As everyone knows, iTunes installs QuickTime, Bonjour service, Apple’s software updater, MobileMe support and other “goodies” that are not needed at all.

Shark007, the maker of Vista Codec Package and fellow member of MSFN released several modified versions of iTunes in the past that don’t install all this components, just plan and simple iTunes.

He asked MSFN member to continue this project because he doesn’t have the time to build them. I made this new versions using his transform files.

Modifications: No Bonjour service, no iTunesHelper or iPodService at startup and no MobileMe support.

You can use it as usual without any worries. You can sync your player, update its firmware, listen to radio, etc.

As me and other members of MSFN Forum use them for unattended installations, they are switchless, meaning that when you double-click or execute the file, it will begin the installation without any other prompt. However, you will be able to see the current installation status.

All you need is QuickTime Alternative before installing this customized builds.

The Multilanguage build supports all languages, except english. For this language use the English version.

Latest version: 7.7.1.11

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eMule 0.49b was released today.

This new version fixes some crashes that were introduced in the earlier Betas.

The complete changelog can be found here.

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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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Deluge, a multiplatform open source BitTorrent client is almost reaching version 1.0 final.

Meanwhile, Deluge 0.9.0.3 or version 1.0.0 RC3 (i hate this mixed naming) is available for download.

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