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… you can as well sit down and wait for every download to be completed before turning-off your computer and walking-away. A download is capable of leaving your computer on for several hours even after the download has been completed — it would’ve been just great to download while your computer is turned off, that not being possible, you can at least make sure your computer shuts down at the end of the last active download to save energy and conserve batteries — if you’re a Firefox user you can get that done. More»
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The popular open source media player VLC gets a maintenance release to fix bugs found in previously released VLC 1.0.1. VLC 1.0.1 that was rolled out about two months ago had a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in VLC 1.0.2. VLC 1.0.2 fixes issues in subtitles, Theora video compression format and Ogg, it addresses dvb-c channels-scanning and fixes some playlist sorting issues.
Mac OS X Port users benefit most from this update that addresses issues like, VLC crashing during an update, a newly added “Quit after Playback” feature and a full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 amongst other feature. See the changelog.
Because of the security issues addressed in this release, the VLC team strongly recommends everyone to update to VLC 1.0.2.
VLC is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2).
Download VLC 1.0.2 ~ for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows
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Why use another Twitter application when the Twitter teams keeps rolling out design tweaks for its web version? I no longer find it necessary to get a “”full fleshed” and often bulky Twitter application with all the new features the web browser version offers.
Twitter fans who use the web browsers for tweeting like Firefox can further boost up their Twitter experience with Greasemonkey and user-scripts (Opera users can try Emulate Greasemonkey Functions to boost Twitter). If Twitter for you means using a Twitter-focused application to update your status and view those of your Twitter friends (and not integrating MySpace, or updating to Facebook) then you can also pick-up an add-on, a Firefox extension called Echofon (formerly known as TwitterFox ) to bring some of those features you might miss in “full fleshed” Twitter clients like dedicated columns for tweets from “All Friends”, “Replies” and “Direct messages”.
When installed it puts a tiny icon on Firefox status bar that notifies you when your Twitter contacts post tweets, replies, mentions -- if the “Show pop-up” feature is activated.
-- You can easily update your Twitter status with a drag n’ drop. Select the text and drop it into the Echofon interface.
-- All clicked links open-up in new tabs. Echofon also manages multiple Twitter accounts. More»
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: The Mozilla Thunderbird team released today the fourth beta of its popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3. This new beta release is available for download for all major operating systems, Linux included and has supports for 42 different languages. The release notes of Thunderbird 3 beta 4 is a long run-down of improvements and confirmations. [Update:1] Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 is the last planned beta before Thunderbird 3 final. More»
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FacePAD a.k.a Facebook Photo Album Downloader is a Firefox extension that makes it very easy for you to download your Facebook photo albums, albums of friends, events and groups on your computer. When installed, it adds to your right-click menu a “Download Album with FacePAD” option. To download an album from Facebook Events or Groups, right-click on the “See All” link on the main page of the Facebook group or event, whilst to download a friend’s photo album, right-click on the name of the album and click the “Download Album with FacePAD” option.
FacePad currently supports German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and French (Canada) and default English language. Setup your preferred language in Tools > Add-ons -> FacePAD Preferences. FacePAD is a free download for all platforms with Firefox.
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