iTunes Goes DRM Free And Enables Song Downloads Over 3G Connection
It’s about time Apple. As of today all 4 major music labels, and many independent ones, will offer music in Apple iTunes+ store, which equates to DRM free, 256Kbps AAC encoded music. As of April 1st,...
View ArticleWindows 7 Beta Released To Public This Friday, January 9
Microsoft announced that they’ll be releasing Windows 7 Beta this Friday as a free download. This is great news for those who are sick and tired of the clunkiness known as Vista (which sold 300...
View ArticleFirefox Mobile To Be Available Next Week?
According to reports, a milestone Firefox Mobile update a.k.a Fennec will be available on Windows Mobile as soon as next week. The initial release will be made available on the HTC Touch Pro, with...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Extensions Coming In May?
According to reports, the Google Chrome browser will soon be receiving their much anticipated extensions. A Google developer conference on May 27 will include a session on developing extensions for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Adds POP3 Support For Hotmail
Not sure how I missed this one but Microsoft recently enabled POP3 access for users of Hotmail. What this means is that you can now easily check your hotmail on external non-Microsoft e-mail clients...
View ArticleVista SP2 Release Candidate Available Next Week
The Vista SP2 update release candidate will be available to the public next week. And here I thought SP2 was actually…Windows 7? Go figure. Anyways, any update at all to the clunky, ill-received Vista...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 8.0 Final Released
Today Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8.0. According to initial reports, the new browser has a lot to like and becomes a solid contender in the war of browsers. Some...
View ArticleMac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping August 28th
There it is folks! Snow Leopard, aka OS X 10.6 will ship out to customers on August 28th. If you’d like can pre-order it now straight from Apple or Amazon for $29, that is assuming you’ve got 10.5...
View ArticleMac Blackberry Manager Now Available
All you Apple fans will be happy to know that the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac is now officially live. Sync your iTunes music as well as your contacts and appointments; easily backup, restore,...
View ArticleIntel’s Reader Can Read Any Physical Book (video)
Sure, Intel is primarily a chip maker, but every once and a while they throw us a product curve ball. The Reader (yup, that’s what it’s called) is a handheld device that can literally read aloud the...
View ArticleWhy I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music
I’m angry. If you own an iPad and an iPhone then you know that iTunes does not play well with both devices. After syncing my iPad with my iTunes everything seemed fine. That is until I plugged in...
View ArticleiOS 4 Arrives Today
Apple’s big new system update, the iOS 4, arrives today for the soon to be released iPhone 4, the 3GS, and 3G. Just in case you didn’t know, the iOS 4 brings long-awaited multitasking to the iPhone,...
View ArticleiTunes 9.2.1 Update Released
You know it’s a slow day when software updates are in the news. iTunes 9.2.1. is out now, and you can grab it via Software Update or Apple’s site. To be fair, though, this update does seem to have...
View ArticleChrome Pilot Program Releases Cr-48 Notebook. You’ll Want It
Those of you who are participating in the Chrome Pilot program are very close to getting a close-up of this compact gray-black notebook. As the very first notebook designed with the Pilot program in...
View ArticleParallels Rips VMWare A New One In Virtualization
Do you see that chart? That’s the blood, sweat and tears of thousands of slaves running a battery of 4,000+ tests to determine just one, almost insignificant fact: which is faster, Parallels or...
View ArticleMac OS X “Lion” to be Delivered Through the Mac App Store
Reportedly, Apple will offer Mac OS X “Lion” 10.7 through the Mac App Store, a first for the company and perhaps any major PC manufacturer. An optical disc version of the software will still be...
View ArticleHow to Use iTunes Match (how to)
When Steve Jobs introduced iTunes ten years ago, it changed the world. But not without having to drag the record labels kicking and screaming to it. But a decade later, the music industry has been...
View ArticleMessages for OS X Mountain Lion Replacing iChat, You can get it NOW
OS X Mountain Lion will arrive this summer. Apple has a preview up on their website. Cool, but you know what is better? The ability to download Messages, a beta program that works with Lion, yet is...
View ArticleChrome Xbox 360 Controllers
There is no doubt that the Xbox 360 is drawing close to its end of life cycle. Don’t get us wrong, the system probably still has a good few years left in it, but there isn’t too much more Microsoft...
View ArticleProSoft Engineering Data Rescue 3 Review
Through the years I’ve talked about far too many of my shortcomings when it comes to dealing with electronics. Be that as it may, you would think that doing multiple backups of hard drives would...
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