Designers want to make sure that the colors of a product look like they were intended to look. This would make sure that a user watching a commercial on TV and a user watching the same commercial on Youtube or a user watching a print ad and an Internet ad would see matching images. We are basically talking about any two devices that are somehow connected to each other, this could also be text or images on the computer and printer or images from a digital camera and the computer.
Read more »USB Image Tool is a lightweight portable software that can create backups of USB devices. It detects pretty much every USB device that I’m connecting to an USB port including my Apple iPod Nano. It did however not detect my mobile phone that I connected to the computer as a test.
The main interface consists of three buttons for the restore, backup and rescan functions. The rescan button is helpful if an USB device is not automatically recognized by the application which is the case when a card is changed in a card reader.
A beta of the upcoming Catalyst 8.7 graphics drivers has been leaked prematurely. The drivers' fixes and refinements are still unknown.
Read more »In a recently released research paper Stefan Frei, Thomas Dübendorfer, Gunter Ollmann and Martin May analyzed Google Search Engine logs between January 2007 and June 2008 to understand the web browser threat. The research paper brought up some interesting figures including worldwide browser usage, number of users with the latest version of the browser and the share of the most secure browser version.
Read more »It’s Olympic year and this time we’re heading to Beijing to watch the best athletes in the world battle it out for glory. If you’re lucky enough to actually be going to Beijing for the Olympics, then you’re sure to enjoy yourself. However, if you’re like me, you have to make do with trying to watch it online.
Read more »After numerous reports from users on forums around the Web of hardware issues and in some cases bricked units, Sony has pulled firmware version 2.4. Read More...
Read more »Everyone who has to work on multiple computers knows that it can be extremely hard to have the same data available on all of the computers where it is needed. If you take Firefox as an example you might miss your bookmarks, settings and stored passwords on another computer and it would be pretty convenient to have access to them there as well.
Read more »I stumbled on to a service for managing multiple twitter accounts and at first I thought it was going to be one of those second rate sites, I was put off a bit by the 16×16 logo I saw on the referring page. However when I got to Matt I was instantly pulled in.This is a site with a truly unique and fun style, which allows you to very effectively manage a whole load of Twitter accounts while your at it.
Read more »Microsoft's Bump the Slump website is promoting a sweepstakes that will be giving a small business 5,000 gallons of gas. The giveway is yet another way Microsoft is promoting its software.Read More...
Read more »The latest version of Opera has been released today and is available for download at the official Opera website. The new version introduces several changes to the user interface that has been introduced in Opera 9.5 as well as several security and stability fixes that makes the new version an urgent download for everyone running Opera 9.5.
Read more »Apple dropped the price of the highest-end MacBook Air this week by $500—$400 from the SSD drive and $100 from the 1.8GHz processor. The machine is still a little pricey, but $500 is no small change. Read More...
Read more »OpenMoko has announced that the Linux-based FreeRunner mobile phone will be available for purchase on July 4. Despite lack of support for 3G, the FreeRunner will likely appeal to Linux enthusiasts and open source software developers.Read More...
Read more »If you are one of the users who is not using a desktop mail client anymore but one who relies on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog. It is possible, and pretty easy, to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client. The default client is the one that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
Read more »The Firefox 3 Location Bar which is also known as the Awesome Bar displays different kinds of data. One user complaint is that one cannot visually distinguish the data. The user Ben created a style to display different colors depending on the type of data that is displayed in a line. Basically tags are displayed in light yellow, bookmarks in blue and history items in light green after installing that user style in Firefox.
Read more »To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies, LucasArts and SOE will be launching a new, online-only CCG.Read More...
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