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Download CCleaner 2.27.1070 – 3.20MB (Freeware)

CCleaner 2.27.1070 Inforamtion

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

Cleans the following:

* Internet Explorer
* Firefox
* Google Chrome
* Opera
* Safari
* Windows – Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
* Registry cleaner
* Third-party applications
* 100% Spyware FREE

CCleaner 2.27.1070 Change Log
- Added support to Wipe MFT Free Space.
- Added cleaning for Windows Explorer breadcrumb bar.
- Added cleaning for Opera beta versions.
- Added option to turn off CCleaner jumplist tasks on Windows 7.
- Added menu option to Registry Cleaner to add key to exclude list.
- Improved support for SeaMonkey 2.0.
- Improved Windows 7 Taskbar progress accuracy.
- Improved minimize to system tray functionality across all platforms.
- Improved Opera cleaning by including opcache and temporary_downloads folders.
- Improved performance of Compact database routines.
- Improved Wipe Free Space code to avoid locks.
- Improved security when deleting files.
- Minor GUI and interface improvements.
- Minor bug fixes.

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Download Firebird 2.5.0 RC1 – 6.97MB (Open Source) -

Firebird 2.5.0 RC1 information

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Firebird is a fully featured and powerful RDBMS. It can handle databases from just a few KB to many Gigabytes with good performance and almost free of maintenance!

Below is a list of some of the Firebird’s major features:

* Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers
* Full ACID compliant transactions
* Referential Integrity
* Multi Generational Architecture
* Very small footprint
* Fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL)
* Support for External Functions (UDFs)
* Little or no need for specialized DBAs
* Almost no configuration needed
* Large user community
* Optional single file embedded version
* Dozens of third party tools
* Careful writes – fast recovery, no need for transaction logs!
* Many ways to access your database
* Native support for all major operating systems
* Incremental Backups
* 64bits builds available
* Full cursor implementation in PSQL
* Monitoring tables
* Connection and Transaction Triggers
* Temporary Tables

Firebird 2.5.0 RC1 Change Log
* Other New Features:
- Administrative Enhancements
- Other SQL Language Additions and Enhancements
- Data-handling Enhancements
- API Additions
- International Language Support

* Changes in the Firebird Engine:
- New Threading Architecture
- Thread-safe Client Library
- Other Improvements

* Changes to the Firebird API and ODS:
- ODS (On-Disk Structure) Changes
- API (Application Programming Interface) Extensions

* Reserved Words and Changes:
- Clean-up of Reserved Words
- Newly Reserved Words
- Keywords Added as Non-reserved

* Configuration Parameter Additions and Changes:
- AuditTraceConfigFile
- Parameters Affecting Filesystem Cache Usage
- Authentication
- MaxUserTraceLogSize
- OldSetClauseSemantics
- RemoteAuxPort For Classic and Superclassic
- Use Hostname for RemoteBindAddress
- RemoteFileOpenAbility

* Administrative Features:
- New RDB$ADMIN System Role
- Trace and Audit Services
- Monitoring Improvements

* Security Hardening:
- Windows Platforms changes

* Data Definition Language (DDL):
- Visibility of Procedure Definition Changes on Classic
- CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER
- Syntaxes for Altering Views
- Extensions for CREATE VIEW
- ALTER Mechanism for Computed Columns
- Extensions for SQL Permissions
- Default COLLATION Attribute for a Database
- ALTER CHARACTER SET Command
- Evolution of CREATE DATABASE

* Data Manipulation Language (DML):
- RegEx Search Support using SIMILAR TO
- Hex Literal Support
- New UUID Conversion Functions
- SOME_COL = ? OR ? IS NULL Predication
- Extension to LIST() Function
- Optimizer Improvements
- Other Improvements

* Procedural SQL (PSQL):
- Autonomous Transactions
- Borrow Database Column Type for a PSQL Variable
- New Extensions to EXECUTE STATEMENT
- Other PSQL Improvements

* International Language Support (INTL):
- Default COLLATION Attribute for a Database
- ALTER CHARACTER SET Command
- Connection Strings & Character Sets
- Other Improvements

* Command-line Utilities:
- fbtracemgr
- Retrieve Password from a File or Prompt
- gsec
- fbsvcmgr
- gbak
- nBackup
- isql
- gpre (Precompiler)
- gstat

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Download The Gimp 2.6.8 – 17.39MB (Open Source)

The Gimp 2.6.8 Information
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

* Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
* Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
* Full Alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
* Advanced scripting capabilities
* Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
* Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
* Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

The Gimp 2.6.8 Change Log

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Download Spamihilator 0.9.9.52 – 2.00MB (Freeware)

Spamihilator 0.9.9.52 Information

Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.

The Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every E-Mail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you. Hence the recognition rate will continuously increase.

The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc… It supports POP and IMAP accounts, as well as secure connections.

Spam Recognition Filters:

* The Learning Filter recognizes more than 98% of all incoming spam mails. Use the Training Area, to increase the recognition rate continuously.
* You can also specify certain words, that often appear in spam mails. The Spam-Word-Filter will look for these words.
* The Link Filter searches incoming messages for links to spam websites.
* The DCC-Filter connects with the DCC Network to recognize unsolicited bulk mail.

Spamihilator 0.9.9.52 Change Log
# These are the main changes:

* Improved spam recognition rate
- Improved efficiency of the Learning Filter (added new classification algorithms)
- Added more pre-defined spam words to the Spam Word Filter
* Created native 64-bit version
* Tested with Windows 7
* Improved performance on multi-core systems
* Added shortcuts to the start menu to open Spamihilator windows like Recycle Bin or Training Area
* Improved user interface for increased usability
* Improved IMAP compatibility
* Improved general performance
* Fixed several bugs
* Added MSI-based installer for deployment within companies

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Download jetAudio 8.0.0 Basic

jetAudio 8.0.0 Basic Information

JetAudio is integrated multimedia software made up of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats.

You can create your own Internet broadcast by using JetCast, provided with JetAudio, and you can play all major file formats, including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM, and video and audio CD tracks.

* Supports All Major File Formats
* Audio CD burning
* Recording
* Tag Editing including multiple file tag editing
* Multi-channel sound ouput
* Crossfade
* Skin
* Media Center window with Device Manager
* Subtitles
* Internet CD Database
* Convenient album management & Playlist
* Utilities
* Conversion
* Audio CD Ripping
* Internet Broadcasting
* Various sound effects
* Plus many more features!

jetAudio 8.0.0 Basic Change Log
- New video window display modes:Show always / Show only when playing / Attached
- Album art / Spectrum display in Video window when playing music
- Spectrum display in Lyric window
- New file association method for Windows Vista/7
- Supports subtitle with DXVA decoding
- Enhanced skins
- Supports FLV/MKV formats for video conversion
- Added General Presets for video conversion
- Shows in Playlist window
- Fixed many bugs/suggestions posted in our forum (thanks to the postings)
- Multi-sort in Playlist window
- Enhanced context menus of Playlist/Video window
- Added DVD Pal/NTSC for video conversion
- Supports Crossfade for mono
- Fixed video window resizing for EVR
- Fixed WAV playback (GSM codec)
- Fixed OSD (Music) opacity
- Transparent spectrum background in Media Center (set SpectrumColor_Back / SpectrumColor_Dot as -1)
- All Default skin sources included (only jsc files)

Download jetAudio 8.0.0 Basic

Download BSplayer 2.5.1 – 12.33MB (Freeware)

BSplayer 2.5.1 Information

BSplayer is an application that plays back all kinds of media files (avi,mpg,asf,wmv,wav,mp3…) and specialises in video and DIVX playback.

Main Features

* Display subtitles – Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency,… Supported formats: MicroDVD, Subviewer, SubRip
* Fully skinnable – Any shape, transparent skins…
* Resizable movie window
* Multilingual
* Drag & drop support
* Command line support
* Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
* Custom aspect ratios
* Playlist support
* Resolution changing
* Frame capture
* AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage)
* Support for OGM files, including more then 2 audio/video tracks, supports embeded subtitles/chapters
* External audio file supported
* S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder)
* INI files
* Remote control support – WinLIRC
* Bookmarks
* Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required)
* Playback rate (1/2x, 1x, 2x) and custom
* and lots of other features not listed here, try it out.

BSplayer 2.5.1 Change Log
- fixed problem with subtitles embedded in mkv files with new parser/renderer
- EVR aspect ratio fixes
- fixed problem with EVR in full screen mode, some areas was not completely black
- under Vista and Windows 7 some decoders couldn’t be added in ‘Filter management’, fixed
- local codec system fixes (codec reinstall required)
- possibly fixed problem with monitor powering down on laptops
- some other bug fixes
+ added option to disable embedded subtitles
* custom extension can now be added in Vista and Windows 7 (UAC prompt will be displayed)
+ added another online subtitle provider

Download BSplayer 2.5.1

Download XBMC Media Center 9.11

XBMC Media Center 9.11 Informaiton
XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now!

