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The webPod allows you to play MP3s on your website. Simply download the webPod, upload your MP3 files and modify the XML.
Known supported browers:
- Firefox 1.0+ (Windows & Mac)
- Internet Explorer 5.0+ (Windows)
- Netscape 8.0+ (Windows & Mac)
- Mozilla 1.7.5+ (Windows & Mac)
- Safari 1.3+ (Mac)
Download: webPod
i.Ftp is a little graphical FTP/SFTP client, which does what I need in an FTP client without the size and fuss.
i.Ftp is designed to work from portable media like USB keys as well. It doesn’t store anything in the registry and will find it’s resource files and options via relative paths. A full install is about 900kb so it doesn’t eat up much space on your portable storage. If you don’t need SFTP support then you can delete libssh.dll and libeay32.dll to make it even smaller!
Download: i.Ftp 2.11
ALZip is the easiest to use, most powerful, and by far the cutest compression utility available. The friendly and unpretentious interface of ALZip gives you instant access to raw archiving power.
Features
• No Time Limits
• 100% Full Functionality
• 36 archive and compression file formats
• Open CD burning file formats: ISO and BIN
• Open virtual CD files: LCD
• Password retrieval
• Create SFX (EXE) file for FREE
• Create spanned archives over 2600 volumes
• Command Line : Automate repetitive tasks
• Unlimited archive size with ALZ
• FREE for home users
• And LOTS more…
Download: ALZip 7.0 Beta 1 | ALZip 6.7 Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Music sales at Apple’s iTunes store recently surpassed Target and Amazon.com, and now iTunes has sold its three billionth song.
Apple announced today that its iTunes store has sold its three billionth song, putting another feather in the cap of Steve Jobs’ “experiment” with digital music. Music sales via the iTunes store recently surpassed both Amazon.com and Target, making iTunes, the third largest music retailer in the United States.
Read more: digitaltrends.com
XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name “XMPlay”.
Linux, Mac OSX or PocketPC user? Want to enjoy the same quality MOD playback as XMPlay users? You can… BASSMOD.
Download: XMPlay 3.4.2.1 Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Optimum Data Recovery Software for FAT can recover accidental deleted files and folders from FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. Download the software and recover your vital data files and folders quickly and easily.
Optimum Recovery NTFS (Formatted) has been launched by Optimum Data Recovery, Inc. which recovers data from a formatted Windows NTFS drive in a short duration of time. The data recovery tool ensures data retrieval from formatted and corrupted drive. This freeware recovery software recovers all the files and directories within minutes.
Optimum Recovery NTFS (Formatted) data recovery software recovers critical data lost due to any reason of drive format.
Download: Optimum Recovery NTFS 1.0
Noah is a new concept in Internet data management software that integrates email, Web pages, RSS feeds, contacts, scheduling, Web based applications, desktop application files and other data into a single, customizable, easy to use client interface.
Operating System: Windows XP
Download: Noah 1.0
PCAnalyzer is an advanced small tool that analyzes various Registry keys searching for “suspicious” values. PCAnalyzer doesn’t search for a specific badware, it simply lists the keys that can have been modified.
PCAnalyzer’s main features:
· Registry Scan and Fix
· Processes management
· Undeletable files
· It’s free
Download: PCAnalyzer 0.1.2.1
Finjan, a developer of Web security products, has found what has to be the nastiest of malware yet because it inserts itself into a legitimate online banking transaction that’s supposed to be protected by SSL encryption.
The company is calling this new form of thievery “crimeware,” as if we needed another term to keep straight, but it’s nasty stuff. In just the month of July, Finjan identified 58 criminals using the MPack toolkit to infect over 500,000 unique users.
MPack may be the most dangerous malware development kit seen yet. It is a PHP-based kit produced by Russian hackers for building mostly keylogging software. It’s actually sold and supported by the Russians, complete with a service contract for new versions, and is upgraded every two to four weeks. It’s not the first time a service contract has been offered for software that supports the spread of malware.
Full article: internetnews.com
Microsoft has released the new version of Microsoft Works as a free, ad supported office package that will compete directly with Open Office and Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
The Works package offers word processing, spreadsheet and slide (powerpoint) functionality partially based on code from older versions of Microsoft Office.
