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True Launch Bar v3.2.15 RC3 - True Launch Bar is a Superior replacement for standard Quick Launch. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in True Launch Bar. However, the True Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. True Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts in groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts....
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions June 5, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000, NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me, NAV 2002 Professional Edition, NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro, NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT, NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher, NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel), NAV for MS Exchange (Intel), Norton SystemWorks (all versions), Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions), pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT....
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Easy CD-DA Extractor v9.1.3 - Easy CD-DA Extractor is a powerful and easy digital audio extraction utility that makes digital copies from audio CDs and saves as audio files such as MP3, Windows Media Audio and Windows Wave. You may use built-in encoders, get plug-ins for other free encoders, or use any Windows audio compression codec. Features include: CDDB, ID3 and WMA tags, file converter with batch support, tons of files can be converted to a different format simultaneously, serves also as a MP3 and WAV decoder and sound normalizer....
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NewsReactor Build 9037 - NewsReactor is a tool to download binaries from usenet newsgroups. NewsReactor scans, combines and downloads files from a selected newsgroup....
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McAfee SuperDAT 4777 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files....
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McAfee DAT 4777 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files....
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RasterVect v10.9 - Vectorizer RasterVect can transform raster images into a vector format. Raster drawing can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. There is TWAIN support for importing from scanners.The target vector formats (DXF,WMF,EMF,EPS and AI) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as AutoCAD and Corel Draw. There are viewing tools like zooming, scrolling and color selection....
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EasySetup v3.08 - Can package and install not only programs but also all kind of files. Includes install and uninstall support for Windows 9.x/NT/ME/2000/XP. Compress all files in a single executable. Setup overhead is less than 100 KB. What you see is what you get, easy visual configuration. Projects in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Galician, Hungarian and Dutch languages are included....
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PicaJet Photo Organizer v2.5.452 - PicaJet Photo Organizer helps you automatically manage 1000s of your digital photos in seconds. Additional features include built-in tools to keep your photos safe, an image search engine with support for EXIF data, a slideshow maker and an easy-to-use tool to generate a web gallery from templates. If you have a large photo collection and need an efficient way to organize it, this is the software you'll want....
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Acoo Browser v1.40.556 - Acoo Browser is a powerful multi-tabbed web browser based on the Internet Explorer engine (IE 5 or greater required). Acoo Browser allows user to surf multiple Web sites within one browser window. It also includes many advanced features such as Mouse Gestures, recoverable Popup Blocker, Ads Filter, script error suppression, Cleaner, URL Alias and Integrated search engine support. It makes your surfing experience easier and quicker....
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iNetFormFiller Free v3.5.06 - Stores personal data and fills web-forms automatically. Records any order of actions required for form filling (including clicks on web-links) and automatically reproduces this order. Possibility to edit forms without page loading, subject profiles, intellectual identification and filling of fields of any types....
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mnoGoSearch Lite v3.2.39.1 - MnoGoSearch is a search engine designed to organize a search within a website, number of websites, intranet or local system....
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mnoGoSearch v3.2.39 - MnoGoSearch for is a search engine designed to organize search within a website, number of websites, intranet or local system. To search through documents you have to index them first using the indexer component of mnoGoSearch. Indexer is a spider that reads the documents you specify and stores information about words it finds in tables in a SQL or built-in database....
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BlackWidow v5.21 - BlackWidow is a multi-function internet tool. It is a web site downloader, site mapping tool, site ripper, site mirroring tool, website scanner and an offline browser. Use it to scan a site, and create a complete profile of the site's structure, files, external links and even link errors. Download file types such as pics, image, audio, MP3, video, documents, ZIP, Flash, program, CSS, Flash, PDF , PHP, JAVA, CGI, PDF, HTM to MIME types + more....
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Tidy Start Menu v3.00 - The "Tidy Start Menu" program will help you to put the menu in order and make your work comfortable....
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Trend Micro Pattern File June 4, 2006 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ...
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CloneMaster v3.11 - Clean your hard drive of duplicate files that are just wasting space. CloneMaster searches for TRUE duplicate files (byte for byte), same-name files and zero-length files and bring them to your attention. It include Smart Delete, Rename, Save as. and other functions. The Smart Delete is a filter for flagging files for deletion....
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ZipBackup for Windows v4.0 - The ZipBackup Wizard makes backing up a snap for beginners, and filtering and scheduling make it a powerful tool for experts....
