Hot Deals: Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for only $28.99

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day wants you to develop your passion to art with the easy-to-use software, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 ! This paint and drawing application is now available for  $28.99, 58% off from the original price.

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Hot Deals: Over 50% Off H&R Block At Home 2011 Tax Software

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day wants you to have an extra help with your Tax return with H&R Block At Home 2011 tax software products. Big discounts over 50%!!

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Hot Deals: Family Tree Maker Essentials 2012 for $19.99!

Amazon's 'Lightning Deals' offers Family Tree Maker Essentials 2012 software for $19.99 --- $50 off the regular price.

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Kinect Hacked for World of Warcraft

Possibilities in Xbox Kinect widens as researchers from University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies developed a Kinect hack for the fans of the World of Warcraft.

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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Beta for better hardware acceleration support

Adobe has announced the beta version of the Flash Player, which will provide hardware acceleration of video playback.

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Service Pack 1 RC Now Available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft has announced the availability the Release Candidate (RC) for their Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the public.

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PS3 firmware v3.50 is up; 3D Blu-ray movie playback

Sony PlayStation 3 has updated their firmware to 3.50. It supports 3D Blu-ray movie playback, Facebook integration and new methods of grief reporting.

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Sony has New version for 3.41 Firmware, fixing PS3 hard drive problems

Sony quickly fixed the original "3.41" firmware by releasing an updated 3.41 new version PS3’s firmware (released August 2 - the version number does not change).

The previous 3.41 firmware which was released late last month was causing some problem when upgrading their console’s hard drive. The update stops in some occasions.

Sony wrote, “We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, and appreciate your understanding and continued support.”

[via Sony Playstation]

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iOS 4 is now available; New features

Apple servers are surely under heavy load with the availability of iOS 4 software update for your our iPhone or iPod Touch.

Some users are experiencing slow downloads, server connections problems and iTunes error which means huge number of people are very eager to download it and experience the new features.

The latest iOS4 will deliver different features like Multi-tasking, which lets the users to switch and run between third party apps without requiring them to exit.

The new Folders feature enables the users to manage and organize his favorite apps in separate folders. You can "drag and drop" up to 180 apps into customized folders.

The new feature in the email helps you manages all messages from all the accounts in a unified inbox and it will also let you manage emails by thread and open attachment in third party apps.

Another feature is the iBooks apps which is also available in the iPad. In is an eBook reader plus it allow you to purchase and browse new books via the App Store. Capable of syncing with your iPad.

Photo and Camera improvements adds 5x digital zoom when taking a photo and tap to focus during video recording. Sync Faces from iPhoto plus geo-tagging.

Mobile advertising platform (iAd) which Apple will sell and host the ads, sharing 60% of revenue from the ad with the developer. Hmmm...

Some other mentionable features are playlists creation without looking into the iTunes, spell checking, MobileMe calendar sharing and Wireless keyboard support.

There are tons of other new features in iOS 4, so just be relax and wait for your download to finish.

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Opera Mini for the iPhone

Opera Software officially submitted their "Opera Mini" browser for iPhone at Apple's iPhone App store yesterday March 23, 2010. According to early reviews, web page loading is much faster with this new browser. BTW, checkout Opera Mini's speed and performance against Safari browser in the vclip below....

Due to server-side rendering, Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending it to the phone, resulting in rapid page loading and more Web per MB for the end user. Those familiar with iPhone roaming charges will relish Opera Mini’s ability to deliver more for less, giving users the Web they want quickly, without, the high costs. [Press Release]

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Barnes & Noble eReader App for iPad

Barnes & Noble will provide and release an eReader app for the Apple iPad in which their customers can access all of the books, mags and newspaper available at there B&N’s eBookstore.

[via techfresh - B&N]

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GoodGuide's Barcode Scanner

GoodGuide's new barcode scanner for the iPhone is a helpful and more easier way for consumer to make a choice for a environmentally healthy product.

The GoodGuide iPhone app helps you find safe, healthy, and sustainable products while you shop. With this update, simply scan the barcode of the product and immediately see detailed ratings for health, environment and social responsibility for more than 50,000 products and companies.

You can access over 50,000 products and ratings at your the palm of their hand while you shop.


[Goodguide]

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Windows XP Mode RC Now Available for Download

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 which is designed for application compatibility to run in a virtual version of Windows XP within Windows 7, has now entered Release Candidate status.

The XP Mode project was designed for small and medium sized businesses to have an easy transition from Windows XP to Windows 7.

