[Download] Ubuntu One For Windows

Ubuntu One

If you don’t know yet, Ubuntu One is a cloud storage application much like the popular Dropbox, offering a 2GB (basic version) of online storage for you to backup and sync your files, contacts, notes, bookmarks etc. To get the free 2GB storage, you need to sign up for Ubuntu One. You can always add more storage by paying additional $2.99 per month for 20GB storage (20-Pack of storage). Ubuntu is also offering Ubuntu One Mobile one, cloud music streaming service for iPhone and Android mobile devices at $3.99 per month.

If you are on Windows, you may need to request a Ubuntu One Windows Beta invite to be able download the installer file, which is around 12 MB in size. Once installed, use your Ubuntu One account to sign into the application.

Ubuntu One for Windows

Even though, the first release of the beta version of the Ubuntu One doesn’t offer syncing folders outside the main Ubuntu One folder, the feature is soon expected to be arrived in the later release of the software.

Price List:

Plan

Price

Monthly

Yearly

Baisc (2GB)

Free

Free

Mobile

$3.99

$39.99

Additional Storage (20 GB packs)

$2.99

$29.99

Download:

To download the first release of Ubuntu One beta for Windows, fill out this this request form.

[via] OMGUbuntu

[Download] Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta

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Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta has been released and is now available for download. The latest beta version of the popular IM software shows off many new features and improvements, the biggest among them being the social networking integration.

Yahoo messenger 11

Yahoo messenger 11 social

New features and improvements in Yahoo Messenger 11:

# Play social games with friends (Flashville, Mafia Wars, Balloono, Pool, Draw My Thing, Happy Harvest etc.)

# Manage all your social networks from Messenger: Post or view status updates, comments and like updates from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter etc.

# Post status to multiple social networks simultaneously

# Chat with Facebook friends

# Android support (you can make video calls between PC, iPhone and Android devices too!)*

# Sign in to multiple PCs simultaneously

# Retrieve all IM conversations history

[*] Supported only on devices running Android OS 2.2+ with Yahoo! Messenger Video Add-on installed

Download Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta:

>> Online installer

>> Offline standalone installer [16.75 MB]

[Tip] Download Your Entire Facebook Data

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What’s the point of any service where you don’t have control over the data you add through it? This is the first and foremost point that every user considers before using any service and the service provider must be up to it to provide users with full control over their data. Being the most widely used social networking website on the internet, Facebook is no exception. Facebook has recently added a provision through which the users can download their entire personal information that you have posted on Facebook including messages, Wall posts, photos, status updates and profile information etc. You can download all this data with a single click.

Follow these steps to download all your information on Facebook:

1. Login to Facebook and click “Account Settings” under Account.

Facebook account settings

2. Locate “Download Your Information” in the Settings tab and click “learn more” link present right next to it.

Download Your Information in fb account settings

3. In the next page, you will receive a brief message about what the tool exactly going to do along with a brief warning message. Click on the green “Download” button to proceed to the next step.

Download Your Information warning in facebook

4. A pop-up window (“Request My Download”) appears now. The window tells you to wait till Facebook gathers all your photos, wall posts, messages and other information. Click on the Download button again to proceed.

Request my download window in facebook

Request my download window in facebook

5. It may take a little while for Facebook to gather all your information and you will eventually receive a mail containing a download link for the zip file containing your Facebook account information.

You need to verify your identity by entering your account password before you can download the zipped file.

Download your information fb verification

In the next page you should see a download button along with showing information about the size of the file you are about to download. Download the .zip file and unzip to see the contents of it. You should see sub-folders like photos, html along with index.html and readme files.

6. You are done with downloading your information from Facebook!

Watch the below to video to follow the above steps:

[Download] Windows 7 Harvest Time & Windows Live Clouds Themes

Microsoft as always released two exclusive theme packs for Windows 7 keeping the upcoming Thanksgiving season in mind. Windows 7 themes gallery has been updated with two high quality themes Harvest Time and Windows Live Clouds theme. Harvest Theme for Windows 7 is for created especially for the Thanksgiving season and contains 18 beautiful wallpapers related to harvest.

Harvest time theme for windows 7

The Windows Live Clouds theme contains 10 high resolution images (with 1920 x 1200 dimension) of clouds, which are selected from the photo submission to Bing.

Windows live clouds theme for Windows 7

Download the theme files (.themepack files) from the following links and double-click on them to install and apply them immediately.

Download Harvest Time Theme

Download Windows Live Clouds Theme

[Download] Windows 7 SP1 RTM Blocker Tool

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Microsoft has released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 blocker tool kit that allows you to block all Windows 7 Service Pack 1 updates without disabling the Windows Updates. If your organization wants to wait till the official RTM release of Windows 7 which is expected around the first quarter of 2011, and don’t want to install Service Pack updates via Windows Updates.

Download the Windows Service Pack Blocker Toolkit  (for Organizations) from the direct download link given below to temporarily stop the installation of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 updates and will be valid for 12 months from the date when the service pack gets general availability.

The toolkit contains three components:

  • A Microsoft-signed executable
  • A script
  • An ADM template

And you need to use the component that best serves the computer management infrastructure in your organization from the above three.

