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Google Chrome browser gets Mac beta release

Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Google Chrome is finally available for shimmying onto shiny Macs with a long overdue beta release of the browser for Mac users. It’s been a mighty long wait for Apple …

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software / Windows

Avast anti-virus update causes havoc with streams of false positives

Thursday, Dec 3, 2009Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 - by Michael H. - 2 Comments.

Many users of Avast anti-virus software appear to have had problems with their computers on December 2 and 3, not because of undetected viruses, but because an update to the …

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft Bing adds knockout new features: Street Side impresses

Thursday, Dec 3, 2009Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Microsoft has been busily ramping up the features on its search engine Bing, with the showstopper being the release of Bing Maps Beta, a substantial upgrade to its online map …

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open source / reviews / software / stuff / web

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 email client – full review

Thursday, Nov 26, 2009Thursday, Nov 26, 2009 - by Michael H. - 1 Comment

Mozilla Thunderbird, the free email client produced by the makers of the Firefox browser, has recently undergone some important revisions, and is now available as Thunderbird 3.0 RC1. RC stands …

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Android / audio / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / software

MediaMonkey 3.2 now supports music sync for Palm Pre, iPhone, Android

Saturday, Nov 21, 2009Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

If you’re bored stiffer than Mary Whitehouse’s super-starchy ironing board with all this on/off ‘Palm Pre syncing with iTunes’ malarkey, there’s an easier way to shunt tunes on off your …

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software / Windows

Office 2010 Professional Beta is free to download

Thursday, Nov 19, 2009Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

If you’re sitting on a fast web connection and are busting a gut to start playing with some of the funky tools coming in Office 2010, then Microsoft is inviting …

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software / Windows

Paint.net: FREE powerful image editor for Windows

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

If you’re not mindful of re-mortgaging your house to get the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop, then the freebie Paint.Net application may be worth taking a look at. The Windows-only …

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Apple / software

Apple Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update out

Monday, Nov 9, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

Apple has been busy fixing bugs found lurking in its latest operating system, Snow Leopard, and has today released version 10.6.2 to users. A ludicrously large download at half a …

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open source / software / web

Firefox is five years old

Monday, Nov 9, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Launched on November 9, 2004, the web browser Firefox is now five years old. Starting life as an experimental arm of the Mozilla project, whose hefty suite of apps included …

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reviews / software / stuff / Windows

Directory Opus v9.5: the king of Windows file managers

Thursday, Oct 22, 2009Friday, Feb 5, 2010 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

Everyone knows that the file browser that comes with Windows is a bit on the basic side, so if you fancy yourself as something of a power user, it may …

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audio / software / Windows

Roxio Easy LP to MP3 shovels your vinyl onto your PC

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

If you’ve got a mile-high pile of old vinyl forlornly gathering dust and remaining unheard, Roxio’s  new Easy LP to MP3 software should help you shovel those lovely old warm …

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Microsoft / software / Windows

Windows 7 Home Premium gets comprehensively reviewed

Thursday, Oct 15, 2009Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Techradar has posted a comprehensive review on Microsoft’s new operating system, and like many others, they’re finding it a vast improvement on the dreaded Vista. Their reviewer was suitably impressed …

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software / Windows

Fences desktop icon organiser for Windows. It’s great.

Friday, Oct 9, 2009Friday, Oct 9, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

It’s Friday, you’ve probably got a hangover like us, and your PC desktop is a blurry mass of endless icons and shortcuts confusing your Stella-addled mind. You might be able …

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software / Windows

BumpTop reveals slick multi-touch Windows 7 interface

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

If you prefer your interfaces to be of the hugely lavish, eye-candy-laden, extremely interactive kind, then feast your eyes on the preview of the new BumpTop ‘desktop workspace’ for Windows …

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photography / software / web

Flickroom: free desktop Flickr photoviewer

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

If you’re finding Flickr’s bright’n’white interface a little too demanding on your peepers, you may be interested in looking up the Adobe AIR desktop application, Flickroom. Once you’ve got the …

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