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Xobni Public Beta
2008-05-05 18:02:00
Xobni (that's inbox backwards) is the next big idea in productivity enhancements for your inbox. The Xobni software is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers email management and quick access to important information in your email. But more than that, Xobni claims to "expose the hidden social network" in your email.View: Xobni Home Page
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New Nine Inch Nails Album Available For Free Download
2008-05-05 17:57:00
Nine Inch Nails has made its new ten-song, 44-minute minute album entitled "The Slip" available for free download at www.nin.com (free signup required). The new set includes the songs "Echoplex" and "Discipline" which were both posted online during the last couple of weeks ahead of the new album release.The music is available in a variety of formats, including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike license). All downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.For those of you interested in physical products, the band plans to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in July.View: Nine Inch Nails Home PageSource: Neowin
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Google Maps Liberty City
2008-05-04 17:53:00
Google Maps and IGN has made it easy for you to find your way around Liberty city by creating the ultimate map for GTA IV.The map lists locations of where to find weapons, health, armor, pigeons, secrets, easter eggs, safe houses, resturants, stunts and much more.View: Google Maps Liberty City
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Auslogics BoostSpeed 4
2008-05-03 19:29:00
Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 will optimize your computer, clean your disks and add useful tweaks to windows.All in all it will allow you to maintain a clean and perfect running computer, tweaked like you want.It will allow home users to have easy access to all those advanced tools that windows have, plus it'sown registry and disk defragter.Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 includes the following tools:- Computer clean up- Optimization- Privacy and Security cleaner- Windows Tweaker- Easy access to windows tools.With the startup manager you get an overview of which programs are running at startup. You can quickly enable or disable a program from running. further more you can create a new startup entry, allowing a program of your choice to be run at startup.Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 also provides easy shortcuts to useful windows programs like, Computer Management consoleDirectX Diagnostics and Windows service manager.- Auslogics system information gives you all the information you need about your hardwar...
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
2008-05-01 18:52:00
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browserKeep Your Vital Information OrganizedThunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.Secure and Protect Your MailMozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.Get Your Mail, Your WayThunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to mus...
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IE7Pro 2.3 Beta 2
2008-05-01 11:56:00
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. With IE7pro you may switch proxy, set agent identification, block ads and flash, apply super drag-drop, refresh tab automatically, recover session crash, manage tab history, view page information, save image files quickly and more. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.Changelog:- New Module: FasterIE, It will increase your IE surfing speed, But it may cause some problem.- IE context menu add save selected source cod...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final
2008-04-29 19:57:00
Windows XP SP3 is finally here for those that use Windows Update. The build number for the final version is 5512. Neowin reports that there won't be a 64bit version until Windows Server 2003 hits SP3 since they share the same code base.Here is an interesting article regarding SP3 performance, ignoring the fact that Vista SP1 is still faster than XP SP2/SP3 users will enjoy a performance boost over SP2. When will people learn that Vista ain't all bad!Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.Download: Windows XP SP3 32 Bit English Stand-alone installerDownload: Service Pack 3 for Windows XP via Windows Update
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FeedBurner Moves to Google Accounts
2008-04-29 19:49:00
After Google bought FeedBurner in June 2007, we didn't hear too many new things about FeedBurner. A post from February detailed the benefits of the future Google integration: connecting with other Google services, better performance and new features. "Why not build new services and integrate at the same time? (...) Our perspective is that the time you lose trying to continuously merge an updated legacy codebase with a new rewrite causes you [to] be in a world of never actually getting the integration done because you're constantly working on merge problems."It seems that the Googlizied FeedBurner will be brought to life soon. FeedBurner Blog announces that "in the coming weeks, upon visiting www.feedburner.com, selected publishers will have the opportunity to sign in using their Google Account". That means you will be offered the option to choose a Google account as a new home for FeedBurner. The posts mentions that the integration with other services will be added gradually and i...
