Download Firefox 5 Today!

It doesn’t seem too long ago that Firefox 4 was released, infact it was 22nd March 2011 when the last version was out so this is a pretty quick turn-around. The reason for this is Mozilla have now changed their release model to a quick release schedule.

“Mozilla’s shift to a rapid release development cycle delivers cutting edge Firefox features, performance enhancements, security updates and stability improvements to users faster. – Mozilla Blog“

This might also be Firefox’s way to keep up with market-share gaining competitors like Google Chrome that is rapidly becoming one of the most popular browsers. We often see new releases of Chrome constantly bringing improvements to the browser and it looks like Mozilla want to do the same with Firefox. Appparently Firefox is now on a 18-week release-cycle meaning more updates are to come before the year is out.

It’s worth noting there are improvements to new technologies like HTML 5 and CSS 3 and stability improvements but other than that nothing much has changed and it still scores the exact same on the HTML5test website as version 4.

Are you a Firefox user? Has Chrome tickled your fancy?

For all of those IE (Internet Explorer) fans out there, (is there any), IE 9 will be fully out of RC and released to the public on 14th March 2011. For those who don’t know or just think IE who uses that, IE 9 actually has come on leaps and bounds since IE 8. The new browser supports many web standards which is great news for web designers and it also has been performing pretty well in tests! Shocker eh? Sure it’s not quite up there with Chrome, Safari and the to be Firefox 4 but its doing a good job and its great to see Microsoft finally implementing standards they should of years ago.

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Wakoopa Tracks your Computer Usage

Have you ever wondered how much time you have spent on a Application? How long you spend browsing the web, playing games working in Office and Photoshopping? Well Wakoopa is a great little application I came across after @blakey15 mentioned how long he had been on the computer over the past month. I swiftly replied asking how you can find out this information and @blakey15 replied with “I use an Application called Wakoopa”, so I got straight on Google and searched for it.

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Lately there has been loads of news flying around that the new version of iTunes, iTunes 9, could have, social networking, blu-ray support, App Organisation and so much more! I have been using iTunes for several years now. I started using it just around version 4 and as soon as I got my first iPod, the 5th Gen iPod Video, I have never really used any other program to manage my music. iTunes for me was a fresh and welcomed break from Windows Media Player (WMP). I have never really got on with Windows Media Player, sure it’s improved version to version but I found and still find it crashes often, the organisation isn’t as clear and I have an iPod/iPhone so why would I really go back to WMP?

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Today one of the biggest games of 2009 is released to the UK, The Sims 3. The Sims franchise is huge and it has just got bigger! Developed by EA, The Sims 3 has had a few set backs, one being that 2 weeks ago the game was leaked on the Internet however EA “claim” the version is missing many features as its a pre-final buggy copy. I haven’t played the game yet and I wont be personally going out to buy it today either, mainly because I’m not a big Sims fan, but I know many are and will be getting their copy.

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