Impression 2.6 public beta released

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X11 Public Beta 3 Released

X11 Public Beta 3 Released 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Apple has released a new public beta of X11 for Mac OS X, an implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the open source XFree86 project — the most common implementation of X11 — X11 for Mac OS X Public Beta is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It includes the full X11R6.6 technology including an X11 window server, Quartz window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.

Public beta of MediaMaid FM 6 for Mac OS
X released

Public beta of MediaMaid FM 6 for Mac OS
X released 07/28/2004 06:08 AM
End If Software today announced today the first public beta release of MediaMaid FM 6b6, an easy-to-customize media asset management solution for use with FileMaker Pro...

Xupport 2.0 public beta 5 released

Xupport 2.0 public beta 5 released 12/02/2003 01:06 AM
Xupport 2.0b5 is the latest version of the utility that provides a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to configure many Mac OS X options, which may be tricky to configure manually...

DeliPlayer 2.0 Public Beta 2 Released

DeliPlayer 2.0 Public Beta 2 Released 03/20/2003 08:33 AM

Magellan Explorer 3.0 Public Beta 1
Released

Magellan Explorer 3.0 Public Beta 1
Released 05/27/2004 06:34 PM

PreFab UI Actions Public Beta 2 Released

PreFab UI Actions Public Beta 2 Released 07/23/2004 01:24 PM
PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman are pleased to announce the second public beta test of their new product, PreFab UI Actions. UI Actions implements "universal attachability" for AppleScript in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and newer.

Impression 1.0 released

Impression 1.0 released 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Impression is a low-cost backup utility for Mac OS X which can be used to back up and restore data. Impression incorporates various OS X technologies, including AppleScript, to perform its tasks, and it allows users to burn archives to CD-R, CD-RW or DVD-R discs.

Impression 1.0 backup utility released

Impression 1.0 backup utility released 03/19/2003 10:43 PM
The Babel Company has released Impression 1.0, a low cost backup utility for Mac OS X...

Impression 2.5 backup software released

Impression 2.5 backup software released 05/13/2004 02:26 AM
The Babel Company has released Impression 2.5, the latest version of its backup software for Mac OS X...

Beta: PGP Desktop 9.0 Public Beta 2

Beta: PGP Desktop 9.0 Public Beta 2 04/06/2005 12:19 PM
New features in this PGP Desktop beta series include full disk encryption, AOL Instant Messenger traffic security, S/MIME interoperability, and expanded smart card support.

eXeem 0.23 Public Beta

eXeem 0.23 Public Beta 03/29/2005 02:09 PM

iChat AV 2.1 Public Beta

iChat AV 2.1 Public Beta 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Apple just released iChat AV 2.1, which offers the ability to video conference with Windows users running the latest version of AOL Instant Messenger. The version is released as a "Public Beta." It should be noted that Windows users can also use iSight cameras, although they will have to use a secondary microphone because Windows cannot use the mic built into the FireWire camera.

OmniWeb 5 Public Beta

OmniWeb 5 Public Beta 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
A review of OmniWeb 5.0b1 -- which has the potential to be a smash hit.

Public beta of Web Confidential 3.7
available

Public beta of Web Confidential 3.7
available 04/13/2004 04:45 AM
Alco Blom has announced the release Web Confidential 3.6.7b4, the first public beta release of his password manager that features 448-bit encryption, HTTP and Web Form automation, Palm synchronization, and more...

NetNewsWire 2.0 public beta

NetNewsWire 2.0 public beta 09/21/2004 09:04 PM
Ranchero Software has released the first public betas of NetN ewsWire 2.0 and their new weblog editor, MarsEdit 1.0.

NetNewsWire 2.0b3: first public beta

NetNewsWire 2.0b3: first public beta 09/21/2004 08:46 PM


The first public betas of NetNewsWire 2.0—full and Lite version—have been posted. See What ’s New in NetNewsWire 2.0.

Along with the new features, the application has been streamlined, and it has new icons by Bryan Bell and Jon Hicks.

Among the new features are searchin g, flagg ed items, persis tence, tabbed browsing, smart lists, search engine subscriptions, script subscriptions, enclosu res, built-in styles, and more. (Here is the entire l ist of changes.)

