Google Chrome browser gets Mac beta release
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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Avast anti-virus update causes havoc with streams of false positives
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 …
Read MoreMicrosoft Bing adds knockout new features: Street Side impresses
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 …
Read MoreMozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 email client – full review
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 …
Read MoreMediaMonkey 3.2 now supports music sync for Palm Pre, iPhone, Android
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 …
Read MoreOffice 2010 Professional Beta is free to download
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 …
Read MorePaint.net: FREE powerful image editor for Windows
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 …
Read MoreApple Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update out
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 …
Read MoreFirefox is five years old
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 …
Read MoreRoxio Easy LP to MP3 shovels your vinyl onto your PC
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 …
Read MoreWindows 7 Home Premium gets comprehensively reviewed
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 …
Read MoreFences desktop icon organiser for Windows. It’s great.
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 …
Read MoreBumpTop reveals slick multi-touch Windows 7 interface
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 …
Read MoreFlickroom: free desktop Flickr photoviewer
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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