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Thunderbird 5.0

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Thunderbird 5.0 released.

The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
More responsive and faster to start up and use
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
New Add-ons Manager
Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
New Troubleshooting Information page
Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac)
Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security

EasyBCD 2.1

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EasyBCD 2.1 released.

EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies’ multiple award-winning answer to taking control of your bootloader. EasyBCD extends and revamps the Windows Vista/Windows 7 BCD bootloader, and with EasyBCD, almost anything is possible. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older versions of Windows such as XP & 2003, Linux, Ubuntu, BSD, and Mac OS X is a breeze. You just point & click and EasyBCD does the rest. EasyBCD is free for all private, non-commercial use.

Firefox 5

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Although not officially released, Firefox 5 (scheduled for June 21st) has hit the main Mozilla FTP servers.
Since several locations have reported this as being released I figured I might as well post it.
Links:
Windows (en-us) or try Major Geeks.
For others you can find it on the ftp site.

BleachBit 0.8.8 Released

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Hit the link for downloads and release notes: BleachBit 0.8.8

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Fun With Audio Players

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***PLEASE SEE – Fun With Audio Players – 2015***

“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.” Keith Richards

The last several years whenever anyone brings up which audio player software to use, the focus seems to be on low resource usage.
I’m guilty of it too.
I’ve been getting back into having a little fun listening to music on the computer.
I thought I would post an article on this topic. This article is really a collection of screen shots and links.
Hopefully you’ll see something you like and check out some of the links.
For those new to this topic. Many audio players have two things you can do to the interface: skin it, and add a plugin.
Skins change the look of the interface. Plugins can add sound and visual enhancements.
Some of the screen shots are large so I’ve thumbnailed them. Click on the small pic for a larger one.

Load up your current audio player with your favorite tunes, put on your rock-n-roll shoes, grab an adult beverage and check out the screen shots.

The order is kinda by popularity, except my  2 favorites are last.

1 – Windows Media Player 12
WMP 12? Yup, you can skin it. WMP 12 skins here, other WMP versions here.

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wmp12black

 

2 – iTunes

Snaz up the cruddy interface. iTunes skins here. (make sure the skin corresponds to the version of iTunes your are running).

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3 – MediaMonkey

Skins available here.

Vision VU skin (click image for larger pic)

You can even add some Winamp plugins. (click image for larger pic)

 

4 – Foobar

Skins here.

Default screen. Nasty!

Foobar Tech 1.4 Skin

 

5 – Xion

Skins here.

Default screen.

 

CDJ 1000 skin (click image for larger pic)

 

XDJ 2 skin.

 

MY FAVORITES

Runner-Up: AIMP3

Sleek, beautiful, compact, and fast.

Currently in Beta. Original AIMP2 page (U.S.). Russian page (Translated by Google) with updated Beta info and downloads.

 

My Favorite: Winamp

Yes the “old”  and much maligned Winamp.

Why? Switch between modern and classic skins, plugins galore, Android for Winamp w/ syncing…

The default skin with all the modern features. (click image for larger pic)

 

Modern skin Quinto. (click image for larger pic)

ws1

 

Winamp skin MMD3. It’s colorizable!

 

Winamp skin S7Reflex.

 

Now for my favorite Winamp setup:

– Classic skin

– I use the Vizualisation Mux plugin. It allows me to run all the plugins below (tip: configure each plugin before adding to and running this one)

– Classic Spectrum Analyzer

– Stereo Analog VU Meter

– X-Plugin

Full screen (click image for larger pic)

 

Sidebar style.

 

Hope you have some fun listening to music too!