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Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Mozilla, Freeware

Backup your Firefox, Flock, or Thunderbird profiles with MozBackup 1.4.8

by Brad Linder May 20th 2008

Last time we checked in on Firefox backup utility MozBackup, the developer had just added support for Firefox 3 beta. Apparently it's been a busy half year over at MozBackup HQ, because this week MozBackup 1.4.8 was released, with the following new features:

Create automatic backups via command line
New Installer
Supports backup of unknown files from user profiles
Backup profiles and settings for: Firefox 2/3, Flock, SeaMonkey, Netscape Navigator 9.0, Netscape Messenger 9.0, Thunderbird, Spicebird, Firefox Portable, and Thunderbird Portable

If you're just looking or a quick way to backup your Firefox extensions, bookmarks, and other settings, you can always check out the FEBE and CLEO Firefox add-ons. But MozBackup looks like a nice all-in-on tool if you have several Mozilla-based programs that you want to backup.

MozBackup is available for Windows 98 through Vista.

[via CyberNet]

Tags: backup, firefox, flock, mozbackup, netscape, seamonkey, spicebird, thunderbird

Filed under: OS Updates, Linux

Puppy Linux 3.0: tiny Linux distribution you can run from a thumb drive

by Brad Linder Oct 5th 2007

Puppy Linux 3.0 was released this week, and like earlier versions of Puppy Linux, it's a tiny distro, weighing in at under 100MB. But it's packed with features, making it an excellent distribution for older computers with small hard drives and slow processors. You can also run Puppy Linux from a LiveCD or throw it on a flash drive and run it from any computer that will boot from a USB drive.

Eagle-eyed readers will note that OpenOffice alone is larger than 100MB, so what kind of applications does Puppy Linux 3.0 include?

AbiWord for word processing
Gnumeric for spreadsheets
SeaMonkey for web browsing
Pidgin for instant messaging
XFinans financial management

Of course, if you want to install OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, or other programs on top of Puppy Linux you're free to do so. But you might want to take it easy, seeing as the more apps you add the more memory you'll use, which kind of defeats the purpose of having such a lightweight operating system.

It looks like some Puppy websites aren't responding at the moment, so here are a few alternate download links.

Tags: gnumeric, pidgin, puppy, puppy-linux, puppy-linux-3.0, seamonkey

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 is now available!

by Jordan Running Jan 19th 2007

It's a big day for one of Mozilla's greatest projects. "Firefox?" you ask? No, the other one. "Thunderbird?" No, no, the other one. That's right, a new version of Mozilla's internet suite SeaMonkey is available today. In case you're not familiar with it, SeaMonkey is the open source spiritual successor to Netscape Communicator. If that doesn't mean anything to you, I suddenly feel very old, but what it is is a unified collection of internet tools: web browser (based on Firefox), email, newsgroups, IRC chat, and HTML editor, all in one. So now that you're up to speed, what's new in the latest release? Well, it's not a huge update, but it's got spell check for web forms, secure site indication, tab thumbnails, drag-and-drop for URLs, tagging for email, junk mail filtering improvements and better phishing detection, and more. You can see a complete list of new features here, and the rest of the release notes over here. You can download it for Windows, OS X, or Linux on the releases page.

Tags: browser, chat, email, internet, mozilla, seamonkey, suite, web browser, WebBrowser

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Mozilla, Open Source

SeaMonkey 1.0 Internet suite released

by Jordan Running Jan 31st 2006

One of the Mozilla foundation's lower-profile projects is SeaMonkey, the modern incarnation of the old Mozilla Suite. SeaMonkey is an all-in-one bundle consisting of a modern web browser, e-mail and newsgroup client, an IRC client, and an HTML editor. Today its first major release--1.0--hit the streets. You can download it for all major platforms from the SeaMonkey web site or check out the release notes to see what's new.

Tags: browser, chat, e-mail, html, irc, mozilla, news, newsgroups, seamonkey

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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