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Steve Wozniak shares his thoughts on the MegaUpload case

Steve Wozniak shares his thoughts on the MegaUpload case
  • Posted June 26, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Steve Wozniak visited New Zealand last month, stopping by MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom’s Auckland-area estate during the trip. When Dotcom was allowed back online last week, he tweeted a photo of the two during the visit and publically thanked him…

Boxopus pushes torrent downloads directly to your Dropbox, skips desktop clients

Boxopus pushes torrent downloads directly to your Dropbox, skips desktop clients
  • Posted June 25, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
  • Update: Well, that didn't take long. Dropbox has banned Boxopus over piracy concerns.

"Australis" theme for Firefox now available for download

"Australis" theme for Firefox now available for download
  • Posted June 20, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Earlier this year Mozilla outlined plans to unify the look and feel of Firefox across desktop and mobile offerings through a new theme known as Australis. The design aims to bring a fresh and consistent style to the browser while…

MPAA would allow Megaupload users access to non-copyrighted files

MPAA would allow Megaupload users access to non-copyrighted files
  • Posted June 7, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Former Megaupload users have now been without the files they once stored in the cloud for nearly five months after the US government shut the site down under allegations that it was an international organized crime ring responsible for a…

Windows 8 Release Preview is out, download now

Windows 8 Release Preview is out, download now
  • Posted May 31, 2012, 2:08 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Microsoft, Software Breaking News
  • Microsoft accidentally leaked yesterday that Windows 8 Release Preview would become available today and indeed, it's now here, download links are below. Windows 8's development has been considerably more open than on previous releases, we believe in part so Microsoft…

Mountain Lion update reveals automatic Mac App Store downloads

Mountain Lion update reveals automatic Mac App Store downloads
  • Posted May 22, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
  • Mac OS X 10.8, otherwise known as Mountain Lion, isn't ready for prime time just yey. However, as often is the case, developers have been enjoying preview builds for some time now. As it turns out though, the latest update…

More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback Trojan downloader

More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback Trojan downloader
  • Posted April 5, 2012, 9:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Apple, IT Security
  • Investigations by Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web have concluded that more than 600,000 Mac computers are currently infected by the new strain of Flashback Trojan, with a massive 56.6% of the total infected machines believed to be in the US…

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta now available as free download

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta now available as free download
  • Posted March 22, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop CS6 that is free to download and try. The latest installment of the popular photo editing software for PC and Mac is said to have 60 percent more features than CS5 including…

Mozilla Firefox 11 stable available for download now

Mozilla Firefox 11 stable available for download now
  • Posted March 14, 2012, 9:45 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web With Video
  • Mozilla has pushed out version 11 of its Firefox browser complete with the usual security patches, as well as a few new features, such as add-on sync and two new developer tools. The company was able to meet its six-week…

Stardock releases free Start menu app for Windows 8

Stardock releases free Start menu app for Windows 8
  • Posted March 7, 2012, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Microsoft
  • One of the biggest gripes that longtime Windows users have with the latest -- still in development -- operating system release is Microsoft's decision to pull the classic Start menu to make way for a new Metro start screen filled…

Facebook officially announces Messenger for Windows

Facebook officially announces Messenger for Windows
  • Posted March 6, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Despite having been made available several months ago, Facebook officially announced the release of their Facebook Messenger for Windows yesterday. The social networking giant also promised Mac users there will be a Facebook Messenger for Mac available...

App Store hits 25 billion downloads, Apple touts job creation in the U.S.

App Store hits 25 billion downloads, Apple touts job creation in the U.S.
  • Posted March 5, 2012, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • More than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's app store since its launch four years ago. The company announced the milestone on it website saying the downloads came from more than 315 million iPhones, iPads and iPod touches.…

Download of the Week: Microsoft Flight

Download of the Week: Microsoft Flight
  • Posted February 29, 2012, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, Download of the Week With Video
  • As promised, Microsoft has made their latest flight simulator game available to the masses as a free download today. The announcement came a few hours in advance of their Windows 8 Consumer Preview event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,…

Windows 8 Consumer Preview download now available

Windows 8 Consumer Preview download now available
  • Posted February 29, 2012, 8:52 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Microsoft, Software Breaking News
  • For those of you either skeptical or eager to check out what's been cooking at Microsoft these past few months since the developer preview was made available, the long awaited day has finally come. Download links and the product key for Windows 8 CP are inside.

