The Beta Patrol

myRosso proudly announce the Pandora Saga Open Beta is officially launche.

The closed beta testing of the next big update to City of Heroes, titled Issue 16: Power Spectrum, is due to begin soon.  Community Specialist Niviene announced on the official forums that Issue 16’s closed beta will begin shortly after the San Diego Comic-Con wraps up later this week.

From Examinner.Com

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has released the second beta version of the Maemo 5 SDK, fixing many bugs reported by developers.
Combined with the recent improvements in the Fremantle Extras
repository, this release reportedly provide a solid basis to get
software ready for the Maemo 5 final release.

The port of the Amiga USB stack Poseidon, whose bounty was reached in May, to AROS is almost complete and today officially entered its beta-testing phase, which will last a week. If no show-stopping bugs appear during testing, Poseidon will be officially added to AROS and its sources will be opened under the terms of the AROS Public License, similar to the Mozilla one. The AROS team, however, needs volounteers to test the current version on a wider range of PC configurations.

These APIs are currently in private beta and can be previewed at http://qikapi.pbwiki.com. If you are interested in participating in this private beta, you can request your API key by sending an email to api.qik.com. You can also subscribe to our Developer email list at api.subscribe@qik.com

WD TV HD the new media player by Western Digital plays almost any Movie
format and Music format. Also view all your digital pictures, all right
off your external hard drive or thumbdrive.

Prerelease 1.02.10 (includes all previously released updates)

Fixed Items:
Greek subtitles now render properly. Previously they rendered slowly, causing them to briefly flash on the screen.
Korean subtitles now render properly. Previously they disappeared during video playback.
Playlists play in the correct order. Previously they played files in alphabetical order.

Added feature:
Metadata
support for music improved over previous releases. For example,
browsing by genre is broken down into artists, then albums, then tracks.

Known issues:
A few text strings were not translated properly over different UI languages

Prerelease 1.02.08
Enhanced cover art, album art, and thumbnail support for media files and folders
Additional subtitle languages and decoding support
Improved media playback and navigation
More audio formats for MKV container
Fixed bugs reported by the WD TV user community

Ableton Users can find this beta here:

a San Francisco startup
whose passion is to bring the worlds of video and books together on the
Internet, through multiple applications, devices and platforms.

CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers
using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to
use or modify.

Toronto, Canada (OPENPRESS) July 24, 2009 — Veil Entertainment and
Spore Productions are pleased to announce the Open Beta of Rise &
Ruin, an online, card-based, fantasy combat game ready to play through
PC web browsers.

At Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves panel at Comic-Con 09,
creative director Amy Hennig let out a little nugget of information
regarding the game’s multiplayer beta. During the question-and-answer
session she said:

FishBark is an online community for collectors… of anything!

It
will bring collectors of similar items together to inventory, show-off,
swap, and discuss the stuff they love to collect. Please submit your
email address below if you want to stay in the loop on the development
of this exciting new website. We may even contact you to help us out
with our beta testing this summer!

We plan to have a detailed announcement about Simplify Photo for the
PC, Mac, Linux and iPhone next month, but if you want an inside look
sooner, join the secret beta program. There are a few spots left, and
the qualifications are:

1) You like photos
2) You like Simplify Media
3) You can keep a secret (and are willing to keep the beta details confidential)

If you meet all 3 requirements, please send us an email at beta at
simplifymedia.com, tell us what platforms you use, include your
Simplify screen name, and we’ll send you more information. An
iPhone or iPod Touch is not required as this stage of the Beta will
focus on the desktop application and computer-to-computer photo viewing.

Adobe is pleased to announce that the next version of LiveCycle ES beta
is now available. This beta release is made available so that you can
start testing your applications on the new version as well as enable
you to explore the new features and numerous improvements we have made.
However, like any other beta, it is not recommended for production use.

IronPython
is an implementation of the Python programming language running under
.NET and Silverlight. It supports an interactive console with fully
dynamic compilation. It’s well integrated with the rest of the .NET
Framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python
programmers, while maintaining compatibility with the Python language.

Tweet, drink and be merry with WineTwits

The Placespotting Beta lets you play funny geography quizzes and
create riddles for your friends…
Have a look:

MiSafe is a
fast, safe, reliable service enabling you not just to backup your
important files and documents, but to take them wherever you go. No
need to carry a USB stick or other portable media, simply use MiSafe as
your storage and your files will be available to you wherever you go.

Googles Chrome For The Mac

After launching our first beta of JIRA 4.0 at Atlassian Summit last month, have had already hundreds people download the beta and provide us tons of great feedback. This week, we released JIRA 4.0 Beta 2 which is the second major milestone release leading up to JIRA 4.0. This release contains over 250 fixes and improvements including activity streams, dashboard gadgets, advanced searching with JQL, and a sexy new header and project browser.

It
is time to announce the program and begin the Beta testing! We are
looking for horses (and their people) to participate in this test, and
we hope  you (and your horse) will participate in this innovative
program.

By participating in this Beta test, you and your horse will garner:

• A 30 minute Reiki session
• Feedback from Reiki Fur Babies on your horse’s condition
• I will communicate with your horse, enabling you to hear from your horse’s mouth his feelings/experiences surrounding the Reiki session.

Hive Rise is an extremely fast running real
time strategy game. It takes place on huge maps, each providing space
for over 1000 human players. There are 12 different play modes, each
offering a unique trophy. What makes it even more outstanding is the
fact that the short matches (about 10 minutes) can be started at once
without having to wait for teammates.

Chirplinks Beta is coming soon  Visit the link below and Follow their Twitter at http://twitter.com/chirplinks

This beta release showcases many of the new features that will be
available in the upcoming stable release:

• Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and
  Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler, which aid in providing
  RESTful resources via the MVC layer.
• Zend_Feed_Reader, which provides a common API to RSS and
  Atom feeds, as well as extensions to each format, caching, and a slew of
  other functionality.
• Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which
  provide the ability to use local and remote messaging and queue services for
  offloading asynchronous processes.
• Zend_Db_Table updates to allow using
  Zend_Db_Table as a concrete class by passing it one or more
  table definitions via the constructor.
• Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db, which provides Zend_Db
  support for PHPUnit’s DBUnit support, allowing developers to do functional
  and integration testing against databases using data fixtures.
• Annotation processing support for Zend_Pdf, as well as
  performance improvements.
• Zend_Dojo custom build layer support.
• Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements.
• Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog, a Zend_Log writer for
  writing to your system log.
• Several new view helpers, including
  Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl.

Again, this is a beta release; do not use it in production
environments.

We hope to provide our initial release candidate early next week, so please
test now so we can take care of any lingering issues in the existing
functionality!

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CJ Internet, the leading global entertainment company, today announced
the launch of the Mini Fighter closed beta test and released a new
gameplay trailer showcasing in-game battles. In the short week leading
up to the launch of the beta, thousands of players pre-registered for
beta keys and downloaded the Mini Fighter client. Eager players will
now have the opportunity to explore various battle zones – including
tag match, free battle and gem catch– and battle opponents in 14
different modes, as well as participate in a variety of community
events throughout the closed beta phase.