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Why We Still Need the Open Source VLC Media Player
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The Monday Version 2.0.2 release of the free open source VLC media player points out a surprising hole in the age of the Internet video - there is still no universal standard for video formats and players. Fortunately, VLC is there to fill in the gaps among proprietary formats and...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview hands-on
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Microsoft is releasing the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 today, a highly anticipated software release from the company that marks the introduction of a full touch interface for Windows. The software giant has attempted to bring touch functionality to Windows over a number of years, but Windows 8 goes...
Microsoft readies Windows 8 app store games
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Microsoft is preparing a slate of games for the Windows 8 operating system that consumers will be able to purchase on the upcoming Windows Store, according to The Verge. Some developers such as Arkadium are excited about the opportunity for games to shine on the new Microsoft operating system, whose...
SanDisk's new iNAND Extreme flash storage forms part of Tegra 3 'reference designs'
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SanDisk has added a little more detail to its latest iteration of embeddable flash storage, iNAND Extreme. Built through 19 nm process technology, the flash memory is geared towards portables like smartphones and tablets, with SanDisk mentioning both Android and Windows RT in the same breath. Capacities will range...
Getting started with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
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Everyone wants to try Windows 8 Consumer Preview. You've downloaded the software and installed it leaving just one task left: actually using the thing. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview drops you in at the deep end. Unlike Windows of old, which has taught users how to handle the user...
Windows 8 for $40: Will this convince you to upgrade?
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With the release of Windows 8 expected later this year, Microsoft is making a bid for the attention of existing Windows users by streamlining and lowering the cost of moving to the new Windows version. Computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 will be able to upgrade to...
Microsoft Takes On Dropbox With SkyDrive For Windows, Mac and iOS
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SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online storage service, is one of the core elements of the company’s cloud strategy. Today, Microsoft is taking the wraps off a number of new SkyDrive apps, including a Dropbox-like desktop integration for Windows and Mac (OS X Lion only). With this, SkyDrive will function like any other...
Attention all Windows users: patch your systems now
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Online attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows them to execute malicious code on computers that visit booby-trapped websites, researchers said in an advisory that underscores the importance of installing a Microsoft patch as soon as possible. The exploit of a critical IE bug, reported by...
15-inch Samsung Series 9 review (2012)
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Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A) laptop review Samsung unveils redesigned Series 9 laptops with 13- and 15-inch displays, starting at $1,399 Spotted: the elusive 15-inch Samsung Series 9Before there were Ultrabooks, there was the Samsung Series 9. When it arrived on the scene last year, measuring .64 inches thick, weighing...
Firefox 12 now available for download, Windows users get silent updates
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It doesn't yet include the opt-in system for plug-ins that Mozilla is working on, but Firefox users can now download an update that adds a few other new features and new tools for developers. If you've lost track, that means were now at version 12.0, and the biggest addition...
A Utility That Makes You Master of the Twitterverse
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You can do a lot more with Twitter than the official Web, mobile and desktop clients allow. To do it, though, you'll need to access Twitter's API — or use a tool that digs deeper into the API than the usual clients. If you're comfortable with a command line...
Windows 8 consumer preview: What you need to know
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Windows 8 shows a design sensibility and a clarity of purpose not often seen in a Microsoft product. I’ve spent about a week with the “consumer preview” of Windows 8, which is available to the public today. I’ve been testing it on a Samsung tablet, with a separate wireless...
Microsoft announces $39.99 Windows 8 Pro upgrade offer for most Windows users
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Microsoft has already detailed the Windows 8 upgrade route for those buying a new PC, and it's now finally confirmed what everyone else will be paying when they upgrade their existing PC. Those running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will able to download a Windows 8 Pro...
Microsoft announces Windows 8 Pro upgrade promotion for $39.99 online, $69.99 in stores
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We've known for a while that Microsoft is offering a promotion to new PC buyers who upgrade to Windows 8 OS Pro, but the company has now said that it will be selling Windows 8 Pro upgrades online for $39.99. In stores, the price will be quite a bit...
Facebook Messenger For Windows Desktop Chat Client Launches After Leaking
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You might spend more time using Facebook if you didn’t have to leave a browser window open, so today Facebook officially launches its Messenger for Windows free downloadable desktop client. But since an early tester leaked the download link in December and Facebook responded by making it publicly available, you...
Apple’s Power Nap Is Basically Microsoft’s Windows SideShow/Connected Standby
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Isn’t Power Nap an awesome new feature of OS X? It is if you’re a Mac user but to Windows users, it’s old news. If you missed the news, Power Nap allows your Mac to keep up to date while in sleep mode. So emails are updated, things get synced...
