Realtek HD Audio Drivers 2.00 were released two days ago.

Just like the past version, the readme file highlights customizations as the only change in this version.

If you ever get any problems when updating drivers you can use Driver Sweeper after you have uninstalled you current drivers to clean your system for left over files. After that, reboot your computer and install the new ones. This will reduce the chance of having driver issues.

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Real Alternative allows you to view RealMedia files without having to install the infamous RealMedia Player and everything that comes with it.

All RealMedia formats are supported, including plugins for web browsers to view streaming media.

The only difference between Regular and Lite packages is that the Lite version don’t installs Media Player Classic. If you are willing to try the best player, use the Regular installer.

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Rapid Environment Editor, an excellent environment variables editor, was updated to include a shortcut for refreshing the variables window.

You can download a portable version in ZIP format.

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Recuva has a new version.

This freeware program for recovering deleted files has the following changes:

• Reduced memory usage by 10%.
• Added Office 2007 doc types to ‘Documents’ filter.
• Added .cab and .url to deep scan.
• Files with no name found during deep scan are now named using meta data.
  Works for the following file types: mp3, wma, wmv, rtf, url, doc,
  xls, ppt, vsd, tiff, jpg and png.
• Added support for USB drives with a sector size of 2048 bytes.
• Improvements to system info status.
• Minor bug fixes.

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TheWorld Browser is a free alternative to Internet Explorer. It is lightning fast to open up and is slightly faster than IE to display pages.

It has an embedded download manager which is great and hast ad blocking options as well as content (such as java script, flash, etc.) filtering to speed up page display. Supports skins.

If you are using IE right now and you don’t like the other alternatives such as Firefox or Opera, this great program can fill your browsing needs.

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There is an updated version of XnView. I don’t know the latest changes because the author keeps a general history without mentioning version releases.

However, XnView 1.94.1 is available already.

Read more about all the features of XnView.

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Just a day after version 3.1.0 release, Filezilla 3.1.0.1 fixes an important security vulnerability.

FileZilla 3.1.0.1 fixes a vulnerability regarding the way some errors are handled on SSL/TLS secured data transfers.

If the data connection of a transfer gets closed, FileZilla did not check if the server performed an orderly TLS shutdown.
Impact

An attacker could send spoofed FIN packets to the client. Even though GnuTLS detects this with GNUTLS_E_UNEXPECTED_PACKET_LENGTH, FileZilla did not record a transfer failure in all cases.

Unfortunately not all servers perform an orderly SSL/TLS shutdown. Since this cannot be distinguished from an attack, FileZilla will not be able to download listings or files from such servers.

Latest changes:

• Fix infinite loop in new socket class
• Fix file descriptor/handle leak in new socket class
• Fix locking error if cancelling an operation waiting for a lock held by a different engine
• MSW: In rare cases, initial read event was not triggered on transfer sockets
• Add missing icon in LonE theme

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Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity. “We are deeply convinced that authorship — knowing who wrote what — helps readers trust the content,” said Cedric DuPont, product manager for Knol.

The name of the service is a play on an individual unit of knowledge, DuPont said, and entries on the public website, knol.google.com, are called “knols”.

Google conducted a limited test of the site beginning in December. Knol has publishing tools similar to single blog pages. But unlike blogs, Knol encourages writers to reduce what they know about a topic to a single page that is not chronologically updated.

Source: Reuters Knol Website