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Aperture 3 available in the Apple Store


Aperture 3 available in the Apple Store

A few hours back, the Apple store was down. When it came up again, they have added a new product – Aperture 3. Aperture 3 is Apple’s solution for professional photo editing and management. It is like a advanced (or should I say, Professional) version of Apple’s iPhoto software.

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By Ricky
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KDE SC 4.4 Visual Guide is finished


KDE SC 4.4 Visual Guide is finished

In time for the release of KDE SC 4.4 later today, the KDE Promo Team have finished the KDE SC 4.4 Visual Guide. Although the guide is done, it has not been released officially. You can however have a sneak peak of the guide here. When it is officially, it will be available here. Earlier…

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By Ricky

Details of the TCS DNS hacker


We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings. The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:

 General   Hacks   Linux   News  

By Ricky

OpenOffice dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04


OpenOffice dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04

Update: Abiword and Gnumeric are now most likely to replace OpenOffice. According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. (After this…

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By Ricky
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Microsoft’s former Vice President speaks out against Microsoft’s lack of innovations


Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, wrote an article in The New York Times in which he speaks out against what he calls “Creative Destruction” in Microsoft. In the article, he discussed why Microsoft is no longer the company leading the technology revolution that it was some years ago.

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By Ricky

VLC 1.1 to come with support for extensions


VLC 1.1 to come with support for extensions

VLC is all set to get new a new feature – extension support, from VLC 1.1. The extensions will be written in Lua, a simple a lightweight scripting language, embbeded inside VLC media player. The VLC extensions are scripts that will popup windows and fetch information on the web for you.

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By Ricky

How to install an offline dictionary in Ubuntu


A dictionay is one application that many people look for once they have installed Ubuntu. There are many dictionaries available but they are all online dictionary and as a result, you cannot use it if you are not connected to the internet. In this article, we will show you how you can get an offline…

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By Ricky

Google Reader now tracks changes to any website [even without feed]


Google Reader now tracks changes to any website [even without feed]

Google has announced that a new feature in Google Reader which allows you to track any changes in a website even if the website does not have feed. This new feature creates a custom feed for sites which does not have a feed of its own. To get this feature working all that you have to…

 General   Google   News   Web  

By Ricky

Lycos, Inc. removes the fake “CNN” page [update from “Twitter kills Johnny Depp”]


This is an update to our article titled “Twitter Kills Johnny Depp! [Not really]”. In our earlier post about the Johnny Depp death hoax in twitter, we mentioned that the hoax probably started due to a fake “CNN” page about the news hosted in Angelfire. After the news, Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, contacted us…

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By Ricky

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