Australian mobile application developers got their first look at Google's Android mobile handset platform at Google's Australian development day in Sydney.

You all know what you have to do now. Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

The official release of Firefox 3 has received widespread attention from the press and has gained a few unexpected allies, including television show host Stephen Colbert. In an episode of the Colbert Report that was aired on the same day as the Firefox 3 release, Colbert interviewed open Internet advocate Jonathan Zittrain, who encouraged Colbert to try Firefox 3.

While Firefox 3’s location bar is perhaps my personal favorite new feature and the one I missed the most when I have to use Firefox 2 for some testing, there are a lot of people who find it weird, obtrusive and don’t like it including bookmarks and history among its results.

openSUSE 11.0 was one of the most anticipated Linux distro releases of 2008. Despite a few bugs in the final code, which was released yesterday, it was worth the wait. The openSUSE version of KDE 4 alone is worth the download, and the improvements to the software manager make customizing a pleasure.

Red Hat too seems to have realised that Citrix (with XenSource) is just a vassal of Microsoft

Building a MythTV digital video recorder (DVR) is a series of small battles -- configuring digital sound, aligning your video sources and channel guide data, getting XvMC running, and so on. Any tool that simplifies one of those battles is welcome, and GNOME LIRC Properties promises to be just such a tool.