Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
fring up your iPhone with this pre-release, development version and discover the freedom of taking all of your fring®, Skype®, MSN®, Google Talk™, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo!™ & AIM® buddies mobile on your iPhone, allowing you to make free calls over WiFi & enjoy rich, IM-style chat with them using internet connection.
All you need to start enjoying the pre-release fring for iPhone is an “opened” iPhone with the Installer and a WiFi access.
And fring is free to download, free to use!
Download: fring for iPhone 0.9785 Pre-release | fring for mobile
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video conversation with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
ooVoo is remarkably easy to use: easy to download, easy to install, and best of all: it’s FREE!
ooVoo is the new way to communicate online: More expressive face-to-face conversations come alive with high-quality video and audio, making mere talk, email or chat a thing of the past.
ooVoo…now you see!
System Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Download: ooVoo 1.6.1.12 for Windows
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Introducing PaltalkSceneExpress alpha—It’s PaltalkScene, but web-based! Oh! And did we mention it works on Macs too?
PaltalkSceneExpress includes a lot of the great PaltalkScene features you love and we’re working feverishly to get the rest in.
Features coming soon:
· Publish your webcam into a chat room or SuperIM
· View the webcam videos of other Paltalk users
· Create your own chat room
· Upload your home movies and watch them in a chat room with friends
· Interoperability with AIM, ICQ and Yahoo messengers
Download: PaltalkScene Express Alpha
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives.
Requirements: Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4/Me/98/95 (x86/x64)
Download: CrystalDiskMark 2.1.5b
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs —- It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM. MagicDisc is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time. Partner with MagicISO, Your original games/program discs can be safely stored away, MagicISO mean that you always have your expensive media stored safely as CD/DVD image file on your hard drive, and use them with MagicDisc just like using the original discs. At the office: Program discs and many other applications generally require the original disc to be in the computer’s CD-ROM drive. This restricts the amount of people in your office who can have access to the same software at the same time without the cost of additional discs. MagicDisc virtual drives resolve that problem for you. No more hunting around the offices for that elusive disc you need to run your application, everything you require is just a click away.
Download: MagicDisc 2.7 Build 97 Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista, Windows XP/2003/Vista x64 Edition
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
IceClean is a powerful System optimization tool using ONLY built-in Unix system tasks to help your Mac stay healthy and to keep it running smoothly.
IceClean is now completely renewed in Scripting and Cocoa Interface for help you in faster and useful Tasks Managing of All Unix Power.
Version 3.0b
- Mac OSX 10.5.1 (Leopard) full support.
- Powered Programming Structure.
- New GUI restructured.
- Updated Unix Code Structure (ie. LaunchServices)
- More Utilities features (Full Users Infos, Font Caches Cleanup, Speed Up Dashboard Opening, AFP Connection Name Option, Time Machine ‘Backup Now’ Option, OSX 10.5 Dock Customization, Allow or Prohibit to empty Trashes ).
- Now Results WIndow is Opened, so you can control IceClean results even after window changing.
Download: IceClean 3.0b for Mac OS X
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
NVIDIA Gelato rendering software brings high-quality rendering to the masses. A hardware-accelerated, non-real-time renderer, Gelato allows you to use your NVIDIA GPU to create stunning images fast. Originally designed for the creation of 3D visual effects and animation in feature films, Gelato can be used by anyone with NVIDIA hardware to create images of the very highest quality.
Gelato is a software program that leverages the NVIDIA GPU as a floating point math processor. This allows Gelato to render images faster than comparable renderers, but without the quality limitations traditionally associated with real-time graphics processing on the GPU.
Gelato is available free of charge. Now students, freelancers, startups, and small studios can take advantage of a high-end renderer with the capabilities of renderers costing thousands of dollars.
Operating System: Windows XP, RedHat Linux 7.2+, RedHat Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux ES, SuSE Linux Desktop
Download: NVIDIA Gelato 2.2 Release 1 | NVIDIA Gelato 2.0
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Via MacRumors, a pair of discoveries have been found in the latest iterations Mac OS X and the iPhone SDK that suggest Apple’s .Mac service is about to undergo a long overdue transition into something that people might actually use. Dmitry Chestnykh of CodingRobots first found evidence of the apparent rebranding in 10.5.3 with multiple instances of placeholders like this one in iCal:
/* Label of .Mac button in iCal’s General preferences. %@ is the new name of Apple’s online service (was .Mac) (remove -XX02)
Also from CodingRobots, a more explicit reference can be found in the iPhoneSimulator SDK, a "MOBILE_ME_SERVICE_NAME" string. That name can also be found outside the iPhone.
Full article: arstechnica.com
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Firefox has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. And it’s easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.
Download: Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 pre
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
X-Firefox is a portable version of Firefox® (registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation) made portable by winPenPack.
Download: X-Firefox 2.0.0.14 (english version)
Posted in Browsers, Portable Apps | No Comments »
Friday, May 30th, 2008
SiS UniVGA5 graphics driver
· Version: v 5.12
· Release Date: 2008-05-28
· Support Products: SiS671FX, SiS671, SiSM671, SiSM671MX, SiS672FX, SiS672, SiSM672MX, SiSM672
· File Size: 15,058KB
· Support OS: Windows Vista Basic/Premium
Download: SiS UniVGA5 graphics driver 5.12
Posted in Drivers, Windows Vista | No Comments »
Friday, May 30th, 2008
mp3DirectCut is a non-destructive audio editor and recorder for MP3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files into a pcm format. This saves encoding time and preserves the original audio quality, because absolutely nothing must be re-encoded.
