Tag: software
uHavePassed.com provides driving theory software for mobile-toting Learner Drivers
The CEOs at Luzia Research must be done quizzing their teenaged offspring about what the ‘yoof of today want to help them in passing their driving theory tests, and have launched uHavePassed.com for UK driving-hopefuls.
There’s a free version of the software on the site, available to download to mobile handsets, which contains more than 1,000 driving theory questions and related games to aid you in your aspirations to tear…
Apple sends out warning to iPhone unlockers of "irreparable damage"
Apple has sent out a clear warning to those who are unlocking the iPhone so that it can be used on other networks both in and outside the US, claiming that some unlocking software can cause irreparable damage to the…
Navizon offers pseudo-GPS location for iPhone
Navizon, who already provide software for emulating GPS on phones which don't have that functionality built in, has announced that its software can now be used on the iPhone, providing the iPhone has been unlocked so that native applications can…
Skype problems continue with patchy service
Yesterday’s Skype problems appear to have been only partially resolved, according to the company.
They reported that some users in Asia and parts of Europe were able to connect and use the phone service today, but not all.
A moderately optimistic notice posted on their Heartbeat blog said, “even though it is too early to call out anything definite yet we are now seeing signs of improvement in our sign-on performance.”
Apple launches iLife 08: updated digital lifestyle tools
Apple has updated its iLife software with what it claims is the most significant upgrade ever to their digital lifestyle applications.
New features include a revamped iPhoto which automatically groups photos in events, each containing a day’s worth of photos represented by a single picture, as well as offering new presentation and printing options.
iMovie has been completely ‘reinvented’ and now lets users import video from the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV cameras and digital cameras, as well as displaying a user’s entire movie collection, which can be viewed simply by skimming the mouse over the clip.
Apple launches iWork 08: updated productivity tools
They’ve been a long time coming, and talked/rumoured about, and at last Apple has updated its iWork and iLife applications, bringing up to ’08.
iWork 08 not only enhances the Pages and Keynote applications, but includes the new “Numbers” spreadsheet application that many believed Apple would, and needed to, introduce if they stood any chance of competing against Microsoft.
Interestingly, Apple has gone for a new approach to spreadsheets with the Numbers application. Instead of copying Excel, as so many others have, their approach allows people to organise and interlink information on different sheets on a flexible graphical canvas. This should make it easier to build relationships between the intelligent tables, each of which is a spreadsheet in its own right, as well as printing them.
Griffin announces "iKaraoke TunePrompter" free video creation tool
Griffin has announced its iKaraoke TunePrompter software, a free tool that lets you make karaoke videos from your existing music library. You do need to own the iKaraoke iPod gadget if you want to use the resulting video on your iPod, though the videos can also be used straight out of iTunes.
The software is easy to use: simply load up your favourite song, enter or find its lyrics, and then teach TunePrompter where those lyrics sit in the song by tapping the space bar along to the music.
Tony Buzan launches iMindMap software
Tony Buzan, described as "the world's leading expert on the brain" — having written over 90 books on the subjects of the brain and learning, and the founder of the World Memory Championships and World Speed Reading Championships — has…
Security 'guru' questions the need for a security industry
The supposed security guru Bruce Schneier recently addressed the Infosecurity Show in London, questioning why the security industry exists at all.
Controversially, and rather simplistically, he seemed to suggest that the security industry's existence indicates the willingness of other technology companies to ship insecure hardware and software.
Google Apps to add presentation software, rivalling PowerPoint?
Google plans to extend its Google Apps office software with the introduction of a presentation application that takes a shot at Microsoft’s PowerPoint.
