Well that was short-lived. After much publicity, the PDF exploit that jailbreakme.com utilises (that site and others) to jailbreak your iPhone has been fixed by the big A. Apple this morning released the 4.0.2 update to fix that specific issue. That is all. No antenna fixing issues. No 3G painkillers. Nothing. Just a PDF, font-subsystem fix to keep Apple’s iPhone and iOS happy. Oh, and to stop youngsters (both real and young-at-heart) from breaking Apple’s retail display iPhones.
Just a quick reminder that iOS 4 is expected to come out really early tomorrow morning (June 22 at 2.00AM AEST), 9.00AM Pacific Time (or so the rumors around the interwebs say). So don’t forget to mark your downloaders, iTunes, iCals, Alarms and whatever else wakes you up at 2 in the morning to get the latest iOS!
Don’t forget you will NEED iTunes 9.2 in order to update iPhone. iOS 4 does NOT work with iPhone 1st Gen or iPod touch 1st Gen. And yes, it’s free for everyone. Even you, iPod touch user.
Ever thought whilst playing Left 4 Dead what the game would be like as an 8-Bit game? Well Mr. Eric Ruth has realised that dream by developing a free downloadable 8-Bit version of the game. >>>Download
‘Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead is a retro de-make of Valve’s hit zombie killing masterpiece. Lovingly recreated in a fashion that would have been acceptable in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, this de-make stands as the flagship title of the upcoming Pixel Force series from Eric Ruth Games. Go alone, or invite a friend for 2 player co-op against the zombie apocalypse in all 4 of the original game campaigns. 2 difficulties and all 4 of the survivors make a glorious 8-bit appearance, complete with first and second tier weapons scattered along your path to escape. So, grab your controller of choice and kick back with an award-winning retro take on the end of the world with Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead.’
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren’t web pages but web applications.
Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.
DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. DAEMON Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.
What’s new:
- CD/DVD/BluRay imaging ability;
- Images mounting from image catalog in menu;
- Auto update functionality;
- Preferences dialog;
- Some GUI improvements;
- Languages updates.
Bugs fixed:
- Images engine bugs;
- Device speed detection;
- Some minor GUI bugs.
Download Accelerator Plus is a file download accelerator manager (Up to 300% Faster). Multi-Server connections for best performance. It can also recover from lost connections, computer shutdowns and other errors. The program can also search for mirror sites to maximize your download performance. It is fully integrated into the browsers, supports proxy servers, auto-hang-up after download completion, and much more.
Ever needed to convert a video for your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple TV or just simply, your computer? Never found a suitable program? Don’t want to fork out any money? Then HandBrake is for you!
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Convert a DVD to iPod Touch in less that 1 hour with less than 5 clicks! HandBrake is easy to use and fast to convert. It will not copy licenced DVD’s if you are converting on Windows (use another program for decyption) otherwise if you are on Mac or Linux, get VLC and have your retail DVD’s converted for you to watch on your iPod Touch/iPhone/Apple TV.
Download a copy of HandBrake today! Download Here
While Google Chrome and Firefox are arguably the two most popular browser alternatives to the monopolistic Internet Explorer (sorry Opera and Safari fanboys), why not merge the two into some weird, yet “sexy” (according to one comment) twist. Introduce Chromifox 2, a skin for Firefox 3 that makes it look like the Chrome browser. While you don’t get the “tabs being separate windows” feature or the tabs being on the top, you will get the customisation features of Firefox 3.
Either way, Mac and Linux users will be flocking to download this – since Google hasn’t released a version of Chrome to work with Mac or Linux. You can find it here – but you will need to get an account since it is in “experimental stage”.
ThreatFire is an easy-to-use application designed to protect your computer against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows by intelligently detecting and blocking behavior consistent with that of malware. ThreatFire does this by constantly monitoring your system, and analyzing programs and process activity. Whenever ThreatFire detects any unusual process or activity, it will display an alert with further information on the threat. If it is a known threat, then ThreatFire will automatically quarantine the malware and no further action is required on your part. If the threat is unknown, or new, then ThreatFire will display an alert and prompt you to Allow or Quarantine the process. All alerts provide detailed information to help you make an informed decision.
New features:
- Cyberhawk is now named ThreatFire, which has a new look and feel and is branded as a PC Tools product. The basic product layout and functions are similar to the older version, so hopefully it will be easy to make the switch to ThreatFire.
- Certain features previously found only in Cyberhawk Pro are now available in the new free product: ThreatFire Free Edition. These features include malware quarantine and removal, advanced custom rules, the rootkit scanner, and the built-in search on ThreatFire alerts which allows you to find out additional information on a threat.
- The “potentially malicious”alerts (yellow alerts) now give the option to Allow or Quarantine, instead of Allow or Deny. This is because ThreatFire is now able toquarantine any threats it detects, not just threats that wereclassified as “known” malware.