Media Management
XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats. XBMC has a sophisticated library management system that allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.

Fluid Interface
XBMC provides a user friendly interface that’s intuitive, very flexible, and easy to use. The interface is completely customizable through user-created or downloadable skins.

Plug-ins and Extensibility
XBMC has a built-in Python interpreter that allows users and developers to write their own scripts and plugins that run inside XBMC using it’s own widgets and controls. It also has a built-in web server that allows it to be controlled remotely.

Visualisations
XBMC’s audio player supports many visualisations including ProjectM and Goom. In addition, it allows easy development of visualisations using a simple API.

XBMC Media Center 9.11 Change Log
GUI:
- Improved XBMC GUI Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
- Powerbutton follows “shutdown function” in settings/system/power saving
- Updated translations for most languages (help is always wanted with translation)
- Skinnable Weather Plugin API enabling third-party Weather Plugins (Python Scripts)
- Edit button for RSS feeds in settings, (needs RssTicker script installed, see SCRIPTS section below)
- New screensaver option to turn off the screen (using VESA DPMS)
- Always On Top option to advancedsettings.xml when XBMC runs in Windowed Mode
- Better support for multi-monitor setups
- Settings have been re-organized and cleaned up to sync with new features

Playback:
- High Definition, Surround Sound, and Subtitle Flagging and Filtering in Video Library
- Added support for SingStar and UltraStar Karaoke Lyrics Format
- Updated FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
- Speed up RAW image loading and handle more file extension
- Implemented better WAV/PCM handling on 64-bit operating-systems
- Added support for additional tags in CUE sheets (Genre/Year)
- Added support for MPL2 (Blu-ray) subtitles format
- Added support forVPlayer subtitles format (which unfortunately is still in use)
- Added support for RTMP (Flash) live video streams, plus skip, pause, and resume feature
- Added proper MMS/MMSH streaming client (libmms) support
- Added audio and subtitle delay pop-up to the GUI (similar to volume control)
- Improved Commercial Skipping, EDL (Edit Decision List), and SceneMarker support
- Options for smoother video playback (syncing the video to the refresh rate of the display)
- Smart Playlists support for video resolution, aspect-ratio, codec, audio, and subtitles
- Extension of ExternalPlayer enabling multiple external players based on file-extension
- Added overlay renderer for dvd/vobsub/xsub

Library:
- Performance improvements to SQLite (database) queries
- Support for movie sets and a sortorder tag in the Video Library
- UPnP MediaServer compliant with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards
- Ability to view pictures over UPnP in XBMC, also loads of fixes to the UPnP library
- Added scan for new content command to HTTP API, extended XBMC.updatelibrary call
- Reorganized MythTV directory structure to separate TV Shows from Movies
- Support importing MythTV movies into the Movies Library (including scraping)
- Added support local actor thumbnails (store as actor_name.tbn under .actors directory)
- Scrape studio info for TV Show/Season/Episode, info is available via studio field item
- Changed handling in Scrapers and NFO replacing «thumbs» with multiple «thumb»
- Added library update on resume if we are coming from suspend/hibernate
- Ability to scrape and scan TV Shows into the video library by air-date via TheTVDB.com

Scrapers:
- TheMovieDB.org (TMDB) movie scraper upgraded to version 2.1
- Added Movie Trailer scraping from dtrailer.com to TheMovieDB.org scraper
- TheTVDB.com TV Shows scraper scraper improvements and enhancements
- MTV (Music Videos) scraper improvements and enhancements
- New freebase music scraper (with Artist FanArt support via htbackdrops.com)
- New Polish music scraper combining allmusic.com,merlin.pl, and lastfm.pl
- New mymovies.dk (Multilanguage) movie scraper (*commercial)
- New fdb.pl (Polish) movie scraper
- New cinefacts.de (German) movie scraper
- New filmdelta.se (Swedish) movie scraper
- New world-art.ru (Russian) movie scraper
- Updated imdb.cn (Chinese) movie scraper
- New cine-passion (French/English) movie scraper
- Fixes and additions for the mymovies.xml scraper

Skins:
- Confluence is the new default
- PM3.HD set to secondary
- Removed legacy PM III (farewell old friend)

