Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX API
Download: DirectX 9.0c November 2008
Download: DirectX 9.0c November 2008 (Web Installer)
Published November 7th, 2008
By Martin
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BurnAware Free Edition allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.
BurnAware Free Edition has a modern interface and supports Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit). The application is free and contains absolutely no adware or annoying banners.
Features:
- Absolutely FREE. No spyware, no adware, no banners
- Writes to all CD/DVD media types including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE)
- Writes discs from disc images
- Writes DVDs from DVD-Video files
- Writes Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files
- Creates disc images
- Supports all current hardware interfaces
- On-the-fly writing for all image types
- Writes Multi-Session to all supported media formats
- Auto-verification of written files
- Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
- Clean, flexible, easy to use interface
- Supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit)
Download: BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.5
View: BurnAware Free Edition
Published November 6th, 2008
By Martin
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Flock is a social Web browser, open source, cross platform and based on Mozilla technologies. Currently, the browser implements support for del.icio.us and Flickr. Users can also install alternative hosted bookmarks or photo sharing services. In the search box and the blog manager, Flock offer users a number of choices and the ability to install other services using open standards. Expect the same, over time, for hosted bookmarks, photo-sharing and other services Flock integrates. Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.
Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.
When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.
Download: Flock Flock 2.0.1
View: Flock Home Page
Published November 6th, 2008
By Martin
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Songbird is a desktop media player built on the same platform as firefox, which allows seamless integration with all platforms, be it Windows, Mac or Linux.
Songbird is a player that, apart from serving as your everyday desktop based media player, plays media from the web. You can browse web sites from the player itself and if you land on sites that contain music it will crawl that page and create playlists from all the media present on that page.
What more? You can just click on the song in the playlist and it will play it just like it will play your local audio. It downloads the ID3 tag information and everything, and you can save the song by dragging and dropping it into your library. Yes it’s as simple as that.
Download: Songbird 1.0.0 RC 1
View: Release Notes
View: Song Bird Home Page
Published November 5th, 2008
By Martin
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Microsoft is currently working on the new Windows operating system called “Windows 7″ (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna), and several beta version has already hit the internet.
Windows 7 is expected to be released some where between second half of 2009 and January 2010, and will of course be packed with new and exciting features and bug fixes (As already seen in some of the beta versions), such as enhanced reliability, responsiveness, and faster boot and shut-down.
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We will keep you updated on Windows 7, but for now you can always check out the new Windows 7 home page and the team blog.
View: Windows 7 Home Page
View: Windows Team Blog
Published November 4th, 2008
By Martin
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Those of you that are using Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta, will be happy to know that Messenger Plus! Live 4.79 has just been released, and is now fully compatible with it.
Keep in mind that this is beta material so no support will be given for it, and it might not work as intended, tho i haven’t experienced any problems yet.
Download: Messenger Plus! Live 4.79 Beta
View: Messenger Plus! Live Home Page
View: Changelog
Published November 1st, 2008
By Martin
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The awaited beta for Call of Duty World at War is now available to the public.
There are no limits to how many players can join the beta rather, the keys from the Call of Duty website are used to create individual profiles and find friends more easily. Players are advised that the beta won’t last long, as the finished game drops for PC, PS2, PS3, 360, Wii and DS on November 11.
Download: Call of Duty World at War Beta | Mirror
View: Call Of Duty Website
Published October 29th, 2008
By Martin
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MessengerDiscovery Live is a Windows Live Messenger addon which adds well over 150 new features and customisations for Messenger. It contains no form of virus or spyware and is 100% free to download and use.
