v2.19.901
– Fixed bug in Firefox introduced in build 900
Windows 7 RC Available
Hit up Neowin for download links.
OpenOffice 3.1 Hits The Mirrors
This release is not ‘official’ and is scheduled to be released “not before: May 7th, 2009“.
Major Geeks has v3.1 posted. I have checked the mirrors and v3.1 is indeed showing up on many of them. See here for v3.1’s feature list.
CDBurnerXP Updated
CDBurnerXP 4.2.4.1351 has been released. It contains several bugfixes.
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface.
Free Paragon Software
Martin over at Ghacks has links to Free Paragon Software Special Editions.
Requires you enter a valid email address. The following are available:
* Paragon Total Defrag 2009 Special Edition
* Paragon Rescue Kit 9.0 Express
* Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Special Edition
* Paragon Drive Copy 9 Special Edition
* Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal
* Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 Special Edition
I haven’t used any Paragon Software before but for free I will give it a shot. Anyone out there used any of this software?
CCleaner v2.19.900
v2.19.900
– Added support for Firefox 3.5 beta.
– Fixed IE8 cookies deletion after reboot.
CCleaner v2.19.889
CCleaner v2.19
– 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.
Microsoft Office 2007, SP2
You can get this via Windows Update, or, Download Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2.
Firefox 3.0.10
Firefox 3.0.10 “Fixed a major stability issue.” Hit the FF Home page to download.
Ubuntu 9.04 Released Tomorrow (April, 23rd, 2009)
Ubuntu 9.04 will be released tomorrow. I’ve been trying out the Release Candidate a bit over the last few days. Here is a brief rundown of my experience:
– Downloaded the x86 Live CD and ran install from there.
– I swapped in a separate drive instead of dual booting. I used ext4 for the test. Ext4 is fast but I cannot recommend using it because as far as I know the only disk imaging program that can do ext4 right now is Clonezilla (live-cd) which I’ve not had time to test. I’m a little unsure about ext4 because from what I understand many seem to think it is just a interim step towards btrfs. It should be noted that Fedora 11 and openSuSE 11.2 will feature ext4 also.
– On first boot I installed the Nvidia 3d drivers, rebooted, and then installed updates and rebooted.
– Those who know me know that I do not like the Gnome desktop. Next I installed KDE desktop, Kubuntu. Why not just install Kubuntu? Because there are more tools and features available when you install KDE along with Gnome. To install Kubuntu, open a terminal and type, sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop , answer yes to any questions. At some point you will be asked which desktop you want to boot from, choose KDE. When finished reboot.
– Software – Enabled all sources in Synaptic then I installed: NTFS Config (to properly access my NTFS drives), Samba and KDE Samba tool (kdenetwork-filesharing), Thunderbird, a whole host of KDE apps. I uninstalled evolution, games, apparmor, IRC/messaging clients.
– Multimedia
Go here and follow the instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
Next. Sorry but I don’t like Amarok 2, it just isn’t polished enough yet for me. Fortunately there are others who feel the same. If you want Amarok 1.4, go here and follow the instructions (note – you should uninstall Amarok 2 first):
https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/ppa
I’m pretty satisfied with Jaunty Jackalope. Everything seems to work well so far. I will post more in the next week or so, after I get time to install and configure the final version. I’m not sure If I will keep Ubuntu around or not, only time will tell. Fedora 11 looks very interesting and will be released May 26th. OpenSuSE 11.2 will be not be released until November unfortunately.