 | Today the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystem, the community have decided to fulfill the promise of independence mentioned in the original… |
 | Finally Adobe has released Flash for 64-bit systems – for Linux as well. A couple of months ago, Adobe suddenly discontinued the 64-bit bit Flash Player for Linux without giving any reason. In yesterday’s announcement, Adobe has launched a preview build of Flash 10.2 “Square”. It was released for all major platforms – Windows, Mac… |
 | There are a lot of JavaScript benchmarking tools. Google has the V8 benchmark suite, Apple has SunSpider and Mozilla had (and still has) Dromaeo. Of course there are independent ones like Peacekeeper as well. Today, Mozilla has released a new JavaScript Benchmarking tool called Kraken. Kraken is largely based on the SunSpider test; with Mozilla… |
 | Earlier today, Twitter started rolling out a completely revamped UI. It has some amazing features that should make twitter.com a worthy competitor to the Twitter clients out there. New features includes a two panel interface, clear retweet and favorite labels, real name alongside the twitter handle, embedded media etc. In short twitter.com is moving towards… |
 | Last month an ugly looking wallpaper was found, words got around that it was the default wallpaper, everybody cried out its ugliness – there was even a bug report – even though Canonical Design said that that was not the default wallpaper. Today,we have another wallpaper. It looks far better than the previous “default” wallpaper…. |
 | Compiz is one the most recognizable windows manager around. It is responsible for sucking in many Windows users to Linux. In a blog post yesterday, Compiz developer, Sam Spilsbury, outlined what to expect from Compiz 0.9.2. Here is a brief list of the new stuffs that Compiz 0.9.2 will bring: |
| Firefox 4 is inching towards the feature freeze on 15th September. As the date nears and the pressure to finish Firefox 4 increases, Mozilla are dropping some features, so as not to delay the final release. They have already dropped Account Manager last month. The Account Manager, as the name suggest, is supposed to take… |