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CCleaner 2.07.575
2008-04-28 16:37:00
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) it's free and contains no Spyware or Adware.CCleaner has been tried and tested with Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's currently partially compatible with 64bit XP and Vista, there are a few non-critical issues which are still being worked on.Changelog:- Firefox 3.0 support added.- Fixed bug where figures were missing for KB/MB sizes.- Fixed bug where some IE cookies were being missed.- Improved scan time accuracy.- Internal memory management improvements.- Registry settings moved to HKCUSoftware PiriformCCleaner.- Fixed bug where CC could get locked in System Tray.- Renamed MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger.- Added MS Office Picture Manager to applications.- Fixed uninstaller tool b...

MessengerDiscovery Live 1.4
2008-04-26 11:58:00
MessengerDiscovery Live is a Windows Live Messenger addon which adds well over 150 new features and customisations for Messenger. It contains no form of virus or spyware and is 100% free to download and use.New Features: - Parental Controls - Only allow certain accounts to sign into Messenger - Block accounts from signing to Messenger that use profanity - Protect MD settings with parental lock - Unblock a contact after a certain amount of time - Option to delete the contact as well - If you are offline when the contact is scheduled to be unblocked then they will be unblocked upon next sign in - Allow conversation windows to stay open after signing out - Automatically decline group conversations when status is not "Online" - Change the visibility (opacity) of contact list - Change the visibility (opacity) of conversation windows - Promote MessengerDiscovery and win a iPod, everything is done automaticallyDownload: MessengerDiscovery Live 1.4View: Full ChangelogView: MessengerDiscovery...

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0
2008-04-25 15:29:00
AVG Anti-Virus provides all of Grisoft™s advanced virus detection methods and components, including heuristic analysis, generic detection, scanning, and integrity checking. It is an integral part of the AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall Edition and is accessible via the AVG Control Center. Safeguarding the computer on which it is installed AVG Firewall helps to maintain privacy and protects personally identifiable information from being sent from your computer without your permission. AVG 8.0 Free now has the basic antivirus and antispyware protection too, for Windows. However, AVG Free 8.0 doesn't have all of the features you get in the commercial version of the application. There's no rootkit protection or linkscanner. And there's no email or instant messaging integration either.A look at AVG Internet Security 8.0- Safe Search. AVG scans Google, Yahoo! & MSN search results in real-time as you search and places safety ratings next to each link.- Safe Surf. AVG scans each and every W...
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Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched!
2008-04-24 20:55:00
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched . Both MSN Video and Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation version. The old MSN Video will keep existing next to the new MSN Video Beta. Some of the Upgraded Features:- Scalable Page. Change the size of your browser and the thumbnails and page will scale dynamically. - New Player with integrated Playlists and Progressive Download Indicators. - Playlist Functionality. Each time you watch a video it is automatically added to the playlist. The Playlists can also be shared. -Improved Fullscreen Experience. - Video Gallery Sorts. Sort by Hour, Day etc. - Updated Embedded Player with clean design and Playlist featuresOther Soapbox highlights:- Single Page browsing and viewing. - Upload Unlimited Video Lengths. - Simultaneously Upload and process- Multiple Videos. - Persistent Upload and Process indicator. - Embed Player with Multiple Videos. - Soapbox Gadgets and Vista Sidebar Gadgets - High Quality Video Encoding. ...
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GTA IV Gameplay video
2008-04-23 18:22:00
With the release of GTA IV only 5 days away, it seems the game has leaked to the internet already !We managed to get our hands on one of the gameplay video's that surfaced on youtube earlier today.Latest word is that Youtube is removing GTA IV gameplay video's, so it's hosted it on Dailymotion.Ohh and be aware this is a major spoilerGTA IV Gameplay - kewegoView: GTA IV Website
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Flock 1.1.3
2008-04-22 07:51:00
Flock is a social Web browser, open source, cross platform and based on Mozilla technologies. Currently, the browser implements support for del.icio.us and Flickr. Users can also install alternative hosted bookmarks or photo sharing services. In the search box and the blog manager, Flock offer users a number of choices and the ability to install other services using open standards. Expect the same, over time, for hosted bookmarks, photo-sharing and other services Flock integrates. Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.Cha...
