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Windows 7 SP1 has been leaked ahead of the beta cycle and its available as a torrent.  It's already downloaded from a number of torrent sites. One of the working strings being 6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053. The Service Pack 1 was announced in March for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but the release date was yet to be scheduled. According to Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc, SP1 for Windows 7 will include minor updates along with the previous updates that have been already delivered through Windows update. The leak confirms Windows 7 SP1 will offer updated Remote Desktop client that adds RemoteFX functionality introduced in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. What's unique, the Service Pack install process seems to take lesser time than service packs on Vista. If you are not to go for torrents, you can wait for Microsoft to announce the release date. For now you can catch up with the screenshots of Windows SP1 on GeekSmack

Mozilla has released Beta 5 of its upcoming web browser Firefox 3.6. This beta version is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. This 5th revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features: [NEW] Made some changes to how Mozilla allows third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes. [NEW] This beta is available in more than 70 languages - get your local version. More than 100 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features. The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times. Users can now change their browser's appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe. Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames. Support for the WOFF font format. Improve...

Years ago, I remember watching a webcast of the introduction of the Aqua user interface when Mac OS X Public Beta was first demoed. The part I distinctly remember was realizing the brilliance of sheets. Like many great innovations, they were simple in retrospect and solved a problem you didn't realize you had: the modality problem — the fact that dialog boxes blocked interacting with the whole application even though only one window needed the information that you, as the user, had to provide. I watched in wonder as a save dialog blocked only the one window that needed saving, leaving all the other windows free. Finally, a solution to limit the modality. Because modality sucks. Back in 2000, sheets worked well because the smallest unit of user interaction with an application was a window. Soon after, though, things started to change. Web browsers in particular were among the first to start using tabs to put more than one document in a window.