While doing some cleanup work in an oft-neglected email account I stumbled over a beta invite to Scrybe. I had to go check out the site to remember what exactly Scrybe was all about – that invite was from August of last year! But hey, it was still valid.
Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today’s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.
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Two of the more full-featured mobile web browsers have offered upgrades recently. I’m not sure which has the edge and think both are worth a look if you’re running a supported device.
Today the Opera folks announced an update for Opera Mobile beta – now with Opera Widgets support. I’ve just started to play around with it and have yet to see the “out of memory” error that I used to see all too often. That alone makes this minor upgrade compelling!
Source: Solo TechnologyI caught an interesting post on the Windows Server blog earlier today about the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer beta. This thing is pretty slick and if you do any web development in the Microsoft world, it’s something you’ll want to grab whenever setting up a new environment.
Source: Solo TechnologyAccording to a forum post (behind a registration wall) Dropbox has released their beta Linux client. The download page has some good info (and great ASCII art too!)
Source: Solo TechnologyLooking at browser stats for this site, yesterday and today, I see:
Wow. That’s some fast adoption for a beta browser! I’m a bit stunned.
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As you’ve likely heard, Google released the first beta of Google Chrome (windows only at this time). This is their entrance into the browser field and is based on WebKit (like Apple’s Safari browser).
I haven’t used it enough to have much for opinions, but here are some early thoughts and reactions:
Source: Solo TechnologyYeah, the title for this is sarcasm.
I just read Matt Cutt’s post about Google Chrome. I’ve also paged through Google’s “prematurely leaked” (aren’t there pills for that now?) comic book.
All very interesting and I’m sure it’ll be fascinating. Really. But man, I personally am not overly excited to learn about another browser. And I think I just heard the collective *sighs* of thousands of web developers as they learned they have another “safari’ish” browser to test with.
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BeTwittered – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular micro-blog.
in IE8 Loosely-Coupled IE (LCIE) separates the frame (the address bar, back button, etc.) from the tabs, and the tabs (mostly) from each other, crashes are more contained and affect fewer tabs than before
– Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available
Tried it yet?
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Did you try Digsby but drop it when you noticed memory usage in the 50 – 120MB range? I guess I can confess that is exactly what I did… I really liked using Digsby, but that footprint really began to bug me.
Good news: the latest beta seems to have dramatically reduced the memory consumption of this thing. In fact, the top two focuses for this release were memory consumption and performance – and it shows.
Source: Solo Technology Did you try Digsby but drop it when you noticed memory usage in the 50 – 120MB range? I guess I can confess that is exactly what I did… I really liked using Digsby, but that footprint really began to bug me.
Good news: the latest beta seems to have dramatically reduced the memory consumption of this thing. In fact, the top two focuses for this release were memory consumption and performance – and it shows.
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Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.
Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.
I think I’m missing something obvious related to Windows Live Mesh and the remote desktop feature.
For review, here’s an issue I have with it from an article I posted earlier this week:
Issue one: if someone is already logged on to the computer you wish to control, a dialog comes up asking for permission to be remote controlled. Well, that’s worthless if that logged on person is you but you’re not there. Makes it rough to quickly pop onto the home machine when at work – must remember to log off when leaving home! (I’ve logged a suggestion to streamline things a bit)
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I’ve been experimenting with both DropBox and Windows Live Mesh the last few weeks. Both have their strong points, both have weaknesses. I keep switching back and forth trying to decide which one to stick with.
