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Update: Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email -2.0.0.14

Mozilla has released an update to their Thunderbird 2 email client.  2.0.0.14 is the new build for those who are using the, well I'll just say it, obscure email.

But if you're in obscurity then you'll want to upload to take care of some memory leaks causing crashes.

"Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.

In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:
The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experiene with specific features and enchancements that you need. Support for extensions. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convient to add address book contacts to emails.
Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
Simplified preferences UI and menus.
Footprint and performance improvements.

What's new in this version:
MFSA 2008-15 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
MFSA 2008-14 JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2"

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Media Flo, As seen through The Eyes Of A LG Vu

You wont get too many choices for what you want to watch your At&t Media Flo on, but you will watch Media Flo, soon.

As seen in this YouTube video, Media Flo is getting a workout on the LG Vu Flo capable mobile phone to be released with the official launch, which should become official fairly soon.  Like in 3 days soon.

But, ask yourself this.  If you're willing to buy a $300 dollar phone just so you can watch a few tiny TV shows, what's really gone on? 

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3G Meets T-Mobile In New York City!

T-Mobile shines some light onto an otherwise darken mobile world, 3G in major cities.  Yep, not this "let's start a major project rollout in some small Texas town, or Michigan", nope.  T-Mobile is going right after the source, New York city T-Mob users will see their 3G enabled phones hit cruise control on May 1st.

Then other major cities are tabbed for the rest of the year:

New York City
Austin
NJ and Long Island
Las Vagas
Minneapolis
Miami
Dallas
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia
Denver
Detroit
Orlando
Kansas city
Atlanta
Los Angeles
New England
Portland
Sacramento
San Diego
Seattle
Washington DC
San Francisco
Birmingham
Memphis
Tampa
Phoenix

What's that you say, your phone doesn't have 3G?  Of course not, that's why you'll have to buy a new one.

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AT&T: U-verse Gets Online Games And Flickr On Your TV Screen

Texas seems to be the new place where companies go to take over the world.  Actually, just AT&T.  San Antonio will get a little upgrade to their brand new U-verse service from AT&T. 

Now subscribers will have the ability to watch a slideshow of their Flickr photos, play online games, search the Yellow pages and track their stocks and weather, all from the living room couch.

"AT&T Online Photos from Flickr, which lets you simply and conveniently browse the photos you've uploaded to flickr.com and watch slide shows on your U-verse TV screen from the comfort of your couch.
AT&T U-bar, which brings customizable weather, stock, sports and traffic information to the U-verse TV screen without interrupting the current program. AT&T High Speed Internet subscribers can personalize the U-bar from the AT&T portal to display weather at specific locations, your personal stock portfolio and scores for your favorite sports teams.
YELLOWPAGES.COM TV, for fast and easy searches to find local businesses and other information via your TV screen.
AT&T Yahoo! Games, so you can now play your favorite online games — including Sudoku, Solitaire, JT's Blocks, Mah-jongg Tiles and Chess — on the TV screen."

Now don't everyone pack up and move to San Antonio at once now ya hear!

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Firefox Is On Fire In Europe

29%, that's right 29% is the overall share of the browser using market share in Europe, according to Xiti, a european web metrics company.  Slovenia, Poland and Finland seem to be going wild over the Fox with Andorra being the highest Firefox growth market. 

Firefox use is said to be growing strong worldwide with no real plausible reasoning behind it.   Firefox dropped by 1% in North America, I can only hope that the drop is due to Safari for windows.  After dealing with IE 6/7/8 for the past week, my hatred for the browser as increased ten-fold.

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Texas + Starbucks + AT&T = The Start Of Something WiFi

It's been talked about for quite sometime and now it is finally right around the corner.  The big AT&T Starbucks partnership to bring WiFi to customers kicked off int the state that makes fun of Starbucks coffee drinkers.

