Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now ready to download and test! This first version gives an early look at what’s planned for Firefox 4. Stay tuned, because there is more to come and we plan to release new beta versions every two to three weeks. Your feedback is essential to help shape the product which is why we’re launching now to hear from you early in our development process.



Firefox 4 Beta 1 includes dozens of major features and improvements – by testing them early we’ll be able to respond to your feedback for future versions of Firefox. Once you download Firefox 4 Beta 1, you’re part of our beta program and will receive regular updates as more features launch.

If you are using a Windows PC, the most noticeable new feature will be the look of the browser. We moved the tabs to the top to make it easier to focus on the web content and easier to control the tools in your Web browser. Also, if you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista the Menu bar was replaced with a single Firefox button so you can get to the most used options with just one click. These changes will be coming soon for Mac and Linux.

There is a lot more to this beta than a facelift on Windows, including:

• New Add-Ons Manager: gives you more space to manage your Add-Ons, Themes and Plugins. Customizing your browser has never been easier!
• HD Video: Watch hardware-accelerated, super-smooth, HD-quality HTML5 video on YouTube using the new WebM format.
• Privacy improvements: Mozilla always puts privacy first, and this latest beta fixes flaws in some Web standards that could expose your browser history.
• Crash Protection: Experience uninterrupted browsing (now available on all platforms) – when a plugin crashes or freezes, you can resume browsing by simply refreshing the page.
• Performance: We know that performance is important. In this version, we focused on improving responsiveness at start-up and during page loads. This is just the beginning for performance improvements in Firefox 4.

Web developers will be interested in some of the changes we’ve made under the hood:

• HTML5 Parser: Run the best Web apps of today and tomorrow – if a user’s browser doesn’t support HTML5, they still won’t miss out on your content.
• WebSockets: Build real-time, online interactions like gaming and chatting.
• IndexedDB: Use structured storage in your Web applications to speed them up or provide offline support.
• Web Console: Peek into dynamic websites with this experimental “Heads Up Display” play” analysis tool.
• Simpler Add-On Development: Authors can create Add-Ons that don’t require a restart to install, develop their Add-Ons more quickly using the new powerful Jetpack SDK, and safely connect to existing libraries using js-ctypes.
• For a full list of Web technologies supported by Firefox check out our “big chart o’ features.”

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Changelog: Release Notes
Download: Firefox 4 Beta 1

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Think of this scenario; You are lying in bed and just finished watching a movie that you were streaming from a computer downstairs. You want to sleep, but you need to head downstairs to turn the computer off. Save some time, and do it from the computer upstairs.

There are a number of ways that you can restart or shutdown remote computers. You could use a remote desktop connection, but there are quicker ways and we will look at them today.

This article will show you various methods you can use to shutdown or restart computers on your network. We will look at:

• Command Line/Shortcuts
• Windows Tools
• 3^rd Party Applications

As well as looking after the environment and your pocket by saving electricity, it is surprisingly easy to achieve. This article is very much aimed at a home user. Most server operating systems have much more powerful tools available.

What you need:

All of the methods below require you to have an administrator account on the computer you want to shut down. This was a relief for me as I could see all sorts of ways this could be abused without such security.

All the methods below will require you to have either the IP address or machine name of the computer or computers you want to shutdown remotely.

All of the methods below were created using Windows XP. Vista offers the same commands and a few extras, while Windows 2000 has similar commands. If you use 2000, change the “-“ to a “/”.

Method 1: Command line

Microsoft has included a tool that comes with Windows that will be the focus of most of this article. I always like to use inbuilt utilities when they are available. In this case the command is “shutdown”.

If you open up a command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd) and type “shutdown”, you will see that there are a bundle of arguments you can use with the shutdown command. The -m argument followed by the machine name, and a -r(restart trigger) will shutdown your computer. The best way for me to explain it is through examples.

In the command prompt, try the following:

shutdown -m \\computername -s

Lets break it down:

1. The shutdown command gets the ball rolling
2. -m \\computername should be the name of the computer you want to shutdown.
3. -s tells the remote computer to Shutdown.

There are a number of other arguments you can use.

1. -r tells the remote computer to Restart
2. -l tells the remote computer to logoff

So that is all you need to know to do it from the command line. I find it a bit tricky to remember all the switches, so the methods below are more ideal for me.

