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Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party. What’s more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner’s choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

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Running other operating systems on a Mac is nothing new, and with the advent of Intel-based Macs we’ve seen a flood of virtual machine software: Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare Fusion, and Codeweavers CrossOver Mac. These products enable you to run Mac OS X and another operating system simultaneously.

For many of my consulting clients who are switching from PCs and who already have a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows, I’ve been using Sun’s Open Source xVM VirtualBox product. Why? xVM VirtualBox works very well and it’s free.

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OpenOffice is the leading open source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and much more. They announced new release of OpenOffice which called Aqua interface at the beginning of this May. Developer team published the OpenOffice 3.0 Beta 2 last day. New release includes many modifications and fixed bugs. Their release notes so long and technical. Its engaged my attention what this release only support the Intel processors. They said that first beta release support only Intel processors now but they published second one, nothing changed yet. Actually, I am scared why OpenOffice doesn’t includes the PowerPC support.

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You hate Entourage, and you’re not particularly fond of iCal. You’ve waited endlessly for Nighthawk, Contactizer Pro is too complicated, and you want a native app instead of using Google Calendar or another web calendar. And, since you’re saving money for an iPhone 3G, you don’t want to spend any money on a calendar app.

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Mozilla just eventuated in world record which planned on Firefox 3 recently. Promotion campaign planned on take the Guinness Word Record with the most software downloads in 24 hours at 17 June and they did it! Mozilla set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours now. With Firefox lovers help they reached 8,002,530 downloads successfully. Every Firefox lovers and users are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of Firefox yet. 17 June from now, total download numbers reached higher than 24 millions.

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This is news that is certain to make Mac based Windows Admins (of which I am one) very happy: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 is finally out of beta. The final release includes all the new features that Microsoft added, some of the highlights include:

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Books 3.1.9 is a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X that stores, sorts, and searches book collection information. Books is intended to assist book collectors with managing personal collections. It has nice interface, easy to use, and collects most of the info itself. Alternative of this application is DeliciousLibrary, you can also try that one. Actually, this is a bugfix update that improves iSight barcode scanning and includes other minor bug fixes. It requires the Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

eBaytoiCal is an AppleScript that parses the frontmost document in Safari. If it is an eBay auction, it tries to create an iCal calendar entry on the end date of that auction and sets a reminder 15 minutes before. The name of the event will be the article name, the URL will be the page of the article (i.e., the page you are currently viewing). Updated version is eBaytoiCal 3.1. They fixed problems with date parsing in various locales with latest release which 3.1. This script requires the Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and iCal 1.5.2 or higher.

Microsoft just published the instant messaging software’s new release today. With this small update, they developed the software’s VoiceOver feature and fixed to facing problems with some of Europe languages. Also, they increased the Office Communications Server 2007 compatibility with this release.

Microsoft Messenger 7.1.0 is an universal binary application and requires the Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher operating systems. However, it doesn’t supports the video and audio calls yet.

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Firefox 3 is has been published with record testing on this Tuesday. However, first security bug just came on the scene. Tipping Point announcing to confirm the Firefox 3’s first security bug after published 5 hours.  Bug is notified to Mozilla too. Window Snyder (Mozilla’s Security Manager) made a declaration about situation. Snyder told that bug details keeping private between Mozilla and Tipping Poing, there is low security risk and they working on that. Firefox bugs can be fixed in a few days but what about Apple’s bug fixing issues? I don’t think so

By the way, Firefox 3 has been downloaded 8,349,074 times in only 24 hours. They waiting for complete to processes to get in the Guinnes Record Book now.