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” Several months of network abuse by advertisement agencies to deliver unwanted search results have only slightly hindered Gnutella’s reputation. Previously, when the user attempted to download one of these “Sponsored Results”, FrostWire would launch the URL associated with this file. The original intent was to allow artists to send users to their own website… Continue reading FrostWire 4.10.9

* Improved playlist management: all playlists are editable without being active, multiple playlists with the same name, Autoplaylists * Field remappings in titleformat scripts: see Titleformat Introduction and Titleformat * Reference for details * Tag merging: combines information from multiple tag formats on the same file * ID3v2 support with padding for fast tag updates… Continue reading foobar2000 0.9 rc

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry… Continue reading Winamp 5.2 final

Exact Audio Copy allows you to get audio tracks off a CD and save them to your hard drive. It uses the Windows ASPI Interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported. It supports hidden sector synchronization and has a secure, fast and burst extraction method selectable. Fast extraction should get the same… Continue reading Exact Audio Copy 0.95 beta 4

“Khaled added support for displaying UTF-8 text as unicode to mIRC. This works in status, channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes, window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips. The display of UTF-8 can be enabled by default for all windows in the Options/IRC/Messages dialog, or individually for any window you like via the Fonts… Continue reading mIRC 6.17

The BBC is reporting that the British Government is working with Microsoft in order to gain backdoor access to hard drives encrypted by the forthcoming Windows Vista file system. Professor Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, urged the Government to contact Microsoft over fears that evidence could be lost by suspects claiming to… Continue reading UK government wants access to Vista encryption

– Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased. Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB, Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB. – 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary – 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4 – Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in… Continue reading 7-Zip 4.33 beta

“CNet News has an interesting look at where digital camera technology is headed now that the megapixel buzzword can be put to rest. From the article: ‘In compact cameras, I think that the megapixel race is pretty much over,’ says Chuck Westfall, director of media for Canon’s camera marketing group. ‘Seven- and eight-megapixel cameras seem… Continue reading The future of digital camera technology

XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. It exists for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.  To me it beats ACDSee on all fronts, and above all: it ‘s free. The Windows version just got a new release: 1.82, the other OS’es have to wait a bit longer. The changelog will follow soon. >> Download… Continue reading XnView 1.82

” Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you… Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1