Foxit Reader 3.2.0.0303

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF standard 1.7.

• Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20MB size.
• Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
• Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
• Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
• High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

Change Log:

• Undo and Redo. Allows users to easily correct mistakes by cancelling their previous actions and quickly adding back in changes made with the Undo option, this makes it convenient for users to revoke their performances and enables better editing requirements.
• Expand Current Bookmark. Click the Expand Current Bookmark icon to expand nested bookmarks and highlight the bookmark of the current page.
• Grayscale Printing. Reader 3.2 supports to print in grayscale, using many shades of gray to represent subtle variations in color and light.
• Speed up printing. Foxit Reader has optimized the printing feature, improving the speed of printing dramatically.
• Logical Page Number Support. Display the physical and logical page number on the status bar at the bottom of the working area, enabling you to go right to the desired page fast and accurately.
• Hundreds bugs fixed

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uTorrent 2.0 Build 18620

µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client.

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size.

Skinnable and Localized

Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

Actively Developed and Improved

The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

Change Log:

• Fix: dismissing pairing dialog is now interpreted as no. "no" is also the default button

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WinRAR 3.93

WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

Change Log:

• In WinRAR 3.92 -xd:\path\folder switch could also exclude folders, which path does not match the path specified in the switch and only the folder name is the same as specified.
• Switches -y -or did not work correctly together. Switch -or was ignored in presence of -y.

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ATI Catalyst 10.3

AMD released version 10.3 of their ATI video card driver package.

New features:

• ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
• ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
• ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:

• Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
• Saturation value for a hotplugged digital display will no longer intermittently be set to '0' by default
• Enabling detail enhancement no longer causes dynamic contrast to stop functioning
• Catalyst Control Center system tray now displays the proper number of physical adapters
• Force EDID override now displays options above 85 Hz
• Resolutions no longer missing in Catalyst Control Center Graphics Desktop Properties with CV connected and displays in extended mode
• Forced anti-alias now functions properly in "The Saboteur" game
• Refresh rate changes no longer revert back to 60 Hz (default) when "Enable GPU
  Scaling" is enabled under Digital Panel Properties attributes
• "Aliens vs. Predators" game now loads properly when run in DirectX 11 mode on DirectX 9/10 graphics cards
• Mouse cursor no longer disappears on cloned displays after swapping the displays in primary and extended cloned mode
• Displays no longer goes blank on some of the ports after display is hot-unplugged and then hotplugged back
• Media Center no longer displays corruption when viewing DVB-T content
• Forced AF now works properly in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"

 View: Release notes
 Download: ATI Catalyst 10.3 driver

7-Zip 9.12 beta

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio and is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.

What's new:

• ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.
• The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work, if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).

 News source: Official website
 Download: 7-Zip 9.12 beta

Tweak7 1.01/TweakVista 2.01

Tweak7 and TweakVista have both been updated this week.  Whether it is for Vista for Windows 7, Tweak can configure the OS to help improve the performance and behavior of Windows.  Tweak7 and TweakVista have been created for both casual and power-users alike.

These updates include:

• Added viewing details and integration for clearing cache/temp locations.
• Improved handling for process identification
• Fixes including service start/stop images and auto-logons on x64.

Existing users can download the updates via Stardock's Impulse.  Please visit the links below to get more information about Tweak 7 and Tweak Vista, along with links to free trial versions.

http://www.stardock.com/products/tweak7/ 
http://www.stardock.com/products/tweakvista/

VirtualBox 3.1.6

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

 News source: Official website
 Download: VirtualBox 3.1.6

Fraps 3.2.0

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology.  In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen.  Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points.  Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key!  There's no need to paste into apaint program

 every time you want a new shot.  Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game?  Come join the Machinima revolution!  Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy!  Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 10 to 120 frames per second!

What's new:

• Added loop recording for registered users.  Press and hold video capture hotkey to start 30 second buffer
• Added option to disable stereoscopic capture when running with NVIDIA 3DVision
• Major optimizations for recording from D3D10 & D3D11 games

 News source: Official website
 Download: Fraps 3.2.0

Malwarebytes 1.45

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is a high performance anti-malware application that thoroughly removes even the most advanced malware and spyware. With one of the fastest, most effective quick scans and malware removal capabilities on the market, this program is the perfect addition to your PC's defenses.

The full version of the product includes a number of key features, including the ability to schedule updates and scans and most importantly, a real-time malware protection module that blocks malicious processes before they even start.

What's new:

• Added new scheduling engine for our customers featuring realtime updating, more finely-grained scheduled scanning/updating, and a streamlined interface.
• Added new flash scanning option which searches for malicious objects in memory and load point locations.
• Added compatibility with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for our corporate customers.
• Added a brand new advanced heuristics detection module named Shuriken that will be integrated into both scanner and protection module.
• Integrated website blocking options and other customizable policies into the main program interface.
• Heavily improved command line interface allowing customers to scan and remove automatically and silently.
• Heavily improved updating module which should solve various updating issues. Also added full proxy support including authentication and integration into the GUI.
• Fixed a large number of various issues and enhanced overall stability of the scanner and protection module.

 News source: Official website
 Download: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.45

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains no Spyware or Adware.

Change Log:

• Improved Firefox History cleaning to remove orphaned items.
• Improved Opera History cleaning.
• Improved Options Include/Exclude screens.
• Added manual domain adding for Cookies to keep list.
• Added time remaining to Wipe Free space.
• Added context menu to Summary Results for individual rule cleaning.
• Added context menu to Detailed Results to add file to Exclude list.
• Improved Firefox database compacting.
• Improved support for OpenOffice.
• Improved support for screen reader.
• Improved registry detection and backup support for 64-bit OSs.
• Improved Free Space wiping routines.
• Fixed bug in application detection algorithm.
• Minor GUI improvements.

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