Just a few days ago, Tollef Fog Heen has announced the release of Edgy Eft Knot 1, which in time, will become Ubutun 6.10, forecasted to be release by October this year.

The pre-releases of Edgy Eft are not recommended for anyone who requires a stable system, and definitely not encouraged for installation on production machine. Knot 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Edgy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bug, while representing very current snapshots of Edgy. Knot 1 are available in Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu versions.

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One of the most popular web browsers, Opera 9, has a portable version which allows you to browse website, and surf the Internet the way you would do with common browers, i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox.

The latest version of Portable Opera @USB is Opera 9 Final Build 8501 for USB.

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For the past many years, Skype has monopolised the telephony industry and market by offering cheap phone calls to several destinations all around the world. It was not long ago before Skype was acquired by eBay following a million dollars take-over. However, even cheap calls to several destinations may not necessarily last for long, with some VoIP companies (and services) offering FREE calls to landlines and mobiles, such as VoIPstunt.

Should there be any concern if VoIPStunt is meant only for Windows, you’ll be glad that there is another service, known as the Gizmo Project, which provides free calls on your Windows, Mac OS X as well as Linux system.

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Up to date, there are so many BitTorrent client softwares, such as Azureus, BitTornado, uTorrent, BitComet, just to name a few. Now, there is even BitSpirit making its way to the BitTorrent market, exploiting the advanced BitTorrent technology. BitSpirit is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client which provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalized features.

Supporting simultaneous downloads, download queue, UPNP port-maping, NAT traversal(UDP transport), select downloads from multiple files torrent package, disk cache, chatting with other peers, torrent market,ip-filter, BitSpirit also supports DHT network which is based on Kademlia protocol and fully compatible with Bittorrent official client.

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A good thing about this SurveillizCam software is that it allows you to change your computer into a video capturing device, such as a surveillance system. It has the capability to monitor your home, office and surrounding by automatically detecting motion change and also the capability to record these motion clips into video.

When there is motion detected, the web camera sends the signal to the software to activate the motion video such that it could either send the video over the Internet, or record the video into MPEG1 or MPEG4 format. Furthermore, it could also activate the alarm sound, when supported.

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Feeling bored of your old classic Windows logon screen? Try something new. MyLogon 2.0.1 is an alternative to your Windows Logon or Welcome Screen. It is particularly useful for laptop-users who connect to multiple domains, business workgroups, data-entry stations, and situations where users will need to log in at several specific networks at times.

The two main differences between MyLogon and the usual Windows login are that, firstly, it is not essential for the computer to be a domain-member in order to log on to a server, and secondly, the act of logging on to a network does not change the behaviour of the user’s own computer, thus maintaining your user profile.

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This cool little application from Microsoft, known as User Profile Hive Cleanup service, is pretty useful when you want to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logged off from the computer. In normal circumstances, the system processes and applications in your Windows operating system occassionally maintain connection to the registry keys even after the user logged off from the system. As such, in actual fact, the user session is prevented from completely ending, thus resulting in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in server environment, or when using locked profiles (implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP).

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Macintosh fans will love this. UNO 1.3 gives Macintosh users a complete theming solution for the new Intel-based Macintosh! With the latest development, UNO can bring new life to your metal windows UI in Mac OS X, with added UNO shading, and furthermore, matches iLife apps’ theme to suit your taste.

The new Customize Panel in UNO allows selective installation, and themes mixing capabilities supported by a Live Preview feature. You can assign any variation of UNO and/or the default Aqua UI look to diferent GUI elements.

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Previously, I was posting on Lightroom Beta 3 Project, which is only available for Mac OS X, and the support on Windows platform was still undergoing. Finally, Adobe Labs has released the beta software for the Windows version as well. So, it’s good news for the huge Windows users population.

With Lightroom, it helps you, as a professional photographer, to engage the best way of organising your own personalised album. Adobe Labs has introduced Lightroom™, as a project, to create a net set of tool for users who want to use Lightroom™ to solve their own unique workflow challenges.

A preview build (Beta 3) for both the Mac version and Windows version are currently available. Users can download them and try out on your preferred platform. These versions will expire on January 30, 2007.

Get Lightroom Beta for Macintosh and Windows Now

There is also a forum where users can step in a discuss about the project. To access the forum for discussion, click here.

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This is something nice for the Mac OS X fans. Handbrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Originally, it was meant to be available only on BeOS, but now it has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, a Windows port is not available, but it is currently been worked on.

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