Singing Wolf Technology NewsThe latest browser, media player and O/S news and updatesPaint.NET 2.1 Final Released- April 30, 2005 Paint.NET 2.1 is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. Users of all 2.1 Alpha, Beta and RC versions are...http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/operating-system-news/#pntnet21 QuickTime for Mac 7.0 Released- April 29, 2005 Now QuickTime-based applications can take advantage of hardware-accelerated video processing via the new Core Media Services in Mac OS X Tiger. In addition, QuickTime 7 provides Macintosh software developers with a modernized programming interface, QTKit. This lets programmers use QuickTime easily in Cocoa-based Mac OS X applications. QuickTime 7.0 requires OS X 10.3.9 and up to run.http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/media-player-news/#qtmmac70 Shiira 1.0 released- April 29, 2005 Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available. Shiira 1.0 supports 10.3.9 of OS X Panther.http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#sha10 Camino 0.8.4 Released- April 28, 2005 Camino 0.8.4 has been released to the mozilla.org mirrors. This release is a service release fixing several security bugs (documented in Mozilla 1.7.7) as well as a bug making Camino Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger-compatible. Due to the nature of the security bugs, users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. In the 0.8.4 release, they have fixed the following: Fixed a critical issue with Mac OS X 10.4 and opening a new tab when viewing a page with a plug-in; Long tooltips in web pages now wrap to...http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#cmo084 Opera 7.6 for Windows Mobile Beta 3 Released- April 20, 2005 Opera Software have released a third beta version of its revolutionary Opera 7.6 smartphone browser for Microsoft Windows Mobile software. Windows Mobile is a completely new platform for Opera, offering operators, handset vendors, enterprises and end users more choice of platforms that provide outstanding Web browsing on small, restricted smartphone screens. Opera's range of smartphone browsers includes Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, an Opera innovation that enables users to browse...http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#opawm76b3 RealPlayer 10.5 for Windows Build 6.0.12.1069 Released- April 19, 2005 A security update for RealPlayer 10.5 media and web browser (Build 6.0.12.1069) was released today on Windows. Users of build 6.0.12.1059 and prior are recommended to upgrade.http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/media-player-news/#rpr1069 Opera 8.0 for Mac OS X Beta 1 Released- April 18, 2005 Opera Software have released the first beta version of their new Mac OS X multi-modal browser, Opera 8.0. One of the first things you will notice when you start the new browser is the ability to select whether to use Opera as an Internet suite or as a browser only. This release comes with a set of voice libraries that enable the user to control Opera by speaking commands to it. Opera 8.0 features in-line error pages, allowing you to continue to work if a page loading in the background gives an..http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#opa80b1 Opera 8.0 for Linux Final Released- April 18, 2005 Opera Software have released the final version of their new Linux multi-modal browser, Opera 8.0. One of the first things you will notice when you start the new browser is the ability to select whether to use Opera as an Internet suite or as a browser only. This release comes with a set of voice libraries that enable the user to control Opera by speaking commands to it. Opera 8.0 features in-line error pages, allowing you to continue to work if a page loading in the background gives an HTTP...http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#opa80lin Opera 8.0 for Windows Final Released- April 18, 2005 After two Preview Releases and 3 public Betas, it has finally arrived! Opera 8.0 Final - undoubtedly, the worlds fastest and the most standards compliant web browser suite, has been released. Opera has not yet officially announced the new release, but it is already made available via Opera's FTP. So far it only seems to be available for Windows, we will update as other operative system's versions appear. Opera 8 has been touted to come with a bunch of new features such as User Javascript, Atom..http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#opa80win Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update Released- April 15, 2005 Apple have released an update to the world's most advanced operating system, Mac OS X 10.3.9. Improvements include: - file sharing and directory services reliability for mixed Mac and PC networks; - Mail, Safari and Stickies application reliability; - compatibility for third party applications and devices; - previous standalone security updateshttp://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/operating-system-news/#macosx1039 |