Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Windows Live Mail Desktop is a program that lets you get e-mail from multiple accounts in one place.
Features
:: Speedy access to multiple e-mail accounts in one place (even AOL and Gmail)
:: The power of desktop software with the flexibility of Web-based e-mail
:: A way to get your newsgroups and RSS feeds as easily as you get e-mail
:: The ability to compose, delete, and organize e-mail even when you’re offline
:: A massive 2GB* of online inbox storage
:: Address AutoComplete and other handy features to let you speed through your e-mail like never before
:: The power to instantly add an MSN Spaces blog entry about any message
:: Keep in touch with your MSN Messenger contacts right from inside the program
:: Easy creation and editing of photo e-mails
:: 2GB = 2,000,000,000 bytes
Download: Windows Live Mail Desktop 8.0.1226 Beta
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Added Memory Offered As Option For Customers
Apple will begin featuring YouTube videos on Apple TV within weeks, as the computer giant continues to explore ways to work more closely with Google, which bought the video-sharing site last year.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs announced the device’s new feature Wednesday at a technology conference in Southern California. Apple is also including Google’s search and mapping applications on the highly anticipated iPhone, which is expected to be released at the end of June.
In March, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple’s board of directors, told investors that the two companies “are doing more and more things together.”
Full article: mercurynews.com
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Following its preview of the performance-minded Phenom earlier in the month, AMD today revealed new chip technology that could bring 64-bit code to the very smallest computers, including those built for the developing world. The Sempron 2100+ (PDF) includes the same architecture as the Athlon 64, including an integrated memory controller and HyperTransport for shuttling data quickly to other parts of the system; a 1GHz clock speed and optimizations, however, drop the peak power of the chip down to 9W.
Read more: electronista.com
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Ac Browser Plus is a Multi Window File Manager for Windows (Windows Explorer Replacement). It enables you to work with as many open folders as you want, in one application, which is in contrast to dual panel file managers.
However, Ac Browser Plus goes beyond standard file management, offering you a rich set of tools for navigating your computer, integrated FTP client, image handling (viewing and conversion) and locating files in a much better and more effective way than using standard Windows Explorer.
All of this in the convenient multi-panel user interface, with standard keyboard shortcuts (from Windows Explorer and Norton Commander file manager), and with a lot of unique solutions, giving you the ability to manage your disk resources faster and easier than ever. This is really much more than just Windows Explorer Replacement.
Download: Ac Browser Plus 4.13
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice.
“Bill built the first software company in the industry,” said Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. “Bill focused on software before anyone.”
Gates, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, hailed Jobs for taking big risks and developing products with “incredible taste and elegance.”
“What Steve has done is quite phenomenal,” Gates said.
Full story: courant.com
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Unristrictued music arrives with a 25-30 per cent price hike
Apple has started shipping songs without digital rights management (DRM) technology.
The music can be found in the new iTunes Plus store and is limited to songs offered by the EMI record label.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs however predicted that more labels would follow.
Read more: vnunet.com
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Is your system slower and less efficient than it was before? YooApplications presents Sweepi, a free tool that will help you solve this problem and protect your privacy. Windows automatically files great amounts of data on your hard drive that document your work and your usage of the internet. In time this data gets to be so large that it influences the efficiency of your system. Additionally, this data can be used by spyware programs to document your internet history and to accede to your personal data. Sweepi will help you find the unnecessary data quickly and safely destroy it.
OS: Windows 98 SE/ME/200/XP/2003/Vista
Download: Sweepi 5.4
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Google upped its stalker factor this week by adding face recognition abilities to its image search. While currently unofficial and unannounced, users can now search for images that only contain faces by appending a query string onto the end of a search URL. For example, a general image search for “Ars Technica” produces a variety of image results, but when appending “&imgtype=face” to the end of the URL, all new results contain photos of people.
Full article: Ars Technica
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Cyberhawk is now ThreatFire.
The behavior-based anti-malware software Cyberhawk has been renamed and released as PC Tools ThreatFire.
