A googol is the large number 10^100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros (in decimal representation). The term was coined in 1920 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.
The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. Larry Page, one of the founders, was fascinated with mathematics and Googol, even during high school. They ended up with "Google" due to a spelling mistake.
On to the tools....
1) On April 29th, Pidgin (Formerly Gaim) 2.0.0 Beta 7 was released. Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.
2) On April 27th, AVG Free Edition 7.5.467 was released. Improvements include:
* Improved polymorphic viruses detection.
* Some improvements in help.
* Fixed problem with starting avgrssvc during the installation.
3) On April 27th, VMware Player 1.0.4 Build 44386 was released. Check out the changelog for all the details.
4) On April 26th, VMWare Workstation 5.5.4 Build 44386 was released. Several security issues were fixed.
5) On April 25th, Tor 0.1.2.13 was released. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
6) On April 17th, 7-Zip 4.45 beta was released. See the changelog for all the details.
7) On April 16th, FileZilla 2.2.32 was released. This update fixes format string vulnerabilities which might be exploitable. So this update is hightly recommended.
8) On April 12th, Snort 2.7 beta 2 was released. See the changelog for all the details.
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