Archive for January, 2009

Update: Maxthon 2.5.1.4075

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Maxthon 2.5.1.4075 is now available for download.

Why the big version number jump, you’ll ask. Well, there’s something else wrapped inside this release beside a long list of fixes (I can’t help mentioning the “possibly fixed” changelog entries :D ).

Starting with this version, tabs in Maxthon are really independent from each other, meaning that a frozen tab won’t cause the whole browser to become unresponsive. Such tabs can be closed or simply refreshed.

On the downside, I noticed a problem with moving Maxthon’s window around. Sometimes, when I “grab” the title bar with the mouse pointer and drag, it behaves like nothing happened, but when I release the mouse button, the window “jumps” to the new location. Strange :|

Other glitches I’ve experienced:
- opening a new tab via CTRL-n causes the address bar to lose focus after 1 second, so to type something you have to re-select the field (by using the mouse or otherwise)
- no option to enable the window frame
- when maximized, Maxthon seems to go outside the desktop by 1 or 2 pixels on the right side of the screen (the vertical scrollbar for example is not visible completely)

Sorry guys.. but I’m downgrading to Maxthon 2.1.5.1250 for the time being :(

DOWNLOAD MAXTHON 2.5.1.4075
Get it now: Download Maxthon 2.5.1.4075
exe installer, 4.95MB, MD5 sum: 2078C7CF1812643DA819380683F3F07E
MAXTHON 2.5.1.4075 SCREENS
WHAT’S NEW IN MAXTHON 2.5.1.4075
[Core]
* Redesigned browser framework and added new anti-freeze feature

[Plugin and External Tools]
* Improved plugin security. Security id is no longer accessible in max.src. Existing Script/HTML plugins are not affected, individual COM plugins could obtain the security id through a new putSecurityId method if necessary.

[Interface]
* Added clean browser history option in the exit confirmation dialog
* Added a save as option in Collector, support ANSI, Unicode, and UTF-8 txt format
* Added a notice window when cleaning browser history
* Fixed a GDI leakage when tab is dragged
* Fixed a favorites and RSS sidebar focus problem
* Fixed a Maximize problem in mult-monitor environment
* Fixed a Float Button position problem under Split View
* Fixed a RSS duplicate addition alert problem
* Fixed a freeze problem when the shadow of menu is clicked
* The URL of favorites is shown when mouse hover favorites sidebar
* The close button on the active tab now works on mouse released (previously when mouse pressed)

[Capture]
* Fixed problem capturing long web pages

[Others]
* Fixed a zoom problem under IE8
* Fixed a freeze problem when maxthon exits
* Fixed a Magic Fill auto fill problem
* Fixed problem opening .url shortcut
* Fixed some browser window focus problems
* Fixed some memory leakage problem
* Possibly fixed problem that browser frame may not be drawn
* Possibly fixed problem that browser window may go behind other windows when opening external url
* Improved page scrolling efficiency
* Web page zoom ratio is limited between 10% to 1000%

Update: Pidgin 2.5.4

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

The rather silly hang-on-exit bug introduced in Pidgin 2.5.3 (Windows) is finally fixed! Other than that, 2.5.4 packs a host of other fixes, making this a true, yet highly expected, YABR.

PIDGIN 2.5.4 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Pidgin 2.5.4
EXE installer, 13.6MB, MD5 sum: FC87E991B2484C4EAC968E17A41B0D6D

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download Pidgin 2.5.4 Portable
EXE installer, 13.8MB, MD5 sum: 7D453D05CEC24432226C39DB8F3E9F89

WHAT’S NEW IN PIDGIN 2.5.4
libpurple
- Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists. (Martin Rosinski)
- Don’t ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data. (Michal Witkowski)
- Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages on MSN.
- Extended purple-url-handler to handle “gtalk” URI’s. (Paul Aurich)
- Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP and Windows Vista. (Paul Aurich)

MSN
- Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems. (Thanks to Youness Alaoui)

XMPP
- Support for XEP-0191 blocking. (Vijay Raghunathan)
- Don’t put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs. (Paul Aurich)
- Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren’t removing them correctly before. (Paul Aurich)

Pidgin
- Fix a crash in the Add Account dialog when changing protocols under certain circumstances.

Finch
- Redirect stderr outputs to the debug window.
- Fix rebinding actions with the arrow-keys and tab.
- Windows-specific changes
- Fix the “Hang on Exit” issue that a number of users encountered.
Updated GTK+ to 2.14.6

Update: Defraggler 1.06.118

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Extra, extra, get your Defraggler update here!

Defraggler 1.06.118 introduces a much awaited (at least for me) feature: clicking on a drive map block to see what files are stored in that particular disk section.

