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Software RSS FeedsMozilla Firefox v2.0 RC2 - Firefox is a free, open-source web browser based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows....Feed Source: Quintessential Player Development Build 114 - Quintessential Player is a non-conventional looking audio player for Windows. Nothing comes close to the level of attention and detail put into this player. It's easier to use and much more powerful than ever. QCD Player continues to bring the latest in CDDB support as well as all the latest digital music features.... PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher v6.0.4.335 - PRTG is an easy to use Windows solution for network/bandwidth usage monitoring. Supports SNMP, packet sniffing and netflow to create live readings with periodical trend data to help optimize the efficiency of routers, servers and other network components. PRTG is available as both Freeware and several different commercial editions, offering various levels of monitoring for multiple network devices and advanced features suitable for corporate use.... Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 6, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions),
pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.825.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... McAfee SuperDAT 4868 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... McAfee DAT 4868 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... HSLAB Sys Monitor Lite v1.3.11 - HSLAB Sys Monitor is a real-time monitoring and statistics tool that allows you to keep an eye on a specific system performance value. You can choose from CPU, memory, network connections, network traffic, disk space, connected users and more. You can only monitor one of these values at a time, but easily switch between them as needed. The small display can be placed anywhere on your screen and takes up very little desktop space.... HSLAB Free Sys Monitor v1.3.11 - HSLAB Sys Monitor is a real-time monitoring and statistics tool that allows you to keep an eye on a specific system performance value. You can choose from CPU, memory, network connections, network traffic, disk space, connected users and more. You can only monitor one of these values at a time, but easily switch between them as needed. The small display can be placed anywhere on your screen and takes up very little desktop space.... Lock My PC v4.0 - Lock My PC locks your computer when you leave it unattended. It shows a lock screen, disables Windows hot keys and the mouse. You can lock your PC with a hotkey or from the system tray. A password will unlock the computer. The program can log invalid password entry attempts and has option to keep your PC locked even if power failure occurs.
... HSLAB Sys Monitor Pro v1.3.11 - HSLAB Sys Monitor is a real-time monitoring and statistics tool that allows you to keep an eye on a specific system performance value. You can choose from CPU, memory, network connections, network traffic, disk space, connected users and more. You can only monitor one of these values at a time, but easily switch between them as needed. The small display can be placed anywhere on your screen and takes up very little desktop space.... HSLAB Shutdown Folder v1.8.17 - HSLAB Shutdown Folder is a utility which provides a service analogous to the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP "Startup" folder. It launches applications, command files (*.bat,*.cmd) and symbolic links placed into a "Shutdown Folder" folder just before Windows shuts down.... HMonitor v4.2.5.3 - Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track
system, CPU and VPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans.
By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such
as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides
quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors the various parameters. By clicking
its icon, you'll view real time values for each component.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.821.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... Spytech SpyAgent v6.0 - SpyAgent is the award winning and powerful monitoring solution that you need. SpyAgent gives you the power to log all keystrokes, websites visited, windows viewed, applications ran, internet connections made, passwords entered, chat conversations that were made, and even capture screenshots of the user's activities.... Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 5, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions),
pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.... AlbumPlayer v4.6b - Organise full albums and play them with the AlbumPlayer by just browsing through your covers. Albums are simply added by disk search or wizard. The song titles and covers are automatically grabbed from All Music Guide or CDDB. A caching mechanism makes it possible to store all your albums on CD, but keeps your most frequently played albums on harddisk. A skin editor is included.... 12Ghosts Wash v8.09 - Don't allow others to see which web sites you have visited! Removes history, cookies, temporary cached files, and the typed-address list of Internet Explorer, AOL, MSN, Netscape Navigator, and Opera. Many Windows options, as well as most-recently-used menus are wiped. It even deletes locked files (files that are in use, for example those ominous "index.dat" files). You may extend the washing with any user defined item.... AUTOption v7.0 - AUTOption allows you to create your own CD autorun menu. Simply create your graphic, design your menu in real time with the Menu Editor, save your results and go. Or you can use the Wizard to create you menu almost instantly, you can then open your menu in the Menu Editor to add advanced functions and adjust the appearance of your menu. You can even create multi-level menus, allowing you to group your menus appropriately. You can construct multi-level menu systems of almost infinite depth and width, allowing you quick access to the options you want.... 12Ghosts ShutDown v8.09 - 12Ghosts ShutDown lets you terminate programs not responding, shut down, restart, log off, reboot to DOS, control screen saver, lock workstation, and more.... PC Tools AntiVirus v3.0 - PC Tools AntiVirus is a full anti-virus package designed to protect your computer from virus, worm and Trojan horse threats and infections by: scanning your computer system for these types of infections and quarantining or deleting them, and providing your computer system with real-time background protection, preventing threats from infecting your computer and propagating while you work.... Cute CD DVD Burner v3.2 - Cute CD DVD Burner is a powerful and easy dvd utility for CD and DVD burning as well as cloning. By this program, you can create and burn audio and data CDs and DVDs with all files of any format, making bootable DVDs and CDs, building and burning ISO image files, creating multisession discs,erasing rewritable discs. You also can clone your CDs and DVDs even if you have ONLY ONE DVD Driver. CD R(W),DVD+R(W) and DVD-R(W) are supported.... McAfee SuperDAT 4867 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... McAfee DAT 4867 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... iNetFormFiller Free v3.5.13 - Stores personal data and fills web-forms automatically. Records any order of actions required for form filling (including clicks on web-links) and automatically reproduces this order. Possibility to edit forms without page loading, subject profiles, intellectual identification and filling of fields of any types.... 12Ghosts ShowTime v8.09 - Enhance your taskbar clock to show the date and a second time zone. You may display seconds smaller and the date in a different color, for example. Everything is configurable! An alarm can be set daily or at a certain date. The comfortable snooze function reminds you repeatedly until it is answered. With a list of 12 world times, chimes, hour signal, chronograph, and quickly accessible countdown the program is powerful and a pleasure to use.... 12Ghosts Backup v8.09 - 12Ghosts Backup saves every change of your documents while you are working on them. Automatically stores changed versions in an archive folder and applies a smart filter to keep versions of all ages.... 12Ghosts Shredder v8.09 - Overwrite files, drag and shred, DoD conform, Wipe Disk. Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Nobody will ever be able to recover files from your disk! Nobody will even find out the previous name or file size. The file can be overwritten several times with random bits so that even the finest magnetic tracks are mixed up. An irreplaceable extension for every Windows user.... LBE Desktop Helpdesk v4.0.163 - Easy to use helpdesk software,sensibly priced to suit all businesses. No extensive training required. Easily configured to reflect the way that you work. Uses e-mail to keep everyone informed. Maintains a complete audit trail of all actions. Extensive reports supplied. Scalable - supports Access, Oracle and Sql Server. Complete control over data presentation including conditional formatting, export to html, print preview, drag and drop grouping.... Usenet Explorer v1.7.2 - Usenet Explorer is a multi server, multi windows, multitasking newsreader for text and binaries. A powerful binary downloader, without compromising support for text. Supports virtual groups and grouping binary posts into collections. Full download automation capabilites. Fast and reliable. Includes comprehensive usenet binary indexing service. ... FTP Voyager v13.0.0.4 - FTP Voyager lets you perform FTP tasks as if working locally in Windows Explorer. Connect to any FTP site, drag-n-drop files, synchronize, simultaneous transfers, auto-resume downloads, and more. Allowing you to maintain your web site by clicking on one button, FTP Voyager transfers only files that need to be transferred. FTP Voyager includes direct server-to-server transfers, multiple window support, scheduler, queuing, and much more. FTP Voyager gives you everything you need and more to make your FTP operations easy and hassle-free.... Serv-U v6.3.0.1 - Serv-U is a powerful, easy-to-use, award-winning FTP server created by Rob Beckers. An FTP server