In Windows XP Mode, copy of Windows XP is installed as a virtual PC in Windows 7.

New Features in Windows XP Mode RC

Based on feedback from the Windows XP Mode beta, we’ve made several improvements to the usability of Windows XP Mode for small and medium-sized business users:

• You can now attach USB devices to Windows XP Mode applications directly from the Windows 7 task-bar. This means your USB devices, such as printers and flash drives, are available to applications running in Windows XP Mode, without the need to go into full screen mode.
• You can now access Windows XP Mode applications with a “jump-list”. Right click on the Windows XP Mode applications from the Windows 7 task bar to select and open most recently used files.
• You now have the flexibility of customizing where Windows XP Mode differencing disk files are stored.
• You can now disable drive sharing between Windows XP Mode and Windows 7 if you do not need that feature.
• The initial setup now includes a new user tutorial about how to use Windows XP Mode.

You can try it out, DOWNLOAD: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC

[via windowsteamblog]

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Purity Ring App for iPhone

If you watched last year's MTV Music Awards, Russell Brand made fun mocking-bashing Jonas Brothers "purity rings" and Brand advised the trio that they should be taking advantage of their celebrity status to get laid.

It seems a UK software developer believes on the sanctity and devotion of saving themselves for marriage and it is a good idea to developed a digital reminder for this modern time, a "purity ring" application for Apple's iPhone.

For for £0.59 ($0.99), user can now pledge using the application and display a silver ring on their phone to prove their commitment to abstinence.

There's a built in pledge for both genders that contains a pre-recorded pledge that the user must confirm before being able to display their Ring on an infinite loop.

It will help spread awareness and served as a reminder to prevent the increasing number of pregnancies among teenage girls.

Anyone with a iPhone or iPod Touch can now take a Purity Pledge, Visit Purity Ring App.

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Handy portable Firefox 3.5 USB edition

Last year I posted Firefox 3 browser portable edition which is perfect for people on the go. Now, PortableApps has recently updated its portable Firefox browser to version 3.5.

You can easily launch Firefox from your USB and take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

This portable browser will not leave your personal information on the machine you run it on.

Download : Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.5

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Cocaine in iPhone - iSnort

If you have try the marijuana growing simulation game on PC, somehow you will be interested in this funny iSnort application.

With this sensitive theme, this one application will never make it to the App Store. This one trip will just cost you £5 ($7) and you will get unlimited supply of virtual cocaine. You will be never busted by the cops.

Virtually high, Funny right? BTW, It also work in iPod Touch.

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Microsoft UK : "I’m a PC" Lewis (5 years-old)

Continuing their strategy of attracting to be a PC user, Microsoft has launched the UK version of its latest "I'm a PC" campaign.

We have seen the cute 4 1/2 years-old little girl Kylie, now Microsoft UK use 5 year-old kid named Lewis which also encourages you how easy to use Windows Live Photo service in just simple clicks.

Lewis shows you how to download photos from his digital camera to his computer, retouch them and emailed a picture. [Video after the jump..]

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:43a887c4-4ea9-44c3-8174-cd4b967d155d&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Lewis, Age 5">Video: Lewis, Age 5</a>

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Cute little Kylie in Microsoft's “I’m a PC” commercial ad

Checkout this cute little girl in this latest Microsoft's “I’m a PC” commercial video ad.

The girls name is Kylie and she's 4 1/2 years-old, she shows how easy to use a digital camera, edit her photo in a simple clicks and sending it to her loving family. Kylie shows that it so easy to use Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery.

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:533e05d2-9f12-4a86-bdda-efd0455fcd36&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Kylie uses Windows Live Photo Gallery">Video: Kylie uses Windows Live Photo Gallery</a>

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President Obama Inauguration Photosynths

CNN used Microsoft's Photosynth in the recent historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. As CNN encourages people who was at the inauguration to submit pics to create the Photosynth project.

The Photosynth technology is combining different images (2D photos) of the same thing to create and captures a sweeping scale of one big 3D scene.



[video courtesy of techeblog - CNN]

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uTorrent for Mac OS X - beta release

uTorrent has released a Mac alpha version few months back, now after some improvement they have released a beta version of this popular lightweight BitTorrent client.

As stated uTorrent Mac OS X 10.5 is in beta release, "This is beta software, and may contain serious bugs. We think it's stable enough to share and hope your feedback will help us improve it."

The release currently runs on Leopard/Intel Macs.

uTorrent released in the net in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application.

You can download the uTorrent Mac version in this link.

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