Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
FileCommander 5 is a huge freeware file explorer. It is the latest version of the FileCommander-family. The known 2-window mode was expended to 4-window mode. Here is a small feature list:
• four operating windows for fast browsing
• big file preview to have a quick view in almost every kind of file
• ZIP, 7zip and RAR files are handled as folders, ZIP files are supported without the need of any external dll
• no installation required, you can run FileCommander from USB-drives, hard disc drives, CD-ROMs, …
• internal tool list to have quick-access to every important software on your system
• internal script engine: create your own script and individualize FileCommander for your needs
• internal, self-written file copy engine for fast file operations.
• fast file search for searching for any kind of file
• lots of small file utilities (e.g. file splitting)
• internal file context menu for having quick-access to every important FileCommander - feature
• internal clipboard: the windows clipboard will not be overwritten by selecting and copying files to the clipboard
• file highlighting to separate different file types optically
• every file access is threaded, you can continue working while FileCommander processes the executed operations (I hate explorers, which hang up only because my CD-drive is spinning up)
• Multi-language support (which finally works perfect)
Download: FileCommander 5.0.9.130 Beta 3 | FileCommander 4.6.2.3749
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
BitTorrent site can use Last.fm API
Last.fm, the music recommendation site owned by US media conglomerate CBS, has today given Pirate Bay the thumbs up to use its servers to add radio streams to BitTorrent searches.
The Swedish anti-copyright site has added a Last.fm widget to results pages as part of a new drop-down of extra information on artists.
A spokesman for London-based Last.fm told The Reg that while it would not seek to endorse Pirate Bay, it has no control over who uses its API.
Even if it did, to stop Pirate Bay wouldn’t be “in the spirit of” the API, he said.
Full story: theregister.co.uk
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Split Browser splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on.
You can split browsers over and over. Status of split browsers are saved, and automatically restored on the next startup.
Requires Mozilla Firefox
Download: Split Browser 0.4.2007120101
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
MSConfig, a tool coming with Windows includes a basic startup manager which allows you to enable/disable auto-start programs. It does not however allow you to completely remove an entry from the list.
This is where MSConfig Cleanup comes in! It scans the startup configurations and allows you to remove any item that has been previously disabled via MSConfig. Try it. It’s Free!
Download: MSConfig Cleanup 1.5
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Zoom Player Mobile is a special version of Zoom Player designed for mobile devices (U3 Flash Drives).
Zoom Player simplifies the media playback experience for the common user, using an automatic decoder detection system and media playback configuration tools. This, while giving power users the tools and interfaces they require to enhance their playback environment.
Zoom Player is fully scalable, supporting every media format and display technology.
System Requirements: U3 smart drive, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
Download: Zoom Player Mobile 5.0
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Boston (dbTechno) - Police in New Zealand have arrested an 18-year-old teenager who they state was the leader of a global cyber crime network, responsible for over one million hacking jobs.
According to reports the cyber crime network has infiltrated over one million computers and managed to take millions of dollars from various bank accounts of people, by skimming money off of the top of their accounts.
Read more: dbtechno.com
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The leading open-source PHP framework has a flexible architecture that lets you easily build modern web applications and web services.
Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.
Expanding on these core themes, we have implemented Zend Framework to embody extreme simplicity & productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple corporate-friendly licensing, and an agile well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend upon.
Download: Zend Framework 1.0.3
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Microsoft has issued an update for Office Mobile to enable compatibility with Office 2007 documents.
Office 2007 introduced a new file format based on the controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) specification, for which Microsoft has been trying — seemingly in vain — to gain global acceptance. The would-be standard’s main competitor is the fully open-source OpenDocument Format (ODF).
Read more: ZDNet.co.ukw
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
CommandBurner is a free CD/DVD burning software utility that can be executed from the command line, as well as through a simple interface.
CommandBurner can be executed from the command line, or through any method that passes command line arguments. Simple options allow you to burn, erase, load and eject CDs and DVDs.
This makes CommandBurner suitable for integration with programs, scripts and batch files. We imagine that CommandBurner would be useful for tasks such as scripting backups to CD/DVD, but feel free to find other reasons to use it!
For added convenience, CommandBurner can also be opened in console mode, allowing the user to perform the same CD/DVD burning operations using a simple point-and-click interface.
Download: CommandBurner 3.5.0
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Yahoo upgrades its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe’s Flash multimedia display technology.
Yahoo is releasing an upgrade to its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe’s Flash multimedia display technology.
