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Volery (Single Installer For All Your Favourite Applications) Is Now Open For Everyone, Changes Name To Ninite [Windows]

Volery

Volery, the website which provides a single installer for all your favourite Windows applications used to be an in private beta and people needed an invite code.

Starting today, Volery (now called Ninite) is available for everyone. You don't even need an account, simply go to it's website, select the applications you want to include in your installer and then simply download it.

The basic version is free for personal use and will remain so, but the Ninite developers are planing to add a premium version. Until then, advanced features like caching downloads to save bandwidth are free too. Details about these advanced features, HERE.

Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Release Candidate Released



Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 RC was released today. I know you were expecting lots of screen shots but there are no big improvements, just bug fixes mostly and minor improvements which include:

-Linux kernel 2.6.31.1
-Some minor tweaks to the login screen and boot splash
-Quickly, a new software which will help developers to build and share applications for Ubuntu.

Download Panda Internet Security For Free - Today Only

Panda Internet Security 2010Panda Internet Security 2010 protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. The anti-spam engine will keep your inbox free from junk mail while the Parental Control feature ensures your children can use the Web safely. And thanks to the new Collective Intelligence technology, the solution is now much faster than previous versions. And obviously, since the giveaway is available for October, 22 (the Windows 7 launch day), Panda Internet Security is fully compatible with Windows 7.

TrueCrypt 6.3 Brings Support For Windows 7 And Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

TrueCrypt 6.3 has been released yesterday.

TrueCrypt is a free software application used for real-time on-the-fly encryption, for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Version 6.3 brings Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support, and also the ability to configure selected volumes as "system favourite volumes" in order to, for example, mount them before the system and application services start, or before users start logging on.

Complete changes can be found HERE.

Download TrueCrypt 6.3

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) 0.4 Available - See What's New [Linux]

After a few months of development, AWN (Avant Window Navigator) 0.4 is available for beta testing.

In case you don't know, Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (or at least it used to, read on!). It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets.



The new AWN 0.4 comes with lots of new features, such as:


1. Finally you can position the dock to the left, top or right side of the screen. You can also adjust the distance from the corner. This also works great with multi-screen.

2. New styles:

-Curved:

avant window navigator curved

-Floaty:

awn volant

-Corner (edgy):

awn edgy


(the element on the left can be any applet you want)

- Extended mode (AWN can be extended to the whole width of the screen). This basically means you can use AWN as a whole gnome panel for instance. Take a look at the following screencast:

Flickr Adds People Tagging

If you use Facebook, you’re surely familiar with the option to tag the people in your photos. The feature both identifies them to viewers of the picture and lets them know a photo that includes them has been posted on the site.

Today, Flickr added a people tagging option as well:

We’ve launched People in Photos, a new feature that will help put a face to the Flickrverse and enable you to highlight members that you’ve photographed in a whole new way. People in Photos lets you add a member to a photo, find photos of people you know, and manage which photos you’re in. Huzzah!


(from the Flickr blog)

flickr people tagging

Google To Integrate Twitter Search Too

Just a few hours after Twitter announced it would be integrated into Microsoft Bing search, Google also announced it will include Twitter status updates into it's search engine.


At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.

Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.


said Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience in a blog post.

New Free Software From Autodesk: Project Cooper [Windows]

From Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD, comes a new, free application called Project Cooper - a drafting tool for simple architectural drawings.

Project Cooper
(Image credits: download.cnet.com)

Project Cooper is like AutoCAD, stripped down to the bone and then some, and that makes it a lot easier to use. It's also built for Windows 7 touch screen computers, so you can drag and rotate and objects without a mouse or keyboard.

CheckMyTorrentIP Verifies That Your VPN and Proxy Are Always Working [BitTorrent]

checkmytorrentip

CheckMyTorrentIP is new a free service which verifies your anonymity when you download a file using a BitTorrent client. This includes VPNs and proxies:

“Anonymizing services like VPNs and Proxies aren’t always 100% effective so this tool helps users harden their setups.

There are many applications and web based tools that display your IP-address, but there can not always test your BitTorrent connection accurately. With CheckMyTorrentIP you can”


said the CheckMyTorrentIP founder, Danny Carpenter.

Caffeine 1.0 For Linux Released

Caffeine is a Gnome applet which basically prevents your computer's screensaver and power saving to activate. The applet works simple but effective: a coffee-cup will be displayed and when you click it, the coffee-cup fills up and keeps your computer from going to sleep.

Caffeine in activated state


Caffeine in deactivated state