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iOS apps of the day [June 26, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Easy Calendar (View your calendar by the week as a planner)
- PlainText – Dropbox text editing (Edit and save text documents to Dropbox)
- Fish Crackers (Fit fish like shapes in the form you are given)
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Read More »Windows software of the day [June 25, 2012]
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Today’s Software
- Unassoc: remove user and global file type associations
- Agent Ransack: find text in multiple files, including document files
- Anuran: keep a running personal
frlog
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [June 25, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- HurricaneSoftware.com’s iHurricane HD with Push (Hurricane tracker and alerter)
- Banca – beautiful currency converter (Fast and quick currency converter)
- Cross Fingers (Fit shapes into a form puzzle)
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Read More »Windows software of the day [June 24, 2012]
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Today’s Software
- SVPtube: play YouTube videos in your favorite video player
- ExtremeCopy: get rid of Windows copying annoyances
- TheFolderSpy: monitor folders for changes
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Read More »Android apps of the day [June 24, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- utilitas [App that has fifteen useful tools such as a stopwatch, compass, timer, and protractor]
- VLC HD Remote (+ Stream) [Use your Android device as a remote to control VLC on your computer and stream videos from Android to computer and computer to Android]
- SMS Text Messaging ?
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Read More »Samsung Galaxy S III catches on fire, explodes; Samsung investigates
You dish out an arm and a leg for a brand new, shiny Samsung Galaxy S III. To celebrate you take your new best friend (i.e. SGS3) for a joy ride in your comparatively shitty car. To keep the phone safe you put the device in your car’s phone holder. [...]
Read More »Windows software of the day [June 23, 2012]
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Today’s Software
- TextCrawler: extract, replace, and find text in files
- Clotho: hide and encrypt files inside other files
- Mousotron: track total mouse movements, clicks, and keyboard strokes
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [June 23, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Nag : Multiple Timers with Alarms (Timer alarm that alerts you when the timer goes to 0.)
- Best Weather (Find out the weather in your area or others)
- Tiki Match (Match 3 or more in a new way of matching)
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Read More »Google Maps adds traffic data for 7 new countries, improves data for 19 existing countries
One among the most useful features of Google Maps is traffic data which provides users with real-time information about the traffic conditions. The feature started off in the USA but is now available for users of several other countries.
Google uses both its own and third-party data for the purpose [...]
Read More »Next version of Android is Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’
Making it the breaking news of the day, some small but significant details of the next iteration of Android operating system, Jelly Bean, has been accidentally revealed by Google.
Legend has it an XDA user was interested in purchasing a Galaxy Nexus, Google’s latest ‘Nexus’ device. While comparing prices of [...]
Read More »Apple fined $2.29 million for ‘deliberately’ misleading Australian iPad ’4G’ customers
Justice Mordy Bromberg, a Federal court judge of Australia, has found Apple guilty of deliberately misleading its iPad customers about the product’s capability. As a result, Apple has been fined AU$2.25 million (roughly US$2.29 million) along with being told to pay AU$300,000 (roughly US$305,450) for costs.
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Read More »Windows software of the day [June 22, 2012]
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Today’s Software
- CodecInstaller: check and install codecs
- System Explorer: see detailed information about processes
- G+ Notifier: get Google+ notifications on your desktop
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Read More »Android apps of the day [June 22, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- GO TaskManager EX [Task killer app that provides additional perks of cache cleaning, scanning boot time apps, and more]
- Pic Collage [Create picture collages with your photos]
- Open Flash [Open and play SWF format games, animations, videos, etc]
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [June 22, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Caller ID Ringtones (Use voice names to know who’s calling)
- Touch Mouse (Use your device as the computer’s mouse)
- League of Evil (Side scrolling adventure game)
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Read More »No Windows Phone 8 upgrade for Windows Phone 7 users; but the story is not over
I have good and bad news for you all today. Microsoft has announced Windows Phone 8, the next version of their Windows Phone operating system. That is the good news. The bad news is Windows Phone 8 has major changes from Windows Phone 7; changes that require specific hardware components, [...]
Google bans website that rips MP3s from Youtube
Anyone who is familiar with Youtube and has been watching and/or hearing music online would be quite familiar with such instances where we see many websites implicitly infringing copyrights (as touchy as this subject may be). Some websites even consider their activity to be something heroic.
Though there have been [...]
Read More »Samsung vs Apple: Apple is found guilty of infringing on Samsung patent
Making a mark on one of the major ‘smartphone wars’, Samsung won a patent infringement case against Apple. A Dutch court has held Apple guilty for infringing on a patent owned by Samsung.
With the iPhone 4S, Apple has infringed on a Samsung patent that governs an “apparatus for encoding
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Windows software of the day [June 21, 2012]
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Today’s Software
- WeatherPaper: a beautiful weather wallpaper
- DocFetcher: search files on your computer
- DropIt: create easy-to-use drag-and-drop zones
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Windows has hundreds of thousands of programs. Because of this great volume [...]
Read More »iOS apps of the day [June 21, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Best Prompter (A speech reminder that keeps pace with you)
- Friends Around Me (Talk with your friends that are in your vicinity)
- ZDAY Survival Simulator (Make choices on surviving a zombie infestation)
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Read More »NVIDIA replies to Linux guru’s middle finger
NVIDIA has replied to the recent comments made by Linus Torvalds about the lack of support to Linux by NVIDIA.
