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Sunday, February 14, 2010

LimeWire Basic 5.5.1 Beta

LimeWire is a fast, easy-to-use file sharing program that contains no spyware, adware or other bundled software. Compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella network, LimeWire's open source code, is freely available to the public and developed in part by a devoted programmer community.
LimeWire is the fastest, easiest, most advanced file sharing program available and it's completely free of spyware, adware and any other bundled software.
Lime Wire is introducing a filtering system to encourage safer, more responsible file sharing.
  • NO BUNDLED SOFTWARE OF ANY KIND!
  • Firewall to Firewall Transfers.
  • Faster network connections.
  • Universal Plug 'N Play.
  • iTunes Integration.
  • Creative Commons Integration.
  • "What's New?" feature.
  • Search drill down results.
  • Proxy support.
  • Support for International searches and International groups.

µTorrent 2.0 Build 17920 -a (very) tiny Bit Torrent client




µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client.

µTorrent is a freeware, closed source BitTorrent client by BitTorrent, Inc. . Both versions are written in C++.  uTorrent program is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Vuze or BitComet.uTorrent program has received consistently good reviews for its feature set, performance, stability, and support for older hardware and versions of Windows. A report showed that µTorrent is the most used BitTorrent client and the second most popular P2P application BitTorrent, Inc. claims that there are at least 28 million unique users using µTorrent per month.
Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 320 KB in size.

Skinnable and Localized
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

Actively Developed and Improved
The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

Technical details and download links here

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 now available for download

Few days back Mozilla had released first developer milestone Firefox 3.6 Alpha Namoroka for Mac, Windows & Linux. Firefox 3.6 is aimed to improve speed, performance, implementation of new CC3 classes, Startup and responsiveness improvements and much more.
With increasing competition in browser war Mozilla don’t want to left behind and they have already started working on Firefox 3.6 successor Firefox 3.7. To our surprise Mozilla is ready with first Preview version Firefox 3.7 Pre-alpha build.
Firefox 3.7 is nightly build by all means not even a full fledged Alpha release. Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 looks just as its precursors, and feels much in the same way as well. This is nothing more than an early Alpha release.
Release notes and download link here

Teracopy

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:
  • Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
  • Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
  • Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
  • Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
  • Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
  • Full Unicode support. 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Sims 2 :Double Deluxe

THE SIMS: DELUXE EDITION

About a year later I realised I was starting to miss playing on The Sims, and I wanted to buy a new CD rom of it exactly the same. I searched the shelves in the supermarkets for it, but couldn't find it, I searched everywhere but it was either too expensive at around £25 or over, or they just didn't sell it. So, I decided it was time to look online. I went on eBay looking for it and there it was.
But as I was about to click on it, I saw 'The Sims: Deluxe Edition' from the corner of my eye at a lower price. I had heard of this version; my friend had it and she had told me about it being just like the original The Sims except even better.
I clicked onto the 'The Sims: Deluxe Edition' and read all about it.
  
What it is:
Basically 'The Sims: Deluxe Edition' is a combination of 'The Sims' and 'The Sims 'Livin It Up'. It also includes 'The Sims Creator' which is an added feature where you can customise every detail of how you want your sims to look, it is a little bit like Paint on Windows and you can colour in their hair, eyes, clothes and style and then save new outfits which are then added to your sim's wardrobes.
This also includes exclusive deluxe content: 25+ new objects for their houses and 50+ new clothing styles for their wardrobes.