For some unlucky users (including us), there’s been recurring problems with the sound vanishing from Windows and Windows 7 machines when they’re woken up from hibernation.
All our computers run 64 bit versions of Windows, but we understand that users on 32-bit Windows have suffered the same annoying glitch.
For years on end, SplashID has been our password manager of choice, offering a simple, secure way of managing hundreds of passwords and personal details, both on our handheld and desktop.
As well as being a handy way of keeping track of log-ins, bank details and the like, the program has proved a great travelling companion, with its advanced Blowfish encryption and password protection giving us peace of mind even if some ne’er do well nabbed our laptop or smartphone.
Microsoft has put the price stickers on its new Office 2010 suite, and has included a Starter version that will come free with new PCs.
The new Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 package will be all yours to love and to caress for £239.99, representing a substantial saving on the previous Standard version of Office 2007, which sold for a hefty £349.99.
Since releasing the Chrome for Mac beta browser at the end of last year, Google’s techie bods have been busy bunging in new features, and have today decided to share their latest version of their free browser with the Apple world.
Their new update of Chrome for Mac now packs extensions, bookmark sync, and the ability to install any of over 2,200 extensions currently available in Chrome’s extensions gallery.
Some of the best apps are the simplest, and they don’t come much simpler than Ninite, which lets you install all the essential free downloads you’ll need for your new/upgraded PC in one fell swoop.
Forget spending ages trawling program websites looking for the ‘downloads’ page and endlessly clicking away: with Ninite all you have to do is tick off the programs you need from an expertly curated list, download your customised installer and then – bosh! – run it.
Google may have their sticky fingers in just about every online pie, but there’s one area where their influence has resolutely failed to have any impact: social networking.
They may own Orkut and OpenSocial, but they’re barely a molehill on the social networking horizon compared to the big boys like Facebook or Twitter, so Google have devised a cunning plan.
Apple has announced Aperture 3, the latest version of its photo management software, with the update including no less than 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes.
Apple claims that Aperture 3 will make it easier and faster to organise large photo libraries, thanks to face detection and GPS geo-location, with the ability to assign locations by dragging-and-dropping photos onto a map.
It wasn’t long ago that fancy twin monitor sets ups were the sole preserve of hotshot traders, high-flying graphics pros and, err, security guards, but recent price crashes have seen LCD multi-screen set ups becoming more affordable.
With a set of results sure set to send Apple fanboys howling at the Moon in disbelief, a recent study claims that Macs are far more insecure than Windows PCs, due partly to the attitude of its users and the relative obscurity of the platform.
An Eset survey conducted last year showed that when Apple users fell for phishing crime they tended to lose a load more dosh than your average Windows PC user, mainly because the majority of cyber crime victims are targeted via social engineering attacks rather than more traditional viruses (see graphic below).
We’re typing this using CreaWriter, a free Windows text editor designed to “increase your productivity and creativity” by decluttering your screen and covering up your endless flashing widgets, Twitter feeds and IM distractions.
Opening up to fill your screen with a suitably soothing sunset image, the minimalist interface aims to serve up a distraction free environment, with only the orangey sunset hues and the sound of gently trickling water for company.
Easily them the most popular BitTorrent client on the Windows platform, uTorrent has moved to consolidate their lead with a souped-up new 2.0 release slipping effortlessly out of beta.
We’ve been using various versions of ACDSee dating back to the year dot, and our loyalty has been rewarded by a fast, stable program which has done a grand job of indexing our hefty photo collection, now numbering tens of thousands of snaps.
For some time the program has been offered in two flavours – the pricier ’Pro’ version and the cheaper, consumer focused ACD See Photo Manager – with the flagship version certainly looking the part, resplendent in subdued greys and ‘pro’ black.
Google have just sent a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows out into the wild, and the update includes two features that we’ve been waiting for some time for: extensions and bookmark sync.
It’s taken a while to get drrssed, but the latest 3.6 version of Firefox has finally rocked into town.
Promising nippier performance, natty one-click themes, safer add-ons and plug-ins, improved font handling and other life enhancing properties the browser is now ready for your downloading pleasure.
For the millions of ex-Palm OS users, getting data off their old PDAs and Treos and on to their shiny new iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre smartphones – or cast off into online cloud accounts like Google Calendar – can become a fearsomely fiddly task.
Although there’s no end of commercial and free solutions being offered, getting all your data successfully transferred over to your new device can prove a daunting and frustrating prospect, with one person’s success story another’s devastating failure.
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