Applications

Microsoft has fixed six critical and three important desktop application vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday release. Patches for flaws that directly affect desktop application users have been showing up more frequently in Patch Tuesday releases over the last eight to 10 months. This shift...

Networking hardware and software maker Cisco announced an array of data center products gathered under the umbrella moniker Data Center 3.0. The vision for Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and net...

Five million is a lot of anything. That's why the folks at Boston-based software maker IObit caught my eye recently when they announced they had just cracked the cinco millones mark in downloads for their free Windows maintenance program Advanced WindowsCare Personal. The application, its most recen...

You can't label it a Web operating system. Don't refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey "acquired." The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the firs...

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Corel VideoStudio v.11: A Small Step Forward

With the arrival of high-definition cameras, the push for video-to-go and, of course, Windows Vista, makers of video editing software have been handed a ticket to introduce new versions of their products. Canadian application architect Corel has done just that with the new version of its VideoStudio...

Legal and medical professionals are often criticized for being way behind the times in terms of the technologies they use in their offices. It seems as though any doctor's or lawyer's office you enter has reams of papers and mountains of file cabinets taking up space just waiting to be lost, stolen ...

Get ready for easy-to-use home servers. With Monday's release to manufacturers of the long-awaited Windows Home Server software, vendors will be putting the devices on the market this fall. There once was a time when homes with more than one PC were rare. However, now a modern household can have mul...

Adobe Systems released two suites of software that represent a major step for the company as it integrates its recent acquisitions. Among those acquisitions, Macromedia was by far the most important, said Melissa Webster, program vice president for content and digital media technologies with IDC. "T...

Continuing to expand its portfolio of services under the Windows Live roof, Microsoft's newest beta offerings allow users to store and share photos and files online. The Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft said, is an upgrade of the Windows Photo Gallery that comes with the Windows Vista operating...

If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap. There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media...

Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors' desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google. News of the agreement was included in an U.S. Department of Justice report on Microsoft's compliance with final judgments to the U.S. versus Micr...

There are lots of disk defraggers in the market, but Raxco PerfectDisk is one of the best that I've seen to date. Now the Gaithersburg, Md., company is expanding the scope of its flagship product to further improve computer performance and security. Raxco's new product, PerfectDisk Rx Suite, is buil...

Last week was kind of a disappointment, because I think most of us expected more from the Apple developer conference than it delivered. This is particularly true of the iPhone, which is way overhyped for a generation one product. Most tech companies -- and particularly Apple -- suck at generation ...

Microsoft has released its latest batch of fixes in this month's Patch Tuesday announcement, employing a new format that makes it easier for IT administers to single out areas of risk, according to Amol Sarwate, research manager of the vulnerability research lab at Qualys. The new format doesn't giv...

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Free Your Pix From Your Hard Drive

A bane of shutterbugs everywhere is the question of what to do with their photos after shooting them. In the days when film was king, it wasn't unusual to find closets with shoeboxes stuffed with prints or boxes of slides. Today, computer hard drives have become the photo shoeboxes of yesterday. Dig...

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