Method 2: Shortcuts

This method uses the same “shutdown” command as above. The only difference is that we put the command into a shortcut so that we can launch it quickly.

Right click on your desktop
Select “New”
Select “Shortcut”
In the path put in:

shutdown -m \\computername -s

Call it whatever you want and change the icon if you would like.

Now you have a shortcut that when it is launched will shutdown the remote computer. How easy is that!

Method 3: Windows Tools

The “shutdown” command we have been looking at above has a graphical front end with a few nice features in it. If you have multiple computers you want to shut down, this may be a good option for you.

To get into it, open a command prompt and type “shutdown -i”

The graphical front-end will open up.

In here, you will see the same options available to you as the manual methods above, but this time you can list or browse multiple computers on your network and do bulk shutdowns or restarts.

It is fairly self explanatory, so I won’t go into it much more. It isn’t all that powerful. Check out another utility below.

This method requires you to put in a reason as to why you are restarting/shutting down. It’s a real pain.

Method 4: External utilities

RCL– Remote Computer Log On is a program I came across while scouring through SourceForge. It doesn’t look like much, but it is much more powerful and user friendly than the options above.

RCL was originally designed by a school teacher to control the computers in a computer lab. RCL offers no annoying fonts or popups. It makes up for them in features.

You can login/out, shutdown or restart multiple computers. There is even a feature to enable or disable Internet access.

The computer list uses text files making it easy to list groups of computers; i.e. one file for each lab.

It may be more than you want, but I am definitely going to be using this gem. If only I had it 3 years ago. Download it from SourceForge.

Another program of note is XP remote Timer. It runs much the same as the shutdown command but it offers a timer feature. It might be a good way to control how much time the kids use their computer.

Which method is right for me?

When this article was suggested to me, shortcuts seemed like the most practical way to control 1 or 2 remote computers. As the amount of computers increased, the graphical utilities won out.

Note:

Windows has inbuilt power management features which you might choose to use to shutdown a machine automatically when it is not in use for a certain period of time. This would achieve the same thing, but it removes the control you can have.

Download Diagram Designer, create free flowcharts ( Visio alternative )

Diagram Designer is a free easy to use tool for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows. It offers easy chart creation with a library of flowchart nodes and connectors. It lets you customize text in each element with a variety of tags and connectors automatically attach to points on each node. Every element is scalable and your charts are exportable in a variety of formats like JPG, PNG, and more. This is designed to work on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT. It is very light weight, i.e, takes up very low resources. Download the program from here.

Some features of this software.

• Customizable template object palette.
• Spellchecker (see below about dictionaries).
• Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, ICO, GIF and PCX images.
• Slide show viewer.
• Simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions.
• Advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver.
• MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extended file format support.
• Uses compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size.

View Powerpoint 2010 (.pptx, .ppt) without Powerpoint , free tool

Microsoft has released new formats .docx, .xlsx, .pptx in Microsoft Office 2007 / 2010 Suite adding extra capability. Office Suite is pretty expensive and sometimes you might not have access to it.

In case if you have received a .pptx ( 2007 and 2010 ) or .ppt ( 2003 or earlier ) versions of PowerPoint presentation files, you can view them with all embedded effects using a free tool provided by Microsoft. You’ll just need to download and install on your local windows system to use this software. This is designed to work on Windows 7/ Vista/ XP / 2003

Download from here.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 Released

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.

What’s new in 3.6.3?

Firefox 3.6.3 fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 555109).

You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.6.2 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3

Opera 10.51

A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.

• Speed Dial: Your favorite sites are just one click away at all times.
• Search Shortcuts: Faster search – type your queries directly into the address bar.
• Trash Can: Instantly reopen recently closed tabs.
• Speed Dial: Get your favorite Web page with just one click.
• Mouse Gestures: With Opera you can navigate the Web with your mouse.
• Opera Link: Synchronize data of your choice online, or among different computers and devices.
• Quick Find: Opera remembers not only the titles and addresses, but also the actual content of the Web pages you visit.
• Feed Preview: Preview a Feed by clicking on the feed icon, and you will see it in clean and efficient multiple-column layout.
• Quick and customizable Web search: Get quick access to Google, eBay, Amazon and more with the search field in the upper right corner.

