WinZip App for iOS Released

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WinZip App for iOS Released

WinZip for iOS has finally been released and you can download it now for free!

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WinZip, the leader of file compression for over 20 years and the creators of WinZip the world’s # 1 zip utility for file compression, file sharing, file encryption and data backup.

With WinZip, a zip file management application for iPhone and iPad you can:
– Open Zip files and Zip attachments from email
– Browse and view Zip files, including multi-file attachments
– Open encrypted Zip files
– Copy the contents of Zip files to the clipboard
– View Zip file attachments from webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc)
Zipped file types that can be previewed:
– .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif

An easy-to-use interface for quickly opening and manage compressed Zip files on your iPhone and iPad.

I use WinZip all the time on my PC, so it’s going to be very useful to have it on my iPhone and iPad!

Download WinZip from the Apple App Store

Angry Birds Space Coming March 22nd

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Angry Birds Space Coming March 22nd

Just when you thought they had done it all with Angry Birds there comes news of the new game – Angry Birds Space!

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Below is a short teaser – it doesn’t show anything of the game though!

So are you going to get it?

Bing announces two exciting feature updates for Windows Phone

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Bing announces two exciting feature updates for Windows Phone

Bing announced today two new free updates for Windows Phone – Bing Vision and Bing Image.

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Bing Vision – available today 

As well as allowing users to detect product information from QR codes and Microsoft Tags, Bing Vision now scans barcodes, CD, DVD and book covers. Plus Bing Vision can now provide local availability and cost comparison information on goods so people can quickly purchase items of interest while on the go.

Bing Image Matching for Newspapers (rolling out in March on Bing Vision)

Enabling people to quickly find the digital version of a print magazine or newspaper article, Bing Image Matching for Newspapers allows users to take a photo of an article using their Windows Phone camera and link directly to a digital version of the article online.

Offering global access, consumers will have access to content from over 3,000 publications worldwide.

Elgato Update Tivizen App for iOS

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Elgato Update Tivizen App for iOS

Turn your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a mobile television! Use this App with Elgato’s Tivizen mobile TV tuner to enjoy live broadcasts anywhere you go! Experience the freedom of watching and recording live television, untethered from the internet.

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App Features
• Watch, pause, rewind and record live TV on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
• No internet connection required
• View up to seven days of programme guide (EPG) data including details
• Email, tweet and print program details or screenshots to share what you’re watching
• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext

About the Tivizen TV Tuner
This app requires an Elgato Tivizen device. The Tivizen mobile TV tuner has a small, extendable and extremely robust aerial that receives the television signal (DTT/DVB-T/TNT/Freeview). Tivizen transmits that TV signal over to your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or computer. It sets up its own Wi-Fi hotspot or can be integrated into your home Wi-Fi network to be accessed by all computers and mobile devices. Tivizen does not require an internet connection and gives you unlimited TV without touching your data plan.

Elgato’s Tivizen device also works great as a wireless TV tuner for a Mac or PC. Watch, record, edit and enjoy live TV on your computer, completely free from cables. Also, Tivizen can be connected directly with a Mac and PC via USB cable. Elgato’s Tivizen mobile TV tuner comes with award-winning EyeTV software for Mac and THC software for Windows.

What’s New in Version 1.5

• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext
• The jump forward/backward buttons were replaced with scan forward/backward buttons. Touch to jump, touch and hold to scan
• Several cosmetic fixes and performance improvements

Download the Tivizen App from the App Store

Elgato Update EyeTV Netstream App to Version 1.1

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Elgato Update EyeTV Netstream App to Version 1.1

Elgato today released an update to its EyeTV Netstream app, allowing iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to control Elgato’s EyeTV Netstream network tuners.

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What’s New in Version 1.1

• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext
• The jump forward/backward buttons were replaced with scan forward/backward buttons. Touch to jump, touch and hold to scan
• Several cosmetic fixes and performance improvements

Pricing & Availability
The EyeTV Netstream app is available for free from the App Store. EyeTV Netstream Sat and EyeTV Netstream DTT are available for £199.95 (including VAT) each, from Elgato and from selected retailers.

