Microsoft has made the first beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 1 available to testers. This is not a publicly released beta, and probably never will be — it is ready for download by those who Microsoft has invited to test it and people who have registered to test it via Microsoft’s Connect beta testing [...]
As with earlier previews of Internet Explorer 9, the latest release is totally chromeless (there’s no shiny user interface, just a floating window). That can make it a little tricky to test things, but fortunately Ars Technica has posted a simple guide on how to turn on the IE9 GUI in Platform Preview 6. First, [...]
A new version of the Facebook app for BlackBerry is now available from BlackBerry Beta Zone. This is version 1.9, and it brings loads of new features to enhance your Facebook experience on BlackBerry OS devices. First off, there’s now a dedicated inbox for Facebook messages. This inbox syncs with the Web-based Facebook inbox in [...]
During an event in Cupertino this morning, Apple has announced FaceTime for Mac. A beta version of the application is already available to download. This partially addresses one of the biggest gripes FaceTime users have had with the service — lack of support for video chatting with people on their computers. It only partially addresses [...]
Google’s Analytics service is a very useful tool for webmasters to track what their visitors are doing on their sites and what they’re clicking on. However, up until now there was no good way to visualize how visitors navigate on a website. Analytics reports do contain a lot of data, but making sense of all [...]
Despite what you might think, Microsoft’s no stranger to software on a Mac. Its Office suite from the Mac Business Unit is still one of the best-selling pieces of software on OS X. With all the commotion about Windows Phone 7, it’s easy to just assume that Microsoft’s new and shiny mobile operating system would [...]
HyperDock is a System Preferences pane, which you can install on your Mac, that adds some nice visual improvements to the dock, as well as some very useful window-handling functionality. Currently, it’s in beta, but you’d never know it; I have yet to have a single problem with it on my system. Visually, HyperDock adds [...]
Internet Explorer 9′s new tab page (or about:Tabs) is a handy way to access your most frequently accessed sites. But suppose you’d like to display more than 10 sites — there’s no way to change the number in IE9′s options screen! Fortunately, a quick registry edit is all that’s required. Thanks to Microsoft’s Eric Law, [...]
Firefox 4 shutdown is already almost instant, but Mozilla has had their sights set on faster start-up times for quite a while. Over the summer, a pair of Mozilla interns looked at simple tweaks which would make Firefox appear faster. It now looks as if at least one of the suggested changes will make its [...]
Maybe you’ve seen enough of the Internet Explorer 9 beta for now — you just wanted a taste, but you’d rather not use a beta browser on a day-to-day basis. Maybe you just want to know how to uninstall it because other people are going to ask you how to do it. Unlike most [...]
