I am very sure most of you will know what Digg is. Basically, digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. Digg users will submit stories for review. However, instead of allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users make the selection.

To keep up with the latest news from digg, there is a new release of DiggUpdate 2.0. The same way that RSS works, DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page.

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As BitTorrent is becoming more and more popular among peer-to-peer (P2P) users, there are a wide spread of new bitTorrent softwares developed for BitTorrent use. Some of the BitTorrent clients include uTorrent and BitComet.

Unlike uTorrent and BitComet, Azureus is Java-based BitTorrent client. Azureus is currently version 2.4.0.2 for stable release and 2.4.0.3 for beta. In addition, Azureus also features an embedded tracker which can be easily set up.

As Azureus is Java-based, it is platform-independent. However, Java Run-time Environment (JRE) virtual machine is required to run Azureus.

Filezilla is one of the best FTP client that I have come across. Besides supporting for FTP, it is also a SFTP client, allowing file transport via SSH, on port 22. In addition Filezilla Server allows user to set up a FTP server easily and quickly.

This is an open source project filed under SourceForge. Hence, it is available free for users to download. This is the lastest post since my last post for Filezilla.

Since previous alpha releases, including Flight CD, the long awaiting most popular Linux distro (according to me and Distrowatch.com), Ubuntu has finally reached its first Beta stage, also codenamed Dapper Drake.

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By creating a virtual drive on your Windows XP operating system, you could access to GMail storage, as though you are accessing a directory (or folder) on a drive, like you would do with your physical hard drive.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account, which allows users to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.

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Are you currently fasinated with Google’s recent release of the Google Calendar Beta? Do you also have Ipods that have calendar functionality? How would you like to integrate both together, being able to synchronise your schedules between your Ipods and Google Calendar?

Johnny Matthews have wrote a simple program, called getCals, which allows ipod users to transfer your Ipod calendar to and from Google Calendar.

Note the following latest notice: At the moment this works on the Ipod with video and also the Nano.

Procedure:
To get the ICAL address from Google:

1. Go to your calendar view,
2. click on the down arrow next to your calendar name and go to “Share this Calendar“.
3. Choose the “Calendar Details” option, then
4. click the ICAL button next to the “Private Address” section.

So, this is some good news for those with Ipods.

Bonjour is initially an Apple product, known for zero-configuration networking, for Macintosh. Now, Apple has released Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3.

Bonjour for Windows is basically a networking tool, that enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Furthermore, it uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS.

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The second revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 codenamed “sarge” has been released. This latest release is an update to Debian GNU.Linux 3.1, which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with some corrections to critical issues in the stable version.

Note that, for those who frequently update from security.debian.org will not need to update much of the packages as most updates from the repository are already included in this update.

Final note, this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 but only adds a few updated packages to it. The release annoucement can be accessed here.

This is a new tool released from CPUID website. PerfMonitor is a processor performance monitoring tool, which allows users to track the frequency of 4 events choosen in a set of model-specific list.

PerfMonitor is pretty useful for the following:

1. to identify the performance bottlenecks of a system
2. to monitor a program for cache-miss rate or mis-predicted branches
3. as a hardware-level CPU comparison tool, comparing the key parameters of different CPUs runnning the same benchmark.

PerfMonitor 1.0.0.5 can be downloaded from this link.

Note that, you will need Administrator rights to run PerfMonitor, if you are running Windows XP/2000/NT4/Vista systems.

Following the previous release of WinRAR 3.60 Beta 1, Rar Lab has now released version WinRAR 3.60 Beta 2. As mentioned before, this is a highly recommended compression utility, even I will claim that it is much better than WinZip.

WinRAR 3.60 Beta 2 is the latest release by Alexander Roshal. WinRAR is a powerful archive manager, which allow users to perform backups and reducing file size and email attachments. It supports compression of RAR and ZIP formats. However, it supports decompression of several other compressed file formats, such as ISO, TAR, CAB, BZ2, ARJ, LZH, ACE, 7-Zip, GZip, UUE, JAR and Z, on top of ZIP and RAR.

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