Foobar2000 1.0 Beta 2

   Al doilea beta de la Foobar2000 1.0 ce vine cu următorul changelog:

* New: Converter encodes to .m4a rather than to .mp4.
* New: Notices for components that no longer serve any purpose.
* Bug: Certain ASX playlist files are not parsed properly.
* Bug: Unwanted playlist view scrolling when deleting items in certain scenarios.
* Bug: cannot bind context menu commands to toolbar buttons.
* Bug: "initialization failure" errors when making a clean non-portable install rather than upgrading from an earlier version.
* Bug: possible unnecessary tag reloads on Media Library contents on startup.
* Bug: doubleclicking the Selection Properties element no longer brings up the Properties dialog.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4

   Cu peste 140 de schimbări la activ, mişcându-se fluent, introducând un nou mod de a gestiona temele (şi bineînţeles o tonă de teme) noul beta de la Firefox 3.6 este o bomboană care abia astepata a fi degustată şi testată . Un changelog sumar ar fi următorul:

* (New in this version) Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Foobar2000 1.0 Beta 1

   Foobar-ul a schimbat prefixul şi vine cu următoarele schimbări:

• New context menu structure – better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
• Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
• “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
• Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
• Improved, more customizable album art support.
• Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
• Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
• New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
• Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
• CD ripping improvements:
  • Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
  • CD-TEXT reading support.
  • Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.

SRWare Iron 4.0.227 Beta

   O nouă versiune a browser-ului Iron aflată în stadiul beta ce vine cu următoarele schimbări mai importante:

* Based on Chromium 4.0 we released a new Iron-Version.
* New is a speed gain up to 30% and support for Bookmark-Synchronisation.
* Additionally the Extension-System was improved, there is now a user-friendly control interface and you become warnings for potential harmful plugins.
* Also the Windows 7 support is better in this versions: Aero Peek doesn’t work yet, but the integration in the new start menu is already done.

   Se mişcă excelent, Adblock-ul funcţionează ireproşabil chiar şi pe site-urile româneşti, temele se instalează uşor, extensiile merg în marea majoritate a cazurilor fără probleme – într-un cuvânt e bun şi e doar în stadiul beta .

Firefox 3.6 Beta 3

   Încă un beta de la Firefox 3.6 – al treilea, beta ce vine cu următoarele schimbări:

* Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.
* (NEW) Changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
* (NEW) The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* More than 80 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
* This beta is available in more than 60 languages – get your local version.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1

   O versiune beta de VirtualBox ce vine cu următoarele schimbări (mă bucur că au mai lucrat pe partea de 3D):

The following major new features were added:
· Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one machine to another
· VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well (aka branched snapshots)
· 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and colour conversion
· The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
· Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher.
· Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
· Experimental support for EFI (Extended Firmware Interface)
· VirtIO network device support
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
· VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392)
· VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)
· VMM: reinit VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)
· GUI: prevent starting a VM with a single mouse click (bug #2676)
· 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing
· 3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support
· 3D support: fix crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)
· 3D support: fix graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)
· iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity
· VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)
· Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
· Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)
· Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the guest (bug #4496)
· VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants
· VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V
· OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on import
· X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)
· Mac OS X hosts: don’t auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (#bug 4866)
· Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package
· Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).
· Shared folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)
· Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (bug #4842)
· Windows and Linux Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version was updated and Additions are out of date
· Solaris Additions: fixed as_pagelock() failed errors affecting guest properties (bug #5337)
· Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
· Windows Additions: fix crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)
· Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions (bug #4039)
· SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5 .

Firefox 3.6 Beta 2

   Rapid, fiabil, cu peste 190 de bugfix-uri la activ în versiunea de faţă, noul Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 nu poate decât să strălucească şi să câştige tot mai multă popularitate .

Opera 10.10 Build 1857 Beta

   Un nou beta de la Opera ce vine cu următorul changelog :

* User Interface
* Fix for proper Dragonfly toolbar button update
* Favicons now shown in list of search engines in double-click menu
* Fixed Bug DSK-240101 (When all tabs are closed, Ctrl+Z doesn’t open closed tab)
* Fixed Bug DSK-243433 ("Show thumbnails when hovering tabs" depends on "Show tooltips")

* Core
* Fixed Bug CORE-23622 (Canvas drawImage with SVG causes memory leaks)
* Fixed Bug CORE-25241 (XML parsing errors on SVG documents)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269070 (Crash when loading SVG containing foreignObject)
* Fixed Bug DSK-256135 (Chat stops updating after "Save linked content as")
* Fixed Bug DSK-260572 (Spatial Navigation crash)
* Fixed Bug DSK-265082 (Crash after navigating to page by invoking link context menu on double click)

* Opera Mail
* Corrected a bug where messages were incorrectly added to the mailing lists index
* Fixed missing drafts in draft view
* Fixed a bug where the mail systray icon would not appear if you have a mail window open but not focused
* Made it impossible to hide certain types of mail in trash, drafts, sent, outbox
* Disabled possibility to not show mailing lists in mailing lists and similar for feeds and newsgroups

* Opera Unite
* Changes to "Downloading Unite Application" security dialog
* Improved consistency in Opera Unite installation dialog
* New strings for opened (UPnP) port info in Unite status dialog
* New error string for Unite application settings dialog
* Strings for new Unite dialog "Start or install application"
* Replaced "code signing certificate" by "code-signing certificate"
* Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Web server crash)
* Fixed Bug CORE-25025 (Too many continuous UPnP connections)
* Fixed Bug DSK-267707 (Links in ASD fields are HTML linkified)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269427 (Double-clicking Unite Home opens two pages)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269874 (Unite applications start when restarting Opera after stopping them)

* Windows
* Further Fix to Bug DSK-254112 (Opera will not start (Error initializing Opera: module 9))
* Fixed Bug DSK-266926 (Cannot send mail from a Windows host with underscores in hostname)
* Fixed Bug DSK-268958 (With Japanese environment and Microsoft IME, input method always switches to hiragana on startup)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269093 (Opera will not start after 10.01 upgrade; OUniAnsi.DLL not found on Win9x)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269098 (10.01 startup crash).

PureOSlight 1.0 beta 2

   Încă un beta de la PureOS – un distro franţuzesc (despre care am mai scris pe aici) bazat pe Debian ce vine în versiunea de faţă cu următoarele schimbări :

- kernel 2.6.30.8 with ext4 support and grub2
- Iceweasel 3.5.3
- Claws Mail replaces Icedove
- ePDFView replaces Evince
- MPlayer replaces VLC
- Pidgin removed
- improved scripts for module management (thank to N. Villa / Linux-live-cd.org )
- Gnome-colors icon theme and Stay-calm wallpaper
- added ntp, xserver-video-geode …

Firefox 3.6 Beta

   A apărut şi beta-ul de la Firefox 3.6 ce se axează în principal pe o mai bună integrare cu interfaţa Aero de la Windows 7 .