Finally Firefox 3.0 is out, grab it fast :)

According to the press release from Mozilla Foundation, there is a new e-mail initiative, which will be developed via a separate entity to be formed by Mozilla and the head of ActiveState.

Ever wondered how to convert a Word document into PDF? Or wanted to share a PowerPoint presentation with a Linux user? You can do it very easily by using PDFCreator - an open source printing driver for Windows operating systems.

Some time ago Microsoft released a free sample - an HTTP server, written completely in .NET and able to host ASP.NET applications. It has been extended and improved by some other company, which now makes it available for download.

Google allow you to install a Java MIDLet (a small Java application for mobile platforms), which gives you access to your GMail account. Current version is 1.1.1.

There is an interesting review of the upcoming Windows Server.  The OS seems to be full of goodies to simplify daily administration tasks and to improve security.  It is nice to see, that PowerShell is finally making it into the OS - Microsoft keep on learning fron Uni

If you tried to install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET 2005 (aka KB926601), via Microsoft Update or manually, chances are high that the upgrade failed. The reason is that the deployment MSI package is almost 500M large. Before the actual installation process begins, Windows tries to verify the package. In order to do it it needs to load it into a continuous block of memory.

Looking for a way to integrate Subversion with Visual Studio .NET 2005 I came across AnkhSVN - an open source VS.NET plugin which does exactly that.

My current tests show that it's quite good. Maybe I won't remove my TortoiseSVN yet, but now I don't need to switch to Explorer when I want to commit a change.

I was deeply disappointed to discover, that .NET framework 2.0 didn't contain XQuery implementation.

Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has been released. To be honest, I don't understand why the changes required a whole SP - the list is very short and doesn't look all that important. Maybe the release notes are incomplete?