Editor's note: The following review is part of Macworld's GemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through mid August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. Visit the Mac ...
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Just days after a former employee blasted Mozilla for its frequent updates, the company on Tuesday shipped Firefox 14, patching 18 vulnerabilities and adding automatic encryption of searches passed to Google's search engine. The upgrade ...
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Microsoft today announced that it will start selling Windows 8 on Friday, Oct. 26, a little more than three months from now. New PCs equipped with the operating system will go on sale the same day, said Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc ...
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Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the only way to stop the practice, a researcher said Tuesday. People deliberately disclose a ...
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Even Apple has been hit by the computer sales tailspin in the U.S., research firms IDC and Gartner said yesterday. The two companies projected that U.S. Mac sales during the quarter ending Sept. 30 were down from the same period the year ...
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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced Wednesday that it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. ...
Microsoft has announced price increases for its Windows Office suite of as much as 17%, but its plans for Office on the Mac remain a mystery. The company declined to answer questions about Office for Mac 2011's future pricing and which ...
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Toshiba today released its smallest external hard drive, a device that trumps Western Digital's smallest drive, which was released earlier this month. Toshiba's new Canvio Slim hard drive. Like WD's new My Passport Edge, Toshiba's ...
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The mobile-audio-device market has grown rapidly over recent years,producing consumers well used to scrutinising audio and less willing to compromise on quality.Average Joe has grown a set of golden ears,you might say.Reinforcing this ...
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UK-You Cannot be Serious!,a comedy show,hosted by Alistair McGowan reviews clips from the last seven days of televised sport and promises to deliver what Saturday night TV should be about-fun! Martin Kempton designs the lighting ...
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Google announced on Thursday what the company terms the "biggest ever update" to its popular and controversial Street View map imagery Web-based service. Google has doubled the number of Street View special collections and has updated ...
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There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the ...
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Coherent Graphics Ltd today is pleased to introduce Proview 1.5, their updated full-featured PDF Editor for Mac OS X. Sporting a simple, clean interface, Proview features a wide range of tools to edit existing PDF documents, as well as ...
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Collabor8online is please to announce the release of a "significant upgrade" to its online project management software that has involved server and environment changes. Almost every aspect of the system has been streamlined, this includes ...
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While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier this week, advanced analysis of the ...
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