Aside from that, there’s the usual batch of bug fixes and tweaks.

DEFRAGGLER 1.06.118 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Defraggler 1.06.118
exe installer, 727KB, MD5 sum: AAF613A09CC3D2859CD85A1F2A309A17

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download Defraggler 1.06.118
ZIP, 841KB, MD5 sum: 9A6FE24D979CDE98E36B4DE878FC81CB

WHAT’S NEW IN DEFRAGGLER 1.06.118
- Added interactive drive map.
- Improved scheduler handling of multiple drives.
- Fixed rare crash in Vista when defragging Folder entries.
- Optimized file placement for Win2k3.
- Improved placement of large files at end of drive.
- Added Dutch, Ukranian and Norwegian translations.
- Various UI tweaks.
- Several minor bug fixes.

Update: FileZilla 3.2.0

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

After 2 release candidates, FileZilla 3.2.0 is now stable. Beside various bug fixes and minor improvements, FileZilla now has support for bookmarks.

Bookmarks basically allow you to store pairs of remote and local directories that you acces frequently. Too add a bookmark, open the Bookmarks menu and click on “add bookmark”, then specify the remote and local dirs (the FTP directory will be preset to the current remote dir). To use one, just connect to a FTP server, open the Bookmarks menu and click on one of the entries. To manage your bookmarks (add, edit, delete, clone), use the Bookmarks->Manage bookmarks option.

Note: bookmarks can be either global (always shown in the Bookmarks menu) or site-specific (shown only when you’re connected to the associated FTP site).

FILEZILLA 3.2.0 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download FileZilla 3.2.0 (Windows Binary)
exe installer, 3.61MB, MD5 sum: 9FC2662659085048EA6AD6476DC208F0


Other platforms and source packages: Download FileZilla 3.2.0
FILEZILLA BOOKMARKS SCREENSHOTS

WHAT’S NEW IN FILEZILLA 3.2.0
FileZilla 3.2.0
- Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies

FileZilla 3.2.0-rc2
- Change wording of some strings
- Support yet another directory listing variant on obscure MVS style systems
- Fix odd behavior if deleting items from site manager
- Do not show proxy password in message log on SFTP connections
- Properly display “bytes” suffix in filelist status bar if not using thousands separator

FileZilla 3.2.0
+ Bookmarks
+ Logging to file
+ *nix: Use GNOME’s Session Manager D-Bus API to cleanly shut down FileZilla on end of session
+ MSW: Improve installer’s Vista compatibility.
- *nix: Fix encoding issues with thousands separator in some locales
- Thousands separator on file exists dialog
- Rearrange filter dialog a bit
- Compile fixes for HP-UX

Update: 7-Zip 4.64

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

And here’s a 7-Zip YABR: 4.64, fixing a bug in the ZIP/AES feature introduced in 4.63.

DOWNLOAD 7-ZIP 4.64
Windows: Download 7-Zip 4.64 (32-bit)
EXE installer, 917KB, MD5 sum: D2810E3DD4B60AB05FE7C29A50921EFA

Windows 64-bit: Download 7-Zip 4.64 (64-bit)
MSI installer, 1.16MB, MD5 sum: EDE82284E25EDA998625171A78F7182B

Extras: Other versions, source code, SDKs

WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 4.64
- The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives encrypted with WinZip-AES method.

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.1

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

foobar2000 0.9.6.1 is out and about!

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.1 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.1
EXE installer, 2.85MB, MD5 sum: 3DA21D4CE9729C7B1BD3BBD54351C9BC
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.1
- Autocompletion of values in the Properties dialog.
- Support for chapters in Musepack SV8 files.
- New “Split values” command in the Properties dialog.
- Simple search queries: any latin characters are now matched regardless of their accents.

Update: 7-Zip 4.63

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

The last day of 2008 brought, aside new year’s resolutions, a new version of 7-Zip: 4.63.

The only update worth mentioning is the support for unpacking ZIP archives encrypted with the AES algo (PKWARE-AES, implemented in PKWARE’s PKZIP and SecureZIP products).

AES is a very fast encryption algorithm standardized in 2002. It can be used with 128,192 and 256-bit encryption keys. All of these are available in PKWARE-AES.

DOWNLOAD 7-ZIP 4.63
Windows: Download 7-Zip 4.63 (32-bit)
EXE installer, 916KB, MD5 sum: 26437622D854FB0DF180F06E799DE9EF

Windows 64-bit: Download 7-Zip 4.63 (64-bit)
MSI installer, 1.16MB, MD5 sum: A040E30EC6E09353DA31A4AC8BB582A0

Extras: Other versions, source code, SDKs

WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 4.63
- 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.
- Some bugs were fixed.

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