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Skype 2.7 beta for Mac released: Leopard Support
2007-12-03 19:31:00 Skype has just released a new version, Skype 2.7 beta for Mac. The best feature in the lasted build is support for OS X 10.5 Leopard. Skype is also not forgeting Linux, and PC as they update those versions often. Skype 2.7 beta for Mac is the first OS X version to support VGA video at ... More About: Internet , Apple , Skype , Macintosh , Beta
Firefox update: version 2.0.0.11
2007-12-02 01:19:00 Mozilla recently released the third update of Firefox this month, version 2.0.0.11, which fixs a stability problem. Like always Mozilla strongly recommends that users upgrade to the latest version. The Firefox browser update came soon after version 2.0.0.8, released October 18, version 2.0.0.9 from November 1, and version 2.0.0.10 from November 26. Like we said before, Firefox ... More About: Utilities , Internet , Microsoft , Macintosh
Amazon and Pepsi giving away 1 billion DRM-free songs
2007-12-01 00:33:00 Amazon and Pepsi are planning to partner in a give away. They plan to give away 1 billion MP3s from Amazon’s MP3 download store. The give away will launch during the Super Bowl on Feb 3rd. How to win. Pepsi is going to print a code on 5 billion bottle caps and you will enter the ... More About: Songs , Audio , Amazon , Free
Voxcall brings VoIP to Facebook
2007-11-29 23:29:00 Facebook has something that myspace does not. That is great applications because of the ease of creation. So it is not surprising that the Voxalot has featured their VoIP calling solution on Facebook. Voxcall gives facebook users the ability to call their facebook friends by using their SIP URI (VoIP address that acts like a ... More About: Developer , Voip , Facebook , Web Services , Social Software
DeskUNPDF Pro: Professional but Over-Priced
2007-11-28 00:18:00 DeskUNPDF Pro is a PDF converter. It can covert office documents, pictures, and much more to PDF format. There are already free converters available, some we like are Primopdf, and doPDF. They are easy to use and get the job done. The thing that the free ones do not do is convert PDF files to other ... More About: Utilities , Business , Commercial , Professional , Fess
Yahoo! launches beta of myM
2007-11-26 22:48:00 Watch out Meebo there is a new kid on the block. It looks like Yahoo is working on a new IM/chat service. MyM is currently in private beta, so we do not know much besides that. Most likely it will be a web-based instant messenger that will bring Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, and IM services ... More About: Internet , Web 2 , Beta , Web Services
Download Windows XP SP3 with a registry hack
2007-11-26 02:41:00 Last month we wrote an article telling you how to download Vista SP1 using a registry hack. Now a new registry hack for Windows XP is available. This hack will let Windows XP users download Service Pack 3. The SP3 is not scheduled for release until next year so it is not recommended that you download ... More About: Registry , Microsoft , Download , Beta
SeeToo: Only one can see You
2007-11-22 07:39:00 Everyone knows about YouTube and all the other famous video sharing sites. But this new one on the block is quite different. With SeeToo you can share your video with just one person. Great if you don’t want anyone else to see you or your family. SeeToo is a brand new site, currently in private ... More About: Video , Internet
Mozilla officially releases Firefox 3 beta 1
2007-11-20 19:23:00 Mozilla has finally given us the beta release of Firefox 3. Not like the pre-beta release a couple of weeks ago. The only differences between this beta and that pre-release version are that the Firefox team has fixed more bugs. The rest of it is the same. New in Beta 1: Updates to the Gecko rendering engine which should improve stability. New Places feature makes it easier to find the sites you’ve visited most recently, most often, or starred for coming back to later. New security features alert you when you’re visiting insecure web sites and let you auto-scan downloads with your antivirus software We are still going to keep using Firefox 2 until all the bugs have been worked out. More About: Mozilla , Firefox 3
SyncTV: Pioneer takes on video downloading
2007-11-19 21:41:00 Pioneer SyncTV was introduced in private beta today. The service is not one of the first of its kind but there are a some features that make SyncTV better than competitors like Amazon, Apple , and NBC. One excellent feature is it is compatible with Mac, Linux , and PCs. Users can specify up to 5 computers for ... More About: Video , Internet , Microsoft
