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This article was written on July 31, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the requests that I frequently receive with every Firefox 3 Alpha release is to put together a portable build that people can play with. That way they don’t need to worry about messing up their existing Firefox installation or profile, and when they have had enough with it they can simply delete the folder it resides in.

Download Squad found a site that ingeniously created a script which automatically downloads the latest nightly release of Firefox. That means right now it is grabbing the nightly builds of Firefox 3, and after that branches off it will begin grabbing Firefox 4 nightly releases.

All you have to do is download the version of Portable Firefox that includes the updater (Download Mirror). After you extract the files you’ll see a file called Updater.exe, and that’s what you need to run first. The download of the latest Firefox 3 nightly build will be initiated, and you should see the download progress in the System Tray (similar to the screenshot I took above). After the download is done the Updater will extract the contents using 7-Zip (already included), and it will place the files in the appropriate directory.

How long the actual process takes depends on how fast your Internet connection is, and for me it was done in less than a minute. Overall this is a great idea, and I think it would be even more awesome if there was an option to specify the URL of the download. That way you could pick and choose which version you wanted to run!

Instructions on doing this process manually can be found here, which also includes details on copying your existing Firefox profile over to the portable setup.

Get the Portable Firefox Updater (Download Mirror)

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Coming this February, at a Mobile World Congress near you, from the company that popularized the Service Pack: a second major update to Windows Phone 7. The observant among you will already be leaping out of their seats to point out that the first WP7 update hasn’t even been delivered yet, but it seems like Microsoft’s calendar stretches beyond the next month and the company’s already churning away on enhancing and improving its rebooted mobile OS. Such is the scuttlebutt coming out of WinRumors, and it’s kind of hard to argue with the postulation that Steve Ballmer wouldn’t be keynoting MWC in 2011 without something significant to announce. Word is that users will be getting added customization options for their phones, while developers will gain an extra few API hooks and controls that will ideally lead to more sophisticated apps in WP7’s future. Sounds good to us, now how about some landscape love, Microsoft?

[Thanks, Jay]

Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

This morning, one of the contacts on my Windows Live Messenger list appeared to be on-line and sent me a link that looked like this: [myusername].historyshotz.com. What caught my eye was the fact that my actual username was in the link, and then upon clicking the link, Firefox let me know that the site was reported as web forgery. Knowing the link came from a friend, I was curious, so I started to look into it. As it turns out, their account had been compromised and what I would have seen had Firefox not stopped me from following the link, are boxes to enter in my MSN email credentials.

The domain, historyshotz.com was registered just yesterday (they are based in Panama City, Panama according to Whois.net) and they attempt to retrieve your credentials by telling you to login to see a photo from the person who sent you the message. Those who fall for it authorize some company called TST Management to “send messages of a commercial nature via Instant Messages and emails on behalf of third parties via the information you provide us.”That line comes from their Terms of Use/Privacy Policy where they also point out that they claim they aren’t a phishing site that attempts to trick you into revealing your information. Riiiight. They say that, right before they talk about accessing your account to send messages to your friends to promote the site, and introduce them to “new entertaining sites.”

What we are trying to get at is if you happen to receive a link from a contact on your MSN/Windows Live Messenger list that looks like this: [yourusername].historyshotz.com, (with your actual username appearing in the link), do not follow it and do not enter your credentials. We don’t care that they claim their intentions are good, they can’t be, not with the way they attempt to get your credentials in the first place, followed by the spamming they do. Oh, and that spamming, they say the user will be liable for:

“ANY LIABILITY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED OR ALLEGEDLY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, SHALL BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE SUBSCRIBER TO THIS SERVICE.”

If you happen to get the link from a friend, be sure to let them know that their account has been compromised and to change their password immediately.

What was reassuring for us was the fact that Firefox already identified the site as web forgery, just one day after the domain was registered. Yay for Firefox!

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If you’ve never experienced the joy of conveying four precisely-played tracks onto a single, rattly plastic cassette tape, prepare to see what you’ve been missing. The iconic Tascam Portastudio is coming to iPad in a very virtual way, a $10 app that presents a simplified replication of the original’s decidedly more tactile controls. You can mix four inputs to stereo output, which is stored on a pretend cassette — and can then share via iTunes or Soundcloud, which is rather more useful than a picture of a tape. It’s available right now for the iPad only, with no plans for a release on any other platform. Yeah, boo.

Tascam Portastudio for iPad could make you a four-track superstar all over again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

Firefox just hit the big 200 million download marker. Spread Firefox was the place that posted the big news but I wonder who the lucky number 200 million was? It would be cool if they gave us some specs of the location the person was downloading it from and exactly what time they were downloading it. So what are the numbers at right now:

Of course there are many people that have downloaded it 2, 3, 4, … , 15, … , 30 times. The numbers are starting to become more realistic now that Firefox 1.5 has an auto update feature which prevents you from having to re-download Firefox in order to upgrade. Well, I guess congratulations are in order for Firefox!

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