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CCleaner 2.08.588
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) it's free and contains no Spyware or Adware.
CCleaner has been tried and tested with Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's currently partially compatible with 64bit XP and Vista, there are a few non-critical issues which are still being worked on.
Changelog:
- Added Startup tool enable/disable checkbox.
- Fixed problem with Vista "low" folders being removed.
- Improved index.dat detection on multiple scans.
- Secure deletion improved with IE History index.dat files.
- Added OS detection to INI files.
- Added Vista Thumbnail Cache cleaning.
- Added ImgBurn cleaning.
- Added Secure deletion to "Recent Documents" cleaning.
- Improved Vista "Recent Documents" cleaning.
- Fixed bug with Chkdsk chk files not being removed.
- Added "Select all" checkbox to header of Registry cleaner.
- Added sorting to Startup tool listview.
- Fixed Vista 64 issue with Startup tool.
- Added Croatian translation.
- Minor tweaks and GUI improvements.
Download: CCleaner 2.08.588
View: CCleaner Home Page
Yahoo! BrowserPlus
Fresh off the latest round of its public feud with Microsoft, Yahoo! has announced a new software title, to be known as "BrowserPlus".
Designed to "expand what's possible", BrowserPlus is similar to Google Gears. It allows users to extend the functionality of their browser windows into areas typically dominated by desktop applications. One of the center-pieces of these additional browser capabilities is the ability to send notifications to the desktop, eliminating one of the traditional browser limitations. Yahoo! hopes other functions, such as drag-and-drop, acquisition of online feeds and simpler file uploads, will serve to entice users.
As it has not yet been released, it remains to be seen whether or not BrowserPlus will find a substantial user-base; however, it does show that yahoo is serious about continuing to contend in the ever-more-competitive market for online presence.
View: Yahoo! BrowserPlus Home Page
Source: Neowin
Orgoo Invites
Orgoo is an e-mail/IM integration service that, like goo, sticks together all your different mail accounts, contacts, and IM buddies onto one page.
Key Features
- Send/Receive all of your email, from any account, within a single inbox.
- Talk to all your buddies, on any IM network, from one buddy list.
- Have text message (SMS) conversations with your contacts, right from Orgoo.
- See your friends in live multi-person video chat rooms.
- Stay organized with messages of all types with Orgoo’s built-in organization tools.
If anyone wants to try out Orgoo I have 5 invites available.
To request an invite leave a comment with your email and I'll send you one.
View: Orgoo
Digsby Beta Build 31
Digsby is a new, multi-network IM client that connects to all the big IM networks. AIM, ICQ, Hotmail, Yahoo, Google Talk and Jabber, and can integrate with your email, Facebook and Myspace accounts. Digsby's goal is to give you one place to manage your online contacts.
Here are some key features of Digsby
Instant Messaging:
Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat.
Email:
Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
- Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
Social Networking:
- Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace account (other network support coming soon).
- Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
Take a look at Digsby's home page for a complete feature list.
Download: Digsby Beta Build 31
View: Changelog
View: Digsby Home Page
Windows Live SkyDrive Updated
The Windows Live SkyDrive team has announced that there are new updates to SkyDrive Here's a quick rundown of what's included:
- More places.
Windows Live SkyDriveis now live in 24 additional locations, bringing our grand total to 62 countries and regions! We welcome new users in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela!
- Comments. You can leave comments on any file in SkyDrive and see all of the recent comments people have left for you.
- Captions. A picture's worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need a few more. Now you can add captions and descriptions to your files and photos:
Click control. When you click on any file, you can speed through all the files in the folder:
- Larger photo previews - we've made the photo previews even bigger.
Other features added are Details view and Photo Thumbnails view, plus more bug fixes.
View: Windows Live SkyDrive
View: SkyDrive Blog
Google sites open for all
Google sites, a service previously only available to google apps users, is now open to all.
Google plans to extend this simple hosting and design solution to those wanting to host simple web-pages. Google Sites offers a variety of themes, and arrangements to help create your website. There is also the ability to integrate your Google Calendars, Mail, and Files with ease.
Google Sites are collaborative, which engineering manager Andrew Zaeske said in the announcement makes them ideal for "team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it."
No HTML knowledge is required, and your website will be hosted for free on the Google domain.
View: Google Sites
FileZilla 3.0.10
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.
Changelog:
- Precompiled binaries available from filezilla-project.org now link against GnuTLS 2.2.5 due to security vulnerabilities in previous GnuTLS versions, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html
- MSW: Performance improvements. Windows is inherently flawed since it does not cache directory contents.
+ Commandline arguments, see manpage for details
+ Columns in file lists can be reordered or hidden by right-clicking the column header
+ Added some useful links to help menu
- Don't send redundant MKD commands to server if multiple transfers want to create the same directory multiple times
- Fix sizing problems with some interface layouts
Download: FileZilla 3.0.10
View: Filezilla Home Page
Recuva 1.14.321
From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Changelog:
- Added support for video, audio, and compressed files in deep scan.
Formats: .wma .ogg .wav .mov .mpg .mp4 .3gp .flv .wmv .avi .rar .zip
- Added 'Compressed' option to the filter.
- Fixed bug that could cause crash during deep scan, caused by corrupt image files.
- Added support for Microsoft Office tmp files.
Allows recovery of files lost if Office crashes.
- Various small UI tweaks.
- Added Ukrainian translation.
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Download: Recuva 1.14.321
View: Recuva Homepage