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Today Adobe announced the upcoming launch of Photoshop CS4, and more importantly a major new landmark feature which is set to revolutionise the graphic designer world.

Unlike all previous versions of Photoshop CS4 is capable of utilizing your graphic card’s power, rapidly speeding up the speed at which Photoshop can zoom, manage and manipulate high end graphics on your PC.

This move is set to be a large blow to Apple users who were previously one of the few people able to access GPU compatible graphics design packages, at the cost of limited… Continue Reading»

With the iPhone 3G recently being released there has been a massive rush not only for the iPhone 3G itself but also 3rd party software and tools for the years most hotly anticipated mobile device.

In this Article I will highlight and review my top 10 iPhone 3g applications that will give you unlimited communications and access to all your favorite activities no matter where you are, and the best part, Most of them are Free iPhone Applications!

So without further ado, here are my reviews on some of the best iPhone applications on the internet today!

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The iPhone 3G has been out for only a week and yet already there has been a slew of iPhone 3G software released for the iPhone 2 3G. The software varies from the mundane to the wacky, but this Dictaphone Utility for the iPhone 3G is in my opinion one of the most inovative I have seen!

The Dictaphone tool for the iPhone 3g lets you record a voice track onto your iPhone 3G and then (This is the clever part) can transcribe it to text and either save it onto… Continue Reading»

Quick ShutDown is a fairly old, but damn good small piece of free software that shuts down windows quickly, be it Windows 2000, NT or XP).

It may not seem like much but the Windows Quick Shut Down application quickly terminates running processes, removes any USB devices and shuts down windows with impressive speed.

To make things easier it also has a windows taskbar button that can shut down or reboot your PC depending on if you single or double click it.

Windows Quick Shut Down is 100% free, very configurable and one of… Continue Reading»

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been a vein of contention for many years now.  Apple for instance has recently bowed to public pressure and removed all DRM from its downloaded tracks.  Sony recently reviewed it’s DRM policy after receiving a huge amount of negative publicity when it released a new audio CD DRM system that covertly installed itself on your computer, then opened it up for any hacker with half a brain.

But this post is not about CD DRM nor MP3 DRM.  It is about PC Games and Their Digital Rights Management Systems and WHY they are wrong.

Yesterday for instance… Continue Reading»

I have used Microsoft Windows Vista for quite a while now on both my PC and Laptop. I found that without spending a load of money on upgrading Vista slowed down quite considerably after a few weeks. This was quite annoying because without regularly spending several hours messing around Windows Vista would slow down after a week or two.

I recently found a new program which has speeded up Windows Vista considerably as well as reducing the amount of clutter on my computer. Windows Vista, Microsofts… Continue Reading»

When I was first introduced to Windows live writer by my friend, I was pretty excited to see a brand new Offline blogging software and one of the best of its kind. When i downloaded Windows live writer, I spent a whole day with it and played with all its features. Now that I know each and every feature of it, I am looking for plugins that can enhance it more. I have found some of them and thought to share them with you today. Here are the best ones for you. If you are not familliar with Windows live… Continue Reading»