Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Real-time language translation is fast becoming a reality. Take a look at this video of Microsoft demonstrating software that not only transcribes what is being said but also translates it. The only thing limiting this from becoming mainstream is processing power. I bet in two years we'll have universal translators ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Less than a year since it's launch in March 19, 2009, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is now the world's most-used web browser based on this post from the Windows Experience Blog:
This week, Net Applications released their January browser market share report. Their report shows that Internet Explorer ...
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
All Firefox fans, the Release Candidate for version 3.6 is available for download. The updated browser features the updated Mozilla Gecko 1.9.2 rendering platform which is optimized to run on small footprint operating systems like Windows CE and Maemo.
Firefox 3.6 has gone through numerous updates from the Alpha release to ...
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
For you chronic photo uploaders aching to share your Christmas and New Year pictures on Facebook and Multiply, this free tool is a delightful time saver. Simply named Shrink Pic, it runs in the background detecting whether you're about to upload a large photo to a website, through IM, or ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Keeping a personal computer safe from malware and hackers should be a priority for any responsible netizen. It may come as a surprise to some of you but having a firewall and updated anti-virus/spyware software isn't necessarily enough to keep internet malcontents at bay.
Aside from having a firewall and installing ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Today my geeky self enjoyed configuring two brand new laptops. They came without an operating system preinstalled so I had to install the OS, install an antivirus, run updates, and install applications on both. I came across two very helpful tools in the process. One of them simplifies and automates ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Everyone's favorite open-source browser, Firefox, turned five years old on November 9. When version 1.0 was launched, a good number of netizens migrated to it as the best alternative to Microsoft's problematic Internet Explorer 6.
Probably one of the reasons for the rapid rise in Firefox's popularity was the lack of ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
"What email would look like if it were invented today." That's how Google describes Google Wave, a new online real-time communication and collaboration tool currently under development.
What does it do exactly? Well this is as exact as I can get it since Wave is still a work in progress and ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
AV-Comparatives, a non-profit independent Antivirus software tester (it just rolls off of your tongue doesn't it?), has just published their latest Malware Removal Test results. It shows Microsoft's Security Essentials version 1.0 as the most effective free antivirus solution besting the free AVG, Avira, and Avast. It ranks alongside Symantec and Escan (both of ...
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