Opera Software - 12.39MB (Freeware)

Download: here

Internet Download Manager 5.18 Beta Released

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.

Changelog:

• Added processing of site names in foreign languages
• Added support of Unicode characters for download descriptions and file names
• Updated IDM icon
• Improved recognition of server bugs. For example when dailymotion.com proxy servers send incorrect data under certain conditions

News source: Official website
Download: IDM 5.18 Beta

Completely uninstall and cleanup any Antivirus or Antispyware

Most of the AntiVirus, Antispyware or any security software integrate deeply into the system and uninstalling them isn’t an easy task and certain elements are left over. Often, installing new antivirus clashing with the existing install or any new virus detection issues. AppRemover is a software that enables the complete uninstallation of security applications such as antivirus and antispyware from your computer very easy even when you forgot the administrator password.

You can check out the list of supported software here.

It supports hundreds of antivirus and antispyware applications. It works on Windows 2000, 2003, XP (32 / 64 bit), Vista (32 / 64 bit), 2008, Windows 7

Download AppRemover.

Download Latest PicPick Tools Portable imaging software

PicPick tools is free portable all-in-one software for which features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette,magnifier, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. It has a very simple intuitive interface. Just download and start the software or setup in the startup. It’ll reside as a tray icon and is accessible when required.

PicPick tools image capture features support for Full Screen (Support for Dual Monitors), Active Window, Window Control (Scroll a page automatically), Region, Fixed Region , FreeHand, Repeat Last Capture .

While the Image editors features support for adding effects like selection opacity, blur, sharpen, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, flip, rotate and etc.

Download Wiziple.net PicPick tools

KDE 4.3.0 Released

KDE Community Delivers Incremental Innovations With New KDE 4.3 Release

KDE 4.3 (Codename: "Caizen") Delivers Incremental Innovations to the Free Desktop Users and Software Developers

4 August, 2009. The KDE Community today announces the immediate availability of "Caizen", (a.k.a KDE 4.3), bringing many improvements to the user experience and development platform. KDE 4.3 continues to refine the unique features brought in previous releases while bringing new innovations. With the 4.2 release aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers a more stable and complete product for the home and small office.

The KDE 4.3 Desktop

The KDE community has fixed over 10,000 bugs and implemented almost 2,000 feature requests in the last 6 months. Close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors. Read on for an overview of the changes in the KDE 4.3 Desktop Workspace, Application Suites and the KDE 4.3 Development Platform.


Desktop Improves Performance And Usability

The KDE Desktop Workspace provides a powerful and complete desktop experience that features excellent integration with Linux and UNIX operating systems. The key components that make up the KDE Desktop Workspace include:

• KWin, a powerful window manager that provides modern 3D graphical effects
• The Plasma Desktop Shell, a cutting-edge desktop and panels system that features productivity enhancements and online integration through customizable widgets
• Dolphin, a user-friendly, network- and content-aware file manager
• KRunner, a search and launch system for running commands and finding useful information
• easy access to desktop and system controls through SystemSettings.

Below you can find a short list of improvements to the KDE Desktop Workspace.

• The Plasma Desktop Shell introduces a new default theme, Air. Air looks much lighter and fits better with the default application theme. Plasma also has seen large performance improvements. Memory usage has been reduced, and animations are smoother. Activities can now be tied to virtual desktops, allowing users to have different widgets on each of their desktops. Furthermore, Plasma has improved upon its job and notification management. Running jobs are grouped in a single progress bar to prevent the popup of too many dialogs. Animations are used to signify that jobs are still running by smoothly sliding dialogs into the systemtray and animating the notification icon. Smaller changes in Plasma include fully configurable keyboard shortcuts and more extensive keyboard navigation, the ability to create a plasma widget when you drag or copy content on the desktop and many new and improved Plasma widgets. The folderview widget now allows the user to peek into a folder by hovering it and the new Translatoid widget translates words and sentences right on your desktop using Google Translate. Furthermore, KRunner made its plugin features easier to discover by having a 'help' button showing the syntax of commands in the result area. Actions also have a small configuration allowing for example to start applications under another user account.

