Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom… Continue reading Firefox 3 Beta 5
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Pidgin 2.4.1
Pidgin 2.4.1 has been out for more than a week now, but I’ve been too busy in real life to make a post about it yet. 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… Continue reading Pidgin 2.4.1
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0
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. I haven’t found a… Continue reading OpenOffice.org 2.4.0
XnView 1.93.1
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). There’s a rather lenghty changelog on the XnView forum. >> XnView website >> Download XnView… Continue reading XnView 1.93.1
Apple Safari 3.1
If you’re on a Mac, you’re probably using the Safari browser to surf the web. But if you’re a webdesigner or web developer using Windows, it might be interesting to see how your work is displayed in Safari. Apple claims faster loading speeds than any other browser. From my experience, Opera is still faster however.… Continue reading Apple Safari 3.1
WordPress 2.5 RC1
Installed Wordpress 2.5 RC1 that was released this morning. The site seems to load faster, but most of the changes are under the hood. The admin panel has been completely redesigned, for the better I must say. There’s better handling of images and media files, you can generate galleries from a series of pictures and so on. Let’s hope all goes wel and… Continue reading WordPress 2.5 RC1
Winamp 5.53 build 1898 beta
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 5.53 build 1898 beta
Any Video Converter Free 2.5.8
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP… Continue reading Any Video Converter Free 2.5.8
FileZilla 3.0.8
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… Continue reading FileZilla 3.0.8
Guifications plugin for Pidgin
Guifications is a Pidgin plugin that displays “toaster” popups in a user-defined corner of the screen, similar to features that have been added to the official MSN Messenger (now called Windows Live Messenger), Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger clients. It’s highly configurable, easy to use, and has theme support. >> Guifications website >> Download… Continue reading Guifications plugin for Pidgin