Download: Cyberhawk
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
SoonR connects your mobile phone to your Skype account, Outlook, and remote PCs.
:: Skype from your mobile phone! Your PC is your private operator connecting your calls through Skype.
:: Use Outlook email, calendar and contacts from your mobile phone. SoonR’s application integration makes it easy.
:: Your phone can search, view, share and forward files from any PC.
Download: SoonR 1.3.0.182
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
CA Anti-Virus is the next generation in comprehensive anti-virus security for business PCs, servers and PDAs. It combines proactive protection against malware with new, powerful management features that stop and remove malicious code before it enters your network, reducing system downtime.
Download: CA Anti-Virus r8.1 Evaluation
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users.
WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology.
Some bits of information about WASTE:
• WASTE is currently available for 32-bit Windows operating systems as a client and server, Mac OS X as a limited client and server, and as a limited functionality server for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. Porting to other operating systems should be a breeze, as the source is provided (and the network code itself is pretty portable).
• WASTE is licensed under the GPL.
• WASTE currently provides the following services:
· Instant Messaging (with presence)
· Group Chat
· File browsing/searching
· File transfer (upload and download)
Download: WASTE 1.5 Beta 4
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
A triumph of style over substance?
Consumers have never seen one, touched one or even got the full details of what it is and how it works - but apparently almost everyone thinks it’s better than the one they’ve got now.
According to research from analyst house Strategy Analytics, 90 per cent of mobile users said they believe the forthcoming iPhone will be better than the mobile they currently have.
The research also found more than 40 per cent of individuals rate the iPhone much better across key functional categories - including music player, web browsing, voicemail and phone call management than their own phone.
Read more: silicon.com
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
GUtil! is a Mozilla Firefox Extension that can help you access your Google account services faster.
GUtil! includes a Firefox menu and toolbar button that currently contains 41 Google services.
Features are added to the plugin on user request.
Download: GUtil! 2.1.8
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.
This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
This extension is derived from the famous extension IE View, but they are quite different.
Works with: Firefox, Mozilla and SeaMonkey.
Download: IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
Apple is prepared to launch its DRM-free catalog of music from EMI this week, according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores. The seeming delay for introducing the new tier of content has been primarily attributed to a desire to offer the entire catalog at once in the unprotected format rather than a gradual rollout. The companies’ technicians are simply in the later stages of encoding and hosting the files before they go live, the contact says.
Read more: electronista.com
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users’ search data.
A privacy advisory group composed of representatives from all of the European Union countries sent Google a letter expressing concern over the search giant’s new privacy policy announced in March.
The issue surrounds Google’s policy of anonymizing its server logs after 18 to 24 months. According to a Commission source, the advisory group is concerned with how the information is managed, rather than the length of time it is stored.
Read more: ZDNet
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
The YellowTip WebServer is an all-in-one installer that installs Apache, PHP4, MySQL4, phpMyAdmin and Zend Optimizer on a Windows platform
The main new feature of Web Server 2.0 is the inclusion of Apache 2. Apache 2 was developed with Windows deployment in mind. As a result it’s much faster and much more stable than previous Apache releases for Windows. Next to Apache 2, Web Server 2.0 includes the latest stable versions of PHP, MySQL, Zend Optimizer and phpMyAdmin.
The YellowTip Web Server was developed to make available a highly professional and easily installable package of Apache2, PHP4, MySQL4, phpMyAdmin and Zend Optimizer for the Windows platform.
With a convenient all-in-one installer, all components are installed in a single directory and can be used immediately after the installation process has completed. An uninstaller allows you to remove the YellowTip WebServer from your computer.
Download: YellowTip WebServer 2.0.7
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Live Avatar & Instant Media Sharing on Skype
CrazyTalk for Skype Media Edition enriches your daily Skype communication with video avatars and instant media sharing, a total P2P instant messaging solution allowing you to show ideas without waiting!
CrazyTalk for Skype v.2.0 requires Skype 3.0 and above for Windows XP and Vista.
Download: CrazyTalk for Skype 2.0 Media Edition (trial)
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