Software

Software Updates – Week 2

Stable:

Software: K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

Latest Version: 3.9.5

Description: K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and DirectShow filters. Those components are needed for encoding and decoding various audio and video formats. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.

Release Date: June 4 2008

License: Freeware

Changelog: http://paste2.org/p/37312

Download: http://www.free-codecs.com/k_lite_Mega_Codec_Pack_download.htm

Software: Serv-U FTP Server

Description: If you want to set-up an FTP server on your windows based PC this is the best software to use for the purpose

Latest Version. 7.1.0.2

License: Shareware

Release Date: June 2 2008

Changelog: http://www.serv-u.com/releasenotes/

Download: http://www.serv-u.com/dn.asp

Beta:

Software: Mozilla Firefox

Latest Version: 3.0 RC2

Description: this software doesn’t needs a description

License: Freeware

Release Date: June 5 2008

Download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Download embedded videos from any site using GRAB (Orbit Downloader Extension)

One of the best download manager, Orbit downloader also has a embedded video downloader that not many people know about, the things I like most about it is that it is light weight , you don’t need to install separate software as it comes integrated with orbit downloader which is a very good download manager in itself, it works with every site that has embedded content not just Youtube and it is not only limited to video you can download music or any embedded content like swf too.

When you install orbit download the installer doesn’t creates any shortcut for grab by default so you have to manually do that, so to do that just go to to the directory where you installed orbit downloader (usually C:\\Program Files\OrbitDownloader) and right click the file Grab.exe and in the “send to” menu click on “shortcut to desktop” that’s it, this will place the shortcut to GRAB on your desktop

Now if you want to download any video just double click the shortcut you just created and open the the site that contains the video, when the video starts loading grab will automatically detect the video file (.flv), to download that video tick the checkbox near that video then click the download button and this will start the download in orbit downloader.

if it doesn’t detects any video make sure your browser is checked in grab’s preferences

Edit: by the way Grab can also be opened from inside orbit. Tools >> GRAB++ (Thanks to musafir )

Software Updates – Week 1

I will be doing this post every now and then when I find any good enough software updates to post

Stable:

1. Comodo Personal Firewall

Latest Version: 3.0.25.378

Release Date: 30th May, 2008

Changelog: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/release_notes.html

Homepage: http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/

2. CCleaner

Latest Version: 2.08.588

Release Date: May 29, 2008

Changelog: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/version-history

Homepage: http://www.ccleaner.com

Beta:

1. Winrar

Latest version: 3.80 Beta 1

Release Date: 30 May 2008

Changelog: http://www.rarsoft.com/rarnew.htm

Homepage: http://www.rarsoft.com/

2. K-Lite Mega Codec pack

Latest Version: 3.9.4 BETA

Release Date: 29 May 2008

Changelog: http://codecguide.com/klcp_beta.htm

Homepage: http://codecguide.com/about_mega.htm

Download: http://codecguide.com/klcp_beta.htm

CCleaner-Clear the Junk in your PC

As time passes your PC accumulates a lot of junk in form of Internet cache, temporary files, memory dumps, old check disk files and many more things and to remove all that that we have CCleaner

CCleaner also has a very handy built-in Registry Cleaner which can remove many types of invalid registry entries, It also has startup manager which you can use to remove the useless programs that start with windows and an add/remove programs manager that loads much quicker than its window’s counter part

Cleaner is a freeware only available for Windows

Unlocker-Release In-use Files

I used to get this annoying error when I used to delete or modify some files stating that “Cannot delete filename.xxx :It is being used by another person or program”, some times I would easily find the program that is using this file and close it but sometimes I couldn’t figure out what is using that specific file so i has to restart my system to modify that file until I found Unlocker.

Once you install it, it places itself in the right click explorer menu and when you encounter that error all you have to do is right click the problematic file press “Unlocker” and click on the “Unlock all” button in the dialog box that appears.

Additionally you will see the list of processes that have occupied your file and you can tell Unlocker to delete, rename or move the file and it will do it for you

Unlocker is a free software and its a must have for every PC

Note: Unlocker doesn’t deletes the file immediately instead it will schedule itself to to delete that file on the next restart