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Adobe have released a beta version of Photoshop CS3. Available as a universal binary, this is sure to come as good news to users of Intel Macs that have been enduring the painful performance of running Photoshop under Rosetta emulation.

Download the beta from Adobe Labs by clicking here.

Unfortunately, the beta only runs for two days once installed, so don’t get too attached to it! Adobe, if you’re listening - surely a week-long beta wouldn’t be too much trouble? If you’re asking people to test your software following a 685mb download it’s the least you can do!

Clearly not wanting to be accused of dragging their heels following the recent Firefox 2 release, the team has just released version 3 of its browser for alpha testing. Details of the release and a link to the download site can be found on the Mozilla website.

As well as the usual assortment of bug fixes, the dev team is focussing on increased stability and performance. With the later in mind, the graphics and text rendering engines have been given a thorough overhaul.

To accommodate the planned updates, Firefox 3 will no longer be supported on Mac OS X 10.2 or Windows 95, 98 and ME.