The new beta of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows features a new feature called “InPrivate Browsing”. As Microsoft explain,
Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won’t accidentally find out.
Windows Internet Explorer 8: Home page
The new beta version of OmniPlan imports Microsoft Project 2007 files:
The Omni Group - OmniPlan - Beta
A very useful article from Google’s Miško Hevery about the problems with the Singleton design pattern. Essentially, Singleton’s rely on a global instance variable which could point to any number of other variables, thus creating a global state. This causes problems when you want to test your code.
…Fire Eagle is about helping you take your location to the Web and giving you control over how, when and with what your location is shared. You choose which applications can share and update your location. You choose how much information you want to share – from as broad as country or state, to as detailed as zip code or cross streets, and everything in between. You choose when and how to update your location.
Less than useful release notes for the new iPhone OS upgrade:
“Bug fixes” really doesn’t tell me a lot; a link to a page explaining what these fixes are would have been useful.