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Latest News

  • Developers use iPhone as controller for iPad apps

    The tool is designed to help developers who otherwise face problems testing some hardware-dependant features of their apps until they can get their hands on a real iPad.Apple provides the iPad simulator as part of the software development kit (SDK…
  • Software AG launches social network for BPM

    Using Google's App Engine would have required a complete rebuild, he said. Software AG opened a beta version of its social network for business process management (BPM), a year after it first announced the service.
  • Investor reveals details of successful web applications

    A new Web app is a needle in a haystack," he said.In addition to being easily "discoverable" by search engines, web applications must be friendly to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. To be successful, a web application must be fast…
  • Twitter app Grader.com hacked

    If you can pick an app that has a lot of users and find a way in, then it's a real big bang for the buck," Ferguson said. Twitter app Grader.com hacked Robert McMillan Grader users unwittingly spammed their followers news
  • Fake Firefox update spreads unwanted app

    The update page - which users would come to through a search engine for the latest updates - looks identical to the genuine page in everything bar the version it is claiming to offer (3.5 where the most recent is 3.6) and some misspelling.Windows…
  • Open source vendors develop new app integration platform

    Open source vendors develop new app integration platform John Fontana MindTouch and SnapLogic team up news The combination provides both the integration engine and a presentation layer for the data. MindTouch and SnapLogic have teamed up to develop…

Latest Features

  • Eight things you should know about Windows Phone 7

    Kindle concluded that she had downloaded a social networking app that multitasked: it opened and maintained a constant connection, and data exchange, which rapidly ran down the battery. We crack the app open and inspect your I/O code automatically…
  • Software developers climb aboard the cloud

    I would say if you're a web developer, then developing an application for the cloud isn't much different from a programming standpoint than developing an application on say, another type of server environment," he says.Cross-cloud migration, data…
  • 10 free software downloads for your laptop

    The app can display the information on your desktop, as well.You can have the cursor text's color and transparency level change, depending on the power level. You can set the app to display remaining battery life either as a percentage or as an…
  • Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

    ApplicationsApple's App Store now boasts more than 100,000 native iPhone applications, while the Android Market offers just over 10,000 for the growing line of Android phones.But the raw numbers don't tell the whole story.
  • Top 10 Google Apps for business

    By harnessing the power of Google's App Engine, it brings to ECM documents the kind of collaboration features they are used to having with their Google Docs, even doing fancy things, like creating data mashups or adding workflow, the company says…
  • Top 10 open source apps for Apple Mac OS

    It's already a Cocoa app, so there's no need to install X11. A number of other browsers like Flock and XeroBank marry Firefox's core rendering engine with other features. But underneath this beautiful facade is a heart built upon the rich, if often…
 

How-Tos

  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    The whole area of social media is experimental and everyone's still trying to figure this out.There's no killer app for this yet," Parr adds.Larger companies, such as Dell, sometimes have proprietary software designed to capture and analyse how…
  • How to transform your operating system into a chameleon

    Another app to note is Aqua-Soft.org's clone of the OS X desktop search engine, Spotlight, which is saddled with the adware-sounding name SearchSpy.What's not to like The OS X look doesn't go too deep: There's an Apple icon in the upper-left…
  • Ten tips for ultra-safe browsing

    Until then, a free and easy security app from Secunia can help save the day.The Secunia Personal Software Inspector, available as a free download, scans your installed software to let you know which out-of-date programs might be making your PC…
  • Case Study: Grid on the job

    If a user wants to play with the numbers - retirement next year instead of next month - the process starts afresh.When factoring in the Intel-based hardware, Linux, the grid middleware and ongoing support, the cost of performing a pension…
  • What can CiscoWorks do for you?

    This reads the CAM tables of every device to give you the MAC and IP address of every end-station on your network, which switch it's plugged into, which port and VLAN it's on, and the username (you need a small app on your NetWare or Active…

Reviews

  • G-Data Antivirus 2010 review

    That double coverage may have helped it rack up an impressive 99.95 percent block rate for traditional, signature-based detection of known malware, a rate better than that of any other app we tested. It identified and blocked all ten test rootkits…
  • Moblin 2.0 review

    Typed letters would take a second or two to show up.As if the sluggishness of the browser wasn't bad enough, the calendar app crashed twice, and the window for it wouldn't close. Moblin's web browser (which isn't Firefox but is built upon the same…
  • Amazon Kindle 2 ebook reader

    You can also synchronise ebooks you've purchased with mobile devices, such as via the Kindle for iPhone app. Offering built-in Sprint 3G wireless (at no extra cost to users) and tight integration with Amazon's shopping engine, the Kindle handheld…
  • Acer neoTouch S200

    Apart from the main app icons on the home screen, many on screen items are too small to touch accurately, hindered particularly by the poor quality touchscreen panel.Unlike the capacitive glass screen of the iPhone, for example, the Acer neoTouch…
  • Microsoft Windows 7 OS

    Hover the pointer on an icon, and thumbnails of the app's windows glide into position above the Taskbar, so you can quickly find the one you're looking for. Drag an app's icon from the Start menu or desktop to the Taskbar, and Windows will pin it…
  • Android Donut OS review

    Anthony Tastes pretty good so far review,reviews On balance the update seems clean and stable, but app users should keep their eyes open for necessary updates. For example, searching for "library" resulted in a listing of the closest libraries to…
 
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