Read more: techcrunch.com
Convolver is an open source high performance Windows application for applying long FIR filters to multi-channel digital audio in the form of
a real time DSP audio plug-in (DMO) for Windows Media Player. The install package also contains two DirectX/DirectShow filter versions — ConvolverWrapper or the equivalent ConvolverFilter — for Adobe Audition and real time applications such as Zoom Player Pro, TheaterTek 2.2, Windows Media Player Classic, J.River Media Center (when used with the DirectX host plug-in), or Console.
Convolver will take a set of impulse response (FIR filter) files and convolve them with sound paths mixed from the input channels, mixing the results into a set of specified output channels.
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Right now, there are four basic things you can send: messages, links, files, and events.
You might send an event out to a dozen of your friends letting them know you’re hosting a party this Friday. They could easily get the event details you entered, respond with questions or comments and then quickly rsvp.
Say you had a great photo you wanted to share with all of your friends. Just add the file and all of your friends will get it right away. They’ll be able to reply and tell you if it’s cool. You could even post songs you recorded in your home studio to share with your friends.
The software is available right now for Windows and Mac users and will available for Linux soon too. It takes advantage of a new technology from Adobe called AIR, which is super useful.
Requires: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Download: Pownce Alpha 2
Next version of the ubiquitous desktop OS will be a full-scale upgrade
Microsoft is aiming to release the next version of its desktop operating system, now dubbed Windows 7, in 2010. Few details are yet available regarding the forthcoming platform but reports suggest it may now be a major release instead of the interim update previously planned.
The next version of the Windows client was formerly called Vienna and was intended to be a minor upgrade for Windows Vista. At a recent global sales conference in Florida, Microsoft disclosed it is gearing up for a full-scale upgrade in three years’ time, barring any setbacks during development.
“We are scoping development of Windows 7 to an approximately three-year timeframe, with the specific release date ultimately determined by meeting our quality bar,” Microsoft said.
Full article: itweek.co.uk
BBC iPlayer Beta will let you download a wide range of BBC television programmes for free from the last seven days.
The programmes you choose to download are stored in your BBC iPlayer Library on your computer for up to 30 days. You then have up to seven days to watch them. Once you download them you don’t have to be on the internet to watch them when it suits you. We’re still testing BBC iPlayer and making improvements and for that we need your help. If you’re based in the UK and aged over 16, you can apply to join the BBC iPlayer Beta and be part of one of the most exciting new developments in broadcasting.
Requirements: Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 browser (or later), Windows Media Player 10 (or later). Currently, BBC iPlayer Beta isn’t available for Apple Macintosh computers or Microsoft Windows Vista. You also need to be based in the UK.
Download: BBC iPlayer Beta
At first glance, Quicksilver is a launcher.
When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each. When not in use, Quicksilver vanishes, waiting for the next time you summon it.
Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting
Quicksilver can be given the ability to understand the data inside of files, allowing you to work with data in new, faster ways. Plug-ins add both new items and new actions, allowing you to run scripts, send instant messages, dial phone numbers, look up words in a dictionary, queue up songs in iTunes party shuffle, and much, much more.
Frequently used commands can be bound to triggers, giving you the ability to execute them immediately by hitting a hot key or using the mouse on a corner or edge of the screen.
In the end, Quicksilver has one very important effect: the effort of frequent tasks fades into the background and you are able to act without thinking. After an adaptation period, Quicksilver becomes an extension of yourself; the process fades away leaving only the results.
Download: Quicksilver β51 for Mac OS X
Microsoft will offer a Windows Live installer that will download and install software that will allow access to multiple online services, according to the president of the software company’s platform and services division.
During his presentation to financial analysts on Thursday, Kevin Johnson said the company would begin beta testing the product this summer.
Read more: ZDNet.co.uk
This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.
This package is localized into Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, and English.
Download: DirectX Redistributable (August 2007)
Wikia, the company created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has acquired the Grub distributed indexing system from LookSmart and is preparing to distribute Grub’s code under an open source license. Wikia plans to use Grub for its user-driven search engine, which is still under development.
Originally created in 2000, Grub leverages the distributed computing model to crawl the web and index pages. Users install a specialized client application on their computer, which then automatically performs indexing while idle and transmits page data back to a centralized repository. In this manner, volunteers will contribute the raw computing power that performs the indexing.
Full article: Ars Technica
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