(personal) Worthy Free Updates of the Day. - Page 2

Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1356

http://www.notebookforums.com/post30...ml#post3090562

cheers ...

Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0928

Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0928

"Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

* Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
* Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
* Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
* Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
* High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware."

Get it here, or via app update option!

cheers ...

Magic Formation, DeskHedron and WinFlip

I want to share a set of cool desktop utilities that I have been using over the years. Surprisingly, they work even on current Vista and W7 - 32 and 64 Bits.

* Magic Formation:

A cool dock app, working with "pages", meaning you can categorize the apps that belong to one set of dock display.

* DeskHedron:

"a tool which switch the desktop by using 3D GUI.

*This software doesn't support multi monitor environment.

At 3D view you can switch the desktop by mouse wheel or left and right cursor keys.
DeskHedron can organize approximately 9 desktops, and switch the desktop"

* WinFlip:

Need to say more, a personal "a 'Flip 3D' function for Windows XP
It provides an alternate window-switcher to the standard Windows Alt-Tab. Winflip displays all open windows in a 3D stack, which the user can flick through and select using either keyboard or mouse."

^^No need under Vista and W7.

http://tokyodownstairs.blogspot.com/...formation.html

cheers ...

Firefox 3.5.3

Firefox 3.5.4

- Several security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528)
- After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619)

cheers ...

Now 2.60!

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Strange, is it not ?

Well I did give Chrome a good try of many weeks and months, and we do use it in the office now and then; bottom line for me is that Chrome (and Google) has a long way to go before I would trust and use it as the main browser.

cheers ...

Update post #24 with FF 3.5.4

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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

"* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies."

One can get Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 direct from Mozilla site or here.

I personally recommend that users installing an add-on like the Nightly Tester Tools is in case of current extensions compatibility.

cheers ...

Firefox 3.5.5:

- loads of stability fixes.

cheers ...

Flash Player 10.1.51.45 Beta

Flash Player 10.1.51.45 Beta

Change log.

"Graphics:
- 'Show Redraw Regions' draws on the entire swf even though only a part of it is changing. (1935032)
- Images render blank when scaled to specific sizes see example. (2201051)

Network:
- Time stamp doesn't get properly set in the request using URLRequestHeader. (2200991)
- FileReference.download does not return an error even it doesn't have enough space to save the file to download. (2316411)
- [FP-1585] loaderInfo Event.COMPLETE not dispatched if wmode is "transparent" or "opaque". (2345794)
- [FP-2746] Multi-domain inter-VM LocalConnection failure (2446591)

Audio/Video:
- Calling close after calling seek without calling play first won't actually close stream. (2201102)
- Attaching and detaching Audio while publishing with record option leads to loss of data. (2216926)
- Problem in playing only audio or only video after audio video h264 streaming in same subscriber. (2217003)
- When AAC is published from FME, setting buffer from default or 0 to something else e.g. 1 causes playback stop with buffer length growing. (2296673)
- Play video then stop, remove from the display list, the CPU usage is about 2.5 - 3.8% higher then before playing the video. (2314914)
- Live mp3 playback loses audio after 20 min or so. (2341618)
- [FP-220] Video stops playing if one right clicks in the browser, even if its in a different tab. (2384290)
- Screen dimming while playing video in fullscreen mode. (1935054)
- Audio playback worsens on Mac while switching browser tabs with certain videos. (2275111)
- [FP-178] -Video.clear fails. Clears only 1 pixel when Video.smoothing = true. (2200576)
- [FP-1936] win32 microphone deadlocks on unplug active USB microphone. (2200836)

Text/Text Input:
- High memory usage when using a longer string in TextLine. (1779180)
- Text with tracking applied does not align to tab stops correctly. (1883771)
- Tracking should not visible after the last character of tcy block. (1894774)
- ElementFormat.trackingLeft and ElementFormat.trackingRight are incorrectly applied to GraphicElement. (1906889)
- Justify all lines with "Track Right" and "Track Left" leave an empty space after and before each line respectively. (1907579)
- Kinsoku Can't-Begin-Line character and Can't End-Line character. settings is ignored if a character in front or after is tcy. (1916601)
- FTE TextLine.textWidth exceeds the specified width causing horizontal scrolling problem for Gumbo TextArea. (1929381)
- [FP-836, FP-838] Player needs Unicode character input: Hindi, and Maltese characters with accents do not show up properly. (2200969)
- [FP-40, FP-501] Cannot enter Chinese characters MS IME or even the @ symbol on a German keyboard in input field on Firefox when wmode is set. (2216616)
- Arial Black is not being measured correctly when used with FTE and TCAL/TLE, etc (2216941)
- [SDK-18311] Setting scrollRect or mask on a DisplayObject breaks sub-pixel font rendering. (2273704)
- Soft hyphenations don't appear in one-word text lines. (2363098)
- SWF built to use CharacterRange and new InteractiveObject methods for IME and MSAA support won't run on Flash Player 10.0.22. (2399753)
- [FP-1877] Can't input Japanese characters in text field if wmode "opaque" or "transparent" is set true except IE. (2405319)
- [FP-40] International text entry broken in Linux reports in Flash Player 9.0.48 or higher. (2201048)
- On Mac, a textInput event is fired after the users presses Command+Z. On other platforms, this event is suppressed. (1905332)
- TextLine using Bauhaus 93 font causes runtime exception. (2266418)
- Double byte characters can't be input in Firefox Mac. (2366116)
- TextField variable performance issue. (1455343)
- Key-in 80 2-byte Chinese characters with MS Pinyin IME 2003 , display as "?" on Windows XP and Vista in terms. (1639284)
- Event flash.events.IMEEvent.IME_COMPOSITION does not fire in 'test movie’ in Flash Professional when composing Chinese, even using MS Pinyin IME 3.0. (1646878)
- Arabic vocalization diacritics Tashkil are not rendered correctly. (1930910)
- TextInput is newly broken in IE8 when running flash content in any windowless mode. (1933447)
- Pressing ALT deletes selected text from a TextInput when wmod=transparent. (2200014)
- Ideographic Space AKA Full Size Double Byte Space is changed into "@" with IE7, Flash 10 and WinXP. (2257161)
- Cursor and selection behavior is incorrect around control spaces. (2273650)

