Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.
WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft high performance Visual Experience Engine and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelenghts: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.
System requirements: Windows XP/Vista.
Download: Microsoft WorldWide Telescope 2.1.8.1 Beta
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The portable file archiver
PeaZip Portable is the PeaZip file archiver packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.
Download: PeaZip Portable 2.1
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Remember AllofMP3.com, the infamous Russian music download store that was shut down on several occasions only to respawn every time? Well, it appears that after US diplomats last year pressured Russia to shut the site down or face denied entry to the WTO, AllofMP3.com finally went down for good – sort of.
That apparently satisfied the RIAA, which said it has dropped its $1.65 trillion copyright infringement lawsuit against MediaServices, the site’s owner, and declared victory.
Full story: techspot.com
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Addressido is an portable address book which is easy to use and can be transported using a memory stick or a different means of removable storage. The addresses can be diveded into several categories.
Each address can be listed with any number of activities i.e. phonecalls, letters or personal meetings. For this reason Addressido is also ideally suited for business purposes.
You can use and share Addressido (e.g. in magazines or via internet) free of charge as long as the extent and content of the original package is not modified. Addressido do not contain spyware, advertising or integrated limitations.
Addressido is real freeware!
System Requirements
• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Download: Addressido 1.1
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Get in the know and stay there
The new MSN Toolbar lets you:
• See highlights of popular MSN channels quickly
• Stay up to date without leaving the Web page you’re on
• Get late-breaking news headlines at your fingertips
• Use handy search tools to find exactly what you need
MSN Toolbar System Requirements:
- 512 MB of RAM or more
- A 500 MHz processor or faster
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32-bit Version only) or Windows Vista
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later (32-bit Version only)
Download: MSN Toolbar 3.0
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Google today sped ahead in the web search domain once again with the release of the Google Earth API. Yes, the recent improvements to Live Maps were impressive, but today the search giant has put Google Earth into the browser. Microsoft made this move first, completely disregarding Google’s client release of Google Earth, with its Virtual Earth API and browser plug-in. Google’s Windows-only release today seems to focus on 3D, and speed. The performance is noticeably superior to Microsoft’s, but there are still obvious kinks that need to be worked out.
Read more: arstechnica.com
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
jetAudio is an integrated multimedia player. It plays various multimedia files in one player. JetAudio will satisfy both convenience and expertise. It supports All Major File Formats: MP3, RealAudio/Video,QuickTime,QuickTime, MIDI, WAV, Ogg,Apple Audio, Monkey’s Audio, MODs, Audio CD, Video CD, DVD…
jetAudio once again redefines what a digital player should be. jetAudio give you the best digital audio/video experience ever as well as the easy-to-use skinnable interface.
jetAudio 7 Basic is definitely freeware without some advanced features of jetAudio Plus.
Download: jetAudio 7.1.1 Basic
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
JumpBox for the Wordpress Blogging System
Wordpress is the leading Open Source blogging platform that has rocketed to popularity thanks to its open design and powerful feature set. An extremely popular Open Source application, Wordpress is used extensively around the world. As far as Open Source web software goes it’s known as being fairly easy to install, but it’s only easy if you already have a full LAMP deployment stack at your disposal. The JumpBox for Wordpress contains everything required, there’s no worrying about creating a database or installing PHP. Simply download and run.
This JumpBox is based on the 1.1 JumpBox Platform and includes a backup system that supports archiving the state of the JumpBox to NFS, Windows File Shares and Amazon S3.
Download: Wordpress Blogging JumpBox 1.1.2
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
RetroShare Instant Messenger is the next generation sharing network, which provides:
- A private Peer to Peer (P2P) Network which allows you to share information with only the friends you want to: So actually this Instant Messenger is a Friends-to-Friends Network.
- Retroshare Instant Messenger offers reliable Identification and Authentication of your trusted friends (RSA-Keys).
- An Introduction Scheme to bootstrap your friends over a Distributed Hash Table (DHT), which connects you your friends and facilitates network growth by easy connecting. Friends of Friends never connect.
- Because you connect direct and enryepted only to your trusted friends, it is a fast and safe transfer of files. No other open and serverless Instant Messenger has such enhanced Filesharing capabilities like you find here.
- Encrypted Communication, ensuring all shared information is known only to you and your trusted friends (neighbour peers).
- A Communication Platform which can potentially support services such as Secure Email to all of your friends, File Sharing, Video or Voice over IP and of course Instant Messaging.
- Roundabout, it is a decentralised (serverless), open source, social Sharing Network designed *for Friends* with no dependancies on any corporate system or central servers.
Download: RetroShare Instant Messenger 0.4.08a
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
A wake up call for open source developers, Gartner warns
The recent discovery of a potentially serious Secure Socket Layer (SSL) flaw affecting a popular Linux distribution should act as a wake up call to the open source community, experts warn.
John Pescatore, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, called for open source developers and their vendor counterparts to improve communications processes to address the flaw that could lead to the exposure of encrypted data.
The Sans Institute issued a ‘yellow alert’ on 16 May over the SSL vulnerability in some Debian distros.
Read more: vnunet.com
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust,
state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.
Feedreader offers advanced, cutting-edge capabilities, including the most comprehensive podcasting support available today, as well as unique smartfeed technology that puts the information you need right at your fingertips.
Feedreader provides users with a seamless and convenient experience - without the need for advanced technical knowledge - by delivering the broadest range of features through a simple, easy-to-use interface.
Download: Feedreader 3.13 | Feedreader Development
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Evermotion Communicator is a multiprotocol instant messaging application. The networks supported include: ICQ, Yahoo!, Skype, AIM, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Jabber, and LAN Talks (chat in local network).
Evermotion Communicator works under Windows XP and Vista, both 32 and 64 bit versions.
Download: Evermotion Communicator 2.0
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
XModuleSB is an application designed for use with the XM Satellite Radio Online (XMRO) service, providing an alternate, Windows-based interface by which users may access the streaming content of the service and enhance their listening experience through use of customized functionality.
The XModuleSB application is completely free.
Download: XModuleSB 2.3.1.0 Windows XP
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
PDF Merge is a free tool for merging pdf documents.
Download: PDF Merge 0.1
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data.
The way people use the Internet has changed significantly over the past 10 years, making computers seem to run less efficiently and putting strain on the available bandwidth for transmitting data.
Since 1998, the percentage of Internet traffic devoted to the download and upload of large blocks of information using P2P software has increased from less than 10 percent to greater than 70 percent in many networks. By contrast, Web browsing now accounts for 20 percent and e-mail less than 5 percent of total Internet traffic, down from 60 and 10 percent respectively, in 1998.
Professors Avi Silberschatz, Y. Richard Yang, and Ph.D. candidate Haiyong Xie in Yale’s Department of Computer Science are part of a research team that is proposing an architecture called P4P — which stands for “provider portal for P2P applications” — to allow explicit and seamless communications between ISPs and P2P applications.
Full article: sciencedaily.com
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Traffic Shaper XP is a free bandwidth limiter for Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server. It combines high performance traffic shaping with the ease of use and flexibility to keep your network free of congestion.
Features
· Speed limiting for bandwidth-intensive applications and protocols
· Flexible address and port filtering
· Acknowledgement prioritization to speed up congested links
· Real-time traffic monitoring and stream statistics
· 100% Freeware
Requires Windows 2000, XP or 2003 Server
Download: Traffic Shaper XP 1.21
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Actually, Copiepresse is suing Google for publishing and storing their content without permission, but what they obviously don’t understand is that when Google News publishes your headline and a short excerpt linking to the original article, that’s fair use, and it’s a good thing because it sends you tons of traffic.
This is an old story; and if you’ve been following it closely, you know that Google had already lost once. Copiepresse only wanted their content to be removed from Google News and Google.be, however, now they want money - anywhere between 51.7 and 77.5 million dollars will do.
Read more: mashable.com
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The Windows SideShow Managed Runtime 1.0 installs the runtime components that are required to run gadgets for Windows SideShow using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Ultimate
Download: Windows SideSHow Managed Runtime 1.0
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
avc1Decoder is an libavcodec based QuickTime Media Decompressor component. Supports avc1, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Media. Supports some H.264 Main/Hi-Profile features. Source codes are included, It is free software under GPL V2. Uses libavcodec.a and others from ffmpeg SVN. (Universal Binary)
Download: avc1Decoder 0.7.6 for Mac OS X
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