretend to be IE6 SP2 when identifying itself. This is just a simple registry import brought to you by FiddlerTool.com! All you have to do is download it from the link below and run it.

Patch: Registry Fix To Change IE7 User Agent To IE6
News Source: The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog

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Jul 23

Microsoft Exchange 12 Beta Is Released To 1,400 Testers

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on December 14, 2005 by CyberNet.

Microsoft released Exchange 12 today to 1,400 testers. This is going to be the next version of the mail/communication server to be released around the same time as Microsoft Office 12. The next beta will come in the second quarter of 2006 and the final release is expected in the third quarter of 2006. Of course any predictions by Microsoft are never very accurate so plan on the first quarter of 2007 at the earliest. New changes include five user selectable server roles and more unified inbox capabilities.

News Source: Microsoft Watch

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Jul 16

Download Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 2 Build 5299

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on January 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Download Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 2 Build 5299

If you have been waiting for the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 2 then here is YOUR chance to preview it! It was just released a little while ago, well, I guess it was really leaked and not released. Make sure you check this out (screenshots can be seen at the source):

UPDATE: There is also a No-Install version of IE7 on RapidShare where you just need to extract the folder and run iexplorer.exe! This sounds simpler but I would only use it as an alternative.

UPDATE 2: PLEASE USE THE MEGAUPLOAD MIRROR BECAUSE RAPIDSHARE HAS REMOVED THE FILE! Please note, however, there is an inappropriate pop-up using this file sharing service! The No-Install version listed above is also still functional.

UPDATE 3: A RapidShare Host has been added by a user so CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FROM RAPIDSHARE. By popular demand they put it in ZIP format! For everyone’s sake, if the link goes down please post here letting us know, it makes things much easier!

UPDATE 4: Microsoft has officially released IE7 Beta 2 Preview so CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FROM MICROSOFT.

Download: PLEASE SEE UPDATE 4 ABOVE!
MegaUpload Mirror: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DRPSGZO1

Patching Instructions for those Not running a Genuine Copy of Windows XP:
1) Download the patched iecustom.dll
iecustom.rar ( 68.32k )
2) Using a program like WinRAR, extract the contents of IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe to a random temporary directory
3) Open up the new temp dir and browse to the “update” folder
4) Replace iecustom.dll with our Patched version
5) Now, run update.exe, NOT iesetup.exe (Sorry, no purdy installer for you warez monkeys)

Source: JCXP

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Jul 14

SnagIt for Mac (Beta) Released

Posted in: Features, Freeware, Mac, Pre-Release, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on December 16, 2009 by CyberNet.

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I’ve been using a Mac for nearly two years, and with as many screenshots as I take there was just never an app that quite matched the capabilities of SnagIt on Windows. I’ll admit that Skitch was pretty close, but the screenshot editor lacked in a lot of different areas. My biggest pet peeve is the inability to manage/manipulate multiple screenshots on the same canvas… a.k.a. turning more than one screenshot into a single image. That was something SnagIt on Windows really shined at.

Techsmith has heard the pleas from Mac users, and released a Mac-compatible screencast recorder earlier this year. Then yesterday I received an email from them saying that they have officially unveiled the Beta version of SnagIt for taking screenshots on a Mac. The interface is wildly different from the Windows counterpart, but that’s understandable considering that the Windows version uses the Office 2007 Ribbon UI that Microsoft hasn’t made available for Mac applications.

How does SnagIt for Mac handle itself? Right now I’d say very well. It offers an all-in-one capture mode that tries to detect whether you want to grab the full screen, a window, a specific region, or even a scrolling area. That’s cool and all, but it’s the small things I appreciate having again… like the small magnified window when capturing a region:

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The awesome thing about the magnified window is that it doesn’t actually appear until your cursor isn’t moving much on the screen. That makes sense because when your cursor is only being nudged a few pixels at a time is when you’re probably trying to get a pixel-perfect screenshot, and that’s when you need the magnified area.

Overall I’d say there are a lot of nice touches in the app. You can use keyboard shortcuts, the Menubar icon, or the hide-away window (pictured in the first screenshot) to initiate a capture. SnagIt for Mac isn’t full-featured yet though, and you’ll notice that as soon as you click on the “Effects” tab where all you’ll see is a “Coming soon” message. The things that are available work very well though.

I like where the app is headed, and I’m already confident that I’ll be purchasing it once it is released. It offers all the intuitiveness that Skitch does, but tacks on a much better screenshot editor. If you hardly edit your screenshots I’d say this isn’t the application for you, but keep in mind that the Beta of SnagIt for Mac is completely free to use until a commercial version is released. They haven’t specified when that will happen, but I’m guessing it will give you more than enough time to try it out to determine whether it’s something you’ll want to buy.

