Download AMD Catalyst 12.1 Display Driver

 Download AMD Catalyst 12.1 Display Driver AMD has unleashed the Catalyst software suite 12.1, which includes the AMD display driver version 8.93 and a few other things. The AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.93 / AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 8.93 is one of the other components. The others are a new Southbridge/IXP Driver and HydraVision for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. No large list of game frame rate improvements will be found. On the flip side,...

Oil Rush Launched on Ubuntu Software Cente

 Oil Rush Launched on Ubuntu Software Cente Oil Rush, a unique blend of strategy and tower defense game, CoreBreach, an anti-gravity racing game with combat-based gameplay, and “And Yet It Moves”, a physics-based platform game, have all made it to Ubuntu Software Center in January.   Oil Rush is a strategy combined with a tower defense game that is built on the UNIGINE technology, already launched on their official website. It has made its way into Ubuntu Software Center. And...

Macbuntu 11.10 theme for Ubuntu 11.10 - New!

New! Mac OS X theme for Ubuntu 11.10 and install in your Ubuntu! Adwaita Cupertino Theme, the solution if you can't install macbuntu 11.10 - Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot Adwaita Cupertino Theme It’s a Mac OS X like theme for Ubuntu 11.10 users. The theme is based on Adwaita, and the theme is designed by the user trastes. Download Adwaita Cupertino Theme It is based on the theme Adwaita GTK3, changing colors to set the cupertino style Tested in GNOME 3.2 and Unity There...

Download Bada 2.0 Update for Samsung Wave S8500

Download Bada 2.0 Update for Samsung Wave S8500 - get the better performance! It looks like bada 2.0 update has finally been released after Samsung delayed it last year. Initially slated for a 2011 release bada 2.0 update for Wave smartphone is now available for download. However, the major software update is only available for Samsung Wave S8500. Those who own this model will need to download and install the latest version of Samsung Kies desktop software on their PCs in order to be...

Download VLC Media Player 2.0.0 RC1

Download VLC Media Player 2.0.0 RC1 for Linux, Apple, Windows platform The wait for VLC media player 2.0 is almost over, as the development team readied the first release candidate for this version. Modifications available in this build are plenty, touching on packagers, core, access, codecs, demuxers, interfaces, video output, audio output and filters, video filters and stream output. Some modules have been removed, such as the noise filter or the SDL audio output, which has been replaced...

How to Install KDE SC 4.8 on Ubuntu 11.10

How to Install KDE SC 4.8 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system After another six months of hard work, the famous KDE Software Compilation (SC) suite reached version 4.8 on January 25th, 2012. Loaded with many interesting and new features, updated applications, new technologies and functionality, breath-taking effects, KDE SC 4.8.0 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the KDE Development Platform. Today's tutorial is for those of you...

Download KDE Software Compilation 4.8

Download KDE Software Compilation 4.8 After six month of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 is finally here, bringing beautiful new features, various software updates, and lots of performance improvements. Click here to Install KDE SC 4.8 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system! KDE Software Compilation 4.8.0 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the KDE Development Platform. Click on each one to see a detailed announcement. Highlights...

Download GhostBSD 2.5

GhostBSD, a FreeBSD-based operating system with the GNOME and LXDE desktop environments, is now at version 2.5.   After a few release candidates, the final version of GhostBSD 2.5 is here. The developers have assured us that a lot of important bugs have been fixed and the operating system was updated and fine-tuned. GhostBSD 2.5 comes in two distinct flavors. One is based on GNOME desktop and the other one on LXDE desktop environment. GhostBSD 2.5 is distributed for both amd64...

Download VMware Workstation and Player Updated

Download VMware Workstation and Player Updated VMware just updated two of their main products, Workstation and Player to new builds. The two applications share almost the same changes. One fix refers to a failure with an unrecoverable error when releasing input from the guest to the host (e.g.: moving the cursor from the virtual machine window to the host screen). Most of the fixes, however, relate to Linux running guests and hosts. As such, copying and pasting from a guest to an Ubuntu...

Download Thunderbird 9.0 for Ubuntu 11.10

 Thunderbird 9.0 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10 After the official upgrade to Firefox 9 in Ubuntu 11.10 at the beginning of the month, Canonical announced on January 24th that the Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system.  All Ubuntu 11.10 users can upgrade now (by running the Software Update app from the Settings icon) their default email client to Thunderbird 9.0, which was officially...

OpenJDK 6 Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu OSes

OpenJDK 6 Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu OSes Several security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the OpenJDK 6 packages by various developers, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems, were announced by Canonical. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-3377, CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-3521,...

Jailbreak Tweak Said to Fix iOS 5 Battery Woes

Jailbreak Tweak Said to Fix iOS 5 Battery Woes Apple never got around to fixing the battery drainage problem on iPhone 4S handsets, but a new jailbreak tweak might do the trick. According to this CydiaHelp post, a new tweak released in Cydia called ‘iOS 5 Battery Fix’ should help alleviate the battery drain caused by iOS 5 and / or iOS 5.0.1. It’s hard to believe it simply kills off the bugs that cause the problem, but then again, it’s worth the shot. That is, if you’re ready to shell...

Download Joomla 2.5, a Long-Term Support Release

Download Joomla 2.5, a Long-Term Support Release One month after the first beta landed, Joomla 2.5 is here. The big news in Joomla 2.5 is support for Microsoft SQL in addition to MySQL, the first time a different database system has been supported. More are expected to be supported in the future. Other highlights in this release are update notifications for the main software as well as extensions. Also new is a natural language search engine which should significantly improve search results...

