Computer stuff...
The Google Chrome team is pleased to announce the arrival of Chrome 13.0.782.107 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Spanning 5200+ revisions, Chrome 13 contains some exciting new features like Instant Pages prerendering technology. To find out about other new features, check out the Official Chrome Blog.
Update from within Chrome or download it
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The free office suite LibreOffice has been updated 3.4.2.
Details can be viewed in their blog announcement
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Download page.
Ultimate Boot CD is a PC diagnostic, repair, and utility boot CD.
It contains a number of useful diagnostic tools, repair tools, info tools, and utilities.
More info and download links here: Ultimate Boot CD
Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1, a new major release. Introducing VM clones, increased capability for very large hosts, and Windows Aero support.
The Microsoft / Sysinternals freeware tool Process Explorer has been updated.
They also released a new tool called FindLinks that looks pretty cool.
Links:
Process Explorer
Findlinks
More info at Sysinternals Site Discussion
VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)
Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)
Please read the release notes (below) before updating. Looks like there is nothing here for Windows and Linux users.
Download, Release notes.
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
Worked around an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash
Worked around an issue caused by Apple’s “Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5” where the Java plugin would not be loaded
Just a quick note. 2 of the Windows Gadgets I use have been updated.
Network Monitor Gadget – Updated to version 4.0
SysInfo – Was updated back in February to version 2.4 (I just found out)
For a screenshot of them on my computer click the pic below (I’ve modified the look of the gadgets to my liking):
