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 Corel unveils PaintShop Photo Pro X3 editing software
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, January 26 @ 16:25:49 GMT (42 reads)
Corel Corporation has just announced a new edition to one of their software lines: PaintShop Photo Pro X3. The Pro X3 version will host a variety of new features and functions, plus high definition video capabilities for the first time.
The PaintShop Photo Pro X3 program is intended for digital photographers of all skill levels. The editing program includes a a revamped Organizer, designed to select and edit information (tagging, ratings, quick touch-ups) on multiple selected photos at once.
Some of the highlighted additions include:
* HD Video Editing: Users can design HD slideshows and movies, combining both photos and video clips within the same tool.
* Camera RAW Lab: Allows the user to adjust several settings (i.e. white balance, exposure, saturation, etc.) before processing, and then copied to other RAW images. Supports over 350 RAW formats.
* Multi‑photo Adjustments: Changes made to one image can be applied to multiple photos at once
* Smart Carver and Object Extractor: Removing objects and scales without distorting the image; masks image details that are difficult to preserve
* Project Creator: A one-stop shop for creating and sharing photo and video projects (i.e. publish photo books, cards, calendars, etc.) Also allows for direct uploading to YouTube, Facebook and Flickr.
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PlayStation 3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker
Posted by maximus on Monday, January 25 @ 20:07:02 GMT (64 reads)
A US hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has told BBC News that he has now hacked Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3).
George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software, took him five weeks.
He said he was still refining the technique but intended to post full details online soon.
The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for three years.
"It's supposed to be unhackable - but nothing is unhackable," Mr Hotz told BBC News.
"I can now do whatever I want with the system. It's like I've got an awesome new power - I'm just not sure how to wield it."
Sony said it was "investigating the report" and would "clarify the situation" when it had more information.
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Apple plugs critical security holes
Posted by maximus on Thursday, January 21 @ 09:22:02 GMT (102 reads)
Apple’s first Mac OS X security update for 2010 is out, providing cover for at least 12 serious vulnerabilities.
The update, rated critical, plugs security holes that could lead to code execution vulnerabilities if a Mac user is tricked into opening audio files or surfing to a rigged Web site.
With Security Update 2010-001, Apple also fixes flaws in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in that ships with the operating system.
Here’s what has been patched:
* CoreAudio (CVE-2010-0036) — A buffer overflow exists in the handling of mp4 audio files. Playing a maliciously crafted mp4 audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
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Google Nexus One Review
Posted by maximus on Sunday, January 10 @ 11:36:19 GMT (126 reads)
 The Nexus One. In the modern climate of hyped (and over-hyped) smartphone launches, Google's official entry into the phone-sales game has excelled in a department where many find difficulty: generating legitimate excitement. Of course, long before the name Nexus One or the recent bounty of pictures and details existed, the very concept of a "Google Phone" had been ingrained in the public conscience, predating even the Open Handset Alliance and Android itself; the company dabbled in the concept of direct sales through its offering of the Android Dev Phones 1 and 2 (alias Ion), but this time, it's a public retail ordeal, not a couple of one-off developer specials. The genuine-article Google Phone is finally here -- for better or worse.
The device, a Snapdragon-powered, HTC-built phone looks -- on paper, at least -- like the ultimate Android handset, combining a newly tweaked and tightened user interface with killer industrial design. A sleek, streamlined phone that can easily go toe-to-toe with the iPhone 3GSs, Pres, and Droids of the world, powered by the latest version of Android (2.1 "Flan," if you're counting), and hand-retooled by Google. But is it all it's cracked up to be? Can the Nexus One possibly live up to the hype ascribed to it? And more importantly, is the appearance of the phone the death knell for the OHA and a sign of the coming Android autocracy? In our exclusive review of the Nexus One, we'll answer all those pressing questions and more... so read on for the full scoop!
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Movie Studios Pissed Off At Netflix
Posted by maximus on Thursday, December 31 @ 13:30:31 GMT (163 reads)
Honestly, at what point do entertainment execs finally figure out that by purposely not making content available in the format people want it in, they're only encouraging them to get that content through unauthorized means? We already knew that the big movie studios were annoyed with Netflix and trying to get Netflix to delay movie rentals until at least a month after the DVD comes out. Now we have an explanation why.
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Amazon's Kindle has copyright protection hacked
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, December 23 @ 12:25:41 GMT (229 reads)
An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, reports say.
The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.
The hacker, known as Labba, responded to a challenge posted on Israeli hacking forum, hacking.org.
It is the latest in a series of Digital Rights Management hacks, the most famous being the reverse engineering of iTunes.
The Kindle e-book reader has been very successful since it was launched in the US in 2007.
Amazon hopes to have sold a million devices by the end of the year.
It leaves it to individual publishers whether they want to apply DRM but books in its main proprietary format .azw, cannot be transferred to other devices.
