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Yahoo Photos will be closing down within a few months in favor of Flickr according to Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse. Some of you will remember that Yahoo bought Flickr a little over a year ago. During the transition phase, users of Yahoo Photos will be given a choice of transferring their photos to Flickr, the […]

SpeedBit Ltd. has recently released the beta version of their Video Accelerator. The app speeds up the downloading of online videos by opening a number of parallel connections between the user’s computer and the video site’s server. This means that the app will reduce buffering problems making videos stream faster and smoother. The included search […]

Mozilla has been asking Firefox users to test a beta version of an add-on that lets users monitor their deals on eBay in real time. The beta test is currently being offered to Firefox users in Germany, the U.K., and France only.
The add-on is a sidebar app that synchronizes with eBay’s auction and commercial sites. […]

Sony has announced that the PSP Go! Cam will be arriving next month to Europe and other PAL territories. The PSP Go! Cam is a snap on camera that lets users store up to 40,000 images and record up to two and a half hours of video. Also included are a built-in microphone and Go!Edit, […]

Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia and eEye Digital Security of California have discovered a flaw in the Winamp 5.34 plugin that decodes MP4 files. It seems that an attacker could compromise a computer by feeding a specially made MP4 file to the player. This would allow the attacker to execute malicious code remotely. According to eEye’s […]

If you’re looking for something special to put on your desk that will shame your co-workers’ desktops, this is what you need. The Anti-Gravity Machine is a little gizmo that holds objects in a magnetic field and makes them hover in space. You can’t put just anything in it though. The default package comes with […]

After resolving issues with their Personalized Home Page service, Google will now add more features to let users customize their home pages a little more. New languages are available bringing the total count to 26. Themes for the service are now available to users living outside the United States.
Probably the biggest enhancement to the service […]

PC Wizard 2007 is a free utility that analyzes and benchmarks your computer’s hardware. Some of the components that the program analyzes are: CD/DVD-ROM performance, hard drives, CPU, RAM, cache, and video performance. The app is regularly updated to provide better diagnostic results. PC Wizard supports 32 and 64 bit Windows, and Windows Vista.
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