The Apache Tomcat Project announces the release of version 6.0.26 of Apache Tomcat, on 11 March 2010. This release includes many bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.24. Apache Tomcat (or Jakarta Tomcat or simply Tomcat) is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies and provides a “pure Java” HTTP...
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Banshee 1.5.5 was just released, including gapless playback, a grid album browser, and a YouTube extension! It contains lots of good bug fixes as well – those of you burned by the 1.5.4 SQL crash will be pleased with the additional QA given to this release. Download it here. Banshee is an open-source media...
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Rock Your Firefox, the website created by Mozilla to feature reviews, feedback, and insights from people around the Web who are using Firefox Add-ons to make their online experience better. New highlights, relevant and helpful Firefox Add-ons will be added every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The one “Featured Add-on” on launch day, 11 March 2010,...
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Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match existing note titles automatically become hyperlinks, making it simple to construct a personal wiki. Below is an example. “Book 1″ is...
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Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. The most common document formats today are Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats. If a user received a Word, Excel or...
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New sub-projects will strengthen growing Mylyn ecosystem Ottawa, Canada – March 8, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools...
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 4, 2010 – HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface® (HDMI®) specification, today announced, on behalf of the HDMI Founders, the release of HDMI Specification Version 1.4a featuring key enhancements for 3D applications including the addition of mandatory 3D formats for...
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A few days after the release of phpBB 3.0.7, phpBB released 3.0.7-PL1 to address a security issue which was introduced in 3.0.7, the issue wasn’t noticed during testing and has only surfaced a week after the release of 3.0.7. phpBB advices to all who already have updated to 3.0.7 that it is of critical ...
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The phpBB Support Toolkit (STK) is a package of tools to diagnose and fix common support-related issues with phpBB, it provides a second “Administration Control Panel” that can be used to recover various part of a corrupted phpBB 3.0.x installation or to solve commonly encountered problems with the software. phpBB announced the availability of the...
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A 46 years old man in Japan was arrested for violation of Copyright Act (Infringement of Public Transmission Rights), that is, putting copyrightable material on the World Wide Web or an FTP server etc, by providing links to uploaded music files in overseas storage site. He was arrested in connection of personally creating a large...
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