Apple Fixes Flash Security Flaw, Bugs With OS X 10.6.1 Update

Apple has released an important update for Mac users On August 28, Apple began shipping OS X Snow Leopard.  Soon after, it was discovered that Apple had shipped a vulnerable version of Adobe's Flash player to customers.  The Snow Leopard installer would actually downgrade users' Flash players to the defunct version. Now Apple has released a [...]

Skype calls price raise 100% for many international calls

Skype's connection fee for placing calls to landline and mobile phones in certain countries will increase 100% on September 6th, the company's site now says. For Skype users who are not on an unlimited calling plan, calls that connect to landline or cellular numbers incur a one-time connection fee and a per-minute charge. Skype has more [...]

New Windows Live Movie Maker Download

The Windows Live team announced this afternoon that Windows Live Movie Maker, the free video editing software component of Windows Live Essentials has come out of beta and is available for download. Windows Live Movie Maker opened in beta last year, and has been designed to provide a quick and easy method of cutting video clips rather than [...]

First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization

With Google, one tends to learn the meanings and intentions behind the many events in its development programs pretty much as they happen. For example, the distinctions between what goes on in the Chrome browser's development channel ("Dev") and what happens in the beta channel, have frequently been explained to us after the fact. Today, we [...]

Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown – Running Web apps

While some are still sounding the trumpets over Google's proclamation that its Chrome Web browser technology will be elevated to the role of operating system sometime next year, there are some Web applications engineers who wonder why it isn't one already. Once Chrome 3 is proclaimed fully functional on Linux, it will essentially make the same [...]

Opera Picks up Steam With Speedy 10.0 Beta 3

Beta is mostly solid with a few rough edges Over the last few years Opera, a veteran player in the browser industry, has been turning heads by delivering increasingly user-friendly products.  While such praise is typically lavished on Firefox, Opera's Speed Dial and synchronization features help set it apart.  In fact, the president of [...]

Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

This is supposedly the official Windows 7 upgrade chart from Microsoft. It looks like all Vista installs except Starter can do a 32-bit to 32-bit upgrade and keep all your files, same with 64-bit to 64-bit. Windows XP owners will have to do a clean install after backing up your files. Easy enough to understand. Click image to [...]

Windows XP Mode Improved in New Windows 7 RC

One of Windows 7's most interesting features is going to be the Windows XP mode, available on Professional and Ultimate edition licenses.  Typically, virtual machines are only supported via separately purchase software from vendors such as VMWare and Microsoft.  This limits its audience and appeal to many everyday users.  So Microsoft [...]

Free Software – Mikogo cross platform desktop sharing tools

Software Name : Mikogo Price : FREE Before i using mikogo, all the time i was using the other free remote desktop software which is call Teamviewer to do remote support for my business client. Unfortunately Teamviewer is limited for personal or non commercial use, it make me feel uncomfortable to do a support for commercial type [...]

Alert! Windows 7 already cracked before release?

There are reports on the web that a crack for the Ultimate Edition of Windows 7 is already available on the Internet. Reports indicate a leaked Windows 7 Ultimate OEM DVD ISO from Lenovo made the hack possible. Reports from various forums and websites (which we will not link to because they offer the proof-of-concept of the Windows 7 RTM [...]