Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Direct Link
Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.525 beta has been officially released. Now you can download it directly from yahoo instead of the leaked copy(version 10.0.0.331). Yahoo messenger 10 includes some feature improvements and added social network support. As for features these are the main it has to offer:
1. High quality video calls(HiDef): The video call feature has been redesigned to support high quality video streaming with synced audio. And the video call is made in the chat window to reduce space usage. Full screen support has also been added.
2. New Yahoo Insider page: The yahoo Insider page has a more “different” look rather than the dull page nobody liked. It does still have news feeds,weather and mailbox notification.
Google Chrome 2.0 released
Google chrome 2.0 has been released, it has some performance improvements, bug fixes as usual, and some new features.
According to Google, their new browser loads JavaScript included pages 30% faster than the older versions. As for features they have added the ability to remove thumbnail from the new tab page, full page zoom, form auto fill and full screen mode when you press F11.
Microsoft Office Suite 2007 Service Pack 2 released
Microsoft released its second service pack for the Office 2007 suite several days ago. Sp2 includes several major changes, in brief there’s a new feature to save as PDF/ODF formats, performance increases to Outlook and bug fixes for the office suite programs. Also it includes the security updates and hot fixes that were previously released.
Overview of Service Pack 2 (SP2) improvements
Description of some big areas of improvement that are included in SP2.
Microsoft Office Access
- Lets you export reports to Microsoft Office Excel.
- Supports memo fields in the mailing label wizard for addresses.
- Fixes issues that occur in the import data wizards, in report printing and previewing, in macros, in Excel integration, and in date filters.
- Includes updates to Access Developer Extensions.
Microsoft Office Excel
- Improves the charting mechanism in Excel 2007. This includes better parity with Office 2003, improved robustness, and targeted performance improvements.
- Adds a chart object model to Word and to PowerPoint.
- Improves shapes that are surfaced in Excel. This includes better parity with Office 2003 and targeted performance improvements.
- Improves the method by which Excel prints graphical content, especially when it prints to PCL printers.
- Adds conversion rates to the Excel Euro Currency Tools add-in for the Maltese lira and for the Cypriot pound.
DirectX End-User Runtimes (March 2009)
Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs.
At the core of DirectX are its application programming interfaces, or APIs. The APIs act as a kind of bridge for the hardware and the software to "talk" to each other. The DirectX APIs give multimedia applications access to the advanced features of high-performance hardware such as three-dimensional (3-D) graphics acceleration chips and sound cards. They control low-level functions, including two-dimensional (2-D) graphics acceleration; support for input devices such as joysticks, keyboards, and mice; and control of sound mixing and sound output. Because of DirectX, what you experience with your computer is better 3-D graphics and immersive music and audio effects.
Windows Live Suite Wave 3 updated: 14.0.8064.0206, Direct links available
The Windows Live Suite has been updated to 14.0.8064.0206 from v14.0.8050.1202. Currently there isn’t any information on changes. As usual you can get it through the Windows Live Installer “web edition” or “full edition” with sizes of 1.09MB and 133.57MB. And if you want to get the standalone exe’s check below. Installing is is pretty much the same as the old suite which was posted earlier.(see installation instructions for WLM suite v14.0.8050.1202). And yes all links are from direct Microsoft links so you need not worry about its integrity.
Windows Live Suite: All direct links from Microsoft
As you know there are two main download methods of the Live suite, the web installer and the full installer. So if you need to install a component you will have to get the 134MB installer or get the web installer and install (in case you delete you will have to re-download). Below you will find the direct links from MS to all prerequisite components and main software’s so you can separately install later.
Install instructions:
1. All downloads come as cab files, so you will need to extract the .MSI file inside the cab. For this you can use Winrar or 7Zip.
2. Make sure to install all required components before running the main program.
3. Microsoft Application Error Reporting is already installed and should be installed only if you run into any errors.
Direct Links for Windows Live Components
First of all as you know to download windows live components such as Live Messenger, Live Mail, Photo Gallery…etc you have to download Windows Live Installer and download through that.
This method is the recommended way to install Windows Live products but sometimes the installer gets stuck halfway for no reason or if you want to reinstall you would have to download all over again.
So to end all those frustrations here are direct links to Live Components and instructions on how to install them.
