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Deluge 0.5.7 released on 26 Nov 2007. Deluge is a full-featured lightweight cross-platform BitTorrent client. It is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge features a rich plugin collection. I would like to include the changes between Deluge from version 0.5.6.1 as below.

Deluge 0.5.7 (26 November 2007)
* Scrape support
* Manual force-recheck
* Add local peer discovery (aka local service discovery)
* Blocklist plugin will now display errors, instead of just crashing on a bad list or wrong type
* Add torrent in paused state option
* Add advanced progress bar
* Fix bug in merging trackers
* Various updates to WebUI, including https support and advanced template by vonck7
* Add maximum connection attempts per second preference
* Fix bug where loaded plugins were forgotten if Deluge crashed
* Fix ratio bugs (hopefully for the last time)
* Add preference to only show file selection popup if torrent has multiple files
* Fix pause all and resume all bugs
* Fix client not loading if our website goes down (new version check failing)
* Allow torrent creation with no trackers
* Scheduler plugin revamp by Ben Klein
* Fix ETA from going backwards
* UI warning on full HD - no longer just silently pauses torrents
* Replace SimpleRSS with FlexRSS
* Add preference for the location of torrent files
* Add autoload folder
* Copy translator credits from Launchpad to our about->credits
* Differentiate between queued and paused torrents. Able to pause queued torrents - patch by yobbobandana
* Show error when writing/permission problems occur

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I was surprised to see an email from ScratchBack notifying me “You got some ScratchBack luv!”. I sold my first ScratchBack Top Spot link today to Mr. Rajawang. Hopefully I will get more people to tip me via ScratchBack. You can be listed in my ScratchBack Top Spot link by tipping me $2.00 for a month.

So, what is ScratchBack? ScratchBack is an online tipping system. It allows the advertiser to tip the publisher by putting a link or image in the blog or website. As a publisher, you can name the price on your tips and the duration of the published link in your blog or website. Grab a ScracthBack Top Spot widget on your blog or website in minutes.

Source: ScratchBack

FileZilla client version 3.0.4.1 has released with new features and bug fixed. I have not post any release news on FileZilla client after version 3.0.1 and I would like to include the short summary of the changes between FileZilla from version 3.0.1 as below.

Legend:
! Security related bugfix or otherwise critical bugfix
+ New feature or important bugfix
- Bugfixes

3.0.4 (2007-11-26)
- Linux: Fix empty challenge text if using interactive login

3.0.4-rc1 (2007-11-20)
+ Implement FTP Proxy support. Note that using a properly configured NAT router is recommended instead.
+ Implement FTP keep alive for those connecting to improperly configured servers
- Fix crashes if deletig files in directories with more than 200 entries
- Compatility improvements with VMS and z/VM servers
- Now requires GnuTLS 2.0.4 which fixes a problem with servers using compression.
- Changing list of ascii files or increasing number of concurrent transfers had no effect until restart of FileZilla

3.0.3 (2007-11-06)
+ Install some default filters if filters.xml missing in user’s settings directory
- OS X: Fix remote file viewing/editing
- Additional fixes for SFTP servers with nonstandard filename encodings

3.0.3-rc1 (2007-10-31)
+ Automatic server timezone detection. Custom offset in the Site Manager may need to be adjusted. FTP only.
+ Option to preserve file timestamps on downloads (all protocols)
+ Option to preserve file timestamps on uploads on FTP servers supporting the MFMT command
+ Add transfer type (ascii/binary/auto) selection to transfer menu
- Shorten very long filenames on file exists dialog
- Attempt at working around broken routers and firewalls disconnecting the control connection of the transfer session on transfers
- Deleting directories containing lots of files should be faster now
- Disallow settings/site import from files located in the settings storage directory
- Fix nullpointer dereference on non-UTF8 enabled SFTP servers
- *nix: Fix button height inconsistencies on dialogs with certain artwork (e.g. Ubuntu 7.10)

3.0.2.1 (2007-10-17)
- Fix issue with message log not working properly

3.0.2 (2007-10-17)

