Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 Download Mac OS X 10.5.6 Now
Not surprisingly, Apple has released Mac OS X Update version 10.5.6 for both Client and Server users of the Mac OS. Weighing in at around 370MB and 470MB respectively, the two updates are immediately available to download and install on Leopard-running Macs.
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15.12.2008 World of Warcraft Patch 3.10 Released and Available for Download
Blizzard is really working hard to keep all those 11 million of subscribers to World of Warcraft happy and busy.
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15.4.2009 Download Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6.2 has finally arrived and it brings tons of new bug fixes for existing OS X Snow Leopard users
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10.11.2009 Download Opera 10 pre-Beta Build 1535
Opera 10 has evolved all the way to Build 1535, a development milestone that is labeled as Beta, despite not being quite a Beta in fact. Still, one thing is clear.
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29.5.2009 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Windows SideShow on 10
Laura and Tina over at the 10 Show take a look at Windows SideShow.
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9.5.2006 10 reasons not to get Vista
It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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22.1.2007 10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published
the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista few days ago. I see his point on some fronts -- admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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24.1.2007 The Wait Is Over: Ubuntu 7.10 Is Here
As promised, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago, and it's my deepest pleasure to introduce you guys to the new features to be found in this version of Ubuntu (which is based on the GNOME desktop environment) and also to the features from Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but based on the popular KDE desktop environment).
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18.10.2007 Ubuntu 8.10 Released
After six alphas, a beta and a release candidate, Ubuntu 8.10 is here, today (October 30th), available on mirrors worldwide (see below for download links), and it's my greatest pleasure to introduce you guys to the highlights of this new release dubbed Intrepid Ibex.
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30.10.2008 10 things you should look for in a netbook
Who saw this coming? In the day and age of quad-core CPUs, 17-inch laptop displays, and terabyte hard disks, whod have thought small laptops with slow CPUs and little storage would set the world afire. But thats just whats happened.
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19.4.2009 Opera 10 released
Ah, September 1. Not a particularly eventful day... aside from a few obscure public holidays (it's Knowledge Day in Russia!) and other events of the sort, it's hard to say that there's much going on (well, there might be something else happening).
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1.9.2009 Windows 7 10-Second Boot
Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions.
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7.10.2009 The 10 Things to Do First for Windows 7
When you run your thumb down the list of new features and improvements in Windows 7 you're bound to wonder how you're going to get your arms around all that new technology so that you can deliver it to your users without too much disruption.
Following are 10 steps that can help you accomplish that goal.
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18.10.2009 10 Ways to Optimize Firefox
Everybody who's experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it's the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the convenience of All-in-One Sidebar, I can't imagine living without some of them.
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4.4.2006 DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
How is DirectX 10 and its Unified Architecture going to benefit gamers? What is the gamer going to need to take and advantage of it? We recently sat down with ATI and talked about DirectX 10 and how their next generation desktop GPU will benefit.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft: 10 Vista Activations
Microsoft today talked to bit-tech in a bid to reassure the enthusiast community about the licensing terms of Windows Vista.
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27.10.2006 BitDefender for Windows Vista v.10.2
BitDefender, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today the availability of BitDefender v10 security solutions for Microsoft Windows Vista based on 32bit.
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24.1.2007 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Google: 1 in 10 webpages contain malware
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
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12.5.2007 Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
It's pundit prediction time again. Here are ten predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008.
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18.12.2007 Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009 Microsofts 10 Unlucky Breaks
It's Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. How unlucky has been Microsoft over the past 34 years?
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13.2.2009 Microsofts 10 Unlucky Breaks
It's Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. How unlucky has been Microsoft over the past 34 years?
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15.2.2009 Microsoft's 10 Lucky Breaks
Today is the second of, count `em, three Friday the 13ths this year. What's that Clint Eastwood line, where Dirty Harry asks, "Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
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15.3.2009 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 Avant Browser 10.1 (Build 35)
Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper and Flash Ads Filter, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and Advanced Browsing Options. Flash Animation Filter: More than 85% of all flash animation on web pages is advertising. These flash files are pretty large, and normally take up to 90% of the size of the page you're visiting.
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14.12.2005 No Media Player 10 for Apple users
Microsoft will not be developing a version of Media Player 10 for the Mac
Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be developing a version of its Media Player 10 for Apple users.
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20.1.2006DXDiag, DX versions, and what your computer can do
DXDiag is this great diagnostic for your gaming hardware. It was created during my time as DX SDK PM by the DX SDK and Tools team. It is hard to
imagine gaming before DXDiag and its reporting what is on your machine; but lately I have seen a lot of misunderstanding what DXDiag is and what it
does...
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29.12.2007Amazon announces Kindle DX
As Neowin had previously reported, Amazon has unveiled its larger screened Kindle as predicted. The device boasts a 9.7 inch screen that rotates when
the device is turned, a bump in storage space to 3.3GB, and a PDF reader but the real show stopper is the price at $489.00 The device will be
subsidized by major newspaper outlets on contract although there is one restriction. You can only get the device subsidized if you live in a region
where you can't get home delivery which means most will have to pay full retail. The Kindle DX will ship this summer and is up for pre-order
now at Amazon.
