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Apple Warns Developers of Temporary iTunes Connect Shutdown

Apple is reminding developers that iTunes Connect will be inaccessible over the winter holidays, namely between Dec. 22 and Dec 29. The Mac maker advises them to submit any pending updates ASAP, otherwise they will have to wait until Dec. 30, or next year. A fresh post on the section dedicated to News and Announceme...

21 December 2011
07:11 GMT

Optimize Windows 7 SP1 Poor Boot and Shutdown Performance

According to Microsoft, a high-performance desktop running Windows 7 should boot in as little as 10 seconds, if the machine is properly optimized. The software giant considers a computer with the following hardware configuration: Dual-core 2.8-gigahertz (GHz) CPU, 10,000-RPM disk, and 3-gigabyte (GB) memory, a high ...

16 June 2011
19:11 GMT

Simple Shutdown Scheduler

Most of us rely on this kind of applications even for simple tasks like locking your workstation at a specific hour. Whether you like a shutdown scheduler filled with all kinds of triggers and features or just a simple timer made specifically for the job, Simple Shutdown Scheduler might be the tool you need...

16 April 2011
16:11 GMT

Easy Shutdown Scheduler

Whether you download multiple files and don’t want to stay up late until they finish, you’re a movie lover and tend to fall asleep before they end or just want to schedule when your computer should shutdown, restart, hibernate or log off, a shutdown timer can easily become your best friend.There are many ...

2 April 2011
07:11 GMT

Lime Wire Cancels Future Plans and Will Close Its Store

Lime Wire LLC, the creator of the formerly popular LimeWire file sharing application, announces that LimeWire Store will also stop operating after December 31 and that previous plans to develop a new music service got cancelled. "As a result of our current legal situation, we have no choice but to wind down LimeWi...

4 December 2010
03:58 GMT

Microsoft: Windows 8 PCs Will Turn on Fast, Nearly Instant

Microsoft’s work focused on optimizing the startup of Windows PCs will continue with Windows 8. At least according to leaked information that made its way into the wild recently. Windows 7 customers are undoubtedly already well aware of the fact that the Redmond company has fine-tuned their operating system to ...

2 July 2010
11:41 GMT

Slick Shutdown Scheduling

This article is also available in Spanish: Apague su ordenador ingeniosamente Whether you're a movie lover and stay up late to watch them, a passionate downloader that wants to be up to date with the latest software, games, movies etc. or a computer freak who won't leave his PC until falling asleep, a ...

29 April 2010
02:21 GMT

Yahoo Issues Mandatory 'Vacation' for Employees Worldwide

Things are going great at Yahoo, so great, in fact, that everyone is off to celebrate for an entire week; regardless if they like it or not. The company has just issued a mandatory company-wide shutdown of all but "essential" operations for a week starting December 25, 2009 until January 1, 2010. It's the first...

22 December 2009
06:24 GMT

System Power Management

Despite our everyday work, everyone needs a break, even computers. Saving energy is also important. I know that, when you have a deadline, and you’re only halfway done, the energy-saving issue is the least to worry about. But there are applications that can help save energy and start freshly at the same time. W...

23 September 2009
14:31 GMT

5 Old-School Apps Running on Windows 7 - Part IV

PowerOffTurning off your computer at a specific time of the day is nothing new today, but back in the day this used to be something pretty cool. You no longer had to stay up late wait for a job to finish in order to turn off the machine or reboot it for some settings to take effect. And in 1999 PowerOff brought these...

23 March 2009
13:01 GMT

Useful List of Mac OS X Shortcuts

One of the most important features of an operating system is its capability of helping you get your job done in as less time as possible. The keyboard shortcuts are the ones that will maximize your speed of completing any given task and OS X is one OS that has plenty of them.Keyboard shortcuts have been a constant in...

1 February 2009
02:51 GMT

Rumor Mill: Factor 5 Studio Is Closing Down

We live in financially tough times, and it seems that if a company doesn't make a considerable profit these days, its fate won't be very good. We've already seen the recession claim a pretty important gaming studio, as Free Radical, the company behind Haze or Timesplitters, has been shut down, and now,...

23 December 2008
14:01 GMT

Commercial Spyware Vendor Hit with Restraining Order

A federal judge has signed a temporary restraining order, prohibiting CyberSpy Software, LLC to sell its popular RemoteSpy product, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint (PDF file) against the company for violating the fair trade law. The company advertised their software as being 100% undetectab...

20 November 2008
09:56 GMT

Windows 7 Boot and Shutdown Evolution

In the Windows Vista vs. Windows 7 boot drag race, Microsoft proved the superior performance of the next iteration of the Windows client compared to its precursor. At the Windows hardware Engineering Conference this week, Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice President of the Core Operating System Division, together with Mike Angi...

7 November 2008
07:57 GMT

Softpedia Goes Freeware Only - Part IV

Any computer running Windows needs a bit of maintenance every now and then, so let's take a ride into the world of freeware system utilities: startup managers, system information and other useful file management utilities. Most computer newbies don't know that a lot of applications start when they innocentl...

6 June 2008
13:46 GMT

Neverwinter Nights Studio Closing

Stormfront Studios, the developer behind Neverwinter Nights and, most recently, The Spiderwick Chronicles, has closed its doors after nearly 20 years in the game. The company also worked in the past on top charting titles, such as Stronghold and the original PC versions of Madden NFL. And these are just a few reasons...

2 April 2008
04:21 GMT

Iran Pulling the Plug on the Internet

The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won't have any type of online covering of the elections day. The governm...

4 March 2008
15:16 GMT

Another Yahoo! Product to Bite the Dust

I don't remember this service all that well in its early days, I started using it years later, but I remember him, an Internet enthusiast, surfing the web just for fun, not because he had clicks to click and sites to visit, research and so on and so forth. Emphasis on the verb "to have". It looks to me like ther...

3 January 2008
19:26 GMT

Windows Vista Shutdown

The shutdown process is one of the aspects of the Windows operating system that evolved from XP to Vista. In this context, Microsoft emphasized even before the consumer launch of Vista that the power management sub-system of the operating system had been extensively overhauled. The immediate results are faster shutdo...

3 August 2007
11:22 GMT

Remote Computer Shut Down

Most users turn off their computer the classic way. I would rather schedule it before going to bed to shut down at a certain hour. This way by the time I brush my teeth the computer is already shut down. In the unfortunate case when it cannot perform the required action because a process is stubborn enough not to die...

13 March 2007
13:34 GMT


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