So i knew they’d built in Auto updating to 0.9 firefox but it seems to have a glitch. my Firefox prompted me that an update was available so i installed it. Now i’m running 0.9.1 but i’m still being told there’s an update available.
Anyone else?
Microsoft has today released it’s future plans for Hotmail. In July free hotmail accounts will now be antivirus enabled for both inbound and outbound messages, along with having a 125 fold increase in mailbox size up to 250Mb now with ability to send 10Mb attachments. HotMail Plus users will be increased to 2Gb storage space and the ability to send 20Mb attachments.
With 170 million users of Hotmail world wide that’s an awful lot of disk space to provide!!!! They better get their capacity planning right!!!
Read the full press release form Microsoft here
thanks to an internet buddy i now have a Gmail account. I’m going to follow Sean Corfield and use it as my mail listing receiving email account since allegedly it groups emails into conversation automatically for me.
In subscribing to lists with my new account i’ve found some neat features. Whereas previously clicking on mailto: links in other web mails accounts has opening up a New Mail message in Outlook 2003 clicking on one within a gmail email opens up a child new gmail window. Nice! As for deleting email, there’s a move to trash option but then you can ‘delete forever’ from the trash folder. Auto completion on contacts from a web mail client is pretty neat - plus as Sean found it works on Firefox 0.9.
When i find something else cool i’ll post back here.
Yesterday (on Monday) Microsoft released the second release candiate for service pack 2 for XP inching the product closer to it’s release date. I don’t think i recall ever so much work on Microsoft’s part going into any one single service pack as the efforts at Redmond campus are currently going into Sp2 - all part of their ’secure computing’ drive.
The install is a little ‘hairy’ since it requires you to remove previous releases of sp2 before you go ahead and install rc2. I’ve just done it, it took a while but so far despite warnings that certain apps might not work so far I’ve not experienced any problems yet. The prerelease is available from here
I just received this in my inbox this morning, I like it lots!
Subject: DVLA Press release
“In order to assist other motorists in identifying potentially dangerous drivers, it’s now compulsory for anyone with a lower than average IQ and driving ability to display a warning flag. The flag (comprising of a red cross on a white background) will be attached to the top of at least one door of their vehicle. For drivers of exceptionally low ability, Additional flags are required.”
as you can probably tell, i’m no footie fan. Basically, all the footie fans have got these really annoying flags sticking out of the rear windows on their cars - i’m all up for being patriotic but it’s getting silly. Police are now having to get involved since some people are completely obscurring their views and kids in the back are opening the windows and the flags are flying off down the road!!!
The mozilla foundation have released the long awaited 0.9 prerelease of the Firefox browser. If you haven’t checked it out yet then it’s very much worth a look - at about 5mb download can you afford not to?
Well it’s here at last, the free opensource HTML editor areaches version 2.0 beta 1 and now it works on Mozilla browsers!!!!!
FCKeditor is like ActiveEdit, SoEditor etc allowing inline editing of HTML from files or Db, this is great news since previously on Mozilla all you got was a text area
To check out the new version (it’s not feature complete yet) visit www.fckeditor.net
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