I have implemented an useful feature on the site, so with little to no effort you can suggest your friends to visit a given news story, article or download available on TechSpot. With your collaboration we could further expand using word of mouth, you can identify this feature across the site with this icon:
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Mountain Dew is arguably one of the most popular drinks for computer geeks (especially for those long nights of gaming). I recently received a six pack of Mountain Dew X [variant 516] (because I think Pepsi approached me about testing it). I am also curious if any of you entered to get a […]
foobar2000 v0.9 beta 6 is now available. Changes to this version are “at least”;
* Fixed: Scanning for files would abort upon encountering an unaccessible directory, it now skips to the next directory.
* Fixed: “Playlist/Remove duplicates” crashed when used on an empty playlist.
* Fixed: […]
If Firefox 1.0.5 doesn’t interest you, Deer Park Alpha 2 (Firefox 1.1) is now available for testing. The main changes over Alpha 1 are;
# Software update system to streamline product upgrades (currently disabled)
# Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance
# Drag & drop reordering for browser tabs
# Improvements to popup blocking
# […]
I have added a local search engine for the downloads and news archive. Similarly to the one found in the drivers section, it works internally, searching at the database level. You can find it in both section homepages or at this location. This should add yet more functionality to both of our sections, especially for […]
For a couple of weeks I’ve been having some problems with Firefox, especially annoying when working with many applications at once, completely slowing down my computer showing 90%+ CPU usage figures, even when idle… a bug for sure, but one that I can not stand anymore. I didn’t want to look around for possible fixes […]
Continuing on with the post-beta-software-on-the-blog, I noticed Foobar 2000 Version 0.9 Beta 5 is now available. This adds changes to tagging & many other fixes also (Apparently). As you know we posted our own Foobar 0.8.3 guide recently (I’ve made a few minor changes to 2 settings BTW). I’d planned on covering additional components at […]
Noticed over on The Burning Edge that the latest Deer Park (aka Firefox 1.1) nightly build has some interesting new fixes/changes added;
Fixed: 216466 - Use error pages instead of dialogs for e.g. HTTP networking errors (default browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true).
Fixed: 298293 - Turn on fastback/bcfache by default in ff 1.1a2 / gecko 1.8b3. (default browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers to […]
