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Google Maps Liberty City
Google Maps and IGN has made it easy for you to find your way around Liberty city by creating the ultimate map for GTA IV.
The map lists locations of where to find weapons, health, armor, pigeons, secrets, easter eggs, safe houses, resturants, stunts and much more.
View: Google Maps Liberty City
Auslogics BoostSpeed 4
Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 will optimize your computer, clean your disks and add useful tweaks to windows.
All in all it will allow you to maintain a clean and perfect running computer, tweaked like you want.
It will allow home users to have easy access to all those advanced tools that windows have, plus it's
own registry and disk defragter.
Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 includes the following tools:
- Computer clean up
- Optimization
- Privacy and Security cleaner
- Windows Tweaker
- Easy access to windows tools.
With the startup manager you get an overview of which programs are running at startup.
You can quickly enable or disable a program from running. further more you can create a
new startup entry, allowing a program of your choice to be run at startup.
Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 also provides easy shortcuts to useful windows programs like, Computer Management console
DirectX Diagnostics and Windows service manager.
- Auslogics system information gives you all the information you need about your hardware with just a couple of clicks.
Download: Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 (Trial Version)
View: Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 Home Page
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser
Keep Your Vital Information Organized
Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.
Secure and Protect Your Mail
Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.
Get Your Mail, Your Way
Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.
Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
View: Home Page
IE7Pro 2.3 Beta 2
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. With IE7pro you may switch proxy, set agent identification, block ads and flash, apply super drag-drop, refresh tab automatically, recover session crash, manage tab history, view page information, save image files quickly and more.
IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.
Changelog:
- New Module: FasterIE, It will increase your IE surfing speed, But it may cause some problem.
- IE context menu add save selected source code to html,text,links
- MiniDM new task support multi links now
- MiniDM add an options: save file using timestamp from server
- MiniDM support delete history & real file now
- MiniDM support https protocol. refer: http://www.ie7pro.com/openssl.html
- Online bookmark support IE8 webslice now
- New ActiveXObject interface. refer: http://iescripts.org/help/index.html
- Fix crash recovery bug
- Fix bug of online configuration backup
- Fix some MiniDM bugs
- Fix some vista bugs
Download: IE7Pro 2.3 Beta 2
Download: IE7Pro 2.3 Beta 2 x64
View: IE7Pro Home page
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final
Windows XP SP3 is finally here for those that use Windows Update. The build number for the final version is 5512.
Neowin reports that there won't be a 64bit version until Windows Server 2003 hits SP3 since they share the same code base.
Here is an interesting article regarding SP3 performance, ignoring the fact that Vista SP1 is still faster than XP SP2/SP3 users will enjoy a performance boost over SP2. When will people learn that Vista ain't all bad!
Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.
Download: Windows XP SP3 32 Bit English Stand-alone installer
Download: Service Pack 3 for Windows XP via Windows Update
FeedBurner Moves to Google Accounts
After Google bought FeedBurner in June 2007, we didn't hear too many new things about FeedBurner. A post from February detailed the benefits of the future Google integration: connecting with other Google services, better performance and new features. "Why not build new services and integrate at the same time? (...) Our perspective is that the time you lose trying to continuously merge an updated legacy codebase with a new rewrite causes you [to] be in a world of never actually getting the integration done because you're constantly working on merge problems."
It seems that the Googlizied FeedBurner will be brought to life soon. FeedBurner Blog announces that "in the coming weeks, upon visiting www.feedburner.com, selected publishers will have the opportunity to sign in using their Google Account". That means you will be offered the option to choose a Google account as a new home for FeedBurner. The posts mentions that the integration with other services will be added gradually and it's easy to anticipate the relaunch of AdSense for feeds or a new tab in AdWords.
The most visible side-effect of the Google ownership is that the premium accounts and MyBrand are free, so you might save at least $96/year. In the past 11 months, FeedBurner doubled the number of users and now has "882,989 publishers who've burned 1,570,012 feeds".
View: Feedburner
Source: Google System
CCleaner 2.07.575
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:
- Firefox 3.0 support added.
- Fixed bug where figures were missing for KB/MB sizes.
- Fixed bug where some IE cookies were being missed.
- Improved scan time accuracy.
- Internal memory management improvements.
- Registry settings moved to HKCU\Software\Piriform\CCleaner.
- Fixed bug where CC could get locked in System Tray.
- Renamed MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger.
- Added MS Office Picture Manager to applications.
- Fixed uninstaller tool bug on 64-bit OS.
- Minor GUI improvements.
- Minor bug fixes.
Download: CCleaner 2.07.575
View: CCleaner Home Page
MessengerDiscovery Live 1.4
MessengerDiscovery Liveis a Windows Live Messenger addon which adds well over 150 new features and customisations for Messenger. It contains no form of virus or spyware and is 100% free to download and use.
New Features:
- Parental Controls
- Only allow certain accounts to sign into Messenger
- Block accounts from signing to Messenger that use profanity
- Protect MD settings with parental lock
- Unblock a contact after a certain amount of time
- Option to delete the contact as well
- If you are offline when the contact is scheduled to be unblocked then they will be unblocked upon next sign in
- Allow conversation windows to stay open after signing out
- Automatically decline group conversations when status is not "Online"
- Change the visibility (opacity) of contact list
- Change the visibility (opacity) of conversation windows
- Promote MessengerDiscovery and win a iPod, everything is done automatically
Download: MessengerDiscovery Live 1.4
View: Full Changelog
View: MessengerDiscovery Live Home Page