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Camino 0.8 Released

Camino version 0.8 was released tonight. In addition to performance, stability, and rendering improvements inherited from Mozilla 1.7, Camino 0.8 adds a Google Search bar in the toolbar, a more-compact download manager, an entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support, session history on back/forward buttons, greatly improved cookie management, and many more changes.




Since the last release of Camino, the following upgrades have been made to the underlying Gecko engine, and are now available in Camino: incremental, type-ahead find in the content area, automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area and numerous performance and web page rendering enhancements, XSLT support, as well as a large number of bug-fixes.




For more information or to download a copy, go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/




Highlights

• A new look and icon set (a graphite set will be made available shortly)
  
• Upgraded Gecko HTML rendering engine to 1.7final from 1.0, yielding performance and web page rendering enhancements, as well as a large number of bug-fixes
  
• A more-compact download manager UI
  
• Entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support
  
• "Top Ten" bookmark collection, based on your ten most-visited sites
  
• Searchable bookmarks
  
• Google Search field in toolbar
  
• Ability to manage individual cookies, sorting and editing cookie allow/deny lists
  
• Ability to unblock popups on a per-site basis (popup white-listing)
  
• User profile migrated to ~/Library/Application Support/Camino
  
• Incremental, type-ahead find in the content area
  
• Automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area
  
• Hundreds of smaller improvements and bug-fixes to the user interface
  

• Click-hold session history menus on the Back and Forward buttons
  
• XSLT support
  
• Startup speed improvements with a large bookmark set
  
• Security fixes for Mac OS X protocol exploit
  
• Tabbing from URL field to Google Search field works correctly
  
• Improved bookmark importing
  
• "View Frame Source" correctly displays the frame's html instead of that of the frame set
  
• New keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs that work better with non-US keyboards
  
• More bugfixes and general enhancements to the UI and Gecko rendering engine
  

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gCount updated to version 0.2

gCount is a menubar item that will display the number of unread messages in the inbox of a recently popular email service.

Changes in 0.2: Large memory leak squashed. New icon. The count now reflects unread count of Inbox (it was previously all unread messages), as it should, and there is a preference to switch to the prior count. Added link to Compose Mail in menu.

Download it here.

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[ANN] Java Date Picker v3.0 Released

Stand
By Soft, Ltd. just released Java Date Picker 3.0, a suite of powerful
date components for Swing. This is the first major version since
initial release. It adds a new component, JDateField and defines the
framework for future date components.

The dates available for
selection can be restricted according to a specified pattern. Users can
also do single or multiple date selection. So far, the available
components are a one month calendar, a date field and an editable date
picker.

The components can be internationalized, have support
for mouse and keyboard and they can be used with any look and feel
(Metal, Motif, Windows, Aqua and custom ones).

The highlights of this release are:

• New JDateField component.


• JDateField can use date parsers to convert shortcut strings like "today" into dates.



• JDateField includes properties like autoValidate, autoRestore, beepOnError and autoCentury.


• JDateField can set or get the value of a date field at any time.


• Rethought the Javadoc to be a self-contained document for the Java Date Picker API.


• Improved the tutorial to be a light introduction to the API.

For additional information or trial version, please visit http://www.javadatepicker.com.

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