Download ICQ 5.04
ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, do voice chat, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.
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22.12.2005 Ubuntu 9.04 Review
Ubuntu is a community-developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work, Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email apps, to web server software and programming tools.
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21.5.2009 Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds
There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available
(for testing), and...
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13.1.2009 Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published
The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope version of its popular Linux distribution.
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17.4.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Leaks, Public Beta Expected in November
After Microsoft announced yesterday that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will be sent to testers this week, more exciting news comes from the Office 2010 section.
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21.10.2009 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from
MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.7.2007 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Out Now
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
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IE 7 Beta 3 Now Download
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability.
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29.6.2006 RunScanner 0.9.0.0 Beta
RunScanner is a completely free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems.
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17.3.2007 Silverlight 1.0 Beta
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.
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3.5.2007 ViStart Beta 5
Now everyone can enjoy the benefits of fast program searching straight from their Start Menu, with ViStart, currently my latest project, Developed under the management of Windows X For the latest Vista Transformation Pack.
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10.6.2007 XPize 4.7 Beta
XPize is a GUI enhancer for Windows XP and above. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, avis and bmps that Microsoft has always overlooked.
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19.7.2007 VistaTweaker 0.1 Beta
VistaTweaker is a complet tweaking utility designed for Windows Vista in mind. By using it you can have your computer configured exactly the way you want.
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25.7.2007 vLite 1.1 Beta
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it. Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that.
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7.8.2007 SUMo 0.7.0.9 Beta 7
SUMo (Software Updates Monitoring) detects applications you are using and tracks updates. If a new version is detected, you'll be notified by SUMo.
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28.8.2007 VistaTweaker 0.5 Beta
VistaTweaker is a complete tweaking utility designed for Windows Vista. It has software, performance, usability and other kinds of tweaks to improve the overall Vista experience.
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26.10.2007 First look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. I’ve been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just concentrate on bug fixes and performance improvements.
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20.11.2007 Energize 2.0 Beta 2
Energize Will change the feel of your Windows XP/2003 operating system to a new, shiny and modern Vista-look.
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30.1.2008 Firefox 3 Beta 3
Firefox 3, Beta 3 has just been released. Over 350 memory leaks have been fixed and reductions have been made in the memory footprint.
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13.2.2008 vLite 1.1.5 Beta
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it. Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that.
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27.3.2008 IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback.
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24.11.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
The second Beta development milestone of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, is now available for download.
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9.12.2008 Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?
I’ve been running Windows 7 beta 1 for now eight weeks and I’ve put this beta thorough a serious workout.
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21.2.2009 Silverlight 4 beta now available
Microsoft have just announced Silverlight 4 beta today at PDC09, that is available for download today. Silverlight 4 promises to enhance the overall user experience, improving speed, performance and rendering for browsers.
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18.11.2009 Microsoft AntiSpyware (beta)
Help protect your PC from spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
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Microsoft CRM 3.0 Beta Now Available
A
public beta release of Microsoft CRM 3.0, the second major revision of the company's customer relationship management software, is now available for Microsoft registered members and partners. A final launch is scheduled for the first quarter of 2006.
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Windows Defender Beta 2
Overview
This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft?s growing understanding of the spyware landscape.
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14.2.2006 ActiveSync 4.2 Beta Preview
ActiveSync 4.2 Beta Preview is an early look at the latest sync software release for Windows Mobile devices.
Microsoft ActiveSync provides a great synchronization experience with Windows powered PCs and Microsoft Outlook right out of the box.
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27.4.2006Want Windows 7 Beta 1? Here's what you have to do...
PDC attendees got the Windows 7 pre-beta build, and Microsoft told them that a public beta would be available in early 2009. But you don't want to
wait until then, right? You want Beta 1, right now. Well, I can't give you that, but I can tell you how you can get your hands on a physical copy
of the Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. You'll need $100 and a desire to visit one of the upcoming episodes of the MSDN Developer Conference (MDC).
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04.12.2008Dell touts Windows 7 Beta experience
According to a blog entry in Dell's website, Dell has tested hundreds of Dell systems with Windows 7 Beta and has found the results to be
promising. Dell notes that the following results were observed when testing Windows 7 Beta on Dell PCs. Noticeable improvements in boot to desktop
times (versus Vista) in many systemsAlmost all existing Vista drivers are compatibleGood Vista Application compatibility (including the IE 8
compatibility mode)Transcoding (ripping) media files is faster than VistaDell also plans to test the later builds of Windows 7 and share the
experiences with users.
