Tuesday, October 1, 2013

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 10/2/2013

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Silverstone Fortress FT04 Review: Improving the Formula?
Silverstone cases are often praised by enthusiasts and HTPC builders alike, and with good reason. We last checked the Fortress FT03 which deserved TechSpot's Outstanding award and now two years later, the much anticipated Fortress FT04 has made it to market.

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Rumor: Nvidia to cut GPU prices in November to compete with AMD
According to DigiTimes, who has "sources from graphics card players", Nvidia may be gearing up to cut the prices of their graphics cards in late November, to compete with the freshly announced AMD R7 and R9 series GPUs. Nvidia may also look to releasing one or two new cards in...

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Microsoft's Surface 2 will replace paper manuals on all Delta aircraft
Shoring up rumors on the subject, Delta Air Lines has announced plans to equip 11,000 pilots with Microsoft Surface 2 tablets. The devices will initially be used to replace heavy paper-based flight kits containing navigational charts, aircraft operating documents, reference manuals and the like according to joint press release on the matter.

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John McAfee is developing a $100 device to block the NSA
During a recent chat at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Antivirus software founder John McAfee unveiled plans to create a gadget called the D-Central which he claims can keep your information safe from the National Security Agency.

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Monday tech deals: 24" Dell UltraSharp $500, Lenovo IdeaTab A3000 $160, Logitech Racing Wheel $236
Leading the way is a killer offer on the premium Dell UltraSharp U2413 monitor, letting you snag it for $499.99 with a $100 gift card, making for the lowest price ever if you can use the gift card.

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Palo Alto to require new homes be wired for electric car charging
The Palo Alto City Council recently voted in favor of a proposal that would require all new homes built to be wired for electric vehicle charging. The changes would add roughly $200 to the cost of a new home which is about four times less than what it would cost...

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Samsung claims its ChatOn messaging service has 100 million users
Samsung's messaging service ChatOn never appeared to have latched on to the general public, but according to a post from the company, the service is actually doing quite well.

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Casino scammer used infrared contact lenses to read marked cards
For as long as there are casinos and gambling establishments, there will be people trying to cheat them. The latest cheater story includes everything you’d expect to see in a big-budget Hollywood film – the French Riviera, marked playing cards, infrared contact lenses and shady casino employees.

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Twitter could take IPO filing public as early as this week
Microblogging platform Twitter is expected to make its IPO filing public as soon as this week according to people familiar with the matter. If everything goes smoothly, the company could be trading by late October or early November, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Coca-Cola loses most valuable brand title to Apple after 13-year streak
Interbrand has released its latest report on the world’s most valuable brands, and for the first time in thirteen years, Coca-Cola has been unseated from the throne. Instead, Apple moved up a spot to take the lead with a brand value of $98.32 billion, up 28% from 2012. There were...

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Sharp's inaugural Windows 8 tablet: 10.1-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 IGZO display
The annual trade show known as CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) is in full swing and first out of the gate is Sharp’s Windows 8 tablet, the Mebius Pad. It may have an unusual name but there’s nothing odd about the screen: a 10.1-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 resolution IGZO...

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'Breaking Bad' secret to success is in the technology: HD, DVR, Netflix
Breaking Bad will go down in history as one of the best original dramas ever. From the acting to the writing, everything about the show was spot-on but according to cinematographer Michael Slovis, the real secret to success for the Emmy award-winning series is technology.

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Game devs go hands on with Steam Controller, here's what they think
Valve announced its Steam Controller as the final part of its 3 stage announcement last week. Reports came in over the weekend that a number of developers have been hands on with a prototype version of the controller for some time now.

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EA cancels 2014 college football game following NCAA dispute
Electronic Arts recently announced they will not publish a college football game next year. EA’s GM of American Football Cam Weber revealed the news in a blog post on the subject, saying the company was evaluating their plan for the future of the franchise.

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Found: Every generation iPhone compared simultaneously
Apple has released a new iPhone almost like clockwork each year since the original 2G model launched in 2007. Many in the media have poked fun at Apple’s ability to convince buyers that the latest model is better than last year’s iPhone in virtually every category, but how much improvement...

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Silverstone Fortress FT04 Case Review
The Fortress FT04 has been designed to maximize cooling while generating as little noise as possible and it sets out to do it in style. Upon first glance this latest version looks a lot like the FT01 that was released back in 2008.

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Google Web Designer Beta 1.0.0.924
Create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device.









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WhatsApp Messenger for Android 2.11.86
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.









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MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD-ROM 2.7
MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs it is a must.









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Automize for Mac 10.06
This task scheduler and automation software can automate a variety of tasks.









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Hooker 3.00
Lightweight keyboard activity spy. Highlights of the features: stealth mode; capture Unicode text; capturing of clipboard changes; capturing of currently used process; log to file, email or FTP; log file encryption; integrated log viewer.









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Partition Wizard Home Edition 8.1.1
MiniTool Partition Wizard is a Windows based PC and Server partition manager software. Our server partition software supports both MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008-R2/2012, Windows SBS, Windows 7 and Windows 8.









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Automize 10.06
Automize is a task scheduler and automation program that can automate. Easy to use, No programming is required.









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RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.3.0
RightMark Audio Analyzer is an independent audio measurements open-source project.









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Windows 8 Manager 1.1.7
Windows 8 Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, repair and clean up Windows 8.









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JaSFtp 10.06
Secure FTP, designed with automation in mind, so you do not have to spend time interactively transferring files.









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Coowon Browser 1.3.1.0
Coowon game browser is a Google Chrome based browser. It can help you perform automated tasks ( botting ), record & play mouse clicks, login multiple accounts in special tabs, and control game speed ( web page time ) while playing games.









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MPlayer for Windows 2013-09-29
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems.









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ProgDVB 6.95.4
ProgDVB is the universal and very power software for watching digital TV and listening to radio channels.









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SUMo 3.8.3
Thanks to SUMo you'll be able to keep your PC up-to-date by using the most recent version of your favorite software.









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Notepad++ 6.5
Free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.









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Speedy Painter 3.1.9
Speedy Painter is an OpenGL based painting software for Windows. It supports Wacom digitizers to vary size and opacity of brush strokes according to pen pressure.









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Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1.0.19
Comprehensive PC protection against trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers.



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SSD Tweaker 3.05
With this little app you can tweak Windows 2K/XP/Vista and 7 including x64 in seconds.









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Avidemux 2.6.6
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.









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Media Player Classic Home Cinema 1.7.0
Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features.









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PaperScan Free 2.0.0.4
PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN & WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.









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Weather Watcher Live 7.1.104
Weather Watcher Live can access real-time weather information from thousands of weather stations.









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DeviceLock 7.3.52516
Access control solution for to floppy, CD-ROM, USB and other mobile devices.









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STDU Viewer 1.6.294
STDU Viewer is a free viewer for multiple file formats. The goal of this software is to replace the multiple document viewers with a single one simple application.









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RogueKiller 8.7.0
RogueKiller is a program written in C++ and able to Kill malicious processes, stop malicious services and unload malicious DLLs from processes.









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