It did not immediately respond to the news but it is likely it will attempt to patch its DRM software.
DRM has long divided opinion. While rights holders regard it as a crucial tool to protect copyright, consumers tend to hate it because it limits what can be done with content.
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Psystar shut down by Apple....or are they?
Posted by maximus on Sunday, December 20 @ 16:22:59 GMT (202 reads)
After Apple's sweeping permanent injunction, Psystar has officially ceased operations. The company's CEO Rudy Pedraza told the Dow Jones Newswire last night that he is "shutting things down immediately." The company has also released its eight employees, and shuttered its website last night.
The actions came after Apple's permanent injunction against Psystar earlier this week, which gave Psystar until December 31st to stop selling its Mac clones. The clones violated Apple's End User License Agreement for Mac OS X, which expressly forbids use of the operating system on non-Apple hardware.
This also marks the end of Psystar's Rebel EFI software, which had been Psystar's only viable product since early December. Many Psystar watchers doubted if Psystar would continue to sell it.
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Modern Warfare 2 breaks into Japanese top ten
Posted by maximus on Sunday, December 20 @ 16:16:57 GMT (185 reads)
Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has entered the top ten all-formats chart in Japan, with the PlayStation 3 version debuting at number four.
Despite shifting respectable numbers of 93,000, the game was no match for New Super Mario Bros Wii however, which topped the chart for a second week with sales of 431,000. Nintendo's game became the fastest selling Wii game to date last week when it sold a massive 934,739 units.
Entering the chart at number two was Namco Bandai's Tales of Grace, and the eternally popular Tomodachi Collection rose three places from last week to number three.
The final new entry to the software chart was another Namco Bandai title, Naruto Shippuden Narutimate Accel 3, which entered at number five.
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Combat Arms hits 1 million users in Europe
Posted by maximus on Sunday, December 20 @ 16:14:08 GMT (178 reads)
Nexon Europe has announced that its free-to-play online shooter title, Combat Arms, has racked up 1 million registered users in Europe.
The game, launched in the region in January this year, has now attracted over 4 million players worldwide, says the company.
"Hitting the 1 million user mark within the first year of service is a remarkable achievement for a free-to-play online FPS title, especially in today's saturated European market," said Sung Jin Kim, director of European Business at Nexon Europe. "Most importantly, we've seen a very steady growth in registrations during the path of Combat Arms service which reveals its good potential and consistent appeal to the European gamers."
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PlayStation Home hits 10 million users
Posted by maximus on Sunday, December 20 @ 16:12:46 GMT (174 reads)
PlayStation Home now has more than 10 million users, Sony has revealed.
It announced the figure alongside three new Home spaces themed on Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time and MotorStorm. According to Sony, a Home game space should now be a paramount part of the marketing strategy for any new game.
"PlayStation Home is fast becoming the meeting place of choice between users and developers," said Dan Hill, European Home business manager at SCEE.
"Every new game space enhances the overall experience for consumers, offering more variety, more choice and more enjoyment from a PlayStation Home session. The more game spaces there are, the better it gets, and the number of spaces keeps on growing.
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Acer announces first Google Chrome OS netbook
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, December 02 @ 20:52:11 GMT (246 reads)
Acer has nabbed the bragging rights to being the first to produce a Google Chrome OS-based netbook, to be released some time next year, according to a Digitimes interview. And the rest is being kept hush hush.
The netbook company has been working on the yet-to-be-named device since much earlier this year. They’ve also dallied around with Google before on the Acer Aspire D250 (seen above), which has dual-boot Windows XP and Google Android capabilities.
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Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers
Posted by maximus on Friday, November 27 @ 17:20:10 GMT (292 reads)
Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get legal letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games.
ACS:Law plans to send notes to the accused in the new year offering a chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds".
A lawyer who has defended people who have received similar letters described it as a "scattergun approach" that would catch "innocent people".
ACS:Law said it was "unaware" of anyone who had been wrongly sent a letter.
Andrew Crossley of the firm told BBC News it was acting to "eradicate" sharing of its client's products.
"We give them opportunity to enter into compromise right at the start to avoid having to deal with it [in court]," said Mr Crossley.
If it went to court and the lawyers were successful, he said, damages "would run into several thousands of pounds".
But consumer group Which? said that it had heard from around 150 consumers who had been "wrongly accused" in similar cases.
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Google Chrome OS unveiled
Posted by maximus on Friday, November 20 @ 16:37:57 GMT (328 reads)
Web-based operating system takes on Windows 7
Google has unveiled the first video showing users what to expect from the open source Google Chrome computer operating system (OS), and showcasing its browser-centric approach.
Google Chrome is the first OS to dispense with the traditional PC desktop to become entirely web-based. This means that instead of applications such as office suites and photo-editing software being stored on your PC's hard drive, they are applications stored on the web - often referred to as 'cloud computing'.