Download the entire Pirate Bay in just 90 Megabytes

Download the entire Pirate Bay in just 90 Megabytes
  • Posted February 9, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • It is now possible to download a copy of The Pirate Bay via a single 90MB zip file. The recent switch to magnet links and a script written by Pirate Bay user ‘allisfine’ made the small backup possible, according to…

The Pirate Bay: you'll download your own shoes in 20 years

The Pirate Bay: you
  • Posted January 24, 2012, 12:50 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of big media companies for years, and though there's no end in sight for their battles over piracy, the controversial site is already looking at the next frontier of copying…

Weekend tech reading: Examining the 'evidence' against Megaupload

Weekend tech reading: Examining the
  • Posted January 22, 2012, 3:24 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Having spent some more time going through the indictment in much greater detail, I have some more thoughts and concerns. First, it's important to acknowledge that the founder of Megaupload, who goes by Kim Dotcom, has a long history of flouting the law in a variety of ways...

MegaUpload shut down by US government, four execs arrested

MegaUpload shut down by US government, four execs arrested
  • Posted January 19, 2012, 4:28 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web Breaking News
  • The US government has shut down one of the world's largest filesharing destinations, calling the service an "international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy." In cooperation with the United States, New Zealand arrested four MegaUpload executives…

App downloads surged to 1.2 billion during Christmas week

App downloads surged to 1.2 billion during Christmas week
  • Posted January 4, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • According to Flurry Analytics, during the final week of December over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded onto mobile devices, worldwide. This number bests the previous record set for most apps downloaded in a single week by nearly 70%. Records for…

Witcher 2 devs suing pirates, claim to be sure who downloaded illegally

Witcher 2 devs suing pirates, claim to be sure who downloaded illegally
  • Posted December 19, 2011, 7:00 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Gaming, Industry News
  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was very well received last May, gathering mostly positive reviews with an aggregate critics' score of 90/100 according to our Product Finder. The game was made exclusively for the PC -- and unlike many…

Android 10-cent app sale, 10 billion downloads and counting

Android 10-cent app sale, 10 billion downloads and counting
  • Posted December 7, 2011, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • The Android Market has hit 10 billion downloads. Google is celebrating this milestone by throwing an unusual sale: each day 10 different apps will be put on sale for 10 cents. The offer will run for 10 days. If you…

Intel SSD Toolbox 3.0 makes managing Intel SSDs easier

Intel SSD Toolbox 3.0 makes managing Intel SSDs easier
  • Posted October 27, 2011, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Hardware
  • Intel has released a new version of its SSD Toolbox to help owners of their flash-based drives optimize and keep them running in out-of-the-box condition. The new Intel SSD Toolbox 3.0 brings a redesigned user interface and includes features like…

Download of the Week: Chrome Remote Desktop

Download of the Week: Chrome Remote Desktop
  • Posted October 10, 2011, 1:39 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Download of the Week, Software
  • Call it an obsession of ours, in the past two years that we've had our Download of the Week feature, we've recommended several different applications to remotely manage a range of PCs or hardware around you.

Download of the Week: Process Manager for Windows

Download of the Week: Process Manager for Windows
  • Posted September 30, 2011, 7:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Download of the Week, Software
  • Process Manager for Windows is a simple utility that adds a few handy options to Windows' context menu when right-clicking on a taskbar item. The app runs silently in your system tray and eats less than 1MB of RAM. Though…

Windows 8 fully previewed, available for download tonight

Windows 8 fully previewed, available for download tonight
  • Posted September 13, 2011, 4:29 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Microsoft, Software Breaking News
  • Today at Microsoft's BUILD conference, Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President of the Windows division had a lot to show on its keynote, all of it surrounding the next major release of Windows, code-named 'Windows 8', which he called a "bold reimagining of Windows."

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