KeePass Password Safe is handy when it comes to store password for you multitude of web accounts. Today, many of us have several accounts for mails, video sites, blogs, social sites, etc.

Use this open source program to store all of them and keep safe using just one password. With it you can search, organize your accounts in categories and even install plugins to enhance the capabilities of KeePass.

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KeePass Password Safe is a free/open-source password safe or manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

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Today Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released to manufacturing (RTM).

The news are already spreading all over, but we have to wait a little longer. As of now, even subscribers of TechNet/Connect can’t get it because is not posted yet.

Quote from Microsoft TechNet Forums:

Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers.

We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer.

Thanks to everyone here who installed the public betas – you not only gave us detailed feedback but also helped each other out with timely troubleshooting. Through the beta program we found several important issues and were able to confirm some essential fixes. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We will still be monitoring this forum during the next few weeks in case you have more feedback about the release of Windows XP SP3.

On behalf of myself, Shashank Bansal and Windows Serviceability, many thanks.

Chris Keroack
Release Manager, Windows XP Service Pack 3
Windows Serviceability

foobar2000 is among the best audio players, paid or free. Has an impressive array of options to customize the whole interface. Supports ReplayGain, visualizations and has freedb tagging capabilities as well.

Its library management is very good. I use it for opening audio flies when i double-click them.

You can choose to store its settings in the installation folder in order to make portable.

If you want to try it out, read this guide to learn how to take advantage of its features.

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Recuva is a free program for recovering deleted files. It has few options but does its work very well. This program can recover files deleted files from memory cards and removable drives.

You can download an installer or a zip file.

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Comodo Firewall Pro is a freeware full-fledge firewall for Windows. It has the options you expect from a decent firewall as well as some advanced rules or configurations only found in paid software.

The tests i have read ensure you get a great firewall that can protect you from the latest trend in atacks as well as any other type of spyware.

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Sev7en, a guy from Micropctalk.com managed to install Apple OS X into a Sony VAIO UX and posted the instructions about how he did it.

This is something more people are trying to achieve, get Mac OS X to run on generic Intel/AMD hardware.

There is another guy from jkOnTheRun.com that installed it on a Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium and posted about this experience.

Despite all the claims and statements made by Apple, that their Mac OS X will only run on Apple hardware, people are trying to circumvent TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in order to isntall it on generic hardware.

If you are interested in this topic, please visit the OSx86 Project wiki to learn more about it.

A new version of JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is available. The Java RE is used by many programs that are written in java and you need it in order to run programs, among others, like LimeWire, RSS Owl, etc.

Also, JRE is used by web browsers to run java applets (programs) in web pages. Sun, the developer of JRE makes important security updates constantly. It is advised to run the latest vesion of JRE.

The Release Notes mentions all the changes in the new version.

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Today Mozilla released a new version of Firefox. The latest changes are not available yet.

There a few security issues that has been fixed. If you want a link to the release notes, check the link later when Mozilla updates it to see the complete changelog.

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