The first beta of the highly anticipated uTorrent 3.0 has been released. Many of the new features have been in testing for quite some time now, but this is the first time uTorrent 3.0 has reached a state where it's mostly complete and ready for wide testing.
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Thanks to a combination of DRM idiocy and technical and communications failures on the part of EA and Bioware, I (along with thousands of fellow EA/Bioware customers) spent my free time this past weekend needlessly trapped in troubleshooting hell, in a vain attempt to get my single-player game to load.
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Mozilla has revised its plans to 'encourage' developers to speed up their Firefox add-onsafter plenty of feedback in the week since the initial announcement. One change is that only the add-ons that have a big impact, adding over 25 percent to Firefox's startup time, are displayed in the new 'list of shame.'
Mozilla won't start displaying warnings for slow add-ons just yet, as it needs to make sure that its testing suite is more accurate than it is now.
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Microsoft is backporting a security mitigation from Office 2010 designed to protect users from malformed documents to Office 2003 and Office 2007.
Announced back in December 2010, the Office File Validation feature is now generally available for Office 2003 and Office 2007, according to Modesto Estrada, Office program manager.
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The long wait is finally over as an early build of Windows 8 has leaked. The leak has been posted on a Betaarchive private FTP site and has been confirmed by several reputable sources that it is indeed a legitimate build. Currently the build is not availbe for mass public consumption but it will be posted to a public torrent tracking website in the next few hours.
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Microsoft and Toyota are jointly investing $12 million in a bid to build a cloud-based platform that will connect cars, homes and electrical smart grids. The joint venture, announced today, will be run out of Toyota Media Services and will leverage Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing service, creating a platform for mobility apps that can encompass communication, GPS, power management and safety.
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Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft's wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today's installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows App Store, which will likely feature prominently in Windows 8.
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It’s finally happened. After a long reign at the top, Microsoft’s Windows XP is no longer the most widely used desktop operating system in the United States, instead turning the crown over to Windows 7.
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You've probably heard a lot about Firefox 4's new interface, speed, and feature improvements, but many of you have already left it for Chrome. Here's why Firefox's newest version is worth another look, even if you're a diehard Chrome user.
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Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla's newname and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant has been investigating whether Mozilla's testing methods are actually accurate.
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My relationship with Firefox has been on the rocks for a while. It officially ended this week. Time to move on.
While Firefox started out as a small, fast, and secure browser — everything that Internet Explorer wasn’t back in 2004 — in the last several years Firefox has unfortunately become a bit of a slow, bloated, resource hog.
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Earlier this week, it was revealed that ex-Infinity Ward execs Jason West and Vince Zampella added two counts of fraud to their suit against Activision. The duo is also looking for a rescission of the Memorandum of Understanding agreement, and reportedly if they got a favorable ruling, they'd co-own the Modern Warfare brand, enabling them to release their own titles in the series.
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Re: hello forum ... what is a retarded peice ? are you one of that ?
and we need to maintain a level of quality
retardedpeices33 Today, 02:49 AM