23 software releases and updates you may have missed this week
March 23, 2012 – 14:38 | No Comment
23 software releases and updates you may have missed this week

It has been another busy week for software releases and, in case you managed to miss some of them, we’ve collected some of the most important title together into this week’s roundup. If you spend …

WinStep Nexus and Extreme get “monster” 12.20 update
March 23, 2012 – 13:18 | No Comment
WinStep Nexus and Extreme get “monster” 12.20 update

WinStep Software Technologies has updated its flagship products, WinStep Nexus and WinStep Extreme, to version 12.20. Despite the relatively minor version number, WinStep claims this is a “monster release”.
There are numerous new features in both releases, …

Firefox too slow? Try Pale Moon 11 for some extra speed
March 23, 2012 – 11:26 | No Comment
Firefox too slow? Try Pale Moon 11 for some extra speed

Firefox 11 delivered some useful features, including add-on synchronisation, extended developer tools and the ability to import some Chrome profile data.
It wasn’t so hot on performance enhancements, though, beyond support for Google’s SPDY protocol (and …

SugarSync 3.0 released for new iPad with new interface and greater speed
March 22, 2012 – 17:01 | No Comment
SugarSync 3.0 released for new iPad with new interface and greater speed

A huge proportion of us are now multi-device users. In addition to our home computers, there is also a work machine to think about and to this you can add other mobile devices such as …

Downloadcrew Giveaway: Paragon Partition Manager 11 SE Personal, worth $39.95, yours for free!
March 22, 2012 – 12:28 | No Comment
Downloadcrew Giveaway: Paragon Partition Manager 11 SE Personal, worth $39.95, yours for free!

While the standard Windows partitioning tools have improved a little in recent years, they’re still on the basic side. To put it politely. If you really want to take control of your hard drive layout …

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta is faster, smarter – and darker?
March 22, 2012 – 09:41 | No Comment
Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta is faster, smarter – and darker?

Adobe has released a free public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS6.
And while these are relatively early days – we don’t have information on pricing, yet, or a firm date for the final release – it’s …

The Unarchiver hits version 3 – adds new format support including Flash extracting
March 22, 2012 – 09:08 | No Comment
The Unarchiver hits version 3 – adds new format support including Flash extracting

Compressed files are not always used for the space savings reasons they were initially created for, but they are still very important. The widespread availability of highspeed internet connections means that the size of downloads …

Streaming video app Miro 5 now available as a release candidate
March 21, 2012 – 09:25 | No Comment
Streaming video app Miro 5 now available as a release candidate

There are countless web sites that provide streaming content, either in an episodic or less structure form. Add to this the media files you already have stored on your hard drive and you have a …

Cloak your wireless connection with a shield of protection on your Mac or iOS device
March 21, 2012 – 07:57 | No Comment
Cloak your wireless connection with a shield of protection on your Mac or iOS device

Free wifi is more prevalent than ever and the popularity of mobile devices means that more and more of us are connecting to these free networks using laptops, tablets and mobiles. In these situations, using …

jAlbum 10.5 ships, promises faster downloads, better skinning tools
March 20, 2012 – 17:29 | No Comment
jAlbum 10.5 ships, promises faster downloads, better skinning tools

Less than three weeks after launching jAlbum 10.4, an update that “perhaps should have been labelled jAlbum 11” according to its makers, the Swedish web album creation tool has been updated again with a number of …

Downloadcrew Giveaway: CryptBox 2012, worth $29.95, free for everyone!
March 20, 2012 – 15:49 | No Comment
Downloadcrew Giveaway: CryptBox 2012, worth $29.95, free for everyone!

Whether you share your computer or not, you should probably think about encrypting some of your private document. Files relating to your finances, work and personal life can reveal a great deal of information about …