+ MSW: Added /user=all and /user=current options to installer
+ Experimental support for z/VM servers
- Fix typo in option handling code. Due to this, settings for date/time formatting have been reset.
- Fix performance problem if FileZilla gets started with message log hidden
- Work around possible race conditions in SFTP input thread leading to crashes
- MSW: Fix issue with installer where reboot after uninstalling previous version disrupted installation. Fix will only work if uninstalling 3.0.2 or greater.
- OSX: Use new icon

3.0.2-rc1 (2007-10-10)

+ Remote file viewing / editing
+ Display current server in window title
- Don’t remember incorrect password on SFTP connections with ASK logontype
- MSW: Fix drag&drop to explorer in case of case-mismatch between requested and reported path.
- *nix: Fix Makefiles so SFTP properly supports files > 2GB
- Ascii filetype setting for extensionless files and dotfiles had negated effect
- Fix error message if using multiple running instances save the settings at the same time
- Fix parsing of very new files in directory listings if server is in a timezone ahead of the client
- Fix range of timezone offset setting
- Fix problems with remote path combobox if reconnecting after a disconnect
- Display confirmation dialog if deleting file from remote directory tree context menu
- Refresh remote directory listing after refreshing a single file
- On very first startup, center FileZilla on screen

Source: FileZilla

Today she is 3 months 3 weeks 6 days old. Her weight is 6.75kg and her length is 64cm.

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I read this news on TechCrunch regarding DivShare is up for sale here. This is a big surprise to me. If you do not know about DivShare. Let me give a brief introduction to you. DivShare provides free unlimited storage to share your videos, photos, audios and documents. What will going to happen to my photos I uploaded?

Now, I have to move some of my photos link from DivShare in my blog to PhotoBucket to avoid service changes from DivShare.

Do you want to download BitTorrent while you stuck at work? Would it be really nice if you could access your computer at home through your web browser to download BitTorrent from your office. This is simple. I am going to share this to you. You will need to install a Linux distribution on a spare computer you have. If you do not have a spare computer, don’t worry. Get VMware Server and simply install a Linux distribution as the VM guest. I am still using Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop Edition as the VM guest. Next, install the popular Deluge (a popular full-featured lightweight cross-platform BitTorrent client) in Ubuntu. You can use Deluge in your Windows PC but I would recommend you to use Deluge in Linux. The major changes for 0.5.6 version includes Web User Interface plugin which I have been waiting for. With this plugin, I can now download Torrent from a web browser. That’s cool. You need to configure a port-forwarding in your router. You may need a DynDNS service if your ISP is providing you a dynamic public ip addresses.

Enable and Configure Web User Interface plugin

1. Run Deluge, click Edit then click Plugins, check on Web User Interface.
2. Configure the port number, password, template and button style by clicking Preferences button for this plugin.
3. Launch your favorite web browser (e.g. Firefox). In the address bar, type the following: -

http://ip_address_of_your_deluge:8112

4. Login with your configured password and start adding Torrent to download.

MediaPortal is an Open Source Software (OSS) that is designed to turn your personal computer (PC) into a very advanced home theater PC (HTPC). A HTPC also referred to a media center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio. You can watch and store your videos and DVDs. You can view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder. You can view digital photos, view weather information and much more. MediaPortal is built on the Microsoft .NET framework using C# and currently only available for Microsoft Windows.

Features:

• Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins
• MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins
• You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
• Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV)
• Windowed and fullscreen support

So, do you have plan on building your own HTPC?

Source: MediaPortal

She can really laugh loudly. My wife took this opportunity to capture the video shot below.

Today she is 3 months 2 weeks 4 days old. Sorry to keep you guys and gals waiting for these cute pictures of my daughter.

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If you haven’t noticed, Gmail storage has increased to 5GB since yesterday. They started the “Infinity+1″ storage plan increased from 1GB on April 2005. This was made to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Gmail. They realized it will never reached infinity but they promised to give more free storage by speeding up the counter. But, do you know how does Gmail store all the emails?

Gmail has been the favorite free web-based email after Hotmail and Yahoo Mail for myself. Gmail has extensive features like conversation threading, search, tagging, keyboard shortcuts, email lables and email filters. It does not comes with cluttered interface.

The only concern I have while using Gmail is privacy. This is because Gmail will automatically scans your emails to display relevant ads to you. Currently, I am using 368MB (7%) of my 5000MB storage.