Archive for April, 2009

Update: SecureCRT 6.2.1

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

A SecureCRT maintenance update has been released: 6.2.1.

SECURECRT 6.2.1 FINAL DOWNLOADS
SECURECRT 6.2.1 CHANGELOG
- SecureCRT could not be installed on systems where InstallShield custom actions do not work.
- If a license with a maintenance date in the format MM-DD-YY was entered, SecureCRT crashed.
- Under Vista, the mouse wheel did not scroll if the system used the MS Explorer Mouse driver.
- Function and arrow keys did not work correctly with servers that expect all the characters in escape sequences to be sent in the same packet.
- In a session with the “Retain size and font” option set, if the window was resized so that it was smaller than the logical rows and columns, the wrong text was highlighted during a find operation.
- If a session was opened in a new window and the window was closed prior to authentication completing, authentication prompts continued to be displayed.
- In the Keymap Editor, if a key was selected and a keymap that mapped that key was loaded, the keymap assignment display was not updated.
- In the Connect dialog, a session that was copied could not be pasted more than two times.
- If the Visual Studio 2008 DLLs were not in the side-by-side cache, MFC90.DLL errors were written to the event viewer when SecureCRT ran.
- SSH1/SSH2: If an RSA key with a passphrase was added in the Manage Agent Keys dialog and the wrong passphrase was entered, the incorrect error “The key packet is corrupt, damaged, or incompatibly formatted” was reported and was still reported after the correct passphrase was entered.

Update: WinRAR 3.90 Beta 1 – Native 64-bit Version

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Note: WinRAR 3.90 Beta 2 is now available.

Long time no see… WinRAR update :D

Starting with 3.90 Beta 1, WinRAR is also available as a native 64-bit application (definitely recommented over the 32-bit version if you’re running a 64-bit OS).

As usual, the update packs a lot of changes and improvements (eg: faster compression on multicore/SMP machines), as well as a few bug fixes.

WINRAR 3.90 BETA 1 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download WinRAR 3.90 Beta 1 (32-bit)
EXE installer, 1.29MB, MD5 sum: 7C7BB115B7B0452D21F0A87B4DF9A9C3

x64 version: Download WinRAR 3.90 Beta 1 (64-bit)
EXE installer, 1.45MB, MD5 sum: F779837530532F8337DD127D27579DCE

Portable version: Download WinRAR Unplugged 3.8.0.1
ZIP, 2.13MB, MD5 sum: 97799E0541DE996041A476BCA7B362AB

WHAT’S NEW IN WINRAR 3.90 BETA 1
- WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.
- RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
- “Remove duplicate folders from extraction path” option in “Settings/Compression” dialog is replaced by more universal “Remove redundant folders from extraction path” option. This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with “Extract to DestName\” context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files.
- You can enable “Show seconds” option in “Settings/File list” dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in file list in WinRAR shell.
- “Where to check for SFX archives” options group in “Settings/Integration/Context menus items” dialog lets you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you frequently right click “.exe” files on slow network disks, you can turn off “Network disks” options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu.
- If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR shell, WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting, same as in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names by their numerical value. So files will be sorted as 1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt instead of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt. This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and newer.
- Ctrl+W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR viewer windows. “View as Windows text” shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.
- New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely. So ‘rar a -r- arc dirname’ command will add only the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if -r switch is not specified.
- If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this switch, extracted files will always have attributes assigned by operating system to a newly created file by default.
- If output file name is not specified in “cw” command, console RAR will send comment data to stdout.
- When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets modification time of archived entry to current system time. Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin.
- Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon includes the archive name now. Previously only time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations.

Changes in “Extraction path and options” dialog:
- “New folder” button creates a new subfolder in currently selected folder;
- F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree;
- F5 key updated the tree pane contents;
- Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.

Bugs fixed:
- WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8 GB;
- WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
- Previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension. But this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly.

Update: HyperSnap 6.50.02

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Hypersnap 6.50.02 is now available.

