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RIP Safari for Windows and older Macs

Apple has finally shipped Safari 6 with the the new  Mountain Lion , but has silently removed Safari for Windows and users of previous versions of Mac OS will get limited new features of the new browser, the reason behind this is that in order to take full advantage of new web browser, you'll need to be latest OS. As announced back in June, Safari 6 on Mountain Lion incorporates some ideas taken from Google Chrome. One big Mountain-Lion-only addition is a feature called iCloud Tabs, which lets Apple users with iCloud sync their tabs across Macs and iPhones, iPads, and iPods running iOS 6. Another cool feature is “Tab View,” which makes it easy to quickly look through all your open tabs. The new browser also includes built-in sharing to Facebook and Twitter.  While most of Safari 6′s new features are for Mountain Lion users only, users on Lion, can still take advantage of the new omnibar that combines the address bar and unified search made famous by Google Chrome, Do No...

Reset Your Firefox to gain speed without loosing important information

If you've been using Firefox for a while, you might see a lot happening in the background that can slow your browser down. It's not dangerous or even necessarily wrong, but you might notice that Firefox is a little more sluggish than it used to be. Over time, you acquire plugins that you may or may not have willingly downloaded, toolbars you don’t remember installing and more. These can slow down your browsing, cause annoying crashes and just make a big old mess. Who has time to troubleshoot these things? It’s tedious, sometimes frustrating and often doesn’t fix the problem. Firefox has a solution. It’s like hitting the reset button. Actually, it is a reset button. Go to your Firefox menu bar and select Help > Troubleshooting information. Click the “Reset Firefox” Button, confirm your action with the slide-down prompt and then click “Done” when Firefox lets you know it’s reset. How cool is that? When you reset Firefox, you don’t have to start from scratch. Here’s what you...

Why Microsoft's Windows 8 Tablets will be an utter failure

Microsoft's just released the Release Preview of Windows 8 yesterday. With Windows 8 Microsoft is trying to 'Kill two birds with one stone' i.e. its targeting both desktop PCs and Tablets. Can Microsoft succeed in this ambitious plan, we are certainly not sure. Here are some of the points that suggest Why it will be an utter failure bigger then Vista why:- Metro UI/UX- First and foremost thing users will notice when they boot up to Windows 8 will be a new interface. Gone are the traditional Windows UI elements like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, the gorgeous Aero glass effects, now everything is replaced with a gaudy colors that remind you of classical Windows 1x era. Instead of icons you will be greeted with big in your face tiles for each app that might remind you of Tetris or Lego building blocks or remember AOL 1996. The Start screen is your new desktop, Yes you read it right now you default d...

Run Android apps in Windows PC or MAC OS X

Ever wanted to test out Android apps before installing them on your device or just want to use the same apps on both your Android device and your computer, check out the free BlueStacks App Player. Currently in alpha stage, BlueStacks runs Android apps in full screen on Windows 7 and comes preloaded with 10 apps, including news reader Pulse and several games like Bubble Buster. You can install up to 26 more apps, but will have to connect to the BlueStacks App Channels with Facebook. I tested BlueStacks on a tablet PC and the apps worked, though a bit slowly probably due to it being an older netbook. Having a touch interface is ideal for running Android apps on your computer, but without one you can still get a feel for an app with your keyboard and mouse. The App Player also syncs apps between your PC and your phone or tablet if you install the  BlueStacks Cloud Connect App from the Market onto your Android device. This could be useful when you want a (sort of) seamless expe...

Adobe releases Free Photoshop CS6 beta with more content aware tools and 3D editing features

Adobe has released upcoming  Photoshop CS6 Beta, preview of the company’s  popular flagship digital imaging software , and bringing with it a range of new Content-Aware tools and  3D capabilities, which includes enhanced performance and the ability to change the position, color, material, shadow, and light source of a 3D image .  The most obvious change is the color scheme: Photoshop now has a dark color scheme made up of various shades of gray. It’s a more trendy look — Photoshop Elements already has it — and Adobe says that it helps the tools retreat into the background so you can concentrate on your image. Various elements such as dialog boxes, sliders and other controls are now more consistent, too.  The new Content-Aware Patch, for instance, can easily duplicate an area of an image elsewhere as a fill, while   Content Aware Move lets you drag objects or people around in a photo — and Photoshop automatically repairs the background. With the right...

