*ware - Firefox 1.5 released

Here\'s what\'s new in Firefox 1.5:

* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
* Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
* Improvements to popup blocking.
* Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
* Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
* Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and \"Safe Mode\" experience.
* Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
* Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
* Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
* New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
* Many security enhancements.

http://www.mozilla.com/

Linux - KDE 3.5 Released

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AJAX / CSS - Rejax - Regular Expression Tester

http://redredmusic.com/brendon/rejax/

Misc - Textbook Revolution

A collection of the existing free textbooks and educational tools available online.
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/

*ware - Luntbuild professional PREVIEW2 released

In PREVIEW2 version, Luntbuild professional adds the support for distributed and multi-platform builds which helps you in the following scenarios:
1. Set up build for projects which consist of components that should be built on different OS platforms.
2. Be able to build different part of a project at different build machines simultaneously to speed up build process.
3. Be able to build projects at one machine, and publish generated build results to another machine for automation/smoking tests. Testing report can be collected back to main build machine for later review.

This version also includes features such as user group management, build notification message customization, etc.

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Web App Frameworks - WebWork joining Struts

The WebWork development team have been working with the Struts development team and have come to the conclusion that the best thing for Java community would be to merge WebWork in to Struts.
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Web App Frameworks - OpenLazlo 3.1 released

Since release 3.0.2, the following features have been added to OpenLaszlo:

* Rich Text Class
* New components: hbox, vbox, and image
* Flash 8 file generation
* Local datasets
* Browser history integration: the default HTML wrappers now include support for browser history and setcanvasAttribute()
* XMLHttpRequest ("AJAX") API
* setcanvasAttribute() Javascript function can optionally add browser history events
* Applications default to window size
* "View source" menu item
* Charting and Graphing Components (Beta)
* Tutorial introduction to Drawview
* Version detection
* Developer console enhancements
* Global "hand cursor" parameter
* Backtrace facility in the debugger
* Other debugger improvements
* Splash screen takes percentages
* New goodies in the incubator
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Web App Frameworks - Equinox 1.5 beta 1 released

This release is mainly to test out dependency downloading using Maven 2's Ant tasks. In addition, a few bugs have been fixed, but there's quite a few more on the roadmap.
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