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…

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The best tool for taking screenshots just got better with the addition of two new features and plugins in the latest update. The latest update, Shutter 0.86.4, was released yesterday and comes with some new features and a couple of new plugins.

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Firefox 4.0 has a new JavaScript engine called JaegerMonkey. JaegerMonkey is supposed to be much faster than TraceMonkey.

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Firefox’s new JavaScript – JaegerMonkey – is now available for download in a special JavaScript Build. JaegerMonkey is said to be considerably faster that the old TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. It is even said to be comparable to Chrome’s V8 engine.

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Bricscad is one of the best alternatives to AutoCAD which supports the DWG file format. A few days ago, Bricsys, the company behind Bricscad, announced that a Linux version of Bricscad V10 is now available.

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Songbird is no longer supported in Linux. However, unsupported Linux builds are still released. A few days back Songbird 1.8.0 was released. From, my previous experience, Songbird has never been a favorite of mine (not even close actually). So, I downloaded Songbird 1.8.0 for Linux, expecting to be confronted with the slow and bloated audio…

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Clementine, the clone of the popular Amarok 1.4, seems to begetting better and better. The first release candidate for Clementine 0.5 was released yesterday and it comes with a lot of new features.

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With the widespread use of smartphones nowadays, QR Codes have become very popular. There are quite a few online and offline tools to generate QR codes. You can also do that through a Google Chrome extension. With this extension, you can generate a QR code from some text on your browser or a link on…

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Google Chrome in the stable and beta channel has been updated to version 6. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. If you are using either the stable or beta channel, a simple update should get you Google Chrome 6.

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