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Recuva 1.13.304
2008-04-21 16:41:00
From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!Changelog:- Added Deep Scan. Recuva can now search for files lost by the file system, which will work for reformatted and repartitioned drives.- Improved speed and stability for image preview in Windows 2k/98.- Several performance tweaks.- Various UI tweaks and improvements.( Click Image to Enlarge )Download: Recuva 1.13.304View: Recuva Homepage
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FileZilla 3.0.9.2
2008-04-18 18:09:00
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Changelog:- Fix rare crash if closing FileZilla- *nix: Fix problems with drag&drop operation starting from local directory tree- Filetype display and ascii/binary detection did not work on VMS servers- Requeue did not work properly for edited files- Fix state of comparison button if comparison could not be started- Fix crash if changing filters while comparison mode is active- Fix ghost item appearing if applying filters after exiting comparison mode- Compatibility fix with broken servers sending ...
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Safari 3.11
2008-04-17 17:54:00
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari : the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer. The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.Features:- Blazing Performance2x Faster - Safari is the fastest web browser on any platform.- Elegant User Interface - Safari’s clean look lets you focus on the web — not your browser.- Easy Bookmarks - Organize your bookmarks just like you organize music in iTunes.- Pop-up Blocking - Say goodbye to annoying pop-up ads and pop-under windows.- Inline Find - Search any text on any website with the integrate...
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Google Website Optimizer
2008-04-17 17:45:00
Today at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, Google Website Optimizer ™ launched out of beta as an independent product. Formerly a feature within the Google AdWords™ advertising service only, this free website-testing tool is now accessible through its own website (http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer) as well.Google Website Optimizer helps improve user experience on the Web by showing its users what their visitors want to see. Rather than debating or guessing how a webpage might look best, users can continually test different combinations of website content, such as images and text, to see which one yields the most sales, sign-ups, leads or other goals.Google Website Optimizer provides value "beyond the click" as part of Google’s suite of advertising tools offering heightened precision, accountability and scale. Together with Google AdWords, which drives traffic to your website, and Google Analytics™, which measures that traffic, Google Website Optimizer further helps you con...

Firefox 2.0.0.14
2008-04-16 21:53:00
Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (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 is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.Enjoy a Better Web ExperienceFirefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.Stay Secure on the WebFirefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.Personalize Your BrowserChoose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own. Download: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 Windows | Linux | MacView: FireFox Home Page
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Windows XP SP3 Release Dates
2008-04-15 17:32:00
With Service Pack 3 for Windows XP just over the horizon, Neowin managed to get there hands on the internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging operating system. As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will occur before the end of the month, though forced automatic updates won't land until June. This delay should give system administrators an ample amount of time to prepare for the upgrade or simply come up with an excuse when things go awry. - April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP- April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers- April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center- June 10, 2008: Automatic UpdatesSource: Neowin
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Vista Drive Icon 1.4
2008-04-13 21:51:00
Vista Drive Icon is a simple and small tool that changes the drive icons shown in Windows "My Computer", to a nearly Windows Vista drive icons, showing the drive's used/free space with a smooth colored horizontal bar.This release brings further improvements and fixes of the interface with a side dish of various bug fixes and improvements, for no extra charge.Changes:Vista Drive Icon 1.4:* Fixed: Missing icon for system drive* Fixed: Application uninstall* Fixed: Minor bugsDownload: Vista Drive Icon 1.4
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Miss USA 2008
2008-04-12 11:00:00
Crystle Stewart of Texas has been crowned Miss USA 2008 .The 26-year-old entrepreneur beat out 50 other aspiring beauty queens in a pageant televised live from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.Ms. Stewart completed her degree in Consumer Science and Merchandising at the University of Houston. She founded and runs her business "Inside/Out" which aids young women in building self-esteem and volunteers with many organizations in the community. She won a silver medal in the relay at Jr. Olympics and is a fourth generation educatorMiss USA beauty pageant, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2008.[2] At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Crystle Stewart, Miss Texas USA, was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder, Rachel Smith of Tennessee. Crystle will represent the United States at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant held in Vietnam. This is the first time in Miss USA history that two consecutive women of African-American decent have been crowned.
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Paint.NET 3.30
2008-04-11 17:13:00
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.Change log:* New: Italian translation.* New: Ability to save PNG's at 8- and 24-bit color depths.* New: Ability to save BMP's at 8-bit color depth.* New: "Auto-detect" bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss.* New: "Fragment" blur effect, by Ed Harvey* New: The "Polar Inversion" distortion effect has been enhanced to a...
