Yahoo! Widgets 4.0.3 Build 178
Yahoo! Widgets are small, specific applications that you can run on your Windows or Mac OS desktop.
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9.5.2007 New iPhone 3.0 OS available
A revised operating system for Apple's iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste to the popular handset.
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17.6.2009 How to install another OS on your PS3
Who'll get the last laugh now? They said the PS3 sucks, is late, is too expensive, isn't worth it, isn't a bargain. Well, look at it now! It's shaping up to be something worth its weight in news.
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13.11.2006 Vista Most Secure OS
Microsoft has applauded Vista from the get go as the most secure Windows platform, but according to a comparison put together by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, the status quo is also valid for rival operating systems.
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23.6.2007 Windows 7 can learn from OS X
An Apple user's take on what Windows 7 needs to succeed. Our hands-on Windows 7 pre-beta review shows that things are looking promising for Windows 7.
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28.11.2008 Windows 7 to go: New portables for the new OS
Exciting, innovative notebooks and netbooks are being built around Microsoft's latest operating system. Here's a preview.
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15.10.2009 Next OS X rumored to feature new GUI
Mac OS X’s Aqua has matured very slowly over the last few years. It seems like many OS X users are tired of Aqua and ready for a new revolutionary GUI to compliment and enhance the experience of using a Mac.
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13.12.2006 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 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 Google Chrome OS Announced
After eons of speculation stating that Google is secretly working on an OS, they finally are, except it’s not so secret anymore.
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8.7.2009 New Features in iPhone OS 3.1 Firmware
The final version along with general availability of the highly anticipated iPhone OS 3.1 firmware is expected to be announced on September 9th, in Apple’s “Rock iPhone OS 3.1 and Roll” event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
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7.9.2009 How to Install Chrome OS in Windows 7
Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file.
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20.11.2009 Microsoft publishes report on possible next-generation OS
Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
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Microsoft to Move Graphics Outside OS Kernel.
Microsoft will move the graphics for its next version of Windows outside of the operating system's kernel to improve reliability, the software giant has told Techworld.
Vista's graphics subsystem, codenamed Avalon and formally known as the Windows Presentation Foundation, will be pulled out the kernel because many lock-ups are the result of the GUI freezing, Microsoft infrastructure architect Giovanni Marchetti told us exclusively yesterday.
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16.12.2005 Microsoft Must Turn To Virtual OS After Vista
Microsoft can't afford five-year gaps in between major operating system releases, Gartner says, and the way around the delays is with modules.
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8.9.2006 Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.8
Apple on Friday pushed what is likely the second-to-last update to Mac OS X 10.4, code-named "Tiger." The update includes several fixes to printing, Finder and Apple applications and networking, as well as several third-party fixes among other modifications.
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30.9.2006 CompUSA Guarantees Vista, Will Reinstall Old OS If Necessary
CompUSA will guarantee that customers are satisfied with their Windows Vista update or the retailer will refund the purchase price and reinstall the PC's original operating system, the company announced Monday.
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23.1.2007 My Expose - cool OS X application for Vista
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this download. My Expose - Apple EXPOSE! from OS X Expose for Vista and its for free.
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7.5.2007 Mac OS X Leopard vs. Windows Vista
HardwareLogic has partnering up with Newegg to sponsor the User Guide Of The Month.
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8.5.2007 Unconfirmed: Microsoft's NEW OS codenamed Omnigo
Bink: In my opinion this article is complete nonsence, it is been posted here cause it is floating around the Internet last few days. What is your opinion
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3.9.2007 Mac OS X Leopard: A Guided Tour
To further promote the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which Apple Incorporated has announced will be available on October 26, the company has posted a guide tour to promote the release of the latest version of its operating system.
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20.10.2007 50 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age.
In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
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19.2.2008 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.
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1.10.2008 Trouble Ahead for Microsoft's Windows OS
There is trouble ahead for Microsoft's Windows operating system. The Redmond company's flagship product is in for a tough run because of the U.S. credit crunch and the global financial problems it generated.
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16.10.2008 OS X versus Vista, RAM division
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences.
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26.10.2008 Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
Apple has announced the roll out of v10.6.1 Update for their existing OS X Snow Leopard users.
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11.9.2009 It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS
In the second half of 2010 Microsoft’s client operating system will have a new rival platform hungry for a piece of its market share.
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16.9.2009 Chrome OS beta as a Windows 7 spoiler?
Warning: This is a completely speculative post. But stay with me as I paint a possible scenario…
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15.10.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009Analyst: Consumers don't want widgets on their TVs
Amidst all the announcements about widgets this week was one ominous note: a survey from Strategy Analytics saying that consumers it surveyed weren't
all that hot on widgets...
