I’ve just uploaded a series of Liquid screenshots for viewing, so please check them out.
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I’ve finally got around to testing a new release of Liquid and have just uploaded it for download. As it’s such a major version i’ve decided to number it the final 1.0.0 release. It features some significant changes, such as the ability to download all missing podcasts, downloaded podcast tooltips, and sorting on all tables. You can find the changes detailed on the Liquid Changelog page and as always you can find the latest version at the Liquid Download page.
One thing to note is that you must manually uninstall all previous versions manually before installing, hopefully this shouldn’t be required in the future.
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ATI has released a new WHQL driver 10.1 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.
The Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.1 contains the following:
- Radeon™ display driver 8.69
- HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
- WDM Driver Install Bundle
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.69
Performance Improvements
- The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.1:
- Left 4 Dead 2 – Overall performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
- Crysis – Performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and as much as 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
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I’ve just released version 0.5.0 of Liquid, an alternative podcast downloader, I’ve added new a feed management tool, support for (X)HTML podcast descriptions in the podcast tooltip and media type selection when viewing a feed. You can find the changes detailed on the Liquid Changelog page. As before you can find the latest version at the Liquid Download page.
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nVidia has released a new WHQL driver 196.21 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.
This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
New in version 196.21
- Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Avatar Demo, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, City Bus Simulator, Dirt 2, Ferrari Virtual Race, GREED: Black Border, Mass Effect 2, Mortal Online, Ninja Blade, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Demo, Planet 51, RUSE, Serious Sam HD, and Wings of Prey.
- Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.09.1112.
- Includes numerous bug fixes.
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I’ve just released version 0.4.0 of Liquid, an alternative podcast downloader, I’ve added more ID3 tag updating, the ability to minimise to the system tray and lots of other little enhancements and fixes. You can find the changes detailed on the Liquid Changelog page. As before you can find the latest version at the Liquid Download page.
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ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.12 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.
The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.12 contains the following:
- Radeon™ display driver 8.681
- HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
- WDM Driver Install Bundle
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.681
New in version 9.12
- ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations.
- OpenGL 3.2 extension support
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series. The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™ 9.12:
- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array
Performance Improvements
- The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 9.12:
- 3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat
– Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations
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Mozilla has released Thunderbird 3.0, their email and news client, but after upgrading from Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 I found that my RSS feeds were no longer displaying the linked web page when viewing them, instead they were displaying the article summary.
There are two different settings controlling this functionality, the first can be found by entering ‘Manage Subscriptions’ and editing the individual feed. There is a tick box called ‘Show the article summary instead of loading the web page’, to load the web page, make sure this is unticked.
The second setting can be found by viewing the feed and then on the main menu navigate to ‘View > Feed Message Body As’ and selecting ‘Default Format’.
nVidia has released a new WHQL driver 195.62 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.
This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
New in version 195.62
- Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta.
- Adds support for GeForce GT 240.
- Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
- Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements.
- Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, FIFA Soccer 10, and more.
- Includes numerous bug fixes including improved performance for Need for Speed: Shift.
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ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.11 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.
The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.11 contains the following:
- Radeon™ display driver 8.671
- HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
- WDM Driver Install Bundle
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.671
New in version 9.11
- GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.
- High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320×240 @30p – iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.
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