Tag: APP

GParted is an extremely handy LiveCD to keep in your technician's toolbox, and its new version features one very major addition: GParted 0.8 can now help you recover data from lost partitions. After analyzing your drive and doing its best to resurrect missing information from the partition table, GParted will now let you mount partitions it finds in read-only mode so you can copy your data to ...

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, chatted to the BBC at CES about a wide range of topics, including competition from Apple, the burgeoning 'appification' of everything, and Kinect for the PC. When asked about official support for Kinect on the PC, Ballmer says Microsoft "will support that in a formal way in the right time" -- a cop-out, basically. His impish grin does suggest it's definitely on ...

Voice Search is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to speak search queries instead of typing them, and it's not limited to Google searches. It works very similar to the voice input system that Google has built into Android. A microphone icon will show up in your browser's extensions area, as well as near any HTML5-powered search box on websites that it can be used for. To search for ...

Over at PreCentral, Dieter Bohn has been lucky enough to score some quality preview time with Incredible -- a Swiss-knife social networking app for webOS. The app is another creation from developer Geoff Gauchet, who built the popular Foursquare app our own Nik Fletcher showed you earlier this year. Incredible supports all the services you'd expect, like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, ...

There's no shortage of screenshot apps out there, but for many Mac users Skitch has been an indispensable tool since its release in 2007. The Skitch team must have been working overtime recently, because years of beta status have finally come to a close with the release of version 1.0 -- which follows the recent redesign of Skitch.com. Along with the newly redesigned interface and added features ...

Napster, the venerable grandfather of music downloading apps, staged somewhat of an amazing comeback a few years ago -- becoming a fully legal music service. If you were expecting the same from LimeWire after the recent kick-in-the-groin bestowed upon it by the RIAA, your hopes may have been officially dashed. LimeWire has sent out a PR missive stating that they have been forced to shut down ...

Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian has become available yesterday. After a period of public beta testing, the Norwegian browser has become faster than ever -- and is, right now, possibly the fastest browser available for Symbian. Making its debut in the stable 10.1 version is a just-in-time compiler for Opera's Carakan JavaScript engine, that makes its JavaScript rendering a whopping nine times ...

Foursquare has started awarding a special badge to anyone who checks in at an airport with words such as "TSA", "touch", "grope" or "Don't touch my junk!". The badge is called Baggage Handler. The text that accompanies the unlocking of the badge reads: Looks like you've had your baggage handled. Happy Holidays and have a safe flight! This, of course, comes right in time for National Opt-Out Day ...

This Monday was a big day for Skype, as it reached an important milestone: 25 million concurrent users. That means that 25 million users were, at some point during that day, connected to the Skype service at the same time. This only shows that Skype is, if anything, getting more and more popular by the day. In 2009, Skype saw 113 billion minutes used for Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. ...

Easeus Partition Master has always been a great little app. It's a powerful yet easy-to-use disk partitioning tool that makes managing your hard disks a breeze. Better still, it runs right in Windows -- handy for people like me who always miss the 'Press F11 for boot menu' prompt. There was one big downside to the free version, however: it didn't support 64-bit versions of Windows. That's all ...

Just a couple months ago, Facebook finally got into the location game. Today, the official BlackBerry blog has announced that their Facebook app is adding support for Places check-ins. The updated app will be available on BlackBerry App World within 24 hours. Users can check into locations within 2 kilometers, and you'll also be able to tag friends who are along for the ride. Just tap the ...

The IMDb has just released version 2.0 of its excellent universal iOS app for the iPhone and iPad. The update brings with it Retina Display-ready graphics and multitasking support for iOS 4. The ability to rate movies and TV shows directly in the app by using an IMDb or Facebook login has also been added. So, after you've used the local movie showtime search, which has been rolled out to 13 new ...

iOS apps are, perhaps, not the first thing you think about when Muji's concerned, but the modernist homeware and clothing brand has launched three iPad apps, two free, one paid for, and a Japanese-language only iPhone apparel catalog app. We'll start with the iPad apps. Muji Calendar Although the iPad comes with a calendar app built-in, Muji thinks it can do better. In their words, ...

When it comes to system cleanup programs, CCleaner is pretty much the hands-down favorite with Download Squad readers. It's been a trusted tool for years, and the newly-released CCleaner 3 is better than ever. What's new in v3? To start, there's now a native 64-bit version in both the installer and portable CCleaner. Windows 7 users also get the benefit of a handy jump list, which offers quick ...

Campfire is a slick way for teams to communicate, collaborate, and share via the Web -- but if you're searching for a simple, free alternative, a new project called Holla is worth a look. Holla is an open-source chat and file sharing Web app. While it lacks Campfire's more advanced features, like transcripts and voice calling, Holla still provides an elegantly simple way to assemble a group ...