Microsoft has announced in a blog post that it has added a165 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho images to the Bing Maps database.It covers imagery over North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 38 million square kilometers.
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CCleaner 3.20 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Added Windows Explorer Context Menu management to Startup tool.
Added Windows 8 Release Preview compatibility.
Added Opera 12 support.
Updated History cleaning for Aurora.
Updated History cleaning for Chrome Canary.
Improved UAC bypass code.
Improved accuracy for uninstall items installation date and size.
Improved Scheduled Tasks detection.
Improved cleaning algorithm duplication detection.
Improved file and setting removal when uninstalling.
Minor bug fixes.
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Tomahawk 0.5 is now available for download.Tomahawk is a free music player for linux,windows and max. What’a new in this version?
SOCKS5 proxy support improvements for resolvers and more.
Initial Access Control support, allowing users to define who is able to
access and stream from their collection.
Priortize resolution of a track on double-click.
Spotify Resolver can now be easily installed on-demand from the settings.
You can now sync selected playlists (and updates) with Spotify.
Support .aiff (AIFF mimetype) files.
Cleaned up Diagnostics window.
Facebook now changed the displayed default email address of all users to its own @facebook.com email addresses without any warning.
Advantage:
may reduce the email spam.
Disadvantage:
mails do not land in the inbox of your connected email account.
Fix:
visit your Facebookâs profile page.
click on the update info button.
locate Contact Info module and click on the edit button.
click the button and select hidden from timeline.
to show original email address select the shown on timeline option.
click on the save button at the bottom of the menu to save the changes.
Notepad++ 6.1.4 is now available for download. What’s new in this version?
Fix a crash issue of Windows 8’s Computer Manager due to Notepad++’s Shell Extension (Explorer’s context menu).
Work around for a right click issue (crashing on right click) in Windows Explorer in all versions of Win 7 and Vista. Issue was caused by a conflict among Shell Extension (Explorer’s context menu) of Symantec Antivirus, Net iD component and Notepad++.
Fix a regression in clickable link feature.
Add “reload from disk” command entry in tab context menu.
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Microsoft has announced the $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer, enterprise users the social network. It has more than five million users.The deal closed for $1.2 billion in cash.
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Password Safe is a free windows tool and it allows you to safely and easily manage and create a secured and encrypted user name/password
Main features:
create a secured and encrypted user name/password
Master Password
manage your old passwords
organize your passwords using your own customizable references (by user ID, category, web site, or location)
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Rights Protected Folder Explorer is a free windows software to securely store or send files to authorized users and control which users will be able to access those files while they are in the Rights Protected Folder.
Main features:
works with Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
select a policy to protect the contents
create a custom policy
supports both UI based support and command line support for automated solutions.
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Jarte is a free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows.
Main features:
Tabbed interface
Opens files with file extension RTF, file extension DOC, and file extension DOCX
Optional “Clickless Operation”
Can be run as a portable word processor directly from a USB flash drive, CD, or DropBox folder
spell checker with custom user dictionary
Included spelling dictionaries: English (American, British, & Canadian), Spanish, French, German, Italian,
and Dutch
Link to, or import, your existing custom Word spelling dictionaries
Support for templates
Export to HTML or PDF
Single click bookmarking and bookmark navigation
Send documents via e-mail
Full drag and drop file support
Instant access to recently opened documents and folders
Instant access to documents and folders designated as favorites
Adjustable document zoom
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Types is a free windows software utility that allows you to manage program associations, icons, context menus and other properties of various file types in Windows.
Main features:
Select embedded icons from DLL and EXE files
Control Panel integration for easy access
Clean and neutral, feels like native OS component
It Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
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