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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?

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Chrome beats Mozilla Firefox for second place in browser war

StatCounter is an organization which closely monitors browser usage in different way. Today, StatCounter released a report for the month of November, and according to the report, Google’s Chrome has done the expected. Google Chrome has taken second place in the browser market share and Mozilla Firefox has slipped to the third spot from second. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still, somehow, the king in the browser market share.

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Microsoft and Adobe to partner for casual game development on Windows 8

We hardly see Microsoft and Adobe partnering with each other, but here it is. Adobe is finally shutting down its Flash platform, which rivaled with Microsoft’s Silverlight. But I’ve seen only a few websites employing Silverlight other than Microsoft’s own website. But now that Flash is dying, HTML5 is the next big thing. And this partnership between Microsoft and Adobe is kind of surprising. So, they are going to develop games for the new Windows 8.

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Will ads on Google Chrome become a common practice?

Its the holidays and everybody is busy shopping. Some people, manufacturers, are buy promoting their products for the buyers. There are different ways of marketing and Google seems to have chosen the wrong one. Google started displaying ads on the new-tab page of its Chrome browser. Ads in a browser, something not good, eh? Well, people are not really happy.

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Microsoft’s Lync coming soon to all platforms

Microsoft has been working on a project called the Lync that provides integrated IM solution including web chat, video chats, web conferencing, audio chat and a lot more. A lot of people around the world have been waiting for the app to come out, but there were only rumors that the Lync will be coming out some time in the next four weeks, but there wasn’t any official confirmation. But now, we do have.

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Movavi Video Converter for Windows and Mac

With technology grwoing so thin and inexpensive, most people have more than one gadget with them. For example, a smartphone, a tablet, and a gaming device. One very common thing about all these devices are that are capable of playing back video. Some of the new ones are able to play even HD videos. And you obviously wil want to get all your favorite videos on to these devices so that you can watch them wherever you are. Now, the actual problem surfaces: How do you convert the videos to play on all these devices?

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McAfee updated cloud security, now prevents data loss

Cloud security is something which is still not very trusted in the tech world. Individuals and organisations still prefer to install anti-virus or other security software locally on the machines. But this is not companies like McAfee from updating and keeping their cloud security services up-to-date.

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Make Windows 8 Developer Preview Start Menu look like Windows 7

If you have been using the new Windows 8 Developer Preview edition, you will know what it lacks the most, the very Windows DNA that has been with the OS since its birth, the Start menu. The Start menu has been changed in the new Windows 8 to make it more finger friendly, making it more perfect for tablets. That actually is the whole idea of Windows 8, having just one OS for your computer, your laptop, your tablet, and your smartphone.

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Five types of software to install on a new Windows PC

Microsoft has been the major and the most profited (I guess) player in the computer market. Apple has its Mac series of desktop computers and MacBook series of laptop computers which run on Mac OS. But people who dont prefer Mac go for Windows. Gamers, usually, and casual users, and some kinds of programmers prefer Windows over Mac. Anyway, when you get a new Windows PC, the vendor or the manufacturer of the computer ships it with a Windows OS with some extra manufacturer-specific software, often known as bloatware (some people use a more aggressive word “crapware”).