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If you’re one of those high-end PC users who sprung for Windows Vista Ultimate hoping that the promised Ultimate Extras would someday amount to something, you might have to keep waiting after today. Microsoft released a precious few updates...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Music recording software just took another giant leap, now able to do what was thought to be impossible. Direct Note Access individually manipulates groups of musical notes (chords), giving recording engineers the ability to completely and undetectably create pitch-perfect...
POSTED Wednesday, April 16, 2008
If you’re a Second Life player, you know how cumbersome the keyboard and mouse feel when you’re trying to move around that virtual world, interact with others and construct stuff. Second Life creator chairman and designer of groundbreaking spreadsheet software...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
We thought we were completely done with screensavers, but then Drop Clock came along. As you can see in the video above, this is not just any screensaver. Those Helvetica numerals falling into the drink in smooth slo mo...
POSTED Thursday, April 3, 2008
Who’s the most beautiful woman in the world? Now there’s a computer program that can decide that for us, once and for all. Tel Aviv University student Amit Kagian concocted software that does an uncanny job of predicting which...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
We’ve heard of MotionPortrait before, that software that animates still photos, turning them into moving, smiling and talking 3D models. But we haven’t seen an example of it used like this, where a nearly lifelike model is animated in...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
One of my favorite games when I was a digital music reporter in the '90s was guessing how long a new Web music service could survive before the recording industry suits shut it down like a bad habit. For Muxtape,...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Adobe announced its intention to create a free, online photo editing application in the fall of last year. Today, Photoshop Express launches for public consumption. It's not much like the computer application of the program, so if you're used...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
I hate to toot my own horn, but remember those Clear Channel digital billboards? They were recently hacked and changed to display the graffiti logo of the hacker, you know, just like I predicted would happen with Internet-controlled digital...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
You might have heard that Microsoft rolled out the first service pack for Windows Vista yesterday, claiming to fix lots of bugs, make the operating system more secure and, well, we hoped maybe it could even cure all known diseases....
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
It feels like the world just changed. Apple opened up its iPhone and iPod Touch platforms to developers, and putting muscle behind them is $100 million from Silicon Valley moneybags Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers. With that kind of cash...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
The world does not have enough guitar players so Allegro Multimedia is chipping in with the Guitar Wizard to solve the problem. The Wiz is a software program that's compatible with PCs or Macs and comes complete with a...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
I get a kick out of those desktops that constantly change the display to show various pictures and scenes located on the hard drive. While it is interesting to see the latest vacation photos, or kid grinning like a...
POSTED Friday, November 30, 2007
Google has its sights set on Microsoft in a serious way. With Microsoft Office being the clear leader in office software, Google is looking to save people money by giving them the same products for free. They already offer...
POSTED Tuesday, September 18, 2007
There are lots of rumors floating around at the moment about Google possibly working on a client-side version of their super-popular Gmail e-mail service. The standalone program would allow users to store their emails on their own computer and...
POSTED Tuesday, September 18, 2007
From the technology so scary maybe it shouldn't exist department comes a new photo imaging product called MotionPortrait. Originally developed by the Sony-Kihara Research Center and acquired by a new Japanese company calling itself MotionPortrait, the technology takes one...
POSTED Monday, September 17, 2007
Photoshop is basically the end-all be-all of photo-editing programs; anyone who does anything remotely professional with digital image manipulation has it. It's the best piece of software around for dealing with your casual digital pictures, too, but the problem...
POSTED Tuesday, September 11, 2007
If you put a blindfold on, would you be able to tell one CD from another? That's pretty much what blind people have to deal with all the time. Recognizing the problem, Mitsubishi Japan created CD-Rs with Braille printed...
POSTED Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Nothing spoils a nice, legal BitTorrent downloading session like leechers. People turn off their uploads and just download, killing the entire point of BitTorrent and slowing the speeds for everyone else. The whole point of BitTorrent is to share...
