With only 140 characters allowed in Twitter, every single character in tweeting is so precious to express the emotions and feelings adequately. Hence, URL shortening is an important feature in tweeting that allows tweeters to share URLs in their tweets. Users have been relying on third-party shortening services in the past such as Bit.ly and Goo.gl to shorten the URLs into a length that can […]
Want to protect your Android smartphone or tablet from increasingly potent and malicious threats? ESET Mobile Security for Android is a mobile-optimized proactive antivirus scanning engine with anti-spam and ant-itheft features which has been designed to provide real-time protection against known and emerging threats without affecting smartphone performance.
The next version of iOS (previously known as iPhone OS), iOS 5 has been announced but not yet available for general public at least until Fall 2011. Most expects it to be officially released in September 2011. But the beta version of iOS 5 has been made available as free download to developers. You can’t just register for a developer account to get access to […]
Steve Jobs announced during the WWDC 2011 keynote address that iCloud will be replacing MobileMe, which will be closed down by June 30, 2012, and has not been accepting new subscribers since February 2011. iCloud will be launched by Fall 2011, which many expects in September. The MobileMe boxes, Individual or Family Pack versions, which were sold in Apple Retail Stores, Apple Online Store, and […]
With the lack of new iPhone hardware announcement, the focus of WWDC 2011 keynote is on Mac OS X, iOS and iCloud. One of the iCloud features is iTunes in the Cloud, which enables music, books or apps purchased in iTunes Store to appear automatically on all iOS-based devices and computers via iTunes. Users can also manually download any past iTunes purchases on any devices […]
Looks like Skype is crashing again, barely two weeks after the Skype network down for “a few users” and causing the Skype client app to crash on loading. This round, the Skype program does not stop working. Instead, users are unable to sign in to the network.
Apple officially unveiled the next version of iOS mobile operating system, iOS 5, during the keynote address of WWDC 2011. Unfortunately, iOS 5 is introduced without the much-awaited iPhone 5 (or iPhone 4S). Nonetheless, iOS 5 is probably a do or die firmware software upgrade for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which face increased competition from Android phone and tablets, and the upcoming Windows 8.
Most people who watches videos and movies on Windows PC will be familiar with DirectVobSub that serves as a DirectShow subtitle filter to display subtitles during video playback on various DirectShow-based media players, especially Windows Media Player. By default, Windows Media Player has limited support for subtitle formats, i.e. SAMI (.smi or .sami) subtitle files, but not more popular and common subtitle files such as […]
Apple World wide Developers Conference ’11 (WWDC 2011) keynote address is ongoing now, since 10:00 am PST, and apparently Apple is not going to officially feed and stream the event live for worldwide audience. But few Apple enthusiasts are not going to let world delay for even a few seconds to know what’s happening live at the keynote.
DAZ Studio 4 (the newest version to date), from DAZ 3D, is a powerful, comprehensive 3D figure creation, posing, art and animation tool, which is designed to allow hobbyists and beginners who’re new to 3D art and animation as well as professionals to easily create their unique stunning artwork and animation by utilizing virtual people, pets, vehicles, accessories, environments, props and so forth. For folks […]
If you are using Skybox/Hibox/Yumy/Openbox S9/S10 HD satellite decoder to receive satellite signals via card sharing, it is sometimes hard to filter off adult channels especially if you have small children at home. And worst thing is you may not aware that some satellites may have added sexual contents just like what had happened to JCSAT 128 C-band in Asia countries recently. Fortunately, there is […]
After releasing Firefox 5 as Beta, Mozilla has officially pushed Firefox 6 into Aurora channel. Aurora channel is meant for adventurous who wants to use the advanced version of Firefox web browser, and expect some level of stability even though the software is still in development. For past one month, Firefox 5 had stayed in alpha phase and released as nightly builds.
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