This effective, but limited, CD/DVD burning program is portable so you can run it from a flash drive.DeepBurner Free Portable is one of the programs I never do an IT support gig without. If I need to burn off some data to CD/DVD before working on an infected or otherwise sketchy Windows system, all I [...]
Adobe this morning launched a public beta version of Flash Player 10, the next major update to its web animation plugin. The upgrade, nicknamed Astro, is one of the most visually advanced yet and is the first version of Flash to support hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets. Animations can now have pixel shader-based filters that [...]
Sky has renamed its PC on-demand service as “Sky Player” - that rhymes with you-know-what - to coincide with the roll-out of an updated version of the application. Fairly open about its intentions, Sky says its online service will “take on the Sky Player brand in recognition of the public’s growing awareness of additional [...]
There is a free update for existing users of WindowBlinds available. The most notable feature is the addition of the Explorer Background feature which allows you to apply a background, and adjust the opacity of the Explorer background. Other additions include various performance tweaks and enhancements.
The Explorer Background feature allows users to change the [...]
This free utility lets you view PDF files, and edit any of the text they contain.Are you tired of Adobe Reader hogging almost 23MB of your disk space, always phoning home for updates, and not providing such swift performance? (Browse to “Before They Spoiled the Software” at find.pcworld.com/58949 for details.) Make the switch to [...]
CyberLink announced today that its PowerDVD Ultra software now supports playback of BD-Live content. BD-Live is Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 and allows for advanced interactive disc content and multiplayer gaming, e-commerce, movie trailer downloads and more.
“CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra has already been certified for various HD formats including BD-Video Profile 1.1, BD+, AVCHD, and BD-RE [...]
Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Macintosh with the claim that software will help photography enthusiasts achieve desired results quickly and easily. The software offers three edit modes, “Guided”, “Quick” and “Full”, to meet the needs of beginner to expert photographers. The new Guided edit mode offers step-by-step [...]
The World’s Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows
CUPERTINO, California—March 18, 2008—Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3.1, the world’s fastest web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other [...]
Businesses spend hours (or in the case of enterprises, days) each month on tasks like updating signature files for software firewalls, anti-malware, and more, as well as on testing for vulnerabilities in software and hardware. Blink Professional Edition 3.5 seeks to speed security evaluations and protect workstations by offering vulnerability assessment (not patching, however), [...]
Microsoft is putting all its online small-business eggs in one basket and hoping to entice small businesses with free admission. If a product purports to let anyone with a small business build and run a Web shop, the aspiring e-merchant had better be able to create an attractive and useful site, do so quickly [...]