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11.01.2009Google Builds Mac Dashboard
Widgets
Google this week delivered
three widgets for Apple's
Dashboard feature found in Mac
OS X, which provide access to
Blogger, Gmail and Google
Search History. Dashboard runs
mini-applications that reside
in a separate layer of the
desktop and can be called up
with a quick hotkey or mouse
movement...
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25.02.2006Apple Issues Mac OS X 10.4.4,
iLife '06
FROM MACWORLD Apple on
Tuesday will release Mac OS X
10.4.4, along with new Widgets
from Google and ESPN. An
address book and calendar
Widget for Apple's Dashboard
will also be available. 10.4.4
has long been rumored to be
the version of Mac OS X
compatible with Intel based
Macs...
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10.01.2006Mac OS Update Sparks Privacy
Concern
Some Macintosh users are
complaining about a new
feature added in the latest
update to Mac OS X that
periodically checks in with
Apple Computer without the
user's knowledge. The
feature checks to see if
widgets on the Dashboard are
authentic...
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07.07.2006Zumobi widgets slide on over to BlackBerry
BlackBerry owners will now be able to use Zumobi to have instant access to widgets that provide a wide variety of miniature applications previously
available only for Windows Mobile devices...
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19.07.2008Intel, Yahoo, Comcast to partner on widgets for live TV
Are you ready for 3D, overlaid, interactive widgets to move off of the PC desktop onto your television set? An initiative announced yesterday by a
powerhouse team of developers will probably make it happen, whether you're ready or not...
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21.08.2008Yahoo leverages TV widgets in rebound attempt
Yahoo is trying to bounce back from its financial woes with the announcement at CES of blue-chip partnerships around its TV widgets, a technology
pointed to by some pundits as something that will transform television as we know it today...
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09.01.2009Opera 9 Beta Brings Widgets,
Torrents
Opera Software on Thursday
made available the first beta
of version 9.0 of its popular
free Web browser, which has
been in testing since last
October. The release adds a
number of features, including
widgets and support for
BitTorrent...
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20.04.2006Beta brings Web-based widgets to desktop
Washington DC-based software company Mesa Dynamics has launched Amnesty Hypercube in beta, an application designed to create an iTunes-like market
around Web services and widgets...
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17.06.2008Yahoo's TV widgets to be backed by Intel
What'll be behind the Yahoo TV widgets slated to show up later this week in set top boxes from Sony, Samsung, and other TV makers? A dual software
stack from Intel, officials said, in a demo for Betanews Sunday at CES...
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12.01.2009Mufin music finder enters public beta, adds widgets
The labs that brought you the MP3 codec have moved their Mufin music-finder project into the public-beta phase, adding two widgets options to their
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22.11.2008Camino Browser for Mac Reaches
1.0
After four years in
development, the Mozilla based
Camino Web browser for Mac OS
X has gone gold with the
release of 1.0. Unlike
Firefox, which employs XUL for
its user interface, Camino was
designed from the ground up
using Apple's Aqua interface
and native widgets for
rendering Web sites...
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15.02.2006DSGi employees caught insulting customers on Facebook
According to articles by the BBC and PC Pro yesterday, employees from Dixons Store Group International (DSGi) reportedly labelled their customers
"stupid", amongst other things, in an unofficial Facebook group set up for DSGi staff. One of the posters apparently raised the question of whether
or not employees are allowed to "cattle prod" stupid customers, however, many of them posted under their real names, something that may prove costly
after DSGi has finished investigating the comments.
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09.09.2009Apple Releases OS X 10.5.7 Update to developers
Yesterday, Apple Inc. seeded Mac OS X 10.5.7 to developers. This update is the upcoming maintenance release for Leopard. Apple is asking the
developers to focus on 20 main areas in the OS to test. The build number of 10.5.7 is 9J22.
There have been rumors that Apple has made
nearly 70 changes in the update, some of which focus on syncing and networking improvements. A number of preferences and widgets have seen tweaks to
address performance issues and Apple has also addressed several issues related to RAW image handling. Another fix Apple has fixed is an issue with
Safari not accepting certain types of cookies.
Apple has noted that the public beta of Safari 4 will not properly install on 10.5.7.
This is expected to be the last update before Snow Leopard, which is expected to release in Q1 2009, although no specific release date has
surfaced.
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27.02.2009Hackers Exploit Widget Security Holes
New attacks that exploit widgets and gadgets are imminent, according to the latest Web Security Trends Report from Finjan. Finjan's Malicious Code
Research Centre has studied changing trends in attacks used by hackers to gain information or control of a user's PC and predicts that the increasing
use of widgets is exposing computer users to a whole host of attacks. All types of widget environments, including operating systems, third-party
applications, and web widgets, have inadequate security models that could allow malicious widgets to run.
