Jul 04
With Firefox 3.5 being recently released, and hitting five million downloads in 24 hours, Firefox appears to be gaining more market share, and Internet Explorer's market share is slipping according to Favbrowser, and a graph by statcounter shown below. Internet Explorer fell from 62.09% to 59.49%, while Firefox rose from 28.75% to 30.33%. But Firefox isn't the only browser that's gaining market share. Opera, recently released the beta version of version 10 of its browser, rose from 3.23% to 3.36%, Safari, recently released version 4 of its browser and hitting 11 million downloads in three days, rose from 3.23% to 3.36%, and Chrome rose from 2.42% to 2.82%.
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written by Easton Royce
Jul 04
Image Tuner is a free software for batch resizing, converting, watermarking and renaming your digital photos and images from more than 20 image formats to JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats. The program will help you to prepare your digital photos to upload and publish them in the Internet or send via e-mail. What's new: + Added support of more than 20 new image formats (DICOM, Targa / Wireless Bitmap etc.) + Added support of camera RAW files (CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, DCR, X3F, ORF …) * Increased loading speed of image preview * Improved user interface Download: Image Tuner 1.1 | Freeware, 1.5MB Screenshot: >> Click here
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written by Easton Royce
Jul 04
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features: The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box Download now for free, forever! Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon's tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.Don't like menus?
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written by Easton Royce
Jul 04
George Hotz, the 19-year old wiz kid who made headlines two years ago for being the first to successfully unlock Apple’s original iPhone all by himself, is again drawing the spotlight for creating and releasing the first-ever jailbreaking tool for the new iPhone 3GS.
Dubbed “purplera1n,” the software is currently in beta and available for Windows-only, [...]
written by Easton Royce
Jul 04
A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a
13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide. A federal judge said Thursday that he has tentatively thrown out Lori Drew’s convictions, acquitting her of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. U.S. District Judge George Wu [...]
written by Easton Royce
Jul 03
Reezaa MP3 Tag Editor is a windows desktop application for writting and editing tag information in MP3 files. Reezaa MP3 Tag Editor supports ID3v1 and ID3v2 tag writing in batch mode. With Reezaa MP3 Tag Editor you can also write and edit music lyric. Features: - Batch editing tag information in MP3 files. - Supports Conver Art Picture editing. - Supports Lyric editing. - Supports batch filename renameing. Download: Download Screenshot: >> Click here
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written by Easton Royce
Jul 03
In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The Linux Foundation continues to maintain that Microsoft's VFAT patents are not valid. And of course the United States is one of only a small handful of countries that even recognise software patents. However, according to CNet, the Linux community has recently been taking steps to work around the entire VFAT patent issue. But what is the nature of the VFAT patents, and how can Linux bypass them?
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written by Easton Royce
Jul 03
Earlier today the guys over at GeekSmack.net “confirmed” that Windows 7 was set to RTM(Release to market) on July 13, which also coincides with Wzor's unconfirmed rumor last month. A few minutes ago sources close to the company, who wish to remain anonymous, have confirmed to Neowin that Windows 7 is indeed set to RTM on July 13. After a year of furious beta testing and continuous leaks every other week, Microsoft is finally ready to give Windows 7 the green light to hit the market. Currently the Windows 7 team is working on polishing off the RTM build so that no show-stopper bugs are present in Windows 7.
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written by Easton Royce
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