The Beta News

Have you ever wondered how much your energy your website consumes? How much solar potential your roof has? Where can I buy “green” products? The sites I’ve found all, of course, all in beta.

I’ve previously written about green gadgets, such as cell phones, Roadster and notebooks, so in this post I’ll focus on websites that will help you go green.

We all know that green is the new black. Many companies adopt a green strategy and  green IT is very hot and hyped in the IT business.

Tweet After almost a week of summer in Denmark, the weather is back to being gray and cold. Good thing I found several video games for you to beta test then. I’ve got to referee some football/soccer, so I won’t have time to test them all today. One of the beta tests are taking me […]

Tweet I’ve decided to try something new. Since my domain name say: The Beta News, why not feature something that really smells like BETA?! So without further presentation, I give you five video games in beta test that are looking for beta testers. WarHammer Online: Age of Reckoning - also known as WAR is a […]

Tweet Pownce (pounce) - You might have heard or read about it. It’s all over the internet, not as in Joost-all-over-the-internet, but pretty close. This is what they say about themselves: Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, […]

Tweet Rhode Island, USA based Swift Blue has asked me to invite The Beta News readers to join the alpha test of their local search engine. I’ve previously written about one of Swift Blue’s project, FamFridge, unfortunately a tragic family issue has set them back. Searoo Local Search is only for the US at the […]

Tweet Long Zheng from Istartedsomething.com discovered something really interesting on the official TechEd site. Apparently you can get your hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in the Windows Vista Hands-on Lab. To see it with your own eyes go to TechEd Australia and click on “Education”, then “Hands-on Labs” and “Windows Client”. According to […]

Tweet Do you want beta invitations for Scrybe, Torrentleech, Babelgum, Joost, Pownce, Moola, 8apps and a lot more? You can either ask me or join Invite Share. Thanks to the article on TechCrunch yesterday, Invite Share has gotten twice as many beta tests than 5 days ago, when I first visited them.

Tweet I recently joined Pownce. If you haven’t heard about them here is a quick quote from their site: Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, […]

Tweet Great news. KNAS Firmware for KISS DP-600 is now available in a beta version. To update the DP-600 to KNAS firmware follow the steps described below: Burn the .iso file on a CD as an image. 1. Turn on the unit with the ON/OFF button (on the back panel) 2. Open the tray, and […]

Tweet Microsoft surprised most of us by unofficially announcing the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta 1 mid-July. We were led to believe the Service Pack was delayed with a beta release at the end of the year, but now it sounds like it will be released around the same time as Windows […]