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Galaxy S III may have been revealed on Samsung Mobile site

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Galaxy S III may have been revealed on Samsung Mobile site

Tweet The Samsung Galaxy SIII may have been inadvertently revealed by Samsung’s mobile site, with a listing for the GT-i9300 appearing with a 1024 x 600 display. The listing was first noticed earlier today and is still accessible now via this link. That’s a fair bit smaller than we’ve been expecting from the flagship Samsung [...]

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Google Releases Chrome For Android, In Beta Of Course

Tweet After three long years of waiting, Google have finally released their flagship Chrome browser for Android. The Chrome team evidently wanted to ensure the full Chrome experience made it down to the mobile version, instead of it just being ‘Chrome Lite’, because three years is a long development cycle for any browser. Now that [...]

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Use your iDevice as the controller for Real Racing on your Mac

If you are an iOS gamer, there is a very good possibility that you would have heard of Firemint’s Real Racing. The game is one of the best racing games, or you can even say one of the best games, on the iOS platform. The developers of the game have been pushing the limits to its maximum possible extent all the time. When Apple released the AirPlay mirroring feature in the iOS 5 OS, Firemint was one of the first companies to use the feature in their game.

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Google Chrome is the most secure browser

There are a number of browsers available for you to choose from. But the most popular third-party browsers are the Google Chrome and the Mozilla Firefox, and we see a lot of Opera users as well, but the browser’s market share is not high as that of the other two players mentioned. Though, Opera has been able to be in the competition for quite some time, which in itself is awesome.

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Windows 8 built-in Music player screenshots leaked

Microsoft is bringing in a lot of new things to its new OS, the Windows 8. The company’s attempt to merge the desktop, tablet, and smartphone OS into one is pretty interesting indeed. After the official news about the Windows 8 Store, today we have some screenshots leaked of the built-in Music player which is coming in the Metro UI of Windows 8.

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Virtual City Playground coming to Mac on December 15th

G5 Games is bringing its best city building game, Virtual City Playground, to Mac computers. If you have been playing it on your iPhone or iPad, or even your Android device, then its time to get it on your Mac desktop or laptop as well. The best part is, the game is free. Yes!! And you get a ton of content to download as well once you have started playing the game.

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Details pour in about Windows 8 Store, coming in February

Microsoft announced yesterday in a press conference that the Windows 8 Store, which is one of the features that a lot of people are waiting to have a look at, will finally be coming in late February, 2012, along with the beta version of Windows 8, which is an0ther product that a lot of people are waiting for, including me. Microsoft’s Web Services VP Antoine Leblond, who has giving the presentation to the attendees was making it very clear that the Widows 8 Store has been designed to be a balance t between Google and Apple’s. What exactly does that mean?

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Mac OS X 10.7.3 beta drivers reveal new Mac Pro

Only after a few hours of the release of the new Mac OS X 10.7.3 beta drivers for developers, Netkas says that he has found traces of a new graphics card in the drivers. And yes, this means new graphics card may be coming. He says that this trace is of an AMD graphics card and is code named “Tahiti.” He has even listed a series of functions referencing this graphics card. And as a matter of fact, Tahiti is the code name of the 28mm graphics card that AMD is supposed to released in January 2012.

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Software to detect altered photos

You see a lot of celebrity photos everyday (I guess), and a lot of models in magazines, newspaper ads, and online ads. But how do you know which image is real, which is retouched? For a well-trained or experienced eye, this will be very obvious. A well experienced Photograph professional will easily make out which is an altered image. Or even you may do it if you know the person in the image, like a celebrity. But how to be sure?