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05.04.2009Office 2010: No public beta for now
Neowin already reported that Office 2010 Beta 1 due in early July will not be available for public testing. Now Microsoft has confirmed that it will
indeed not release a public beta of Office 2010 for testing, to the general public and will limit the Technical Preview to a group of thousands of
invite-only users starting in the third quarter of 2009. The second beta is due in early November and it is not clear whether Microsoft will open it
to the general public. "The technology preview, as Microsoft will call the beta program, will involve 'thousands of users'. At this point
there is no plan. (to offer the beta to the general public) ".
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16.04.2009Firefox 3 Beta 5 is here, and reviewed
Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso's milestone #13
is here and the
list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so lets get started.
Oh, for those following Firefox 3
development you may want to jump to the sections
marked in green for whats new in Beta 5.
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02.04.2008Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public
Microsoft pubCenter, an ad publishing tool (think Google Adsense) from Microsoft Advertising, after existing as a private beta for a number of months,
goes into public beta today, April 22.
Kevin McCabe, Senior Product Manager for pubCenter beta, will be at
AdSpace, (a part of the AdTech conference in San Francisco) today to announce the public
beta and to speak on the state of contextual advertising.
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23.04.2009Survey: Beta testers more happy with Windows 7 than Vista
PCWorld reports that in a recent poll conducted, Windows 7 Beta testers are 4 times more happy with Windows 7 than the early users of Windows Vista,
the reason due to which more than half of the companies plan to dump Vista adoption plans. A recent poll conducted by ChangeWave Research, a market
research company revealed that 44% of the 68 Windows 7 Beta testers were very satisfied with Windows 7 beta. A similar survey by ChangeWave in
February 2007 conducted few weeks after Vista's launch found just 10% of the respondents expressed satisfaction.
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08.04.2009Windows Live OneCare 2.5 enters public beta
Kip Kniskern: OneCare, the anti-virus/tune-up/back-up all in one program, has just opened up a public beta of version 2.5 (current released version is
2.0.2500.22, on my machine, anyway). Anyone can go to Microsoft Connect and sign up and try the new beta, you don't need to be signed in to get to
the page:
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03.04.2008Beta Heads Toward Nicaragua
Not only software is going
beta these days it seems --
but this beta is one you
don't want to test. The
Atlantic Ocean's 23rd named
tropical system, Beta, headed
toward the Nicaraguan coast
Friday afternoon, and was
expected to make landfall over
the weekend as a Category 2
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30.10.2005Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta almost here
In
an
email sent to Windows Live
OneCare testers, Microsoft
confirmed the imminent start
of the OneCare 2.0 beta
program. Designated as
a "pre-premiere",
OneCare 2.0 will not be
available as a public beta
initially.
New
features we should be seeing
include:
- Multi PC
management - designate a
hub PC and then add additional
PCs to your OneCare circle
using a common Windows Live
ID. You can then see the
status of the other PCs within
the group.
- Printe
r Sharing - share your printer
with all the PCs in your
OneCare circle
- OneCare
Online Photo Backup -
paid storage is available
online for photo backups
(we're hearing 10GB but that
could change by the end of the
beta)
- Securing
wireless networks - if your
router is supported OneCare
2.0 will allow you to secure
your wireless
network
- x64
support
The ability
to backup online is a feature
we've been talking about for
a while, as a potentially
key part of storage in
the cloud. Windows Live
Folders is currently set at
500MB, but if 10GB is what is
being offered for OneCare
Photo backups, a
significant increase for
the final version seems more
than likely.
If you
haven't signed up for the
beta already,
here's the
link.
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04.07.2007iPhone 3.0 beta reveals hidden video editing graphics
One of the gripes many people have with Apple's iPhone is the lack of video features. It's been rumored that there will be video included in
the next iteration, suspected for a June announcement, but it seems Apple isn't leaving it at that. AppleInsider is reporting that a Austrian site
named Benm.at has discovered graphics in the latest iPhone 3.0 beta, that suggest video editing will be coming with the next iPhone release. Many
other cellphones makers include basic video editing tools with their phones, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that Apple will do the same.
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06.04.2009iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 and iTunes 8.2 pre-release available
Apple has been churning out the releases of betas for the latest iPhone OS, 3.0, on a bi-weekly basis since it was announced and there's no
slowing down. Just today, iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 has become available, except this time it brought a friend; iTunes version 8.2 (pre-release) has become
available to developers, and is required to install the new mobile firmware. What delicious new changes are we looking at here? In terms of the
iPhone OS, you've got your usual fix of speed improvements and enhancements. There is something new, though; in the 'Settings' of iPhone
OS, the new 'Store' entry now features your account details, rather than a screen with nothing but 'Store' on it.
