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Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 is now available!

SeaMonkey 1.1It'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.

Filed under: Windows, Office, Productivity, Open Source

Portable apps to be thankful for

PortableApps SuiteAh, glorious portable apps. Even better, a whole suite of glorious free portable apps all wrapped up in one package? Going on the road for the holidays and want to take your desktop--but not your computer--with you? The PortableApps Suite version 1.0 has been released and it's definitely something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The suite comes in two flavors: Standard edition fits comfortable on a 512MB USB drive and includes ClamWin (antivirus), Firefox, Gaim (instant messaging), OpenOffice.org, Sudoku, Sunbird (calendar/task manager) and Thunderbird (email client). Lite edition fits on a 256MB drive but eschews OpenOffice.org in favor of the slimmer AbiWord. Best of all, though, the PortableApps Suite comes with the PortableApps Menu, an attractive, customizable launcher, and PortableApps Backup for, well, backing up your portable apps.

[Via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Internet, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware, Social Software, Unix

Writely now features Google Account sign-in goodness

Writely now features Google Account sign-in goodnessWritely has finally done the deed and fulfilled their acquisition destiny by opening their doors for users to sign in using their Google Accounts. They even published a succinct, though somewhat goofy, Help Center Q&A on this new ability, clarifying that not all Google Accounts are Gmail accounts, but all Gmail accounts are, in fact, Google Accounts; they must've been getting pounded with questions from Gmail users who aren't quite hip to the Google Account universe, or something.

At any rate, there don't seem to be any other revolutionary changes; Writely's design and UI hasn't been Googleized (and some might thank them for that), but who knows - this could easily be one more step in the direction of a Google Office suite.

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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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