Google News has finally left the beta stage. Other than the removal of the “beta” tag, it doesn’t look like much else has changed this time around.
Of course, Google News has seen a large number of changes since it was first released in September 2002. But why has it taken so long to leave beta?
Google finally got around to adding a delete button to their free email service, GMail. Previously, users could still delete email; they just had to select the option from a dropdown menu. Wasn’t hard, but wasn’t exactly the most convenient option.
Must be big news, even the Google Blog is talking about it. 
Opera Software has officially released the Opera Mini Browser, a full web browser that is capable of running on almost any mobile phone.
More information on the Opera Mini is available at http://mini.opera.com. And of course, there is the press release.
I’ve updated the CMS that powers d3bruts1d.com to the latest version. The update could have gone better, but I’ve finally gotten things under control (for the most part).
The new version allowed me to install some new things, and get rid of some of the junk I didn’t use. I’ve not had a chance to fully test everything, so let me know if you run into something that’s FUBARed.
The CMS for anyone interested, is e107. The latest version (0.7.1) was released on Jan 18.