It was announced that the preview of Camino 2.0 has been released.
Camino is an emerging star in the Mac environment. It is a browser that is increasingly being preferred by a growing number of users over Firefox and Safari. Camino uses Gecko like Firefox but its emphasis is on speed rather than extensibility.
One of Camino 2.0′s new features is the tab overview mode that shows the thumbnails of the tabs active on the browser. This makes managing a huge number of tabs easier. The browser history now also shows a list of recently closed pages.
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Categories: Applications
People who love to download stuff on the internet are usually faced with a common problem. They usually run out of hard drive space without them knowing it.
that’s why Tray Disk Free is such a great app to have. This application is only 29k and a windows only software. What it does after installation is to go resident in your system and monitor all of the drives in a system. It only consumes a megabyte of RAM.
By clicking the tray icon, you’ll see the main window pop up. The taskbar button allows you to see a full display of all the free space on your hard drive as well as the percentage of total drive space.
Tray Disk has the ability to support command line arguments that allow you to specify which drives to monitor, the display bar color as well as the number of seconds before it updates again. You can actually open multiple instances of the application so you can monitor multiple drives at the same time.
You can download Tray Disk Free on this link. This app is for Windows only. A reminder to Windows vista owners. You will have to put the MSVBVM50.dll on the same folder as the executable of Tray Disk.
Tags: Hard Drive, Tray Disk Free
Categories: Applications
Listeners to Last.Fm who wish they can also download the songs that they listen to can now do so with LastSharp.
You will have to have a rudimentary knowledge of German though.
The download link to the app is located right below the Aktuelle Version text, which leads to Rapidhsare or download mirrors. No installation is needed, all you need is to extract the rar’ed file. Another requirement is for .Net 2.0 to run on your PC.
The app, though in German, can be changed to show English by clicking the Erweiterte Einstellungen tab. All you need to do to use LastSharp is to use your Las.Fm username and password and use the search function. Just check the songs you want to download and you’re done.
This is one nifty tool that will definitely increase your Mp3 collection.
Tags: Last.Fm, LastSharp
Categories: Applications
Google Calendar users will surely appreciate the GCal Popup extension for Firefox.
Upon installing the add-on, you will see a calendar icon in the status bar. When you click it, Google Calendar will pop up over any tab that you’re browsing. When you want to get rid of the pop, just click the close button.
This is a great solution for Google Calendar users who do not want to open a new tab just to open the calendar.
Tags: Firefox, Google Calendar
Categories: Applications
The news over Google Chrome has hardly cooled down but there’s already a new “fastest browser in town.”
Minefield is getting raves even with just its alpha release. Before you count it as another new entrant, Minefield is actually an early build of the next version of Firefox. The newly improved javascript engine has made it significantly faster. Purportedly it is even ten percent faster than Google Chrome.
You can test Minefield for yourself by downloading it at this link.
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Categories: Applications
Google continues its commitment with the mobile platform with the release of Gmail for mobile 2.0.
Gmail for Mobile can be used on Blackberry phones as well as all J2ME phones.
The updated app now offers offline support, which allows you to read and compose email messages even when there is no signal. Composed messages are automatically put in the outbox and sent as soon as there is a signal.
There is also multiple account support, which will benefit those with multiple Gmail or Google Apps accounts.
Download the latest version at http://m.google.com/mail.
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Categories: Applications
Ubuntu fans will be happy to hear that Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex will be released on the 30th of October. A release candidate is now available though for people who can’t wait for that date. If no bugs are found on the said release candidate between now and next Thursday, this build will become the final version of Ubuntu 8.10.
Ubuntu 8.04 users can also easily upgrade their OS to the latest version. Detailed instructions are available on the release notes.
users of Ubuntu Studio are not recommended to upgrade to 8.10 yet because the kernel it uses (Linux kernel 2.6.27) has latency problems.
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Categories: Applications
Microsoft has released another alternative to synchronizing mobile phone data to your computer.
The Microsoft Phone Data Manager is an improvement over the old Windows Mobile Device Manager or ActiveSync in that you can use it on non-Windows Mobile phones. Additionally, it also allows you to sync with Windows Live Services. This means your data can be made accessible from any web browser.
You can give the Windows Phone Data Manager a try by downloading it at this link.
Tags: Microsof, Phone Data Manager
Categories: Applications
One of the most popular freeware image editors now has a new version.
Gimp has recently released version 2.5.4, which fixes a number of items while also adding a new feature.
First up are the fixes. The new version has fixed some user interface bugs. The fixes include the ability to recover docks and toolboxes if the window menu is accidentally closed. Users can also lock the tabs to the dock in order to prevent it from being accidentally dragged out. Additionally, the presets can be saved at the color tools. The application’s help system has also been improved and there is now online browsing support. A good addition to the application is a blank placeholder window where files that are being edited can be dragged and dropped for easy access.
You can download Gimp 2.5.4 at this link.
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Categories: Applications
As far legally downloadable apps and utilities go, Google has been providing some of the best in the last few years.
Another cool addition to their expanding line of applications is Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s first web browser. The new browser is a good example of simplicity. There are no excessive buttons or toolbars, what you get is a clean interface that maximizes the available space.
As a logical extension of its design aesthetic, Chrome introduces the omnibar. What it basically did is to transform the address bar into a multifunction tool where you not only type in the website address you want to visit, it also serves as a search bar. One cool thing is that when you use the built-in search function of a website, the omnibar will remember it and the next time you can do that in-site search through the bar itself.
The best thing about Chrome is that it is open source so expect a lot of development going on from third parties.
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Categories: Applications