uses the FTP protocol to share files across the Internet. Serv-U is not only 100% compliant with the current FTP standard, but also includes numerous features unique to Serv-U that make it a perfect file sharing solution for virtually everyone.... ShellToys XP v5.2.2 - ShellToys XP is a suite of 27 shell extensions adding new features to the Windows context menu for files, folders, windows and dialogs. Right-click a single file to encrypt, decrypt, shred or split it, change its extension, date or attributes. Image files display a preview on the menu, zip files display contents for easy extraction of one or more files.... Audiotools v6.32 - Audiotools is a direct to disc audio recorder used to record from LPs and cassettes whilst breaking into separate songs automatically or under user control. It can process audio live or off-line, applying equalization, gain, noise reduction etc with support for plugins to add further processes. The software works with files in a variety of formats, including MP3, WAV, OGG and WMA, and also includes built in support for CD ripping and burning.... Cursor Hider v1.4.7.1 - Cursor Hider helps you to work more productively. It removes the mouse pointer (the mouse cursor does not cover the entered text) while you are working with the keyboard and returns the pointer with any mouse action. You can turn off the mouse pointer completely. This is very useful option for touch screen devices. You will not see the cursor at all.... EMS MS SQL Manager Lite v2.5 - EMS MS SQL Manager Lite is a light and easy-to-use freeware graphical tool for MS SQL/MSDE administration. It has minimal required set of instruments for those users who are new to MS SQL server and need only it's basic functionality. It makes creating and editing MS SQL Server database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts, manage users and their privileges, simply edit SQL queries and more.... Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 4, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions),
pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.... Medved QuoteTracker v3.7.9C Beta - QuoteTracker is a Windows program that integrates with various datafeeds, brokers and financial sites to provide you with streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts with Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time and Sales, alerts, news monitoring, and everything else you may need to effectively trade in today's market.
It also ties into major brokers to give you full Integrated trading from within the software. You can trade through your own broker using QuoteTracker direct access interface. Order Entry and transaction monitoring is drastically faster.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.819.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... Bersoft Image Measurement v5.0 - Bersoft Image Measurement is intended for measuring and analyzing digital images.
Measurements are done by pointing and clicking, using angle, distance, perimeter, area, point and line measurement tools or in an automated way, when calculating statistics, pixel profile, object finding, and array/band analysis.
Supports image acquisition from TWAIN devices and many different types of images, including DICOM files.... BookCAT v8.11 - BookCAT is a tool to help you maintain an inventory of your book collection. It will help you track what you have in your library, where it is, and the total value of your collection.... SQL-RD v5.0 - This powerful, intuitive and easy to use report scheduler will save you from the mundane job of manually running SQL Server Reporting Services reports daily, weekly, monthly etc and then exporting them to e-mails to be sent to your client, boss etc. Simply schedule to an email, printer, fax, ftp or folder, choose the output format (word, rpt, pdf etc). Single or packages of reports.... McAfee SuperDAT 4866 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... McAfee DAT 4866 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... Becky! Internet Mail v2.27.00 - Becky! is a multi-featured E-mail client specialized for Windows 95/98/NT4.0 and the Internet. You will find many features which are expected for an Internet E-mail software, and some of them would be beyond your expectations.... BWMeter v2.6.0 - BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter and monitor, which measures and displays all traffic on your network. Unlike other products, it can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). BWMeter can create statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all internal network traffic as well as download and upload from the internet.... DzSoft PHP Editor v4.0.1.1 - DzSoft PHP Editor is a handy and powerful tool for writing and testing PHP scripts and HTML/XML pages. Being designed specifically for PHP development, it has a friendly, but powerful interface that is comfortable both for beginners and experienced programmers. Has convenient one-click preview in internal browser (with no web server required), quick code inserts and many other essential things needed for easy and productive