- The newPro versionincludes theon-demand scanning piece of PC Tools AntiVirusso that you can scan your system for dormant threats that may not becaught by ThreatFire’s real-time behavior-based protection. This AVscanner greatly increases the overall protection offered by ThreatFireand offers protection from a full spectrum of both known and unknownthreats.
- Greatly improved the overall protective capability of ThreatFire since the Cyberhawk v. 2.04 release.
- Fewer false positives.
- Miscellaneous other program fixes.
Known issues:
- Quarantine is not fully functional before rebooting.
- Uninstalling after having run a system scan still leaves some files.
- Advanced Rules for the registry are not fully functional
- Suspending ThreatFire does not fully suspend the product and you may still see an alert on the thread injection rule.
Notes:
ThreatFireis the new name of the behavior-based anti-malware program formerlyknown as Cyberhawk. With this release of v. 3.0 and going forward, theprogram will be known as ThreatFire and support for Cyberhawk will beshifted to ThreatFire.
Important note to current Cyberhawk users:
Dueto the changes included in this newest release, it is not possible tohave both Cyberhawk and ThreatFire installed at the same time. Pleasebe sure to first uninstall Cyberhawk before you install ThreatFire.
There are two versions available: ThreatFire Free Edition and ThreatFire Pro
Thefree version will be available for home and business users completelyfree of charge. The Pro version includes a new on-demand antivirusscanner (from PC Tools AntiVirus) for additional protection and cleanupcapability.
Download: PC Tools ThreatFire 3.0.7.0 (Beta 3) freeware
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Norton Removal Tool is a program that can remove some Norton software from your computer. Norton Removal Tool runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Norton Removal Tool should be used only if you have tried to uninstall the Norton program using Windows Add/Remove Programs and that did not work.
Will Norton Removal Tool work for you?
Norton Removal Tool will remove these–and only these–Norton programs:
* Norton AntiSpam 2004/2005
* Norton AntiVirus 2003 through 2008
* Ghost 10.0 and 12.0
* Norton GoBack 3.1 through 4.2
* Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2008
* Norton Password Manager
* Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2006
* Norton SystemWorks 2003 through 2008
* Norton Confidential Online 2007
* Norton Internet Security 2007 Add-on Pack 1.0 and 2.0
* Norton Save and Restore 1.0 and 2.0
* Norton 360 1.0 through 1.3
If your program is not in this list, do not use Norton Removal Tool. It will not remove your program.
Download: Noton Removal Tool for Win 2000/XP/Vista 2008.0.1.18
Download: Norton Removal Tool for Win Me/98 v.2007.2.0.11
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Link: Home Page
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos at home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog.
Features:
- Find the pictures you forgot you had -
Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.
- Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa -
Want to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer’shard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking with you.
- Make an album -
Use the”Albums”collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewingand sharing the pictures you grouped under an album is easy – they makegreat sideshows and movies or you can email them to friends.
- Add a star rating -
Give a goldstar to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search thatreduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less thana second.
and more…
Download: Picasa 2.7 Build 37.29 freeware
Link: Picasa Home Page
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances (skins) plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.
Changelog:
* New: Winamp Bento (SingleUI Skin)
* New: Unified File Editor, with Album Art tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
* New: Album Art window for Winamp Modern skin
* New: Global ‘playback thread priority’ setting for decoders
* New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
* New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support
* New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
* New: [ml_local] 3 pane view options in ‘Add/Edit View’ dialog
* New: [ml_local] Smart View Presets
* New: [ml_local] Album Art support/pane and retrieval service
* New: [ml_local] Toolbar buttons to control view options
* New: [ml_plg] Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)
* New: [ml_pmp] New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view
* New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
* New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files
* Improved: General misc dialog/ui tweaks & improvements
* Improved: Re-tuned and optimized classic Spectrum Analyzer
* Improved: Surround indicator in Winamp Modern skin for multi-channel files
* Improved: Classic Songticker option for Winamp Modern skin (via Config drawer)
* Improved: [in_cdda] Conductor metadata support
* Improved: [in_cdda] Handling of multiple discs
* Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] ALBUM ARTIST & ENSEMBLE read support
* Improved: [in_flac] Advanced Editor mode
* Improved: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples
* Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also improves ReplayGain scan speed)
* Improved: [in_wm] Faster WMA/WMV metadata gathering
* Improved: [gen_ff] General freeform skinning engine optimizations
* Improved: [gen_ml] Collapsed/expanded state of treeview items now remembered
* Improved: [gen_ml] Skinned scrollbars for Media Library with Modern skins
* Improved: [gen_ml] Reordering of treeview items (via drag+drop)
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks
* Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support
* Improved: [ml_local] Customize Columns menu for top filter panes
* Improved: [ml_local] Option to show horizontal scrollbar for top panes
* Improved: [ml_local] New ‘Podcasts’ view (appears after downloading a podcast)
* Improved: [ml_local] Added ISPODCAST and PODCASTCHANNEL field names
