BBC Launches Free Online TV in UK July 30, 2007

 The BBC launched its online television service on Friday, which is being called the biggest change to the way its viewers watch its programming in four decades.The advent of content on the Internet is as big for the BBC as its first broadcasts in color in the 1960s, according to Director General Mark Thompson.
Altogether, about [...]

Microsoft to Change Vista After Google Complaints June 23, 2007

A little background info is in order. A couple of months ago Google made a confidential complaint against Microsoft to the Justice department over Microsoft’s indexing software. Google’s complaint was that Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to turn off the default indexing software in Vista (“Instant Search,” which allows you to search your hard drive) [...]

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move June 17, 2007

So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Then you’ll love the web’s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as [...]

Opera to replace Flash, iPhone has its first app June 17, 2007

Opera Software officials confirmed today that it is developing native video functionality for its mobile browser that will replace the ubiquitous Adobe Flash plug-in.
“What we are doing is adding video capability directly into the Web browser so you can use text, and video, and javascript and directly execute video inside of the Web,” said Tatsuki [...]

Any Video Converter Free 2.03 June 15, 2007

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video [...]

Safari for Windows Tops 1 Million Downloads June 15, 2007

Despite security concerns and Microsoft pundits like Paul Thurrott wondering “who would ever use” it, Safari 3 Beta for Windows was downloaded over 1 million times in the first 48 hours, Apple announced. The company continues to tout the speed and standards support of its browser, which was previously Mac-only.
Even with 1 million downloads, however, [...]

After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched June 15, 2007

Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software.
The 3.0.1 update, released early Thursday morning, fixes three flaws in the browser including bugs that were discovered earlier this week by researchers Thor Larholm and Aviv Raff.
Apple released the 3.0 beta on Monday, and hackers started digging up bugs within hours. [...]

Security flaw hits Safari (Windows) only hours after release June 13, 2007

 ecurity researcher Aviv Raff claims to have found the first security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser on Windows only hours after the software was released.
Raff tested the application against a standard browser security testing tool.
“A first glance at the debugger showed me that this memory corruption might be exploitable. Although I’ll have to dig more [...]

Wyzo: BitTorrent Focused Browser And Firefox Extension June 10, 2007

Wyzo is a new company with two products. The Wyzo browser is built on the Firefox core and comes with a BitTorrent plug-in called FireTorrent built in. For those not interested in a separate browser, a standalone version of FireTorrent is available for Firefox.The primary target audience for Wyzo is people who don’t already use [...]

Developers Eye Microsoft’s Silverlight As Potential Flash Alternative June 8, 2007

Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash has never had serious competition, which allowed it to become the dominant technology for Web multimedia, even though its complexity causes some headaches for developers. Yet Microsoft’s Silverlight stands to give Flash a run for its market share.Now available in beta, Silverlight is slated for a 1.0 release this summer and is [...]

Adobe Reader 8.1 Brings Vista Support June 8, 2007

Adobe on Tuesday released the first major update to both Acrobat and Reader 8.0, adding support for Windows Vista and remote printing capabilities through a partnership with FedEx Kinko’s. Version 8.1 (download from FileForum) also brings integration with Microsoft Office 2007.
Acrobat users can now export Office documents to PDF files by right clicking, as well [...]

Suggestions for Google Services May 30, 2007

Most Google services have feedback forms where you can suggest new features or improvements, but some of them even list frequent suggestions and let you vote your favorites. The lists also give you hints about the future updates.

Gmail
Picasa
Picasa Web Albums
Google Talk
Google Calendar
Google Apps
Google Groups
Google Pack
Google Desktop

The writer:  Google System

Particls goes Public Beta May 30, 2007

This Announcement Has been sent to my email because I’m a beta tester for a months. I like this program but the last time I test it didn’t support Arabic I don’t know about it now, I think I’m gonna download the  new beta and see.
 
 
After many months of anticipation, we are happy [...]

The perfect PC May 26, 2007

Here in KSA stealing software is nothing… and even I don’t like that, I can’t stop it. And because of that I start a year ago the search for good alternatives, to be honest I always knew about the free and open source programs but I didn’t try it. I didn’t know how good those [...]

No end in sight for Vista’s Long Goodbye May 24, 2007

Looking for yet another reason to hold off buying Vista? Read on
Seven weeks ago, when we first reported Vista was causing many machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying and moving files, we were sure the problem was caused by a bug that would be fixed relatively quickly. After all, Vista is Microsoft’s flagship product. [...]

REAPER v1.85 May 21, 2007

I use it for more than 2 months ”Audacity”and Connect presented it last night. I don’t have any thing against Audacity, I like it but it’s very simple I mean it’s for light use.
Anyway this post is a small review about REAPER , this program is better and for advance use, it’s easy and the most important thing and I [...]

Yahoo widgets 4 vs Google Desktop May 13, 2007

After I saw today Connect “Tariq” talked about Google Desktop so i decided to write the deferences between it and Yahoo widgets. But lucky me I read a post two months ago about this subject and I a greee with the writer 100% , and this is the post (I updated some parts of the [...]

The online scanner May 13, 2007

Do you have a virus or a spyware in your PC, or you want to be sure that your PC is clean? then you don’t have to install another antivirus or do format “like some friends I know the only answer for all the problems they have is the format ” any way [...]

Use IM with out installation May 13, 2007

What is Web messengers, how it’s useful?
It’s an instant messaging service without the need to download and install a separate application.
The change allows people working for companies and some Universities which stop staff downloading and installing applications to use the service. It will also make the service usable for people in internet cafes that don’t [...]

Do you like Mac OS X? try Yahoo! Widget Engine 4 May 13, 2007

The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock [...]