DOWNLOAD HYPERSNAP 6.50.02
Get it now: Download HyperSnap 6.50.02
exe installer, 6.33MB, MD5 sum: 23A0BB4F9C148ED41D835EAD432D5DCF
WHAT’S NEW IN HYPERSNAP 6.50.02
- saving 32-bit PNG files was incorrect
- 64-bit TextSnap component crashed on some machines

Update: CCleaner 2.19.889 – Flash Cookies Support

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

CCleaner 2.19.889 is now available and adds Flash cookies cleaning support, beside other fixes and small changes.

CCLEANER 2.19.889 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download CCleaner 2.19.889
EXE installer, no toolbar, 958KB, MD5 sum: ED2BCBEB15AD2DDD40CC25BD4D94E191

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download CCleaner 2.19.889 Portable
ZIP, 959KB, MD5 sum: 1BD6D88E583456808639014383E16B95

WHAT’S NEW IN CCLEANER 2.19.889
- Improved support for Google Chrome v2.
- Fixed bug with IE8 cookies.
- Added support for Flash Cookies.
- Added Tool to manage System Restore Files (XP and Vista only).
- Added support to remove Opera Recently Typed URLs.
- Fixed bug which was displaying wrong Total Bytes removed.
- Improved exception handling.
- Fixed virtual function bug.
- Minor performance improvements.

Update: Firefox 3.0.10

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

What a busy day, eh? :)

Firefox 3.0.10 has been released to fix a security vulnerability caused by a regression introduced in 3.0.9.

By the way, am I the only one who thinks the “Using Internet Explorer is So 2006” message displayed on the Mozilla site is really lame?

FIREFOX 3.0.10 DOWNLOADS

Update: SUN xVM VirtualBox 2.2.2

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

xVM VirtualBox has been updated to 2.2.2.

Lots of fixes and changes, but nothing major (like 2.2.0). Ok, maybe the preliminary support for Snow Leopard is worth mentioning :D

DOWNLOAD SUN VXM VIRTUALBOX 2.2.2
Get it now: Download VirtualBox 2.2.2 (for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts)
exe installer, 62.9MB, MD5 sum: 9E5C2D9A41C6C9B3E619C4FC21DE0B6E

Other stuff: VirtualBox for Linux, Mac, Solaris + SDKs and older versions

SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX SCREENSHOTS
WHAT’S NEW IN SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX 2.2.2
Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system.

Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later.
Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running services
Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates

Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some 64-bit guests

Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed on the guest
Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a busy shared folder

Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests (2.2.0 regression)
Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core

Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only)

VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression)
VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software virtualization only)

Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images, incorrect detection of redundant writes

GUI: reworked network settings dialog
GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks
GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression)
GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only)
GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only)

VBoxManage modifyhd –compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression)

NAT: on some Windows host, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease
NAT: fixed release assertion during poll()

Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only)
Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests
Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests
CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects
Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent
Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues
Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard

Update: CPU-Z 1.51 – NVIDIA ION Detection Support

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

CPU-Z 1.51 has been released with detection support for NVIDIA ION and a shiny installer that should theoretically speed-up the startup time (I wasn’t able to notice any difference on my system).

Frankly, the installer seems to be intended more like a way to include the Ask.com toolbar as an optional component. The developers fail to mention this on the CPU-Z homepage or in the changelog. There are 3 checkboxes you need to uncheck if you don’t want the toolbar in your system, so make sure you don’t just fast-forward through the installer.

Another option is to continue using the ZIP build, which doesn’t include any third party “surprises”. There must be something very alluring (for developers) about the Ask.com toolbar, since it keeps popping up in more and more software every day. :D

CPU-Z 1.51 DOWNLOADS
Get it now (freeware): CPU-Z 1.51
ZIP archive, no toolbar, 615KB, MD5 sum: CC77ED3FD773944225877F62C235210A

Installer (optional adware): CPU-Z 1.51
EXE installer, Ask.com toolbar, 1.96MB, MD5 sum: 09A8F092CEEBA7B1422D7C1200C553A4

WHAT’S NEW IN CPU-Z 1.51
- New version with installer.
- NVIDIA ION platform.
- Intel “Clarkdale” processor preliminary support.

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