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Friday 18 March 2011

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Jake

An abandoned outpost looks out over a forgotten lake as leaves whisk past, with the sky growing dark in the distance. Lightning brightens your screen as music builds the calm before the storm. The scene changes to a lonely lighthouse protecting ships from the rocky crags below, as the sky swirls in anticipation of the coming tempest. Another scene crackles with lightning as the desert prepares for a coming storm. When your computer is resting, a storm is brewing with this animated screen saver. [Order Calm Before the Storm Screensaver now | Download a free trial]"

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Jake

Great 3D world rendering keeps me coming back for more screen savers from 3Planesoft. This time, your computer's idle cycles take an underwater submarine cruise with realistic panoramic scenes of sunken treasures. Explore sunken ships, underwater castles, and other detailed underwater experiences, all from behind the virtual glass of an underwater diving vessel. Shift perspective to see the submarine break the surface of waves, before diving underwater for another trip past detailed underwater scenes. Once again, the 3D modeling is on par with the best stuff from the PC gaming industry.[Order Calm Before the Storm Screensaver now | Download a free trial]"

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Jake

Tweak the Windows XP interface on the cheap. Add a custom WinXP logon screen from a wide selection of options. Quickly add custom themes to all apps on the system. Create custom wallpapers and rotate them on a set schedule, ranging from every 5 minutes to every 10 hours, or change wallpapers each time you logon to the system. Apply XP visual styles to non-XP apps, giving a fresh face to old favorites. Add transparency to the Start Menu or the taskbar, making it easy to still see what's on the desktop. The trial version includes only one style pack, but registration provides access to the full list of Visual XP Styles, in addition to a free Bonus Style pack, with seasonal updates of styles often provided free to registered users. [Order XP Visual Tools now | Download a free trial]"

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Jake

Rhinos, and gazelles, and wildebeest, oh my. Experience the African savannah on your desktop, as 3D animals traverse the idle moments of your Windows desktop. Watch elephants lumber by. See herds of zebras pursued by hunting big cats. Lions patrol the grasses as predatory birds hunt from above. Animal sounds and music may be muted to keep from annoying co-workers. This screensaver is great for nature lovers and parents looking to distract their children.[Order 3D Serengeti Safari now | Download a free trial]"

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Rick Broida
Got an iPad 2? Then get these apps. Each one takes advantage of at least one of the tablet's new features: faster processor, built-in gyroscope, dual cameras, etc.

And while you're at it, be sure to check out 10 must-have apps for iPad 2 owners. They're not necessarily iPad 2-optimized, but they're awesome just the same.

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Google Reader (1000+): "by Jason Parker
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Bean is a free, compact, easy-to-use text editor that occupies the middle ground between bare-bones apps like TextEdit and more full-featured (and more expensive) word processors. Bean launches quickly and uses minimal resources, while giving you access to rich features such as live word count, page layout settings and in-line graphics, dictionary integration, word completion, plenty of import and export options, a search panel that can handle regular expressions, and an Inspector panel for making tweaks to text, format, and spacing. For a simple text editor with a little more style, check out Bean.

Also this week we have the latest version of Google Chrome, a Web browser that's among the most standards-compliant and fastest browsers available. Our game this week is OfficePool 2011, giving you all the tools you need to track March Madness with your coworkers and friends on your Mac.

Don't forget to check out our iPhone apps of the week!"

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Google Reader (1000+): "Mozilla's Web o' Wonder notifies you at the top of the page if your graphics card drivers are out of date, an essential upgrade to perform to take advantage of hardware-accelerated browsing.

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Firefox 4 was originally projected to arrive around October or November of last year, but was delayed as work on new features and integrating graphics card-powered hardware acceleration took longer than expected. GPU hardware acceleration is the short-term Holy Grail for modern browsers because it allows them to leverage high-powered graphics cards to give the browser an edge in rendering complicated in-site graphics faster.

The current stable release of Chrome 10 only offers partial hardware acceleration, while Internet Explorer 9 won't work on Windows XP precisely because of the hardware acceleration hang-up.

Internet Explorer 9, released earlier this week, touted a first-day download count of 2.3 million. That's a strong number, although Firefox 3 scored more than 7 million downloads on its first day, around two and a half years ago.".

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Google Reader (1000+): "Mozilla plans an orderly shift from raw new code to a polished final version of Firefox every 16 weeks.

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A faster, regular release schedule isn't the only idea Mozilla is adopting from Google's browser. The organization also is embracing a plan to give Firefox a similar spectrum of test and stable versions to try to bring new features to market swiftly.

The general idea is to issue new versions of Firefox with varying levels of maturity, with the more mature versions geared for larger audiences, according to a draft document published by Mozilla programmer Rob Sayre.

The goal of the overall effort is to inject more competitiveness into a browser that deserves credit for reinvigorating a market left stagnant by the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox still is the No. 2 browser in worldwide usage, but now Google's Chrome has attracted many technophilic early adopters, and the brand-new IE9 gives Microsoft a competitive browser again.

The biggest risk coming with the new Firefox release philosophy is leaving behind the slower-moving users. Firefox has gained mainstream acceptance, but the fast-moving, auto-updating philosophy of software development can be at odds with, for example, conservative IT departments."

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