Year: 2002

For the next two days, Chronos is giving away StickyBrain for free, its personal productivity application that features a “sticky note” interface. “StickyBrain is one of the best kept secrets on the Mac and we want to let the public in on the secret. We believe that once users get a taste for StickyBrain, they’ll be hooked,” Robert McCullough, Product Manager at Chronos, explained in a press release. StickyBrain is a carbon application and normally sells for US$34.99.

In the past seven months, usage of Microsoft’s Windows-only Internet Explorer 6 has climbed from 2.5 percent to 30.50 percent, according to WebSideStory. In the same period, Netscape has seen its global market share fall from 12 percent to just 7 percent. WebSideStory notes that if America Online, which holds 13.12 percent of global Internet users, were to switch its browser to Netscape, the product would receive a significant boost and could ignite another browser war.

Handspring will raise the price of its Treo 180 handheld from US$549 to $599 for users who wish to use a pre-existing cell phone contract with the device, according to c|net. The price of the device will remain at $549 for users who purchase a new contract, and $399 for those who agree to a one-year service commitment.

SearchGoogle is a simple background service for Mac OS X that allows users to select text in any application and then launch a search for that text in Google with a single keystroke.