Released by Microsoft Corporation, this toolkit is specially released for users if they want to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 as a high priority update via the Automatic Updates, Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.

As quoted from the Microsoft site,

To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter 2006). Microsoft is making a non-expiring Blocker Toolkit available for those organizations that would like to block automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 to machines in environments where Automatic Updates is enabled.

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Check out this cool little apps for Mac OS X, known as the Todos. It gives you quick access to run applications that are installed in your Macintosh. JUst a click on a quick hotkey (Command-Option-Control-T) and it will bring up the Todos application.

Todos will show you all the applications in a complete dock, and it has no problem getting all your applications to fit into space, despite you have a plethora of programs. By clicking the desired application in Todos will immediately launch the program instantly. Once done, click on the hotkey again to remove Todos from the screen.

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Having problem getting a useful personal finance software? Well, SoftSift is always the place for you to find the software you want. So, this time it is a personal finance application. Instead of Microsoft Money, why not give the Money Manager Ex a try.

Available as a free, open-source software, the Money Manager Ex primarily helps you to organise your finances and keep track of where your money go. It is truly a piece of useful utility equipped with all the basic features which any financial applications would use. The simple and user-friendly interface means keeping track of your finance will never be any easier.

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Skype is a telephony software that supports free PC-to-PC calls and low cost PC-to-Phone calls. Skype has announced the latest release of Skype 1.5.0.47 for Mac, which is equipped with video preview.

Now, Mac users can use Skype and make video calls to other Skype users on their contact lists, irregardless of what platform their contacts might be using, for free. As this is still a preview release, there might be some features which may not work. It is recommended that only experienced users may attempt to use The Video Preview of Skype for Mac. Furthermore, it should not be used on a production system, unless you want to do so at your own risk.

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Fed up with using so many applications at once to connect up to several networks? I reckon most of us would have MSN Messenger (now, the latest known as Windows Live Messenger, which an extremely resource hungry application), Yahoo Messenger (the latest news about its collaboration with MSN Messenger so that users from both networks can cross-chat), ICQ (or AOL), Skype, GoogleTalk, Jabber…. and so on. Imagine running all those softwares at the same time, and they are sure to run your system resources dry in no time. Why not get a all-in-one application?

Introducing Miranda IM (Internet Messaging) client, which is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and works very fast. Available in a small size file, it can even be stored in a single floppy drive (though I know nowadays, who would really use floppy drives; USB thumb drive perhaps). If you do not realise, Miranda IM has over 350 free plugins available for download, and users can customise it to their own preferences.

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Dedicated for direct, secure and fast file transfer between two computers, File Transfer 1.2 is one that you should not do without. Using a direct P2P (peer-to-peer) connection, it ensures the fastest possible connection speed between two nodes.

This software supports networks that are behind the NAT router, and furthermore it even allows connection behind the firewall too. Users at both end can transfer not just single file, instead File Transfer supports Folder transfer as well. An extremely small size file, which you should give it a try, especially if you are finding hard to transfer file using IM clients, such as MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger.

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File Transfer 1.2 [142kB]

With Adobe dumping so many functionalities into the latest Adobe Reader, it has almost become such a heavy application for a PDF (Portable Document Format) Reader. It just doesn’t make sense with so many plug-ins embedded inside Adobe Reader, without really requiring them to read a simple PDF file.

Time to put aside those over 5MB size of Acrobat Reader, and try out Foxit Reader 1.3, an extremely lightweight PDF Reader, and the download size is just over 1MB.

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The name may sounds strangely related to fermented drinks, but rest assured that there is nothing for you to drink here. Alcohol is a multimedia software that allows you to record and emulate CDs and DVDs into one single program, which is so easy to use.

So, what exactly does it do?

Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and just call them up at the click of a button! And then run them at 200x the speed of some CD drives and without requiring the CD itself! How about being able to make a backup of that CD onto another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you have created? This is what Alcohol allows you to do and much more.

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Anothe Macintosh goodies, Omni Web 5.5 Beta 1 has been officially released by the Omni Group to the public. Thanks to recommendation on this latest release by Dan.

There are several enhancements to the application:

• * OmniWeb is now a Universal Binary!
• * OmniWeb now supports saving in the WebArchive format via the “Save As…” panel.
• * There is now a global and site preference for user defined style sheets in the Appearance pane.
• * Toolbars in OmniWeb now use the Unified Toolbar.
• * A warning will now appear when you try reloading a page using POST.
• * When loading a workspace containing POST pages, the page will display an error but can be reloaded to rerequest the page.

In addition to these enhancements, there are also several other security fixes and performance tweaks to the software. The best is still because of it has become Universal Binary.

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What would the future be like to for the teleivision industry? Soon, instead of watching films and movies on your television or cinema, users can just logged on to the Internet and access the world of television at their finger tips. The technology has evolved, and when it won’t be too far away when Internet TV starts to creep into our household. That is the demand of the digital technology!

While some of us may be still dreaming if it is possible, there is already one company taking that step ahead to demonstrate its very own Democracy Player, one that allows users to watch Internet TV in one powerful application.

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