Windows 8 can wipe a PC clean in just six minutes
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BGR published a full review of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview last week, and to say we were impressed is an understatement. Make no mistake, Microsoft has plenty of work left to do, but we found its next-generation operating system to be a breath of fresh air while still...
Amazon releases "Send to Kindle" desktop software for the Mac
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More than three months after releasing software for Windows-users to send documents to a Kindle, Amazon has now released the Mac version. Announced on Tuesday afternoon, the "Send to Kindle for Mac" application allows Mac users to wirelessly send personal documents to their Kindles via drag-and-drop in the Dock...
Led By Former Microsofties, GitHub Brings The Party To Enterprise With New Windows Client
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GitHub, the source code hosting and collaboration service, has been growing like gangbusters. The site now has over 1.6 million registered developers, hosting over 2.8 million repositories on everything from jQuery and Ruby on Rails to node.js and Redis. At the outset, Github was just a side project, a tool...
Firefox 12 Has Arrived: Introduces Silent Updates For Windows Users And Improved Developer Tools
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A new version of Firefox used to be a big deal, but since Mozilla switched to a rapid release schedule, these updates are becoming pretty routine. Today, Mozilla launched Firefox 12. For most users, this is likely one of the least interesting Firefox updates in recent history, as it only...
Firefox 12 is out, brings automatic updates and 85 developer improvements
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Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 12 for desktop, and the new browser is now available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux device now. The company claims that the latest iteration of the browser includes no fewer than 85 improvements to its built-in developer tools, and a number...
Microsoft reveals Windows Live web video chat existence
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Windows Live video chat icons leaked out in August last year, hinting at a web video calling service for Microsoft's range of Windows Live services. The software giant appears to have confirmed its existence in a recent Building Windows 8 blog post. LiveSide spotted a video icon in the...
The Microcone is 6 mics in a tiny package, making meeting recording incredibly easy
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If you’ve ever been in the position where you’re trying to record a meeting with a single piece of equipment then you know what a mess the results turn out to be. Varying levels, with one person sounding like they’re screaming while another can barely be heard, are commonplace. But...
Orbitz to Mac users: show us the money!
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Upon further investigation, it turned out that things were not as they seemed upon first tweet. In the piece, Orbitz talks about how it has identified Mac users as being more willing to spend higher amounts of money on hotels than their PC-using friends. Mac users might spend $20-30 more...
Skype rolls visual ads during some Windows calls, wonders what the hang up is
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Skype has been raising the prospect of ads during calls for some time, and has already been running between-call ads before that, but now it's taking more definitive action. As of today, Skype for Windows users who don't have any credit their accounts will see -- thankfully, not hear...
This file-management app gives you Windows ‘My Computer’ on your Android smartphone
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Despite all the new-fangled tech heralded in by the mobile revolution, it seems some people may always hanker for a little old-school familiarity in their smartphone devices. The imaginatively-titled Computer is a file explorer/management app for Android, designed with Windows users in mind, as it replicates the ‘My Computer’ component...
Orbitz Pitches More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users
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Travel site Orbitz has confirmed that it uses predictive analytics to show Mac users different and more expensive hotels in search results than Windows users might see. It’s still not clear how widespread the practice is, nor what its implications might be. But there are ways to avoid the...
Microsoft dropping the 'Windows Live' brand, unifying its cloud services under the 'Microsoft account' identity service
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Microsoft's "Windows Live" branding has come to encompass a wide variety of software and services since it was introduced back in 2005, but it seems the company is taking advantage of the Windows 8 launch to clean things up. Much as the WIndows Live account provided a master identify...
Microsoft dropping the 'Windows Live' brand, unifying its cloud services under the 'Microsoft account' identity service
Microsoft Windows Update SSL certificate gets failing grade
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The SSL certificate for update.windows.com as viewed by the Windows Certificate viewer. Unmitigatedrisk.com Flame Flame's crypto attack may have needed $200,000 worth of compute power Discovery of new "zero-day" exploit links developers of Stuxnet, Flame Microsoft contains Flame with Windows Update revamp Flame espionage malware issues self-destruct command Crypto...
Microsoft really doesn’t want you using a Windows 8 start button
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Microsoft is apparently going to great lengths to prevent people from using the familiar start button and start menu in the company’s forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. The company is removing all code from Windows 8 referencing the start button/menu to prevent third-party developers from creating a workaround allowing...
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