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Cocktail 4.5 is a new edition of Cocktail for users running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Besides adding Mac OS X 10.6 compatibility, Cocktail 4.5 also includes 64-bit support and major speed improvements to Pilot. The new version of the software also contains an overhauled Sparkle update framework, updated Automator... |
11 September 2009 08:37 GMT |
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Northern Softworks, a company responsible for a flurry of Mac applications (and a couple of iPhone apps), has released an updated version of its cleaning utility for Mac, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner. Although advertised as being aimed at Snow Leopard, the program is supported even on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). Licensed ... |
9 September 2009 06:40 GMT |
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MacPaw, the creator of two very useful Mac apps, has released an update to its flagship OS X product, CleanMyMac. Now at Version 1.5.5, CleanMyMac features support for the new Snow Leopard package management system. In simpler words, Application uninstallation is more accurate in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Read o... |
8 September 2009 09:34 GMT |
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iStat Menus, one of the most useful freeware Mac apps out there, finally has Snow Leopard support. Version 2.0 of the piece of software not only lets you monitor your system right from the menubar, but also adds tons of options and enhancements. Each menu comes with many different display modes, while each features c... |
3 September 2009 10:11 GMT |
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ProteMac Meter, the network activity-monitor and traffic-logger utility for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 3.0, adding local connection preferences and bug fixes. ProteMac Meter can offer information such as what was transmitted and where, for a more accurate view of the Internet experience. According to deve... |
3 September 2009 05:04 GMT |
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Developed by Raging Menace, MenuMeters is a general-purpose, monitoring utility that allows users to see usually hidden details about the activity of their system's CPU, disk drives, network and memory. The MenuMeters monitors are SystemUIServer plug-ins (also known as Menu Extras), therefore can be reordered u... |
2 September 2009 08:47 GMT |
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Maintain has released a new version of its general purpose Mac utility, Cocktail. Using Cocktail, Mac owners can optimize their computing resources, while the software simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, and gives them access to hidden Mac OS X settings. According to the release notes for Cocktail 4.4.1, ... |
12 August 2009 07:03 GMT |
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Maintain has updated its flagship OS X app, Cocktail, adding abilities like reset home directory permissions and ACLs, set the Time Machine’s backup interval and other settings, support for Safari 4, and more. The update is free to registered users, while a single user license costs $14.95 to buy. The changelo... |
1 July 2009 10:18 GMT |
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Titanium Software has released an update to OnyX, the general-purpose application utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds fresh features, as well as bug fixes and is a recommended update for all existing users. OnyX is free to download and install on any Mac running at least OS X version 10.2.According to the rele... |
12 March 2009 07:34 GMT |
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A medical ethicist from the Michigan State University says that the current path on which the American health care system is going is completely unsustainable, as evidenced by the fact that costs have soared to more than $2.5 trillion, and yet 48 million citizens remain uninsured. He states that such disparities do n... |
11 March 2009 07:13 GMT |
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The savvy folks at Maintain have updated Cocktail, the general purpose utility application for Mac OS X, adding the ability to clear harmful files off the system (including some trojans) and more. The new version also lets you clear out the CrashReporter and HungReporter logs, fixing a few QuickTime compatibility iss... |
10 February 2009 05:32 GMT |
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Titanium Software has updated its free multi-function utility that helps Mac users maintain an optimum operating efficiency of their systems. With the release of OnyX 2.0.1, the developer has included three changes. Titanium Software hopes to have improved deleting the Cache, while new web browsers are now recognized... |
29 December 2008 08:55 GMT |
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Two years ago, Alice Quillen, an astronomer at the University of Rochester, estimated that a planet of a specific size is revolving in a precise orbit in the dust disk surrounding the Formalhaut star. A month ago, the Hubble Space Telescope took a very accurate image of the region, indicating that such a planet exist... |
12 December 2008 08:07 GMT |
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Back when ASUS first mentioned its Atom-powered all-in-on PC, the Eee Monitor, now known as the Eee Top, people speculated on the fact that this product was the company’s way of competing with the Cupertino, California-based Apple in the market for all-in-one PCs. However, due the system's low power and lo... |
21 November 2008 10:45 GMT |
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It was just yesterday that Taiwanese netbook manufacturer MSI announced its first all-in-one desktop computer system, coming to provide users with the computing power of an Intel Atom processor, featured on almost every small-sized, low-power netbook system on the market. The company's new PC is seen as a direc... |
20 November 2008 08:54 GMT |
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With the official launch of Intel's next-generation, Nehalem-based Core i7 consumer processor being so close that you can almost feel it breathing down our neck, so to speak, one can’t but wonder how fast the new desktop computer systems are going to become, especially since notebooks sales have been... |
3 November 2008 07:40 GMT |
