Daily Downloads: 7-Zip, Paint.NET, and More

This article was written on June 24, 2008 by CyberNet.

7zip openoffice logos icons.pngWelcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

  • None

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

  • 7-Zip 4.59 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror]
    Operating System: Windows Windows only
    Release: Alpha 3
    Type of Application: File extraction and compression
    Changes: Can now unpack UDF and XAR archives, and bug fixes
  • OpenOffice.org 3.0.0.m2 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror] [Review]
    Operating System: Windows Windows; Mac Mac; Linux Linux
    Release: Beta
    Type of Application: Office suite
    Changes: Bug fixes
  • Paint.NET 3.35 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror] [Review]
    Operating System: Windows Windows only
    Release: Beta 2
    Type of Application: Image editor
    Changes: Changes and bug fixes

–Release Calendar–

  • Early July – iPhone 2.0 Software [Review]
  • July 1 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2 [Review] NEW
  • July 1 – Firefox 2.0.0.15 [Review] NEW
  • July 11 – iPhone 3G [Review]
  • August – Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 [Review]
  • September 2 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
  • October 30 – Ubuntu 8.10
  • 2009 – Windows Mobile 7 [Review]
  • 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
  • 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]

Thanks to “The Guru” for the tip on the Firefox release date!

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Chris Christie On Obamacare: ‘I’m Really Glad The Train Wreck’s Not Mine, It’s His’

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) said Monday he has no regrets that he decided against setting up a state health care exchange under the Affordable Care Act, saying he’s glad the program’s “failure” is not his responsibility.

“This is just an awful law that made no sense. I’m glad that the train wreck’s not mine, it’s his,” Christie said in an interview with NJ 101.5, referring to President Barack Obama. “It’s a train wreck that anyone who has managed anything ever in their lives could have seen coming.”

Last December, the Republican governor vetoed an attempt to create a state-run exchange in New Jersey, citing uncertainty over the cost to the state.

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Court Refuses To Dismiss Plot Case Against Suleiman Abu Ghaith, Bin Laden’s Son-In-Law

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK, Nov 26 (Reuters) – A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, who once served as a spokesman for al Qaeda, on Tuesday failed to win the dismissal of a U.S. indictment accusing him of conspiring to kill Americans.

The defendant, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, also failed to win the suppression of statements he made while being interrogated by FBI agents nearly nine months ago, as he was being flown to the United States from Jordan to face the U.S. conspiracy charge.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Abu Ghaith’s arguments that federal prosecutors brought their case too late and violated his due process rights.

The judge found a lack of “credible evidence” that the United States could have indicted Abu Ghaith sooner and ended what the defendant called his “continual detention” in Iran from 2002 to January 2013, but instead deliberately waited to obtain a “tactical advantage.”

Kaplan also rejected Abu Ghaith’s contentions that he had not been read his Miranda rights, including the right to remain silent and have a lawyer present, until well after questioning began; that the FBI ignored his requests to talk with a lawyer; and that any statements he made were involuntary.

Abu Ghaith’s lawyers had argued that their client had been physically and psychologically coerced into answering agents’ questions “out of a combination of disorientation, fear, isolation, fatigue and sensory deprivation.”

But Kaplan said Abu Ghaith was “treated humanely” during the flight, where he had been given a medical evaluation, was regularly offered food and water, and was allowed to pray, stretch, take bathroom breaks and nap.

“Abu Ghayth was not overcome by fear such that his will was overborne and his ability to act voluntarily was compromised,” Kaplan wrote. “The government has offered consistent and credible testimony that Abu Ghayth was treated well and that he was competent to speak with the FBI throughout the flight. Abu Ghayth has offered scant evidence to the contrary.”

Stanley Cohen and Geoffrey Stewart, the lawyers for the defendant, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan declined to comment.

Abu Ghaith is one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda figures to face trial in the United States for alleged crimes connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The defendant pleaded not guilty and his trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 21, 2014, court records show.

U.S. forces in Pakistan killed bin Laden, who masterminded the attacks, in May 2011.

The issue of whether statements made during interrogation were voluntary also came up in the U.S. case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who allegedly made incriminating statements to investigators in his hospital room soon after his capture in April.

Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to the bombing in July.

