The creative team at Mozilla is excited to introduce you to a brand new initiative – the Mozilla Creative Collective! The Mozilla Creative Collective is a community of artists and designers, and is intended to be a counterpart to our development and engineering communities.

The Creative Collective is a community of artists and designers inspired by the Mozilla ideals of openness, innovation and participation.

Mozilla hopes to gain support for the Creative Collective. They have a start-off Creative challenge up already.

Design Challenge

“People and Robots, Best Friends Forever.”   More>>

Changelog:

• Contains everything you need to play all popular video file formats.
• Supports playback of AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, OGM, MPEG, MOV, HDMOV, TS, M2TS, and OGG files.

• Updated ffdshow to revision 3029
• Updated Codec tweak Tool to version 3.0.0
• Minor changes

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K-lite Codec Pack 5.0.0 Standard ~ 7.4 MB ~ July 10th 2009

Contains Baisc + the following features:

• Updated Gabest MPEG splitter to version 1.2.1164.0
• Includes Media Player Classic Homecinema.
• Includes a MPEG-2 decoder for DVD playback.
• Supports playback of FLAC and WavPack audio files.
• Updated Codec tweak Tool to version 3.0.0
• Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.18
• Support for Unicode filenames has been added to the MediaInfo tool
• Minor changes

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K-lite Codec Pack 5.0.0 Full ~ 13.6 MB ~ July 10th 2009

Features : Same as Standard, plus the following

• Contains several ACM and VFW codecs for audio and video encoding.
• Supports several additional lossless audio formats.
• Contains additional DirectShow filters. Giving you more freedom of choice to use your preferred filters.
• Contains a few useful tools, like GraphStudio.

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K-lite Codec Pack V 5.0.0 ~ 19.5 MB ~ July 10th 2009

Same as Full, plus the foll featutres;

• Includes Real Alternative.
• Includes a few extra ACM and VFW codecs.

Get it here.

Google has rolled out another tweak to its Gmail users that makes its labels work like folders. Now, you can drag emails directly to the labels. Other changes include the shift of the labels option to a new location on the left side bar. It is now located above the Chat section and you can now choose what labels you wish to see there. The other labels will of course be accessible via a drop down menu, yet another new feature addition. Sadly, the position of the Labels are fixed and you cannot re-arrange them.

The worst of the crisis has passed and the US recovery is likely to begin this autumn, Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said.

Schmidt said the rate of jobless claims is decreasing although the absolute number is increasing, it is reasonable to be optimistic for 2010.

He didn’t want to comment on Google’s team of engineers which will have to study the technical specifications of Microsoft search engine Bing.

But he added: “Bing is a competitor. We have absolutely looked at Bing; we have actually studied what they do as Microsoft studied what Google does.”

Faster JS Processing: Firefox 3.5 includes the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which Mozilla says makes it deliver unprecedented performance with today’s complex Web applications. As Mozilla claims it to be, Firefox 3.5 is more than two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2.

Also, With a new management function in place, Firefox keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory.

With Firefox 3.5, users can enjoy video and audio content from within their browser, without the need for any plug-ins. Web developers can embed audio and video into Web pages in open format Ogg Theora, courtesy a new feature of HTML 5. Mozilla claims that it’s the first to integrate this feature directly into the browser like playing music and video files..

Firefox 3.5 includes features designed to protect users’ privacy online and provide greater control over their personal data. With Firefox 3.5 users can have their browser history never record visits to a particular site. Also, FF 3.5 has support for many new languages.
Location Aware Browsing aims to save users time by allowing websites to know where they are located. If a user chooses to share his location with a website, it can use that information to find nearby points of interest and return additional, useful data like maps of the area. This is an optional feature.

* Grand prize: $5,000  *First prize: $1,000 * Second prize: $500.

How to enter

1. Join Infolinks
2. Create a short funny movie (2 mins max) on how to make money online  (check out a SAMPLE video)
3. The last slide of the video should be this image
4. Upload it to youtube
5. Email the entry details to blog{at}infolinks.com during the Contest Period including your complete name, address (including zip code), telephone number, primary e-mail address and the URL of your video application posted at YouTube

The Contest ends on July 31, 2009. This contest is open only to InfoLinks Publishers. Click here to Join Infolinks if you are not already a publisher.

• AOL’s (TWX) Platform-A;
• Yahoo (YHOO);
• Google (GOOG);
• ValueClick (VCLK); and
• Specific Media

Apart from the top 5, other networks that have shown the fastest growth rate are : Turn Inc., with U.S. unique visitors up 121% year-over-year to 134 million; CPX Interactive, up 88% to 130 million; 24/7 Real Media, up 48% to 148 million; Collective Network, up 47% to 130 million; and Kontera, up 40% to 73 million.

PS : This is for existing Mozilla / Firefox Campus Reps only

Are you a Mozilla Campus Rep ? Applications for the Regional Leaders programs are to be due soon. There are several exciting discussions on the Campus Reps Network. And keep reading to see how you can win a prize!

You can still apply to be a Regional Leader for the upcoming year. Applications are due at 5pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th. See the application link below for more information.
Apply to be a Regional Leader: http://bit.ly/mozcampus_regional_leader_application

There are also prizes for two lucky winners

Win a prize
Because we’re so excited about the Campus Reps Network, we’re giving away some prizes! All you have to do is be registered on the Campus Reps Network and join your regional group on the Groups page by Friday, June 19th for a chance to win.

We’re giving away one Mozilla / Firefox t-shirt and a 15″ laptop skin from Infectious. We’ll select the winners from a random drawing of all qualified Reps.

That’s it for now. Enjoy the rest of your week!

Cheers,

Jay and William

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 3389.6 MB
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite 3921.2 MB
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server 1317.8 MB
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent 551.0 MB

An overview of the new Visual Studio 2008 is available at the product trial information page.

• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor – 2.600 Patch
• Stalin vs. Martians – 1.01 Patch
• Steam Client – Update via Steam
• X3: Terran Conflict – 2.1 Patch
• Hired Guns – 1.08 Patch
• Necrovision – 1.2 Patch
• Team Fortress 2 – Update via Steam
• 5Street – 0.23 Patch
• Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason – 1.1 Patch
• Fear 2: Project Origin – Update via Steam
• Killing Floor – Update via Steam
• Three Cards to Midnight – May Patch
• Steam client update released



• Far Cry 2 – 1.03 Patch
• World of Warcraft – 3.1.3 Patch
• Perimeter 2: New Earth – 1.01 Patch