Mozilla Sunbird 0.8 for Mac OS X

July 6, 2008

You hate Entourage, and you’re not particularly fond of iCal. You’ve waited endlessly for Nighthawk, Contactizer Pro is too complicated, and you want a native app instead of using Google Calendar or another web calendar. And, since you’re saving money for an iPhone 3G, you don’t want to spend an…

Firefox 3 Download Day a huge success

July 3, 2008

The graphic above says it all — Firefox 3 Download Day was a success, with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Amazingly, that happened despite all of the initial download glitches that happened on Download Day. The Mozilla team is reporting that 29,116,621 copies of Firefox 3 have been downloaded…

LiveDiscKit

June 27, 2008

Moments before our Macworld 2008 interview with Paul Kafasis he told me about the different way the demo CDs they were giving out worked. What’s the main problem with software on CDs? Those apps are suspended in amber, frozen in moment, and many other overused metaphors. The fine folks at Rogue Amoe…

Despite a rough start, Firefox 3 Download Day a success

June 18, 2008

As reported earlier here on TUAW, Firefox 3 Download Day began with a whimper instead of a bang. Starting shortly after the official launch, TUAW received a number of tips from readers who tried downloading the vulpine browser and got…nothing.

It appears that things cleared up fairly quickl…

MacGDBp Kills PHP Bugs Dead!

June 16, 2008

Bothered with pesky PHP bugs? Grab a can of MacGDBp and exterminate those bugs FAST!

18 year-old Beantown open source whiz Robert Sesek has announced that he’ll be releasing his MacGDBp project bright and early on Tuesday, June 18 at his Blue Static website.

MacGDBp builds on the open source X…

Firefox 3 Download Day is June 17th

June 14, 2008

As we noted a few weeks ago, the Mozilla team has set up a pledge program to remind Firefox users to download the Firefox 3 browser within 24 hours of its release in order to nab a Guinness World Record.Well, the day is getting close - Firefox Download Day 2008 is scheduled for June 17th aroun…

Growl hits 1.1.3

June 7, 2008

The best-in-class notification framework for Mac OS X, Growl, just got updated to version 1.1.3. One of the most missed features of Growl was GrowlMail, which allows Growl to issue incoming notifications from Mail.app — Apple disabled that feature in the Mac OS X 10.5.2 release. However, the Gr…