Two days after Mozilla officially launched Firefox 3, openSUSE follow suits by launching openSUSE 11.0 GM. This latest release includes more than 200 new features that are specific to openSUSE, an installer that has been completely re-designed to suit the needs and enhancement of users’ experience, faster packages management to speed up operation at the back end and several other fixes and updates.

…The 11.0 release of openSUSE includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and much more…

openSUSE is now available for immediate download from its website:

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It has been announced during my previous post that Mozilla Firefox 3 will be launched today, and so it did! Right now, there are thousands of downloads going on since the news have gone public. It was phenomenologically huge traffic such that the traffic to Firefox home page was rather sluggish.

Nonetheless, this is also an on-going campaign to hit the target of achieving the largest volume of downloads within a 24 hours timeframe. Hence, good luck, Mozilla. Meanwhile, if you do support Mozilla Firefox 3, download it today.

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Mozilla Firefox 3

Just about two weeks ago, SoftSift was under seige by a hacker, called Mhrfl. It is definitely not something that is really proud to talk about, as it simply illustrate the vulnerability of site being insecure.

Luckily, the hack was discovered within 12 hours and the site was restored back to its original status. The full detail of what happened is covered by Al in SelfMadeMinds.

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About two days ago, WordPress has released the security fix for WordPress 2.5 version. This release contains several bug fixes and performance enhancement. It is highly recommended for users who are using the latest major release of 2.5 milestone to upgrade immediately, as the initial public release has a security vulnerability.

The entire 2.5.1 release has over 70 fixes and performance enhancement. Some of which are as follow:

• * Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• * Better performance for those who have many categories
• * Media Uploader fixes
• * An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• * Widget Administration fixes
• * Various usability improvements
• * Layout fixes for IE

Personally, I am happy to see the media uploader issue being fixed, as it has been quite an annoying issue for me for a period of time.

HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers.

This application supports many platforms and every versions that were released are compatible with each other and allow users to exchange files between these different platforms.

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uTorrent users are advised to take note; if you are currently running on version 1.7.x, your application might be experience some crashing moments. The latest release of uTorrent fixed a remote crash bug and 3 other minor issues.

Change Log

• - Change: do not use adapter subnet to identify local peers
• - Fix: double-clicking to open items in RSS releases tab
• - Fix: remote crash bug (affects all 1.7.x, and 1.8 builds released to date)
• - Fix: limit local peers if disk is congested

Note that, the crash bug affects versions 1.7.x and 1.8 releases to date. Hence, upgrade is strongly recommended as no further update is available for those releases dated prior to version 1.7.6.

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uTorrent 1.7.6

CPU-Z is a small, yet extremely useful utility. The recent release encompasses several supports for new processors, for example

• * Intel Skulltrail platform support (Core 2 Extreme QX9775 + 5400B MCH).
• * Intel X48 chipset detection.
• * AMD Athlon 64-LE 1600 and 1620 support.
• * Fix detection issues on unlocked Phenom (ES/BE).

Hosted by CPUID, this small utility provides a rather informative data about your motherboard, memory and graphics card. One instance is that you can find out the speed of your RAM, e.g. PC-2700 or PC-2100, or the chipset of your microprocessor.

The good thing is that CPU-Z does not need to be installed. Simply unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe program (see screenshot). To remove the program, users only need to remove the entire directory.

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CPUID CPU-Z 1.43

It does not matter even if Christmas Day is over; moreover Christmas can last for 12 days. We, at SoftSift, would like to take this opportunity to wish every readers and subscribers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2008.

We will be looking forward to bring you more stuffs and latest software news. In addition, we are open to ideas if you have any recommendation. Last, but not least, may the new year bring you more joyous and happiness. For health!

WordPress 2.3.2 was released 2 days ago, barely unknown to me just right under my nose. I have been expecting it for quite some time, as the previous version released, WordPress 2.3.1, was then released more than 2 months ago.

This WordPress version provides several bugs fixes, as usual, but more noticeably, it is highly recommended to upgrade to this version. One of the main fixes is that the previous version exposes a security flaw that allows draft posts to be seen by public. Several other bug fixes and enhancements can be found here.

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Apart from Adobe Photoshop, IrfanView 4.10 is another alternative which users can opt for image conversion. Some of the basic features are as follow:

1. - View images
2. - Image format conversion
3. - Image optimisation
4. - Scan and print images
5. - Slideshow creation
6. - Batch processing
7. - Play movies and sounds
8. - and others…

The features that I like best about IrfanView is that it is lightweight, yet capable of performing batch processing as well as slideshow creation. Undoubtedly, this is one good software to go, if you are short of cash to purchase expensive photo editing softwares.

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IrfanView 4.10