* Improved: [ml_local] Added BEGINSLIKE comparison operator
* Improved: [ml_local] Dragging of headers to sort column order
* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor
* Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection
* Improved: [ml_pmp] ‘Copy to Local Media’ config separated from CD Ripping settings
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Portables “Sync” can now keep podcasts updated
* Improved: [ml_rg] ReplayGain calculation support for 64, 88.2 & 96 KHz samplerates
* Improved: [ml_wire] Optional automatic downloading of new podcast episodes
* Improved: [ml_wire] Multi-select, ‘Send To’ menu and other general enhancements
* Improved: [ml_wire] Podcast downloads now saved in channel subfolders
* Improved: [pmp_ipod] Now uses the iPod’s podcast menu for podcasts
* Fixed: DWM Thumbnails & Flip3D for Modern skins in Vista
* Fixed: Long filepaths corrupted when opening Winamp via Explorer context menu
* Fixed: Oversized preference pages with large DPI setting
* Fixed: Recurrence of multiple instances bug (previously fixed in 5.3)
* Fixed: Selecting ‘No’ for ‘Physically Remove’ prompt removes playlist/mldb item
* Fixed: TV button in video window not working
* Fixed: Windows showing if switching from modern to classic skin in minimized state
* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Recursive playlist loading & case-insensitive element matching
* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Handling of entries embedded within a REPEAT tag
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] DEP incompatibility
* Fixed: [gen_ff] “Can’t unload script while in script” error when switching skins
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Transparent docked toolbars for skins using alpha-blending
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when loading multiple files via Explorer context menu
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Enter key not working when JTFE dialog is skinned*
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Remove Duplicate Entries action broken in pledit
* Fixed: [gen_ml] %playcount% returning Comment on drag+drop from ML to pledit
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash when attempting to rip a CD in a 2nd instance of Winamp
* Fixed: [in_flac] General FLAC Editor quirks (Comments field, Enter key, etc)
* Fixed: [in_flac] 24bit files don’t play when ‘Allow 24bit’ setting is disabled
* Fixed: [in_mod] Fadeout value goes below 0.0 sec in in_mod config
* Fixed: [in_mod] Interpolator ‘division by zero’ crash bug
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on some mp3′s with corrupt ID3v2 extended headers (rare)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on loading corrupt id3v2.3 tags of a later revision
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Negative bitrate in File Info for long mp3′s
* Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Crash on invalid .au files
* Fixed: [in_wm] Garbage characters when editing filetypes in config
* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Memory leaks
* Fixed: [ml_disc] 0 byte temp files not deleted after ripping
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Double-click drive icon in Rip & Burn not selecting tree item
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Drag+drop from Audio CD view to Playlist Editor
* Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) items adding to Album count in Artist pane
* Fixed: [ml_local] isempty and =0 queries now return same results
* Fixed: [ml_local] Add dir to ‘Watch Folders’ path truncated to 64 characters
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Inserting extra period in filename when transcoding to mp4/aac
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscription Updates setting always resets to ‘Never’
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Potential incompatability issue with latest version of iTunes
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] ‘Error In Insert’ when transferring to some P4S devices
* Fixed: [vis_milk] Milkdrop DEP incompatibility
* Misc: Winamp Remote is now an installer option (ml_orb.dll)
* Misc: Moved drawing engine out of gen_ff to tataki.dll
* Misc: Moved freetype font renderer out of gen_ff to freetype.wac
* Misc: Removed db.w5s (replaced by new Gracenote database system)
* Misc: Removed unicows.lib/dll as we have officially dropped support for Win9x
* Updated: Gracenote MusicID CDDB v2.5
* Updated: libpng 1.2.20
* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus Encoder v8.1.0
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1c b420 ‘dev’
* Updated: [in_flac] FLAC 1.2.0
* Updated: [in_mp3] FhG Decoder v4.10
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.0
Download: Winamp 5.5 Beta Full freeware
Download: Winamp 5.5 Beta Lite freeware
Download: Winamp 5.5 Beta Pro shareware
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News source: Winamp Forums
DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. DVD Flick is Open Source, meaning that anyone can download and view or modify the program’s source code. It also means that it is absolutely free of charge. Several external programs are used by DVD Flick to do the dirty work like encoding and combining of video material. All of these programs are free, some are Open Source too. Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4. Supported codecs are amongst others, MPEG-124 (XVid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media AudioVideo. MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP56. For a full list of supported container, audio and video formats, see http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20
Changes in version 1.2.2.1
- Fixed: Bug in subtitle multiplexing that caused the encoding to abort.
- Fixed: Bug that caused authoring to fail on destination folders with an apostrophe.
- Fixed: Multiple subtitle tracks would cause the subtitle muxing stage to abort.
- Changed: Updated FFMPEG.
- Changed: NTFS recommended warning now always occurs.
Download: DVD Flick 1.2.2.1 freeware
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Link: DVD Flick Home Page
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