Widgets are lightweight applications that provide desktop access to various types of content, such as news feeds or reminders. Featured in the upgrade is a new version of the Yahoo Widget Engine, which is a runtime environment that allows the widgets to run on a desktop, and an updated Yahoo Widget Gallery, offering more than 4,000 widgets, Yahoo said.
Read more: pcworld.com
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Equal opportunity pwner
A US-based security researcher has published a single piece of code that can remotely compromise both PCs and Macs as long as they are running Apple’s QuickTime media player.
The exploit is at least the fourth to target a newly discovered security flaw in the way QuickTime interacts with servers that stream audio and video. Up until now, the exploits have only targeted machines running Windows operating systems, but Lorenzo Hernandez, the researcher who prefers to go by the name Larry, says his exploit also targets Tiger and Leopard versions of OS X running on both Intel-made processors or older machines that use the PowerPC chip.
Full story: theregister.co.uk
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
K-Lite MOV Download Tool is a tool for downloading QuickTime files from various websites.
This tool acts as a proxy between those QuickTime ‘buttons’, which you can find on various websites (mostly for HD content), and the QuickTime Player. The URLs are intercepted by the tool and it presents you a list of actions to choose from.
This tool is also able to extract URLs from .qtl files. Those can be found on for example the Yahoo! movie site.
Download: K-Lite MOV Download Tool 1.0.4
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends.
System Requirements: Windows XP, Mac OS X.
Download: vSide Beta 2 | The Lounge Forums
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
illumio is a new way to stay informed and connected in a web world that is exploding with social networks, blogs, news, and other content. illumio frees you from manually tracking everything you care about on the Web: instead, illumio monitors the feeds you choose and groups you join and delivers to you only what’s important to you. Because illumio runs on your PC, illumio can privately determine what information matches your interests and then alert you directly on your desktop.
illumio groups are the only kind of social network where questions from other members reach you only when you’re the right person to respond. You can comfortably send out your own questions to an illumio group knowing that people who match will receive them privately, and nobody else will be annoyed by spam. illumio groups are unique because they actively engage each member at just the right moment, giving everyone the opportunity to share their talent, expertise, and information when they want and how they want.
No annoying ad pop-ups. No spyware or malware. Your privacy is always respected.
Operating System: Windows 200/XP/2003/Vista
Download: illumio 2.1.13
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The 3G iPhone has been naught but a rumor until AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson opened his mouth recently and spilled the beans. Oh, how Steve Jobs must be fuming right now. All Stephenson would commit to is “next year”, but that’s enough for many.
Though the iPhone has been a good seller since its June 29 debut, there are many who have decided against purchasing it because it is limited to EDGE data networks and can’t access faster 3G wireless data speeds. Looks like they won’t have to wait too much longer before a 3G version of the iPhone becomes available.
Full article: informationweek.com
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today’s multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X).
Thanks to it’s ANSI C interface, FreeImage is usable in many languages including C, C++, VB, C#, Delphi, Java and also in common scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, TCL or Ruby.
The library comes in two versions: a binary DLL distribution that can be linked against any WIN32 C/C++ compiler and a source distribution. Workspace files for Microsoft VC++ 6 and VS.Net 2003 are provided, as well as makefiles for Linux and Mac OS X.
Download: FreeImage 3.10.0
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Company comes clean on retail site outage
Yahoo is attempting to placate members of its Small Business Merchant programme after an outage left many sellers unable to process orders on the busiest online shopping day of the year.
The programme allows users to set up and maintain online stores and process payments.
But problems began at 6am US Pacific time when Yahoo said that systems which power the service went down.
As a result, merchants were unable to process orders and users were unable to make purchases.
Read more: vnunet.com
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
MicroAdobe PDF Reader is a professional reader for PDF documents. You can zoom in/out or rotate page display, copy text information to other applications, search text in PDF documents, or print PDF documents.
MicroAdobe PDF Reader 5.0 supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Download: MicroAdobe PDF Reader 5.4 Build 71125
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
SymLab and its add-ons combine to form an easy-to-use Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software system that can help you assess the performance of your 3D model.
Using SymLab add-ons you can create any 2D or 3D geometry or import your geometry from another CAD package. Then simulate how a gas (e.g. air) or liquid (e.g. water) will flow over and through your geometry.
SymLab is simple to learn and efficient to use. You can study how the physics of your model changes over time or as you modify your model in real time. SymLab’s unified simulation environment makes it easy to change your model on the fly and quickly see the results of your changes.
SymLab is FREE
Download: SymLab 1.1
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