The award-winning web browser Firefox has released version 3.5 final for public download.
The noticeable improvement for the new verision in speed, the official Mozilla web site states that "Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2." Other features include Private Browsing, HTML5 support etc.
If you are using the old version or CA of 3.5, it is time to upgrade now!
Download: Firefox 3.5 final for Windows, Linux and Mac
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Dictionary .Net is a tiny (64 KB), easy (no install needed) multilingual dictionary.
There are up to 43 languages supported for translation including:
(Dictionary + Translation) Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hindi, Italian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Thai(Translation only) Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
The result is from Google Dictionary, Translate, Suggest and Wikipedia.
Download: Dictionary .Net 1.6
Mozilla has made the third RC of the award-winning Web Browser Firefox’ version 3.5. Hopfully, the final one comes after this.
Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 win32
Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 linux-i686
Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 mac
What’s New in Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate)
Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:
- This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.
Free utility Gmail Notifier is the best companion for Gmail fans. The features include:
Of course, there is NO spyware or SPAM.
Download: Gmail Notifier 1.0.0.20
Requirements: Windows XP and 512 MB, or above
VLC media player is turning into 1.0.0 soon. As announced on their news channel, the new version of the featured VLC media player will get released early next week.
The best part that makes VLC stand out is that the program can be used not only as a media player, but also a converter or a stream server.
You can download VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC4 now, or wait until the final version comes out (soon).
Download: VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC4 (Windows/Linux/Mac)
FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP/SFTP client with lots of features. The latest stable release is FileZilla 3.2.5 which has some minor changes and bugfixes.
Download: FileZilla 3.2.5
The new release of Firefox 3.5 RC2 has come, if you are eager to try the grestest web browser, you can download Firefox 3.5 RC2 from Mozilla web site straight away.
While normal user could still stay with the latest stable version of Firefox 3.0.11, since the RC version is intended for developers and members of the testing community.
uTorrent is a lightweight BitTorrent client that was designed to be efficient yet offer all functoinality.
The latest release 1.8.3 for Windows can be downloaded here: http://download.utorrent.com/1.8.3/utorrent.exe
A lot of bugs have been fixed for this release, and "uTP support has been much improved to better handle mixed-mode uTP and TCP. It is not enabled by default for outgoing connections." according to the official release announce.
Opera has announced a new technology called Opera Unite, so what is that? The short answer is: Opera Unite is a way to turn your computer into a Web Server.
Product analyst Lawrence Eng says, "With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications."
A media application has come with Opera Unite as a demostration. Using this Jukebox tool, all "united" friends will select their favorite songs, and combine together to form a virture online radio.
And Lawrence Eng believes that "That’s just the tiniest tip of the iceberg—the potential for what can be done is much larger. The key to Opera Unite is that it enables a whole new class of social software on the Web, applications that benefit from two or more people being online at the same time. And, with Opera Unite, these people can all connect directly without needing middlemen who control third-party servers."
Couldn’t wait? Download your install pack here:
Opera Unite builds for Mac: Standard dmg installer | Intel installer
Opera Unite builds for Linux/Unix: Unix build | Ubuntu 32-bit | Ubuntu 64-bit
Opera Unite builds for Windows: Classic installer | Standard MSI installer
You may also check this articles to get started with Opera Unite: An introduction to Opera Unite. If you are interested in contributing to Opera community, check this Opera Unite developer’s primer.
Here is one the screenshot provided on Opera site, click to enlarge:
You can use Messenger(Download Windows Live Messenger 2009) to send instant messages, play online games and transfer photos with your friends. Also, you can customize the theme of the windows, show your latest picture and what you are listening to. You can put your favorite people on top of others, get to know as soon as they arrive online. With the new verison of MSN Messenger, user can drag pictures directly into the conversation window and show them to your friends while chatting. You can also receive contacts’ update, learn what your contats have been doing on the Internet. Even if your contact is offline, you can send SMS messages from Messenger to their mobile phone.
Visit the Live Essential page to get more Windows Live products including Writer, Mail, Photo Gallery.