About Elgato
Elgato produces award-winning TV software together with a complete range of TV tuners and capture devices to watch, record, and edit TV and HDTV on Macs and PCs. Elgato is the home of EyeTV, the world’s leading television solution for Mac computers. Elgato also produces a variety of world-class H.264 video conversion and streaming products. Elgato is privately held with offices in Munich, Germany and San Francisco, California.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Free this weekend

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Free this weekend

We are big fans of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 here at UWHS, and if you haven’t played it yet you can play the multiplayer version for free this weekend on Steam.

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The free weekend starts on Thursday, February 16th at 10am Pacific Time.

Click here to start loading, or visit www.steamgames.com/about to install Steam.

The Free Weekend of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will let you play the entire multiplayer portion of the base game.

Lock and load people!

Check out our review of Call of Duty: MW3

WHS 2011 Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 SSD Owners Wanted

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WHS 2011 Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 SSD Owners Wanted

Dojo North Software are looking for SSD owners to help with their Home Server SMART 2012 add-in for Windows Home Server 2011.

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Home Server SMART 2012 is the second-generation add-in for SMART disk monitoring for Windows Home Server. The first generation product, Home Server SMART, is designed to be used on Windows Home Server, which is colloquially known as Windows Home Server “v1.” Home Server SMART 2012, formerly known as Home Server SMART 2011, is designed to run on Microsoft’s Windows Server Solutions family of products, which consists of Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

Home Server SMART 2012, or HSS, is installed into WHS 2011 (I’ll use WHS or WHS 2011 to collectively refer to all Windows Server Solutions products) through the use of a WSSX installer file. The WSSX file can be run on the server itself, or from a client connected to that server via the Launchpad. HSS consists of two main components, a user interface and a service. The user interface is where you can see the health of your disks, view detailed analysis and configure settings. The service, on the other hand, runs continuously, monitoring your disks at pre-determined intervals (default 10 minutes; you can change this). The service can raise WHS alerts and send email notifications when problems are detected. You do no need to be logged into the server for the service to run.

Home Server SMART 2012 has all the features you knew and loved from Home Server SMART for WHS v1, plus a bunch of new features.

This is what was posted in the MediaSmart Server.net forums:

If you’d like to help, post in the forums or contact Matt on his website.

I am getting ready to release the next beta of Home Server SMART 2012, and I need your help. As many of you are well aware, the beta 2.2.1.21 (and earlier) does not correctly report SMART results for Solid State Disks (SSDs). This is because, before a few weeks ago, I never even considered SSDs or the fact they would report completely different data.

If you are running a home server with WHS 2011 (or SBS 2011 Essentials/Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials) and there’s an SSD in it, you can use the Home Server SMART 2012 beta code that I hope to have available in the next week.

If you don’t have an SSD in your server BUT you’ve got one in a desktop or laptop, I’ve created a Windows Forms-based UI that contains much of the Home Server SMART 2012 code, but can be run in 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. This “WindowSMART” application was built mainly for me to use as a means of testing code on the development PC before pushing it onto my home servers, but anybody can run it.

So if anyone is willing to volunteer to run either the HSS 2012 beta or the WindowSMART test UI, your help will be greatly appreciated–and hopefully should require very, very little of your time. Mostly you would just need to run the tool, take screen caps and email them back to me.

HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L for $199.97

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HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L for $199.97

Zones.com have the HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L for just $199.97.

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I love the MicroServer – you can put anything on it you like, including Windows Home Server!

Buy the HP ProLiant MicroServer here

And thanks to Bill Hines for the tip!

Hands-on Review of the WD My Book Live Duo

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Hands-on Review of the WD My Book Live Duo

Back in January we told you about WD’s new storage and personal cloud device, the My Book Live Duo. Now we get hand-on with it, so here is our review.

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Connect this powerful drive to your wireless router for shared storage on your home network. Share data with all your computers, stream media to your entertainment center, and get to your files from anywhere with remote access and mobile apps. And with RAID 1 technology, you have double-safe backup for your data.

Who are WD?

From their website:

WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD® brand names.