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Bee Icons v4.0.2.2 - Bee Icons allows you by means of only several mouse clicks to replace a lot of shell icons to those ones you do like. The program is settled for Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP and allows to change icons of the Desktop, Start Menu, Drives, Folders, and ALL registered file types. Using Bee Icons, you can easily shift one or a couple of icons or even all icons using icons themes. From the program's site you can download new themes for you....
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Music Label 2007 v2.0 - Music Label features a separate MP3 database that enables you to catalog your entire MP3 collection fast and easy....
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions June 4, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000, NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me, NAV 2002 Professional Edition, NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro, NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT, NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher, NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel), NAV for MS Exchange (Intel), Norton SystemWorks (all versions), Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions), pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT....
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BPS Spyware and Adware Remover v9.3.0.6 - Spyware Remover is an Adware, SpyWare, Key Loggers, Trojans, Dialers, Hijackers, Trackware, Thiefware, Big Brotherware removal utility with multi-language support. Also includes a Firewall for protection against any entrance to your equipment through backdoors, Anti Phishing utility to block orged or "spoofed" spam email & automatic live update. Also removes Bundled spyware components from Kazza, Morpheus, audiogalaxy, and many other spywares....
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions June 3, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000, NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me, NAV 2002 Professional Edition, NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro, NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT, NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher, NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel), NAV for MS Exchange (Intel), Norton SystemWorks (all versions), Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions), pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT....
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EMS PostgreSQL Manager Pro v3.6 - EMS PostgreSQL Manager is a powerful graphical tool for PostgreSQL administration and development. It makes creating and editing PostgreSQL database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts, manage users and their privileges, build SQL queries visually, extract, print and search metadata, export data to 14 available formats and import them from most popular formats, view and edit BLOB fields, and many more....
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EMS PostgreSQL Manager Lite v3.6 - EMS PostgreSQL Manager Lite is a light and easy-to-use freeware graphical tool for PostgreSQL administration. PostgreSQL Manager works with any PostgreSQL versions up to 8.0 and supports all of the latest PostgreSQL features including tablespaces, named arguments in functions and so on. It has minimal required set of instruments for those users who are new to PostgreSQL server and need only its basic functionality....
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1ClickPicGrabber with FloatBar v3.50 - Grab, save and organize Flash, Quicktime and any other video or pictures you find on websites in a single click directly from your browser. With the first ever FloatBar for Internet Explorer we bring you a powerful tool which helps you in saving ANY embedded video file you bump into online such as Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media. With the new FloatBar you can even ZOOM pictures directly in your browser....
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iPod2PC v3.3 - With iPod2PC you can easily copy songs from any iPod to any PC's hard disk to restore or backup them. iPod2PC offers very fast searching and a browse mode which makes finding songs on the iPod easy. With the sophisticated song selection method (via context menu), choosing desired groups of songs for copying is very convenient....
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Fresh UI v7.60 - Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know, such as: customizing Windows User Interface (UI), optimizing system settings, optimizing hardware settings, customizing Windows application settings, control user environment with policies....
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CoinManage 2006 - CoinManage helps you manage your coin collection. It features a database of over 12,000 US, Canadian and English coins, including hundreds of pictures and values for United States coins....
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Arial CD Ripper v1.4.9 - Arial CD Ripper is a versatile and easy to use tool for CD grabbing and audio conversion. It can extract all your favourite CD into MP3 ,WAV, OGG,FLAC,APE ,you can convert a track in a minute and the whole CD within a few minutes without losing the audio quality. Arial CD Ripper can also convert (from and to) most of the popular audio formats from one to another with as simple as a click. CDDB support,Id3 tag editor provided....
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dirhtml v4.75 Beta - Dirhtml creates index.html files from a directory list, optionally including HTML code of your own design at any point in the generated file....
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions June 2, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000, NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me, NAV 2002 Professional Edition, NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro, NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x, NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT, NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher, NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel), NAV for MS Exchange (Intel), Norton SystemWorks (all versions), Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions), pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT....
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XFilesDialog v3.30.174 Beta - XFilesDialog is designed to improve all the standard file dialogs (Open/Load/Save)....
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Spotlight on MySQL v2.0.1 - Spotlight on MySQL displays a complete visual representation of the MySQL database allowing you to observe actual activity, including process flows and configuration settings in real time from a single display. It quickly identifies performance bottlenecks and problem areas in complex data sharing environments using flows, graphs and visual icons, and alerts you with an audio or visual alarm when key metric thresholds are triggered....
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OroTimesheet v5.10 - OroTimesheet is a program that manages time per project. OroTimesheet lets you keep track of time spent on each project, and is adaptable for large organizations or smal businesses....
