Mark May 12th on your iCalendar: Steam (and Portal and Team Fortress AND HALF LIFE) is coming to Mac!

In true, Valve style -- only a month late! -- Steam and Valve's first-party games will be coming to Mac on May 12th. I'm not sure which games will actually be available at launch, but I'm guessing we'll see Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 at...

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Five Windows 7 features average users should know about -- and use!

I've been using Windows 7 ever since test version became available. It's packed with useful features -- features power users and our Download Squad readers are probably familiar with. Average users, however, aren't quite as quick on the uptake....

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Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 video will only support H.264; swivel on it, Ogg and Adobe

In a bold, blunt and brash announcement that must surely be intended to up-stage Steve Jobs' open letter to Adobe, the IE9 development team has stated that their new browser will only support H.264. This heralds the death of Ogg's Theora codec...

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Apple puts a bullet in Lala: zombie Lala to return as iTunes streaming?

When Apple acquired Lala, a lot of people wondered how long the popular streaming audio service would last. Ed Bott recently asked the question over at CNet, and today we've got our answer: about five mont...

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Firefox gets a sexy new add-ons manager

Mozilla continues to plug away at Firefox.next, and one area they've been working at is the add-on system. Jetpack and Personas have already seen improvements, browser shutdown time has been reduced to almost nothing, and now there's been a major update...

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Install xp via pendrive complete guide.

There are several ways to install xp via pendrive. This method is helpful under sitiuation when dvd drive is not working...As a user I also tried in many ways and atlast got a good method to install xp via pendriv...

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Shuffle a picture to create something "unique" with Pixuffle

What the heck is that? If that's the first thing that crossed your mind upon seeing the screenshot for this post, I really can't blame you. I produced this random-looking soup of pixels using Pixuffle, which claims that it lets you "shuffle...

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Google Maps + Earth view further blurs line between real-life and sci-fi

Google Maps now has a Google Earth view right within the site. This new addition further blurs the distinction between Earth and Maps. It's basically just like Earth, only in your browser.When I tested the feature, navigation, tilting and panning...

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Ubuntu 10.04 hit by major bug on release day

It's the end of April. Spring is here, and so is Ubuntu 10.04. Or at least, that's the plan. Canonical's rigid release schedule is awesome for many reasons -- one of which is the amount of excitement it generates around each new Ubuntu release. However,...

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Latest Firefox nightly adds tab bar-cramping customization

Firefox 3.7's user interface has already undergone a number of changes, from the new theme to the addition of the tab-on-top option. In last night's build, Mozilla has added more customization options to the Firefox toolbar...

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Steve Jobs tells the world just what he thinks of Flash

Once upon a time there were two little boys, Apple and Adobe. Back when they were kids, they used to hang out, play kick-the-can, and generally lived in harmony. But one day Apple got sick and Adobe met some new kids and the two drifted...

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Apple Patents The Invisible Button

One of Apple’s famous minimalist design principles is to get rid of buttons whenever possible. With touchscreen devices like the iPhone and iPad, almost all of the buttons appear when needed on the screen. But what about Macbooks with aluminum casings?...

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Javascript Code to View Locked Facebook Private Albums Photos

Realtrix has posted a trick to view locked Facebook private album photos. Using a simple JavaScript code, one can bypass the locked album restrictions and hack or peep into someone’s private photos on Facebook. Being the largest social networking...

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Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.3 & iPad 3.2 Coming on Friday

iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad users might get excited to know that finally iPhone Dev Team’s Spirit Userland jailbreak for iPhone 3.1.3 OS is getting released on coming Friday i.e 30th April. Spirit jailbreak is untethered jailbreak capable of jailbreaking iPhone 3.1.3 & iPad 3.2 OS. There is also an another Geohot jailbreaking...

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Adobe Implement H264 Acceleration for Flash on Mac OS X

I think it's about time we got an Adobe category. Apple recently made public an API to allow OS X software access to hardware H.264 acceleration (albeit such acceleration is only available on chipsets since the Nvidia 9400M--early 2008) and...

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20 app showdown: iPhone vs. iPad

A few weeks back we put together some screenshots of games on the iPhone versus their iPad iterations. It was a resounding hit with the exception of our execution, which was to shoehorn the lovely, full-size comparisons into a little under 600-pixel-width screens. To make amends for this, we're giving it another go. But this time we're taking...

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Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx stalks PC and Mac converts

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Microsoft's Linux patent bingo hits Google's Android

Talk about dissonance. On the day Microsoft crowed that it was letting its employees contribute code to an open-source project, Joomla, it fired another shot at Linux.a On Wednesday, Microsoft announced a patent agreement with phone maker HTC that...

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Restore the Classic 'All Programs' Menu in Windows 7

Vista offered the option of restoring that "classic" Start Menu, but Windows 7, inexplicably, doesn't. Fortunately, there are at least two ways to accomplish this: one, a simple Registry tweak; the other, a shareware utility.&nb...

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Limera1n Tool to Jailbreak iPhone OS 4.0 by Geohot

iPhone OS 4.0 is due for Summer 2010 release but iPhone hackers such as iPhone dev team or Geohot has already managed to find out ways to jailbreak the next generation iPhone firmware. iPhone Dev Team’s  Redsn0w 0.9.5 and Geohot iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreakingare out as of now and we might witness more tools in...