Gmail now offers 5GB
2007-11-17 21:29:00 Gmail now offers you a 5GB space to store your email as you can see on the home page. From Google : In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our ?Infinity+1? storage plan. At that time, we realized we?d never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we ... More About: Gmail , E-Mail , Offers , Offer
Office Accounting Express 2008 Released
2007-11-16 01:46:00 Microsoft has just released a new version of its Office Accounting software, they are offering free and paid versions. Office Accounting 2008 retails for $199, however the less featured Office Accounting Express 2008 is available to download for free. Users that own a small business, might want to buy the retail version that includes support for ... More About: Windows , Business , Microsoft , Commercial
ThreatFire 3 Free Anti-Malware Program
2007-11-13 21:09:00 ThreatFire 3 is a free program that detects malicious software based on its behavior. The program requires no configuration so it is easy for anyone to use. When ThreatFire detects suspicious malware it immediately quarantines it, with lower risk malware it asks you what to do. In our testing ThreatFire successfully blocked all installations of ... More About: Security , Internet , Malware , Free , Freeware
Safari 3 Windows Hack for Faster Surfing
2007-11-12 06:06:00 Â Making Safari faster is very simple: OPEN: C:Program FilesSafariSafari.resources Open up Defaults.plist (Using Wordpad) add the following line at the end: <key>WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay& lt;/key> <real>0.25</real> Thats it! Enjoy. More About: Windows , Surfing , Hack , Aster
Firefox 3 beta is almost ready
2007-11-07 23:42:00 Mozilla plans on releasing Mac, Linux, and Windows versions of Firefox but not quite yet. This morning a digg user found Firefox 3 beta on Mozilla’s server. Now Mozilla has blocked access to it with a nice thank you message. We managed to download it in time to try it out. Many of you won’t notice ... More About: Internet , Open Source , Macintosh
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux
2007-11-07 23:21:00 It seems like Skype has almost completed the Linux version. Today Skype released 2.0 beta Linux version adding video support. Skype 2.0 beta for Linux is available for many Linux distributions including Debian, Mepis, Xandros, Mandriva, and OpenSuse. Support for Ubuntu and Fedora is to come. Skype 2.0 beta requires a video card driver with Xv support, ... More About: Video , Internet , Apple
Twitter Poster Looks Nice, But Not Very Useful
2007-11-03 06:44:00 Twitter Poster , shows users Twitter profile pictures that are sized based on the number of followers and the number of Tweets popular users make. Influence posters are available for the United States, Japan, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Canada, France and Taiwan. It is nice looking but we see no usefulness. People are ... More About: Internet , Productivity , Twitter , Web Services
Google Notebook now supports labels
2007-11-02 23:08:00 Google recently added support for labels to Google Notebook . The addition was needed. Users can use labels to organize Gmail, Google Documents, and RSS feeds in Google Reader. It seems like Google would have added this feature long ago but now we can’t complain. Labels are automatically imported from your Google Bookmarks settings, if you use ... More About: Google , Internet , Productivity
Google?s social network launching tomorrow
2007-10-31 18:34:00 As we all know Google has been fighting for sometime with other social networks such as facebook. Tomorrow , Google will launch its new social network site, called OpenSocial , with a some social networking players already at the party. The most significant of these players are LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Orkut, who’ve all been around quite a while and have ... More About: Internet , Network
TokBox: First Video and Voice calling on meebo Platform
2007-10-30 22:26:00 TokBox’s goal is to change communication between humans by making it easy to video call online. TokBox has been launched today, making it the first voice and video calling product to be made available for the meebo Platform. One great thing about TokBox is it does not require any form of registration, download, installation or ... More About: Video , Internet , Audio , Voice , Web 2
Mythbuntu 7.10 released
