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More than three years after it’s release, a security hole has been found in the Visual IRC 2.0 (ViRC) chat client. Jesse McGrew (Mr2001) was quick to fix the issue, and a maintenance update is now available. You should just copy the files to the ViRC installation directory and overwrite the existing ones. >> Download… Continue reading Visual IRC 2.0pl2

Sometimes you just need to know what kind of processor or memory you have installed. This is where a tool like CPU-Z comes in handy.  It uncovers a lot of details about the inner secrects of your computer hardware. For free. >> CPU-Z website >> Downlad CPU-Z 1.40.5

XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. It exists for Windows, MacOSX and Linux. A list of changes can be found on the XnView forum. >> XnView website >> Download XnView 1.91.1 (freeware)

It’s been a while since their previous release, but Spybot – Search & Destroy has never been away. They kept providing updates on a regular basis. Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a threat not covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for… Continue reading Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.5.1.12 beta

The Pirate Bay has launched a new site, dedicated to hosting pictures online: BayImg.com ! They support about 140 different image file types, and also .zip and .rar files. Best of all: it’s completely free and uncensored! This is what they have to say about censorship: ” Well, we really think it is a big… Continue reading Uncensored image hosting from TPB

Another month, another Pidgin. Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple… Continue reading Pidgin 2.0.2

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin 2.0.1 is a bugfix release addressing over 100 bugs reported in 2.0.0.

Gmail has doubled the maximum allowed attachment size to 20 megabytes. Which is nice. However, few other email providers will accept messages this big. But I think it’s just a matter of time before the likes of Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo will follow. Anyways, feeling bwuurk all week …

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: * Record live audio. * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. * Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. * Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.… Continue reading Audacity 1.3.3 beta

Opera is a free, light and above all good browser. Mozilla Firefox is slow compared to Opera, and the Opera pop-up blocker just works, where in Firefox that isn’t always the case. If you have a website, and if you use the web seriously, you should have Opera installed on your computer. The one thing… Continue reading Opera 9.21