Firefox 4 ‘Heads Up Display’ for Web Developers

When I wrote Firefox 4 begins to take shape, Heads Up Display (HUD) — for web developers wasn’t there, it was pushed in days after the post. More

VLC Portable 1.1.0 for your Pen Drive

VLC media player 1.1.0 with hard acceleration and WebM support was officially released yesterday for Mac, Linux and Windows OS. The no-install version for Windows platforms, a carbon copy of the original is now available for your portable drives. It takes only 21MB of your drive and can be run on systems with previous versions.

VLC Portable 1.1.0 is a free download released under the Open Source (GPL) license.

uTorrent 3.0 Alpha BitTorrent Client Released

The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released a preview of its next major update uTorrent 3.0. Falcon 2.1 (encrypted webUI that doesn’t require port forwarding) and standard 2.1 alphas have now been merged into uTorrent 3.0 Alpha for testing and the uTorrent 2.1 development series has been dropped. More

GIMP 2.6.9 Released

While waiting for the official release of Gimp 2.7 that introduces the ‘single window mode’ and other goodies, Gimp has just been updated to version 2.6.9, a regular 2.6 stable branch release with no new features but many bug fixes that handle issues in Gimp 2.6.8 such as; shared memory leaks, issues when importing PDF files with long titles, crashes when using the path tool, and more. For the complete list of changes in this version, have a look at the release notes. Binary packages for various supported platforms will soon be available at Gimp Downloads

Block adult web content with OpenDNS FamilyShield [No Install]

OpenDNS has launched an easy to setup service called FamilyShield that allows parents, administrators, users to filter web content and keep their computers free from adult web sites. This free service that needs no account to configure, no downloads or software to install works much like how OpenDNS Basic does. More