Have just read a great review of the soon to be launched Firefox 3. This is available from Computer World and mentions five key improvements – easier downloads, an enhanced address bar, easier bookmarking, a much improved bookmark organizer and better memory management.

At QBS PC Help we love Firefox and promote it heavily to all our customers and friends, so this new version will be tried and tested once its on general release.

Look out for our own review of Firefox 3 in 2008!

Source: Computer World

When firing up Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and Bridge today (CS3 versions), to work on a new website, everything crashed after a few minutes with the message “AMT Subsystem Error -The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support.”

None of the programs would open so I trawled the Adobe website for an answer and found a useful Tech Note which offers a number of work-a-rounds. This can be found at:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402004.html

As it turned out I just rebooted our PC’s and all the CS3 suite programs opened up.

They have remained stable for the last few hours so the problem seems to be solved.

With web site accessibility high on the UK Governments agenda web designers should certainly incorporate standards of design that allow site access to everyone, regardless of their health.

Our latest article looks at accessibility issues and suggests a few ideas you can easily adopt when designing your own web sites.

To view this latest article please click here.

Google is releasing a new application for Apple’s iPhone that combines the web leader’s services such as email, search and calendar into a single interface.

Google, which aims to replicate its success in desktop computer web use on mobile phones, said on Wednesday the new application would make it easier to find, use and switch between its services on the iPhone.

The company is also working to develop new mobile technologies that are faster, easier to use and available on more devices, but Google did not give details.

The iPhone, with its touch-screen and full web browser, became the most talked-about mobile phone this year when it went on sale in the US in late June. It has since launched in the UK and other countries.

Google Maps and YouTube were among the first applications available on the iPhone.

Apple said last month that it would allow outside developers to create software for iPhone and that it planned to make a developers kit available in February.

Source: ZDNet

Microsoft said on Monday it would disable the two primary methods used to illegally copy Windows Vista software in the next major update of the operating system.

The world’s largest software maker loses billions of dollars to unlicensed software every year.

Microsoft said new features built into Vista are reducing counterfeit levels by half compared with its previous operating system, Windows XP.

Microsoft plans to improve that one step further with changes built into Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the first major update to the operating system, which is due out in the first quarter of 2008.

The company plans to close a loophole that let people mimic activation used by some computer manufacturers to install Vista. Microsoft also will clamp down on a method of extending a “grace period” time between installation and activation.

Source: ZDNet