Use QuickTime Alternative for playing videos and as a plugin for viewing streaming media in your favorite browser. It now includes MOV DL Tool, which is great because it gets launched when you click QuickTime links and lets you download the video file or stream it normally.

Say NO to Apple’s invasive, slow and bloated player.

There is another package called QT Lite. The only difference is that QT Lite doesn’t include Media Player Classic, a great multimedia player. I recommended it as a video player. Its light, fast and has tons of features.

Note: Currently, QuickTime Alternative 2.7.0 is not compatible with iTunes 8. A solution will be available soon, don’t worry. There is an add-on for iTunes compatibility. Install it after QuickTime Alternative.

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BurnAware is a good burning application that supports almost all the features of major burning programs. BurnAware is one of the best freeware out there.

Changes in BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.2:

• Added file properties dialog.
• Added option to set hidden file attribute.
• Fixed issue with display unicode characters in DVD-Video compilation.

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The past two days were filled with information and rumors about a browser called Chrome, made by Google.

While the details were vague and speculative, today Goggle released the first Beta version of Chrome.

Here is an entry of the official Google blog that explains it in great detail.

The interface is really minimalistic, but I’m not sure if this will appeal to the majority of web surfers because we are all used to have extensibility and a plethora of features to count on in current web browsers.

However, maybe this can work as a bare-bones browser, at least, in this stage.

I tried to run install it but the setup didn’t launch at all. I guess i got maybe a bogus file or something. Will try later to re-download again.

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This is an excellent file mounting and virtual folder application that is very useful. Build 047 is the latest version.

If you wan to read more about the features of this program , i wrote a little review some time ago.

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This excellent browser that uses IE engine has a new version.

You can read the changelog for Maxthon 2.1.4.443 here.

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Another small update for doPDF.

doPDF 6.1.271 fixes a bug were you can get prompted twice if the file already exists when saving a file.

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Paint.NET 3.36 has several changes and improvements over previous releases.

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There are many applications to create and manage virtual desktops in Windows.

With Sysinternals Desktops you will be using virtual desktops in no time.

This is the first version of this application, and the only bad thing about it is that it doesn’t have any close or exit button. You have to close it via Windows Task Manager. I guess this will be fixed in future versions.

It can startup with Windows so you can always have your different desktops at hand.

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