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.04

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.04 Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.    These are the three kernel vulnerabilities found in the kernel packages for Ubuntu 11.04: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-2203, and CVE-2011-4110. As usual, you can...

2 New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2 New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system is now available, fixing two security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.  These are the two kernel vulnerabilities found in the kernel packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: CVE-2011-2203 and CVE-2011-4110. As usual, you can click on each...

Samsung Galaxy S III Specs and Launch Date Leaked

Samsung Galaxy S III Specs and Launch Date Leaked Samsung’s Galaxy S family of devices has already made a name for itself, through phones like the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, and might soon climb to new heights. Rumor has it that the South Korean mobile phone maker is already working on the next member of the family, the Galaxy S III, and that it will launch it sometime in April. This means that we might see the device made official next month during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona....

Download OS X Lion 10.7.3 Build 11D50

Download OS X Lion 10.7.3 Build 11D50 - Developer News Apple developers in charge with OS X testing have been handed a new beta build of the latest version of Lion - OS X 10.7.3. Build 11D50 has no known issues and should precede the final / public version of the software, or at least the Golden Master seed. Seeded in developers extended almost identical attitude issues that are unknown and similar areas of focus, OS X 10.7.3 quickly approaching release to the general public, people familiar...

Download Opera 11.61 for Linux

Opera, a full-featured Internet browser, which includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and other advanced functions, is now at version 11.61.   The last major update for the stable version of the famous Opera browser was announced in December, 2011. After a month of development, the changelog is quite hefty and it can be found here. Highlights of Opera 11.61: · Clicking "Use master password to protect saved passwords" checkbox no longer crashes the browser; ·...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Have Next-Gen Menus

 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Have Next-Gen Menus Mark Shuttleworth announced a few minutes ago, January 24th, on his blog that the next version of the Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), will feature a HUD (head-up display) system, replacing the old menus. "Say hello to the Head-Up Display, or HUD, which will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications." - said Mark Shuttleworth in the blog announcement. Developed in-house during the last 18 months, the next-generation...

New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced last evening, January 23rd, in a security notice, that a new kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is now available, fixing one security vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel packages by Jüri Aedla. These kernel vulnerability was found (CVE-2012-0056) because the kernel couldn't handle /proc//mem permissions, allowing a local attacker to gain root privileges. The security flaw can be fixed if you upgrade your system(s) to the...

Natty Backport Kernel Fixed for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Several security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, were announced by Canonical. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-2203, and CVE-2011-4110. As usual, you can click on each one to see how it affects your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system, or go here for an in-depth description. The security flaws can...

Oneiric Backport Kernel Fixed for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Several security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, were announced by Canonical. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-2203, CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-4132, CVE-2011-4330, and CVE-2012-0044. As usual, you can click on each one to see how it affects your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system, or go here for an...

Untethered Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Under Linux

The Chronic Dev Team has just released a few minutes ago the a new version of their Absinthe jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, bringing support for the Linux platform.    Image comment: Absinthe Jailbreak tool under Ubuntu 11.10 Until now, the Absinthe untethered jailbreak utility for Apple A5 devices had support only for thr Mac and Windows operating systems, but starting with version 0.3 Absinthe also supports Linux. Absinthe has support for the following...

Download HWiNFO 3.92.1500

Download HWiNFO 3.92.1500 A new release for HWiNFO is now available for download, for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. The new build adds a few new things, which are not necessarily related to hardware support but the inherent functionality of the application. For instance, the graph position can now be preserved and there is a button that lets you reset the minimum and maximum values in sensors. As for new hardware, HWiNFO 3.95.1500 adds recognition of Intel Knights Corner, support for...

Free Download ArtistX 1.2

ArtistX 1.2, a Ubuntu-based distribution that aims to enable artists and creators from a number of fields to work via a live and free environment, has just been released.  ArtistX 1.2 has been in development for more than ten years and now it has moved from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). This particular distribution was created with Relinux software for Live DVDs and has Linux kernel 3.0.0. ArtistX 1.2 also features two different desktop environments,...

Canonical Removes Java from Ubuntu on February 16

As announced last month, Canonical is preparing to remove the Sun JDK (Java Development Kit) packages from the software repositories, starting with February 16th, 2012, affecting Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. Users should not be worried, as Canonical will NOT remove the Java packages from their systems! They will be removed ONLY from the software repository and no future updates will be applied to them. However, for new installations, the Sun JDK packages will no...

iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak Officially Revealed

Captioning this image (left) with a terse “No more to say!”, French hacker Pod2g is officially unveiling his iPad 2 jailbreak to the world. Owners of a second-generation Apple tablet, as well as those owning an iPhone 4S, have very little to wait for a public release. Earlier this week, the infamous Pod2g released a YouTube video demonstrating his iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak. A5 devices like the 4S and the iPad 2 are yet to get an official jailbreak from the popular Dev Teams, but progress...

Apple Discontinues Printer Rebate Program for Mac Buyers

People working in the Apple retail environment are signaling that Cupertino has discontinued the annual $100 printer rebate promotion for new Mac purchases. There is no formal announcement regarding the ending of this promotion, nor should there be, as Apple reserves the right to discontinue such offers without notice. The company’s retail staff, however, has been handed a formal notice (via MacRumors): Printer Rebates Ending on January 17 Effective Tuesday, January 17, the printer rebate...