While attending a forum hosted in Finland, on June 14, Torvalds spilled out his distaste for the lack of support of Linux by NVIDIA. He said that even though NVIDIA [...]
Read More »Mozilla building ‘Junior’ browser for iOS
The past week has witnessed quite a number of revelations by some of the giants concerned with the computing world. With Apple revealing iOS 6, Microsoft revealing Surface Tablets, leakage of Xbox 720 and Kinect 2 details, and many more, Mozilla has just jumped into the fray with ‘Junior’, a [...]
Flame malware confirmed to be a product of US and Israel to slow Iranian nuclear efforts
Recently, ‘Flame’ had become a very familiar word to almost all among us. Flame has been named by security experts to be the most complicated malware the security world has ever encountered till now. Flame makes use of a vulnerability in the computers running Windows operating system, enacting itself to [...]
Windows software of the day [June 20, 2012]
![Windows software of the day [June 20, 2012]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/06/Remove-Empty-Directories-290x160.png)
Today’s Software
- Remove Empty Directories: remove empty directories.
- Windows 7 Orb Changer: change the Windows 7 taskbar start menu orb
- Jumplist Extender: add custom jumplist items
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Read More »Android apps of the day [June 20, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- XP Mod Launcher [Homescreen replacement app that makes your device look and operate like Windows XP]
- How to Tie a Tie [App that teaches you how to tie a tie for thirteen different styles]
- Garfield’s Diner [Game]
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Read More »iOS apps of the day June 20, 2012
Today’s Apps
- Calculator Infinity (Multi-function calculator)
- Messages+ (Create newer looking text messaging bubbles)
- Dragon Flight (Rapid fire dragon shooting game)
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iOS has over 600,000 apps. With so many apps out [...]
Read More »Facebook acquires Face.com, a facial recognition service
In another move to strengthen in its stance in the social networking field, Facebook acquired a facial recognition service, Face.com. The acquisition is somewhat of a harmonious one for Facebook since Face.com already has two useful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) integrated with Facebook. The first API, [...]
US government asks Google to turn over more and more private user data
Every so often Google voluntarily releases reports in regards to requests made by governments across the world to access private user data. The recently released bi-annual report by Google notes there has been an increase of around 37% in the requests for private data of users by the US government.[...]
Microsoft announces Windows 8 ‘Microsoft Surface’ tablets, potential iPad killer(s)
As expected, Microsoft has announced its own Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablets. The surprise, however, is Microsoft not only announced a Windows RT tablet (the version of Windows 8 that runs on ARM-based processors) but it also announced a Windows 8 Pro tablet. Windows 8 Pro is the ‘traditional’ version of [...]
Windows software of the day [June 19, 2012]
![Windows software of the day [June 19, 2012]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/06/Customize-Start-Menu-bigger-290x160.png)
Today’s Software
- ResizeEnable: resize size-restricted windows
- Update Freezer: stop automatic updaters
- iCopy: turn your scanner into a photocopier
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Windows has hundreds of thousands of programs. Because of this great volume [...]
Read More »Android apps of the day [June 19, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- MiHome Launcher [Homescreen replacement app that mimics iPhone functionality; it is the launcher found in MIUI custom ROMs]
- HD Player [Video player app that plays almost all video and audio formats]
- WinZip [Extract encrypted and unencrypted ZIP archives; official WinZip app for Android]
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [June 19, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- iDownloader Plus (Download lots of file types with the built-in browser)
- MEander (Make your photo look like a caveman)
- Blobster (Collect all items in each level as a blob)
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Read More »Linux guru Linus Torvalds gives Nvidia the middle finger for not supporting Linux
Linus Torvalds has often been known for his ‘openness’. In a forum hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship in Otaniemi, Finland on June 14, he shared his thoughts on Nvidia (again).
When asked by a woman about the lack of support from Nvidia for Linux systems, Linus Torvalds expressed his [...]
Read More »Bing integrates Yelp for better local searches
Microsoft had recently added results from many third-party content providers, such as Encyclopedia Britannica and Qwiki, to enhance Bing search results. A recent announcement by Microsoft has reported that users of its search engine, Bing, will be getting enhanced local-oriented results thanks to a new integration of Yelp.
According to [...]
Read More »Apple I, the first Apple computer, sold for $374,500 while Steve Jobs note fetches $27,500
Along with all the big happenings around Apple, such as the WWDC 2012 coming to a conclusion; there’s yet another news related to Apple that has just hit the stands. Sotheby, an auction house, has just auctioned an Apple I (the motherboard, cassette interface, and its BASIC programming manual) for [...]
Windows software of the day [June 18, 2012]
![Windows software of the day [June 18, 2012]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/06/UNetbootin-290x160.png)
Today’s Software
- UNetbootin: install a variety of Linux-based OSes onto a thumb drive
- WinSetupFromUSB: install Windows 2000+ setup/UBCD4Win/Linux-based OSes onto a thumb drive
- Snap!: take photos with goofy effects using your webcam
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