Description:

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv.

Technical:

Title:	KMPlayer 2.9.4.1434
Filename:	The_KMPlayer_1434.exe
File size:	11.93MB (12,513,158 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:	Freeware
Date added:	December 22, 2008
Author:	KMPlayer www.kmplayer.com

Change Log:

KMPlayer is now owned by Pandora.tv

• OpenAlbumArt v1.0 support (Shortcut key embodied remote control available)
• Internal VP6 (Flash) Codec 'low merit' problem fixed.
• Some DTS audio playback problem fixed(libdts.dll).
• Can't search 'WMVideo Decoder DMO' problem fixed(Windows Vista).
• Set [External Audio Decoder] to default MP3 codec 'MP3 Decoder DMO' instead of 'MPEG Layer3 Decoder' (Windows Vista).
• Audio Stream Selection Menu bug among more than two voices fixed.
• MediaInfo Library updated(0.7.7.6)

KMPlayer Open Alum Art 1.0
KMPlayer “Open Album Art” now allows users to simply click on the preview of video thumbnail on KMP’s main page for a better appreciation of the video. Moreover, once having watched the video, the user can delete the video by clicking on the [delete] button.

“Open Album Art” also provides remote control and a wireless keyboard. The new era has come for KMPlayer’s HTPC (Home Theater PC) users or that of TV-OUT users to watch videos via “Open Album Art” with a more comfortable service in a more amicable environment.

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Description:

ICQ or 'I Seek You' is simply a way of getting in touch with people and friends. ICQ makes it easy to find people with similar interests across the globe, to establish new friendships, to communicate with colleagues, family members and friends no matter when or where they are. And once friendships and connections have been established you just need to go online to get in contact without the geographic and time related limitations of the offline world.

The most popular method of communication on ICQ is instant messaging, enabling you to send a message that immediately pops up on an online contact's screen. But there's a lot more to ICQ than that.

With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If you're away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works from any computer.

With ICQ 5 you can customize your ICQ to be exactly what you need and always up-to-date by adding shortcuts to your favorite features in order to launch them directly from your ICQ. This means that you can send your friends & contacts greeting cards and invitations to games, multi chats, video sessions, and more directly from your client and/or the message window. In the message window you can also choose to display your photo or one of ICQ's unique, animated devils.

Technical:

Title:	ICQ 6.5.1005
Filename:	install_icq65.exe
File size:	15.53MB (16,282,912 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Freeware
Date added:	December 22, 2008
Author:	ICQ Inc www.icq.com
Homepage:	download.icq.com/download

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Description:

Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

Technical:

Title:	Pidgin 2.5.3
Filename:	pidgin-2.5.3.exe
File size:	13.07MB (13,709,921 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Open Source
Date added:	December 22, 2008
Author:	Gaim www.pidgin.im

Change Log:

Changes:
libpurple:

• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian Quèze)
• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze) purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
• Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized. (Florian Quèze)
• Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs (Paul Aurich)
• On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients. (Jaromír Karmazín)
• Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages.
• The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
• Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
• Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)

Gadu-Gadu:

• Add support for IM images. (Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam Strzelecki)
  

MSN:

• Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new* "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship those intermediate certificates.
• The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now shows the album, if possible.
• Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now correctly received.
• Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time should now be handled correctly.
• Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those on the Yahoo network.
• Several known crashes have been resolved.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.
  

MySpace:

• Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
• Add support for blocking buddies.
• Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the first time you sign into your account.
• Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
• Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
• Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.

Sametime:

• Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent Montaron)
• Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)

SIMPLE:

• Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
• Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been specified. (Florian Quèze)
  

XMPP:

• Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
• Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the server refuses to provide a resource.
• Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
• Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
• Support new element to indicate no XEP-0084 User Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)

Yahoo:

• Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
• Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.
  

Zephyr:

• Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
• Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
• Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)

Pidgin:

• On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had previously changed that pref, add a line like this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want): gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
• To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0: gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
• Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the buddylist. (Casey Ho)
• Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
• Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley manager.
• Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
• Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
• Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single conversation.
• Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the saved status manager, rather than edit the status.
  

Finch:

• Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
• Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
• Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer needed.

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Description:

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!

Technical:

Title:	CutePDF Writer 2.71
Filename:	CuteWriter.exe
File size:	1.54MB (1,613,856 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Freeware
Date added:	December 22, 2008
Author:	CutePDF www.cutepdf.com
Homepage:	www.cutepdf.com/Prod...CutePDF/writer.asp

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Description:

Digsby, IM, email and Social networks in one easy to use application.

Instant Messaging - digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

Email Notifications - digsby is an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as 'Delete' or 'Report Spam' with just one click.

Social Networking - digsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

Version 38 onwards is a stub installer that includes numerous toolbars etc., we recommend you do not install these.

Technical:

Title:	Digsby Beta (build 45)
Filename:	digsby.exe
File size:	4.33MB (4,541,560 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows XP/2003/Vista
License:	Freeware
Date added:	December 22, 2008
Author:	dotSyntax www.digsby.com

Change Log:

Added support for the new Yahoo Mail Platform that launched this week and pushed Build 44 changes to all users

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Description:

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Technical:

Title:	NSIS 2.42
Filename:	nsis-2.42-setup.exe
File size:	1.51MB (1,582,691 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Open Source
Date added:	December 21, 2008
Author:	Nullsoft www.nullsoft.com
Homepage:	nsis.sourceforge.net

Change Log:

NSIS 2.42 is released. This release includes a new simpler and more powerful
plug-in API, vastly improved and thoroughly tested version of WinVer.nsh, and
disposes of two great evils - /NOUNLOAD and useful header functions usage
declaration. As usual and especially for the holiday season, the customary
collection of bug fixes and minor improvements is also included free of charge.

