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It’s the perfect moment. The family are together, everyone’s having a great time, this is going to make a killer photo. SNAP! Quick check on the camera’s LCD – looks brilliant. That’s the one that’s going in the family album. The following day, you review your photos, seeking the one. You find it,…

WeFi, the Windows software that offers an easy way to locate Wi-Fi hotspots, has been updated to version 4.0. Unlike the built-in wireless networks feature in the Windows operatng system, WeFi offers several extra options, most notably something called “WeSpots.” These “WeSpots” are free and open…

An application called Soluto (beta) just launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where a number of new startups are now being revealed. This software aims to improve PC performance by analyzing a computer’s boot up process to uncover which installed applications may be slowing the computer…

Seesmic has just released a preview version of their Seesmic Desktop Twitter application, Seesmic Desktop 2, the app that runs on Silverlight on both Mac and Windows PC. The most notable thing about this release is the built in support for Seesmic’s new plugin architecture. With the new platform,…

WinZip, probably the most well-known utility for file compression, encryption, extraction and sharing now features a Microsoft Office 2010-style ribbon interface in their latest release. The new UI arrives in the updated WinZip 14.5 software package (available here) which also includes special…

In between the total computer newbie and the total computer geek, there’s that person who knows just enough to get by (or to be dangerous, in many cases). I’m sure you all know someone like them. They may not have the first idea how to go about releasing and renewing their IP address, but they do…

Just when I thought we had all the Windows 7 tweaking utilities covered, yet another application appears on the scene. From the creators of the popular Vista tweaker, TweakVI, comes a new application called simply “Tweak-7.” Although still in beta, the application is available for everyone to try…

Microsoft SuperPreview is a tool which was launched a few months ago at the MIX09 Developer Conference. This standalone visual debugging software makes it easier to migrate your sites from IE6 to IE7 to IE8 as well as compare how the site looks in different web browsers. The features found in this…

WinVistaClub’s Ultimate Windows Tweaker software has just been updated with 20 more tweaks for users of Windows Vista. However, it seems that Windows 7 Beta testers can use this application to do a bit of tweaking of their own, too. According to DownloadSquad, they tried UWT on their Windows 7…

At CES, I was fortunate enough to get one of the first looks at AMD’s new Fusion Media Explorer, a freeware tool which has undergone many revisions over the past year, now transformed into a stunning media-rich application just for AMD PCs. Designed to highlight the power of AMD’s platform – that…