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Adobe Media Player 1.0
2008-04-09 20:44:00
Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform desktop application specifically designed to play back streamed or downloaded FLV or MPEG-4 video content when users are online or offline. It offers a wealth of features for discovering, organizing, and subscribing to video content — even automatically downloading subscribed episodes so they can be viewed anytime.Adobe has partnered up with some of the top networks and media companies presenting your favorite shows for viewing online or offline. From edge-of-your-seat dramas, sports, and reality TV shows to classic feature films and miniseries as well as educational videos and more, Adobe participating network partners put a wealth of enjoyment at your fingertips with Adobe Media Player. Download: Adobe Media Player 1.0View: Adobe Media Player Home Page
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Windows Live Writer Updated
2008-04-09 17:20:00
A new update for Windows Live Writer has been released.This update is being distributed via Microsoft Update, so if you have chosen to have important updates automatically installed, you should receive this update automatically. If you aren't automatically getting updates, you can open Windows Update, check for updates, and the update will appear in the list of available updates.The update KB951125 fixes four problems that occur when Windows Live Writer publishes posts to Blogger.The build number after the update is "12.0.1370.325"Download: Windows Live Writer Update
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Snarfer 1.0.0
2008-04-09 07:50:00
Snarfer provides a new approach to RSS feed aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Using Snarfer people can become functional RSS users within seconds of installing it. Snarfer has a strong community of loyal users providing feedback, features requests and enhancements which allows the Snarfware team to bring out an enhanced version about every 45 days. (There's lots of cool stuff coming every cycle!)Snarfer now includes a Search Wizard that enables users to construct complex searches for items or information contained on eBay or Craigslist. The search results are returned to Snarfer utilizing the specific functions supported by these communities. These searches are intelligent and tent automatically returning new results to Snarfer every time the feed is updated.Download: Snarfer 1.0.0 (Freeware)View: ChangelogView: Snarfer Home Page
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FileZilla 3.0.9
2008-04-07 19:06:00
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Changelog:3.0.9 (2008-04-07)- Reset keyboard search prefix in file lists on directory and selection changes3.0.9-rc1 (2008-03-31)+ Automatic resume on some types of transfer failures+ Improve main statusbar + Icon to display selected transfer mode on FTP connections + Icon to show current certificate and cipher on FTP(E)S connections + Icon to show key exchange and encryption algorithms on SFTP connections+ Remember last selected item in Site Manager+ Various improvements to main menu- New menu...
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DAEMON Tools Lite 4.12.3
2008-04-03 17:40:00
Daemon Tools is an application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running backup copies of SafeDisc, Securom, or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD. It works with all types of CD/DVDROM drives and supports nearly any CD protection. What's new:- SPTD 1.56- Languages updates- Setup changesBugs fixed:- SCSI adapter resources problem during installation- Some network images mounting problem- Lockup problem when comparing files on 2 virtual drives- Some minor GUI bugs- Some incompatibility issues fixed (4.12.3)Download: DAEMON Tools Lite 4.12.3View: DAEMON Tools Home Page
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Windows Live OneCare 2.5 Public Beta
2008-04-02 21:49:00
OneCare, the anti-virus/tune-up/back-up all in one program, has just opened up a public beta of version 2.5 Anyone can go to Microsoft Connect and sign up to try out the new beta, you don't need to be signed in to get to the page.Microsoft Windows Live OneCare is a comprehensive and integrated PC health service that helps protect and maintain your computer with antivirus firewall PC maintenance and file backup and restore functionality This new service is in beta testing.View: Windows Live OneCare 2.5 Public Beta Signup

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5
2008-04-02 07:52:00
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.Features in version 3.0:- Antivirus software integration- Phishing protection through web site identity verification- Better handling of plugins and support for Vista parental controls- File downloader has finally been improved, and it now enables download resuming - Plugins are now managed better with the add-on manager[- Web pages can be bookmarked with a single click and tagged with a double click- Smart Places folder, which appears in your bookmarks toolbar, allows for better organization and easy browsing of tagged, bookmarked and freq...
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