Archive for the Category ‘SOFTWARE’
Rant: Google Translate Toolbar In Chrome 5 Needs An ‘Off’ Button Ever since I upgraded my beloved Chrome browser to version 5 on my (Windows) computer, I’ve been wanting to get something off my chest about a new feature that was baked into it, one that annoys me to no end. With the update to [...]
February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the “black screen of death”, which affects its latest operating system, according to BBC. The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen after logging on to the system. The firm said it was looking into reports that suggest its [...]
December 1, 2009 | Posted in
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Google unveiled more details about its much-anticipated Chrome OS at a press event at its Mountain View, Calif., campus today, but those who were hoping for a beta release of the OS were in for a disappointment, according to Info World. "We aren’t launching the product today. There is no beta today," said Sundar Pichai, [...]
November 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the final version of Linux Mint 8 has been released a few minutes ago by Clement Lefebvre and the wonderful Linux Mint community. Dubbed Helena, the new Linux Mint 8 operatng system is based on the recently released Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31, X.org 7.4 [...]
November 28, 2009 | Posted in
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They use a phrase to describe this design philosophy that I think every developer should have tattooed on their hands: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” In other words, Google won’t waste its time on trying to find some perfect system that only exists in fantasy. Instead, Google is spending time on making [...]
November 25, 2009 | Posted in
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Google has opened up its gallery for developers to share Chrome extensions, a step that soon should make it easier for people to customize the open-source browser. Aaron Boodman, a leader of the Chrome extensions effort, announced the move on a mailing list posting Monday, and programmer and “gallery master” Lei Zheng shared details in [...]
November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Google is now making its turn-by-turn navigation system available to users of smartphones running Android 1.6, an older version of the open source operating system that’s in a lot more smartphones than version 2.0, which got the nav capability last month in connection with the release of the Droid. Google has rolled out a new [...]
November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Kaspersky has launched their version of antivirus for Macs. Kaspersky’s latest product Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac will now protect the Mac OS against malware, viruses, trojans, worms and similar problems existing on operating systems such as Windows and Linux. The malware attacks on Macs have begun, although they are nowhere as dangerous as their Windows [...]
November 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Google had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early — it’s not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products — but that’s the first official screen shot right there, and the big features are all roughed [...]
November 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren’t over after all. In the 1990s, Netscape had lost its dominance in the browser market to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and the Netscape-spawned open-source project called Mozilla had sunk into obscurity. Even a federal antitrust suit accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive practices with its browser [...]
November 9, 2009 | Posted in
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