Windows-Specific:
- Changed from Open GL to DirectX for GUI and video rendering.
- Added Crash Dump for Windows
- Support Milkdrop visualizations

Linux-Specific:
- Added support for Debian building and packaging to the XBMC SVN
- External libraries options when compiling XBMC for Linux making it more distro agnostic
- Support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Linux (OpenGL support required)
- Avahi Zeroconf (Zero Configuration Networking) for XBMC webserver
- Added DeviceKit.Disks integration
- Added DeviceKit.Power and ConsoleKit.Manager integration

OS X Specific:
- Logitech Harmony Universal Remote support
- Added support for CoreAudio API and removed the PortAudio API code
- AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio)
- Support for running external Applescripts
- Support for command-tab application switching
- support for OS X Spaces (virtual desktops)

Live-Specific:
- New installer with disk partitioning support, network setup and language selection
- Uses Beatzeps08’s variation of duduke’s great “spinner black” usplash theme!
- Based on Ubuntu Karmic
- NVIDIA drivers: 190.53 (VDPAU included on supported GPUs)
- ATI/AMD drivers: Catalyst 9.11
- Includes the magic tvheadend package, which brings live TV in XBMCLive
- The plugin “SVN Repo Installer” is also included, thus installing new scripts/plugins/skins will be easier

Download XBMC Media Center 9.11

Download Miranda 0.8.11 – 1.65MB (Open Source)

Miranda 0.8.11 Information

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. Its powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM very flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 350 free plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality of Miranda IM.

Available Protocols are:

* AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
* Gadu-Gadu
* IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange)
* ICQ
* IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
* Jabber
* MSN
* Netsend
* Tlen
* Yahoo
* And more…

Miranda 0.8.11 Change Log
# Miranda 0.8.11 Enhancements:

* Windows 7 Taskbar support for file transfer progress

# Miranda 0.8.11 Bugfixes:

- ICQ: Possible crash loading avatar from cache
- Yahoo: Improvements in comparing Yahoo ids
- Yahoo: Display fix for email notifications
- Yahoo: Fixed login issue

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Download WinRAR 3.91 (32-bit) – 1.30MB (Shareware)

WinRAR 3.91 (32-bit) Information

WinRAR is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface. WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure.

WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. It also offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives.

WinRAR 3.91 (32-bit) Change Log
1. This version can decompress 7-Zip archives created with LZMA2 algorithm.

2. Now a password is requested only once when unpacking 7z archives with encrypted file names from context menu. WinRAR 3.90 asked it twice.

3. This version can unpack tar.bz2 archives consisting of several smaller bz2 streams merged together. Previous versions unpacked only the first nested bz2 stream in such composite archive.

4. WinRAR displays CRC32 of files inside of usual .gz (not .tar.gz) archives. Previous versions left this field blank for GZIP files.

5. Bugs fixed:

a) WinRAR 3.90 displayed “Save” button instead of “Open” or “OK” in “Find archive” dialog (“Open archive” command in “File” menu and “Browse…” command in archiving dialog);

b) WinRAR could display incorrect file names when browsing malformed ZIParchives;

c) WinRAR 3.90 failed to decompress LZH archives created with “-lh7-” algorithm;

d) WinRAR 3.90 could fail to delete a part of files after archiving if delete to Recycle Bin was enabled. This bug was present when working in Windows XP, but not in Windows Vista and Windows 7;

e) when unpacking ISO file using WinRAR “Extract files…” command in Explorer context menu, WinRAR could unpack same archived files twice during the same operation. It displayed the overwrite prompt when unpacking files for the second time;

f) hexadecimal search in WinRAR 3.90 “Find” command and console RAR “ih” command failed to find matches if first byte in search string was greater than 127.

Download WinRAR 3.91 (32-bit)

Download Google Toolbar 7.0.2009.1214b (Firefox)

Google Toolbar 7.0.2009.1214b (Firefox) Information

Keep the power of Google search close at hand. Google Toolbar puts a search box in your browser, making it easier than ever to find anything you want on the Web.

New and improved features:

* Suggestions for navigation errors
* AutoLink
* Web History
* Bookmarks
* Send To
* Translate
* SpellCheck
* PageRank Display
* Highlight Search Terms
* Open with Google Docs
* Send with Gmail
* Custom Layouts

Google Toolbar 7.0.2009.1214b (Firefox) Change Log

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