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Software

Firefox Version 3 Beta a home run!

First impressions, much faster, smaller memory foot print, websites look much crisper. Overall A+ and as in comparison to IE there is simply no comparison.

Apple is trying to sneak Safari on Windows!

Why is Apple shoving Safari down our throat. If I had wanted to install that worthless browser on my Windows box I would have simply have downloaded it. The last thing I want is a half functional browser cluttering up my hard drive.

Having my own TinyURL service with Get-Shorty.com

Over the past week the site at TinyURL.com has been down several times, and when you need to shorten a URL to post via IM or Twitter, it is not good for a service that you have learned to trust to become unreliable.

What Microsoft wants with Facebook

I was working on a reply piece to an article on Publishing 2.0 that claims that Facebook has no use for business.  I absolutely disagree with this and while I was listing out the reasons why a Facebook style platform would be brilliant in a business situation (found on BusinessGeek if you are interested), two things popped into my head

Modern Copyright Law Madness Explained

There is a great video on YouTube explaining the downside of modern copyright law using the story of a very famous drum loop called the Amen Break.  The video is called Amen Brother.  It is 18 minutes long so be warned, but if you want to skip to the explanation of why current copyright law hurts the economy rather than encourages it, this part starts at 14:46.  If even that is too long I’ll provide a summary.

I need a new Off Shore Development Team!

My team at RawVoice has been working with a Offshore development firm for some development jobs we out sourced, and they are about done with the current jobs we have for them.

Jing Project by the Folks at TechSmith

TechSmith the company that brought you Camtasia and SnagIT have launched a new project called the Jing Project. The Jing Project is an application that lets you capture things happening on your screen and then very easily publish that to their Screencast.com service.