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At one point earlier this year, HP and its Voodoo PC brand were said to be working on yet another innovative computer system that would probably end up joining Voodoo's Omen desktop and Envy portable PC. Most of the rumors were rooted in a blog post from Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC founder and HP's current ... |
29 October 2008 10:15 GMT |
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For quite a while now, Dell has been trying to get back some of the market share it lost to its competitor HP, which would allow the Round Rock, Texas-based PC vendor to reclaim the number one spot in the PC market. This is why Dell is missing no opportunity of publicly stating the success it records with the various... |
22 October 2008 09:17 GMT |
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According to recent reports a couple from Australia is planning to release a small, low-power, low-cost computer system that will compete with other similar devices in the yet-to-emerge market of cloud PCs. Indirectly, the couple will actually go up against major computer system vendors such as HP, Dell or Acer, whic... |
17 October 2008 08:52 GMT |
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It appears that the ASUS Eee Top, the all-in-one desktop PC formerly known as the Eee Monitor, will not be the only Atom-powered all-in-one PC on the market. Averatec, the company that has already showed its all-in-one desktop PC earlier this year, announced yesterday the availability of yet another such system. How... |
14 October 2008 03:33 GMT |
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It seems that buying an Eee Box system, ASUS' desktop version of the highly successful Eee PC netbook, is like playing the Russian roulette. This is because there's a high probability that your own Eee Box system could ship with a virus or a malware, as a bonus from the Taiwanese manufacturer. The news come... |
8 October 2008 09:58 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Acer, one of the leading makers of computer systems, introduced its cool-looking desktop gaming rig, also known as the “Predator.” With all that, it took the company this long, until now, to finally bring its high-performance “Predator” to the good Ol' US of A. In addit... |
2 October 2008 11:20 GMT |
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Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has decided it was about time it brought something new to its offering of desktop and portable computer systems – consequently, a recently made announcement says that the company will allow customers to customize their Dell systems with an exclusive pre-installed movie bundle, and e... |
1 October 2008 04:42 GMT |
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It seems that Dell has finally decided to roll out a couple of new systems to go with its small-sized and low-power Studio Hybrid desktop system. However, unlike the Hybrid, the newly released products come with a more conventional design, which aims to appeal to all those users that require a solid-built desktop com... |
24 September 2008 09:16 GMT |
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Maintain has updated its general purpose utility for Mac OS X to version 4.1.4. According to the developers, Cocktail 4.1.4 delivers many “under-the-hood optimizations for faster and more reliable performance, major improvements in Adobe font cache clearance and updated Automator actions,” and some other ... |
11 September 2008 14:51 GMT |
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It looks like the PC market can sometimes be too hard to handle, especially when you have to compete with big names such as HP, Dell or Acer. Such could also be the case with Fujitsu Siemens Computers that, according to a recent Reuters piece, may soon become history and cease to exist.The news hasn't been yet c... |
16 July 2008 09:38 GMT |
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Although there's no official word yet on the desktop version of the Eee PC, ASUS has decided to release one product that is meant to be the world's smallest mini PC with full HD support. Dubbed ASUS Mini PC Nova Lite PX24, the small sized system comes to offer users an alternative to a powerful home enterta... |
3 June 2008 11:02 GMT |
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Have any of you gamers out there thought that a high-performance gaming desktop system can be used for something more significant than just gaming? Well if you haven't, somebody did, namely a research group called ASTRA which is part of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp. The members of the group have a... |
30 May 2008 03:29 GMT |
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One of the biggest computer system manufacturers, Fujitsu Siemens, has just unveiled its new Amilo 3000 range of laptops. The company has built this new product using a straightforward black and white design which, although simple, promises to bring a lot of innovative features.The company's new Amilo 3000 produ... |
29 May 2008 11:56 GMT |
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If you recently happened to visit Alienware's website, you might have noticed the American vendor's recent offer. However, if you haven't done this yet, here's a little insight into what they are now offering to extreme users. Their high-end desktop computer system, Area-51 ALX has just received a... |
23 May 2008 05:16 GMT |
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If you are a gamer and you also enjoy viewing the Transformers series, then Acer, one of the leading vendors in the worldwide PC market, has something for you right now. It's called Aspire PREDATOR and it is one mean-looking desktop PC. Designed mainly as a high-performance gaming rig, this system brings out all... |
21 May 2008 04:53 GMT |
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AMD, one of the leading manufacturers of computer technology, has just announced it is going to pay more attention to gaming users. The company, which is today responsible for powering the visual experience of the two most popular gaming consoles in the world, has just announced the birth of AMD GAME!. With AMD GAME... |
19 May 2008 04:41 GMT |
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For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syr... |
5 April 2008 06:40 GMT |