Web integration in KDE 4.3

• The file manager Dolphin shows small previews of files within a folder and video thumbnails to help the user identify items. The trash can now be configured from the Dolphin Settings menu, and various configurable limitations on the trash size help make sure the disk does not fill up with deleted files. The menu which is shown on a right mouseclick on a item is configurable and the configuration dialog in general has been redesigned to be easier to use. The new network:/ location shows other computers and services on the network (currently limited to those announced by DNS-SD/zeroconf protocols, more will be supported in future versions).
  
  
• Further refinements to the workspace tools make it easier to work with your computer. A faster SystemSettings introduces an optional treeview for the configuration and several improvements to settingsdialogs. New effects like 'Sheet' and "Slide Back" and better performance in KWin make window management more smooth, while integration with the Plasma themes creates a more consistent look. Klipper, a tool which keeps a history of things copied to the clipboard, can now act intelligently on the content. It automatically determines a list of applications which can handle a object copied to the clipboard and allows the user to start them right away.

Applications Leap Forward

A great number of sophisticated applications are provided by the KDE community which take full advantage of the powerful KDE Application Framework. A selection of these applications are included in the KDE Software Distribution, divided up by category into various Application Suites. These include:

• KDE Network Applications
• KDE Multimedia
• KDE Graphics Tools
• KDE PIM Suite (for personal information management and communication)
• KDE Educational Applications
• KDE Games
• KDE Utilities
• KDE Software Development Platform

Together they form a comprehensive set of desktop essentials that run on most modern operating systems. Below you will find a selection of improvements to some of these Application Suites.

• The KDE Utilities have seen many improvements. Among other things, KGpg, the privacy tool used for encryption and signing files and emails integrates Solid for detecting the availability of a network connection and has improved its key import dialog. Ark, a file compression and decompression application now supports LZMA/XZ, has improved support for zip, rar and 7zip and works better with drag'n'drop. KDELirc, a frontend for the Linux Infrared Remote Control system (LIRC), has been ported to KDE 4 and is included again. Okteta, the KDE hex editor gained a checksum tool, a filesystem browser sideview and a bookmarks sidebar. Lokalize, the KDE translation tool, introduces support for scripts, new fileformats and the translation of ODF documents.
  
  
• The KDE games now use a similar Egyptian-style theme in many of the games. KGoldrunner introduces a new game, "Curse of the Mummy" and improves gameplay with more accurate pause, resume and recording and replaying of games. KMahjongg introduces 70 new user-submitted levels and a new game, KTron, has been introduced. Some games introduced new features like the Vaporizer action in Killbots and a better AI in Bovo. Thanks to work on file loading and saving the state of scalable images many games start and run faster.
  
  
• The KDE Personal Information Management applications have seen improvements in various area's like performance and stability. Instant messenger Kopete introduces an improved contact list and KOrganizer can sync with Google Calendar. Kmail supports inserting inline images into email and the Alarm notifier gained export functionality, drag and drop and has an improved configuration.

Some Egyptian themes

• In case something goes wrong with a KDE application and it crashes, the new Bug Report Tool will make it easier for the user to contribute to the stability of KDE. The bug report tool provides a three-star rating of the quality of the data it gathered on the crash. It also gives hints on how to improve the quality of the crash data and the bug report itself while guiding the user through the process of reporting. During the Beta cycles for this release the new bug report tool has already proven itself by the increased quality of bug reports.

Platform Accelerates Development

The KDE community brings many innovations for application developers to the forefront in the KDE Application Development Framework. Building on the strengths of Nokia's Qt library, this integrated and consistent framework has been crafted in direct response to the needs of real-world application developers.

The KDE Application Development Framework helps developers create robust applications efficiently by streamlining the complexity and tedious tasks usually associated with application development. Its use by KDE applications provides a compelling showcase for its flexibility and utility.

Liberally licensed under the LGPL (allowing for both proprietary and open source development) and cross-platform (Linux, UNIX, Mac and MS Windows), it contains among other things a powerful component model (KParts), network transparent data access (KIO) and flexible configuration management. Dozens of useful widgets ranging from file dialogs to font selectors are provided and the framework also offers semantic search integration (Nepomuk), hardware awareness (Solid) and multimedia access (Phonon). Read on for a list of improvements to the KDE Application Development Framework.