Release Notes

• Merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah!
• Plug-in developers should check out the new plug-in API in Examples\Plugin and convert their plug-ins, especially in case they require staying loaded.

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Description:

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

• Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
• Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want to capture the screen. Your screen captures are also automatically named and timestamped.
• Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 1152x864 and 100 frames per second!

Technical:

Title:	Fraps 2.9.7
Filename:	setup.exe
File size:	1.25MB (1,306,792 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:	Shareware
Date added:	December 20, 2008
Author:	beepa.com www.beepa.com

Change Log:

2.9.7 - 19th Dec 2008

• Fixed 64-bit applications crashing soon after loading
• Fixed low quality sound recording with Left 4 Dead under Windows XP
• Fixed graphic corruption in X-Plane (and other OpenGL titles)
• Fixed crash when recording a DirectX 9 game and changing resolution
• Fixed Fraps not detecting games after being run at Windows startup
• Fixed hotkeys not responding when Alt held down
• Fixed monitoring of Vista DWM after a full-screen application has exited
• Fixed Fluidmark displaying a blank screen with Fraps loaded
• Fixed FS9 crashing when menu activated while recording
• Fixed DWMAPI error on some Windows XP installs
• Improved recording speed of DirectX9 games in Vista SP1 and SP2 beta
• Added warning if no sound recording device found under Windows 2000 or XP

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Description:

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.

You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!

Autoruns works on all versions of Windows including Windows XP 64-bit Edition (for x64) and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition (for x64).

This download includes the exe and command line versions of Autoruns.

Technical:

Title:	Autoruns 9.37
Filename:	Autoruns.zip
File size:	564KB (577,646 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:	Freeware
Date added:	December 20, 2008
Author:	Microsoft SysInternals www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals
Homepage:	technet.microsoft.co...nals/bb963902.aspx

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Description:

Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a java bittorrent client offering multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents.

Vuze now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use.

Please note that it requires the latest Java Runtime Environment to work.

Technical:

Title:	Vuze 4.0.0.4b
Filename:	Vuze_4.0.0.4b_windows.exe
File size:	9.35MB (9,802,176 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:	Open Source
Date added:	December 20, 2008
Author:	Azureus azureus.sourceforge.net

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Description:

The Ultimate CD and DVD data recovery software! Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD!

Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup ... IsoBuster can do it all!

One tool, to support all formats, for only one very democratic price. No accumulated cost if you need more than one type media supported.

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use CD and DVD data recovery tool. It supports all CD and DVD formats and all common CD and DVD file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a CD or DVD, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

Combine this all-revealing functionality with far better read and recovery mechanisms, scanning for lost files functionality, workarounds for a wide range of drive and software bugs, limitations or shortcomings and you have an enormously powerful data recovery tool. IsoBuster is must-have-software for every PC user and is deliberately kept low priced to be able to offer a solution for everybody.

Technical:

Title:	IsoBuster 2.5.0.0
Filename:	isobuster_all_lang.exe
File size:	4.73MB (4,964,648 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Shareware
Date added:	December 20, 2008
Author:	Smart Projects www.smart-projects.net

Change Log:

Changes:

• Support for UDF Named streams in the core engine
• Ability to extract UDF Named Streams to NTFS Alternate Data streams (default ON)
• Ability to show UDF Named streams as separate files, for analysis, a [Business] feature
• Support for UDF System streams (shown in a separate UDF file system)
• Ability to extract Mac Resource forks (from UDF / HFS or ISO9960) to NTFS Alternate Data streams (default ON)
• Ability to extract Mac Properties (from UDF / HFS or ISO9960) to NTFS Alternate Data streams (combined with resource forks)
• Ability to include folder information when creating a File List (Need to enable in Options)
• Implemented Command Line Parameter "/ep:" to avoid poppups during automated extraction
• Support for VMWare Hard Drive *.vmdk image files containing FAT
  

Improvements:

• Improvements to detect and find more FAT partitions
• Recognition of Dynamic partitions
• Improved support for *.gi multi-file image files
• Removed "This is a packet written disc. Errors are not abnormal on this disc" warning for all type discs other than CD
• "UD.DAT", a typical BD mastering file, is now part of the files that are automatically recognized when opening an image file.
• Ability to open and support for VMWare Floppy *.flp image files
• Do NOT prompt and ask if a file should be over-written when going through the temp folder (e.g. drag and drop)
• Display 8 characters in a File List (e.g. 00000001) instead of 7, because for BD Dual Layer (which can contain up to 50 GB) 8 characters are required
• Various GUI improvements and changes
  

Fixes:

• The Toolbar does not change the homepage anymore
• Fixed extremely rare exception error, seen only on one data set, during the "Find missing files and folders" scan
• Fixed issue that prevented BD drive write-ability to be detected properly when no BD disc was mounted
• Fixed negative % progress when verifying files on DL BD discs with over 40 GB of data

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