When I think of BitTorrent, the first word that comes to my mind is illegal. While it is generally used for illegally downloading movies among other things, BitTorrent is hoping that at least one-third of the 135 million people who have downloaded their software are willing to pay for it.
As an update to the post last week on Amazing Windows Vista Wallpapers, you can now download all of them in high resolution.
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As our lives continue to get more and more busy we increase our reliance on getting information sent to our fingertips.
I was just reading a post by Brandon Paddock regarding a new (free) tool called Start++ that he made for Windows Vista. He works on the search technology over at Microsoft, and sticking with his area of expertise he has gone and made an awesome application.
After dealing with numerous copyright issues, Google is taking a step to filter movies uploaded to YouTube. According to Mercury News, Google has taken on technology from Audible Magic that will be used to deal with unauthorized videos that appear all over YouTube. While this move protects Google from further copyright issues, it could very easily draw some of their massive crowd away.
Fortune recently named Google as the #1 company to work for in 2007. You’ve probably heard about all of the perks like free gourmet food all day long, snacks up the wahzoo, oil changes and car washes on site, and the list goes on. One Google employee took the liberty of creating a page on Flickr where they post pictures of the food they ate at work.
If you use WordPress for your blog, you may want to pay attention to DivShare because they’ve just made it easier for you to upload files directly to your DivShare account from the “Write a Post” page.
After several delays, Mozilla was finally able to roll out Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 today. The release of Firefox 2.0.0.2 is a pretty big one with 158 bugs being squashed: 21 fixed crashing issues, 4 fixed privacy bugs, and 2 fixed memory leaks. Not only that but Vista users will recognize a huge difference in the way that Firefox handles itself.
It’s Friday, and I figured you might need a laugh or two to get your weekend started. I’m a PC person myself, and I like Windows, but sometimes I can’t help but laugh at some of the jokes.
After Steve Jobs wowed the crowed at Macworld in January by introducing the iPhone, he had some serious business to take care! The problem? Cisco had the name iPhone trademarked years ago, which left Apple dealing with a trademark-infringement lawsuit which was filed in federal court shortly after the Macworld announcement.
We’ve never really said much about StumbleUpon, but it’s one of my favorite browser add-ons and helps me find new websites that I might like in different categories like computers or travel.
The default wallpapers that come with Window’s Vista are without a doubt some of the best that have ever been offered with an operating system. And what’s more amazing is that a portion of them came from amateur photographers.
The thing that is probably holding most people back from upgrading to Windows Vista is that they’re unsure if many programs will work. In the past I have always just used the list that users put together over at IeXBeta.
As expected, Google has introduced their paid version of Google Apps for domains, “Google Apps Premier Edition.” Google Apps for domains has provided thousands of small businesses and organizations a way to offload their email systems while keeping their own email addresses, as well as other ways to stay connected and communicate.
A new version of Google Desktop is available about one-month after Google was notified of a vulnerability in the desktop search application. Watchfire, a web application security company, notified Google about the loop hole on January 4th, 2007 and Google was able to make an updated version available on February 1st, 2007.
I love using Google Calendar, but sometimes it isn’t very convenient to manage the calendar online. One application that aims to conquer the synchronization issue is Calgoo, and for the past few months I’ve been involved with a closed-beta version of the program.
Today Skype announced their latest version of Skype for Windows. It’s a beta version, and according to the announcement, you should expect a few bugs here and there. The download can be found here.Probably the biggest addition to this beta is their new feature called SkypeFind, a listing of business and recommendations.
