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Tomorrow, June 17, 2008, the Mozilla Foundation aims to release Firefox 3 for download.

Nearly one and a half million people around the world have pledged on their website (link below) to download Firefox 3 as part of Mozilla Foundation’s attempt to get into the Guiness Book of World Records for most software downloads in a 24 hour period.

Firefox currently is in the #2 spot as far as Internet browsers go. Over the years it has steadily creeped up on the #1 title holder, Internet Explorer.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

On May 30th, the Blender Institute released its first movie, “Big Buck Bunny” on its website in .avi, H.264, .m4v, and several other video formats and resolutions.

The DVD has been available since May 20th, ten days before its wide release on the web.

The film follows the “Big Buck Bunny” as he thwarts three nefarious woodland creatures (2 squirrels and a rat) bent on causing mischief.

As mentioned in an earlier posting, Big Buck Bunny was created using Blender and other free and open source programs, and as such, is itself released under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Source: www.bigbuckbunny.org

I guess I’m a bit late on this one and everyone else knew about this site years ago but anyway, Layers magazine is a really hot tutorial & learning central covering everything Adobe. Instead of reading this paragraph you should go there now and dig through all these tutorials… Still here?
http://www.layersmagazine.com/

StyleMac, being a rather old site by todays measures, had been based on WordPress 1.5.2. I’d long thought about updating it to a recent version, but just as I couldn’t find time to post I couldn’t find time to update it. This hit back some weeks ago, when a WordPress 1.5.2 exploit surfaced, that allowed to gain control over the System and thus infected StyleMac with lots of spam. The attacker modified my templates and most of the content in the db. All entries were befouled with spam for all kinds of products.

During the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on not only updating WordPress to a recent version but also transferring the site to a new, faster, server. StyleMac runs on a SVN WordPress 2.6 Bleeding now – which makes it a lot easier for me to update to newest revisions. So, all of the uglier effects of the past exploit are be gone now and should not happen again.