• The KDE 4.3 Application Development Framework introduces the beginnings of Social Desktop integration, bringing the worldwide Free Software community to the desktop. Offering an open collaboration, sharing and communication platform, the Social Desktop initiative aims to allow people to share their knowledge withouth giving up control to an external organisation. The platform currently offers a DataEngine for plasma applets supporting aspects of Social Desktop.
  
  
• The new system tray protocol developed in collaboration with the Free Desktop initiative is a long-overdue overhaul of the old systray specification. The old systemtray using small embedded windows did not allow for any kind of control by the systemtray over its contents, limiting the flexibility for the user and application developer at the same time. While the new systemtray supports both the old and new standard, application developers are encouraged to upgrade their applications to the new specifications. For more information check this blog or find more information on TechBase.
  
  
• The Plasma Desktop Shell introduces a Geolocation DataEngine using libgps and HostIP which allows plasmoids to easily respond to the location of the user. Other new DataEngines provide access to Akonadi resources (including mail and calendar), Nepomuk metadata and keyboard state besides the various improvements to existing DataEngines. Read about using and discovering DataEngines on TechBase.
  
  
• The KDE Application Development Framework introduces a PolicyKit wrapper making it easy for developers who want their application to perform privileged actions in a secure, consistent and easy way. Provided are an authorization manager and an authentication agent, and an easy library for developers to use. Read here on TechBase for a tutorial!
  
  
• Akonadi, the Free Desktop PIM storage solution has been deemed ready for more widespread usage. Besides the availability of the DataEngine for plasma, application developers are encouraged to have a look at the TechBase page if their application needs access to or store chat logs, email, blogs, contacts, or any other kind of personal data. As a cross-desktop technology Akonadi can provide access to any kind of data and is designed to handle high volumes, thus allowing for a wide range of usecases.

Social desktop and other online services in action

More changes

As mentioned, the above is just a selection of the changes and improvements to the KDE Desktop Workspace, KDE Application Suites and KDE Application Development Framework. A more comprehensive yet still incomplete list can be found in the KDE 4.3 feature plan on TechBase. Information about applications developed by the KDE community outside of the KDE Application Suites can be found on KDE family webpage and on the kde-apps website. The Marble developers from the KDE Edu team have released marble 0.8 with KDE 4.3 and compiled an extended visual changelog on their website.

Axialis IconWorkshop 6.50

Axialis Software has released IconWorkshop version 6.50, a professional authoring tool which permits to create, convert and manage icons for Windows (up to 256x256 for Windows Vista) and for Mac OS (up to 512x512 for Leopard). This major release includes the following features:

• Ability to edit bitmap images - Now you can open, edit and save bitmap images in different formats. This feature permits creating UNIX icons in PNG format as well as illustrations for websites in GIF or JPEG format.
• Photoshop plug-in compatible with CS4 - The transfer plug-in is compatible with the latest version of Photoshop CS4 in versions 32 bits and 64 bits. You must re-install the plug-in if you upgraded to Photoshop CS4.
• Welcome window - The Welcome window is a handy tool for opening recent files, creating new projects and more. It is displayed in the center of the main window when no document is opened.
• JPEG Optimizer - Now you can save images as JPEG and specify the JPEG compression ratio with instant preview.
• New filter - The gaussian blur filter has been added.
• New image enhancement - Now create Hot and Disabled effect on an icon, image or image strip.
• Enhanced Drop Shadow - The drop shadow feature has been enhanced. Now you can adjust color, angle, size, distance and opacity.
• New Objects Packs - Five new ready-to-use object packs are added in this release: Functions Icons (488 icons), iKon Icons (269 icons), Bright Icons (296 icons), Milky Icons (257 icons) and Rinoa Toolbars (183 icons).
• Other enhancements and bug fixes.

Axialis IconWorkshop has a Lifetime License: If you've purchased a previous version, you're entitled for a free upgrade to version 6.50.

Download: Axialis IconWorkshop 6.50 - 32.3 MB
Screenshot: Click here
Link: Axialis IconWorkshop product page
News source: Axialis Software

Trillian 3.1.13.0

Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings.
Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as:

• contact message history,
• a powerful skinning language,
• tabbed messaging,
• global status changes (set all networks away at once),
• Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration),
• contact alerts,
• an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client,
• docking,
• hundreds of emoticons,
• emotisounds,
• shell extensions for file transfers, and
• systray notifications.

