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Softpedia Recommended Mac Apps of the Week – 30.08.2008

Welcome back for another batch of free Mac apps. Ready to throw that TV set out the window and make more room around the house? Good, we've got just the Mac app for you. Also, if you're the proud owner of an iPhone or iPod touch, we've get a free utility app for you that lets you customize the appearan...

30 August 2008
08:04 GMT

Easy Launcher: the Next Step in Managing Your Shortcuts

If you got tired of having to arrange all the shortcuts from your desktop into folders or even having to create new toolbars for them, then Easy Launcher will certainly make all of these problems seem like a bad dream. This small application can keep your desktop organized and maximize your workflow by allowing you t...

30 August 2008
07:47 GMT

Yahoo! Lottery Hoax Attempt Is Hilarious

Ryan Knight, Community Manager at Yahoo! Mail, warns people not to fall for the latest trick involving one of the company’s products. A so-called Yahoo! Lottery, promising prizes worth £250,000 (over $450,000), ask users to disclose certain personal details to a “staff member” in order to rece...

30 August 2008
07:44 GMT

A Fantastic Approach to Radio: the Hidden Radio

There are people out there who really believe that the radio, the plain old common radio, is living its last days before becoming completely obsolete and disappearing for good from our new media world. Despite such ideas, designers like the Aussie John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen keep on delivering projects that are simply...

30 August 2008
07:11 GMT

A Replacement for Windows Explorer

If you’ve grown tired of the old-fashioned Windows Explorer and you really want to try something new, Extra Explore could be just the thing that you are looking for. Boasting an interesting design and well-chosen colors for the graphical interface, it can certainly make file browsing more interesting, if not do...

30 August 2008
07:07 GMT

Why Nokia Is Late to the 8 Megapixel Party

Have you heard about the “2008 8-Megapixel mobile party”? You haven’t? Well, it goes like this: Sony Ericsson showed up first, sending its C905 19 mm thick Cyber-shot slider to set on fire the minds and souls of all SE fans. Shortly after, Samsung made its appearance – the Innov8 multimedia mo...

30 August 2008
06:58 GMT

12 Reasons to Test Drive Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2

While rival browser makers Mozilla and Opera have launched the latest iterations of their products, Firefox 3.0 and respectively Opera 9.5, as early as June 2008, Microsoft is still in the development phase of Internet Explorer 8, the successor of IE7. August 27 marked the delivery of IE8 Beta 2, a deadline absurdly ...

30 August 2008
06:44 GMT

Woman Named Yoda Banned from Facebook

A woman named Hiroko Yoda was not allowed to create an account on Facebook. After eliminating all the other sources that could have determined the social network to reject her registration, she came to the conclusion that her last name was the reason for it.  Having to share her cognomen with the famous Sta...

30 August 2008
06:44 GMT

Companies Handling Credit Card Data Get New Security Policies

The Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Security Standards Council announced that a revised version of the Data Security Standard (DSS) would be finished by September 8. The new 1.2 version will be presented at the upcoming meetings in Orlando (for North America) and Brussels (for Europe). A possible compliance deadl...

30 August 2008
06:25 GMT

Comcast Restricts Traffic to 250GB per User

Comcast, one of the largest Internet providers in the US, has announced that, as of October 1, the maximum traffic will be reduced to a monthly 250GB per user. This comes as a repercussion of the fact that the company, lacking the means to offer customers the connection speed they needed, decided to interfere with th...

30 August 2008
05:40 GMT

Motorola W6 to Hit T-Mobile USA as MotoACTV

T-Mobile USA users who feel that their carrier doesn't offer enough Motorola phones will be pleased to learn that, sometime in the near future, a new handset manufactured by the big M will be available to them. The device in question is Motorola W6, but T-Mo seems to want its name to sound differe...

30 August 2008
05:37 GMT

Sony Ericsson Kumiko and Eian – Because Square-ish Is Nice

Sony Ericsson is preparing to come up with two new handsets, codenamed Kumiko and Eian, which might represent a new direction in the company's way of designing products - a square-ish direction, if you want to call it something in particular.Kumiko should be officially named Sony Ericsson G705 (we've seen i...

30 August 2008
04:39 GMT

MIT Develops 'Shortest Path' Network Security Product

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, through its Lincoln Laboratory, will soon deliver a security solution that has never been employed before. Instead of focusing on the entire network, researchers say that the product, named NetSPA (Network Security Planning Architecture), will aim to discover the weakest spo...

30 August 2008
04:27 GMT


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