Despite the paranoid delusions of people who think that uTorrent is now a tool of the MPAA, it remains one of the most popular bittorrent clients for Windows (and soon Mac). v1.7 was just released, boasting some new features and improvements, including a bug which limited downloads on large torrents. A full changelog is here, [...]
Previously, I reviewed InfraRecorder, a relatively young project that seeks to add a bit of spit and polish to the venerable cdrtools command line programs. At the time, noted that while the interface was lovely, there were a few flaws, notably the hassle of add-on mp3 support, the lack of FLAC support, and limited flexibility. [...]
Since I’m not writing anything of substance at the current moment, here are some recent software releases to be aware of. Pidgin (formerly Gaim) finally saw an official 2.0.0 release, with too many features to list. Paint.NET released its latest incremental change to 3.07, with a few fixes an an enhanced line/curve tool. Notepad++, a [...]
The state of Win32 burning programs The proprietary choices for optical disc burning on Windows are pretty obvious: at the fore, there’s Roxio’s offering, EZ Media Creator, and Nero’s offering, Nero Burning Rom. Having used Roxio’s v5 program long, long ago with my Hewlett-Packard 4x external CDRW drive, and having used Nero’s Burning Rom during [...]
I’m not sure how I missed this for that last 9 months, but I love it. The following pictures are diagrams of system calls made to serve a single static HTML page with one image. The one on the left is Apache on Linux; the one on the right is IIS on Windows (I assume [...]
Paint.NET toggle thumbnails If you already know about Paint.NET, you can just go right to the download page, or see the lead programmer Rick Brewster’s explanatory blog entry. The history of Paint.NET is an interesting one: it began as a senior project at Washington State University a mere three years ago, intended as a sort [...]
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