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Digital media solutions provider Mesiro has just unveiled its newest PC system especially tailored to match the needs of the Home-Theater PC enthusiast. Built using what the company names "the Scandinavian design", the new addition in the HTPC portfolio comes with interchangeable skins that can be directly applied on... |
31 March 2008 16:21 GMT |
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Computers have long since ceased being simple accessories to help us in performing day-by-day tasks. They have successfully managed to mix performance with fashion and elegance, and there is a multitude of examples to back up this case, from Gigabyte's colorful notebooks to the Zeus mobile pieces of jewelery.But... |
31 January 2008 11:08 GMT |
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Without question, TYAN is one of the most important sever-manufacturing companies and, while its revenues or market share are not as impressive as those sported by Dell or other big-name providers, it is nonetheless a worldwide recognized brand. Right now, it looks like TYAN plans for some expansion, as the company h... |
31 January 2008 07:59 GMT |
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In the long list of Google Products' options that you will most likely never use, but are there anyway, the Google Calculator incorporated in its Search can now do its job using the Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures that Donald Knuth, a former computer scientist at Stanford University, introduced in issue... |
14 January 2008 03:19 GMT |
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After lots of rumors about the open source operating system made by Google, called Android, the marvelous creation is finally out and running. The first impression that Android made is that it is going to be a huge phone operating system, and from all the tests that have been made, everybody can say the same thing.Th... |
19 December 2007 07:40 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation announced that it will soon begin extended shipments of solid state drives (SSDs for short) units to computer systems integrating companies. This move comes after the storage manufacturing company successfully completed an OEM launch of its 32GB solid state drive that comes packed in the 2.5 small... |
28 September 2007 04:16 GMT |
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Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p... |
20 September 2007 06:25 GMT |
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Water cooling is now widely used as a custom cooling solution for overclocked machines because it is cheaper and more easily installable than other more exotic solutions while being more efficient than the default air cooling kits that are installed for factory on the hot computer hardware parts.Commonly only the cen... |
5 September 2007 09:11 GMT |
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Shuttle is a company best known around the world for its mini and barebone computer systems that are ideal for office related tasks and home use in entertainment as a media center nodal point. Well, the hardware manufacturing company wishes to show that it can do better with the launch of its latest product the Shutt... |
4 September 2007 10:06 GMT |
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The system on a chip, SoC for short, design is nothing as it has been used for several years now in embedded systems but now Intel sees a great potential in this market so it prepares to launch its very own embedded processor named Tolapai. A previous attempt at the embedded systems' market ended badly for Intel... |
30 August 2007 09:18 GMT |
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All in one desktop systems were very popular some twenty years ago but it looks like the trend is coming back after all this time with Apple's new iMac system and Sony's new VAIO LT19U computer. After Apple made the first step in that direction, Sony thought long and hard and saw a potential unexplored mark... |
27 August 2007 10:41 GMT |
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Dell finally decided to equip some of its top of the line desktop computer series with the hardware necessary to support CableCARD and now it is ready for customers. Coming out with a better hardware selection and allowing end users to customize the hardware layout of their machines, Dell's XPS desktops feature... |
20 August 2007 11:13 GMT |
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Like always on Saturday night, you're dead drunk and since you're such a brave person, you will prove that you can drive home safely on your own (by the way, who would dare try to face your punches and curses just to grab your keys?). Well, Nissan has found a solution to your problem now. If not for the sak... |
9 August 2007 15:06 GMT |
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SiS announced that computers from Tsinghua Tongfang that are intended mostly for the Chinese market are coming on the market equipped with the SiS671 chipset. In order to make the most of the high sales summer period, the two hardware manufacturers and vendors decided to reduce the price of the S series, T series, an... |
8 August 2007 04:00 GMT |
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Dell was the first big name in the select club of the top computer hardware manufacturers and vendors that took the risk to ship a computer pre loaded with a Linux distribution. The first such machines arrived on the United States market in May and because they proved to be a success, the manufacturing company decide... |
8 August 2007 03:28 GMT |
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A recent proposal to fit every yellow cab in New York with GPS systems is causing massive protest among drivers who threaten to call strike until the order is revoked. The trade body representing more than 8,000 drivers is considering this last resort action against city officials.Two months ago, this project was vi... |
27 July 2007 10:35 GMT |
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There are computer customers out there that are more concerned about their PC's design and "cool" and elegant case than about what's inside of that "cool" case. Well, these users need a computer for pretty easy tasks as surfing the Web, emailing or as a multimedia center; they are not computer geeks, nor ex... |
27 July 2007 07:02 GMT |
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