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McAfee SuperDAT 4776 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files....
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McAfee DAT 4776 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files....
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LANVisor v1.4.0 - LANVisor allows you to see the screens of multiple computers connected to the local area network. You can use the software to see what users do on remote computers and automatically take screenshots. At the office, this system will help a manager catch employees suspected of violating the daily routine and thus improve productivity....
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Media Catalog Studio Lite v5.0 - Media Catalog Studio, a handy software application for classifying and tracking media files or CDs. This database is capable of identifying media files on any storage devices - hard-drives, floppies, external drives, CD and so on. The program supports MP3/WMA/M4A/APE/OGG/MPC/AVI/MPG/WMV and Audio CD files....
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Trend Micro Pattern File June 2, 2006 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ...
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CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner v3.10 - CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will run faster and error free. The backup/restore function of the tool let you backup your whole Windows Registry so you can use it to restore the registry to the current status in case you encounter some system failure. Also features Startup and BHO organizer....
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AnyDVD v5.9.6.3 - AnyDVD is a driver, which unprotects DVD movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like....
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PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher v5.3.0.812 - PRTG is an easy to use Windows solution for network/bandwidth usage monitoring. Supports SNMP, packet sniffing and netflow to create live readings with periodical trend data to help optimize the efficiency of routers, servers and other network components. PRTG is available as both Freeware and several different commercial editions, offering various levels of monitoring for multiple network devices and advanced features suitable for corporate use....
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TracePlus Ethernet v5.02.000 - TracePlus/Ethernet is a powerful packet capture tool, supporting 10/100-BaseTX and 802.11b wireless networks. All views of network information that are available in TracePlus are displayed in realtime. This TracePlus product obtains its information directly from the network subsystem of Windows, and can see all network traffic generated from your PC as well as all other PCs on your segment of the network....
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CATVids v7.10.03 - CATVids is a powerful database program designed to help you catalog and manage your video collection. CATVids works perfectly with all types of media, including DVDs, VHS tapes and Laserdiscs. It will keep track of not only your pre-recorded media, but also movies, television programs and home videos which you record. Using CATVids you can quickly catalog your movies by downloading information from the Internet....
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BootIt Next Generation v1.76b - BootIt NG is a partition and boot manager with a powerful, sophisticated, and simple to use set of tools for partitioning, imaging, and multi-booting your computer. It combines the features of several standalone products costing hundreds of dollars more....
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Softros LAN Messenger v3.6.5.2 - Softros LAN Messenger is a instant LAN messaging software application for home or office users. It does not require a server and is very easy to install and use. The program correctly identifies all Windows NT/2000/XP user accounts and works in any TCP/IP network. Softros LAN Messenger comes with a variety of handy features, like message notification alarms, files transfer, and intuitive interface....
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MySQL v5.0.22 - MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server....
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BitTorrent v4.9.7 Beta - BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth....
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Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in Idaho plane crash, cause unknown - A plane crash in Boise, Idaho has claimed the life of Micron CEO Steve Appleton. He was 51. Boise Airport officials say that Appleton's experimental fixed wing single engine Lancair crashed shortly after takeoff at 8:58am local time Friday after attempting an emergency landing. NTSB officials say that witnesses reported the plane climbing about 100 to 200 feet, then attempting to turn before falling to the ground. According to Boise NBC affiliate KTVB-TV, Appleton is heard shortly after taking off telling air traffic controllers: "I'd like to turn back in and land. Coming back in." In the background of the… [Continue Reading]...
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Microsoft opens hardware acceleration spec for C++ ahead of Visual Studio 11 beta - Microsoft on Friday announced the publication of the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP) specification under the Microsoft Community Promise license. This specification lets C++ developers write programs that can compile and execute on data-parallel hardware like discrete graphics cards or the SIMD vector instruction set in a processor. It can also be thought of as hardware acceleration. Soma Somasegar, the Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division, revealed last summer that the company was working on support for parallelism in the next version of Visual Studio. "In the last few years, we have been seeing an additional trend of heterogeneous hardware… [Continue Reading]...
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We need new privacy policies for a new world - In a major update to its privacy policy and the addition of "Search Plus Your World", Google has managed to attain the consensus from the tech-enthused world that it is way beyond the innocent baby days of "don?t be evil". Matt Honan of Gizmodo signalled the privacy shift as the end of Google?s "don?t be evil" promise, which the company built its business on, and Sarah Lacy of Pando Daily shared similar sentiments, though hers was related to the Search Plus Your World outcry. In a nutshell, one of the biggest sore points that people are having with Google?s new privacy policy is the fact… [Continue Reading]...
