Archive for September, 2008

A pre-release alpha version of a Mac version of uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client for Windows, has been leaked to the public.

Available from the Swedish torrent Web site The Pirate Bay, the Cocoa-based client has been expected since 2006 when BitTorrent, Inc., bought uTorrent and promised to develop a Mac version. There was little said [...]

Google’s Chrome is a stripped-down, no-nonsense browser, and unlike Firefox, it doesn’t have an array of add-ons available to change its behavior. So at first glance, you might think there’s not a lot you can do to hack Chrome or bend it to your will.
Think that and you’d be wrong. In fact, there are plenty [...]

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 is dropping the built-in Vista applications for email, photo management, and movie making in favor of applications downloaded from the Web:
The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those [...]

New York — Scanbuy, a global leader in mobile marketing solutions, today announced that it has secured a global agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to preload the ScanLife mobile 2D barcode application on Samsung’s camera phones. Samsung will begin selling these phones in Spain, Italy, and Denmark starting as early as next month. Availability [...]

As expected, there will be a new a version of Adobe’s Photoshop image editing software, Adobe Photoshop CS4, on display this morning when visitors hit the show floor at Photokina 2008.
Presented preliminarily last month, Photoshop CS4 is both a stand-alone piece of software and an integral part of Adobe’s total graphics and web design package, [...]