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Deluge 0.5.8.4 released on 14 Feb 2008. This release fixes a possible I/O hang and adds a couple of new features as well. I would like to include the changelog below from the 0.5.8.1 version.

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These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008. These documents are downloadable versions of guides found in the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library. Download here.

I hope these step-by-step guides are useful to all my friends and readers which are in the WINTEL engineering field.

Source: Neowin.net

Deluge 0.5.8 released on 29 Dec 2007. It 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. Please refer to the changelog below for the version changes.

Deluge 0.5.8 (29 December 2007)

* Fix handling of corrupt torrent files
* Fix having two instances of Deluge running on Ubuntu
* Fix problem relating to move torrent plugin not moving torrents before they get cleared

Source: Deluge

Yesterday, my friend had replaced his personal computer’s hard drive due to a failure. He is calling for help because he can’t watch his favorite genuine DVDs after he had successfully installed the genuine Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition. I told him to calm down. There is one complete codec packs which can help him out there which can be downloaded from the Internet. Do you guys heard of XP Codec Pack?

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec packs which helps to play all major audio and video formats. The Media Player Classic is a simple integrated player that play almost all audio and video files with XP Codec Pack installed. XP Codec Pack 2.3.4 includes: -

* AC3Filter 1.46
* AVI Splitter 1.0.0.9
* CDXA Reader 1.0.0.2
* CoreAAC (AAC DirectShow Decoder) 1.2.0
* CoreFlac Decoder 0.4
* FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2007.07.01
* GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder 0.1.2.0
* Matroska Splitter 1.0.3.0
** Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
* OggSplitter/CoreVorbis 1.1.0.79
* RadLight APE Filter 1.0.0.4
* RadLight MPC Filter 1.0.0.4
* RadLight OFR Filter 1.0.0.4
* RealMedia Splitter 1.0.1.2
* RadLight TTA Filter 1.0.0.2
* The Codec Detective 2.0
* VSFilter (DirectVobSub) 2.38

The most important features of XP Codec Pack is they are spyware and adware FREE!

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Pidgin formerly known as Gaim is a cross-platform multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin is compatible with AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, Novell GroupWise Messenger, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Lotus Sametime, Yahoo! and Zephyr.

With Pidgin, you can now log into an IRC channel, chatting with your friends in ICQ and talking to a friend in Yahoo Messenger.

Source: Pidgin

Deluge 0.5.7.1 released on 1 Dec 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. Please refer to the changelog below for the version changes.

Deluge 0.5.7.1 (1 December 2007)
* Tweak full hd warning so that it only displays itself once per torrent that it has to pause
* Fixed crash and corruption of persistent.state while adding a duplicate torrent. Also caused yet another invalid handle error
* Increase tracker timeout

Source: Deluge

VLC is a cross-platform media player and media server. It supports various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Below is a full changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d: -

Various bugfixes:
* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
* Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code

Windows and Mac OS Binaries:
* FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows

Active X plugin:
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
* Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats
NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.

Encoders:
* Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X

Other changes:
* The automatic updating facility was removed
* You now need to append –m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists

Soruce: VideoLAN

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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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

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