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Chrome to Mobile send web pages from a PC to phone or tablet

Brad Linder — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:13:21 +0000

Google has released a new tool that lets you send any web page you're reading on a PC with the Chrome web browser to a mobile device running the new Chrome browser for Android 4.0. It's called Chrome to Mobile Beta, and it has a few advantages over the older Chrome to Phone tool. Like Chrome to Phone, you can...

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Google Docs for Android can now store docs for offline access

Brad Linder — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:07:11 +0000

Google has rolled out an updated version of Google Docs for Android. It includes better support for tablets and the ability to download documents to your mobile device so you can view them when you're not online. You still can't edit documents when you're offline. But if you make any changes to a document using the Google Docs web interface, Google...

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IBM Lotus Symphony office suite reaches end of the line

Brad Linder — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:56:59 +0000

A few years ago IBM started offering a free office suite called Lotus Symphony. It's based on code from OpenOffice.org, but IBM has forked the project and created a custom user interface and other tools. Last month IBM released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 with a number of improvements including support for bubble charts and up to a million rows in spreadsheets....

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Firefox 10 is the first “extended support” web browser from Mozilla

Brad Linder — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:55 +0000

Since Mozilla switched to a "rapid release" schedule for the popular Firefox web browser, we've gotten a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks like clockwork. These often aren't huge, game-changing releases, but there are bug fixes and new features in every browser update. This week Mozilla is pushing out Firefox 10. It has a few little updates such as...

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Ubuntu re-invents PC menu systems with new HUD interface

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:36:29 +0000

For about as long as computers have had graphical user interfaces, apps have had menus. You know those things at the top of the window that say things like File, Edit, and Preferences. Now the folks behind Ubuntu Linux want to get rid of menus... or at least supplement them with something that may be easier to use and take...

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Apple launches iBooks 2, supports interactive iPad textbooks

Brad Linder — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:37:01 +0000

Apple wants to re-invent the textbook for the digital age. The company unveiled iBooks 2 for the iPad today, with support for digital textbooks that make use of nifty new features including video 3D animations, image galleries, and other features that your old physics textbook would scoff at. Digital textbooks are also easier to keep up to date than their...

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Mozilla to release Firefox extended support edition once per year

Brad Linder — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:00:48 +0000

Mozilla is taking a page out of the Ubuntu playbook and promising to offer long-term support for selected versions of its software. The web browser maker recently moved to a rapid release schedule with a new version of Firefox coming out every six weeks. Often the updates are not dramatically different from earlier versions, but new features, security updates, and...

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Boxee is discontinuing its PC software, focusing on set-top-boxes, mobile apps

Brad Linder — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:38:06 +0000

Boxee offers media center software that lets you access music, movies, and internet multimedia all in one place. The company got its start by offering apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Plug your PC into your TV and it turns into a full-fledged, internet-connected home theater system. But today Boxee announced that it will be discontinuing its Home Theater...

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Windows Defender Offline Tool scans for viruses before your PC boots

Brad Linder — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:06:34 +0000

Microsoft has released a new security tool for Windows PCs called Windows Defender Offline Tool which you can use to scan you computer for malware before Windows even boots. Windows Defender Offline is currently in beta, and you can download the installer for free. You'll then use that utility to set up a bootable CD, DVD, or USB flash drive so that...

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HP to make webOS open source

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:51:14 +0000

HP has announced that it will turn webOS into an open source project. The company paid $1.2 billion to acquire Palm and its webOS mobile operating system last year, and sunk billions of additional dollars into developing webOS smartphones and tablets before killing the hardware division this summer. Now HP is hoping to keep webOS alive by making it open...

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Linux Mint 12 is now available

Brad Linder — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:40:31 +0000

Ubuntu may grab more headlines than most Linux-based operating systems (unless you count Android, which uses a Linux kernel), but over the past few years Linux Mint has been nipping at Ubuntu's heels. Today the Mint team released Linux Mint 12, which packs a number of software improvements and new artwork. For the past few weeks Mint has been ahead...

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Google Chrome adds support for multiple user profile sync

Brad Linder — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:45:48 +0000

The Google Chrome web browser (and Chrome OS operating system) have offered users the ability to synchronize their bookmarks, passwords, extensions, and apps between devices for a while. Just login with your Google account, and when you bookmark a page on your desktop you'll be able to pull it up on your laptop computer next time you fire up Chrome....

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Zinio launches magazine app for the HP TouchPad, free articles included

Brad Linder — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:30:34 +0000

The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued this summer, but the 9.7 inch tablet is getting more useful all the time. HP has continued to push software updates which improve performance and add features even after the tablet was canceled, and third party developers have continued releasing high quality apps for the webOS tablet. The latest is a digital magazine...

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Ubuntu Linux heading to tablets, smartphones

Brad Linder — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:04:16 +0000

Ubuntu is already one of the world's most popular Linux distributions for desktop and laptop computer users -- and the operating system powers a fair share of servers as well. Now founder Mark Shuttleworth says the next step is to bring Ubuntu to phones and tablets. You can already install Ubuntu on a tablet today -- the OS can...

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Windows XP turns 10, still refuses to die

Brad Linder — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:46:06 +0000

Ten years ago today Microsoft released Windows XP. And around the world, millions of people are still running the aging operating system on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers even though Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP directly to consumers a few years ago. You could probably make a case that Windows XP changed the way we think about operating systems. Or...

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