Website: Cerulean Studios - 8.76MB (Freeware)
Download: Download

Orbit Downloader 2.8.15

Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP. And to make general downloading easier and faster.

Orbit Downloader is written with efficiency in mind, it typically uses less than 3MB of memory and 3% of cpu when downloading. Additionally, the installation package is less than 2MB.

What's new:

• Fix: some bugs may cause IE crash by Grabpro
• Fix: some bugs may cause Grab++ crash

Download: Orbit Downloader 2.8.15
News source: Official website

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 Released

What's New in 3.0.13?

Firefox 3.0.13 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.12:

• Fixed several security issues.
• See the Firefox 3.0.12 release notes for changes in previous releases.

See the complete list of bugs fixed.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.40 Released

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware. In our product we have compiled a number of new technologies that are designed to quickly detect, destroy, and prevent malware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware monitors every process and stops malicious processes before they even start. The Realtime Protection Module uses our advanced heuristic scanning technology which monitors your system to keep it safe and secure. In addition, we have implemented a threats center which will allow you to keep up to date with the latest malware threats.

Changelog:

• (FIXED) Runtime error on program start.
• (FIXED) Improved memory usage during scan.
• (FIXED) Minor updating issue.
• (ADDED) Support for Bosnian and Korean languages.
• (ADDED) IP blocking protection - never connect to a malicious website again!
• (ADDED) Scan log now includes whether computer is in safe mode or not.
• (ADDED) New command line parameter: /debugsave (see help file).

News source: Official website
Download: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

WordPress 2.8.3 Released

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3. Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended.

News source: Official Homepage
Download: WordPress 2.8.3

FileZilla 3.2.7 RC1

FileZilla is a powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar.

New features:

• Add option to prevent system idle sleep during transfers or other operations
• Add -l option to commandline to specify logon type for passed URLs
• Improve layout of search and filter edit dialogs
• Implement keyboard navigation in search and filter edit dialogs
• Add status bar to search dialog
• Remember file exists action for individual queue items
• Faster queue loading and saving

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• MSW: Fix memory leak in shell extension
• Fix possible race in socket code leading to infinite loop
• Resolve parsing conflict between MLSD and Unix-style listings
• Fix deleting symlinks on SFTP connections
• Deselect ".." on Ctrl+A in addition to selecting all other items
• Changing data type on implicit FTP over TLS connections no longer prints an error message
• *nix: Fix missing thread synchronization in D-Bus bindings

News source: Official website
Download: FileZilla 3.2.7 RC1

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 Released

Firefox is the award winning next generation browser from Mozilla. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. Make the switch today - Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose. Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox's built in popup blocker. View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they're ready for viewing when you're ready to read them. Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business.

Firefox 3.5 users can get the latest Firefox 3.5.2 download directly from the link below. Alternately, they can go to Help menu and select “Check for Updates” to get the update.

What's New in 3.5.2?

Firefox 3.5.2 fixes the following issues:

• Several security and stability issues.
• Images with ICC profiles now render properly on all monitors.

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.1 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

AbiWord 2.7.8 Beta Released

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Multi Platform
Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

Interoperability
AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Advanced Document Layout
Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.

Internationalization
AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.

Website: AbiSource Community - 7.90MB (Open Source) - beta
Screenshot: Click here
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Dictionary .NET 1.7.3501 Released

Dictionary .NET is a tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary translating from/to 43 languages using Google's services.

Integrates Google Dictionary, Translate, Suggest, Wikipedia (4-in-1) without installing them.

Free, Tiny, Smart and Standalone! Released date: 2009-08-02

(Dictionary + Translation) Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Thai

(Translation only) Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

What's new (v1.7.3501):Added Smart Translation

• Updated Google Dictionary

Features:

• Smart Translation
• Translate Selected Text with a hotkey
• Full-Text Translation
• Single click without selected text
• Text suggestions
• Translate a web page
• Open File to Translate
• Multilanguage List
• Wikipedia Search

Supported Operating Systems: Win XP/2K3/Vista/2K8/Win7 (x86/x64)
Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Online connection required.

Download: Dictionary .NET 1.7.3501 (just 72KB)
Link: Dictionary .NET Website
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