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Firefox 5 Officially Released

June 21, 2011, 14:41(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download here or update from within the program (Help > About Firefox > Check for Updates).
Firefox 5 Other Systems and Languages
Droid users: Firefox 5 is in the Market. If you were using the Beta uninstall it and install Firefox 5 final.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

Firefox 5

June 18, 2011, 10:07(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Although not officially released, Firefox 5 (scheduled for June 21st) has hit the main Mozilla FTP servers.
Since several locations have reported this as being released I figured I might as well post it.
Links:
Windows (en-us) or try Major Geeks.
For others you can find it on the ftp site.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

BleachBit 0.8.8 Released

June 16, 2011, 15:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Hit the link for downloads and release notes: BleachBit 0.8.8

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

Acronis True Image Home 2011 Updated

June 2, 2011, 06:58(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Acronis True Image Home 2011 build 6857 has been released (release notes).
Log in to your account to download, be sure to download to bootable media too.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Software

CCleaner v3.07

May 31, 2011, 13:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download CCleaner (slim)

Change Log:
Added Flash Player SOL setting file cleaning and management.
Added Safari Icon history cleaning.
Added cleaning for Windows Elevated Diagnostics.
Added cleaning for Kantaris Media Player, KMPlayer, Orbit Downloader, Pando, Sandboxie and Snagit.
Improved cleaning for XFire, Real Player, Windows Log Files, Macromedia Shockwave 10 and 11.
Improved Google Chrome thumbnails and favicons cleaning.
Improved Google Chrome Saved Form Information cleaning.
Improved Google Chrome Save Passwords cleaning.
Improved Opera Last Download Location cleaning.
Improved Remote Desktop cleaning.
Improved Recent Documents cleaning.
Improved Exclusion functionality for Registry cleaning.
Improved Registry cleaning for Windows Services.
Improved Drive Wiper functionality and feedback.
Fixed bug in Cookie importing/exporting.
Minor translation fixes.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

The Windows 7 Freeware Machine Updated

May 9, 2011, 16:41(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

The Windows 7 Freeware Machine has been updated. Please use this post for comments.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware, This Site, Windows 7

CCleaner 3.06 (slim)

May 2, 2011, 17:07(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

CCleaner has finally released the slim build of version 3.06. I say “finally” because the standard build was released on April 26th.
[Read more…] about CCleaner 3.06 (slim)

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

The Freeware XP Machine Updated

May 1, 2011, 13:34(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I have updated the article The Freeware XP Machine. Please use this post to make suggestions for that article.

I will have The Windows 7 Freeware Machine updated this week.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware, This Site, Windows XP

Firefox & Thunderbird Updated

April 28, 2011, 17:19(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Firefox 3.5, 3.6, and 4.0 versions have been updated. Download or update from within the program (3X versions, Help / Check for Updates. 4X versions Help / About / Check for Updates)
Thunderbird has been updated to version 3.1.10. Download or update from within the program (Help / Check for Updates.)

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

VirtualBox 4.0.6 Released

April 21, 2011, 16:45(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

VirtualBox 4.0.6 “improves stability and fixes regressions.” (full changelog)
Download (be sure to update the Extension Pack and Guest Editions too).

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

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