Mozilla has released the first release candidate (RC1) of Firefox for Maemo, the Debian based platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet Tablets. Fennec ‘Maemo’ is currently supported by Nokia N900 and N810. Users running Firefox for Maemo beta 5 will soon be prompted to update to the more stable release candidate. More»
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Last week Opera 10.50 pre-alpha was released for Windows and Mac platforms, the Unix version was still in the making and got into the wild yesterday. Opera 10.5 pre-alpha for Unix is now QT libraries non-dependent, so Unix platforms can rclasse Opera without having to install these these libraries; More»
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What if your ISP’s (Internet Service Provider) DNS Server is slower than alternatives like Google Public DNS or OpenDNS. Well its easy to know, grab Namebench and in less than 10 minutes you’ll find-out which free public DNS service is the best option for your computer. Namebench is a free benchmarking tool that searches for the fastest DNS servers for your computer by pitting your current DNS servers against free alternatives. More»
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µTorrent, the world’s most popular BitTorrent client is a light-weight Windows only application that is well known for its low resource-consuming ability and its speed, but is also known to put in-one-place most of the features (bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT) you’ll find in other BitTorrent clients like Azureus or BitComet. uTorrent v2.0 (still a beta) adds UDP Support – UDP trackers are less resource intensive than HTTP trackers. They “put less strain on their servers”.
Rather than using the official µTorrent runnable to install the BitTorrent client in Ubuntu, I used µTorrent Portable by PortableApps that is lighter – it takes only 1MB of your hard disk or portable USB key space when installed. It has a more simplified installation process – µTorrent Portable actually trims the installation procedure by dropping the creation of launchers. You won’t find ‘Create Start Menu entry’ or ‘Create Quick launch icon’ as you’ll find in µTorrent.exe. It also drops the ‘Configuration’ step (click to see screenshot); and includes a online installer that downloads additional files during setup and updates the client. More»
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Lovers of the famous open source media center XBMC can now grab XBMC 9.11 final alias Camelot that comes with a new default Confluence Skin that replaces previous default PM3.HD. More»
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