Download Manager Tweak 0.8.5 Firefox Add-On

Firefox Add-on "Download Manager Tweak 0.8.5" brings modification into the firefox download manager that changes its appearance and allows it to be opened in a window, tab, or sidebar.

As the extension gets installed, you can go to the Add-ons panel and open the Download Manager Tweak Options pane, after which you will be able to customize anything in the downloads window.

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Adium Fixes Facebook Chat Plugin With Update Version 1.3.6

Adium has updated version 1.3.6 now. There are some fixes to the risks that were mentioned earlier this week. This risk has the potential to allow another user to run code by sending you a specially crafted message over the MSN protocol and also Yahoo regressions from version 1.3.5.

Improvements for Facebook chat plugin where unwanted email notifications, dropped messages and missing contact icons was seen.

Note: Update on Adium 1.4 is on

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Turn Your Photos To Sketches & Drawings With "FotoSketcher"

Here is a good freeware for those who are interested in painting, sketches or drawings.

"FotoSketcher" Version 1.9 turns any photos to paintings, sketches or drawings with pleasing results in few seconds.

Now turn your photos taken from digital camera into an art or a portrait. Create eye catching images and make original gifts for any occasion. Also use it to create birthday cards and season's greetings stationary.

Available Style are: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings.

Tools Included: Enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation and More.

Windows Only.

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Burn CD/DVD With "Explore&Burn" App

Burn your CD/DVD with ease using "Explore&Burn", a free to use application with user friendly interface. It contains Windows Explorer as well.

You can burn files and ISO images fastly on your computer to CD or DVD. The application is lightweight, thats means it's easy to use and one of the better softwares out on the net.

Features Include: Easy to Use, Supports Burning of Disc Images, Supports Wide Variety of Disc Types, Supports All Major Disc File Systems, Multilingual user interface and 100% Clean and Free.

How to Use?
Click any file, folder or disk image, then select the Burn to disc contest menu option after which you need to get to very quick burning wizard. This application gives support to Dual Layer discs as well.

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Podcasts And Web Audio To Android-Powered Device With Google Listen

Use Google's new Listen App, which brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device.

What it does?
Now you can search, subscribe, download and stream. When you subscribe to programs and search terms it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen.

Now you can have access to 1000's of popular English-only audio sources.

Google Listen is a powerful app which delivers accurate results and also you can "Add to queue" or "Listen now" with "Subscribe" ticking as a check box in the upper-right corner.

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Free Trial Of SQL Azure Database And Preview

You can try free trail of Microsoft SQL Azure Database community Technology Preview (CTP) now.

It's an cloud-based database service built on Microsoft SQL Server technology.

According to their Blog: "CTP is the SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1, which provides new capabilities for building PHP applications and support for SQL Azure, enabling developers to build PHP apps with relational database capabilities using SQL Server or SQL Azure Database. The CTP for the SQL Server Driver for PHP is available for download today."

There is support for Microsoft and Sybase's proprietary extension to the SQL database language.

Until November you can use the free trail of SQL Azure Database. Two editions will be available:

• Web Edition, which will include up to 1 GB of relational data, priced at $9.99 per month
• Business Edition, which will include up to 10 GB of data, priced at $99.99 per month.

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