Archive for May, 2009

Update: Pidgin 2.5.6

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Pidgin 2.5.6 (yabr) is out!

PIDGIN 2.5.6 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Pidgin 2.5.6
EXE installer, no toolbar, 13.6MB, MD5 sum: 0BC96B7C06D32C67DE761D97566807A2
WHAT’S NEW IN PIDGIN 2.5.6
libpurple
- Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
- Fix various crashes on exit.
- Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
- Many security related fixes

IRC
- Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
- Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.

MSN
- Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
- Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.

XMPP
- Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the “Hide new IM conversations” preference.

Yahoo
- Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
- Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.

Update: ZOC 6.10

Monday, May 18th, 2009

ZOC running on Windows 7 Beta

ZOC running on Windows 7 Beta

ZOC skips a version number and reaches 6.10.

DOWNLOAD ZOC 6.10
Get it now: Download ZOC 6.10 (Windows)
exe installer, 3.98MB, MD5 sum: 42DC60BA13F049E0504D89F305854EE9

Mac OS X version: Download ZOC 6.10 for Mac

Other platforms, resources: ZOC download page

WHAT’S NEW IN ZOC 6.10
NEW: option (Program Settings, Misc) to show cursor position 1-based
NEW: telnet option for SOCKS4 proxy (via Telnet ‘Configure…’ button)
NEW: SSH option for SOCKS4 proxy (via SSH ‘Configure…’ button)
NEW: layout option (session profile) to render fonts with antialising
NEW: now supports folders and subfolders within host directory sections
NEW: REXX command ZocFilename(“GETVOLUMELABEL”, …)
NEW: REXX ZocUpload command now supports multiple files
NEW: option to draw cursor in user defined color
NEW: first attempt to support extended colors on TN3270
BETA: VERS 6.09 (internal only)
FIX: cursor style restore failed for htop and mc under Linux
FIX: possible crash when using File, New Window
FIX: possible crash when starting
FIX: quirk with lognames and ^+ placeholder (use session name for log name)
FIX: better error messages for some SSH connection problems
FIX: wrong background color in ‘Configure…’ dialogs (OS X Leopard only)
FIX: cursor style changed after cursor store/restore operation
FIX: TN3270 minor screen redraw glitches
FIX: possible crash when pasting large chunks from the clipboard
FIX: could not login if an SSH password contained a double quote character
FIX: error in host directory when doing ‘mark due’ in folder
FIX: moving an entry to the last folder of a host directory section failed
FIX: possible crash when leaving scrollback while find dialog was open
FIX: problem with 3270/5250 misaligned fields on screen
FIX: problem with 3270/5250 not unlocking the keyboard on receiving screens
FIX: crash when loading version (version 608d Windows only)
CHG: host directory file format changed (internal)
FIX: possible crash when loading bad options files
FIX: quirks with Xterm emulation and meta key in MC (Alt+Tab, Alt+Enter)
FIX: unexpected condition error when using EREXX.DLL (Windows only)
FIX: using REXX ZocGetScreen after a ZocWait sometimes returned nothing
FIX: possible crash when remote host sets window title to a very long string
CHG: internal storage of host directory changed for less memory consumption
FIX: problem initiating a scrollback through tracking the scrollbar (OS X only)
FIX: paging through scrollback via scrollbar skipped two pages (OS X only)
FIX: lines which wrapped around the end now not broken when put to clipboard
FIX: host directory call stats were wrong (Mac OS X PPC only)
FIX: possible crash on startup running on machine with long computer name

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.6 – better drag& drop in Windows 7

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

foobar2000 audio playerfoobar2000 0.9.6.6 is out.

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.6 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.6
EXE installer/portable, 2.93MB, MD5 sum: 87D73420A79B4466B3E3A228E6686CA4
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.6
Matroska files are now taggable even if they don’t contain decodable audio tracks.
Worked-around “Open Containing Folder” command opening two windows on certain machines.
Added support for Multimedia Class Scheduler Service on Windows Vista and newer.
Various changes to make specific obscure crashes easier to analyze.
Updated third-party component blacklist.
Improved drag&drop compatibility with Windows 7.

Update: Defraggler 1.10.143 – SSD Detection and File Exclusion Support

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Defraggler has been updated to 1.10.143.

It can now “sense” SSDs. I wonder if special defrag routines for such drives are coming up :D

DEFRAGGLER 1.10.143 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Defraggler 1.10.143
exe installer, 908KB, MD5 sum: 9D2BA7FFF29B6D988FFA7D3956E5C40C

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download Defraggler 1.10.143 Portable
ZIP, 958KB, MD5 sum: 0394235C571663A565495FB0972BC4E3

WHAT’S NEW IN DEFRAGGLER 1.10.143
- Added file exclusion feature.
- Added detection of Solid State Drives.
- Added “Include non-fragmented files” checkbox to file search.
- Improved interactivity of search.
- Fixed problem that could allow df.exe and Defraggler.exe to run at the same time.
- Fixed rare crash while reanalyzing.
- Minor GUI text changes.
- Minor bug fixes.

Update: CCleaner 2.19.901

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Another minor version bump for CCleaner, 2.19.901, fixing a Firefox-related regression introduced in the previous release.

CCLEANER 2.19.901 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download CCleaner 2.19.901
EXE installer, no toolbar, 958KB, MD5 sum: AB5499C38DCEE3C0C3B320B5664308FB

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download CCleaner 2.19.900 Portable
ZIP, 959KB, MD5 sum: 9118D482F364256BEA35DF6087EEB754

Update: CDBurnerXP 4.2.4.1351

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

CDBurnerXP YABR: 4.2.4.1351.

The portable version of CDBurnerXP still seems stuck at 4.2.3.1110.

CDBURNERXP 4.2.4.1351 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download CDBurnerXP 4.2.4.1351
exe installer, 3.06MB, MD5 sum: 22F21AC637946412BA607040526AB804
WHAT’S NEW IN CDBURNERXP 4.2.4.1351
- Fixed an ArgumentOutOfRangeException
- Fixed an SEHException
- Fixed wrong burning speed when burning multiple copies
- Prevent startup of CDBurnerXP and show an appropriate error message if system fonts are missing or corrupted
- Fixed a NullReferenceException
- File dates were not always updated correctly
- & character in the default disc label text box underscores the next character typed in the preview area
- Fixed: Cannot leave burning dialog if multiple copies have been canceled
- Fixed not using the saved option for “verify” when using the simple burning options
- !Tmporary files weren’t being cleaned up properly
- Pevent duplicate entries in the message log

Update: CCleaner 2.19.900

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Minor version bump for CCleaner: 2.19.900.

CCLEANER 2.19.900 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download CCleaner 2.19.900
EXE installer, no toolbar, 959KB, MD5 sum: D9D4DFBE462198359600B896453ED1B6

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download CCleaner 2.19.900 Portable
ZIP, 959KB, MD5 sum: 9FF7D51D707694FECB2CB839E15DADBC

WHAT’S NEW IN CCLEANER 2.19.900
- Added support for Firefox 3.5 beta.
- Fixed IE8 cookies deletion after reboot.

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