Download Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit [ 96KB – For Windows 7 Service Pack 1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 ]

[Download] Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5

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Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 is now available for download. The users can download the fifth maintenance update for Snow Leopard using native Software Update feature available from the Apple menu. The update fixes a wider number of issues reported since the launch of Mac OS X 10.6.4 in June 2010.

The updates contains as many as 25 major general fixes and improvements (plus tons of minor fixes) for several issues found in the earlier version of Mac OS X. Here are the some of the fixes and improvements issued in the Mac OS X v10.6.5 update:

– Improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers
– Address stability and performance of graphics applications and games
– Resolve a delay between print jobs
– Address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an AirPort Extreme
– Address an issue where dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide
– Resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary
– Improved performance of MainStage on certain Mac systems
– Resolves a VoiceOver issue when browsing some web sites with Safari 5
– Improved reliability of Ethernet connections.

In addition to the above updates, Apple has also announced the release of Security Update 2010-007 for users using the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Direct download links for all the above said updates added below.

Download:

Mac OS X version 10.6.5 Update – Size: 644.48 MB

Mac OS X version 10.6.5 Update (Combo) – Size: 977.21 MB

Mac OS X Server version 10.6.5 Update – Size: 858.02 MB

Mac OS X Server version 10.6.5 Update (Combo) –- Size: 1.12 GB

Security Update 2010-007:       Leopard Client – 240.74 MB                         Leopard Server – 448.1 MB

[Download] WordPress Official App For Nokia S60 Mobiles

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WordPress has just released an official app for the users of Nokia Symbian and Maemo based mobile phones. The latest free WordPress app for Nokia devices comes after the successful launch of such apps for iPhone,Android and BlackBerry devices.

With this app installed, you can manage (add new posts or pages, edit existing content, manage content etc.) your WordPress blogs directly from your mobile phone. The app will also have the inbuilt statistical analysis which allows you see all the important data like visits, referrers and search terms accounted for brining the visitors to your WordPress blog.

WordPress nokia stats

WordPress new post in nokia

The app works for blogs hosted on WordPress (*.wordpress.com) and also for slef-hosted blogs that use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) for blogging and supports all the versions which are using WordPress 2.7 or later versions of the blogging platform. Currently the app support Nokia X6 and Nokia N97 mini but it’ll be coming to more devices very soon.

Download WordPress for Nokia S60 and Maemo (via Ovi Store)

More info at nokia.wordpress.org

[Download] Programming Windows Phone 7 Free Ebook

programming windows phone 7

If you are a C# programmer and willing to develop application for the newly launched Windows Phone 7 platform, here is a good news for you!

Microsoft has released a 1013-page long free ebbok , Programming Windows Phone 7 written by the popular author Charles Petzold. Charles Petzold, who has authored various programming books on Windows OS for the last 24 years has complied this book as a gift to programming community from the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 team. The book contains 24 chapters which have been divided into 3 parts: The Basics, Silverlight, and XNA. While this is available as a freely downloadable ebook , the book will also be available for sale as two print editions: Microsoft Silverlight Programming for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft XNA Framework Programming for Windows Phone 7, and should be available in stores starting from December 2010.

Download Programming Windows Phone 7 : ebook (pdf format) |  ebook’s sample code (zip file)

Get Free Avanquest PowerDesk Professional 7 License

PowerDesk 7 license

Avanquest  PowerDesk Professional is a powerful file manager utility for Windows based systems. It lets you easily organize your files, digital media files etc. You can make use of this tool to search, edit, copy, delete, move, sort and sync files or folders  from external portables devices like USB flash drives, USB Hard drives, MP3/MP4 player etc.

PowerDesk Pro 7 Packs the following key features:

  • FTP support
  • Sync Manager
  • Size Manager
  • Dialog Helper to enhance dialogue boxes
  • Archive Manager
  • File Finder

As part of a promotions, Avanquest is offering free valid serial numbers to use with their PowerDesk Professional 7 versions. Follow the steps to get your free license code.

1. Visit Avanquest registration page. Enter your email address, and other details that are required in the registration form.

PowerDesk 7 free license form

Click on “Proceed and receive your serial codes” link when you have filled all the details required in the form.

2. Check your email inbox now (check your ‘spam’ folder too). You should receive a mail containing the serial number for the PowerDesk Pro 7.

powerdesk 7 serial number

3. Download the PowerDesk Professional 7 installer file. Install it and use it with the serial number that you have got.

[Download] Windows 7 Update KB2028551

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Along with the updates KB2284742 and KB2388210, Microsoft has also released another update for Windows 7 based systems, KB2028551. The update resolves issues with printing from XML Paper Specifications (XPS) based applications to print drivers that are based on Graphical Device Interface (GDI).

The update resolves issues that you may encounter while printing an XPS that contains visual brushes, where certain elements in the document gets clipped when printing on a GDI-based printer device. The update contains improvements for the XPS  to GDI converter, which finally improves the performance of the printing when you print from XPS-based applications to GDI-based drivers. Microsoft has also mentioned that installing this update is also essential to support some of the features included in Internet Explorer 8 platform preview build. Download the update KB2028551 for Windows 7 from the links added below.

Download Links:

Windows 7 (32-bit) file size: 282 KB

Windows 7 (64-bit) file size: 452 KB