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Anonymous leaks FBI phone call; reminds of the insecurity of conference lines - Hacktivist group Anonymous has released an audio recording of a January 17 conference call which it claims includes members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the UK's Scotland Yard discussing their latest anti-hacking efforts. We've embedded the 17-minute long clip above. The participants in the conference call talk about Anonymous, LulzSec, Antisec, CSL Security and other black hat security groups, the evidence they have against such groups, and their progress in arresting suspects. The discussion in the call really contains nothing too revealing, and the names of underage hackers are censored. But the nefarious part about this leak is… [Continue Reading]...
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Apple claims smartphone crown from Nokia, Samsung - iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter surge -- 37 million units -- lifted the handset ahead of the two previous smartphone leaders, according to Canalys. For full year 2011, Apple shipped 93.1 million smartphones, compared to Samsung's 91.9 million and Nokia's 77.3 million. Nokia, the company that invented the smartphone, has bled share since iPhone launched nearly 5 years ago, but artery versus vein since announcing the switch to Windows Phone from Symbian in February 2011. Apple's climb to the top followed October's iPhone 4S launch and availability of older 3GS and 4 models for free and $99, respectively. Samsung shipped 35.3 million… [Continue Reading]...
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Android Market is safer than we thought, its 'Bouncer' kicks out bad apps - Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google's Vice President of Engineering for the Android mobile platform, revealed on Thursday that the Android Market has secretly had a system in place named "Bouncer" to scan apps for malicious code. "Bouncer" was running in secret for most of 2011, and Lockheimer says that the period between the first and second halves of 2011 showed a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This statement runs contrary to the reports from Juniper Networks last November, who said Android malware had grown some 472 percent in the last six months of 2011. "This drop… [Continue Reading]...
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Which Firefox is right for you -- 10, 11, 12 or 13? - Following on from the release of Firefox 10 FINAL, Mozilla has updated its developmental branches to versions 11 (Beta), 12 (Aurora/UX) and 13 (Nightly) respectively. As always, the rapid release cycle -- a new version of Firefox ships every six weeks -- means that changes aren?t as radical as you might expect considering the regular version number jumps. However, the latest batch of updates hints that some major updates are heading Firefox?s way over the next few months. Get a head?s up on what?s coming and discover which build is best for your personal needs with our updated guide to what… [Continue Reading]...
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So much for iPhone catching Android - Just weeks ago the Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists giddily posted about how iPhone had reversed Androids' gains. But new data from comScore shows that, in the United States at least, Android is doing just fine, despite iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter sales surge (more than 37 million units). As measured by smartphone OS among cellular subscribers 13 and older, Android share grew to 47.3 percent at the end of December from 44.8 percent three months earlier. During the same time period, iPhone/iOS rose 2.2 points to 29.6 percent share. More broadly, for all handsets, Apple was the only manufacturer to… [Continue Reading]...
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Security Task Manager reveals malware other apps miss - Your system is misbehaving, and you think there?s a good chance it?s been infected by malware, but your antivirus package isn?t raising any alerts. So what do you do next? One option is to install the trial version of Security Task Manager. This can display all your running processes and rate their potential risk -- all based purely on behavior and code analysis, no signature files are required, and so it may highlight dangerous processes which other tools miss. The program will also raise plenty of false alarms, unfortunately, and that?s all down to the way it works. On our test… [Continue Reading]...
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Drive Manager -- when Windows Explorer isn't enough - Hard drives, memory card readers, DVDs and Blu-rays, network drives, removable disks and more: even a budget PC can have a host of storage options available at any one time. If you find you have trouble managing these with Explorer, though, then the free, portable Drive Manager has plenty of tools to help. These start by presenting the key drive basics on a single opening screen, so just about everything you might need is available at a glance. There?s the drive volume name and type, for instance; network path; file system; capacity and space free; vendor or product name (useful for identifying… [Continue Reading]...
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Will you pay for Facebook? - Are you ready to pay for Facebook? You just may. Analyst Foad Fadaghi of Telsyte, an Australian technology research firm, tells news.com.au that premium accounts are an option to increase revenues. As I argued on Wednesday, Facebook now must answer to shareholders. Being a public company is a completely different world from life as a private company. Fadaghi also expects Facebook to make advertising more invasive, as investors demand better performance. Ain't that grand? Floating the option to charge for Facebook has to be on the table. The site needs new revenue streams. Regardless, the option is ridiculous and a… [Continue Reading]...