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29.04.2009Virtual XP for Windows 7 Beta released to MSDN and TechNet
According to Paul Thurrott, a beta version of Virtual XP for Windows 7 has been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The download comes in two
parts. The first is KB958559, an update for Windows 7 that includes Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7. The second, is another exe that installs the
Windows XP with SP3 virtual machine itself. To run Virtual XP Mode, users must be running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate with
preferably 2GB of RAM with at least 256MB available to virtualization, and a processor that supports hardware virtualization. Many times hardware
virtualization needs to be enabled in the BIOS to be functional.
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30.04.2009Windows 7, what has changed from Beta to Release Candidate?
As Microsoft unveils the Release Candidate to the world today we take a look at what has changed from the original Beta in January to the Release
Candidate (RC). AutoRun changes AutoRun for non-optical removable storage devices has been disabled to better protect users against worms and
malicious software. Neowin detailed these changes yesterday after Microsoft officially unveiled them. Windows Touch Support Microsoft have
improved their touch support in the RC. You can now drag your finger across taskbar thumbnail previews and trigger a peek at the related window
(thubmail peek). Also, the show desktop button supports a press-and-hold gesture that will expose your desktop.
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30.04.2009Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard third beta released for testing
As Windows 7 RC gets ready for its release, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A261 is released officially to select beta developers and testers this
week according to an Italian Website, Macity. Compared to earlier builds 10A190 and 10A222, there are few noticeable changes to the software other
than minor adjustments to the System Preferences pane and bug fixes to the new Cocoa-based Finder. The User Interface remains mostly unchanged and the
build is said to have more stability and speed. Developers are asked to focus on printer drivers, 3rd-party applications, and Microsoft Exchange
support.
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05.02.2009Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) BETA now available
The Windows Home Server team would like to invite you to download a BETA version of the "Windows Home Server - Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot)"
from Microsoft Connect at
http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer. If you have not previously registered for the Windows Home Server connect site,
then you will need a Windows Live ID and need to follow the instructions on the Windows Home Server Connect home page.
The Home
Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) is a new version of the Home Computer Restore CD that provides two options for you, depending on the amount of RAM in
the home computer you are trying to restore. The final version of the Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) will be part of the Power Pack 1 scheduled
to be released later this year.
For more information or to ask questions, please see this
post on the Windows Home Server
community forums.
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05.04.2008Bright future ahead for Windows 7 and netbooks
Craig Marcho, a support engineer with the Performance Team of Microsoft has blogged his recent experiences with Windows 7 on netbook. A pre-beta build
of Windows 7 loaded on a netbook helped him to run Microsoft Outlook 2007, a number of internal applications, and IE 8 without any issues. Though
Craig hasn't mentioned which version he installed, since it is a pre-beta build of Windows 7, I think we can assume it to be Windows 7 Ultimate.
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04.03.2009Firefox 1.5 Beta Set for September 8
Mozilla has announced its beta schedule for the upcoming release of Firefox 1.5, according to a posting on its developer news Web site. Beta 1 will be released on September 8, followed by a second beta on October 5. The first release candidate of the browser is expected on October 28...
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02.09.2005Microsoft Releases New Beta of
IE7
Microsoft said Thursday
morning that it had made
available the third beta of
Internet Explorer 7, the final
beta before the browser ships
later this year ahead of
Windows Vista...
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29.06.2006Windows 7 Beta to RC transition - What you need to know
Every one of us is waiting for the upcoming Windows 7 RC release. In the meantime, Windows 7 Team has blogged on the upgrade experience from pre-RC
builds to RC build, even when the RC dates are not officially out. This blog post indeed shows the openness of the Windows 7 Team to discuss various
issues regarding Windows 7 RC. If you are expecting any major announcement, then this post does not have any! The blog post talks a little about
upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7, but as we discussed earlier there is no upgrade path available from Windows XP to Windows 7 "There's no
change here to the plan as has been discussed on many forums.
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07.04.2009Office 12 Beta 1 Released to
Testers
10,000 Microsoft beta testers
received a long-awaited e-mail
Wednesday evening: Welcome to
Office 12. Beta 1 of the
next-generation Office suite
has been released and is now
available for download --
assuming Beta Place doesn't
buckle under the mad rush for
bits...
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