A day before the scheduled public release of its long-awaited Firefox 2.0 Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation has posted the final versions of the software on its FTP servers in preparation for the public launch.

The official Firefox 2.0 public launch page has not been activated on the Mozilla site, but the new U.S. versions for Windows, Linux and Macintosh are available now, buried amid the data on the group's FTP servers. Versions in other languages are also available at Mozilla's FTP site.

AjaxAmp is a web edition of winamp that allow you stream music over internet to any computer

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, criticised the software industry on Tuesday for creating ever-more-bloated software, which runs slower despite dramatic improvements in processor speed.

A video you must watch to see how powerful the DirectX 10 will be. Crytek is the only developer who is able to show us today what their upcoming games will look like under DX10. This video is simple amazing!

Link contains screenshots and where to get the new daily-updated builds.

Danny and Linda Lee, who are both in their mid-50s, know as much about computers as they do about gangsta rap. Yet Mr and Mrs Lee’s computer at their home in Bedhampton, Hampshire, doesn’t run Microsoft Windows. Nor is it a newbie-friendly Mac. “I gave my parents a machine running Linux, and they know no different,” says their son Wayne. “I showed them where to click to start the internet, and they got on with it. It doesn’t faze them at all.”

Wayne and his parents are among the growing legions turning their backs on conventional, commercial computer software and, instead, trying open-source programs. These are usually developed as a global collaboration by volunteers, then made freely available online — and the software is rapidly becoming as good and as easy to run as that of brands costing hundreds of pounds. Products range from web browsers through to a complete operating system, and most software will run on both Windows PCs and Macs.

Easily generate cool text-images from almost any picture you have on your computer.

Apple has changed the way iTunes works so that users are given the chance to decline the iTunes Ministore.

An MIT startup called SiteAdvisor has downloaded over 100,000 programs from the top million Web sites and tested them for adware and spyware using an automated system they've built. They've got a blog entry where they dissect 5 of the worst adware bundles they found. There is some amazingly invasive stuff in there.

Last month VMware released a free product called VMware Player. With the Player and one of the free images that run within it, users can explore new operating systems and environments without going through the inconvenience of formatting or partitioning a hard drive or configuring unfamiliar software. I tested the player by running Ubuntu Linux on a Windows host, and got good results with only a few glitches.