YouTube announced it will drop support for old browsers on March 13, 2010. The video sharing site says any browser version older than Internet Explorer 7.0, Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 and Safari 3.0+ will be impacted by the change.

Users of older browsers will still be able to watch videos after March 13th, but new features that will be launched in the weeks and months ahead may not be supported in these browsers.

Youtube: Surfing the Web on an old browser can be a lot like running a steam engine along the tracks of a bullet train–it may still work, but it doesn’t take advantage of the speed and security of the new technology. If you see the below interstitial (messaging) appearing when you try to watch a video on YouTube, it means that you are using an older version of your browser.

In mid-2009 we started notifying users that YouTube would stop support for certain older browser versions. If you’d like the best YouTube viewing experience, we recommend that you upgrade to the most recent version of your browser.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Opera Mini 4.2 for Android has reached its final version.

Here is changelog from the beta version:

• Now you can upload and download files through Opera Mini and save pages for offline viewing
• Videos will be redirected to the system’s video player
• Double tap now works for zooming in and out
• Inline URL entry instead of using native input
• Fixed password text entry to hide characters
• Fixed problems with exiting application when back button was pressed
• Improved trackball speed
• All internal pages, like the start page, now have font size extra large for easier navigation

To download Opera Mini,  on an Android phone go to the Android Market and download it there.

You can browse the Android Market from your PC browser here:
http://www.cyrket.com/

Popularity: 7% [?]

A new version of BitTorrent client uTorrent 2.0 is available for download at utorrent.com. This new version brings default usage of UDP protocol instead of TCP protocol for transferring data.

Popularity: 47% [?]

Google’s long awaited operating system final release based on Linux is not yet officiall here but there are already development version available.

The files are available as virtual machine images and can be downloaded using torrent.

Download:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/5170843/chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk.bz2.5170843.TPB.torrent

Popularity: 57% [?]

Latest version of popular web browser Mozilla Firefox is available. New 3.5 version claim to be twice as fast as 3 version and ten time faster than 2.x versions. Check it out to see if its really faster.

Download at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html

Popularity: 65% [?]

Well known company Nero AG has released its free version of its burning suite. The company sells its payed version under the name Nero 9 – Reloaded but  has released free version with much simpler interface and reduces features but still fine for burning staff. It is called Nero 9 Lite and can be downloaded at http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php .

Popularity: 100% [?]

Ubuntu Linux

Canonical Ltd. has released latest version of famous Linux distribution Ubuntu.

New features includes faster system start, better login experience which I think is the result of boot changes as whole.

In setup part new audio framework has been made and at wireless playground 3G broadband connectivity has been updated.

Downloads are ready at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download .

Popularity: 54% [?]

New version of popular two panes file manager Total Commander previously known as Windows Commander has been released.

Latest versions brings some small look and feel changes. It is a little bit change and man need to accept the change but finally it is ok.

Download at: http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm

Popularity: 57% [?]

Linux Mint

New build of popullar Ubuntu based Linux distro Linux Mint has been released.

New name Gloria brings new features and improvements. Base is build from Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, Gnome 2.26 and X Server 7.4.

Most changes has been made in mintMenu module, installation and update module and of course what Linux user likes – new artwork.

Download is available at: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .

Popularity: 52% [?]