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iOS and Honeycomb Put Differences Aside with Glide GDrive

Glide, a provider of cross-platform compatibility, has announced expanded support for the rapidly growing tablet computer market by further extending the Glide compatibility platform to add Apple’s iPad 2, the Motorola XOOM, the BlackBerry Playbook and other tablets to its range of supported platforms. Glide...

24 March 2011
13:31 GMT

Softpedia Mac Freeware Picks of the Week – 30.04.2009

Welcome to a new edition of Softpedia's Mac freeware picks. Luckily, this week has been more productive, so I'm able to present you with the usual number of free Mac apps that may prove highly useful for day-to-day activities. Dock Spaces – use as many as ten different Docks, all integrated with Leo...

30 April 2009
10:18 GMT

Asus P552w, the First Pocket PC to Feature a Glide Interface

After making a solid impression back in March, during CeBIT 2008, Asus has been very quiet when it comes to new mobile devices. Recently, however, the Taiwanese manufacturer (which is mainly known for its motherboards, graphics cards and notebooks) has presented a brand new Pocket PC – Asus P552w. The P552...

9 September 2008
03:54 GMT

Blizzard Sues Warcraft Bot Creator

Usually, big companies are the ones getting sued for various (and generally stupid) reasons, but this time things are different: World of Warcraft creators, Blizzard, are suing Michael Donnely, a guy that created the so-called MMO Glider program that automatically performs different in-game tasks (fighting, for examp...

27 March 2008
18:06 GMT

Nature's Most Sophisticated Gliding Investigated Using Wii Technology

The flying lemurs of southeastern Asia are the best gliders amongst mammals. They have a patagium (skin membrane like in the bat's wings) that is as large as geometrically possible and can glide as far as 70 m (235 ft) with minimal loss of height, and the maximal glides can be 130 m (433 ft) long, as much as two...

8 February 2008
04:53 GMT

How to Fly Without Engines

When technology advances made humans to attempt flying during the 19th century, motorized flight proved impossible as the engines of those times were too heavy. The German engineer Otto Lilienthal tackled the issue differently: he first decided to perfect the art of gliding through air, achieving the required ascenda...

5 January 2008
05:48 GMT

Glide Brings Windows Media Support for the iPhone

Glide has just announced that they will cut out the issue of the iPhone being incompatible with Windows Media and Audio files. From now on, it will be just as easy for those who don't regularly use the Mac operating system to handle their iPhone media files just as well as the others.Glide has given a considerab...

3 August 2007
09:09 GMT

Top 10: The Weirdest Ways of Flying

There are three groups of living animals that we associate with the flight: birds, bats and insects. But there are also other groups of animals that can manage to take off and "defeat" gravitation on shorter or longer bursts. They are generally called gliders. Here are classical examples. 1. There are over 52 specie...

16 June 2007
07:16 GMT

A Flying Dragon Roaming the Air In Dinosaur Times

Scientists have recently discovered a lizard shockingly similar to current flying dragons roaming the air during the dinosaur era. Exactly like in the flying dragons, the ancient arboreal lizard presents a wing-like membrane stretched across elongated ribs. Named Xianglong zhaoi, the gliding lizard lived during the E...

20 March 2007
05:39 GMT

Glide Aiming to Turn Any Phone into an iPhone

Media sharing service TransMedia plans to do what most companies in the industry are aiming to do, which is to finally put an end to the iPhone's increasing popularity by providing a solution that could turn any phone into a device similar to Apple's handset. The company is releasing Glide Sync and Glide M...

15 March 2007
09:38 GMT


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