SnagIt for Mac (Beta) Homepage (Mac only; Freeware while in Beta)

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Jul 14

Microsoft promises Mango phones in September for Imagine Cup finalists

Posted in: mango, Microsoft, Pre-Release, Today's Chili, Windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7, Wp7

Another year, another Imagine Cup. The annual competition, sponsored by Microsoft, gives students the opportunity to apply technology to tackle hunger, poverty, and other global problems, thereby making the world a better place (for you and for me, and the entire human race). We’d say the finalists deserve a pretty cool reward for their efforts, right? According to a status update on the Cup’s Twitter account — an update that’s conspicuously been pulled — one of the prizes for finalists is a Windows Phone with Mango pre-loaded, a jackpot they’d receive by September. We’re not completely certain if this will be a pre-release version intended for developers or if it’s an indication that the final iteration will be ready for public use by this time; we’ve only heard that Mango’s slotted for a fall release, so both are definite possibilities. Since many of these students are developers, however, it’s entirely possible they’ll receive a prototype device with an early version of the firmware. No phone could replace the warm feelings in their heart for such a great accomplishment, but at least they can share their joy with built-in Twitter integration.

Microsoft promises Mango phones in September for Imagine Cup finalists originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

Opera Decides Not To Enable Anti-Phishing By Default?

Posted in: Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on November 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

Opera Anti-phishing

Opera has one of the best web browser development teams that I have ever seen. When they release products they are always intuitive, useful, and most importantly stable and secure. A few weeks ago Opera announced that the next release of their desktop browser, version 9.10, was going to have anti-phishing capabilities built-in to protect users from identity theft and fraud.

One thing that I don’t understand is why they have now decided to disable the feature by default when new users install the browser?

Fraud protection is not enabled by default anymore. We basically had to turn it on by default in the first weeklies to make sure we got as much feedback as possible in the limited time we had.

However, it’s a new feature and we think users may need some time to get used to this idea, so we’ve made it an opt-in feature for now. Opera is about giving users the choice, after all.

I agree that it is new and users will need to get used to it but this is a huge security feature and I think it should be enabled by default. Other browsers that have similar features, such as Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, enable it and if the user wants to disable it they are more than welcome to at anytime. As they say, “Opera is about giving users the choice,” but why not the choice to disable it?

I still love Opera and this isn’t going to change what I think about it, but for the security of the users who don’t know to look for that feature they should enable it. With that being said you can go download the latest weekly if you want to test out the anti-phishing feature but it looks like you’ll need to enable it after the installation.

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Jul 11

GIMP 2.4 Features

Posted in: Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

GIMP 2.4Gimp 2.4 is on the verge of being released. Right now it is in the release candidate stage with all the new features being complete and the API is frozen. All that’s left is a few bugs and some minor changes and we’ll be seeing a whole new GIMP!

GIMP was in dire need of a makeover, and so is their current website. Don’t worry, there is a new site ready for the launch of GIMP 2.4! The release notes for version 2.4 is still being worked on, but here is an overview I put together of what’s new in the upcoming version:

  • Refreshed look with new default icons (pictured above). I must say that it looks a heck of a lot better!
  • Scalable brushes let you dynamically change the size of the brush.
  • Advanced selection tools let you select items even more precisely. You can now select using a rounded-corner rectangle and even have it be antialiased.
  • Improved color picker lets you choose colors from anywhere on your screen, and not just in the picture your viewing.
  • Fullscreen editing lets GIMP utilize the full size of your monitor.
  • Improved cropping tool makes cropping an image more natural.
  • Layer alignment tool makes it easier to specify the position of your layers.
  • Startup speed and applying filters is much faster.
  • and many more bug fixes and few other features!

Below is a screenshot of the new GIMP running on Vista, and in the left-most window you will see the new selection tools:

GIMP 2.4 Preview
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If you’re wanting to try out GIMP 2.4 RC1 you’ll need to compile the source code. Windows users can always download GIMP 2.3.19 if they want to get a taste of what it’s like, and this was the last preview version released before the number was rolled over to 2.4. As seen in the release notes there were only a few bug fixes in 2.3.19 before they jumped to 2.4, so you won’t be missing too much.

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Jun 29

Windows Live Messenger Available To The Public

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 16, 2006 by CyberNet.

Windows Live Messenger Available To The PublicMicrosoft has frustrated many people by making Windows Live Messenger an invite only service while it was being tested, but the frustration is now over! If you would like to test out the latest version of Windows Live Messenger then simply follow the link below and under the section that says “Windows Live Messenger beta” select “Sign Up”. After logging into your Passport account you should be prompted to download the new Windows Live Messenger. Finally, everyone gets to enjoy this messenger service.

Also, a few weeks ago Microsoft had a bug on their servers that allowed people to signup for the service without being invited but this time it is official.

Get Windows Live Messenger

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Jun 26

Download Opera 9.1 Pre-Release With Fraud Protection

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on October 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Opera 9.1 Fraud Warning

The Opera Desktop Team just posted an early build of Opera 9.1 that has the built-in Fraud Protection implemented. I went ahead and downloaded it to give it a try and it looks pretty nice so far. To test out the fraud protection you can refer to Google’s blacklist that I have posted here. Remember that most of the sites in that file are REAL phishing sites so be careful with your information.

They say that there is still some work that needs to be done before the phishing protection is fully functional but I think it is still better to be using this test build than to be using a build without the fraud protection. It has also been a month since their last weekly release of Opera so this build has quite a long changelog available.

Here are the direct download links for those people who want to browse the web using the latest bleeding edge technology:

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