This Week’s Top Downloads

Vuvuzela Filter Strips Droning Horns from World Cup Broadcasts (Windows/Mac) You can use our EQ filter method to silence the dreaded vuvuzela sounds in World Cup broadcasts, but if you’re looking for an all-in-one solution, a sound engineer has whipped up some software that automatically cuts out just the right frequencies. Rainmeter 1.2 Includes New [...]

5 Simple Changes to Reduce Hard Drive Failures

Hard drive failures are a fact of life: That’s why there are RAID arrays, backup systems and an entire infrastructure designed to prevent data loss and minimize the impact to an organization when drives stop working. Here are five things you can do to help ensure the drives in your organization keep running smoothly:

PS3 Slim estimated launch dates, price for India; 80GB PS3 to be phased out

So now that the new PlayStation 3 Slim has been unveiled, the question for every Indian is “When can we get our hands on it?” Well, Digit’s got the exclusive details, straight from the horse’s mouth! You can expect the PS3 Slim to hit retail shelves in India in November, for around the same price [...]

Desktop Choices: Mac, Linux, Windows, Browser — Browser?

When the operating system wars subside, the only thing left standing may be the lowly Internet browser. The only operating system you’ll have is a miniature one with just enough ability to connect you to a network, the Internet and to fire up a browser. Your entire computing life may well exist in the cloud. [...]

Smartphone App Downloads to Triple by 2014

As the smartphone sector continues to grow, so does the app store phenomena, which might be too big for mobile players to handle solo. The new consumer phenomenon of smartphone app usage is expected to keep growing at a rapid clip, with downloads tripling over the next five years. But with that growth comes challenges [...]

Printable Batteries Coming Soon!

…Could find use in disposable receipts, cards and other handy application… Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have managed to create a tiny battery, small enough to be easily “printed” and manufactured. The battery, which weighs only a few grams, could find use in disposable receipts, cards and other handy application. It is also [...]

The Truth About Mac OS X User Stats

Sometimes, things aren’t as they seem. Apple appears to have been doing splendidly over the past few years, with OS X expanding its market share quite dramatically. After almost disappearing off the face of the earth before the return of Steve Jobs, Apple’s share of the end-user operating system market a few months ago was [...]

Will the Cloud Kill the Data Center?

With cloud computing and SaaS making forays into the enterprise, is the data center as we know it about to die? Obviously, data centers will still exist in some form, but will these soon be confined to large service providers and Fortune 500 companies? According to a recent report recent report from the University of [...]

XML and .NET Namespaces Collide in XAML

The term namespace is overloaded: the same word has different meanings in different contexts. (Or does that mean it’s polymorphic? Hmm…) In .NET, a namespace is a place where classes and other namespaces are logically contained– a bit like folders in a file system. And, also like folders, the namespace defines the context in which [...]

India – about to have the 3rd largest number of Internet users in five years

A new analysis by research group Forrester Research predicts that by 2013, India will be ranked third in the list of countries with the most number of Internet users, surpassed only by China and USA. The report states that the number of people online around the world will grow more than 45 percent to 2.2 [...]