Windows
After upgrading to VLC 1.0 on your home and office PCs, its now time to get the 20MB, no-install VLC Portable 1.0 on your thumb drive.
VLC Portable 1.0 is a carbon-copy of the original VLC 1.0. It has all the features you’ll find in VLC 1.0, moreover it respects your privacy as it leaves behind NO personal information on any Windows system.
The best advice if you have a big USB drive, is to carry along with you, your audio/video files together with VLC Portable, just in case the Windows PC you come across can’t read the audio/video formats you have in your external drive.
VLC Portable 1.0 like VLC 1.0 is a free app with the GNU/GPL license.
VLC Media Player Portable --version 1.0.0
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For Windows only: The guy at PotableApps.com have released version 1.0 of Lightscreen Portable. Lightscreen is a lightweight open-source application that has only one purpose, taking screenshots. With no in-built image editor, your screenshot files can be taken with a hotkey, and saved in the JPG, BMP or PNG formats, using a nomenclature of your choice.
Lightscreen Portable 1.0, adds Windows 7 support and has a multilingual installer. It’s packaged in PortableApps.com format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite.
Lightscreen Portable 1.0
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VLC, the best Linux media player leaves beta and goes 1.0 final. This open source media player that is capable of playing most of your media files out-of-the-box gets even better and reads more media files formats than before, the new comers are; Raw Dirac and M2TS.
New HD codecs are also included in this major release;AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0.
VLC 1.0 also has customizable toolbars, better integration in GTK, finer speed controls, AirTunes streaming — amongst many other new features that you’ll find on the VideoLan web site.
Download VLC Media Player 1.0 for all platforms – – Windows, Mac and Linux.
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For Linux and Windows XP: Ubuntu, amongst many other applications also bundles up Gnome’s photo manager, F-Spot. If for one reason or the other you’re not a fan of F-Spot — be it for Mono (polemics apart, F-Spot gets the job done) or if you don’t like the way it handles your photos then give jBrout a try.
jBrout is a cross-platform JPEG (an image format widely used by digital cameras) photo manager, released under the GNU/GPL license. More»
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Just a few day back Firefox 3.5 was officially released to the general public. It’s now been downloaded over 10 million times. It hit 10 million according to Mozilla’s real-time download tracker just before I started writing this post.
The graph show the US is leading in the downloads, as usual, but its a huge surprise to see Germany at second place with almost 1.2 million downloads with respect to third place Japan at 550 thousand downloads. More»
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