We all know how popular Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks is with web designers, photo enthusiasts and photographers. The software is popular for good reason, it works and it has everything you need. Flip side of the coin is Adobe Photoshop CS4 is also very costly, try $699.00.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla just released the first official beta of Firefox 3.6, featuring built-in support for themes (Personas), improved performance, and more. So all you early birds your download is now ready.
Today is a very special event for Linux fans: Canonical and Ubuntu developers, have released the final version of Ubuntu 9.10, named “Karmic Koala”. With the latest release of Ubuntu.
I love the fact there are free open operating systems available for everyone to use or modify to suit there own needs. It’s crazy to think that there is an entire community of developers who work to fabricate features that I want. Thats what computing should be all about – enabling choice. I like that [...]
After a while your browser appearance starts to wear on you, it seems to look old and tired. You then start looking for something fresh or new. I woke up this morning and had that exact feeling after looking at my browser. Having a whole slew of Firefox Themes hanging around I decided it is [...]
Adobe today has announced the release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta software for Macintosh and Windows, it will be available for download free to the public starting today. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta is an image management application database which helps in viewing, import, editing, and managing digital photos.
Most netbooks or cheap laptops don’t come with an optical drive for CD’s or DVDs. That’s because netbooks have a really small area inside the case and there is no room to add a drive, also this keeps the price down which is what attracts customers, and the small portable foot print of course. Only [...]
Many computer purchases these days won’t have an optical drive included, therefore when I discover a new virtual drive tool you can bet it has my attention. These software applications simulate the use of a physical DVD or CD drive. There is no shortage of utilities that will let you mount a disc image as [...]
Windows only: A fresh installation of Windows or upgrading to Windows 7 from XP offers users a chance to get things cleaned and organized from the start, but it also means your going to spend a lot of time downloading, installing, clicking next, and reinstalling applications that you need and used so much in the [...]
If you just snatched up a copy a Windows 7 upgrade for $30 with a college email address, you might have been surprised to find a file download instead of a DVD. Your left there with your jaw open and wondering now what. Don’t panic, the Download Squad blog details the easy process of that [...]
If you’re a U.S. college student, or at least have a working .edu email address within the US, you don’t have to pay $120 to upgrade Vista to Windows 7. You can get the Home Premium upgrade for just $29. Nice saving eh! If you go to Win741.com you will notice Microsoft is offering U.S. [...]
Microsoft’s posted this demo video of the Kindle for PC running on an HP Pavilion tx2 convertible. As you might think, you can Zoom and pinch text and turn pages with the swipe of your finger, and sort through your books. I’ll definitely be downloading this application and I know many other will also when [...]
Next week will usher in a new chapter of Microsoft’s history. The Redmond based software giant will officially be releasing Windows 7 to the masses in a variety of flavors including a “Starter Edition” for netbooks all the way up to the Pro version which comes with such bells and whistles as 256-bit encryption (BitLocker) [...]
Windows only: AVG today released the new version of it’s antivirus software called AVG 9 Free, it can be downloaded from AVG website or download portals such as gHacks. The free version is a 70 Megabyte downloaded and is compatible with the three latest generations of the Windows operating system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and [...]
Microsoft has been gaining a considerable amount of competition from OpenOffice, Google Docs and a bunch of other opensource alternatives to Redmond’s flagship productivity suite. To help counteract that, Microsoft has released Office Live which is an online version of their productivity suite that is supported by ads. However the company isn’t stopping ther and [...]
The much anticipation version 1.0 of the popular desktop organization application Fences, has been released today, and it continues to keep your cluttered desktop icons in attractive, minimal, organized groups.
Looks like Stumbleupon is starting to redesign itself as a social search engine “somewhere between a Twitter and Google,” says founder Garrett Camp. There’s over 8 million users a month at Stumbleupon, all of which are bookmarking and sharing websites with each other.
