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Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Goes Open Source

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

After the “issue” with GPL license and recent removal of Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. It appears again on the microsoft’s website.

And now it comes with source codes.. to pass GPL license.
Actually this happens because MS used some third party application to steal some code to work with .ISO files.

“ The Windows 7 USD/DVD Download Tool uses material from ImageMaster, a .NET C#
application for reading and writing disc images (*.iso files). ImageMaster
is licensed under the terms of the GPL. For more information about ImageMaster,
please see http://imagemaster.codeplex.com/.” – stated at their website.

Where to download: http://wudt.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=37074

This page consist compiled intallation packages for variouse languages, open source code for the dvd tool and short instructions how to build Win7 USB /  DVD with Visual Studio 2008.

Movable Type 5 Release DELAYED again

WTF! This is not funny: Movable Type 5 Release postponed to Jan 5th, 2010.

Developres does not tell us a reason of the second  delay.. maybe they just too lazy to work on this holyday season.

From their blog:

We’ve determined that there are a few issues we need to resolve in Movable Type 5 before the official worldwide launch.

In order to resolve these issues and due to the holiday season, the release of Movable Type 5 has been postponed untill January 5th, 2010.

Avast Antivirus got 100 Million user

Avast reached the 100 million user milestone at 10:59 Tuesday morning.

They had started a contest in late November to reward the 100,000,000th user with a trip to Prague.  They say: “ We had hoped to run this contest for longer than we did—but our new users came faster than we had expected. The winner is Kevin Bolger of Ireland. “

Safari still the best for Mac

According to Compuworld lates speed tests, Apple’s Safari 4 is faster browser for Macintosh.

The results showed that Safari slightly edged out Chrome, was nearly twice as fast as Firefox, and over ten times faster than Opera.

via: appleinsider.com