Tag: DOWNLOADS

It could be argued that one of the biggest hurdles in the way of creating compelling shared online experiences is the fact that digital avatars look nothing like the people controlling them. A Pasadena, CA-based company called Big Stage Entertainment is trying to change that, and its solution is to enable anyone to quickly create a realistic 3-D version of themselves, which can then be used ...

Anyone who spent their childhood playing on one of Nintendo's original GameBoy portable devices has that system's iconic pea-green colored screen permanently etched into their mind. It may have been ugly and low-contrast, but it is also a legend in the portable electronics world. Now, another pocketable icon has been updated to bring back shades of Nintendo's first handheld wunderconsole: A ...

Shake it like a... well, you know. Since switching to digital, we've often missed the look and feel of prints from our old Polaroid cameras. Sure, you can boot up Photoshop and employ a set of filters and level adjustments to achieve the Polaroid look with the washed out colors and white borders, or you can check out the new Poladroid software. Once you open the app, drag your photos onto the ...

Google was not resting on its laurels earlier this week. First, it announced its corporate video sharing platform, then it unveiled Chrome, and towards the end of the day rumblings of a vastly updated Picasa started to come out. The Picasa news was clearly overshadowed by Chrome, but the new features are nonetheless impressive. Most dramatically, Picasa's Web Albums will allow you to tag people ...

When Google's new browser Chrome launched by surprise yesterday, many fans of the famously "do no evil" search company rushed to download it. Who wouldn't be wooed by its clean looks, fast performance, and pledges of security? So far, we think the browser delivers on the first two -- but we're not so sure on that last one. Word is hitting the Web that Chrome is vulnerable to a Safari-related ...

The world has been speculating for years that Google would eventually release its own browser, one that would, of course, be finely tuned to run Google services and other rich Web apps. Well, the day has finally come: In a surprise Labor Day announcement, Google announced Chrome, its new browser project. The Windows PC version of Chrome is set to become available for free download sometime today, ...

Have you been itching to get your hands on the latest flavor of Internet Explorer? Yeah, we can't say we really have been either, but just the same, Microsoft has released the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 for public consumption, and you can download it now and check it out if you like. The first beta was only for developers, but after a number of updates and fixes, Microsoft is ...

In what may be most promising portable music sharing application to date, Simplify Media -- available now for iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store -- lets users stream their friends iTunes libraries from any broadband Internet connection, making storage capacity something of a non-issue. Like its sister apps for Mac, Linux, and Windows, the program lets users stream songs and playlists from ...

With the exception of Nintendo's Wii, it looks like video game consoles are increasingly becoming excellent devices on which to get movie and TV show downloads (especially for HDTV owners who are starved for fresh HD content). Yesterday, Microsoft announced the immediate availability of more movies and TV shows from partners such as Universal and NBC (essentially, this means that viewers can now ...

As we now well know, the Internet is serious business. And to further clarify the point, the Guinness organization (World Records, not beer) has now given the title of "most downloads in a 24-hour period" to Mozilla, which hurled 8,002,530 copies of its Firefox 3 browser into cyberspace on June 17. "As the arbiter and recorder of the world's amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to ...

A few weeks back, developers of the Web browser Firefox announced that when the eagerly anticipated 3.0 version of their software was released, they wanted to break the Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period. The only problem was they didn't say when that day would be. As it turns out, the clock started ticking yesterday at 2pm, and they've already eclipsed the 5 million mark ...

Wal-Mart is the latest store to jump into the DRM-free music sales game, offering the same digital-rights-management-free tracks from EMI and Universal that are sold through the iTunes Plus, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and other online music stores. (DRM is a system of adding a small amount of data to an audio file, which puts draconian limitations on copying, burning, and playback of the material ...

Starting today, Yahoo! Music will be the first online music store to legally offer lyrics. After a deal with Gracenote and the five major music labels, Yahoo! Music will sport more than 400,000 songs' lyrics in a completely searchable database. While there are already several lyric sites, Yahoo!'s marks the first legal service of its kind, as the songwriters and labels own copyrights to the ...