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40% Off Acronis True Image!

July 18, 2011, 14:09(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Acronis has just pushed out a new promotion, 40% of Acronis True Image Home 2011!
There is also a 15% off coupon for Acronis Disk Director!

VirtualBox 4.0.12 Released

July 15, 2011, 18:08(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download & Info

VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)
Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)

Firefox 5.0.1 Released

July 12, 2011, 16:59(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Please read the release notes (below) before updating. Looks like there is nothing here for Windows and Linux users.
Download, Release notes.

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
Worked around an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash
Worked around an issue caused by Apple’s “Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5” where the Java plugin would not be loaded

CCleaner v3.08

July 7, 2011, 13:22(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download CCleaner (slim)
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Windows Gadgets

July 3, 2011, 12:03(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Just a quick note. 2 of the Windows Gadgets I use have been updated.
Network Monitor Gadget – Updated to version 4.0
SysInfo – Was updated back in February to version 2.4 (I just found out)
For a screenshot of them on my computer click the pic below (I’ve modified the look of the gadgets to my liking):

Winamp 5.62

June 30, 2011, 21:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Winamp 5.62 released. Mostly bugfixes. See here for download links and release notes.

Thunderbird 5.0

June 28, 2011, 16:28(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Thunderbird 5.0 released.

The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
More responsive and faster to start up and use
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
New Add-ons Manager
Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
New Troubleshooting Information page
Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac)
Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security

EasyBCD 2.1

June 28, 2011, 16:25(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

EasyBCD 2.1 released.

EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies’ multiple award-winning answer to taking control of your bootloader. EasyBCD extends and revamps the Windows Vista/Windows 7 BCD bootloader, and with EasyBCD, almost anything is possible. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older versions of Windows such as XP & 2003, Linux, Ubuntu, BSD, and Mac OS X is a breeze. You just point & click and EasyBCD does the rest. EasyBCD is free for all private, non-commercial use.