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Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music. Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products. Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and [...]

My last article illustrated how to manage your MySQL databases with a simple (albeit outdated) GUI MySQL Navigator (see my article “Manage your MySQL databases with an easy to use GUI“). Although that tool is outdated, it does still work for basic functionality. But there are better tools for managing your MySQL databases. One of [...]

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Adobe has issued an update for Adobe Flash yesterday that fixes a security vulnerability. Most users who received notice about the update are updating Adobe Flash at the official Adobe website. Firefox users who try to update Flash are in for a treat as a message to allow Adobe DLM will pop up when trying [...]

Windows users have several options to launch programs on their computer system. They can use the start menu or program shortcuts to do so. Windows 7 has added the new pin to taskbar option to the list which can be used to quickly launch programs by clicking on their permanent taskbar icon. Third party tools [...]

AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover is a software program for the Windows operating system to remove PDF restrictions. A free license for the commercial tool is currently offered on the developer’s website so that users can download and use the program free of charge. The program, unlike its name suggests, is not primarily being used to [...]

Which Chrome extensions do you find useful? Here are some that caught my eye: Docs PDF/ PowerPoint Viewer: This one will make Chrome open PDF or PPT links directly in Google Docs. PDF viewing with Google Docs' preview app works smoother than Adobe's program, so this comes in handy. Empty New Tab Page: When you install this extension, your New Tab page will be empty (this was not previously possible just by setting your home page to about:blank). Neat.

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- So is the Droid the iPhone killer? So far, no, but it's off to a very respectable launch thanks to some smart seeding by Verizon. Analysts estimate Verizon sold between 100,000 and 200,000 Droids in its opening weekend; the wireless carrier should sell a total of 765,000 Droids by year-end, according to Avian Securities' forecast. At this pace, Droid, which was released in early November, would slightly trail the performance of the first Blackberry Storm, which sold a million units by the end of January after going on sale just before Thanksgiving last year. Remember, the Storm had few competitors last year, and this year Droid is contending with many more iPhone wannabes. Though the Droid did well, its debut racked up nowhere near the million iPhones sold in Apple's opening weekend (which includes international sales; Droid is a U.S.-only launch). Droid owes much of its success to its mega-advertising spending, estimated to be at least $85 million, the...

Music video site Vevo has launched in the US and Canada, geoblocked in other countries. The AP writes that Vevo launches "as both a Web site and an embedded video player that will replace Universal, Sony and EMI videos now available on Google Inc.'s video site YouTube" with Google's YouTube receiving "a small percentage of advertising revenue for providing Vevo with technology". If you're from the US or Canada we'd love to see some screenshots from you! Below is what a proxy sees, with some black areas and non-working videos. Wonder if Google is also responsible for deliverin ...

Only a few file compression programs have been constantly at the top of the crowd for the last ten years and WinRAR is without doubt one of them. WinRAR has evolved in that time and is now able to not only handle rar files but also other compression formats like zip, 7z, gz, lzh, cab [...]

Security Tool is a so called rogue antivirus software that is distributed by various means including malicious software like trojans but also popups on the Internet which will display a fake message that the computer is infected and needs to be secured by downloading the rogue security program. Security Tool will perform a series of [...]

One of the things that kept extension development and especially distribution behind (Firefox) was a missing official website that would host the majority of extensions for the Google browser. Google Chrome users who wanted to use extensions had to rely on third party websites to find some that they could use and install. This has [...]

Microsoft has released a new batch of security updates on this month’s Patch Tuesday which patch various security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software products. The vulnerabilities are affecting several popular Microsoft products including various Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical while the other [...]

Google has partnered with the New York Times and the Washington Post news organizations to create an experimental type of news page they call "living story". In a blog post announcing this move, Google says that Living Stories try a non-traditional approach of presenting news: "They unify coverage on a single, dynamic page with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story since you last viewed it so you can easily find the new material. Through a succinct summary of the whole story and regular update ...

Chrome for Linux and Mac The Google Chrome browser is now also available for Mac (see screenshot above) and Linux. Google in an email some of you received said that there were "73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written". If you run Mac or Linux, please comment on how you like this one! Chrome Extensions Also, Google now released extensions for Chrome. These are little browser add-ons and tools, or speaking in Chrome evolution terms, it's the discovery of fire: you can now cook meat, look at cave paintings at night, scare away the sabertooth tiger, and accidentally burn your finger ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

We just got off the phone with Google's Josh Cohen, the guy in charge of "Living Stories" -- the new Google Labs product that hosts and summarizes stories from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Here's what we learned: The summaries are the work of Washington Post and NYT human editors, not Google's computers. There are no ads on any of the "Living Stories." No money changed hands as a result of the partnership. "The whole idea is to really try an provide a new experimental way to see how people consume news." The pages are hosted in Google Labs (not Google News) for now, but if metrics of success of met, the "Living Stories" will move to Times and Post Web domains. So no, Google isn't finally full-fledged a media company. If "Living Stories" makes it out of beta, Google would allow any publisher to use the format on their Web site. " Think of the way publishers use Google Maps," Josh told us. The metrics of success are "Is this useful to readers?" and "Is this a better way...

Google search has taken a giant leap forward — they are now integrating real time, streaming results precisely when you want them. Searching for trending topics is actually kind of fun now. Eariler in the year, Google partnered with Twitter, and this appears to be the end result. Bing is also sporting twitter data, [...] [Sponsored] NEC   Ads by Pheedo

After several beta versions and two release candidates the final version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3 has finally been released to the public. The new version of the email program is already available at the official Mozilla Messaging website. Update checks within the email client should also be able to pick up [...]