Thursday, February 7, 2008

IncrediMail 5.7.0.3370 Beta

This comprehensive email client is great fun to use, and being similar in layout to Outlook Express it takes minutes to become familiar with.


On top of standard features you get loads of groovy extras, such as 3D animated menus and a plethora of images and effects that can be added to outgoing emails.

Add images and animations to emails, along with backgrounds, sounds and special fonts. Combine these features to create unique emails that reflect your personality and mood.

One very nice feature is that handwritten signatures can be added to emails for that personal touch.

Loads of extra free animations, sounds, backgrounds, e-cards - great for sending to friends - fonts, and much more are available to download from the IncrediMail website.

IncrediMail.com

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Apple - iPhone is 16GB, iPod touch 32GB !


Apple today announced new iPhone and iPod models with larger memory capacities to solve the ever growing craze for more portable storage. This move doubles the amount of memory that was previously available on the top iPhone and iPod models.

Both new models (the 16GB iPhone and the 32GB iPod Touch) will sell for US$499.

Apple will continue to sell the 8GB iPhone and the 16GB iPod touch for US$399 each. Apple will also continue the junior 8GB iPod touch at US$299.

Some analysts are worried that a potential U.S. recession could affect sales of luxury items such as these portable devices. Apple stock is down more than 33 per cent this year.

Reuters.com

Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users. In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody Player Engine during the RealPlayer installation.

"RealPlayer 11 does not disclose that it installs Rhapsody Player Engine, and does not remove the software when RealPlayer is uninstalled," Stopbadware says in the report. Rhapsody Player Engine is required to access RealNetwork's online music service. But because users are not told that they have installed the product it could become a liability, using up the computer's hard-drive space or processing power, or even creating a security risk for consumers if bugs are discovered in Rhapsody, said Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware's manager.

infoworld.com

Sunday, February 3, 2008

GTA "Wanted" Posters!


The viral marketing has begun. Apparently, several “Wanted” posters have been spotted in New York bearing the face of GTA IV protagonist, Niko Bellic. The poster, issued by the Liberty City Police Department, warns that Bellic is wanted for assault with a deadly weapon and suggests that he be shot on sight. Something tells me this won’t be the last of the game’s viral marketing before it sees release.

GIMP for Windows 2.4.4


GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 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. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Features and Capabilities:

    Painting
    - Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
    - Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
    - Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
    - Supports custom brushes and patterns

    System
    - Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
    - Virtuallya unlimited number of images open at one time

    Advanced Manipulation
    - Full alpha channel support
    - Layers and channels
    - Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
    - Editable text layers
    - Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
    - Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
    - Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
    - Transformable paths, transformable selections.
    - Quickmask to paint a selection and more...
What's New:
  • fixed typo in stock icon name
  • fixed handling of PSD files with empty layer names (bug #504149)
  • merged TinyScheme bug-fixes
  • removed duplicate entry from Tango palette
  • corrected parameter range in Chip Away script (bug #506110)
  • reduced redraw priority and speed of the marching ants (bug #479875)
  • fixed out-of-bounds array access in Convolution Matrix plug-in
  • reduced rounding errors in Convolution Matrix plug-in (bug #508114)
  • fixed potential crash on missing CMYK color profile
  • fixed crash in Bumpmap plug-in when called from some scripts (bug #509608)
  • Equalize should not equalise the alpha channel (bug #510210)
  • increased the number of points the ImageMap plug-in can handle (bug #511072)
  • adjusted the priority of the projection renderer (bug #511214)
  • smooth the brush mask to get a simpler cursor boundary (bug #304798)
  • show the selection even if the image window is invisible (bug #505758)
  • allow to commit a pending rectangular selection using Enter (bug #511599)
  • fixed bug in image dirty state logic (bug #509822)
  • improved GIMPressionist preformance and reduced startup time (bug #512126)
  • fixed a crash in the Convert to Color Profile plug-in (bug #512529)
  • merged some other minor fixes from trunk
  • translation updates (de, it, lt, ru, sv, uk)
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xB Browser 2.0.0.11

xB Browser (XeroBank Browser) is the free anonymous web browser. You're just a click away from anonymous surfing right now! The benefits of xB Browser is that it allows you to securely and anonymously surf the internet, bypass firewalls and website censorship. For enhanced privacy, xB Browser clears history of browing and deletes cookies when you close the browser.

The main advantages compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration, technical knowledge, or installation in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into xB Browser. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick so you can take it to work, school, or on vacation.

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Miranda 0.8.0 Testing #9

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.

The major change in this 0.8 series is the new Plugin API. Expect that some of your plugins won't work anymore; most plugin authors already released compatible versions, though.

Changelog | Development website