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Some of us at centre{source} have been running the latest version Firefox (version 3) which is currently in it's beta stages. It's VERY cool and VERY fast...

Beta 3 Release 4 just came out today:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0b...

After installing, we were extremely happy to notice that Flash is once again working as expected, and it's all running a lot faster and more stable. It definitely is a huge improvement over Firefox 3 Beta 3 (which itself was light-years of improvement over Firefox 2!)

Bob, Jared, and I just got to Boston for Drupalcon 2008! All week, we'll be checking in and giving updates about what we've learned. If you're in town for the convention, send me an email chayner {at} centresource.com and we'll try to hook up for lunch!

For more information on the conference, check out http://boston2008.drupalcon.org

Ok... so we haven't had the best of luck with Sprint (see here, and here) and while our company is slowly moving toward AT&T due to "some device" that came out in the last few months, I do have to hand it to Sprint for be one of the first companies to actually release a "why hasn't somebody thought of this sooner" product.

Yesterday marked a very interesting day for online free speech on the internet.

At CentreSource, we do everything we can to stay connected to the community around us. Recently, a great opportunity arose for us to donate our time to work with Ellie's Run for Africa (ERFA), a 5k Race and Family Fun day that is taking place in Nashville at the end of June, that has an amazing story behind it.

One of CentreSource's strongest areas is custom application development. We've worked with a number of fantastic clients who have asked us to create a variety of applications including ones to handle franchise management, online book trading, and qualitative research.

A few days ago, Seagate released a statement about some new technology that they have dubbed "DAVE" (Digital Audio Video Experience).

From the release:

We at CentreSource have recently been pushing all of our staff to become CSS masters. We've been testing, researching, training, and debugging our HTML and CSS code so that we might be able to serve our clients in the best possible ways.

Have you ever been designing a website, and everything seems to fit except for that plain white, black, or other random-solid color background? Well my brother recently passed a great design resource along to me that I only thought best to share with the rest of you: DinPattern.com. This site has about 40 free, ready-to-use backgrounds that will definitely bring a little spice to your webdesigns. Go check it out, and while you're at it, contact the creator, Evan, and thank him for his great work!

Those of you who read our newsletter know that for this Holiday season, CentreSource had a contest to find the website in the greatest need for a makeover. Companies were able to nominate their websites, which were then filtered by the CentreSource staff down to the 10 Top Worst Websites. Finally, the finalists were asked to launch their own grassroots campaigns and get their family, friends, and coworkers to vote for their site to win the grand prize.