Specifications

Dimensions

  • Height: 6.5 in (165 mm)
  • Depth: 6.2 in (157 mm)
  • Width: 3.9 in (99 mm)
  • Weight: 4.98 lb (1.09 kg)

System Requirements

  • Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista, Windows 7
  • Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion
  • DLNA/UPnP enabled devices
  • Internet connection for remote access

Supported Browsers

  • Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher
  • Safari 4.0 or higher
  • Firefox 3.6 or higher
  • Google Chrome 14.0 and later on supported Windows and Mac OS platforms

The My Book Live Duo comes as either a 4TB drive or a 6TB drive, and both variants support Gigabit Ethernet.

What’s in the Box?

The box contains the Duo, an installation CD, an Ethernet cable, an AC adaptor and a quick install guide.

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Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer Performance Lab

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Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer Performance Lab

In the next article on Windows 8, Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance.

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This is how the next article starts:

A big part of this blog is going behind the scenes to show you all the work that goes into the engineering of Windows 8. In this post we take a look at something we all care very deeply about–as engineers and as end-users–real world web performance. We do a huge amount of work to get beyond the basics of anecdotes and feel as we work to build high performance web browsing.

The IE Performance Lab collects reliable, accurate, and actionable data to inform decisions throughout the development cycle. We measure the performance of Internet Explorer 200 times daily, collecting over 5.7 million measurements and 480GB of runtime data each day. We understand the impact of every change to the product and ensure that Internet Explorer only gets faster. This blog post takes a deep look at how the IE Performance Lab is designed and how we use the lab to ensure we’re continually making the web faster.

In this post, we present:

  • Overview of the IE Performance Lab
  • Lab infrastructure
  • What (and how) we measure
  • Testing a scenario
  • Results investigation
  • Testing third-party software
  • Building a fast browser for users

To continue reading, click here.

Facebook App for Android Updated

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Facebook App for Android Updated

The Facebook app for Android has been updated.

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Share and stay connected with your friends with the Facebook for Android app.

Facebook for Android helps you connect with your friends and share on the go. Upload a photo, keep up with friends’ photos and status updates, look up a phone number, and more – right from your Android device.

What’s in this version:

  1. Navigate anywhere, fast: Get to your groups, apps, pages, and settings with a single press
  2. Search and you will discover: Look through friends, subscribers, apps, and pages
  3. See your friends tags on pictures and zoom: New photo viewing experience
  4. Faster notifications: Get alerted in real time with new push notifications
  5. Games & Apps: Play games and access your favorite apps on the go
  6. Access to mobile timeline (If you already have a timeline)
  7. Access to friend lists and subscriptions
Download the Facebook app from the Android Market

Skype for Android Updated with new calling interface and fixes

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Skype for Android Updated with new calling interface and fixes

Skype for Android has been updated and it has a new calling interface along with improved quality.

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Make free Skype-to-Skype video calls, and call phones at Skype rates on the move

Make free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype, whether they’re on an Android, iPhone, Mac or PC, as well as IMs to your friends and family.

Features:
– Skype to Skype IMs, video and voice calls are free over 3G or WiFi.
– Make low-cost calls and SMS to mobiles or landlines from your Android.
– Send pictures, videos and files to any of your contacts.
– Enjoy high-quality sound when you call anyone else on Skype.
– Talk face to face or show what you’re seeing with front and rear-facing cameras.

What’s in this version:

      • Improvements and new features:
      • Calling interface updated
      • Improved quality
      • Enabled video calling for Samsung Epic 4G Touch
Download Skype from the Android Market

Apple Releases Messages Beta

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Apple Releases Messages Beta

Hot on the heels of the news about Mountain Lion, Apple has released a beta of the Messages application.

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Download Messages Beta and get a taste of what’s coming in OS X Mountain Lion. When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages brings iMessage to the Mac — just like on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch running iOS 5. Here are the features you can expect with Messages:

  • Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.*
  • Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
  • Send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more.
  • Launch a FaceTime video call and bring the conversation face-to-face.
  • Messages supports iMessage, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.

Click here to download the beta (although as of 2.15pm UK time on the 16th February there was a problem with the download – Apple advise to check back in a few hours).

UPDATE: The download link is back!

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