POSTED Friday, August 31, 2007
Google Earth is already one of the coolest time-wasters available online, allowing you to zoom around the earth and take a look at basically every patch of land on our great planet. It's a lot of fun, and it...
POSTED Wednesday, August 22, 2007
In addition to those fancy new iMacs, Apple also announced a big update to their iLife suite of software applications. iLife contains stuff like iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iMovie. Basically, it's Apple's multimedia software. So what's new in iLife?...
POSTED Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Today in the neverending battle between man and machine, machine wins again. Programmers at the University of Alberta have shown that Chinook, a computer program they created, can beat any opponent in checkers — or at least score a draw....
POSTED Monday, July 23, 2007
Digital photography is all the rage these days, so it's too bad that the standard photo-editing software, Photoshop, runs close to a thousand dollars. It's not exactly something your mom will need or want to crop and edit photos...
POSTED Friday, July 13, 2007
For those wanting to make Flickr or Google image surfing fun and easy, PicLens has released a plug-in for Firefox and Safari that let's you flip through photos full-screen instead of the awful tiny postage stamp size, which makes...
POSTED Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I've cheerfully used DOS and every version of Windows: 3.1, 95, 98, ME (briefly), NT, 2000, XP, and (briefly and with mounting horror) Vista. Yesterday I took a walk on the wild side and tried Safari for Windows XP....
POSTED Thursday, June 14, 2007
Load up PawSense software on your PC, and you can't blame the cat for your missing files and computer crashes any more. The software is always monitoring whatever is typed on your keyboard, sensing when sudden gibberish takes over....
POSTED Friday, June 1, 2007
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POSTED Monday, May 21, 2007
Private investigators and identity thieves will be interested in new software from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, which promises to reassemble shredded documents. Well, not the documents themselves, but once the shreds are all scanned in (I wonder who...
POSTED Thursday, May 17, 2007
It's been a while since Apple updated Boot Camp, that seemingly miraculous app that lets you boot up Windows on a Mac, and now it brings in 32-bit Windows Vista support with its newly-released Boot Camp 1.2. Apple says...
POSTED Thursday, March 29, 2007
Although we normally don't write about screensavers, this one by Primelabs has a cool factor mammoth enough to qualify as an exception. Twingly, as it's somewhat perplexingly called, shows blogging activity all across the world. Judging from the video...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Uh, let's see. Cabbage. Baked beans. Marmite. Paper towels. Word processor. That's how your grocery list might read if you shop at Tesco, one of the U.K.'s two biggest supermarket chains. Already selling Internet access and mobile phones, the company...
POSTED Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Passwords, no matter how clever, can be found out and used to get through to your most precious data. One thing people can't steal, however, is your face, which makes this "Snappy Face Recognizer" a more secure option for keeping...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
If you want a taste of Microsoft's new operating system, the oft-delayed Windows Vista, you can download a not-ready-for-prime-time beta version of the software. Don't be too quick to try to install it on your home computer, however, as the...
POSTED Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Microsoft unveiled some new search features in its server software today that allows users to search not only documents but the minds of their fellow workers as well. The software searches through the documents and e-mails of employees and automatically...
POSTED Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Speaking at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates stressed that the future of gaming is in the software, with "games that can be played on any of the devices you'll have." That...
POSTED Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Word processors are powerful tools, though most old-school writers will tell you they still prefer pen and paper. Now you can have it both ways with the new version of Logitech's io2 electronic pen, which imports your musings directly...
POSTED Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Your browser's Google toolbar is a handy spot for quick Web searches or blocking pop-up windows, but as of yesterday you can use it to send text messages, too. The new toolbar (Version 4, for those scoring at home)...
POSTED Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Kicked off by CES, the New Year always brings with it mucho promises from electronics manufacturers of soon-to-come breakthrough gadgets. Too often, however, cool products get heralded with gala coming-out parties only to be never heard from again. 2006...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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