How many “notepad” applications are there, really? I don’t know, probably just too much to take account for. In this post, I introduce a new application of this Todo Pad, that does the same job as a notepad.

This software is a very simple application, and there is no advanced feature, if you are wondering. Basically, there are two main components:

1. - Tree Area
2. - Text Area

According to the developer, it is as simple as a “Steno Note”. What’s the difference is that this is available in several platforms, including Solaris, Macintosh and FreeBSD.

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Todo Pad 1.8

Since the last post on Foxit, the latest version of Foxit 2.0 is now released. 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 2.0, an extremely lightweight PDF Reader.

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Virtualization is now the “in-thing” of this century. Almost every individuals and companies are looking towards virtualization to minimize cost and increase productivity. There are a couple of virtualization software available, e.g. VMWare. One of the most latest product is VirtualBox, developed by InnoTek.

InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

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Sending emails over the Internet can be insecure. Particularly, when the hosting server has prying eyes, capable of scanning your plain text messages. As such, you will need encryption to secure your messages. Under Windows environment, there is a free utility, known as Gpg4win, which is capable of securing your email messages.

The following modules are included in the package.

• GnuPG: The core; this is the actual encryption tool
• WinPT: A key manager and helper for various encryption matters
• GPA: Another key manager, tasts are simply different
• GPGol: A plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2003 (email encryption)
• GPGee: A plugin for Microsoft Explorer (file encryption)
• Sylpheed-Claws: A complete email program including the plugin for GnuPG

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Gpg4win 1.0.9

The final release version of Azureus 3.0.0.8 is now available. Powered by Azureus, Zudeo (the website) is a video sharing website, similar to that of YouTube, but users will have to download the movie clip in order to watch. The brand new server means that Azureus is also coming up with new stuffs, such as new content layer, including rating system, comments, easy sharing feature, and link to “digg” content.

Azureus is a Java-based BitTorrent client that offers 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. It supports multiple torrent downloads and instant access to information, and also features an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.

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Developed by Keith Anderson, Feed 0.7b1 is a RSS Feed Reader for Macintosh. Although there are a lot of RSS readers for Mac OS X out there, including Apple adding RSS capabilities to Safari in Tiger. Unlike these RSS readers, Feed treats RSS news more like email than anything else. The current release is more of a hybrid between iTunes and a web browser.

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.3 or greater

There are several features in this release, such as Simple and Familiar interface; Drag-and-Drop Support; BitTorrent Enclosure; Audio Notifications; Bookmarks and Feed Organisations capability.

Note that, this latest release is a beta version and bug may still persists.

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Feed 0.7b1

K3b 1.0 is a CD burning application. It consists of several rich features that is almost as good as that one can get from Nero Burning ROM (under Windows environment). K3b basically consists of three parts:

1. The projects: Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn.
2. The Tools: The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting.
3. Context sensitive media actions: When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it’s contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs.

K3b has come a long way since the early days in 1998 when it started as a dummy project. The amazing feedback that this project has received from the open source community has propelled it to be what it is today.

K3b is available as a free source and can be downloaded from the link below. However, it might be easier to install K3b directly from your Linux distribution, to avoid some hassles of having to compile the source yourself.

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K3b 1.0 Final

Wine 0.9.33, a free implementation of Windows on UNIX systems, has been released. Some improvements have been noted in this version, since my last post. Below are some new changes in this release.

Main Feature Changes:

• - Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements.
• - More comctl32 tests and some bug fixes.
• - Compatibility improvements in cmd.exe.
• - Still more fixes to builtin OLE.
• - Support for process control on Solaris.
• - Lots of bug fixes.

Note that Fedora packages can be installed from the Fedora Extras repository by running yum install wine.
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Especially for Computer scientists, mathematicians or engineers working in the field of optimisation algorithms, as we know that genetic algorithm is one of the fastest and advanced optimisation algorithm to solve global minimum (or maximum) solution.

Developed by Alessandro Presta, the Fast Genetic Algorithm (FGA) is a simple yet powerful implementation of a general genetic algorithm that provides many types of crossover and selection procedures.

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