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Skype 5.8 for Windows released -- get it now! - Less than three months ago, a beta version of Skype was unveiled that boasted a number of new features. The latest update to the popular VoIP tool sees the software jumping straight to version 5.8, finalizing some of the features found in the beta and adding a couple more for good measure. There are a number of highlights to Skype 5.8, and there is a great deal to investigate if you have not been keeping track of the beta versions of the software. Conducting video chats has for too long been a blocky, stuttering affair, plagued with poor quality footage -- not just… [Continue Reading]...
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Android's People app is no Windows Phone People Hub - Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, takes a slightly different approach to social content organization and management, and includes a couple of new APIs to let application developers surface social network data. If you've got ICS running on your phone already, you have probably already noticed the "People" application, Android's revamped contacts system that unifies different social networks and methods of communication under a single profile, allowing information to be more centrally located on a user's phone and shared out when needed. The problem is, Google wants this to be a "highly visual" method of contact arrangement, with… [Continue Reading]...
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Windows 8 -- from a gas engine to hybrid! - What does Windows 8 really look like under the hood? Is Metro a totally new direction for the Windows API? What does this really mean for software development? As a programmer I like to know how things work under the hood. I am also a decent backyard mechanic, and I look at automobiles the same way. People who work on cars may have spent years learning how a gas engine works, but what happens when they finally have to work on a hybrid? The difference between a gas engine and a hybrid engine are like night and day. I believe… [Continue Reading]...
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Avid Studio for iPad debuts, but, hurry, the low price won't last - Move over, iMovie, some serious competition moved on to iPad, today. Avid Studio for iPad is now available -- $4.99 for a limited time. Avid was the big name in filmmaking, long before Apple stormed the market with its pro and amateur products. Apple reigns king on iPad and the Mac. Can Avid provide some needed tablet competition? By the specs and feature list, Avid Studio for iPad appeals. The app can directly capture video, use multiple content sources on the tablet (e.g., audio, photos and video), generate motion titles and graphics, precisely trim content, create picture-in-picture effects and much… [Continue Reading]...
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Here's how Apple fixes its China problem [video] - "Conan" offers yet another timely spoof, here about Apple's problem with working conditions at factories in China. People have called for boycotts, others claim Apple is no worse than other high-tech companies using the same facilities. Seems like everyone has an opinion about what's really an old story. Satire is a dish best served cold, and Team Coco packs on the ice....
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Kindle Fire will become Amazon's cash cow - Amazon's fourth quarter results missed targets, despite strong sales of the Kindle Fire. It is these users that will begin to pad the company's earnings, however, validating Amazon's strategy of selling Fire at a very low margin and then making up the profit through entertainment content sales. Amazon saw its profits plummet, reporting net income of $177 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. This was down sharply from a year earlier, when the retailer reported income of $416 million. Revenue was up 35 percent however, to $17.4 billion. ChangeWave Research polled the attitudes of Amazon customers and found that… [Continue Reading]...
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Apple jumps from fifth to third place in global phone shipments - Manufacturers shipped 1.546 billion cell phones last year, up 11.1 percent from 2010. Apple posted the strongest gains for the quarter and year -- 128.4 percent and 96.2 percent, respectively. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company ended both time periods in third place. No other vendor came even close. Samsung was up nearly 21 percent for the quarter and ZTE 30.9 percent for the year. IDC compiled the data, which represents shipments into the channel, rather than sales to end users. Apple's strong showing comes from a huge fourth-quarter finish -- 37 million handsets, all smartphones. By comparison, Nokia and Samsung sold… [Continue Reading]...
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The new meets the old: First LTE to CDMA VoIP handover complete - Qualcomm on Thursday finally came forward to announce an LTE milestone that took place at the end of December: the first voice call to be seamlessly handed over from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA network using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC). This is an important milestone because SRVCC lets the LTE-based VoIP/IMS packets be transferred to the legacy circuit-switched domain, unifying the old mobile networks with the new. This has been one of the big challenges for LTE VoIP for the last four years, and the industry was exploring SRVCC alongside a technique called Circuit Switched Fall… [Continue Reading]...
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Try Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro 4 for free - If you?ve ever tried Auslogics free Disk Defrag tool then you?ll know it?s a quick and easy way to optimize your hard drive, if a little basic: like most of the free defrag tools, the program offers the bare essentials and very little else. But it?s a very different story with the newly released commercial version, Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro, which is absolutely stuffed with essential features -- and the results are very impressive. Everyone uses their PC differently, for instance, and a ?one size fits all? defrag policy is never going to work. So it?s good to see Disk Defrag Pro offer… [Continue Reading]...
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