2007-10-30 05:24:00 Ubuntu comes in all kinds. There is a Ubuntu that is made for slower systems, Edubuntu for kids and teachers, and Kubuntu with those who prefer Windows -like interface. At its core, Mythbuntu is Ubuntu without many add-ons like OpenOffice.org, Evolution, or desktop effects. Mythbuntu is all about media. The application ships with the XFCE4 lightweight desktop, ... More About: Linux , Open Source , Released
Samsung Super-WriteMaster 16x DL DVD burner
2007-10-30 05:18:00 Samsung has just introduced its fastest DVD burner yet, burning speeds top at 20x for DVD±R discs, 16x for dual layer DVD+R variants, and 12x for DVD-RAM. One cool feature is support for LightScribe burning. Samsung says this is the fastest dual layer DVD burner available to consumers. Price is $79.99. More About: Audio , Samsung , Super , Burner , Burning
Leopard Install on PC Using Hack
2007-10-30 00:13:00 Before Mac Leopard , it was not easy to install Mac software on a PC. Mac operating system is not made to run on Intel processors. But now that Apple is releasing Intel-based Macs, you can install Windows on a Mac, and with a little bit of hard work and license-breaking, you can install OS X ... More About: Macintosh , Hack
More than 88 million copies of Windows Vista Sold
2007-10-27 20:41:00 Many windows users are waiting for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 before upgrading from Windows XP to Vista, it looks like Microsoft has managed to sell a few copies of its latest operating system. In fact, Microsoft reports that it’s sold 88 million copies since launching Vista in January. Microsoft has apparently seen a 20 percent ... More About: Windows Vista , Million
GIMP 2.4 Released
2007-10-26 02:36:00 It sure has been a while since GIMP 2.2 was released. It’s actually been three years since the GIMP team has released a major update to the open source Photoshop program. This week, GIMP 2.4 was released, with a new icon set, and a whole bunch of other features: Redesigned crop, selection, and align tools Scalable bitmap ... More About: Design , Open Source , Released , Gimp
Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 and Lightning 0.7 calendars Now Available
2007-10-26 02:23:00 Mozilla’s calendar programs Sunbird and Lightning have some how become even better. Sunbird is a standalone application for Windows , Linux , and Mac, and Lightning is a calendar plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail client. Sunbird and Lightning 0.7 were both released today, and they feature a new event/task dialog, a new event summary dialog, and many other ... More About: Open Source , Macintosh
Pagerank drop for many websites
2007-10-25 02:40:00 Many known websites and blogs have been slapped with Pagerank decreases in the last days. Most went down two points (10 Maximum) from one day to the other. The Pagerank drop does not affect SERP. The reason for page rankings dropping is because of selling text links which is against googles terms of service. More About: Google , Internet , Websites , Drop
blinkBox: custom video greeting card
2007-10-23 19:49:00 Here’s a smart way to get people to buy or rent movies from your website. Let them send clips from popular films as custom video greeting cards. blinkBox is an online video site with a small selection of popular movies and TV shows available for users to download. But the site’s most useful feature is the ... More About: Video , Fun , Internet , Card , Web Services
AT&T with Napster - $1.99 music tracks on your phone
2007-10-22 21:55:00 AT&T is now offering song downloads from your cell phone. You search Napster ’s music database and pay $1.99 per song. Which is twice what you would if you were using a computer and competing services from Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft. If you are plan to download multiple songs in one month you can also sign up ... More About: Music , Phone , Audio , Tracks
Instantbird: Mozilla?s Take on chat
More articles from this author:2007-10-20 19:05:00 As you may have already started to notice Mozilla keeps building more applications. We have Firefox web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, Songbird music player/browser, and now we’ve got a Mozilla-based instant messaging client. Instantbird is still in very early beta. But version 0.1 already shows us assurance. The program is much like popular instant messaging services ... More About: Linux , Internet , Chat , Microsoft , Open Source 1, 2, 3 |
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