uTorrent is constantly getting updated, and getting many new features. This time, this version makes uTorrent even better, and user friendly, with a new interface. Besides the new look, the application brings several new features. We now also have a feed option, so uTorrent can be used as a feed reader aswell. All great news that position this torrent client increasingly high on the user’s preferences.

Features:

• Multiple simultaneous downloads.
• Schedule tasks.
• Limiting speed for file or for the entire torrents.
• Restoration download after broken connection.
• Download from RSS.
• Support for Mainline DHT.
• Support for popular protocols external
• Support UPnP for Windows XP only
• Free Apps Market

This new build of version 3.0 comes with a new graphical interface, providing an integrated experience. This means that you can now within uTorrent’s window, search for torrents you need and has a style of Market where you can find several free apps. So you can search for free, legal apps (like OpenOffice, Virtualbox) from uTorrent.

This alpha version of uTorrent is only available on Windows, so Mac and Linux users can’t check out the new improved uTorrent yet. If you’re on Windows, make sure to download the testing build here.

NOTE: The giveaway has ended, congratulations to @LtBravoGaming for winning!

First let’s start with the giveaway:

I would like to thank TechSmith for accepting to provide a Snagit 10 key, for a giveaway.

To enter the giveaway, you must:

1. Be subscribed to DuncsWeb’s RSS Feed
2. Be registered on the DuncsWeb Forum
3. Follow @TechSmith on Twitter
4. Comment below: Snagit – DuncsWebForumUsernameHere – TwitterUsernameHere – YourMessageHere

The giveaway will end on the 5th of July.

Review:

This is the real leading tool for screenshot’s. With Snagit, you can capture your screen, window or just a specific area, then export. This can be exported to the printer, or you can save it, very easy. SnagIt saves screenshots on the formats PCX, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PDF and SWF.

Of course we have much more than a simple screen capture, or better, we have an application that has the ability to record everything that your eyes can see on the screen, either video or just an image.

But can we unleash our creativity with graphic effects to the image editor? But what if we want, to record a video that is happening on my computer? Can I also record video from my messenger camera? Can I then screenshot an image, and export it directly via FTP?

Yes to all questions and many others. This application is indeed the best in its category. Speaking in the SnagIt Editor, the editor does a fantastic job. The filters and effects available allow authentic works of art.

The price is very good. You really do get for what you pay for, and if you are willing to pay some extra money for this application, go ahead. You won’t regret it.

This new version brings a new theme (with new colors in the icons of the options), new dark patterns with the menus on tabs, very similar to Microsoft Office 2007.

New Features on Snagit 10:

• All-in-One Capture
• Transparency
• New Text Possibilities
• Direct Output To Screencast.com
• New Edge Effects
• Auto-Scroll Enhancement
• Editor Color Options

Rating:

• Price: 8/10 (49.95$)
• Compatibility: 9/10 (Linux not compatible)
• Performance: 10/10
• Design: 9/10 (Could have more colors, and more themes, instead of the only Microsoft Office 2007 look-a-like theme)
• Overall: 9/10

Video Review:

Snagit is a Windows application, which you can get a 30 day trial/buy it from here.

WWDC the World Wide Developer Conference is a keynote held every year by apple to showcase the new updates in the world of apple and usually release some new products , 2010′s WWDC was no different. If you haven’t viewed the presentation yet head over here or check out apple.com for the recording. Though of course you can view this article for the whole overview of the keynote.

Today Steve Jobs was on stage to showcase a couple new things going on in the world of apple.

First off the updates on their current products like the recently released iPad and iBook store.

UPDATE LIST:

-iPad Sold 2 Million in the first 2 months

-225,000+ Apps in the App Store

-iBook gets a note feature

-iBook suport for PDF’s

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Steve then allows some developers of new apps upcoming to the iPhone to present their current applications like Netflix official app, Zynga’s farmville ported to the iPhone , Activision’s Guitar Hero.

Then of course the big announcment of the new iPhone 4 was made quoted “This will change everything again ” basically phasing out the 3G and leaving the 3GS and itself left in the apple phone line. The new phone’s tech-specs are as followed:

The size and weight comes in at

Height:

4.5 inches (115.2 mm)

Width:

2.31 inches (58.6 mm)

Depth:

0.37 inch (9.3 mm)

Weight:

4.8 ounces (137 grams)

-It also features new Sensors to accommodate the Accelerometer like three-axis gyro, and the previous proximity sensor ,and ambient light sensor

-The battery is up to 40% larger in battery life , it features up to 7 hours of talk on 3G, 6 hours of internet use and 40 hours on audio playback  + 10 hours of video playback

-New A4 apple custom processor same hardware based off of the iPad CPU.

