Software

Flash Coming to iPhone in Skyfire Web Browser?

August 31, 2010

Apple is usually rather strict about which apps to let into their App Store, especially if they duplicate features of built-in iPhone apps. Nevertheless, Opera Mini was (surprisingly) approved some time ago and also Atomic Web Browser has been approved. Now there’s a new browser just around the corner, called Skyfire. According to MobileCrunch, it’s [...]

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How to Resize Your Photos Easily on Windows

August 23, 2010

In recent years the cost of digital cameras, as well as digital camera memory chips, have been decreasing rather rapidly. These trends, along with increasing hard drive capacity, have paved the way for a situation in which individuals often store hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures on their computer. Now, in all honesty, transferring pictures [...]

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Bullguard Antivirus – My Preferred Paid Antivirus Solution

August 5, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. Bullguard has been around for many years, and I have no doubt in my mind that going with Bullguard as your supplier for [...]

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Eztun – The Simplest Way to Anonymous Web Surfing

August 4, 2010

We live in a world where the only threat is not what you might encounter down on the streets – but also what you might encounter online. On the Internet, the threats are numerous. Somebody can hack your wireless network and get access to your data or someone can exploit a security hole in your [...]

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Top 9 Reasons That Cloud Computing Is The Future Of Software

July 12, 2010

1. Software-as-a-Service is easier to buy. Customers can pay on a monthly basis and walk away anytime they want. In fact, many SaaS vendors offer free trials or limited-functionality versions of their products. This allows customers to get a feel for the software before they invest their money. 2. With cloud computing, piracy is impossible. [...]

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iFlicks: Easy Video Conversion on Mac with Metadata Support [Review]

July 11, 2010

iFlicks is a neat little application that I found while searching for an alternative to VideoMonkey which is still a bit too buggy for my taste. Basically, I’ve had it with the monkey and I wouldn’t mind paying a small fee for an app that just works. iFlicks is such an app. It was designed [...]

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5 Best Security Suites for Windows

June 30, 2010

PC users no longer have to purchase individual programs to ensure total protection. The latest internet security software is available in suites, providing antivirus, antispyware, firewalls and additional features that not only protect a computer from malicious programs, but also offer spam inhibitors, parental controls and cloaking technology to ensure privacy and protect identity. There [...]

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Steve Jobs: Apple Could Reconsider Flash, But…

June 3, 2010

Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) spoke at the D8 conference a few days ago where he’s quoted to be saying: “Some things are good in a product, some things are bad. If the market tells us we’re making bad choices, we’ll make changes. We’re just trying to make great products.” “We just made a technical decision. [...]

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Must-Have iPhone Applications in the UK

May 30, 2010

In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at [...]

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Mozy – Online Backup. Great, Except For Restoring iPhoto & Aperture 3

May 25, 2010

Dear Mozy, First let me say how thrilled I was when I first learned about you and your online backup services, I especially liked the part where I could get 2GB free and expand it with 0.5GB for each friend I referred – a great way to start out with your service. I also liked [...]

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H.264 Already Won vs Flash – Microsoft Picks H.264 for Internet Explorer 9

May 14, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past, oh I don’t know, few months, you would already know that there’s quite a battle going on between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash on iPhone and iPad. Few weeks ago, Apple posted a letter on their site called “Thoughts on Flash” by [...]

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Apple Posts “Thoughts on Flash” – by Steve Jobs

April 29, 2010

Apple just posted an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash” and signed by Steve Jobs himself. The letter answers the “why not?” questions and covers six topics: Openness, the full web, security and performance, battery life, touch and drawbacks of relying on third-party development tools. You can read the full letter from the link above [...]

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Adobe Preparing a Lawsuit Against Apple? Screw You, Adobe!

April 14, 2010

Tom’s Hardware is writing in an article today that Adobe might be gearing up to a lawsuit against Apple because of the whole Flash deal, more or less. While nothing is official yet, sources are citing that it could all happen within a few weeks. Earlier in the “iPhone vs Flash”-war, Adobe announced how their [...]

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Apple Surprisingly Approves Opera Mini for iPhone

April 13, 2010

It took Apple 20 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes to approve Opera Mini in the App Store for iPhone, iPad Touch (and maybe iPad, in the future?), according to a countup timer on Opera’s website. I don’t think anybody – except Opera themselves – expected their browser to be approved, as Apple has previously [...]

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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Content Aware Fill – Amazing New Feature (+Parody Video)

March 29, 2010

While there are a few great alternatives to Photoshop, and even a free one (GIMP), there’s no way around it – Photoshop is the king of image editing software. One of the great new features of Photoshop CS5 (not released yet) is Content Aware Fill. Adobe just released a demonstration (sneak peek) of this new [...]

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Opera Mini 5 for iPhone Submitted to App Store – Don’t Hold Your Breath!

March 24, 2010

Norwegian software company, Opera, now has a Opera Mini 5 version ready for the iPhone. It has already been submitted to Apple for approval in the App Store, but I wouldn’t hold my breath to see it being approved anytime soon. I seem to remember having read that Apple doesn’t want applications that duplicates functions [...]

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Charlie Miller: Snow Leopard Easier To Hack Than Windows 7

March 3, 2010

Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit. Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is [...]

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YouTube Parts With Internet Explorer 6

February 24, 2010

Google means business and soon end support for old browsers on YouTube, despite millions of users still surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer 6 or other outdated browsers. Back in 2009, Google announced how they intend to end support for old browsers because it slows down evolution (is that even the right word to use [...]

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Is Flash A Goner In The Future? What Will Happen?

February 22, 2010

Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as [...]

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Apple Released Aperture 3 = Lots Of Problems !!!

February 16, 2010

Last week, Apple released Aperture 3 for Macintosh. The newest version in their range of “pro” applications, this one aimed at pro photographers, but amateurs who wants something more than what iPhoto can give them, are of course also welcome to use Aperture. As you might have read, I recently got myself my first DSLR [...]

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Windows 7 Resulted In More Satisfied Users Than Snow Leopard

February 5, 2010

Both Microsoft and Apple released their newest operating systems in 2009 and according to a British opinion survey by YouGov, Microsoft’s operating system was the software users were most satisfied with. YouGov followed the “satisfaction rating” for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for the past 6 months. A group of users [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Now The Most Used Browser

February 2, 2010

Google recently announced how they plan to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 as well as other older browsers from Firefox and Safari when it comes to Google products like Gmail, Calendar etc., during 2010. Now, updated numbers from Net Applications show that IE 6, which was released 9 years ago, no longer is the most [...]

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Internet Explorer Turns Your PC Into A Public File Server

January 30, 2010

In the beginning of February, the Black Hat Technical Security Conference is held in the US, where Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina will be speaking on a topic that might interest you, it will certainly interest Microsoft. The topic is “Internet Explorer turns your personal computer into a public file server”. In this presentation we will [...]

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Windows 3.1 In Your Browser? Try It Out!

January 25, 2010

Nostalgia? Why not take good ol’ Windows 3.1 for a spin in your browser. Michaelv.org has a decent version of Windows 3.1 running and it requires nothing else than your modern-day web browser to use it. Windows 3.1 was first released in October 1992 and later replaced with Windows 3.11 in 1993. A few years [...]

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