Posts from 'Software' category

The Skype call service is growing more and more popular. Google could not miss out on this domain and has decided to launch a similar service. They have been saying this for over a year now.The summer that has just ended brings Google Voice to the US. Based almost entirely on the technology developed by the GrandCentral Company, bought by the Google giant in 2007, the service launched by Google has numerous interesting particularities that we...

Users that are unwilling to spend a fortune on an Office suite have available free alternatives (both online and offline). Google offers users the Google docks suite online, while Microsoft launched an online suite with Office 2010 called Microsoft Office Web Applications.If in the case of usual users there are solutions the same cannot be said about the enterprise segment. Here Google has a package dedicated to business but it is minimal. Mi...

In a world dominated by IT dangers using antivirus software on your personal computer has become essential for it to properly work. This kind of software is installed immediately after the operating system.However a lot of less experimented users face a diversity of problems. They are either unwilling to pay for the license, or use the pirated versions that expire after a year, or do not understand how useful such a software is. A lot of this...

Microsoft is trying to revive the Internet Explorer for quite some time, after the success of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Even if it represented a major evolution IE8 did not stand up to expectations reason for which Microsoft accelerated the development of the new software and has launched a beta version of the Internet Explorer 9 a few months ago.Generally things look much better, but Microsoft has remained last at 2 asp...

Recently Yahoo released a beta version for the most well-known chat software. The Yahoo Messenger 11 beta can now be downloaded from the official page or other download sites.I downloaded the software and installed it on my computer, but before I tell you my personal opinions let us find out exactly what is knew about this version and what are the improvements compared to the older version. Yahoo Messenger 11 new featuresCompatibility w...

Nero Burning Rom is the software you think of first when someone asks you what the most famous software for burning optical storage devices (CDs and DVDs) is. The reputation that the Nero series has enjoyed has diminished as time passed and as the producer added a series of additional software that is more or less useful in the Burning Rom suite.The high price that Nero asks also led to the rise of a lot of free alternatives that have recentl...

USB memory sticks have recently become the new medium for storage of files for a lot of users. The advantage of USB sticks compared to the classical CDs and DVDs is uncontestable. This is more and more obvious if we look at the success of ultraportable netbooks and laptops which are too small and thin to have an optical unit.However if you want to install your operating system on a netbook or a laptop without an optical unit you will be facin...

We all end up facing problems related to the accidental deletion of important files, or even worst, storage devices that refuse working in normal parameters. In the latter case things are complicated and recovery of data is usually expensive, as you have to find an expert that can fix the hardware’s problems. The same thing cannot be said when it comes to the accidental erasure of files. You can find a lot of freeware or shareware software...

In only 2 years since its launch in September 2008 Google Chrome has become the third option of internet users after the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The success of the Google browser was fast and is far from over as the rivalry between Chrome and Firefox becomes bigger and bigger.Even if it is far from being the perfect browser the Chrome has wan a new series of adepts after it has took maximum advantage of one of the few weak poin...

Google Android is becoming a more and more popular operating system for mobile phones. In only 2 years from its launch the platform can now be found on a quarter of the smartphones on the market. This seems to mean that rising over the popularity of the operating system of the rivals from Nokia (which now is present on 34% of smartphones) is only a question of time.Along the availability to run on varied types of hardware platforms another re...