µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.Â
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OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
OpenOffice.org is a free and powerful office suite. The look and feel might be a bit less intuitive compared to Microsoft’s Office suite, but it suits my needs. And because it’s free, open source and most important: good, it deserves to at least try it out if you never did before.Â
WP image uploader fix
I’ve had a lot of problems using the image uploader in WordPress 2.5, but adding this code to the .htaccess file in my WordPress folder solved it. UPDATE: There’s now also a plugin that does the same thing.
Pidgin 2.4.2
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins.
Firefox 3.0 RC1
Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
KDE4 based Linux distros
I’ve been playing around with KDE4 flavoured Linux distributions for a couple of weeks now: I’ve tried various betas and release candidates of Kubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. And I must admit, I like openSUSE the most. Downloaded the live cd, and installed from there on without a hitch. Installation was very easy and straightforward. The… Continue reading KDE4 based Linux distros
VLC media player 0.8.6f
This has been out since the beginning of April, but I kind of overlooked it. VideoLAN (VLC) is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs.
XnView 1.93.4
XnView is a multi-platform software used for viewing, converting and manipulating graphic files. It supports more than 400 image file formats, is free of charge for private usage, easy to use and can be made portable (like on a usb-stick). The changelog can be found here. >> XnView website >> Download XnView 1.93.4
FileZilla 3.0.9.1
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.
Paint.NET 3.30
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.