flock public beta released

as mike arrington announcend earlier, first public beta (v0.7) of firefox-based browser flock was released today. for it’s seamless integration of several webservices, flock is supposed to be the “web 2.0″-browser of choice:

flock fetches images of flickr- and photobucket-accounts, and furthermore allows drag&drop of images into html-areas (f.e. comment-boxes on blogs, user-profiles)
social-bookmark-services delicious and Shadows [...]

microsoft: windows vista beta goes public!

while members of the microsoft developer network (msdn) receive beta-DVDs since, hmm, how many years?, microsoft finally put their new operating system to public beta today. the 3gbyte-images can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/. and since you’re already clogging your broadband, why not get the office 2007 beta too? (having used an earlier beta on my [...]

google video player f. mac os

besides going into beta with their spreadsheet-service, google yesterday also released a mac os-version of the google video player, a desktop-application allowing to watch downloaded movies from video.google.com. videoclips can be loaded from local disc as well as directly by clicking the “download”-button on video.google.com. however, the player cannot access clips which are not approved [...]

release: opera mini 2.0

opera.com released version 2.0 of it’s portable mini-browser today… as a happy user of opera mini 1.x I couldn’t resist trying the new version. unfortunately, the installation-process via cellphone is not as convenient as it could be. I failed in trying to download the new 2.0-package with opera 1.x from http://mini.opera.com – the old [...]

wordpress-plugin: Scrobbler

just found a very cool wordpress-plugin:
Scrobbler is a Plugin for WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.0 that displays your Last.fm-account’s recently played songs, or whatever AudioScrobbler web service you like, in your desired location on your WordPress blog, in your desired format using AJAXrefreshing™.
so in the sidebar of this page you can now see which music [...]