Firefox 8 is now out and brings with it some new features and bug fixes to the platform. The latest release brings the version up to number 8 and will be pushed on to FTP mirrors tomorrow. More...

The ongoing Wikileaks story has taken a new turn with the US Government being given permission to obtain the Twitter account information of Icelandic Birgitta Jonsdottir, Dutch Rop Gonggrijp and American Jacob Appelbaum, all three... More...

Google has released a new version of its Chrome web browser, removing support for H.264 and adding in a 66% faster JavaScript engine. This version 10 release comes only seven weeks after version nine, maybe... More...

Earlier today, Opera software announced on their community blog MyOpera that the new anticipated version of their desktop browser, Opera 11 would be released in beta after having undergone several alpha releases. A Neowin user pointed... More...

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 platform preview 3 today, marking the third and possibly final release prior to the beta phase. The updated platform preview code includes support for the HTML5 video tag. Platform Preview 3... More...

The SeaMonkey Project The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the... More...

The much anticipation version 1.0 of the popular desktop organization app Fences, has been released today. Fences helps you reduce and eliminate the clutter of icons on the desktop by creating "fences" of icons.... More...

Demigod, the real-time strategy PC game from Gas Powered Games has received an update with many new enhancements, and fixes. One of the new additions to the game is Replays, which have several variations... More...

µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client. Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline... More...

KDE Community Delivers Incremental Innovations With New KDE 4.3 Release KDE 4.3 (Codename: "Caizen") Delivers Incremental Innovations to the Free Desktop Users and Software Developers ... More...

The demo for Gas Powered Games' RTS game, Demigod, is now available for download. The demo features online Internet multiplayer games, the Cataract map and four playable Demigods (Regulus, Rook, Sedna and Lord Erebus.) All... More...

Microsoft has released an out of band security patch (MS09-034) to fix remote exploits in Internet Explorer. This security update is rated Critical for the following versions of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 5.01, running on... More...

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... More...

Microsoft is offering it's free anti-virus product, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to 75,000 lucky people today. The company is offering the product via a beta program and will likely extend the cap of 75,000 downloads... More...

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It... More...

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Multi Platform Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you... More...

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being... More...

Microsoft has released its second Service Pack for Office 2007 today. Service Pack 2 includes some significant changes, including built-in ability to save as ODF & PDF formats, improvements to Outlook's performance and calendar reliability... More...

PocoMail gives you serious power over your email, from instant review of your folders via the unique Focus Box, to easy management of your contacts. You can automate email processing in a myriad of ways,... More...

I'm a little late with this one but opensource deathmatch game Nexuiz has been updated to version 2.5 Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game that has been in development since the summer of 2002.... More...

FBackup is a freeware backup program for Windows, with an easy to use interface. Performs mirror backups and has wizards for backup & restore, file filters and internal scheduler. Creates standard zip files or exact... More...

FBackup is a freeware backup program for Windows, with an easy to use interface. Performs mirror backups and has wizards for backup & restore, file filters and internal scheduler. Creates standard zip files or exact... More...

The Registry is a heart and soul of any Windows system. It contains information that controls how your Windows appears and how it behaves. Most applications today use registry to store configuration and other important... More...

Winamp 5.55, Nullsoft's powerful multi-purpose free media player, has been released.The update features a bunch of speed improvements as well as some new features and updated plug-ins. Full changelog: * New: Turkish, Portuguese-BR &... More...

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as... More...

GOM Player is a video/audio player with additional multimedia functions. This is a player of the new generation, which allows you to quickly and conveniently use the advantages of digital technologies. GOM uses low CPU... More...

SoundPackager is an application that lets users change the default Windows sound scheme to one of many available for download.  This is done by applying “packages” of sound files which allows you to easily change... More...

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++ , Java , C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript , RC... More...

As Windows 7 RC gets ready for its release, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A261 is released officially to select beta developers and testers this week according to an Italian Website, Macity. Compared... More...

Google has announced that on Wednesday it will expand its current service on Google Maps to track individual user's locations. The feature will allow SmartPhone users to share their locations with others to track... More...

If you're an avid Windows Live Messenger user like myself, you'll be happy to know that Patchou has officially released Messenger Plus! Live 4.80. This release isn't a major update to the program (That's coming... More...

Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. The company has posted details about the latest version of their Linux-based operating system, noting that the latest version has been delivered to... More...

Apple has retracted the NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 released on Monday from its website and automatic software update system without any explanation. The update was meant to address issues with its Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link... More...

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has sent out the RC-Escrow build of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to testers. An email has been sent to SP2 testers regarding this release. The RC-Escrow... More...

Apple has released an update for the iPhone software today. This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following: Improved general stability of Safari Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not... More...

V2.2.0.1 adds some convenient features to make things easy. Easy to minimize a window to tray. Easy to turn off monitor and hibernate window with hotkey. For more details, Check out features online, or read... More...

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written... More...

Microsoft quietly released Songsmith at CES. With all the Windows 7 madness here at Neowin we missed this one. Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into... More...

Update 2: We have now posted a method for acquiring a valid key too. Update: It appears that Microsoft.com is suffering badly with "server too busy" messages. The Windows Team Blog have confirmed MS... More...

After the release of the Internet giants first web browser, titled Chrome, Google is hard at work on making their next version of Chrome up to standards with other browsers. The team at Google... More...

A few hours ago,we announced that Microsoft was preparing the Windows Live Essentials for release on Thursday. From what I and many others understood, there was apparently a new build labeled as the "final... More...

A trusted source has indicated that Microsoft has released Windows 7 Home Premium beta to a select group of 1000 users to get a firsthand look at the next major release of Windows. The Home... More...

Intel, like the rest of the economy, is facing the hard facts that the world is in a recession. Intel posted its earnings today of "approximately $8.2 billion, down 20 percent sequentially and down... More...

Just under a year ago Garmin announced they were going to release their first try in the mobile phone market with the nuvifone, they said that the device will have a touch screen, Internet browsing... More...

DivFix++ is an AVI Video Repair and Preview Utility. This Program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and... More...

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only... More...

Microsoft has just made the updated release candidate of the Windows Live Suite wave 3 at download.live.com. Thanks to Sean Bradford for alerting us. Microsoft has updated the Messenger client to Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8050.1202)... More...

Though we receive many rumours about Apple products, this rumour comes from iDeals China that previously gave us an accurate description of the iPhone 3G almost two months before its announcement. Using tip-offs given by... More...

Building on the success of Amarok 1.4, today Amarok 2.0 is released. The second version uses the Qt4 toolkit, allowing the project to work on Windows and Mac OSX as well as Linux. ... More...

novaPDF Printer is a PDF creator for Windows that allows you to easily create high-quality searchable PDF files. Main changes in version 6.0: Added option to append content to an existing PDF file ... More...