PHP development.... DeskTool v3.1 - DeskTool is a desktop toolbar designed to give you easy access to frequently-used applications by displaying an organized row of buttons from which to choose. DeskTool is tightly integrated into the desktop shell of Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/ME/XP/2003.... Passwords by Mask v1.45 - Passwords by Mask is an application designed to generate passwords of any character content. This application is smallest, easiest and realfast program could be used for network administrators, internet service providers and other jobs where passwords must be created and administered. Passwords by Mask allow users to do choice type of password symbols. You can to fix random or specified alphabetic, random or specified numeric, random or specified alphanumeric,random or specified special or random or specified all keyboard characters for every password symbol.... Offline Explorer Pro v4.4 SR1 - Offline Explorer Pro builds on our award-winning Offline Explorer product. Using Offline Explorer you can download an unlimited number of your favorite Web and FTP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. Offline Explorer also has many web development features that will allow you to easily edit, view, browse or search your downloaded Web pages using Offline Explorer`s built-in browser... What? You think Windows 8 Leap Day is coincidence? - Good marketing is all about subtly and communicating a complex message simply. But in the era of tech events, particularly Apple's during the second Steve Jobs era, their announcement is something of an artform. Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview event announcement is rich in subtly and foreshadowing, simply by a date. February 29. Leap Day comes once but every four years. It's a special day that seems to have been specially chosen: Microsoft will hold the Windows 8 event in Barcelona, Spain, during Mobile World Congress (Feb. 27 to March 1). Not on Day One or Two, which customarily are… [Continue Reading]... Windows 8 Consumer Preview can be yours February 29 - Beta testers, get ready: Windows 8 is coming on Leap Day. The first public beta release that is, which keeps it on track for an October release. My colleague Joe Wilcox details the timeline in this post on Windows 8, which hints at Microsoft's announced date -- calling it "six or more weeks later" than the early January release of Windows 7's public beta. I'd say he was pretty close. Microsoft is celebrating the release of the Customer Preview with an event in Barcelona, Spain on February 29, which is being held there to coincide with Mobile World Congress, also… [Continue Reading]... Google releases Chrome 17 -- get it now! - Chrome 17 entered the "stable" channel today, 33 days after going beta. Not coincidentally, the stable build follows Chrome for Android by one day. You'll want the one to get the full sync benefits of the other. Google promises security improvements with the new release and something else: Faster page loading, as you type and in some cases barely before you start typing the address. Chrome essentially pre-renders websites, extending the search page pre-rendering already available. The feature is disturbing in practice -- a little too prescient, like mind reading, when it works. On the security side, Google has long… [Continue Reading]... Chrome for Android: It's not the 'right' browser yet - Yesterday, Google pulled the trigger and finally launched Chrome for Android in beta. It is undoubtedly one of the most significant app releases ever for the Android platform, but like other platforms, the browser market is a strange beast and BetaNews readers, of all people, should be acutely familiar with that fact. If you do not own an Android device capable of running the Chrome Beta, you probably looked around at the reviews and got a general feeling for the new software and why it's "the platform's best new browser," or the native browser killer with an improved interface and… [Continue Reading]... Would you pay $10,000 for pizza and a bride? - I don't know what's stranger, Pizza Hut's Valentine's Day marketing gimmick or one of our editors finding it on Facebook. BetaNews FileForum managing editor Eddie Elmore consistently drops interesting links into group chat. The link to the Pizza Hut promo churned up so much discussion among the staff, I had to post. If you're willing to pay Pizza Hut $10,000 and another 10 bucks for a Dinner Box, the restauranteur will help you propose marriage. Besides the food, you get a ruby ring, limo service, flowers (hey, it's Valentine's Day), photographer, videographer and your own fireworks show. My question: What… [Continue Reading]... Do you store files in the cloud? Try BoxCryptor 1.2 - Acomba UG has released BoxCryptor 1.2, its free and paid-for encryption tool for those using certain cloud-based backup services. BoxCryptor is designed for those who wish to encrypt their data locally prior to uploading it to services like Dropbox where the encryption is handled remotely, thereby adding an extra layer of privacy and security to the user?s files. Version 