The Mac Book Air that is, and I must tell you: It’s really small, but still pretty heavy I might say. At first look, it’s quite beautiful and incredible sexy with its curved edges, but after playing around a little bit with it, I realized that I can’t get use to it, not having a CD or DVD-ROM, don’t ask me why :). On the other hand, the new software addition with the MacBook Air which modifies to the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane to support the new multi-touch enabled trackpad it’s cool and neat. Finally, the other thing that impressed me was the display which is quite bright, and the colors are soooo natural.
Overall, MacBook Air it’s a nice piece of work, but i think that it’s more like a gadget rather than a useful equipment.

How time flies folks. Not so long ago I was talking about how much we will have to wait for the new version of Internet Exlorer and now…it seems that the first BETA of IE8 is out now. From what I can see, the new version will be fully compliant to CSS 2.1, will resolve all the Interoperability and compatibility problems, a built in Developer bar (which is standard in Firefox from some time) plus some other interesting stuff, like the fact that Internet Explorer 8 Developer Beta uses the Internet Explorer 8 standard mode layout engine by default, but, by clicking on the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button, users can choose when they use the strict mode which supports the Internet Explorer 7 compatible layout engine to retain compatibility with existing sites.
Overall, the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta looks like it’s finally learned something from Firefox, but i think that it will still remain a poor and ugly browser.

Click here to download tne new Internet Explorer 8, BETA.

Oh boy, oh boy. This is the final candidate release before the BIG announcement of Mozilla’s final version, which will be around …. the mid of this year. And so far, the new Firefox is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay much better then the others browsers (of course, this is a personal opinion) and waaaaay much better that the most important competitor: Internet Explorer. And speaking of devil, IE 8 is scheduled to be released only at the end of the year. Eeat your heart out IE :).

In the mean time, if you wanna test the new Firefox 3 (beta), click below to download it.

Download Firefox 3 BETA

We all know that the internet is not safe anymore. But not everybody can afford to buy a decent Antivirus Program (like BitDefender for example, my favorite one) eve if practically, it’s a small price to pay for a safer and a cleaner computer. So for those persons, there are a lot of Anitvirus Programs, FREE to use for any non commercial, or personal use:

Avira Antivirus Free
It’s also the one I’m using it for my personal computer. It’s small, doesn’t “eat” so many resources and of course, it’s free. The only downside is that when the program updates it’s Virus database, a big advertising window appears, but it’s a small price to pay when it comes to protection. Here’s what it can do:

• Protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
• Protection against expensive dialers
• Detects and deletes rootkits
• Automatic updates

Click here to download Avira Antivirus.

Avast Antivirus
Another good and trustful antivirus, but for this one, after 60 days of use, you have to register (for free also) in order to use it. Avira Antiovirus comes with lots of features:

• Antivirus kernel
• Simple User Interface
• Resident protection
• P2P and IM Shields
• Network Shield
• Web Shield
• Virus Chest
• Automatic updates
• System integration
• Integrated Virus Cleaner
• Support for 64-bit Windows
• Internationalization

Click here to download Avast Antivirus but not before reading the terms of use.

AVG Antivirus
Not one of my favorites, but still a good antivirus with some nice features for the free version:

• Easy to use, low system resources
• Automatic update functionality
• Real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
• AVG’s Virus Vault for the safe handling of infected files

Click here to download AVG ANtivirus for FREE.

Dont forget that all these Free Antivirus Programs are only for Personal or non comercial use.
Have a safe Browsing :).

According to CNN, Microsoft announced today that it has made a proposal to Yahoo! to acquire all the shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately 44.6 billion dollars. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to choose if they want to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft common stock, with the total consideration payable to Yahoo! shareholders consisting of one-half cash and one-half Microsoft common stock.
Click here for the news.

That means that from now one, Internet Explorer and Windows Vista will be delivered with Yahoo Toolbar installed? Good thing that I’m a Firefox fan

I think it’s almost 3 days since I’ve downloaded and installed the latest version of Firefox, which is still in development. But even if this version is still in Beta, I was really enchanted to see another great product full of nice and neat features. One of the best feature is the one click “bookmark this page” star icon in the location bar, similar to what Flock and IE7 has. But even if it’s the best one (from my point) i have to admit that I don’t like it that much because you still have to manage your bookmarks from time to time or else you will get a looong list of messed up links. So for this one I still prefer the Google Bookmarks extension for Firefox.
There aren’t too many visual changes, but some specifications say that the new browser is equipped with Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform and it has a number of enhanced security features such as integration with anti-virus packages, sand-boxing of suspected web forgery pages and, for Vista users, integration with that operating systems parental control settings for disabling downloads.
Other features worth mentioning are:
Places which actually tracks web surfing trends similarly to how various media players track music listening trends
Lower Memory Utilization - this one is great for those who don’t have to much available memory, just like me
One Click Website Info - a little icon in the address bar which tells you some usefully informations about the website you’re visiting
Taging and Easier Bookmarking - I mentioned some stuff about this one above
….and so many other.

So, whatever you are a Firefox fan or not, you can Download Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 here.

Three years ago in this day, Mozilla rolled out the most beautiful and popular Internet Browser, and for more than 2 years, it is my favorite browser. It suits perfectly to my needs and looking at the way things are looking in Browsers area, I will never go back to another browser, especially IE (yac).

Anyway, here’s a little history taken from wikipedia:

Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape’s sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite’s software bloat, they created a pared-down browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server’s development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox (Firefox for short).
The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. In addition to stability and security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update to Firefox version 1.5 on November 29, 2005. On October 24, 2006, Mozilla released Firefox 2. This version includes updates to the tabbed browsing environment, the extensions manager, the GUI, and the find, search and software update engines; a new session restore feature; inline spell checking; and an anti-phishing feature which was implemented by Google as an extension and later merged into the program itself.

So, once again, Happy Birthday Firefox .

I’m a little bit late with this one, but seems like this Monday, the best and most cute web messenger from this planet, Meebo that is, just got bigger and older :). It’s been 2 (two) years since I started to use Meebo and I’m happy to say that even if I didn’t use it with regularity, I was amazed by every step made to be better and better. And now I’m more happy to report that the excellent team behind all this gave us a much requested feature: Voice and video chat. Applauses ladies and gentleman’s! They deserve it. But that’s not all, because meebo is opening up its doors to developers so they can create many many multi-user applications that meebo users can use to connect to their friends. Visit Meebo Platform if you are interested of meebo platform API, or to obtain a unique key and get access to a starter kit.
More cool features and neat info, at meebo’s blog.

Way to go Meebo and, happy Birthday again.

Well folks, seems like that’s it for some of us, the casual Internet user, and all that because of actual IPv4 (Internet Prorocol version 4) system. Every computer connected to the interesting has an unique IP address, a sort of a number. Because of the IPv4 which can hold “only” around 4 billions of addresses (IP’s) and because of the increasing number of Internet users, we might run out of……numbers :). When the limits of the IPv4 system will be reached, other users will not be able to “get on line”, so it is about time that the new system, IPv6 (developed 10 years ago) to be launched as soon as possible to avoid this. IPv6 will be able to sustain enough IP’s so that we can surf without any problems for a looooong time. The thing is that the computers, the servers, the routers and so on are compatible with IPv6, but so far the ISP’s didn’t implemented yet. How much longer will they wait?