DExposE2 is a task switching application similar to the one found on Mac’s OS X. Setup is straight forward, and after tweaking the settings just a little bit (to your likings) it’s ready to go. By default you’ll get all your open applications side by side on the desktop (press F9, F10 or F11) and to select simply click on whatever you wish to work on/with.

Nice fading transitions and help titles when hovering makes this a killer add-on for XP or Vista (Mac user’s obviously doesn’t need this one…).

Here’s how it looks on my Win XP SP2 office PC:

Grab the code from Lora Devrexter’s homepage and try it for yourself. Download link on the right-side menu, or download it here.

The moment has arrived! Mozilla are welcoming all testers to help with Firefox 3 RC1 Testday (Part 1). This will be the biggest testday of the year, and they need your help.

What: Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Testday (Part 1)
When: Friday, May 16, 2008 from 7am - 5pm PDT
Where: IRC on irc.mozilla.org, channel #testday

How you can help

1. Install the RC1 build candidate at: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.0rc1-candidates/…
2. Review this list of things to test.
3. Provide your feedback and any testing updates by leaving a comment on this event post! Or join on irc.mozilla.org, channel #testday for immediate discussion.

The public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now ready for testing. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. If you are a regular user of OpenOffice.org, here’s a great opportunity to help make the next release the best ever.

What’s new in OpenOffice.org 3.0?

The most immediately visible change to OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the new “Start Centre”, new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar. A closer look shows that 3.0 has a myriad of new features. Notable Calc improvements include a new solver component; support for spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing; and an increase to 1024 columns per sheet. Writer has an improved notes feature and displays of multiple pages while editing. There are numerous Chart enhancements, and an improved crop feature in Draw and Impress.

Behind the scenes, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). This is in addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be the first version to run on Mac OS X without X11, with the look and feel of any other Aqua application. It introduces partial VBA support to this platform. In addition, OpenOffice.org 3.0 integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications.

More info here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

November last year I wrote a post about a bug in Dreamweaver CS3 that makes it crash after Daylight Saving Time Ends. Yesterday it all started again, but this time the application didn’t crash but was constantly opening an alert box informing me that an extension (MySQL) wasn’t working properly.

Luckily I found the fix on adobe.com. So in case you are having the same symptoms take a look at this article about re-creating your user configuration folder.

Quick summary

XP users can follow these simple steps first to try and correct the issue:

1. Quit Dreamweaver.
2. Go to Start > My Computer.
3. Rename Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration to Configuration Old.
4. Start Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver creates a new Configuration folder.

If this doesn’t solve your problems read the full article for more options.

Just a few days ago I wrote about the latest anti-virus release from AVG, AVG Internet Security v.8. Yesterday they’ve released a similar update for their FREE version. This really is great news for anyone running on a low budget, or anyone else for that matter.

Version 8 has already been acknowledged as a state-of-the-art protection solution, and I bet the free edition is equally good even though it may lack a few features when compared to the paid version.

Besides the obvious (killing threats) the GUI looks much better;

Great first impression! Installation went smoothly and so far I’ve nothing negative to say about it. Let me know what you think about it if you decide to give it a try. You can grab the source from AVG directly (much faster than download.com).