Entries from January 2008 ↓

Users of the Linux operating system have long lamented the absence of Adobe Photoshop on their platform. An application called Pixel fills in the gap nicely, and even stands up nicely to the free image-editing favorite, GIMP.

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An Opera developer jumps the gun and tells a blogger the company is prepping a version of its browser for Apple’s iPhone. Is it true? Opera says no, but the debacle underlines the anticipation surrounding the inevitable iPhone browser war to come.

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Next week’s Macworld Conference and Expo may be the place where iPhones, iPods and all the latest Mac hardware are announced, but it’s also the annual curtain-raiser for the Mac software industry. Here’s what to expect from Apple, Microsoft and the other big names.

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Recently uncovered code on the Flickr website hints at Yahoo’s plans to support OpenID, the identity system which would allow users to manage their logins for all Yahoo properties — as well as other services such as LinkedIn and MySpace — from one central, secure location.

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Version 1.0 of Transmission, one of the most popular file-trading clients for the Mac, has been released. Users sharing files over BitTorrent get a number of updates specific to Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5, also known as Leopard.

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The first public preview of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ new open-source search engine launched Monday. Even though the project is very young, it currently lacks many of the human-powered ranking and rating features that will enable it to emerge as a threat to current search leaders like Google.

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When prominent blogger Robert Scoble tried to collect contact data about his friends stored in Facebook, the social networking site reprimanded him. But Plaxo, the creators of the new address book importer Scoble was beta testing, have no plans to discontinue development of the tool. Let the data portability standoff begin.

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Take a look at how the new Office versions for Mac and Windows are rolling out, feature by feature.

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The latest update for Microsoft Office 2003 disables the application’s ability to read files from older versions of Word and Excel. It’s sure to cause headaches for corporations and institutions storing older files.

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The original browser from the earliest days of the web will cease to be in February, AOL says. After playing second fiddle to Microsoft and being eclipsed by its offspring Firefox, the Netscape browser will be killed off by parent company AOL, which purchased the brand in 1999.

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