ThinkFree, a company that specializes in “next-gen” office productivity solutions, announced Tuesday that it has launched its ThinkFree Netbook solution, which will deliver word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications for Netbooks running Intel’s Atom chipsets, like the Asus Eee PC or the Acer Aspire One.

ThinkFree’s Netbook Edition is available for Windows XP, Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X and will work fine on 800×480 and 1,024×600 displays. A free trial copy of the software can be downloaded now on the company’s site.

macles.blogspot.com reports that there is a new BIOS out, and seems stable, reports on our forum state that the VGA BIOS gets updated plus extended battery life.

Download from Acer or directly from our downloads page.

You need to boot into DOS to flash the bios, you can do this by using a usb pen drive and the HP USB boot program and Windows 98 boot files (i have made one single download) you will find it the downloads section “under the bios page”

Remember flashing the BIOS incorrectly can prevent your computer from booting, so any questions ask in our forums first.

Acer has released a new BIOS v3304 for the Aspire One.

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New Acer Aspire One BIOS is out to download here.

The BIOS will work for the A110 and the A150 models.

“Release notes. It appears C4, which is the Deeper Sleep mode of the Intel Atom, is now properly enabled.

Date : 2008/07/17
BIOS Version : v0.3114
EC Version : 3.1

BIOS:
1. Base on 3113, modify something as below.
POST
1. Set C4 timing to 0×06.
2. Disable LAN device and host L0s and L1.
3. Enable PCIE break event.

OS
1. Check if OS is XP, then
1. Set C4 timing to 0×0A.
2. Enable LAN device and host L0s and L1.
3. Disable PCIE break event.

EC:
1. Fix EC 4sec shutdown no function issue.”

If you have any questions about the new BIOS post on the message forum.

Thanks to macles for the release notes.