For the user, this means that all interaction with their PC takes place through the web browser. Google claims that because all apps are web apps, users benefis from not having to deal with installing, managing and updating programmes.
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Bank charges D-Day revealed
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, November 18 @ 20:03:34 GMT (318 reads)
The Supreme Court will reveal the result in the latest stage of the bank charges legal saga on Wednesday week, it announced today.
If the banks lose, it could reopen the reclaiming bandwagon (see the Bank Charges reclaiming guide for template letters).
The court is considering an appeal by current account providers against earlier rulings that charges can be assessed for fairness, with the result due at 9.45 am on Wednesday, 25 November.
The Court of Appeal and High Court have already ruled that charges can be assessed for fairness.
If the Supreme Court upholds that view, the Office of Fair Trading will determine whether charges of £35 a time for exceeding your overdraft limit are fair. It has hinted it thinks they are unjust.
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Sony Ericsson Android arrival date
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 09:50:15 GMT (313 reads)
Sony Ericsson has created an advance order page for its first Android smartphone and it reveals that the phone will launch in the UK on 10 February 2010.
SE had until now only been willing to say that the X10 – codenamed ‘Rachael’ – would be available during “the first half of 2010”.
The page’s “I’m interested in this phone on...” field also hints that an untethered version of the phone will be released, because “Handset Only (Sim Free)” is one of the drop-down options.
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Gang sentenced for UK bank trojan
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 09:37:56 GMT (303 reads)
A British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe.
London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday imposed sentences of as much as 4 and a half years on the men. According to IDG News, they used a trojan known as PSP2-BBB to stealthily monitor victims' browsers. It inserted special fields into banking pages that asked for sensitive information and then sent it to the criminals when the user complied.
To give it the pages air of legitimacy, they bore the logo of NatWest, according to other news reports. The gang used a stable of money mules to transfer the funds to countries including Ukraine, which is also the location of a computer server that was used in the scam.
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Samsung N510 Nvidia Ion-based netbook
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 09:33:43 GMT (479 reads)
Samsung NC510 - Price £380.00
You don't have to dig too deep to see that the diversity of Samsung's netbook range is a case of flattering to deceive. Sure, there are plenty of them, but the differences are essentially peripheral and cosmetic with all bar the NC20 having 10.1in screens and the usual netbook-norm Intel Atom chippery.
The N510, however, diverges from the pattern established by the NC10 and replicated in such machines as the N110, N120 and N310 in that it uses Nvidia's Ion LE graphics chip - along with a 1.66GHz Atom N280 CPU - and an 11.6in, 1366 x 768 display.
Despite the hidden differences, externally the N510 is quite clearly a Samsung. The design is restrained, if not to say conservative, and the only colours available are white and black. As with previous Samsung netbooks, the build quality is of a high standard. You get the feeling this is a machine that will take whatever life throws at it.
Easy-on-the-eye blue status lights abound, as do icons telling you what all the ports are for, together making this an ideal machine for anyone who loses sleep over whether or not they have left the Caps Lock key engaged or worry should they try to stick USB devices into HDMI or LAN ports.
Beyond the usual netbook array of three USB ports, three-in-one memory card reader, 3.5mm audio jacks, VGA port, Bluetooth, 1.3Mp webcam and 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, the N510 also serves up 802.11n Wi-Fi and said HDMI port.
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Videogames top US present wish lists
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 08:25:03 GMT (281 reads)
Around 42 per cent of adults in the US are planning to give, or hoping to receive, a videogame as a present this Holiday, according to the results of a survey conducted by KRC Research and commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association.
That number is up 9 points in the past five years, while 52 per cent of the 1001 respondents polled between November 4 and 8 this year agreed that videogames represented good value in a tight economy.
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Record breaking Modern Warfare 2 sales hit £67 million in first week
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 08:23:37 GMT (299 reads)
Sales of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have hit 1.78 million units in the UK, according to the latest data released by ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack.
Last week first day sales in the UK were estimated at 1.23 million units, grossing revenues of approximately GBP 48 million. Units sold to date - in the game's first five days - have now been put at 1.78 million, creating revenues of GBP 67.4 million.
According to ELSPA this is the highest grossing figure for any video game launch in the UK and "amongst the biggest entertainment events in history".
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Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation
Posted by maximus on Monday, November 16 @ 19:57:48 GMT (314 reads)
Hackers have managed to find a way around one of the key antipiracy protections built into Windows 7.
Ordinarily, the operating system requires users to activate their copy of Windows 7 within 30 days. However, a recently outlined method allows the normal notifications to be turned off.
The software doesn't actually get confirmed as legitimate, but users are able to keep using the product indefinitely.
Microsoft confirmed on Friday it is aware of the technique, but said that it is working to shore up the activation procedure.
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