Category Archives: Open Source

Nov 9 2011

Mozilla released Firefox 8 – with lots of new features, faster browsing and twitter search

Many new features and news
Mozilla maintains its strict update schedule and has published Firefox 8.0. A download from the Mozilla Web site (http://mozilla.com/firefox) is already available for Mac, PC and Linux. The e-mail app Thunderbird was updated to version 8.0, too. Firefox apparently wants to make the new Google Chrome competitive (downloads4mac reported): The update of Firefox 8 fixes security vulnerabilities and provides a great Twitter search in the search box. This can be set in the settings, and how that should be searched. Even the installation process for add-ons has been substantially increased.

According to market researchers at Net Applications, Firefox comes to desktop computers currently has a market share of nearly 23 percent, thus proving to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer took second place (see left image below).

Tab browsing is much improved in the latest version of Firefox and the ease of usehas risen sharply.
Learn more about Firefox 8 & Tab Browsing

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downloads4mac recommends Firefox 8!

Download Firefox 8 for Mac, Windows or Linux
Firefox 8 requires at least Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel).
Other Operating Systems like Windows & Linux are not supported by downloads4mac.

Don’t now what browser you have to choose? Maybe whatbrowser.org can help you getting a good, fast and secure web browser.

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May 30 2011

Meteorologist for Mac – a free open source weather app


Publisher’s Description
Meteorologist is a full featured, free, and open source weather program for Mac OS X. This version of Meteorologist supports multiple cities, new version checking, and many more features. Meteorologist represents both the efforts of the developers and the helpful and insightful comments of those who use this program. The Meteorologist project is hosted by SourceForge. SourceForge is a community for open source developers to collaborate on their projects, keep track of bug and feature requests, and other really cool things.

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Mar 13 2011

Art of Illusion 3D Modeling

About Art of Illusion
Art of Illusion is a Java-based 3D modeling and speech ring suite.Also entwicklt for commercial use Art of Illusion offers all the tools necessary to create, Anmien and rendering of objects.Nevertheless, Art of Illusion is not comparable with products such as Cinema 3D.
Tutorials with the former, it is easier in the app. 

System Requirements
Art of Illusion benötgit at least Mac OS X 10.4 and Java 5

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Mar 12 2011

Desktopple (Mac)

About Desktopple

With Desktopple you can quickly and easily hide the clutterof your desk. It is no longer necessary, before a presentationat the office or the making of difficult to clean up the desktopscreen shots - one click and all contents are hidden. 

System Requirements


Desktopple requires at least Mac OS X 10.4
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