But on May 1st,  qualifying AT&T high speed Internet and Wi-Fi customers will have complimentary access at over 7,000 outlets, for free.

"With the power of our Wi-Fi network, and through our partnership with
Starbucks, we're strengthening our ability to meet the needs of today's
mobile consumer virtually anywhere and everywhere," Stephenson said.
"Expanding our reach across company-operated Starbucks locations nationwide
helps us bridge the gap between our wired and wireless offerings and
affirms AT&T's commitment to connect people with their worlds, everywhere
they live and work."

In five years we will all live in Starbucks apartment buildings, communicate only through new and improved iPhone wizardry and give AT&T 40% of our monthly salaries to AT&T.   Just because.

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Social Networking Goes Social Security! GetBack Media Goes Live

                               

                                    

                                       

"March 1, 1972

RetroMinute

Wilt Chamberlain hits 30,000 points • John Lennon gets his work visa • Roger Daltrey turns 28 • The Carol Burnett Show is on TV."

TVLand turned Social Networking hits your Internet Browser today.  GetBack Media is launching their "Your Butt is Old" social networking site.  The site will host TV clips, guys saying phrases that aren't worth saying, and constant reminders of how old you are.

But, I actually think out of the hundreds of useless Social Networking sites out there now, this one is going to do pretty good.  It really doesn't matter how old you are, everybody likes the 60's and 70's, and a good deal of young folk prefer the long gone decades. 

The site will be targeting the 35 and up crowd, but I'm willing to bet they get hit with the 18 to 25 groups much harder than they think.   Anybody from the era's while find the site fun for about a week, mainly because everything offered is sitting right there on your desk. 

But having said that,  this is a pretty darn good idea, I think it will have legs.

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Technorati, b5media. The Deals Off Man, The Deals Off!

It seems like Technorati has been struggling as of late to find it's identity.  The blog resource has had a bit of settling to do after the abrupt departure of it's founding CEO and ongoing battles over how its ranking system works.  But, whatever the case, Technorati is without a doubt a major force on the web. 

Up and coming Canadian hit b5media, according to sources to "TechCrunch" was in the perfect position to swoop in and partner up with Technorati and help move it into a stronger Ad force online with an instant additional 340 blogs.

But, as quiet as it was kept, those talks broke down.  Sources told TechCrunch that their were problems with CEO's and full disclosure. 

Oh the things that go on right under our noses.

GrooveSharks New Media Player...A Tree Just fell In The Forest, Did you Hear it?

Yep, you guessed it, another way to share your music with your friends online.  GrooveSharkLite is a Flash player that connects to GrooveSharks vast music Library.   It reports to go further that other players that place restrictions on how many times you can listen to your file of choice.

The music you choose is for sale but not downloadable.  The player is free but you will need to register and buy your tunes if you want to create playlist and or share your songs with your friends.

Still, with all this sharing going on over the internet, one would think that we are a giving people.

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Gizmo - 4.0.0.247 Free Calls From Your Computer Or Mobile Phone

It's getting free out there folks.  Pretty soon the telecom companies are going to have a real problem on their hands as more and more companies develop services that allow users to call anyone, anywhere for free or next to nothing.

Like with Gizmo for example.  A company so smart that they made their software available to both Windows and MAC!! users.  Hear that Blackberry developers!?

Product Description:
Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you’re connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. It’s just that simple. You talk clearly. For as long as you want. For free.

And with inexpensive add-ons like CallIn and CallOut, you can talk to any telephone–mobile or landline–on the planet. Any phone? Yes.

Download Gizmo Project, and suddenly it all clicks–some calls are better online.
What's new in this version:
Leopard compatibility fixes.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
Microphone
Internet connection (Dialup 33.6 kbps or broadband including cable, DSL, LAN, etc. Results may vary on satellite, EDGE/GPRS connections)
Universal Binary

Take the leap over and take a look at this service.  Get on the bandwagon now because it can't stay this good for too much longer.

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