Both full and Lite versions can be downloaded from the NetNewsWire Betas page.

eXeem 0.24 Public Beta

eXeem 0.24 Public Beta 04/16/2005 02:52 PM

Marks Public Beta 3

Marks Public Beta 3 03/29/2005 05:06 PM
Powerful and revolutionary educational application for teachers that brings the ease of use of iTunes to Mark Books.

.NET Framework SDK 1.1 Beta Goes Public

.NET Framework SDK 1.1 Beta Goes Public 10/15/2002 07:15 AM
Microsoft has upgraded the Visual Studio.Net Framework SDK (code-named 'Everett') and converted the program to public beta.

"netnewswire 2.0 public beta!"

"netnewswire 2.0 public beta!" 09/23/2004 03:38 PM

AOL Media Player Beta Goes Public

AOL Media Player Beta Goes Public 04/13/2005 12:02 PM
AOL has finally let loose its new media player beta to the general public. As first reported by BetaNews, AOL Media Player (AMP) runs independent of the company's client software and is one of many new efforts to expose AOL products and services to Web users outside its "walled garden" of subscribers.

Beta: MapSpinner 1.0 Public Preview 1

Beta: MapSpinner 1.0 Public Preview 1 07/09/2004 10:11 AM
Optima System released MapSpinner, a WYSIWYG utility for creating HTML image maps without writing HTML code.

Convoq ASAP Public Beta

Convoq ASAP Public Beta 01/07/2004 02:28 PM

I'm excited about the release of the public beta of "As Soon as Present" (ASAP) from Convoq.  This product has been in the making for well over a year, and is a powerful demonstration of new convergence trends we're experiencing with the Internet -- social networking, VoIP, video messaging, broadband, instant messaging, and many others.  The release today is a public beta of a 1.0 product, but it covers extrodinary ground for a first release.  (full disclosure: I am a board member and investor in Convoq, Inc.)

Some of the features worth exploring:

* Rich media instant meetings --- import and use your buddy lists and presence status from consumer and enterprise IM systems (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and MSFT and IBM enterprise IM products), and convoke text chat, VoIP, and video conferences with anyone on the Internet (anyone who has Flash Player, that is).  It works transparently through firewalls, and works with end-users on any platform (Windows, OS X, Linux). 

* Robust web conferencing features.  Meetings can be of any size, with moderation tools available as the number of users in a meeting grow.  A moderator or presenter can own the podium, and present themselves via video of remarkably good quality, share their desktop with others, and deliver online powerpoint presentations with excellent fidelity (e.g. you can use transitions and animations in PPT, and they translate beautifully into the Flash format, including any audio or video content used in powerpoint).  This is part of the trend in "modernizing web conferencing" that products like Breeze Live and ASAP both accomplish nicely, making first-generation products such as WebEx and Placeware feel awkward.

* Collaboration and presence management features.  A fundamental notion in ASAP is presence (e.g. As Soon As Present), where it goes way beyond the extremely limited notions of presence in existing IM systems.  For example, in ASAP you can have delegates or Stand-Ins --- if you aren't immediately available, enable other users to select a stand-in to try and communicate with (e.g. co-worker, boss, husband).  A more powerful concept is that of Lifelines -- these are topic-based presence switches that enable users to find someone to communicate with based on a topic or role (e.g. IT HelpDesk, Legal Services, Product Support).  Both of these are good examples of social networking features in the real-time realm. 

* It's all Flash, baby.  Convoq has deftly and powerfully taken advantage of Macromedia's Flash platform to deliver an exceptionally rich user experience throughout the product.  While the product installs as a desktop application, it is almost entirely built in Flash (some native code is needed to work with existing IM clients, to convert PowerPoint to Flash, and for integration into the windows system tray).  More importantly, the product is also built on the Flash Communication Server, which provides VoIP, video conferencing, and shared data services.  But most user's of ASAP will never install any software, and will collaborate and communicate with you directly through a Flash application running in a browser.  The experience of engaging someone in instant video communications without them having installed any software is always a joy -- better yet, having a quick web conference/meeting without the awkwardness of WebEx and Placware is also great!

Give the Public Beta a try, and share your thoughts.  I'm sure the Convoq team is listening!  I will be writing more about ASAP in the future.

