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Silverlight to be in half of all Internet devices by 2010

Sam Symons — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:47:40 +0000

With the release of Silverlight 3.0 not long ago, Microsoft has shown a bit more detail on the plans it has for the technology in the future. According to CNET, Abu-Hadba (leader of Microsoft's developer and platform evangelism division) has said that half of all Internet-connected devices will be packing Silverlight by next year. Microsoft plans to expand their product to many different devices, including Apple's iPhone, and to do so they want to make sure that they don't have to create 'lite' versions of it. Scott Guthrie, Abu-Hadba's fellow developer unit executive, said, "We want to make sure people have a 'wow' experience," though they admit it's taken them longer than they'd have liked so far.

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Notepad++ 5.4.4

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:47:16 +0000

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++ , Java , C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript , RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP , VB/VBS source files , SQL , Objective-C , CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua. What's new: Upgrade Scintilla from 1.77 to 1.78. Fix XML syntax highlighting bug while presence of the Script tag (Yes, finally). Fix Find in files/Find in all open files bug in non western languages (ie. Russian, Chinese, Hebrew...). Fix the find in files crash issue if find what field contains 0x0A or 0xD.

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VLC Media Player 1.0.0

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:45:40 +0000

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. Features: Free, Open Source and cross-platform Independant of systems codecs to support most video types Live recording Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support Finer speed controls New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...) New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...

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Orbit Downloader 2.8.14

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:39:36 +0000

Orbit Downloader is a download manager which 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 when operating the lists of Grabpro Fix: some bugs may cause Grab++ crash News source: Official website Download: Orbit Downloader 2.8.14

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Firefox to get added stability with multi-process browsing

Sam Symons — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:01:13 +0000

Multi-process browsing is quite handy; it is already enabled in Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, and it means that each page runs in a separate process which leads to added security and stability, because if one page goes bad, it doesn't affect the others. This new feature is now coming to Firefox users in the future, through a project Mozilla is calling Electrolysis, according to Ars Technica.

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TweakNow PowerPack 2009 v1.4.0100

priyo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:06:49 +0000

TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. The Registry Cleaner module provides you with a safe and simple way to clean Windows Registry. To keep your computer always at top performance, we recommend to clean your registry at least once a month. For Windows tweaking lovers, the suite provides more than 100 hidden Windows settings in the Windows Secret section. Using modules included in this section, you can easily customize your Windows like geeks do. The Virtual Desktop module lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements.

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XnView v1.96.2

shaz3e — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:47:43 +0000

XnView is freeware software that allows you to view and convert graphic files. It's very fast and easy to use. But more importantly it supports more than 400 graphics formats!

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�Torrent 1.8.3 Build 15772

shaz3e — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:46:08 +0000

�Torrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client. Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in �Torrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, �Torrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange. Resource-Friendly �Torrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all.

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All My Movies 5.5

bolide — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:42:57 +0000

Today the popular movie organizer for Windows has been updated. All My Movies lets you easily import movie details from the online movie databases, so you don't need to type all the detauils manually. You can quickly search your database via almost all database fields. Also, you can export your movie collection to HTML, CHM, XLS, PDF and text formats. The program allows to capture snapshots directly from your DVDs or AVI files and save them to your database. Here is the list of recent changes: added Loan history.

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Image Tuner 1.1

x_Jack_x — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:31:41 +0000

Image Tuner is a free software for batch resizing, converting, watermarking and renaming your digital photos and images from more than 20 image formats to JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats. The program will help you to prepare your digital photos to upload and publish them in the Internet or send via e-mail. What's new: + Added support of more than 20 new image formats (DICOM, Targa / Wireless Bitmap etc.) + Added support of camera RAW files (CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, DCR, X3F, ORF ...) * Increased loading speed of image preview * Improved user interface Download: Image Tuner 1.1 | Freeware, 1.5MB Screenshot: >> Click here

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