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Facebook's Instant Personalization catches flack from the U.S. Senate

If you thought this Facebook thing was just a passing fad, think again. Even the United States Senate has its eye on Facebook this week. A coalition of Democratic senators, led by New York's Chuck Schumer, wants Facebook to make its new Instant...

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Firefox for Mobile pre-alpha lands on Android

Love Firefox on your desktop? Wishing your Android handset could run a Mozilla browser, too? Well, now it can -- probably, anyway! Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukićević has shared the newson his personal blog: a Fennec pre-alpha for Android...

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Google confirms Flash will run on Android 2.2 Froyo

Take that, Apple! Google publicly announced today that the upcoming Android 2.2, aka Froyo, will fully support Flash. In a dig at Apple, Google's Andy Rubin told the New York Times that Android's commitment to openness means "not being militant...

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Get New Google Docs Editor and resize inline images

Google Docs has been busy in the past month or so and we can reach that conclusion with the number of changes Google docs has brought into its layout and design structure. I have already written about new features with Google Docs which...

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28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks

You may have installed countless add-on in Firefox to enhance your using experience, but if you want to get the most out of Firefox, you really have to hack your way into the about:config.The about:config page contains most (if not,...

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Apple Vs Adobe: No Flash on iPhone OS, again.

The news is finally out yesterday!Adobe won’t spend any more time in making Flash available for development on Apple’s iPhone OS!  The statements came after Apple changed their developer program license...

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Top 3 .RAR Password Removing/Cracking Utilities

Have you forgotten the password you set for a .rar compressed file? or you need access to a password protected RAR-file that you downloaded and have no clue about the password or don't know how to unlock password protected .rar files?  This can...

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Microsoft Office 2011 beta for Mac OS X leaks; crowd goes wild

A couple of days ago the second beta of Office 2011 for Mac OS X leaked. I didn't want to report it immediately because it's always a little bit dangerous to download pre-release software, especially from infamous torrent sites... But enough people...

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Google buys LabPixies, gains analytics from millions of web gadgets

The Googlemonster never stops looking for new companies to devour...This morning's feast wasLabPixies, who develop addictive casual games for iPhone and Android as well as web gadgets for sites like Facebook, iGoogle, Orkut, MySpace, and Hi...

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Opera 10.52 final now available for Mac

If you own a Mac and have been waiting for a final build before trying out "the world's fastest browser," now's your chance. Opera has released version 10.52 for Mac -- for both current Intel systems and older, non-Intel machine...

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Panic releases awesome Transmit 4 FTP client

Panic's Transmit has been a familiar name in Mac software for years, to the point where that famous truck icon is synonymous with FTP for many Mac users. Even though there's solid competition out there -- Flow, for example, is quite nice...

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YoWindow shows weather around the world with neat Flash animations

YoWindow is a nice weather application (and online tool). It takes the concept of "looking out the window" and stretches it a bit. A pastoral animated landscape reflects the current weather in your location, or in any other location that you select....

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Twitter Tuesday - Twitter and the Music Industry Edition

In this week's Twitter Tuesday, I want to take a look at musicians on Twitter, and the various ways that they're using the service effectively -- or not. The National, a band with a huge fanbase and plenty of critical acclaim, found themselves...

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Some Cool Hidden Firefox Tricks

There are hundreds of tricks for Firefox that you can apply to tweak, optimize, change UI and mostly to increase browsing speed. But while browsing I landed on a webpage where I found these cool and probably unknown tricks that are somehow useful as...

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YouTube is 5 years old: Watch the first video uploaded on YouTube

You Tube has turned five years old. It all started on 23rd April 2005 when the first You Tube video was loaded. It was a innocuous video upload called ‘Me at the Zoo’. The website URL was registered in January 2005 but development started...

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10 Best Websites to Download Free EBooks

All geeks prefer to read EBooks rather than going for printed books, they do it because of various benefits which EBook offers, like you can easily get them online, customize them, they are portable and you can share with your friends easily. There are many reasons why we choose to read EBooks but when it comes...

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Which is Better: Buying Apple Products, or Buying Apple Stock?

Hindsight bias probably works best when it comes to money. The events that occurred in the past seem to have been more predictable than they really were, and I bet many of you felt it when reading texts explaining how to get rich easily. Well, here...

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Facebook gets an "I Don't Care" button, via a Google Chrome extension

Now that Facebook's "like" button is poised to take over the whole web, the campaign for a "dislike" button is more relevant than ever. But what about a third option, a "meh" option, an "I Don't Care" option? If you're a Google Chrome user, you can...

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Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive

Live SkyDrive is an awesome service. 25GB of web storage for free? Yeah, that sounds good to me. Sure, the 50MB per file limit is a little bit of a downside but it's still a great place to store documents, music, and phot...

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iPhone 4’s Front-Facing Camera Will Bring iChat To The iPhone

From the recently leaked iPhone 4, we know that Apple has added a front-facing camera to their upcoming iPhone, which to industry-watchers is signaling something big. It means that Apple is going to add iChat capability to the iPhone 4. Here’s the...

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Over 50,000 Android Apps Have Been Released So Far

Take a look at the trajectory graph for Google Android’s apps: it is amazing. Last December, 4,000 new apps were created, and 8,000 last month. We expect that number to rise much higher this month. The way the App Market is exploding in size, who knows...

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Photovisi offers Picasa-like collage creation, online

Photovisi is a simple online service which lets you select one of a myriad of templates, throw your images, and compile them into a digital collage. The results are very similar to those of the collage-making feature built into Picasa (Create > Picture...

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