Features:
- Parental Controls
- Only allow certain accounts to sign into Messenger
- Block accounts from signing to Messenger that use profanity
- Protect MD settings with parental lock
- Unblock a contact after a certain amount of time
- Option to delete the contact as well
- If you are offline when the contact is scheduled to be unblocked then they will be unblocked upon next sign in
- Allow conversation windows to stay open after signing out
- Automatically decline group conversations when status is not “Online”
- Change the visibility (opacity) of contact list
- Change the visibility (opacity) of conversation windows
- Promote MessengerDiscovery and win a iPod, everything is done automatically
New Features in 1.5
- Webcam recording
- Encrypted instant messages
- Beautiful skinable alerts
- Entirely new settings interface
- Pinable contacts
- Webcam snapshots
- Over 50 other improvements and features
Changelog:
- Fix of memory leak from alerts
- Preliminary support for Windows Live Messenger 9 (full support will come in MessengerDiscovery 2)
- Fix of !command lag
- Webcam recorder will now record in any codec
- Numerous other fixes
Download: MessengerDiscovery Live 1.5.0800
View: Full Changelog
View: MessengerDiscovery Live Home Page
Published October 27th, 2008
By Martin
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CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) it’s free and contains no Spyware or Adware.
CCleaner has been tried and tested with Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It’s currently partially compatible with 64bit XP and Vista, there are a few non-critical issues which are still being worked on.
Changelog:
- Added support for Firefox 3.1.
- Added right-click cleaning and analysis for individual items in the tree.
- Added icons to tree parent items.
- Added cleaning for Windows Error Reporting files.
- Added Include/Exclude list editing.
- Improved TypeLib registry cleaning.
- Fixed Index.dat bug that could cause a crash.
- Fixed bug with INI warning messages.
- Internal architecture improvements.
- Fixed minor GUI errors.
Download: CCleaner 2.13.720
View: CCleaner Home Page
Published October 27th, 2008
By Martin
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Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
Features:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
- WYSIWYG
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document
- Multi-View
- Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
- Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
- Dynamic position of Views
- File Status Auto-detection
- Zoom in and zoom out
- Multi-Language environment supported
- Bookmark
- Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
- Macro recording and playback
Click to view changelog
Changelog:
1. Make Notepad++ Unicode-compliant application(Unicode path supported).
2. Fix crash issue due to the incoherent modification/creation date.
3. Enhance Find in files feature : launch in thread, stop as wish.
4. Add find/replace dialog memorize capacity.
5. Fix “find in all opened files” and “find in files” unicode text search bug.
6. Fix “replace” and “replace all” bug.
7. Fix tag match highlighting mismatched bug.
8. Make tag match highlighting on non html zone optional.
9. Fix cpu high consumption bug while document is cloned with smart highlighting and xml matched highlighting features activating.
10. Refine the Save/Open file directory settings (follow tab/last operation/user defined dir).
11. Add “Doc go to new instance” and “Doc open in new instance” features.
12. Move document to another instance of Notepad++ via drag and drop document tab.
13. Add new pluin notification NPPN_DOCACTIVATED and NPPN_LANGCHANGED.
14. Fix context menu incorrect setting crash bug.
15. Fix crash problem while typing Chinese character in ANSI CSS document under Chinese environment.
16. Fix a problem with Incremental search+UTF8 in win9x.
17. Fix the User defined language not working in Unicode version bug.
18. Fix bug with CPP lexer keyword list.
19. Fix auto-completion not woring for HTML, SQL and RC problem.
20. Fix html, sql and rc auto-completion bug.
21. Fix cancel to save file in Notepad++ can not stop system shutdown problem.
22. Fix bug with opening relative path files.
23. Fix bug with clearing read-only flag.
24. Fix wrap after save as bug.
25. Improve “reload from disk” behaviour.
26. Add option to only show the filename in the titlebar.
27. Add NPPM_[G/S]ET_BUFFERLANGTYPE, NPPM_[G/S]ET_BUFFERENCODING, NPPM_[G/S]ET_BUFFERFORMAT messages to access buffer properties.
28. Remove all the comic sans font (finally 
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Download: Notepad++ 5.1
View: Notepad++ Home Page
Published October 26th, 2008
By Martin
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