After a long wait, the almost-ready final version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is drawing near. Coupled with several enhancements, there were many features included in this latest release of Internet Explorer, such as the ability to view driving directions, translate words and instant emailing of sites to others – all done in a few mouse clicks with as minimal hassle as possible.

Besides, Microsoft also incorporates the new Accelerator feature that is meant to improve user-surfing experience.

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After a few weeks, Drupal has released the latest versions of Drupal 6.9 and Drupal 5.15 have arrived. According to the release report, there is no new feature in these releases, only bug fixes to resolve some critical security vulnerabilities.

It is important that sites that are running Drupal to be upgraded to the latest version, to avoid having been exploited by the security flaw.

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Introducing another sophisticated paint and photo-editing program – GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) – the next version 2.6.4 has just been released. There are several bug fixes over the previous version.

Gimp shares several similarities with Adobe Photoshop, but the most apparent differences between the two is that the latter is a paid version, whilst the former is made available publicly as an open-source program.

In saying so, it simply means that what you can do in Photoshop are likely to be the things that you can do with GIMP, including complicated image filtering, lighting effects, etc.

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Filezilla is one of the most popular and widely-used FTP applications. Despite it being an open-source program, it has surpassed its expectation by many users such that even some enterprises are using them as part of their work.

There are two kinds of Filezilla programs – one as a Client, and secondly as a Server. The client application is mainly by end users to connect up to the server to upload and download files to and from the destination. The server is the centralised location that stores the file.

The latest version of Filezilla Client 3.2.0 has just been released with several enhancements and improvements towards the earlier version.

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Today, we have several version of Linux distributions, ranging from Ubuntu and openSUSE to Debian and Red Hat. However, how can we possibly miss out one of the biggest release by Google, the giant Internet search engine, most impressive release to-date that incorporates the popular Google gadgets into the picture, that is the gOS 3.1 Gadgets.

This application launches the Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, incorporating several Google gadgets to the desktop. There are over 100,000 possible iGoogle and gadgets that can be chosen and selected to be part of your desktop interface.

The application, gOS 3.1 Gadgets, is based on the solid Linux distribution base of Ubuntu 8.04.1, thereby bringing users one of the most stable system, with up-to-date Linux packages. Furthermore, this operating system is designed to be used with NetBooks and have been known to be shipped inside these systems in the United States and several other countries.

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How often does Microsoft offers its Windows beta release for downloads and trials? Well, only for the past recent copies of XP and Vista, does it do that. Never would you have imagined that Windows 7 Beta is also available for download NOW! According to CNET, this software is supposed to be available on Friday but was delayed for another day due to web site issue.

In order to run this Windows 7 Beta release, Microsoft has provided some recommended specifications, although that could change for the final release. The installation file is provided in a .ISO format, which can be downloaded and burnt onto a DVD disc.

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