 

QuicKeys X2 v2.1 public Beta starts

QuicKeys X2 v2.1 public Beta starts 02/18/2004 01:28 PM
CE Software recently released the Beta version of QuicKeys X v2.1. The latest edition adds a long list of new features, including the ability to jump to a particular step or an offset of a step in a shortcut, a Typing Speed preference as well as new functions tied to it, recording improvements, a Save As dialog that appears when you close a newly created shortcut without naming it first, and more.

TweakDB 3 Public Beta Release 1

TweakDB 3 Public Beta Release 1 04/22/2004 06:35 AM

VMWare Releases 5.0 Public Beta

VMWare Releases 5.0 Public Beta 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
VMWare released a public beta of the new version 5 of its virtual desktop software Sunday. As reported earlier, the latest release includes a host of new features ranging from improved collaboration and networking, better performance and security, to enhanced cloning capabilities and Microsoft Virtual PC compatibility.

Beta: sunShield 1.5 Public Preview

Beta: sunShield 1.5 Public Preview 07/01/2004 10:13 AM
sunShield is a Preference Pane for managing the built-in firewall in Mac OS X.

Novell Releases OES Public Beta

Novell Releases OES Public Beta 12/26/2004 04:41 PM
Slashdot Dec 26 2004 8:14PM GMT

'Stingray' Beta 2 Now Open to the Public

'Stingray' Beta 2 Now Open to the Public 01/27/2004 01:47 PM
Microsoft made Beta 2 of its forthcoming Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 firewall product available to a select group of testers in late December. Now the company has opened the beta to the public.

MSN Testers Invited for Public Beta

MSN Testers Invited for Public Beta 01/28/2004 03:26 AM
"The MSN team is launching a new beta opportunity we'd love for you to get involved in - MSN Toolbar Beta. The MSN Toolbar appears towards the top of your browser window and works to give you the power of MSN Search at your fingertips." The testers receive newsgroups, but the same toolbar as the public.

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 public beta

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 public beta 06/04/2004 03:40 PM

Coral -- a free DHT-based web CDN -- in
public beta

Coral -- a free DHT-based web CDN -- in
public beta 08/28/2004 06:30 PM
Via the p2p-hackers list, Michael J. Freedman writes: We'd like to publicly announce the availability of CoralCDN, an open peer-to-peer content distribution network, beta-deployed on PlanetLab since March 2004: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/ To take advantage of CoralCDN, a content publisher, user, or some third party posting to a high-traffic portal, simply appends .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname in a URL. For example: http://news.google.com/ --> http://news.google.com.nyud.net:8090/ Read on for more...

Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta

Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta 08/28/2004 08:41 PM

Fink Interaction with Apple's X11 Public
Beta

Fink Interaction with Apple's X11 Public
Beta 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Fink works just fine with the public beta X11 release with some caveats. Please read the newly added Apple X11 section of the Fink X11 Documentation for details.

Ranchero Software Releases Public Beta
Of NetNewsWire 2.0

Ranchero Software Releases Public Beta
Of NetNewsWire 2.0 09/23/2004 11:09 AM
Ranchero Software has released NetNewsWire 2.0b3, the first public beta of the next version of the RSS news reader. The next version of NetNewsWire will feature flagged items, smart lists, search engine subscriptions, script subscriptions, external weblog editor support new icons, and more.

Microsoft releases backup server public
beta

Microsoft releases backup server public
beta 04/13/2005 03:05 PM
Microsoft's beta for its first backup server is out, with the aim of making backups smoother and recoveries faster. But to achieve success it still needs the support of the big tape backup players. Microsoft on Wednesday released the beta of its first heavyweight data backup product, Data Protection Server.

Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data
Protection

Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data
Protection 04/15/2005 09:25 AM

ISA Server 2004 Beta 2 for public
announced by Microsoft.

ISA Server 2004 Beta 2 for public
announced by Microsoft. 01/27/2004 05:15 PM

'Europa' Public Beta Ready For Visual
FoxPro Testers

'Europa' Public Beta Ready For Visual
FoxPro Testers 06/04/2004 08:43 AM
Microsoft's "Europa" beta is now available for public download. Europa, a k a Visual FoxPro 9.0, will include some user-interface tweaks and other improvements aimed at developers.
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