Firefox 11 releases with 3D Debugging and Add-on sync

After some delay Mozilla has finally released Firefox 11 of its open source browser, with improved developer tools over the previous versions. The latest version takes us into some new territory - 3D.  The new "tilt" feature lets you view a 3D representation of pages in layers of related content. A new live Style Editor, meanwhile, lets them make changes to CSS style sheets and see the results instantly.. The depth of nesting of a page element is mapped to its depth in a 3D view. So. for example. a button nested in a set of divs would stand out higher than a button in the body of the page. Once you have the 3D page on the screen you can rotate it and zoom to see anything that takes your interest.You can also select any area and see the tag list that creates it just as you can in the standard 2D representation. Firefox 11 now adds the ability to sync add-ons, extensions, and browser customizations. Previously, Firefox users could sync bookmarks, passwords, preferences, hi...

Jailbreak Sn0wBreeze Adds Support For iOS 5.1 (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) devices enable Cydia

The new version of Sn0wBreeze offers a tethered solution, meaning jailbreakers will have to hook-up their iPhone to a computer if it powers down or reboots. This is a minor annoyance, but something the hardcore jailbreak fans out there will be willing to put up with in order to get Cydia back on their iOS devices. Using this application users can enjoy newly added support for iOS 5.1, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, iOS devices. Besides support for iOS 5.1, iH8sn0w has made a number of bug fixes and performance improvements to the jailbreak tool. The new version of Sn0wBreeze offers a tethered solution, meaning jailbreakers will have to hook-up their iPhone to a computer if it powers down or reboots. This is a minor annoyance, but something the hardcore jailbreak fans out there will be willing to put up with in order to get Cydia back on their iOS devices. You can downloda latest version of Sn0wBreeze from here , for Mac and Windows. Get our regular updates in Google Curre...

Firefox 10 released with Extended Support Release for Businesses, full screen apps, disappearing forward button, WebGL antialiasing, smoother scrolling and more For Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Android. End of Windows 2000 and XP RTM announced.

Following Google Chrome's six week release cycle, Mozilla rolled out the tenth iteration of its popular open source browser Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Though the software does bring an array of tweaks and enhancements for both users and developers, it's perhaps most notable for the fact that it marks the debut of the business-oriented Extended Support Release (ESR)  program Mozilla has been working on with the Enterprise User Working Group it re-established last summer. As the biggest UI tweaks will arrive in Firefox 12, the majority of changes are under the hood: except that the "forward" button now only appears once you've pressed "back." New API,  which lets developers show part of their web page / app in full screen. This can be used for not only video, but games, or even other HTML based apps, such as presentation slides as well. Anti-aliased WebGL graphics and and the IndexedDB implementation has been updated to match the specification.  A...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak prefers Android over iPhone

One of the Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he prefers Google Android phones, for certain functions. He quotes 'My primary phone is the iPhone, I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.' His comments, in an interview with the Daily Beast, are in stark contrast to Steve Jobs' take on Android, which according to him is a 'stolen product'.  Android, created by Google, entered the market after Apple but soon gained greater market share. A lot of Apple fans dismiss Android as a ripoff of Apple’s ideas, and a crappy one at that. Apple has conducted high-profile lawsuits around the world against Android phone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC to restrict them from selling Android phones. Although, he is no longer an employee of Apple, Wozniak is often pictured camped out overnight for Apple iPhone launches, and is a very vocal fan of the Apple smartphones, so his comments might come as a surprise to some. B...

