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If you hadn’t already heard, Mozilla has released the final version of its web browser Firefox, 3.0! Though most of us have been running the betas and RCs for some time its good to see it official. It comes just in time to take Opera 9.5 and  the social browser Flock 2 beta (now based on Firefox 3).

Internet Explorer better bring something new to the table with version 8 if it plans to keep its place on top.

Note: Download Firefox 3.0 and help set a world record for the most downloaded program, in one day!

Update: Over 7.5 million copies were downloaded within the 24 hr period. This didn’t include updates or ftp traffic. Also get your very own official download certificate HERE.

Back in 2004 Codeminion released a vertical space shooter titled, Pteroglider. It was their first game published on the net and it was a commercial failure. But keep reading, as you will see it was more due to its unique take on an old genre than any thing else.

The key problems were the use of DX9 drivers (when not every one had them), ‘innovative mouse targeting’ controls, the unbalanced difficulty of levels and lack of tutorial.

Which the creators also point out in their blog, which is a good read if you would like to read more on why the game was not the success they had imagined.

So before I bore you anymore, download the massive 11.2mb full version game and start blasting away!

ASUS has begun embedding a Linux operating system on selected motherboards. They are using a basic distro called Splashtop that will offer Firefox and Skype support. The cool thing is you won’t need a hard drive to boot your PC and it is near instant to switch on.

As far as embedded software goes it may just be up there Alex the Kid on the Master System!

Visit Splashtop to view a demo and see what motherboards are supported.

Firefox 3 is one step closer to release after Mozilla distributed the first release candidate of its latest browser. It was made available to around 1.2million testers with no date yet on public release.

On Mozilla’s developer blog they comment on this being the final release if no bugs are found and if so more RCs to follow. Here is hoping it is clean!

If you can’t wait then download RC1 here.

[Update] You can now download the RC via the software update in Firefox.

The OSSwin Project is a site, hosted by SourceForge, that has compiled a huge list of open source software for Windows, broken into categories for easier browsing. They also have a separate page for games. All very much worth checking out for regular or new open source users.

OSSwin Project & Games

This is a guessing game by Grant Robinson based on his project, Montage-a-google. You are given a montage of pictures and have to guess what keyword they have in common.

Start guessing NOW.

Also have a look at his original project mentioned above which creates a large montage of google images based on your keyword.

This is a small game project I have been watching for a little while now.

The aim of the game is quite simple, you get the ball from the start to the finish… the feature that makes this stand out is you draw the objects you need to move the ball!

Instead of me trying to explain it is easier for you to have a look at a preview via the developers blog - HERE.

His original (screenshot shown below) and simpler version, a game made in 7 days, is available to download HERE. But still worth downloading to get an idea of what he is trying to do.

Also posted on the Forum.

If you are a user of the open source office suite from Sun then you would be glad to hear version 3.0 has now entered beta and is available to testing.

Even though it is still in development it does allow you to have a good look at what is on offer.  New features will include a new ’start centre’, Open Document support and will be available on Mac to name just a few.

View the complete feature list HERE.
Downloads available HERE.

If you are a fan of Adobe PDF reader alternatives then you have probably heard of or run FoxIt reader.

As far as they go it is a great stable, low resource hogging alternative that until now was missing some of the features of the bigger named readers like tabbed browsing, multimedia playback, bookmarks etc.

These and more have been included in version 2.3, available now, which is well worth the upgrade. Download it here!

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The other month Grisoft updated its AVG anti virus suite to include; link scanning, anti-spyware, and anti-root kit software.

So now it time for AVG Free to get a face lift too, though it does not receive all the new features (this will cost you US$35+) you do get the addition of spyware protection. It still has real-time protection, daily updates, and complete system scans that is has become known for.

It is worth having a look at whether you run AVG Free or not! (I use it!)