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The monthly update for CCleaner has been released.
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***Pay attention during install. May attempt to install unwanted programs.

VMware Player 12.0.0-2985596 released. Official Win10, Ubuntu 15.04, and Fedora 22 support among a host of other things.
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Winaero Tweaker 0.3.2 released.
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Kodi updated, “Maintenance release“.
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I use it and love it.

Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Audacity updated. Couple of new features, fixes, etc. Apparently this was out last month, I just missed it.
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“Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.”
Plugins
LAME mp3 plugin
Audacity Forum

Although not “officially” released (tomorrow), Firefox 40 is out on the mirrors for your downloading pleasure.
*edit 11AUG2015 – Firefox 40 now official. All links live.
Official support for Win10 (looks better), other fixes.
Linux, Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing.

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Classic Shell updated.
“Finalized support for Windows 10 – multiple bugfixes and performance improvements.”
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Classic Shell is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are:
-Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins
-Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs
-Find programs, settings, files and documents
-Start button for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
-Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer
-Caption and status bar for Internet Explorer

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new privacy extension called Privacy Badger.

EFF is excited to announce that today we are releasing version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden trackers that would otherwise spy on your browsing habits as you surf the Web.

*Please help TweakHound.com and use the Disable Privacy Badger for This Site button.