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Filed under: Internet, Google, web 2.0
In a move that is surely reminiscent of Microsoft and Bing’s emphasis on VISUAL RESULTS (did you see Pivot?!), Google has just launched a new feature for its Reader. It’s called Reader Play, and it lets you click through all of the goodies that the Internet has to offer (or [...]
Filed under: Developer, Games
Did you know that the Xbox 360 is just a PC in a box? Sure, the inputs are different and you generally attach it to a TV — but still, internally, it’s PC hardware. You can even use the controllers with your PC if you like! The Xbox doesn’t run Windows though; [...]
Filed under: Games, Windows, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Holy synchronicity, Batman! Microsoft is preparing to offer games that can be played across Windows, WIndows Phone AND Xbox. That’s right: one game, three systems. It doesn’t matter that the input method for each platform is different; you’ll be able to play these games by keyboard, controller, or accelerometer. [...]
Filed under: Analysis, Browsers
The European Commission responded earlier today to the petition submitted by the ‘Gang of Six’ web browsers seeking “any of a myriad of small changes” to alert users of the 7 browser choices not initially displayed on Microsoft’s new European Browser Choice update dialog. In an email to CNet writer Stephen Shankland, [...]
Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services, Google
Google has been steadily adding to the variety of file types allowed in Google Apps — you can store or share basically anything, now — but there was still a missing link between the Microsoft Office documents you use on your desktop and the Google Docs files you edit [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Microsoft
Not only will the next version of Microsoft Exchange transcribe telephone calls, it’ll go one step further: Microsoft is also trying to translate telephone calls in real time. You’re speaking English, she’s speaking Russian — but you can both understand each other! HOW COOL IS THAT?
It was only a matter of time, [...]
Filed under: OS Updates, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Bad news for owners of the latest Windows Mobile 6.x devices: your phone doesn’t meet the hardware specifications for an update to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft says that even the brand new HTC HD2 doesn’t meet its tight requirements for the much-talked-about new mobile OS, according to APCMag.
Even though [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Windows
Ages ago, a friend of mine introduced me to xpy – a handy tweaking app for more advanced (and possibly reckless) users of Windows XP. Its developer later crafted a Vista-compatible version called Vispa and has been updating it ever since.
Recent builds have added Windows 7 compatibility, and Vispa remains an awesome [...]
Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers
When the new Windows “Select Your Web Browser” window — commonly known as the ballot screen — rolls out to European users at the beginning of March, they’ll be able to choose from five modern browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE 8, and Opera. Nobody’s surprised that any of those made the list, [...]
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Open Source
WinSCP is freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure Shell) and has hit version 4.2.6. Its main purpose is the safe of copying files between local and remote computers. Beyond this basic function, it manages some other actions with files, [...]
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