Archive for August, 2009
Palm lays the smack down on Pre theme for Android
By Chris Ziegler, Engadget Android’s supposed to be all about peace, love, and openness, but that apparently doesn’t exempt it from copyright law and trigger-happy general counsels (who knew?). In a move that should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone, Palm has sicced its legal team on the makers of the aptly-named “Palm Pre [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Google Chrome to reach v4 before Firefox? Work begins on Chromium 4.0
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Version numbers probably mean more to the general public than to regulars at DownloadSquad. When it comes to Chrome, however, Google seems like they’re hoping to catch up with Opera by the end of next year. After doing an install from Buildbot’s snapshots, I checked Chromium’s about screen. Lo [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Xbox 360 Elite to Replace Pro at $299.99
By Shane McGlaun, Dailytech The game console market is not doing as well as it once was and the more expensive consoles are especially feeling the pinch of the poor economy. The Nintendo Wii at $249 still reigns supreme when it comes to sales and the PS3 remains the most expensive of the game consoles. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )La petite url is a personal URL shortener for WordPress
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad The recent shutdown and reopening of URL-shrinking service Tr.im drew a lot of attention to one of the most troubling questions about short URL sites: when one of them shuts down, what happens to the links? To avoid worrying about what a URL shortener might do with your links, you might [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )So long RealDVD, it’s been
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad A US district Court has issued an injunction preventing RealNetworks from selling its RealDVD software. RealDVD is basically a DVD ripper, but unlike most applications that let you crack DVD copy protection and copy videos to your hard drive, RealDVD includes its own DRM scheme which prevents users from making multiple [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to opt out of Google and protect your privacy: Move to remote village
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad may be the top search engine in the world, and it may collect a lot of data about you if you use its email, chat, photo, or video services. Heck, even if you’ve avoided every Google product, Google probably still knows a few things about you if you’ve ever done anything [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Advertising gone wrong: 23 poorly placed banner ads
By Adam Maras, Downloadsquad Have you ever come across an advertisement on a web page that just made you think, “wow. That really shouldn’t be there.”? I’ve come across a few in my time, but it looks like the folks over at BuzzFeed have been running into them left and right; they’ve compiled a collection [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )W.tf?! Tr.im not closing after all
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Tr.im, one of the most popular URL-shortening services, shut down last week because its owners saw no way to monetize the service in such a competitive market. Twitter’s choice of Bit.ly as its default link-shrinker means that service dominates the market, with smaller players like Ow.ly abd Tr.im fighting over what’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )µTorrent 2.0 beta released
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad The latest stable version of the popular Bittorrent client µTorrent is version 1.83. But the developers decided that the next major release packed in too much to simply call it µTorrent 1.9, so the next version will be called version 2.0. And µTorrent 2.0 beta is already available for download. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )OMG Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch Yahoo has been active in the domain buying and selling space the past few months. Today, it was revealed to be the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last week for $80,000, according to Domain Name Wire. It’s a great domain, and a really, really great price especially considering the image-centric [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ubuntu Netbook Remix gets an interface overhaul
The folks at Canonical are in the process of redesigning the user interface for Ubuntu Netbook Remix. UNR is basically a custom version of Ubuntu that includes optimizations for netbooks with Intel Atom processors as well as a desktop environment and program launcher designed for computers with small, low resolution displays. The first version of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook Flips The Switch On Real-Time Search, Goes After Twitter Where It Hurts
By Jason Kincaid, Tech crunch Just hours after we broke the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed comes Facebook’s announcement that it’s deploying its improved search product to everyone. This improved search functionality, which has been in testing since June, gives users the ability to search through shared media and status updates from their friends [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fast forward to 4.0 with a new Firefox theme
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Not long ago a DeviantArt user put together a Firefox 3/3.5 theme based on Mozilla’s concept for Firefox 3.7. Want to go the extra .3 and jump ahead to version 4? Take a look at Strata40. By using the them in conjunction with a few Firefox addons – All Glass, Personal [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dell to launch China-only mobile phone after all, calls it “Ophone mini3i”
By Serkan Toto, Tech crunch We broke the news on Dell launching a China-only cell phone on Sunday, and today major Chinese news portal 163.com reports the device is on its way: What Dell will be offering in China is an Android-powered “Ophone” called the mini3i. China Mobile, the world’s biggest carrier, will distribute the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )BatteryCare provides detailed laptop battery info
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Sure, Windows will do a decent job of estimating how much juice is left in your laptop battery and let you adjust your power management settings accordingly. But BatteryCare goes a few steps further, by providing you with information like the battery’s total capacity, voltage, CPU temperature, and manufacturer, if the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch Joshua Schachter is best known as the creator of Delicious. But a few years after he sold it to Yahoo in 2005, he left the company and joined Google. Since then, he’s been known to speak his mind about Delicious’ overall direction (which he doesn’t seem to like), and it’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Planning Some Super Secret Social App?
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch Again, this is nothing but a very vague rumor for the time being, but it’s also very interesting. Following up on its iTunes 9 rumors, Boy Genius Report claims to have new details from the same trusted source about what iTunes 9, and specifically the social aspects of it, will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hot Gloo: web-based wireframing for information architects
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Hot Gloo is an online wireframing tool designed with information architects in mind. The heart of the app is a palette of the main site elements IAs use in wireframes every day. The elements can be easily positioned and resized by dragged, making Hot Gloo a cinch to use. Throw in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hands-on with the Zune HD
By Peter Ha, Tech crunch Can Microsoft’s latest Zune, the Zune HD, take down the king? It depends on which king you’re talking about. As it stands, the iPod Touch is a whole different beast because of the App Store. What Microsoft has done with the Zune HD is nothing short of spectacular, but who [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )20 Great Google Secrets
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp excl.gif No Active Links, Read the Rules – Edit by Ninja excl.gif Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see www.pcmag.com/searchengines But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )LiveEdge adds Expose-like hotspots to Windows desktop edges
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Its author refers to LiveEdge as “a radically simple approach to mouse gestures,” and that’s pretty well bang-on. Install and launch LiveEdge and it adds eight hotspots to the edges of your desktop, each one capable of executing a custom action. To execute, just move your mouse to the appropriate spot [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google unveils Caffeine: Next-generation search tech
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Google is turning to the public (or rather, web developers) for help testing its next-generation search infrastructure, code-named “Caffeine.” The changes have to do with the way Google crawls the web and indexes content, so you shouldn’t notice any changes int he search engine interface. In order to try out the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Internet Explorer 8 becomes a gentleman today
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Back in July, Microsoft detailed a few changes that were “coming soon” to the Internet Explorer 8 installer. In a nutshell, the new version was designed to be less…well…presumptuous. Previously, the installer’s Express mode would automatically set IE as your default browser without so much as an “excuse me.” That’s no [...]
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