Adobe AIR gets a major upgrade as it moves to version 2.0. This is still a beta release, but a beta worth trying given the many improvements this beta has with respect to Adobe AIR 1.0. Despite the many flaws in version 1.0 it still succeeded in pushing to our desktops great applications like the Twitter client TweetDeck. More»
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Google Chrome Frame plug-in that plugs Chrome into Internet Explorer browser has been update to version 4.0.245.1. This update tries to stop Chrome Frame from crashing, to fix a security issue present in earlier versions that made them vulnerable to a cross-origin bypass and fixes several bugs like; More»
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Windows: Sumatra, the lightweight, open source PDF reader has reached version 1.0. This free PDF reader for Windows only made its way into the PDF-world back in 2008 and (was mentioned on this blog) immediately became an alternative to the rather bulky Adobe Reader (with its boring updates).
Sumatra focuses mainly on PDF viewing, it takes less than 3 seconds to launch a 20 page PDF document. Version 1.0 is a major landmark, it comes with lots of small bug fixes to complete version 0.9.4 that saw improvements such as; PDF compatibility, SyncTex, and a polished User Interface amongst others.
Sumatra PDF power users will find the keyboard shortcuts very useful. Shift Ctrl + for example is certainly faster to do than View -> Rotate right
Download Sumatra PDF 1.0 for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: Mozilla made sync that comes in the form of an extension for Firefox and Fennec (Mozilla’s mobile version of Firefox) browsers is now close to version 1.0. Weave Sync add-on v1.0 tries to close the gab between it and more popular Xmarks by adding features already present in the latter. More»
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: Sun Microsystem has released the beta version of VirtualBox 3.1. Given that VirtualBox 3.1 is going to be a major update, this beta is a useful way to evaluate all the new features that might be present in the VirtualBox 3.1 final.
Virtualbox 3.1 beta comes with; Teleportation (live migration), that is, you can move a running virtual machine session from one computer to another. Enabled 2D video acceleration for Windows guests that uses the host video hardware for overlay stretching and colour conversion. The network attachment type can be changed while the virtual machine is running, that is you can switch from LAN to Wifi without having to re-start the virtual machine. More»
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