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Symbian moves to a 6 month release schedule
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
The Symbian Foundation is planning to move to twice a year release schedule, which means user — and more importantly, cellphone makers — will be able to plan for updates. The Symbian operating system is found on millions of cellphones.
Symbian won’t be the first operating system to be released on a regular [...]
Twitter IM support coming to Adium
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
What a joy to see the two apps I have open all day coming together! I’m an IM and Twitter junkie, and Twitter hasn’t had IM support in some time. Fortunately, the developers behind my IM client of choice, Adium, are working to put together their own version of a Twitter IM [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tree: slick outlining app for OS X
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com
Tree is a novel, lightweight outlining and organizing app for OS X. It’s similar to apps like OmniOutliner, but with an important twist: the “Treeview” mode turns your outline horizontal, so new lower-level items branch out to the right instead of down. Tree handles traditional outlines, too, with customizable labels, fonts and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Firefox Has Got a 100% Market Share…In Antarctica
By Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com
And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only one browser was used there.
I’m guessing the data comes from one user [...]
PlayOn adds Amazon VoD and Revision3 content
By Dave Freeman, Crunchgear.com
If you haven’t heard about PlayOn, MediaMall’s PC-to-console video streaming software, you will soon. Moving to become a major player in the streaming content world, PlayOn has grabbed some major wins lately, and it doesn’t look like they’re planning on slowing down. In a software update hitting today, PlayOn has added streaming [...]
Linux screenshot app GScrot reborn as Shutter
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad.com
With my triple-boot setup finally somewhat set in stone (or very firm clay, at any rate) I’ve finally been able to start installing Linux apps that I need to use it as an everyday operating system. Due in no small part to my duties here at DS, the first item on my [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mozilla rethinks the behavior of new browser tabs
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad.com
A few months ago Mozilla embarked on a quest to determine a way to make new browser tabs more useful. Right now, when you open a new tab in Firefox you get a blank page. Compare that with Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera, which show you a list of shortcuts to your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mozilla ships Firefox 3.0.7, renames next version 3.5
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Mozilla has released an update to the Firefox web browser that its developers say fixes a number of stability and security issues found in version 3.0.6 – three of which were rated critical. One of the most serious vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 3.0.7 relates to crashes with evidence of memory corruption that [...]
Nvidia ponders x86 CPUs for low-cost computers
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
It’s been a long time coming but Nvidia has finally voiced their intentions to license or develop its very own x86-compatible processor core, saying it is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when.’ During a Q&A session at a technology conference this week, the company’s senior vice president of investor relations and [...]
Sunbelt rolls out virtualized antimalware and antivirus defense
By Lee Mathews – Downloadsquad.com
Sunbelt Software announced today the release of MX-V, a virtualization-based anti-malware defense app. MX-V protects systems by performing behavioral analysis of potential malware in a virtualized environment that mimics core Windows functions.
As a result, Vipre doesn’t have to rely on constant definition updates – a good thing considering the preponderance of [...]
Asus Eee Keyboard to arive in mid-2009
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Remember Asus’ intriguing little computer stuffed inside a keyboard? Well, luckily for gadget lovers and home theater PC fans alike, it appears that the Eee Keyboard was more than just a concept device and in fact it is expected to launch in the second quarter of the year – tentatively around May [...]
Skype to let competitors license speech codec for free
By Brad Linder
Voice over IP company Skype is known for a couple things. One of them is annoying the #@&! out of telephone companies by offering cheap or free voice and video calls over the internet. But another thing that Skype does well is offer users the ability to communicate across long distances with excellent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Xenocode lets you run Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer from a flash drive
By Brad Linder
There have been portable versions of web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera that you can run from a USB flash drive for a while. Basically these apps let you store your data to the flash drive allowing you to run these apps on Windows without installing anything or writing any data [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skype To Give Away New SILK Audio Codec
By Michael Arrington
Skype’s new state of the art speech codec SILK will be made available to third party licensees for free, the company is announcing later today. Skype GM Jonathan Christensen will be speaking about the new program at the eComm event in San Francisco later today.
SILK has been highly regarded by the guys that [...]
Convert PDF and HTML to .mobi to read on your Kindle
By Lee Mathews
So you’re in love with your Kindle, but you wish you had a way to view PDF or HTML files on it? A quick run through Auto Kindle, and they’re painlessly converted to the reader’s native .mobi format.
I haven’t posted a screenshot of the app, because there’s really not a lot to see. [...]
Skype To Go phone numbers now available for all paying users
By Brad Linder
Skype To Go is a service that lets you make cheap phone calls over Skype from a regular phone. Here’s how it works. You sign up for a Skype To Go phone number that’s linked to your Skype account. You can then dial that number from any phone to initiate a phone call [...]
European versions of Windows to include multiple web browsers?
By Brad Linder
The European Commission appears to be a few steps closer to forcing Microsoft to provide customers with a choice of web browsers as part of an antitrust measure. European regulators took similar measures a while back by requiring Microsoft to offer a version of Windows sans Windows Media Player. But simply unbundling Internet [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pixlr plugin for Firefox turns your browser into an image editor
By Brad Linder
Pixlr is a web-based image editing application. We first discovered the site a few months ago, and it compares favorably to other web based graphics apps like Picnik and Fotoflexer. You can crop, resize, add effects, or paint your images. And now thanks to a Firefox plugin, importing images to Pixlr is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Red Hat VP explains software patent threat at Linux Expo
By Ryan Paul
Red Hat VP Rob Tiller discussed the need for patent reform during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo. He spoke about the detrimental impact that patents are having on the technology industry and explained how the recent Bislki decision could impact the future of software patents.
Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant [...]
9 free antivirus programs for Windows
By Lee Mathews
Keeping your Windows computer virus-free doesn’t have to cost you a lot of money. Heck, it doesn’t need to cost you any money. There are plenty of good options available for those of you on the hunt for free antivirus software.
Wait – free? Don’t companies like Norton make a good business out of [...]
Free Twitter Designer offers custom Twitter backgrounds
By Jay Hathaway
If you’ve been on Twitter for a while, you’ve probably seen someone with an elaborate background that’s designed to work around the text elements of the Twitter layout. Maybe it’s got a photo and some contact information on the side, or maybe it just frames the main text field in some creative way. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Mozilla demos impressive Firefox 3.1 features at SCALE
By Ryan Paul
Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard demonstrated the latest innovations in standards-based Web development technology during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo.
During a presentation on Saturday at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard discussed some of new features that will be included in the next version of the Firefox [...]
Mix Twitter and Digg, add jokes, get Popjam
Popjam is a new ’social humour’ site which has launched using the Twitter ‘friend/follow’ model of social networking. If fact – but for the images of LOLcats and videos – it is so similar to Twitter in appearance and operation that it could be mistaken for a pure Twitter clone. But what we have here [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft plans to issue non-update update for Win 7
By Kelly Fiveash
Microsoft will spit out dummy updates for Windows 7 beta testers next week that will probe the forthcoming operating system’s updating abilities.
The software firm said no new features or bug fixes would be added via the updates that will be available from 24 February as manual downloads.
Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc said on the company’s [...]
GridIron Flow Takes Workflow Organization To A Whole New Level
by Leena Rao
GridIron Software, the provider of workflow tools for professional creative market, has launched a new workflow product for businesses, GridIron Flow. Flow tried to eliminate bottlenecks in a project, such as searching for files, for graphic designers, video editors, developers and other creative professionals. Users can track every move that is made in [...]
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