The Finjan research suggests that
attacks that exploit the insecurities of widgets are imminent, and that a revised security model should be explored to protect users. " As widgets
become common in most modern computing environments their significance from a security standpoint rises, " said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology
officer at Finjan. " Vulnerabilities in widgets and gadgets enable attackers to gain control of user machines, and should be developed with
security in mind. This attack vector could have a major impact on the industry, exposing corporations to new security considerations that need to be
dealt with. "
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18.09.2007Apple Seeds OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J30 to Developers
In what has become an almost-weekly event, Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.5.7, known as Build 9J30, to developers.
World of Apple
publishes the seed notes, which reveal that the lack of Safari 4 beta support is the only remaining issue Apple has chosen to highlight.
One week after the previous seed of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Apple has given developers another build this time in the form of 9J30. The rapid
development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 suggests a public release before the end of March.
Developers testing build 9J30 have been asked to focus
on new areas such as Flash Player, USB and Flash Drives, iCal and Widgets.
Apple seeded Build 9J22 on February 25th and Build 9J27 on
March 7th. The declining list of known issues, brief time intervals between seeds, and decreasing intervals of build numbers between those seeds
suggest that Apple is wrapping up development on OS X 10.5.7 and should see a release in the near future.
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14.03.2009Eisner's advice to striking writers: Blame Steve Jobs, not the studios
In his keynote speech on Wednesday morning at the Media and Money conference hosted by Dow Jones and Nielsen, former Disney CEO
Michael Eisner talked about
writers as though they were a minority group that he didn't particularly understand well. "I like writers. Some of my best friends are writers," he
said as though attempting to save face. But nevertheless, his foremost epithet for the
ongoing Writer's Guild of America strike was "stupid."
"I see stupid strikes, and I see less stupid
strikes. I see smart strikes," Eisner said in the keynote, which was structured as a conversation with Neil P. Cavuto, senior vice president and
managing editor of Fox Business News. "This is a stupid strike."
The problem, Eisner said, is that the Writer's Guild is
lobbying for a bigger cut of the profits from digital distribution--and according to the former Disney chief, those profits simply aren't there.
Eisner, now the head of a private investment firm called The Tornante Company, has
launched an online video studio
called
Vuguru, and said that it's still more or less a fruitless labor. Vuguru's debut
series, a serial mystery called Prom Queen, "didn't make money," he said.
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07.11.2007Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget
The Amnesty Generator for
Windows is designed to easily
convert any embeddable web
site widget (including Google
Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar
Gadget. Compared to Vista's
Gadget library's relatively
meager 275 gadgets, Google
Gadgets for your web page, for
example, currently sports over
3000 widgets. So basically,
Vista's gadget library just
grew from 275 to 275 plus 3000
plus whatever other web
widgets you can find on the
Internet. If this sounds
familiar to OS X users, it is
because Amnesty Generator is
also available for Dashboard.
The generator currently has a
few bugs (particularly in the
visual interface department),
but overall it works fairly
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06.02.2007Cloud "instant on" OS coming to netbooks
Cloud, made and distributed by Good OS, will be coming to a touch screen Gigabyte net book. The OS will consist of a web browser as its main
interface and will integrate with Skype, YouTube, and the Google family of apps. The OS will ship along side a pre-loaded Windows installation, which
will will allow the netbook to dual boot either OS. The foundation for the Cloud OS is of course Linux and offers a quick and functional way to the
internet and other user essential apps. If you would like to try out the Cloud OS you will be able to install it on your own computer in the near
future.
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02.12.2008MP3 spam on the rise, despite being utterly stupid
As antispam tools and e-mail users become more sophisticated, spammers are turning to new mediums to get their unwelcome messages through filters and
into inboxes. One of the more recent developments is spam with attached MP3 files. One security software vendor,
MXSweep, is reporting that MP3 spam now accounts for between 7 and 10 percent of all spam being sent.
The
files are given innocuous-sounding names like elvis.mp3, oursong.mp3, smashingpumpkins.mp3, or coolringtone.mp3. The payload is disappointing: a voice
recording touting the virtues of some corporate stock; in other words, it's pump-and-dump stock spam in a new format. It's also a dumb idea. The
overlap of those gullible enough to click on MP3 files of unknown provenance and those willing and able to invest in a stock that they've never heard
of is certainly minute. It's bound to be more of an annoyance than anything else, and seems unlikely to result in the desired stock purchases.
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