Panda’s recently-introduced Cloud Antivirus generated a lot of buzz when it hit blogs like ours. It’s certainly a good, free program for protecting your system from various nasties. It’s just too bad that the installer craps out if you try and launch it on a Windows 7 system.
Well, there’s a way around this, [...]
Postbox is a powerful email client based on Mozilla’s Thunderbird, and, like Thunderbird, it now supports extensions. The selection of add-ons is limited right now, but it includes some useful ones: ReminderFox handles reminders and to-do items. Minimize to Tray is just what it sounds like, allowing Windows users to put Postbox in the system [...]
When pricing information for Windows 7 upgrades first appeared, it sounded like more good news for consumers. The leaked Best Buy memo offered a price of $49.99, and Windows 7 fanatics everywhere cheered. That, coupled with the free upgrade coupons OEMs were offering to consumers sure made it look like Microsoft was going to be [...]
Mozilla has released an updated version of Weave, a Firefox plugin that lets you synchronize your profile, settings, and passwords across multiple computers. In other words, every time you change your bookmarks, web site login information, or other data on your work computer, the changes will be reflected on your home machine as long as [...]
Mozilla, we love you and all, but could you do us a favor? Could you please, please drop the RC from Firefox 3.5 already? Because, honestly, I think if I read another battery of “Firefox RC# Released” reports, I’m probably going to puke on my shoes.
On the plus side for Mozilla, all these releases are [...]
Regular Download Squad readers already know that I’ve been testing Microsoft’s new Security Essentials since it first appeared in the wild last week and that I’ve been quite impressed with it so far. Some commenters weren’t impressed, however, waving the NOD32 flag even though SE removed threats from my machine that NOD had missed.
AV-Test Labs [...]
Google is beginning to send out invites to people who signed up to try Google Voice. The service is still in private beta, but this is the first time new users will be able to gain access to the service since Google purchased the technology from GrandCentral. Up until now, only former GrandCentral users have [...]
Mozilla pushed out a third release candidate for Firefox 3.5 last night. If you’re running an earlier release candidate or Firefox 3.5 beta, you may have woken up this morning to a message alerting you that there’s a new security and stability update.
The tricky thing is Mozilla has a habit of leaving the “RC” [...]
After months of private Alpha testing, the Boxee team has finally released a public alpha of the Boxee media center application for Windows. That means you can now run Boxee on Mac, Windows or Ubuntu Linux.
Boxee provides you with a full screen browser designed for managing and accessing internet media as well as audio and [...]
It leaked last week, but it didn’t take long for Microsoft to follow up with a legitimate download for interested testers: the download page for Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly Moro) is now live.
You’ll need to sign in with your Connect account or register for a new one to gain access to the download - [...]
