Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

GIMP is a graphics editing program that has two great features: it's FREE and you can pretty much run it on any operating system, which makes it the favorite software of many designers and graphic artists! Even though GIMP was not designed to replace Photoshop, each release shows us that a LOT ... Full story

HandBrake is a media converter that takes almost any format you throw at it and outputs a file compatible with most of the popular non-regular formats (PSP, PS3, XBOX360, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, etc). This universal-input media converter allows you to take practically any video format as a source and convert it to a wide ... Full story

Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8 has been available for beta-testing for about a year now, but since this morning the Redmond company released the final version worldwide for your downloading pleasure. The software is free for licensed Microsoft Windows users and will be an integrated part ... Full story

Today Apple presented their new version of the iPhone Operating System. Some of the main features were already rumoured but, as usual, there was still a lot to be heard from Steve Jobs. So, in a nutshell, here are the new features: Push Bluetooth will be able to auto-discover ... Full story

Since last wednesday I'm officially an iPhone user and, being used to just use and develop for Windows Mobile devices, I must say this is definitly different! I'm loving the user interface, which is a feature that we've come to expect from Apple but one of the things that most annoys me ... Full story

Word got out that there's a new beta version of Microsoft's new operating system! Windows 7 Build 7057 is available for download on the popular torrent sites and there seems to be minor changes that suggest Microsoft is starting to polish up the OS. ... Full story

Twitter is a simple message-based system which is easy to use, practical, API-friendly, free and most of all: it asks the simplest of questions: What are you doing? - So, why do people hate it so much? I talked to some people about this service and the answers were basically these: I never heard about ... Full story

As I said before, Microsoft is about to launch Windows Marketplace for mobile, as you can see in the mobile-formatted page over at client.marketplace.windowsmobile.com. Unfortunately, marketplace.windowsmobile.com still redirects to the Windows Mobile Catalog. Microsoft was very quiet about it at ... Full story

Apple's App Store just added more 5000 commercial apps to it's collection, meaning it now holds around 25,000 apps, taking the number one place and leaving Microsoft's nine year-old collection crying like a baby. Up until now Windows Mobile hold the record for applications available, building a wide collection over nine years. ... Full story

I almost could not believe my eyes when I read about this! According to Chris Holmes and aeroxp.org, Microsoft will give users the ability to disable and delete Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7. The bloggers identified the feature in a recent build (7048) of a pre-release version of ... Full story