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06.05.2009PCGH: Valve about DirectX10 in the Source engine
PCGH: And what is your personal opinion about the topic? Is DX10 the way to go and therefore the way of future graphics.
Doug
Lombardi: Well I mean there is always that tradeoff between taking the time to adopt the engine to a new API, right. And for us we feel like there
still things in DX9 that we can achieve without having to go through the pains of moving to DX 10. That is very worthwhile and allows us the time to
concentrate on other pieces. So for us as a company and our game designs, we've looked at the tradeoff of the work to move to DX 10 and we have
always kind of felt that there is not really enough there for us to delay whatever game we are working on by six to eight month just to say we've a
DX10 game. The other thing that is worth mentioning too is to run DX10 natively under the API you have to have both the card and vista. If you google
to the Steam hardware survey where we poll peoples machines on Steam you can see that right now there is only about thirteen percent of those people
that have both, the DX 10 card and Vista. So you have to look at that as well and say is it worth to investing for thirteen percent of the
audience.
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14.05.2008Nikon Introduces
10.2-Megapixel D80
Nikon on Wednesday introduced
its latest digital SLR camera,
boasting a resolution of 10.2
megapixels thanks to a new DX
Format CCD image sensor. The
Nikon D80 is aimed at the
"prosumer" and takes a
number of features from the
company's professional
digital SLRs...
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09.08.2006Amazon Kindle for PC now available
Amazon announced today the availability of Kindle for PC. The small application (5MB) allows Kindle users to access Kindle books from the PC. On
October 22 Microsoft demonstrated the application and announced that the application takes advantage of the touch features of Windows 7. The PC
application also automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. Whispersync automatically saves and
synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. Whether you read Kindle books on a Kindle, Kindle DX, or one of the free Kindle
applications, you never lose your place. "Kindle for PC is the perfect companion application for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX," said Ian
Freed, vice president, Amazon Kindle.
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10.11.2009Academic institutions reject Kindle
There has been a great deal of talk about devices such as the famous ebook reader, the Amazon Kindle and the up and coming Apple Tablet replacing the
way individuals interact with printed media. However, their success in doing so has always been up to the end user's personal preference. News
reported on Beta News shows just how unpopular trials of the Amazon Kindle DX have been in academic institutions interested in trialling the
technology, as a study aid for their respective students. Since the large screen Kindle DX debuted in the spring, a number of academic institutions
from secondary schools upward, ran pilot programs which tested the device's viability as a textbook replacement.
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13.11.2009Microsoft speaks DirectX 10
From the Games Developers
Conference
Europe
Microsoft finally saw sense
and decided to drop Windows
Graphic Foundation (WGF) and
replace it with the more
easier and logical DirectX 10
name for its nexgen
API.
It
gave some details to the
developers officially about
its upcoming API and we know
that it plans to release this
API together with Longhorn. Or
Vista, as we must learn to
call it.
The
DirectX 10 API will have
completely new and faster
dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
and is supposed to run much
faster. The company decided to
cut the backward compatibility
with DirectX 9, 8, 7 and lower
in this API but there will be
a way to use games programmed
for those APIs. Microsoft will
enable support for DX 9 or
lower games through a software
layer, meaning it might run
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06.09.2005DX 10 will not take off until 2H 2007, AMD says
Despite that Nvidia recently
launched its DirectX
10-compliant GPUs (graphics
processing units), demand for
DirectX 10 graphics cards will
not pick up in the market in
the first half of the year
because of a lack of games to
support the technology,
according to Edward Chow, AMD
graphics marketing director
for the Asia-Pacific region.
With no boost
from DirectX 10, the graphics
card market will stay put in
the first half of 2007, while
watching Vista's
acceptability, according to
Chow. In the second half of
2007, DirectX 10-compliant
products will see demand pick
up, so the competition will
hot up, with more games and
blue-laser products hitting
the market, he added.
Nvidia launched its
DirectX 10-compliant GeForce
8800 GPU in November, while
ATI's DirectX 10-supporting
R600 will not hit the market
until the first quarter of
2007.
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24.12.2006Xinput Driver for Microsoft
Common Controller (64 Bit)
The Microsoft Common
Controller Driver is a new
game input
standard that
is used for both the Xbox360
console and for
Windows XP
SP1 and above.
The Xbox360
controller or any controllers
that utilize this
standard
will enable the device to be
used on Windows also.
This
Redistributable Package
includes the driver for
hardware
vendors to
redistribute with their
hardware. For the most
current APIs of the
Microsoft Common Controller,
please
download the latest
DX SDK. These APIs are called
Xinput
APIs. Source and
Download: Xinput Driver for
Microsoft
Common
Controller (64 Bit)..
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07.06.2006Intriguing theory on DirectX 10 and its absence from Windows XP
The parties involved would
never admit whether
this
Inquirer story is true,
but it's entertaining enough
that we just had to link to
it. Grain of salt and all that
(the article lists no sources,
for example) but the theory as
reported says that Microsoft
started off with sound
technical reasons for making
DirectX 10 exclusive to
Windows Vista. Due to alleged
driver troubles from Nvidia,
Microsoft is supposed to have
loosened the requirements, and
now its supposedly very
possible to port DirectX 10
back to Windows XP.
