Firefox 3.5.5 Released
Mozilla has released yet another bug fix build for the awesome Firefox 3.5 this one is 3.5.5 and it fixes some minor bugs, and most of the add-ons are compatible with it. If you haven’t gotten it yet I advise you to get it.
VLC media player 1.0.0
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VLC Player 1.0.0 is out of beta. This final version fixes lots of bugs and adds some new features and high definition codecs making it the best player that can play videos without requiring 3rd party codecs.
The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestrial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavors, all BSD flavors, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux. VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
Opera 10 Beta (V10.00b1)
Opera 10 beta is supposed to be 40 percent faster than the previous version. This version include resizable tab bar, improved user interface, spell checker support for 51 languages and Opera turbo which can switch automatically according to network speed. This feature will definitely help users with a slow internet connection. Currently the Opera 10 beta is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX, OS/2, BeOS operating systems. Use the Opera 10 beta page to download or the links given at the end of this article.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 beta 1
Visual Studio 2010 is out. Currently its beta but its supposed to have lots of new features. Some of them are:
- Clear UI Organization
- Reduced clutter and complexity
- Improved editor
- Better support for floating documents and windows
- Enhanced document targeting
- Focused animations for action feedback
- IDE support for parallel programming
- Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL
- Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework offers support for imperative data and task parallelism, declarative data parallelism, and more
- Resource management of the multicore hardware and task scheduling enabled by Concurrency Runtime
- Parallel debugging windows and profiling views
- A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense® engine
- "One Click Deployment" that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
- Full support for Silverlightâ„¢ for cutting-edge, rich Internet applications
more details can be found on the MSVS 2010 product page
Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 RC (KB948465 Build 6002.16670.090130-1715 v.286) : Download Links
Earlier Microsoft released the Release candidate for SP2 in Vista and Windows Server 2008 to testers. This release comes as a evaluation build and is not available to the public yet. The build number for this version is 6002.16670.090130-1715 (v.286) and can be downloaded through windows update(testers only) and from Microsoft Connect (again for testers only). According to Microsoft they would be delivering the final build in Q2 2009. Anyway as usual the standalone versions got leaked and now can be found all over the place.
If you don’t want to wait for the public release make sure you at least download a clean copy as there are lots of files with malware being uploaded. (there are download links below which are good).
Windows Live Messenger 2009 is Out of Beta
Finally it’s good news, Windows Live Messenger is out of the beta stage and the final build is out. Well there is nothing much changed except a lot of bugfixes (that’s usual). So here you go get yourself the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009.
Get Digsby offline installer without spyware or adware
I’m not a fan of online installers, I simply hate them and I do not trust them much, recently the popular multi account messenger client Digsby joined this group. Supported by Freeze.com which is considered a adware by most anti-viruses and any spywares. This led many to stop using it including myself but with some tools and a search on the net I was able to come up with a solution to this problem. The spyware and adware only exist in the downloader and not in the setup therefore if you get the full setup you will never get asked of offers or displayed adware. So click on the links below to get the very latest Digsby from their servers.
Get the full Spyware and Adware free installer below
Get The Latest Version of Offline Installer for Chrome, Every time
Most of us are now tasting speed responsiveness of Google Chrome, a browser born out of the Google Labs. Chrome as its known all around the world is a super-fast browser with a very low memory footprint and beautiful interface.
All the features in chrome are nice to use except the online downloading and installing part. I really hate the online installer which downloads and installs chrome. I always prefer the offline installer.
But every time a new version gets released, people go around searching blogs all over the net to find the latest offline installer. Well you do not need to worry anymore because there is a neat little trick for yourself to get the offline installer every time directly from Google servers. So follow these basic steps to get yourself the latest installer for Chrome, every time.
ThreatFire free
Hi there. Today I intend to sail the waters of security. A very arguable topic. Well, after some years of trying and reading about security products I am persuaded to use proactive defense only. So, are you still using antivirus and antispyware product, feeling completely safe on the internet, especially while reading all those av-comparatives.org and other reviews? In fact antivirus product use signature-based protection against malware. In simple words it means they can only recognise a virus, that their research team has been able to identify on the internet so far. But what about those viruses, their research team has not come across yet? The truth is that from that point your xp or vista is left alone to battle the capabilities of that virus. But you know who wins this battle, right?
Windows 7 M3 PDC Build Hits Torrent Sites
Recently all the attendees of the PDC 2008 (Professional Developers Conference), were given the 3rd Milestone release of Windows 7 and within days those DVDs were leaked. so for those of you who are looking to get your hands on M3 here are some searches and links for you to get a reliable torrent.
Even Microsoft admitted the M3 builds being leaked to the P2P world was inevitable.
So Here are some Links to get yourself a 30 day trial of M3:
