Archives: Windows
Firefox 4 Beta 1 hits the road
Mozilla has finally released the first beta for Firefox 4, you can now download and test this beta release, the very first of a series of betas that bring many improvements to the popular brown browser. As already reported, Firefox 4 that will be officially released at the end of the year is a major update, much of the Firefox of this browser depends on this release. More»
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VLC Portable 1.1.0 for your Pen Drive
VLC media player 1.1.0 with hard acceleration and WebM support was officially released yesterday for Mac, Linux and Windows OS. The no-install version for Windows platforms, a carbon copy of the original is now available for your portable drives. It takes only 21MB of your drive and can be run on systems with previous versions.
VLC Portable 1.1.0 is a free download released under the Open Source (GPL) license.
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uTorrent 3.0 Alpha BitTorrent Client Released
The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released a preview of its next major update uTorrent 3.0. Falcon 2.1 (encrypted webUI that doesn’t require port forwarding) and standard 2.1 alphas have now been merged into uTorrent 3.0 Alpha for testing and the uTorrent 2.1 development series has been dropped. More»
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Block adult web content with OpenDNS FamilyShield [No Install]
OpenDNS has launched an easy to setup service called FamilyShield that allows parents, administrators, users to filter web content and keep their computers free from adult web sites. This free service that needs no account to configure, no downloads or software to install works much like how OpenDNS Basic does. More»
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Integrated PDF Viewer in Google Chrome
Google Chrome developers have been working with the web community, you&me, to define a “next generation browser plug-in API” that has now been deployed to improve the way we view and interact with PDF files in Google Chrome. Just like the native Flash Player plug-in introduced to Chrome months ago, a native PDF plug-in has landed on the Dev channel of Chrome. More»
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Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
Google Chrome stable channel has been updated to version 5.0.375.7 on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Many major security issues have been addressed in this release, such as; More»
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Firefox 3.6.4 Release Candidate available to Download
Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection for ‘out of process plug-ins’ gets closer to the final release and leaves beta. The first release candidate of Firefox 3.6.4 is now available to download and public testing. This version fixes 202 bugs found in previous beta builds of Firefox 3.6.4 – 23 are marked as critical. If no issues are found during testing this build will be officially released as Firefox 3.6.4 final in the coming weeks. More»
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Firefox Wallpaper Rotator for your Desktop
They are many wallpaper switchers out there and several have been presented on this blog, such as Wally, my preferred desktop wallpaper rotator for Ubuntu but what makes this one particular is that its a nifty Firefox extension, an easy to configure “no-install” that lets you change your desktop wallpaper periodically. More»
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