Even if DX 10 on XP can be
done, Microsoft won't allow
it for business reasons--it
wants people to buy Vista, or
so the story goes
One
of our missions out here at E3
this week is to talk to as
many PC gaming developers as
possible to find out what the
near-term future of DirectX 10
looks like, especially for the
purposes of benchmarking PCs
and graphics cards. We don't
expect to hear from anyone
about DirectX 10 coming to
Windows XP, but we do expect
plenty of "no comments" when
we ask about this story.
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11.07.2007Ububtu 8.10 officially launches Thursday
Canonical today announced that the 8.10 version of its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu will be available for free download on Thursday, October
30.
Both the desktop and server editions of Ubuntu 8.10 will be available for download on
the official Web Site, and on
FileForum.
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28.10.2008Quantum cryptography may not be as secure as we thought
Quantum cryptography is often touted as the ultimate in information security, but that doesn't make it immune to successful attack. A recent
publication in
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory details how the
very process of ensuring security can be used by evildoers to send fake messages on a network. As with all good cryptography researchers, the
publication also includes a method for defeating the attack.
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15.05.2008Ubuntu 8.10 officially launches Thursday
Canonical today announced that the 8.10 version of its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu will be available for free download on Thursday, October 30...
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28.10.2008The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?
Flash storage is one of the main components that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike common DRAM, which needs constant refreshing in order
to retain its contents, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, flash pays for that longevity in access times, which
are much slower than those for DRAM. The perfect memory would be nonvolatile like flash yet provide access faster than the current generation of DRAM.
Quantum dots, with their nicely tunable electronic properties, look like they may fit the bill.
Researchers in Germany have been exploring the suitability of self-assembled arrays
of quantum dots for nonvolatile storage. A quantum dot is a small clump of atoms that is confined in a way that restricts the motion of the electrons,
making the whole thing act like a single atom. The properties of the dot can be modified by changing the size of the clump or the constituent
atoms.
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27.12.2007Reminder: Windows 7 beta download ends this week
Just a reminder to everyone that as we reported earlier, the general availability of Windows 7 Beta program is ending this week. Starting from Feb
10th (12am Pacific Time), there wont be any new downloads of Windows 7 beta available, and from Feb 12th (9am Pacific Time), no downloads of Windows 7
beta will be available. If you are already downloading your beta, better complete the download before Feb 12th! So, if you haven't yet started
your download or yet registered for Windows 7 Beta, then this is the right time. Download your beta here before it ends!
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10.02.2009Mac OS X 10.5.6 Released
Apple finally pushed out its 10.5.6 update for customers running Leopard today.
The update includes the usual system stability, security
and performance enhancements, as well as supposed graphics enhancements for a better gaming experience.
As always, users on various Mac
enthusiast communities are reporting that the update has made their systems feel a little "snappier", but truth be told, the same thing is said for
almost all software updates at first (
almost all ), so we'll leave the judging up to you.
For the full release notes and download links, skip on
over the links right below.
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16.12.2008Sky Songs to take on iTunes
Satellite broadcaster Sky is to take on Apple's iTunes in the digital music marketplace, when it launches its new subscription-based music store
later this month. While users of the service will be limited to one album download a month, music streaming will be ad-free and unlimited. According
to the Press Association, the new service, called Sky Songs, will enable customers to download up to 1 album, or 10 songs, for a £6.49 a month
subscription fee. Although additional songs will cost 65p a track, the service will also allow ad-free streaming of music without any limitations.
The new service will also allow users to download songs for use on any MP3 player - something which iTunes does not allow.
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12.10.2009Microsoft Windows 7 download tool may have violated GPL
According to a report by Rafael Rivera, Microsoft's recently released Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool has used GPL code illegally. The tool,
which has been pulled by Microsoft, allows end users to upgrade to Windows 7 in an easy way. Rivera states "while poking through the UDF-related
internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool.
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10.11.2009Windows Live Essentials Have Arrived
The Windows Live betas weve been playing with for a while now have just received another refresh. As of today, the page at
http://download.live.com has been updated with a new set of betas, now called the Windows Live Essentials.
Here, youll find the latest versions of
Messenger,
Mail,
Photo Gallery,
Movie Maker,
Writer,
Toolbar, and
Family Safety, as well as additional
programs like the
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, the
Office Live Add-in and
Microsoft
Silverlight. All the programs are available via one installer that lets you choose which programs you want installed or not installed.
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16.12.2008Amazon Quietly Launches Software Downloads
Amazon has quietly launched a new
Software download service that will allow you
to purchase and download software directly from the Amazon site. Once purchased a record of the purchase will be kept in "Your Media Library" for
future downloads.
Before you are able to download software you will need to install the Amazon Software Downloader. This client
side app will allow you to pause and resume your download and supports 10 asynchronous connections to maximize download speed.
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