In December Microsoft promised that Internet Explorer 8 would be more standards compliant. While that would already be a real change-of-pace, Microsoft has also decided to make the planned standards compatibility mode the default mode for IE8.

What's one of the biggest nits with Google Docs? For many, it's the same thing that also allows collaboration and access to files anywhere: the online nature of it. That's going to start disappearing soon, however, as Google announced on Monday it is going to roll out (in their typical gradual manner) an "offline" mode to Google Docs users.

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The same judge who originally ordered Wikileaks taken down has seen the light, and has reversed his decision. Apparently the 10 lawyers representing various organizations such as the Public Citizen, the California First Amendment Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Project on Government Oversight, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pounded the First Amendment into his brain.

On Wednesday Adobe launched both Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP) as well as Adobe TV.

AMP is an offline Flash video player. It was originally released in beta form last September. The software, written with Adobe's Integrate Runtime (AIR), runs on Windows and MacOS (both Intel and PowerPC).