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Lifehacker reader Angelo Young likes poking around Adobe Labs, the software company’s public workshop for beta software, new technologies, and upcoming releases. For example, photographers and Photoshop fans can download the latest beta of Photoshop Lightroom to check out new features and see how it’s progressing.

Lots of major software companies offer similar “lab” sites, where you can download all kinds of cool in-development programs (keeping in mind that these are unsupported alpha or beta releases, some of which may never actually get released). Check out Google Labs, Microsoft Live Labs, and Yahoo Next and let us know what neat stuff you find. Thanks, Angelo! — Rick Broida

Source: See what's under wraps at Adobe Labs

If the newest version of your freeware application doesn’t seem to work and the official web site does not archive older versions, OldApps.com might save the day. OldApps.com archives many previous releases of popular programs for such emergencies. The site is very much like the previously mentioned OldVersion, but it appears to include a slightly larger number of applications. For example, OldVersion doesn’t have old versions of Adium X but OldApps.com has many versions available. Definitely a handy resource to have bookmarked.

Source: Download Old Versions of Popular Applications

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Looking back on 2007, you can’t say there was a shortage of new products and services. While the word “beta” became a synonym for “new and free,” there were a few projects launched this year—including TV-watching site Hulu, Pownce, GrandCentral, and Joost, to name a few—that remain invite-only, and others, like Google’s to-do list, the full Windows Live suite, and third-party iPhone apps, set to drop after the new year.

What productivity tools, web apps, or software are you most looking forward to seeing unveiled or made fully public in 2008? Which products have you gotten in on the ground floor of and are eager to have your friends start using? Give us your predictions, thoughts, and user experiences in the comments.

Source: What products or software are you looking forward to in 2008?

Windows only: The TTCS OSSWIN CD is a huge collection of valuable open source software for your home and office.

The CD is available to download as an ISO via BitTorrent. However, even cooler, they’ve put together a web-based interface, allowing you to browse the offerings and download programs from the source without downloading the entire CD.

Granted, you could always do this, but you can’t always browse such a nicely organized list of excellent open source software. Many of the programs on the TTCS OSSWIN CD have been mentioned here before, and what hasn’t certainly has some potential.

Source: Download of the Day: TTCS OSSWIN CD

Windows only: From the makers of Tag&Rename, one of the world’s most popular MP3 tag editors, comes AudioShell, a freeware plug-in that lets you view and edit music file tags within Windows Explorer.

Designed for Windows 2000/XP and later, AudioShell supports just about every kind of audio file you can imagine: MP3, WMA, iTunes mp4, Ogg, Flac, and all the rest. Just right-click a file (or selected group of files) and choose Properties, then click the AudioShell Tag Editor tab. From there you can edit all the tag information and even add album art (though you have to provide it yourself).

I also like the way AudioShell shows you detailed tag information when you mouse over any audio file. Great little utility for users who like to work in Explorer, and you can’t beat the price. — Rick Broida

Source: Download of the Day: AudioShell (Windows)

Driver Cleaner.NET is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI, nVidia, Creative, Realtek, SIS, 3Dfx, S3 and more drivers. First you need to uninstall the drivers from the control panel, then reboot to safemode. After rebooting, run the program. [...]

Source:Driver Cleaner.NET 3.2.2.0

Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista/WinXP/Win2000/Win2003 .

Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272
Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268, ALC269, ALC272
HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices
OS [...]

Source:Realtek High-Definition Audio Driver 2.00

Do you like online casino?It will add many interesting times to your life.

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But be warned - some of these online casino sites are far from honest and trustworthy and you should be careful how you choose the site that you are going to play on. Don’t choose the first online casino gambling site you find on the net. Take good look around first. There are sites which are operated by respected and honest companies and these can be trusted . Read the rest of this entry »

XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use. Support of more than 400 graphics formats. XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX. The most important features are: Import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about 50 graphic file formats.

Key features of “XnView”:
· Import about 400 graphic file formats
· Export about 50 graphic file formats
· Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
· IPTC, EXIF
· Resize
· Copy/Cut/Crop
· Adjust brigthness, contrast…
· Modify number of colors
· Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …)
· Apply effects (lens, wave, …)
· Fullscreen mode
· Slide show
· Picture browser
· Batch convert
· Thumbnail create
· Screen capture
· Contact Sheet create
· Multi-page file create (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
· TWAIN support (Windows only)
· Print support (Windows only)
· Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
· 44 languages support (Windows only)

Download: XnView 1.94 Lite (2.49 MB)
Download: XnView 1.94 Standard (5.94 MB)
Download: XnView 1.94 Full (13.3 MB)