-New 16 & 32 GB models

-A new Retina Display at 960×640 in a 3.5 inch screen ,a retina display is a higher resolution screen that provides more pixels for your pictures and text to provide a crisp and smoother image  ( The video explaining the technology can be viewed here)

- A new 5 Megapixel camera  along with a front-facing camera and LED flash , along with tap to focus and a 5x digital zoom

-In cooperation with the new camera hardware iMovie for the iPhone was also released for editing your HD video

-New HD Video recording at 720p quality

The new iPhone 4G ‘s new front-facing camera ties in with what apple calls face time, their new video calling service.Which aims to make phone calls personal while providing great video and audio quality along with the feature to switch between cameras, and all of it can be done anywhere were wi-fi is available so no need to worry about data costs on wifi no word yet on the 3G .

Credit:Apple

Along with the new iPhone 4 comes the new iOS 4 , the new upcoming operating system for the iPads, iPhone ,iPod touches’ etc. Some of the new features coming to iOS 4 are

-Application Multitasking

-Unified Mail Inboxes

-Threaded Mail Conversations

-Folder application organization

-Background wallpapers

-New Enterprise support (Better data protection ,device management , wireless app management , exchange server 2010 , ssl vpn support )

-Google , Yahoo, Bing Search integrated into iPhone search

-iBooks ported over to iPhone OS

and of course many other features to come. Stay up to date over at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/ , the OS update will come to the 3GS , 3G and of course iPhone 4 along with the iPod touches though due to old hardware in the previous models 3G and iPod touches will not support things like multi-tasking .

Next up was iAds apples new approach toe providing advertisements that deliver a great ad experience , an iAd will keep you in your app , apple sells and host the ads while the developer gets 60% revenue. This aims to make a better experience for the user to browse ads within apps without the hassle of getting taken out of a game , application , etc.

Credit: Apple

Starting June 24th the iPhone 4 will start rolling out and over the next couple months will be out in 88 countries. That about concludes the overview of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2010 , hope you enjoyed the post and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below.

-Adrian Cauguiran

The Tech-World Blog Owner

The first Alpha for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, which is the next version of Ubuntu is now available for download. This is the 1st of the 4 Alphas for Ubuntu 10.10. The final version of Ubuntu 10.10 will be released in September this year.

Since this is the 1st Alpha there aren’t not a lot of new features. Keep in mind this is the very 1st Alpha and you shouldn’t install it on production computers.

You can download it from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/10.10/alpha-1/

Recently, when trying to install AndroidOS in VirtualBox, I stumbled apon a new supported OS in VirtualBox: Mac OS X.

That’s right, Mac OS X is now showing as one of the supported OS’es in VirtualBox. I’m not sure if this works on the Windows/Linux versions of VirtualBox (since it’s against Apple’s EULA to run a Mac OS on a PC), or if it just works on Mac, however this is very interesting.

If you do try this, don’t forget that it’s not confirmed to be working, and it isn’t on the stable releases just yet, according to this Wikipedia page of Virtualbox, available here.

The Forum has been moved from elsewhere where it wasn’t getting any attention, so there is a large range of posts to have a look at (5,000+)

I look forward to speaking to you in there!

Check it out here

CentOS (Community enTerprise Operating System) is a Enterprise Linux distribution, based on opensource, freely available by Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For the people that need a stable OS, get this.

Some Of The New Features:

1. Freedradius2, gPXE, gsl, postgresql84, samaba3.3.8
2. Update to binutils, OpenSSH, tcpdum, and more applications to 2.1.1

Overall, this isn’t a big, big update, but it’s still good to install.

If you want to update from previous versions, go to the terminal, and run the following command:

yum update

The 32Bit version of CentOS now takes up 7CD’s, or 1 DVD, and the 64Bit version takes up 8CD’s, or 2DVD’s.

Valve released steam for Mac a few days ago. However a while there was also a rumour that Valve might be working on a version of steam for Linux. Well now Valve has confirmed that steam is coming to Linux.

Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: the Steam content delivery platform and Source Engine are coming to Linux.

We have confirmed that Valve’s latest and popular titles like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2 are among the first of the Steam Linux titles, similar to the Mac OS X support. The released Linux client should be available by the end of summer.

I know a lot of you guys out there are huge fans of steam. Personally I had heard very good things about Steam but since it wasn’t available for Linux I just didn’t bother to even try it out. However now Steam will be available for Linux soon I will definitely be trying it out when it comes out. This is a great thing for the Linux community, thanks Valve!