A new version of this registry defragmentation programs is out.

Now they included a portable version in the download page, which is great.

Quicksys RegDefrag 1.5 latest changes:

• Fixed bug in font ANSI charset
• Fixed bug in column order at Registry Information
• Added new language: Dutch
• Updated languages: Polish and Czech
• Minor bugs fixed

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Here is a small update the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

I didn’t find any release notes about Ubuntu 8.04.1 but they will update them soon.

People that already has it running can update it within Ubuntu itself. This download is for users that want to try it as it comes as a disc image, of for those that always download new disc images to store them in case they need them.

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Shark007, a fellow member of MSFN Forums and author of Vista Codec Package, has released his new version of Adobe Reader Lite. It is now version 9.0 made from the latest version i posted about.

This Lite versions leaves out many plugins and has customized preferences so it opens faster and has less features than the average users needs. Also, the file size is a lot smaller.

I use his Lite installer in all my unattended installations and in my personal computers. I totally recommend it.

Right now it is only available in english, but soon all other languages will follow. Visit the discussion thread to keep an eye on new releases for other languages.

I recommend to uninstall any previous version of Adobe Reader and restarting your computer before installing this Lite version. This way you reduce the chance of having problems when installing it.

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Adobe launched its PDF publishing suite Acrobat 9.0 some days ago. They were missing the updated Adobe Reader 9.0, but today here it is.

There are lots of changes. You can read about them here.

Now they are including Acrobat.com support based on Adobe AIR so you can work on it like in a desktop application. I will try the new Reader version to see how it improves over its previous version.

The only thing i hate about Reader 8.x is that everytime you open a PDF document, the program freezes for a few seconds. This happens just about a 1 or 2 seconds after the document finishes loading, so i hate that when i’m opening something to take a quick read at it.

If your language is not ready in the new 9.0 version, just wait a few days and try again. They will soon release it in all languages.

Edit: I just saw that Adobe released a critical security fix for Reader 8.1.2. Get the patch.

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While Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 a week ago, they just updated version 2.x to 2.0.0.15 to include some security updates.

This is great for people that still prefer 2.0 over the new version, or for those that are still waiting for their favorite extensions to support Firefox 3.0.

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This little program lets you drag & drop your taskbar buttons (open windows) to rearrange them in the order you want. It also support systray icons, so you can move them as well.

You can choose to have its icon in the systray or hide it completely.

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Backing up you USB memory sticks can be very important to preserve your data in case something goes wrong.

While all the backup programs out there can save data from USB drives, USB image tool unique feature is to make disk images out of them so you can store all the drive’s data in one file.

This can be useful for all audio players like iPods or Zunes, because you can store disk images for different occasions. When you want a particular images on the drive, just select restore and select the file.

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AudioGuru is a program that lets you see all relevant information (and not so relevant too) about audio files. With it, you can open an audio file to see all the metadata, like covert art, text lyrics, bitrate on a per-frame basis and scan it for errors.

It can be useful to compare your encoded files for compression rates. Also, if you have some audio files that play weird in some players, you can scan them with AudioGuru to check them.

You can integrate it in the explorer shell menu for easier access to scan files.

Support all the major audio formats, such as MP3, AC3, MP4, WavPack, MPC, APE, among others.

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