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[Lisandro]

Fresh Diagnose 8.53 has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Fresh-Diagnose/1006930501/1

[harman123]

AMD has released the official Catalyst 11.5 graphics driver for the HD 2000 series and above. The changes in this WHQL certified driver include Hydravision enhancements for Eyefinity configurations, as well as a range of bug fixes.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

AMD has released the Catalyst 11.5a Hotfix graphics driver for Windows XP and 7. This driver has specific optimizations and fixes for Brink, resolves transcoding video lagging issues when converting multiple H.264 clips to MPEG2 Blu-ray video, fixes a mouse cursor lag issue, and fixes intermittent flickering issues in several games when using an HD 6600 series graphics card in DirectX 9 mode.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst115ahotfix.aspx

Realtek has released Version 2.60 of its HD Audio drivers.

http://www.realtek.com/Downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

[Simion]

HostsXpert v4.4 May 7, 2011 Win98 thru Vista

Change Log: -Updated URL's for MVPS Hosts file.

http://www.funkytoad.com

[iRonzel]

Firefox 5 Beta Just Around the Corner

[Lisandro]

ProduKey 1.51 has been released. PUP
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ProduKey/1187016070/1

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2.1.10  has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/1167321860/1

[Omid Farhang]

Google Chrome Stable Channel has been updated to 11.0.696.68

The Stable channel has been updated to 11.0.696.68 for the Macintosh, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

[64046] High CVE-2011-1799: Bad casts in Chromium WebKit glue. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
[80608] High CVE-2011-1800: Integer overflows in SVG filters. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

http://www.google.com/chrome/

[Dch48]

Flash Player updated

The Chrome update also contains the latest Flash version and there are also updates for all other platforms and browsers.

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

[CraigB]

Flash Player updated

The Chrome update also contains the latest Flash version and there are also updates for all other platforms and browsers.

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Thanks for the update, seems there is no way to get the standalone installer anymore, uses the download manager to install and there are new adjustable settings in control panel if no one has noticed.

[nmb]

seems there is no way to get the standalone installer anymore, uses the download manager to install and there are new adjustable settings in control panel if no one has noticed.

Right here: http://my.opera.com/rejzor/blog/adobe-flash-player-direct-installer-download

[Dch48]

Java Update 25

Java update 25 is now fully available. You can update through your Control Panel applet.

[Asyn]

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.18 Released
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-announce/201105.mbox/raw/%3C4DCB5DC0.6020809@apache.org%3E

[DavidR]

seems there is no way to get the standalone installer anymore, uses the download manager to install and there are new adjustable settings in control panel if no one has noticed.

It is still there you just need to bookmark the link, http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ or read everything on the adobe.com/software/flash/about/ for alternatives, which takes you to the link I gave.

[CraigB]

seems there is no way to get the standalone installer anymore, uses the download manager to install and there are new adjustable settings in control panel if no one has noticed.

It is still there you just need to bookmark the link, http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ or read everything on the adobe.com/software/flash/about/ for alternatives, which takes you to the link I gave.

Sorry David but that link requires you to download the download manager to get the flash player, file hippo now has the standalone version http://www.filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_ie/

[DavidR]

I have never had to use the download manager with that link. Why that is is a mystery to me, but I always use firefox when visiting that link and download both IE and other browser options, weird.

[Dch48]

I have never had to use the download manager with that link. Why that is is a mystery to me, but I always use firefox when visiting that link and download both IE and other browser options, weird.

Through a process of clicking on links from the page that shows the version you have I found this http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html#main_ManualInstaller. Why you want to do it that way I don't know since it says you have to manually uninstall the old version first. Using the download manager seems much simpler to me since it just updates what you have. I have found that at least for the IE version, the old .ocx file remains on your system, but that's no big deal since it's not being used any more and poses no security risk. You can always go in later and delete it if you want.

Another thing I've experienced is that this XP machine downloads the download manager every time I update Flash but the Vista machine just goes straight to the actual installer and does not download the manager every time. The Vista machine also alerts when an update is available, the XP one does not even though it is set to do so.