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Mozilla opens up Firefox 3 brainstorming to the public, as well as alpha builds

Mozilla opens up Firefox 3 brainstorming to the public, as well as alpha buildsFirefox 2 isn't even officially out the door yet, but if y'all aren't partying too hard, why not toss in your two cents on how Firefox 3 is going to turn out? Mozilla has decided to offer up a a public brainstorming wiki to solicit ideas and feature requests for the next major release of Firefox. The page is already impressively organized, offering fine-grained categories for things like software update, tabs, profiles, printing and even mobile and enterprise support. There's already quite a bit on the menu, and Mozilla will obviously have to draw at least a few lines to keep Firefox 3 on track, but swing on by if you think you can lend a hand to shape the future of one of the best darn browsers on the Internets.

In addition, they've also unleashed alpha builds of Firefox 3 (aka - Minefield), though from a quick run-through on Mac OS X, I can't see anything mind-blowingly new just yet. Of course, YMMV.

[via Ars Technica]

Filed under: Internet, Features, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware, Social Software, Unix

Google issues major overhaul to Google Reader

Google issues major update to Reader

Google has announced what is quite possibly the largest update to Google Reader since its inception, bringing an entirely new UI, more keyboard shortcuts, new bookmarklets and a whole lotta results from user feedback to the table. Overall, as a Google Reader fan for some time, I am pleasantly surprised by this wholly positive and usable update, but it isn't without a few confusing quirks.

The first and most noticeable update is the radical change to Google Reader's UI, bringing it more in line with the tried and tested UI of many other online readers, but still with much of the Google engineers' unique genius baked in everywhere. Above you can see Reader has adopted the typical folder/grouping system on the left, while headlines can be listed on the right.

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Filed under: Business, Developer, Text, Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Freeware, Open Source

kalab.com's Cron: scheduler for the rest of us

Kalab.com CronCron is a great utility for scheduling windows jobs. It runs as a service, accepts parameters and will execute any dos command you can throw at it. I am currently using it to upload a disaster recovery document to a web server at work. It works like a charm. Cron, a Crontab document (no more than a text file really) and a few ftp commands later (at least for my project), and wha-lah! You have the best little scheduler you could ever want. There are a few versions of it you can download. One is PyCron, written in Python, which has some more features than the Cron version. While I think there could have been a more distinctive name for the program, I found it particularly useful and powerful. Instructions for use are right on the main page. they seem a bit hefty at first, but a few minutes and you'll be off and running.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Social Software

Blogging about someone's app? Tag it with 'freedbacking'

The term certainly doesn't roll off the tongue as well as 'feedback', but in this case, that's an advantage. 'Freedbacking', a melding of 'free' and 'feedback', is a new tag proposed by Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo that bloggers can use to let developers know their apps are being talked about. The idea is that by using a 100% made-up term that search engines have never heard of, users who have something (ideally constructive) to say can get their message to developers much more easily. While most companies and developers already have feedback systems established such as forums and email, a public discourse through blogging and the use of a specialized tag brings the discussion to a whole new level.

At least that's the idea. The new tag, while already being put to use, is still in its infancy, so time will tell as to how widely accepted it becomes and how much value the system offers. I, for one, am excited at the possibility of opening the door between developers and their users just a little bit wider.

[via Wired]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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