Sony BMG has been caught using pirated Windows administration software. It’s an embarrassing development for a company that has fought so hard to keep its own content from being pirated.
PointDev, a French software company that makes Windows administration tools, received a call from a Sony BMG IT employee for support. After Sony BMG supplied a pirated license code for Ideal Migration, one of PointDev's products, the…
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The GIMP is a robust software package for editing images in much the same way Photoshop is, it is open source and free so how does Adobe still charge such a high price for Photoshop?
I've read many comments about GIMP posted around the web and its often something like “in Photoshop to do something this way you just do this, but in GIMP you have to do it this way and I'm not used to it”. Well guess what, just…
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Google’s design team is either incredibly lazy or extremely concerned with making sure old people, and people still using Netscape can check their email. To be frank - it’s ugly and looks very outdated. Using the Firefox plugin “Stylish”, you can change the way your Gmail looks into this slick theme.
This is a difficult site to remaster. I think what you've done so far is very thorough and internally cohesive. I also like that your color modifications haven't created the same ugly effect around the "stars" like many…
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Between the ages of 25 and 60, people's ability to use websites declines by 0.8% per year ' mostly because they spend more time per page, but also because of navigation difficulties.
Based on extensive research, we've developed special Web usability guidelines for young children, teenagers, and senior citizens. Each of these age groups have specific characteristics that designers must understand to attract young or old…
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From Knoppix to Puppy Linux here are 10 great distros to explore without having to reformat your hard drive.
GoblinX is a Live-CD that is based on the excellent Slackware, developed and maintained by Flavio de Oliveira a.k.a Grobsch and created by using Linuxlive scripts. It is directed towards those users whose appreciate quality applications and a…
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From Apple's short-lived Lisa to Woz's “Woodstock West,” with TCP-IP, Lotus 1-2-3, Word, “WarGames” and even the first real cell phone included: 1983 was a rich year in tech.
You need be of a certain age to recall the guffaws that greeted President Reagan's March 23 announcement of an anti-missile shield, officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative and forever derided as \”Star Wars.\” There…
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The company announced plans Monday to join the Linux Foundation and released an early test version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (Air) for rich Internet applications.
Most of Adobe Systems' products remain proprietary; the company's Photoshop graphic editing application sells for $649.99 on Best Buy's Web site. But that doesn't mean Adobe can't make nice with the world of open source. The…
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US intelligence agencies are using Google’s technology to help its agents share information about their suspects.
So let's see, we spend billions of tax-payer dollars developing Homeland Security "solutions" and we still don't have the inter-agency communications framework necessary to share vital information affecting…
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The philosophy is this: The browser needs to evolve. Beard believes the browser concept hasn’t fundamentally changed in 10 years. It’s still an isolated piece of software. Mozilla Lab’s push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it’s running on, and also more hooked into Web services.
Beard wants the new online/offline, browser/service to be more intelligent on behalf of its users. Early examples of this intelligence include the “awesome bar,” which is what Mozilla calls the new smart address bar in Firefox 3. It…
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Fed up with receiving friend invites, being “bitten”, “poked” & having sheep thrown at you!?
Recent reports of social networking’s demise in the UK may be slightly premature, but the BBC reports that local niche SN sites like Brownbook and Qype could be the beginning signs of a welcome evolution, giving users what they are really looking for…
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This one is the biggest ad in Russia. Its square size is more than one and a half acres! (6000 m2). It is situated in the center of Moscow city and has a few full size cars sticked to it, with back lights and headlights on in the evening.
So what?uncontrolled and unethical market economy being so ugly day by day.there is no place in this world who claims”logo”free now adays.i think in the near future,funeral ceremonies will sponsor multinationals by huge…
The Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated at the end of a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
Macaulay said the flaw he exploited was a cross-platform bug that took advantage of Java to circumvent Vista's security.Macaulay said he chose to work on Vista because he had done contract work for Microsoft in the past and was more…
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Ars sat down with Mozilla user design expert Alex Faaborg and discussed the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Among other things, he told us how Mozilla is improving platform integration in theming while defining a universal visual identity for the Firefox browser.
Creating the Windows Vista theme posed some unique challenges because the developers had a bit of trouble figuring out where to use certain Vista-specific aesthetic flourishes like black dialog toolbars. Another weakness in the Firefox 3 Vista…
The Pwnage tool by the iPhone Dev Team, which we brought you news of previously, will allow custom unsigned firmware to be flashed onto the iPhone or iPod touch, and it is set for public release tomorrow. That’s right; starting Sunday 30th the iPhone will be properly hacked, allowing for custom firmware to run
isteamy just doesn't fit for me on my iphone(my best friend's iphone i mean….he lets me use isteamy on his phone lol) by Yeebles at 05:00 AM Reply by Email * I'm waiting for iPod touch support. But this looks amazing! I love…
