Mozilla Sunbird

is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Sunbird is a standalone calendar application. It doesn’t need another client application to run (small memory requirements). Because of its standalone nature, Sunbird does not offer any kind of tight integration with an e-mail application, such as Mozilla Thunderbird.

If you need integration with Thunderbird you can use Lightning (the calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird). It offers calendaring features directly in the Thunderbird User Interface. Further integration features, such as e-mail invites or address book integration are planned for future releases.

It seems that Adobe Photoshop CS4 (codename Stonehenge 11.0) has been leaked. Attached is a screenshot of Photoshop CS4 (compilation date November 1st, 2007). Abobe Photoshop CS4 will contain Vista compatibility fixes and a few minor improvements (rumors).

GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. The plugin is extremely simple to use. Once you have it installed, just right-click on any website and go the the the GridFox menu. From here you can display your current grid, or go to options to customize it to fit your website.

Grid-based layouts have become really popular among web designers over the last year.

Download it here.

“Internet Explorer 8 has been designed to include three rendering modes: one that reflects Microsoft’s implementation of current Web standards, a second reflecting Microsoft’s implementation of Web standards at the time of the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, and a third based on rendering methods dating back to the early Web. The newest rendering mode is forward-looking and preferred by Web designers, while the others are present to enable compatibility with the myriad sites across the Web that are currently optimized for previous versions of Internet Explorer.”

Full article here.

Adobe is working on a new version of its Creative Suite, that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and other applications for print and webdesign - Adobe CS4. The new version of Photoshop (Windows version) will support 64-bit memory addressing.

Why it will support just Windows (Vista)?

Well, Photoshop for Mac OS is written using older APIs that don’t allow access to all the latest Mac OS X features. To make a new version it will mean a total rewrite of the code and it seems Adobe doesn’t have time for that.

Adobe announced Wednesday that its Adobe Media Player 1.0 is now available as a free download.

The cross-platform software, which is built on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform, is customizable and works both online and off to give viewers new ways to discover and interact with their favorite content. It also offers revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers, Adobe said.

CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondeNet and Scripps Networks are among the publishers that have worked with Adobe to provide a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content to viewers.

Nvu is the new Web editing environment based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine. Primarily made for Linspire and other Linux flavors, its cross-platform architecture makes it available on a wide variety of other platforms.

Nvu binary test builds are now available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

Main features

• WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
• Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
• Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today’s most popular browsers.
• Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
• Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
• Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
• The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.

You can download it here.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and the testing community to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.

Mozilla provides Firefox 3 Beta 5 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. You can get the latest version of Firefox 3 Beta 5 here.

Microsoft has released a public beta for Internet Explorer 8. This release is intended to help web designers and web developers prepare for the upcoming version of the browser.

Some of the most important features for developers are the improved compatibility and interoperability and the new developer toolbar which enables developers to quickly debug HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript in a visual development environment. Other improvements are the full integration for cascading style sheets, version 2.1 as well as the HTML improvements like the separate URL handing for attributes.