For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od). This is great for Apple and Windows users. But where do Linux users get their new music? Oh sure you can purchase the CD, rip it, and copy it to your device – but that is so ’90s. If you want to keep up with the times you need to be purchasing your music digitally. And if you want to purchase your music digitally, there is one service that fully supports th... Read Full Story

Samsung put out on display two phones that have not been announced yet. And as one can expect, they got covered on the Internet. These phones flag off a whole new line of Samsung phones called the Diva. The first phone is a full touchscreen phone that has a 3” resistive touch display with a WQVGA resolution. It is running the TouchWiz UI, has a 5MP autofocus camera, a microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth and even FM radio. This is the S7070 and it is apparently coming out in the first quarter... Read Full Story

Google Translate is one of the most popular automatic translation services on the Internet. It is not only available at the official Google Translate website but also as a mashup in various other online applications and even lots of desktop software programs. Google has recently updated the interface of the translate service which is now using Ajax to display translated results without page reloads. The direct display of the translated text makes it even more comfortable to use. Long term use... Read Full Story

Okay, so we have more rumors about the Motorola Motus. We have specs, features, a new name and also a very shaky picture. I mean it looks like it the camera was attached to the hull of a small fishing boat on the Bering sea or something! Nonetheless, now that it looks so close to coming out, lets look back and see where it all began. It was a fine day in October and everything was humming along as usual. Then, a leak happened. In October this year, an internal roadmap was leaked which showed... Read Full Story

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a hard disk defragmentation software for the Windows operating system. Recently version 3 of the software program has been released; Reason enough for us to take a look at the improvements in this new version. At its core stands the option to defragment all connected hard drives of the computer system. The hard drives can be analyzed before the defragmentation to ensure that it is necessary to start the process at all. Hard drives can be unselected which is helpful in... Read Full Story

Okay, so this is the day of joy for fans of Pastry shoes creators and owners, Vanessa and Angela Simmons, as Vanessa just posted a video on her Twitter of them just being silly.  You can see how these girls can have fun without even leaving the house.  All they needed was a little creativity and a little music. Hilarious!! LOL! Well they really do know how to work the camera, even when it’s only a laptop cam.  Maybe that is why MTV loves them. Oh haven’t we told you? Word i... Read Full Story

The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations. It looks like the Google phone is ‘very real’ and it is being developed by Google as you read this. This news, brought to us by the good folks at TechCrunch, has created quite a sensation everywhere. So lets take a stock of what’s going on and see where the rumors stand. According to the report published by Arrington, Google has been in the process of making a smartphone that follows the company’s... Read Full Story

Oscar Salinas a.k.a. Skillz of Dallas-based duo “Play n Skillz” has been dating Pastry co-creator and owner, Angela Simmons.  He recently spilled his heart out and brings on his relationship with Angela to the public eye.  Check what he has to say. Skillz looked calmer in answering the questions compared to his bro, Juan “Play” Salinas, regarding the whole paparazzi hoopla.  That’s kinda expected, though, as some gossip websites haven’t been too kin... Read Full Story

The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines. Martin has posted his concerns about Chrome OS in his insightful “Google Chrome OS: My concerns“. I am in full accord with Martins’ take on cloud c... Read Full Story

AllMyApps offers a similar functionality as Ninite which we have reviewed last month. Both applications allow a computer user to install multiple programs without further user interaction. But that’s where the similarities end. Ninite creates a custom installer based on the selection of applications that the user makes on the homepage. AllMyApps on the other hand consists of a software program that needs to be installed on the computer system and an online part which consists of the sel... Read Full Story