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Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available

Firefox 3.0Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing!

[Via TG Daily]

Update: As Stuart Parmenter points out in the comments, this is not Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1, but a build of Gran Paradiso using Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 - the rendering engine behind Firefox. My apologies!

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

Firefox 2.0 alpha 2 released

Mozilla has released a 2nd alpha version of Firefox 2.0. As usual, this release is not recommended for any kind of serious use, but if you're salivating at some of the new version's features, check out what has been incorporated in this 2nd development milestone:
  • Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows
  • Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behavior is slightly different
  • Inline spell checking in text boxes (Works well, though apparently not on all sites yet)
  • Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
  • Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo!
  • New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
  • Improved support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
  • New microsummaries feature for bookmarks (Really interesting new feature)
  • New Add-Ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes
  • Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
  • New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines
  • Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
A mouthful, I know. I typed this post using this development version (Bon Echo, as they call it) on Mac OS X and I have to say, it's nice so far. Of course, none of my extensions were compatible, and I highly recommend backing up your Firefox app support folder before testing this, no matter what OS you're using. When I tried the last Bon Echo development version, it rendered my support folder incompatible with the latest stable release of Firefox. Just another one of those hazards of playing with dev editions.

If you want more details of this release, check out its download page and Mozilla's release notes.

[via diggdot.us]

Filed under: Fun, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services

Textorizer: Paint a picture with text

TextorizerTextorizer is an odd little web service that will take any image you give it and turn it into an SVG image made out of the text you supply. It's pretty cool and the edge-detection works pretty well, though obviously it works better with things with solid edges like logos and illustrations. I'm not entirely sure what it's useful for just yet, and unfortunately missing is a way to change the font or text size, and a way to save the output as a (raster image), but it's definitely fun. To use Textorizer you'll need an SVG-capable browser.

Filed under: Web services, Google

Google Maps in 3D

3D MapsI think it's only a matter of time before Google brings something more like Google Earth to web browsers, but in the meantime check out 3D Maps, a Japanese proof-of-concept that takes map images from Google Maps and uses SVG to transform them into a pseudo-3D tilted view. It only works with Firefox 1.5 and is pretty slow, but is cool nonetheless. If you read Japanese there's some technical information here, but for the rest of us the machine-translated version is pretty obtuse.

[Via Waxy.org]

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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