1.2 adds support for unlimited encrypted folders to those using the paid-for, unlimited version ($39.99 personal, $99.99 business), plus adds a new Advanced mode for more experienced users alongside a new wizard for creating and opening encrypted folders for beginners. Multiple folder support was… [Continue Reading]... Hacker taunts Symantec, releases pcAnywhere source code, promises others - Source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere software is now out in the wild, following failed negotiations between a hacker and the company. Emails published to Pastebin on Monday indicate that the hacker demanded $50,000 from the company to prevent the source code's release, a conversation Symantec confirms is legitimate. The company says it did not handle the negotiations, which were done in conjunction with law enforcement. "YamaTough", the hacker behind the extortion attempt, tells Reuters in his own defense that even if the money was paid, he still intended to release the source code to Symantec's remote desktop software. Symantec disclosed… [Continue Reading]... Is your graphics card wonky? GPU Caps Viewer can help - The average graphics card is now a seriously complicated piece of kit, a host of complex subsystems and technologies working together to deliver the visuals you expect. When everything?s running smoothly then that?s just fine, as you don?t have to pay attention to any of this, but if your system?s misbehaving then GPU Caps Viewer may be able to help you find out why. The program provides all the core details about your hardware, for instance: its GPU model, Shader cores, BIOS version, TDP, memory size and type. You?re able to monitor its current temperature, fan speed, clock rates, voltage and GPU load,… [Continue Reading]... Save big on security software in February - February is a great month if you?re looking to bolster the security of your computer as we have an amazing selection of offers available on AVG products in the Downloadcrew Software Store. Whether you are looking to protect a single computer, or several, we have deals on the most appropriate software for you so you can save money whatever your needs. For complete, all-round security, look no further than AVG Internet Security 2012 Complete Bundle, which includes an incredible five AVG products -- (AVG Internet Security 2012, AVG PC Tuneup 2012, AVG LiveKive (complete with 25GB of storage), AVG Family Safety 2012 and… [Continue Reading]... You can lose money selling iPhone, just ask Sprint - Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it -- as the old adage goes. Sprint wanted iPhone and got it, and paid dearly during the first quarter of sales. This morning, before the opening bell, the nation's third-largest carrier announced holiday quarter results and another big operating loss. There, iPhone heavily contributed. The carrier reported a $1.3 billion loss, or 43 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $8.7 billion. Profit margins plummeted to 9.5 percent from 16 percent a year earlier, and iPhone largely accounted for the decline. Sprint loses would actually have been more, but… [Continue Reading]... OneNote for Android is here -- get it now or live with regret - For years, OneNote seemed like a promise without purpose. Microsoft developed a fresh, flexible application capable of pulling together content from many sources and in a way that made creative sense. Sure the Office family member imitated note-taking software already available for the Mac, but with surprising approachability for Microsoft-developed Windows software. But who really used OneNote? Then during the Office 2007 release cycle, Microsoft swapped out Outlook for OneNote in the low-cost consumer edition and millions of users discovered the promise. But not the purpose. Microsoft would later imbue that quality quite unexpectedly by connecting OneNote to SkyDrive. Sync… [Continue Reading]... Has the 'App Economy' landed you a job? - A new study from CEO network TechNet suggests that the surge in smartphone and device app development has created 466,000 jobs since 2007, welcome news for those looking for positives in an otherwise tough economy. But has it landed you a job? The study, conducted by former chief economist for BusinessWeek Dr. Michael Mandel took into account not only the "pure" app development firms like Zynga, but also companies where apps have become a necessary secondary business such as Electronic Arts or Amazon, and even those providing infrastructure and platform support for the App Economy including Google, Apple, and Facebook.