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Firefox 1.5 is finally out! Get it here now! In case you are wondering why you need to upgrade, Firefox 1.5 comes with significant performance & usability upgrades, greater customization options and supports Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and new versions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

I just came across this on Spread Firefox . Looks like we'll see Firefox 1.5 anytime now! It’s 5AM here in the UK and me any my small team of engineers are off home to bed after helping to get SFx ready for tomorrows big event:)In about twelve hours time “it is very likely” that Firefox 1.5 will be officially with us, and to mark this occasion Spread Firefox isgoing to be launching a very special campaign; That I won’t spoil the surprise by telling you about now… But I’d recommend you stay as close to the site as you can over the next 24 hours! (hint get some campaign buttons for your blogs & sites as they award points too!) Technorati Tags: Firefox Firefox 1.5

Paint.NET v2.5, about which I had written earlier this year , is out of beta and is available for download now. Started as a CS undergraduate design project at Washington State University, Paint.net is an image and photo manipulation software supporting layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Paint.NET Screenshot Paint.NET can be installed on computers that run Windows XP (SP1 or later), Windows 2000 (SP3 or later), Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista and requires .NET Framework 1.1.installed. Download: Paint.NET v2.5 Technorati Tags: Microsoft Paint

With so many options for remote data backup available today, FREE online data storage never had so much excitement going around. Here are some of the new services I came across recently. Mozy is a remote backup and archiving service that requires you to create a mozy user account and install a software on your computer, It is a small download available at their site with which you get 1 GB of backup storage. But if you fill out their survey, they give you 2 GB of space. Mozy provides Open File support, 128-bit SSL Support (to secure your data during transport) and 448-bit Blowfish Encryption (to secure your data on our server) In return for the free Mozy data backup service, Mozy will be sending emails to its users with advertisements for products and services useful for the users in its opinion. Not really a great ask for all the storage space they are offering. Mashable has written a quick introduction of the next two online storage solutions": AllMyData and Openomy . Of thes...

InternetRetailer has a story on how "Google is heading toward capturing the next e-commerce paradigm using search to buy anything from anyone, anywhere." From InternetRetailer: Now that it has taken the Internet search market by storm, Google is heading toward capturing the next e-commerce paradigm—using search to buy anything from anyone, anywhere, Safa Rashtchy, senior research analyst at investment firm Piper Jaffray & Co., tells InternetRetailer.com. “Google will be a Craigslist on steroids—a very potent and dangerous challenge to where eBay wants to go,” Rashtchy says. While eBay has brought millions into online commerce, it is still too complicated for sellers who balk at the listing process and for buyers who don’t want purchase from someone located far away, he adds. Craigslist Inc.’s CraigsList.com has pioneered a new form of e-commerce, which Rashtchy and others call “e-commerce 3.0,” that connects consumers with sellers of products and services in local commun...

I might be the last person left on the planet who doesn't know that http://calendar.google.com is LIVE for more than two months! However, if you follow the link, you won't find any Google Calendar on it as it is currently only showing the Google Search Homepage. More confirmation that Google has plans for a Calendar about which I wrote in February . However, if you can't wait till there actually is a Google calendar, there's another dynamic web based calendar that you could try out. Monket supports "drag and drop events to change dates, drag the start/end of an event to create multi-day events, create and edit events without refreshing the page, all with an iCal style interface." Technorati Tags: Google Calendar Calendar Monket