Category: Desktops
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Development Weekly – ICS Ports, Kindle Fire Mania and Cotton Candy
So here we are, another week of developments in the mobile world. This week we are going to have a look at some of the most interesting developments in the world of Android. First of we will touch on some of the Ports from source of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0.1. This has been one…
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3GB Of Free Storage With Dropbox For New HTC Devices, Here’s The Small Print
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With iCloud for Apple devices now available, the big buzz at the moment is all around cloud storage. This however is not something entirely new and Dropbox have been doing it for a while now. Dropbox is exactly what is says on the box. You drop something in to pick up at a later date,…
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Adobe Blame Apple For The Death Of Flash Mobile
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The Gadget Helpline Recently told you about the death of Flash Mobile, well Mike Chambers, a lead product manager for Flash, decided to let every one know what has gone on, and what has caused the decline in Adobes fortune on his personal website. This is what he has said: This one should be pretty…
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Angry Birds Set To Hit CD Rom To Target A Wider Audience
Angry Birds is nearing the best ever selling multi platform game with its almost half a billion downloads across, IOS, Android, WP7, Symbian and Google Chrome. But Rovio are not content. Not yet anyway. In order to get Angry Birds to a wider audience Rovio is going back a step, where as most things are…
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Popcorn By Mozilla Set To Revolutionize Web Video
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With Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight being made almost obsolete with HTML 5 video. Mozilla want to use HTML5 to its fullest and they are going to use Popcorn to do this. HTML5 is clever a way of viewing embedded videos on the web without the need for flash, but it is also much more…
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Newly announced ‘Total Recall’ game will be browser-based and Arnold-less
We were excited to hear that one of the best sci-fi action movies of our youth – Total Recall – was to be made into a game (again). Looking forward to a 21st century console epic, that erases the utter shambles that was the NES version, complete with quotable Arnold lines we’d be repeating for…
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Spotify Gift Cards appear at Morrisons – Online music store tunes up for Christmas
“Give the gift of music” this Christmas with a Spotify gift voucher – now available from supermarket Morrisons and soon to be appearing in other popular retail outlets. We can’t go a day without hearing some news of Spotify and its growing influence on our web-savvy society – particularly after the partnership with top social…
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Virgin Media introduces Spotify to mobile, broadband and TiVo packages
Virgin Media has revealed it will be bringing Spotify Premium into its mobile and broadband deals – allowing new and existing customers to enjoy the popular streaming music service on PC, laptops and pocket gadgets. The telly and broadband co will be offering up to six months subscription to the ad-free Spotify Premium included into…
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Anonymous turns anti-hero in fight against child abuse online
Anonymous, the online hacking troupe that has previously crippled world governments and entertainment giants has turned its attention to cleaning up the internet from child pornography and preventing paedophilia. The tech troublemakers have issued a warning to a number of servers, in particular Freedom Hosting, accusing the web hosts of “openly supporting” child pornography. This…
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Apple iTunes gets auto-update toggle and new options
iPhone and iPod users tired of syncing software to content to grab those latest updates to iTunes can let go a sigh of relief today, as Apple has revealed its new auto-update toggle for the popular music store online. iTunes has been in existence for over ten years now, with iPod support since the early…
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Google ‘leaks’ new Gmail design in YouTube video
Google has prematurely outted its latest tweaks to the Gmail email service in a video now appearing on company sibling site YouTube. The video’s host details the new changes to a messaging system including refreshed interface which is ‘clean’ and ‘simple’ and follows in the footsteps of the existing Gmail’s Preview style. Customisation is also…
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Adobe Photoshop finally delivers complete blur removal – MAX 2011 crowd in awe of new development
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A new feature within future versions of Photoshop could eliminate annoying photo blur forever. Adobe showed off the feature in a prototype of the premier in picture editing software which left the audience at the recent MAX 2011 presentation in total awe. It’s a common annoyance to take a bunch of snaps and find that…