… [Continue Reading]... What's behind Google's Charles Dickens doodle? - One of England's most celebrated authors was born 200 years ago today. Google is commemorating Charles Dickens with a little (Oliver) Twist. There's a doodle, as would be expected, but behind it links to free ebooks from the search and information giant's own bookstore. Eh, what's up with that? Is it favoritism? That's a question I've heard often asked recently about Google, as the amount of cross-product, cross-service integration increases. The practice jumped quite dramatically after Larry Page returned as Google CEO in April 2011, and it's not abating. Favoritism should be a concern, given that impartiality -- and with… [Continue Reading]... Google Chrome for Android launches in beta - Big news came from Google on Tuesday as the company released the very first beta version of its Chrome web browser for Android. Like the mobile versions of Opera and Firefox for Android, browser tabs and favorites from the user's desktop version are synced to the mobile browser, providing a unified experience across platforms. The beta version is currently only available on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and Brazil, so if you don't have ICS at your disposal right now or you're in a country not listed,… [Continue Reading]... All you need is a good idea and a little Kickstarter - As a software developer I can appreciate how important it is to have good ideas. The challenge is making them reality. Also it is not enough just to be taught a skill, one needs to be able to put it to work doing something valuable to others. Some of the best ideas come from people who aren't just trying to make a buck, but who love what they are doing and see the real value in it. Sadly many a good idea never makes it beyond the drawing board. But some people don't give up so easily and with a… [Continue Reading]... Microsoft and 24/7 Inc. team up to build a better automated customer service platform - Yesterday, with the announcement of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Mobile, I touched on the big developments taking place in mobile sales, marketing, and support. The ever-increasing power of smartphones is shifting the way businesses and customers interact in nearly all forms of commerce (B2C, C2C, B2B, and so forth) because both ends rely on their mobile devices as the primary method of communication. An important component in this customer relationship model is automated communications, and Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has formed a long-term equity partnership with 24/7 Inc. that focuses on that aspect. Microsoft and 24/7 Inc. have joined up… [Continue Reading]... Waterfox 10 -- 64-bit browsing for your Windows PC - When it comes to operating systems, 64-bit is becoming increasingly popular. The ability to access additional, and ever-more-important, memory is a big draw, as is the added security and stability. But despite a general move to 64-bits for OSes, there is still relatively little 64-bit software that has been written to take advantage of them -- well, Windows. This is also true in the browser arena, but it is something that is being addressed by Waterfox 10, a 64-bit version of Firefox. While it is true that there are already 64-bit versions of Firefox available, this is only the case in… [Continue Reading]... Mobile Mouse: Control your PC with smartphone or tablet - The advent of big-screen HD TVs has made it easier than ever to watch video on your computer through your television. The only downside is physically hooking up your computer to your TV, followed by having to get up from your comfortable seat to take control. Why go to all that hassle when you can configure your mobile or tablet to act as a wireless remote control, mouse and keyboard with the help of a tool called Mobile Mouse? Mobile Mouse comes in two parts: Mobile Mouse Server for your PC or Mac, and then the mobile app for iPhone/iPod touch, iPad or Android. Start by… [Continue Reading]... Amid its fastest growth ever, Amazon slashes prices on S3 cloud storage - Amazon on Tuesday reduced the price of its Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud-based storage platform by between 12 and 13.5 percent for U.S. customers. With the reduction, the retailer-turned-cloud-services-provider is attempting to draw the attention of businesses utilizing on-premises storage solutions with a more affordable and scalable cloud platform. As a bonus, current customers also get a nice reduction in their monthly bill. It applies to both private enterprise and users of AWS GovCloud. In the first weeks of 2012, Amazon unveiled a new solution in beta called AWS Storage Gateway, which connects on-premises software applications with cloud storage for… [Continue Reading]... Ad-Aware 10 definitely needs to be on your shortlist - Lavasoft has today released Ad-Aware 10, the latest incarnation of its flagship anti-malware package. The program will be available in three versions -- Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+, Ad-Aware Personal Security ($12 per year) and Ad-Aware Pro Security ($36 per year) -- but, unusually, it?s the free release this time around that sees the most significant change. Many technologies previously reserved for the commercial editions only are now available in the free build, for instance. So real-time process protection will detect and block malware before it can launch; Registry protection looks out for potentially risky Registry changes, and real-time network protection blocks connections… [Continue Reading]... Copyright © 2012, DispatchBar.com. 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