The built in recorder lets you create MP3s “on the fly” from every source. Using the Cue sheet support or the pause detection and the split function you can easily divide longer files, e.g. CD images.
mp3DirectCut is very fast and gives you extensive edit functionality:
MP3 visualisation and VU meter - Easy navigation - Fading, volume setting, normalizing - Pause detection - Direct recording of MP3 (ACM and Lame encoder supported) - Layer 2 support - ID3v1.1 support - Cue Sheet support
System requirements
· Windows or Linux with Wine
· MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll
· For MP3 recording: Lame encoder DLL or ACM
Download: mp3DirectCut 2.09
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Richly-featured productivity tools that are intuitive to use and compatible with your files.
IBM Lotus Symphony – which is available at no charge – has something for everyone, like a community-oriented site with tips, a template gallery and support to help you succeed. Businesses can gain more control over spiraling upgrade costs, while still protecting, accessing and maintaining documents well into the future. And for developers, Lotus Symphony tools support Microsoft Windows and Office applications, which means you can get even more from your current investments.
Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you’re not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!
With Lotus Symphony, you can import, edit and save a variety of file formats including Microsoft Office files. You can even export your documents to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The tools work with computers running both Microsoft Windows and Linux- environments, with support for Apple Macintosh planned for the future.
Download: IBM Lotus Symphony 1 Windows, Linux
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Convert to PDF from any application by simply ‘printing’ to the PrimoPDF printer - it couldn’t be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and virtually any other printable file type.
- FREE PDF Converter - not a trial version.
- Print to PDF from virtually any application.
- Create PDF output optmized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.
- No annoying pop-up ads, no registration requirement - no catch!
- High-quality, easy to use PDF creator for all users.
- Ability to merge and append PDF files upon conversion.
- Supports Windows Vista.
Download: PrimoPDF 4.0.2
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Wednesday, at Google’s I/O Event, the company demonstrated their Android prototype phone, a device which has been greatly improved since its last public outing at this year’s CES and Mobile World conferences. Today, Android looks classy enough that you half-expected them to pull a Steve Jobs and announce that you could run out and buy it right now. During the demo, the company showed off some of the applications that will run on Android - like a Google Maps Street View app that drew cheers from the crowd. From the buzz surrounding the Google Phone at this event, it’s clear that Android has a shot at knocking that other touchscreen phone off its pedestal.
Full article: readwriteweb.com
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The Ultimate CD/DVD and BD/HD DVD data recovery software !
Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD or a Blu Ray disc (e.g. BD or HD DVD) ! Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, …
IsoBuster can do it all !
IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use optical media data recovery tool. It supports all optical disc formats and all common optical disc file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to “the complete picture”. Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.
Combine this all-revealing functionality with far better read and recovery mechanisms, scanning for lost files functionality, workarounds for a wide range of drive and software bugs, limitations or shortcomings and you have an enormously powerful data recovery tool.
This application will work under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP & Vista (Home - Ultimate), 32 and 64 bit versions of the OS.
Download: IsoBuster 2.4
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends - just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine.
VMware Player makes it quick and easy to take advantage of the security, flexibility, and portability of virtual machines.
Key Features of VMware Player
• Run any virtual machine. Run virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server. VMware Player also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats.
• Access host PC devices. Use host CD/DVD drives, network adapters, and plug-and-play USB devices.
Copy and paste. Copy text and files between the virtual machine and the host PC.
• Drag and drop. Drag and drop files between a Windows host PC and a Windows virtual machine.
• Multiple networking options. Virtual machines can share or obtain new IP addresses or be isolated from the network and host.
• 32- and 64-bit host and guest operating system support. Run a wide variety of virtual machines containing 32- and 64-bit operating systems simultaneously on the same physical PC. Compatible 64-bit guest operating systems include select Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE, and FreeBSD distributions.
• Adjustable memory. Tune virtual machine memory for optimal performance.
• Configurable shutdown. Power down or suspend the virtual machine when closing VMware Player.
Download: VMware Player 2.0.4 Build 93057 Windows, Linux
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
QuickZip features no ads, no spyware and has been a completely free archiver since 1999.
Features
Open all kinds of archives
· Allows you to work with 22 encode and encryption formats and 44 archive extensions. Including the popular 7z format.
Script support
· Run automated backups and other operations using the powerful aks and akp scripts.
Advanced file list
· Advanced file list support, including the highlighting of files that match the user defined filter.
· Thumbnail support to display all pictures in the archive.
Shell integration
· Drag and drop files and directories from file list to explorer to extract or add.
· Context menu support to provide operations directly from the menu, without having to start the main program.
Bookmarks
· Allows you to add archive bookmarks which perform like your browser bookmarks. You can organize your bookmarks into folders.
Tons of tools
· Search in Archive - Search files in archives based on the name, directory, size and date.
· Archive Finder - Look for archives by searching for the files that you are looking for.
· Multi Extract - Allows you to extract multiple archives at the same time.
· Virus Scan Support - Automatically scan for viruses every time you extract using your anti virus software or the included free Clam-AV plugin.
· Mass Renamer - Simple but powerful tool that allows you to rename a group of files using masks.
· Encryption - You can encrypt using Blowfish, Des, 3Dex and Aes encoding methods.
· Other tools including Repair Zip, Archive Convert, SFX and Disk Span.
Download: QuickZip 4.60.019 | Quick Zip Lite 3.00.3072
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs.
It allows you to organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications will be closed automatically.
Main features:
· Organize and launch applications via a tray menu
· Automatically closes running applications on USB-Sticks
· Checks if an application has been changed before execution
· Runs on USB-Sticks without leaving any traces on a host PC
· Portable Start Menu is Freeware
Download: Portable Start Menu 2.0
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