Category: Software

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 5.24

Jakob Nielsen – who has spent years advising companies about their websites – took some time to chat with the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Gomes about RSS, email newsletters, web design and blogs. When asked whether blogs must maintain a ‘conversation’ with readers, Nielsen says, ‘That will work only for the people who are most… Continue reading Jakob Nielsen on design, RSS, email and blogs

Matasano Security is running an excellent interview with Christopher Vaughan, a lead PM on the IE team. Christopher has worked on every release of Internet Explorer since version 2. He discusses IE7, security lessons learned from IE6, the future of .NET managed code in IE, and more. >> Read the full article

Opera is “the other good browser”, besides Mozilla Firefox. Free to use, available on almost all platforms. And it has a ton of features: User Interface * Available accesskeys are now listed when entering accesskey mode with Shift+Escape. * “Save as HTML file with images” now uses a folder for external files. * Cookie site… Continue reading Opera 9 final

The Windows Live services are on the rise as it seems. Yesterday I could opt in with my Hotmail account to use the new Windows Live Mail, and today the Windows Live Messenger has been released. Windows Live Messenger is what used to be MSN Messenger. By the way, when I changed from Hotmail to… Continue reading Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0787 final

Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft is finally trying to do something about PC driver problems. A new crash-report-driven Driver Quality Rating system will be used in Windows Vista to rate drivers. Drivers that rate poorly in real world use by users will lose their logo certification status, which would be bad news for OEMs… Continue reading Microsoft will use Driver Quality rating in Vista

The world’s most popular media player just got an update! * Improved: [gen_jumpex] jump-to-file speed improvements * Fixed: playlist saving with network share files * Fixed: Media Library preferences not loading in correct order * Fixed: main window not hilited when restoring from minimized state in classic skin. * Fixed: slow loading of playlists with… Continue reading Winamp 5.23 final

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Changes in version 0.9.2: * Native support for new free Nero Digital AAC encoder * New “Advanced Preferences” page * More compatible MP4 tagging scheme *… Continue reading foobar2000 0.9.2

The free program from Adobe to read, print and search .pdf files has got a new update. New Features: * Yahoo Contextual Searching (part of Y!Q) * If you select text, either a single word or phrase within a PDF, and right click with the mouse, then you are presented with menu item that allows… Continue reading Adobe Reader 7.0.8

Paint.NET is a freeware graphics editing tool. Changes: * Built-in updater now works in Vista without having to use “Run as Administrator” beforehand (UAC permission is still required to install updates) * Fixed a color intensity calculation that had Red and Blue swapped (affects Brightness/Contrast adjustment, and some plugins) * Fixed .PDN images with transparency… Continue reading Paint.NET 2.63