The case is U.S. v. Abu Ghayth, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 98-cr-01023. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jackie Frank)

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Virgin Mary Icon In Honolulu Produces Myrrh, Cures Man Of Blindness

Parishioners at a small, “cozy” Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii say they have a lot to be thankful for.

“We certainly don’t deserve it,” Father Antole Lyovin says of the church’s good fortune. After all, the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church in Honolulu is home to not one, but two miracle icons.

The church’s image of the Virgin Mary and Christ child and a wooden cross both are said to produce myrrh, an oily resin that Father Lyovin describes as “drops that are like dew, dew on grass.

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Autumn James Hallisay: Jennifer Love Hewitt Gives Birth To Baby Girl, Marries Brian Hallisay (REPORT)

It’s a very merry holiday season at Jennifer Love Hewitt’s household! Us Weekly exclusively reports that the actress gave birth to a baby girl today (Nov. 26), after secretly tying the knot with her boyfriend and the father of her child, Brian Hallisay.

“Jennifer Love Hewitt and her husband Brian Hallisay are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter,” a rep for Hewitt told Us Weekly, adding that the little girl is named Autumn James Hallisay. No further details were provided regarding the couple’s clandestine nuptials.

Autumn is both Hewitt and Hallisay’s first child.

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Obama Goes On Offensive Over Health Care Law

By Jeff Mason

GLENDALE, Calif., Nov 26 (Reuters) – Almost two weeks ago, President Barack Obama, looking down, walked into the White House briefing room and apologized for the flawed rollout of his healthcare reform law.

That picture of a chastened leader now appears to be gone.

During a three-day Western swing through Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Obama touted the accomplishments of his signature law, popularly known as Obamacare, and promised the glitches were going away.

Although he occasionally referred pejoratively to the “darn” website, HealthCare.gov, he made a point of shifting his message to the positive benefits his law had achieved and piling on Republicans for rooting for its failure.

“Yes, we decided to fix a broken healthcare system,” Obama told workers at DreamWorks Animation on Tuesday, the final day of his trip.

“I was talking to some of the studio execs here and I said, ‘You know the rollout of the healthcare marketplace was rough’ … and yet here in California and here across this state, there are thousands of people who are getting healthcare for the first time – for the first time – because of this.”

The administration has promised the website will be working for the vast majority of Americans by the end of this month, and White House officials continue to express confidence that goal will be achieved.

“The website is continually working better, so check it out,” Obama said to laughter from the crowd.

Democrats are suffering in the polls because of the shaky rollout just as they are trying to keep control of the U.S. Senate and recapture the House of Representatives from Republicans in the 2014 elections.

Obama, who has said he feels personally responsible that the law has made things difficult for his fellow Democrats, adopted a more assertive tone when discussing it with donors and supporters – signaling he hoped his fellow party members would follow suit.

“We’re going to continue to implement the healthcare law. The product is good, people want it and we should not live in a country where people are going bankrupt just because they get sick,” he said.

“And anybody who is going to keep on pushing against that, they will meet my resistance because I am willing to fix any problems that there are, but I am not going to abandon people to make sure that they have got health insurance in this country.”

FILM INDUSTRY BRIGHT SPOT

The DreamWorks Animation studio is famous for the “Shrek” animated films and is led by one of Obama’s top political donors, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The White House said DreamWorks was not chosen because of Katzenberg’s financial support.

Obama also met with a who’s who of film industry leaders, including the chief executives of Lionsgate Entertainment , Twentieth Century Fox Film, The Walt Disney Co , and Warner Brothers.

Obama highlighted the entertainment industry as a “bright spot” in the growing U.S. economy. During their meeting, the group also discussed piracy and intellectual property rights, a White House spokesman said.

After arriving, Obama toured parts of the studio, including a visit with actors Steve Martin and Jim Parsons, who are voicing lead characters in an upcoming alien film called “Home.”

Obama referred to Martin having played banjo at the White House.

“The fact that I played banjo at the White House for the president of the United States was the biggest thrill of his life,” Martin quipped.

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It appears the ayes have it.

After weeks of careful ballot counting, officials in Washington state on Tuesday certified the results in a potentially historic vote that will create far and away the highest minimum wage in America.

Squeaking by with a mere 77-vote margin, the ballot measure known as Proposition 1 will set a $15 wage floor for an estimated 6,000 airport and hotel workers in SeaTac, Wash., a suburb of 27,000 residents south of Seattle.

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