Today DirectX 9.0c February 2010 is released.

Microsoft DirectX (previously WinG) is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation and rich audio. DirectX includes DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay and DirectShow. The most used API's (Application Programming Interfaces) in computer (PC or console) games include DirectX from Microsoft, OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) from SGI (Silicon Graphics) and Glide from 3dfx Interactive.

Today VideoLAN 1.0.5 is released.

VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it's own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too. It can also be used as a server to stream on a (wired or wireless) high-bandwidth IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 or 6 network in multicast or unicast. VLC (VideoLAN Client) is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, Crux Linux, Debian GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Linux, Familiar Linux, Fedora Core Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Novell's SuSE (System und Software Entwicklung = System and software development) Linux, Turbo Linux, NetBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, Zaurus and Windows CE (Windows Mobile) for Pocket PC. The installer includes the eMule partfile plugin, which lets you preview eMule partfiles more efficiently.

Today TreeSize Professional 5.3.4 build 589 is released.

TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible harddisk space manager. Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file owner, the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search for old, big and temporary files. The application has an intuitive Explorer-like user interface and it is fast and multithreaded. You can print detailed reports or export the collected Data to Excel and to an HTML, XML or ASCII file. TreeSize Professional can be started from the context menu of every folder or drive.

Today Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection 1.0.0.2 is released.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection contains multiple versions of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. In Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox. The version number of each included version of Mozilla Firefox can be found in the titlebar. Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection also includes the Firebug and Web Developer add-ons for all included versions of Mozilla Firefox. These add-ons provide a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites much easier.

Today Mozilla Firefox 3.6.0.0 is released.

Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading and improved privacy and security. Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser based on the Gecko render engine, which follows the W3C Web Standards much better then Windows Internet Explorer. Also there are a lot of handy extensions available for Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox is very easy to install: launch Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox. From then on everything goes automatically.

Today Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.1.0 is released.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another standalone web browser) as their primary web browser and wants a mail client based on Mozilla that works nice with the web browser.

Today Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection 1.0.0.1 is released.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection contains multiple versions of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. In Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox. The version number of each included version of Mozilla Firefox can be found in the titlebar. Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection also includes the Firebug and Web Developer add-ons for all included versions of Mozilla Firefox. These add-ons provide a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites much easier.

Today Winamp 5.572 is released.

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows which supports many audio and video formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization effects.

Today Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection 1.0.0.0 is released.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection contains multiple versions of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. In Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox. The version number of each included version of Mozilla Firefox can be found in the titlebar. Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection also includes the Firebug and Web Developer add-ons for all included versions of Mozilla Firefox. These add-ons provide a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites much easier.

Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox is a small multilingual utility which automatically downloads and installs the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately opens one or more websites.
It asks no difficult questions and does not show technical information or error messages and even works under the most restricted user accounts, so you can quickly use Firefox on any computer and also easily explain how to install Firefox to anyone else.

Today Internet Explorer Collection 1.6.0.5 is released.

Internet Explorer is a browser developed by Microsoft. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) is based on the Trident render engine, which does not follow the W3C Web Standards.
Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time.
Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown correcty in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too.
Internet Explorer Collection also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar 1.00.2188.0. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher.
The user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. You can also make an unattended installation.
Internet Explorer Collection fully supports upgrading, so there is no need to uninstall a previous version before installing a newer version: just install the newer version on top of the currently installed version with the same or more components selected.

Today Adobe Reader 9.3.0 is released.

Adobe Reader (previously Acrobat Reader) enables business professionals and home users to reliably share information using intelligent PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You can easily view, print and search PDF files using a variety of platforms and devices.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

Today the K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool 4.1.2 is released.

The K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool is a standalone version of the tool that is included in the K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.
With the K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool you can do things like:
- Scan the registry to detect and remove broken references to codecs and filters
- Generate a detailed log of all installed codecs and filters
- Enable or disable over 190 codecs and filters (if they are installed)

Today Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7.0 is released.

Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading and improved privacy and security. Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser based on the Gecko render engine, which follows the W3C Web Standards much better then Windows Internet Explorer. Also there are a lot of handy extensions available for Firefox.

Today MediaInfo Lite 0.7.27.0 is released.

MediaInfo Lite is a tool to analyze media files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.
It optionally includes a shell extension for Windows Explorer. When installed, it will show you information when you move your mouse pointer over the media file.