Now Legally use Siri on MAC OS X

No doubt, Apple's Siri is quite a hit among iPhone users, whether for it's general voice assistant capabilities or funny sense of humor, Youtube videos etc... You can not only use it to control your iPhone 4S (or jailbroken iPhone), it can also tell jokes ,  sing a song ,  start your car , queue up Plex,  play the piano , tell you a story ,  set the thermostat , answer riddles  and some even claiming to control whole room . Currently, Macs are left out of all the voice control fun. Not anymore, Thanks to  Air Dictate . [Screenshots: Air Dictate from the Apple App Store]   Air Dictate from developer Avatron has found a way to use a Siri-enabled iPhone to dictate to Macs on your network using your voice.  For now it's limited to text input — there's no voice control of other applications just yet — but considering there's no public API for Siri, this is still impressive.  By use of Siri's technology, the app allows y...

Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock iPhone 4S/4/3Gs iOS 5.0.1/5.0 Patch Available Online

  Now your latest iPhone 4 can be carrier unlocked which works now on iOS 4.3.5/5 firmware. With it you are can unlock iPhone 4 (and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.5/5) and use it on any compatible GSM network. Head on to www.BestUnlockiPhone.com to unlock you iPhone. Their site states that it will work, not only to unlock the iPhone 4 running the latest iOS version but it will work with any iPhone model and any firmware or baseband version. If you still own the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS then it is probably the best unlock for you. Remember that unlocking the iPhone can only be performed once you have jailbroken the device. By unlocking your iPhone you unlock your iPhone to thousands of new features that will your make your iPhone experience a more pleasurable experience. Like the ability to install free games, free themes, free wallpapers, use Bluetooth to its full potential (read transfer and receive files) and many many other things that will make yo...

Unlock or Jailbreak iOS 5 for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPad 2.

Untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is on the way, according to Chronic Dev Team . They have already found several exploits that could possibly be used in a future iOS 5 jailbreak. At the same time, Apple quickly patched these exploits before the public release of the firmware. One of Apple's weapons in the arsenal against jailbreaking is the log of crash reports, sent automatically from iTunes that serves to identify possible exploits. Chronic Dev Team is trying to stop Apple from finding out about these potential jailbreak opportunities by circumventing the automatic crash reports from iOS. Now the Chronic Dev Team is hard at work collecting submissions from iPhone users everywhere. As per the report, these will be 10 million in one week to be exact, which will help the team identify possible exploits for a new iOS 5 jailbreak. The Chronic Dev Team recently released an app that collects iOS crash reports in iTunes and sends them to the team’s private servers to help...

Finally Skype comes to iPad and disappears

Finally, Skype lovers out there Skype iPad app released on Apple’s App Store, available for download now for free. This version of Skype is built specifically for iPad, able to call, video call, on instant message anyone back and forth using Skype’s easy to use interface yet. Skype Credit will work as well, allowing users to call mobile devices as well as landlines for what Skype Software notes are “really low rates.” You can join Skype from your iPad or sign straight into your account, whichever applies to you. If a user already has a Skype account, their Skype contacts will already be synced when they first sign in on the iPad app. If instead they’ve got a Skype account with no contacts (or if they’ve got any amount of contacts, of course,) they can add new contacts with a few taps of the screen. One touch call, video call, or messaging is set up instantly, and moving through recent calls and instant messages in one’s Skype for iPad history is simple as well. This version o...

PC vs MAC Funny Comparison

Well I found this article on Yugatech. It has compared Mac with PC in a very humorous way. By the way Apple Fanboys don't get angry on me as I too like all Apple products but just shared this article to show you the sense of humour of the writers. Without any further ado here is the picture

Microsoft Office 2011 for MAC due in October and cheaper then previous versions

Microsoft has finally   announced   the retail availability dates of its Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite. It will be hitting shelves worldwide by end-October. Microsoft will offer this productivity suite in two editions - Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 & Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. As we   reported   earlier, that the Office for Mac 2011 would be released in 32-bit version only.   The Office for Mac 2011 for the Mac platform users will get a comparative price benefit than the price of Office for Mac 2008. The basic Home and Student 2011 Edition witnessed a price cut of $30 and the Home and Business 2011 Edition saw a hefty price cut of $200 when compared to respective Office for Mac 2008 editions.   For Mac users, Microsoft will offer the Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 edition for $120 (Rs. 5,550 approx.) while the Office Home and Student 2008 is available for Rs. 5,073 at Microsoft India Store. Similarly, the Office fo...