Just found something really cool! The UltraMixer 2.3.3 is a DJ audio mixing software that allows users to mix digital music in various formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, WAV or even CD in real-time. The basic hardware requirement is a good sound card. Similar to a physical DJ audio mixer, the DJ turntables are replaced by two digital SoundPlayers.

Here is some background information:

“…UltraMixer is the first DJ software in the world, that is available for the most popular operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS X…”

Exactly! Just when you need it at the party or in a restaurant, this “digitalised” version of DJ turntables will do just great! Three versions of UltraMixer are available; namely, the Free Edition, Basic Edition and the Professional Edition. The professional version costs as much as £129 and the Basic Edition costs approximately £59. If you are concerned about the cost, give the free edition for a trial run for no cost at all. However, it is only meant for private, non-public use.

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Picasa should ring a bell when this name is mentioned. I believe most of you will know that this application is a photo software, made free by Google. In the past, only Windows versions of Picasa have been actively maintained and improved. With the rising demand from the Linux community, the Linux-compatible version is also catching up with the Windows compatriot.

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Developed by CPUID, the next version of CPU-Z 1.4.7 is now released. This application is a free-ware that allows users to obtain information on some of the main devices on your computer system, such as CPU, Motherboard, Memory and Operating System.

Some of the new addition to the support of the chipset are as follow:

• - Intel Core i7 processor.
• - Intel Core 2 Duo S Mobile processors.
• - NVIDIA MCP79/7A chipset.
• - AMD 790GX / SB750 chipset.

Personally, I often use this application whenever I need to find a quick information on my Windows system, especially on the hardware details. The advantage of this software is that, it does not require any installation of the software for it to work. You can run it on-the-fly!

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CPU-Z 1.4.7

The latest release of VLC Media Player 0.9.2 is now available for public to download. To-date, it has already achieved close to 1 million downloads for this version, averaging about 2-3 downloads per second (Quite curious myself too, as if that’s really the case). The VLC Media Player is both a cross-platform multi-media player and a streaming server.

As a media player, it is highly portable, supporting various audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, etc. Furthermore, the VLC player also playbacks DVDs and VCDs. In addition, it also works equally well as a streaming server to support unicast or multicast in IPv4 and IPv6 on high-bandwidth network.

The application is also available in many operating systems, thus making it ultra-portable. Download VLC Player here.

A very small and useful utility tool, CPU-Z 1.47 allows users to gather quick information about their hardware component and system, such as the motherboard, processor and memory data. In this latest version release, CPU-Z developer has added new supports for the processors.

• * Intel Core i7 processor.
• * Intel Core 2 Duo S Mobile processors.
• * NVIDIA MCP79/7A chipset.
• * AMD 790GX / SB750 chipset.

One of the beauties of this utility is that the application itself does not require any installation. Simply download and run the executable file; hence, no messing with the Windows registry. To remove the program, simply delete the files, it is as clean as it can get.

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CPU-Z 1.47

The recent release of Google Chrome to the World Wide Web (WWW) has created a big hoo-haa as a lot of users have rushed to download and try out the new application (for free). According to Google,

“…Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier…”

However, what users do not realise is that each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID, thereby each computer has a unique “thumbprint” to identify the user. Even if two systems are installing from the same setup file, the identity is different, due to its underlying hidden algorithm that is obscured from users’ knowledge. Don’t forget, Google is exceptionally clever in data collection.

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Since the last introduction of Firefox 2 Vista Black theme last year, the Firefox 3 Vista Black theme for Firefox is now made available – with an all Black (Vista Style) Navigation and Bookmarks toolbar.

How to Install?
Install Stylish for Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or Songbird. If you have Stylish already, make sure you’re using the latest version and have JavaScript enabled.

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Vista Black Theme site

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter or ripper. Made especially for Mac OS X fans, the software is also available in Windows and Linux environment; although it was originally available only on BeOS.

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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