General:
- Flash Player now offers scroll-wheel support in browsers that support Cocoa events, such as Apple's Safari 4 browser.
- flash.trace.Trace doesn't return packages for methods in the classes which are internal. (2200893)
- rollOut not received when a hovered descendant is removed from the display list. (2344043)
- [FP-2563] Saving a SharedObject larger than 10MB always returns "SharedObject.Flush.Failed" from Local Storage increase dialog. (2449156)
- General webcam/microphone functionality not working. (2201070)
- [FP-922] mouseX, mouseY value changes on external click in Mac plug-in. (2200963)
- [FP-2009] CPU Utilization in an idle app is more than expected on Mac. (2294236)
- Objects with negative origins fall out of the tab order. (2200980)
- [FP-1034, FP-809] Flash Player can not save over files initially saved with a browser IE 7 on a clean Vista Home machine or Ultimate Vista with UAC enabled. (2217092)
- Stage-placed SimpleButton references not defined in time for frame scripts (2275212)
- [FP-1633] Full screen message is not localized in Czech.(2289525)
- [FP-2630] Capabilities.os doesn't return specific Windows 7 string, but just a generic "Windows" string instead. (2328444)
- [FP-2428] Buttons are null when navigating from frame to frame if a button contains a MovieClip. (2389049)
- Pressing a key causes a Sprite to be pinned in memory. (2302574)
- Page Down and Page Up keys do not trigger key events when testing with Safari. (2309814)
- [FP-702] PrintJob page size incorrectly returns values that include non printable margins. (2201057)
- [FP-1025] Player 10 detection failure after reboot, Vista. (1938166) "

Personal observations:

. Youtube HD content is clear, non-stuttering at full screen. Noticeable change here.

. Safari browser better performance at viewing streaming inputs.

Download here for :

. NON-IE

. IE

In conjunction with latest nVidia ForceWare 195.55 Release:

http://www.notebookforums.com/post31...ml#post3107409

cheers ...

I just tried a few moments ago with the HD clip of 2012 on youtube. Expand it to full screen and one can see the nice improvement in quality.

cheers ...

Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1367

Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1367

"
* improvements in the malware URL blockers
* solved a vulnerability in aswRdr.sys (CVE-2009-4049) (special thanks to Giuseppe Bonfa)"

Update via Avast! panel or here!

cheers ...

CCleaner 2.26.1050

CCleaner 2.26.1050

"
- Added support to clean Windows DNS cache.
- Added vacuum SQLite databases for Firefox and Google Chrome.
- Added publisher and version to Uninstall tool.
- Added Taskbar jump list tasks for Windows 7.
- Added Taskbar Progress for Windows 7.
- Improved Exclude list registry keys addition functionality in 64bit Windows 7.
- Improved Registry Cleaner detection algorithm and 64-bit file system redirection.
- Improved "Save to text file" functionality in Cleaner screen.
- Improved system tray icon activation and tooltip.
- Improved Registry screen "fix selected issues" dialog usability by removing prompt.
- Further improved RECURSE and REMOVESELF functionality.
- Improved Uninstall screen detection algorithm.
- Improved memory usage to avoid GDI leaks.
- Fixed issue with Sticky Notes being detected as Missing startup item.
- Fixed "Edit" and "Remove" button availability on Include/Exclude screen.
- Fixed various GUI bugs."

Download here!

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Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125

Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125

"* Now supports opening files containing special Unicode characters in filenames.
* Right-clicking the annotation with zoom tool will not popup annotation menu.
* When using the Commenting Tools, the color indicator will reflect your color selection.
* Now supports simultaneous viewing of multiple documents.
* Fixed the issue where some files display slowly in the print preview window.
* Fixed the issue where some pdf files cannot be opened in the correct positions."

Free here!

cheers ...

Firefox 3.5.6

Firefox 3.5.6

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.

cheers ...

MyDefrag 4.2.7

MyDefrag 4.2.7

" ...
* Fixed a bug that caused the screensaver to sometimes crash. The problem was an indirect result of a fix in v4.2.4.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the AddGap() action not to be executed.
* Fixed a problem that caused the gap for the NTFS reserved area to be filled again.
* Fixed a bug that could crash the program during analysis.
* Changed the behavior of the MaxRunTime setting.
* Changed the way the bootblock on FAT disks is read, to support non-default sector sizes.
* Changed the subroutine that vacates files out of the way to move NTFS compressed files more quickly.
* Added the "memory full" message to the translatable messages.
* Fixed a bug that would always create the registry keys, even if only being read. "

cheers ...