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Pencil: A Drawing and GUI Prototyping Extension for Firefox

If you?re a dedicated Firefox user, you probably collect the best extensions for the browser on a regular basis. Pencil is an extension for drawing and graphical user interface prototyping that we noted won an award from Mozilla itself. It really is a fantastic tool for visually expressing ideas on the fly. Check out this WebWorkerDaily piece for a visual tour of what the latest version can do. And for many collections of outstanding Firefox extensions, check out OStatic's Firefox Superguide.?


Firefox 3.1 Facing Late Arrival; Will It Ship With TraceMonkey?

Digital Arts Online has a thorough break down of some of the snags the Firefox development team has encountered as it continues work on the browser's 3.1 release. TraceMonkey, the JavaScript engine that's responsible for the browser's performance boost, seems to be what's holding its actual release back.

According to the forum posts the article points to, both Firefox developers and those focusing specifically on TraceMonkey agree that a decision has to be made -- but whether it's better to release Firefox 3.1 without TraceMonkey, release Firefox with TraceMonkey disabled by default, or give the developers a set amount of time before making the decision at all -- might be a sticking point.



Mozilla and Skype Take Aim at Apple's Closed iPhone Policies

As noted by The Register, Mozilla and Skype are lining up behind The Electronic Frontier Foundation's campaign to ease restrictions on iPhone jailbreaking. Both Skype and Mozilla have filings in to the U.S. Copyright Office arguing that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) should be changed to allow mobile phone users to choose to modify their handsets, applications and carriers. It's an argument for openness, and I'm surprised that more people aren't chastising Apple for its closed policies regarding both jailbreaking and iPhone application development.


Mozilla's Bespin Delivers Open, Collaborative Cloud App Development

Mozilla Labs is out with a new project, dubbed Bespin, aimed at allowing collaborative programming, HTML coding, and development out in the cloud. Mozilla is calling it an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing, and it's released under the Mozilla Public License. Bespin is only an initial prototype at this point, but it's part of a growing effort to deliver open source cloud infrastructure tools. ?Many cloud applications depend on their online hosted status to attract users to collaborate, so why shouldn't development of cloud applications be collaborative and online as well? Open source tools for the cloud may play an important part in obstructing lock-in strategies from cloud service providers.


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How to make Thunderbird more social. Postbox is an email client and address book app for OS X and Windows built on Mozilla Thunderbird code.

Snakebite network to allow open source developers to test projects on multiple platforms. It's a centralized server farm.

How Mozilla can save Windows Mobile. Its Fennec browser could result in? extensibility and durability on Microsoft's end.

Red Hat makes it easy to lose proprietary middleware for JBoss. The company has started offering migration tools to enable enterprises to go to JBoss.

Android moving to mobile Internet tablets, media players. A new branch--Cupcake--makes it possible. Also, Telenav GPS comes to the Android G1.

Which is the best netbook OS? Here is Ubuntu vs. XP vs. Windows 7. Also, which sites are mobile-friendly for small screens?



Firefox Version 3.1 Beta 3 is in Tests: What About Version 3.2?

It may not be perfectly stable yet, but if you've been following along with the beta releases of Mozilla's Firefox 3.1 browser, you can now get and test the candidate for Beta 3, as described here. Mozilla is calling for a Test Week for this latest version. Beta 3 was scheduled to be out on February 2nd, but bug fixes were required. Meanwhile, PC Pro has an interesting story up in which Firefox architect Mike Connor describes plans for version 3.2 of Firefox.


Europe Invites Mozilla to Participate in Microsoft Antitrust Case

This past weekend, Mozilla's Mitchell Baker put up a blog post on the European Commission's preliminary conclusion that ?Microsoft?s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.? The EC has been considering forcing Microsoft to make browsers other than Internet Explorer available in copies of Windows pre-installed on new computers. Now, the EC has granted Mozilla the right to join its antitrust case against Microsoft. Does Mozilla have a good case to make, though?


Tutorials: Developing Firefox Extensions and Commands for Ubiquity

Mozilla's latest newsletter is out today, and it includes a couple of nice tutorials pertaining to Firefox and Ubiquity (a powerful Firefox extension that I covered here). The first tutorial, from Robert Nyman and found on the Mozilla Add-Ons Blog, delivers step-by-step instructions on how to develop an extension for Firefox. The second tutorial is video-based and shows how to easily build and share commands for the Ubiquity extension.


Mozilla Calls the Muse: Creative Collective Hub Launched

By way of Glyn Moody's Open Enterprise blog comes word that Mozilla's Creative Director John Slater is gearing up to better organize and expand Mozilla's visual design community through the Mozilla Creative Collective.

The Mozilla Creative Collective hopes to harness the enthusiasm and talent that made the Spread Firefox campaign such a success. Slater plans on running regular challenges on the MCC site, as well as integrating a job board to unite artists with projects in need of design work.



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Interview with Linus Torvalds. The chief architect and creator of the Linux kernel stopped for a chat at Linux.conf.au in Australia.

The second netbook wave begins. Asus is taking pre-orders for a netbook based on Intel's next-generation netbook platform, the top-secret N280/GN40? chipset.

T-Mobile G1 update is out early. The next firmware update is arriving.

Fennec rising. An early build of Mozilla's much-ballyhooed Firefox for Windows Mobile browser (Fennec) has been leaked.

Free online Ubuntu book tops 150,000 downloads. A few days ago we covered a great, free book download on Ubuntu. The author reports that it's been downloaded over 150,000 times.

The free-download economy is dead. The allure of free just isn't as strong now.