Microsoft announced that it would purchase Skype for $8.5 billion back in May 2010, and a few days ago the US Federal Trade Commission just approved the deal. While the deal is still pending antitrust approvals from other jurisdictions, Skype still continues to develop and release their latest version of their communication client. On June [...]
READ MORE »In the recent past, each new Mozilla Firefox revision has been meant with some degree of angst by users, who have worried that they would have to wait for their add-on extensions to catch up. So far, so good. The “rapid release” schedule of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, available for download today, doesn’t seem to have [...]
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Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 5 for the desktop and Android devices. That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle. This cycle, which is more [...]
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The change in theme handling under Windows 7 has made it a lot easier to install themes for the operating system. All that is needed now is to double-click on a themes file to install and activate it. While that’s only changing the basic color scheme, backgrounds and sounds, it is easier and faster than [...]
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New Windows 8 Screenshots Leak It was only a matter of time until some began posting screenshots of the recently leaked build of Windows 8. News about the leak with the build number 7989 broke on June 18. We did not know a lot about that build back then, other than that it was compiled [...]
READ MORE »n a move that can be seen as a direct response to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype last month, Google has said it plans to integrate real-time chat software that resembles Skype into its Chrome browser. The web giant is to integrate open-source software Web RTC into its browser, which will enable real-time communications capabilities via [...]
READ MORE »Today I saw a thread in ubuntuforums said someone lost ntldr file after ubuntu installed.And this tutorial shows how to fix Windows when you lost boot.ini,ntldr files.You do not need a Windows Live-CD,just need to boot into Ubuntu. 1.Mount the Windows partition. Use this command to determine the device name of Windows,always Windows installed in [...]
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Ever since I switched to Windows 7 on my laptop, which had previously shut down within seconds while running on Windows XP, the slow shutdown has been nagging me. If you also happen to be looking for ways to kick-start a Windows 7 slow shutdown, look no further! Here I will introduce you to [...]
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It’s modeled after Paint.NET Its goal is clear – to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Windows, Linux and Mac computers. Features: Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Like docked windows? No [...]
READ MORE »VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.10, a minor release of the 1.1 branch. This release brings a rewritten pulseaudio output, an important number of small Mac OS X fixes, the removal of the font-cache building for the freetype module on Windows and updates of codecs. See the release notes for more information [...]
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