It’s not like (PRODUCT) RED versions of Windows Vista haven’t been shipping on associated systems for months now, but for those who’d prefer to keep the rig they have and just get a colorful / charitable upgrade to Microsoft‘s latest OS, this is for you. Listed on the official (PRODUCT) RED website and up for [...]

Gartner’s latest analysis of the global smartphone industry is in, and there are few interesting nuggets tucked within all those percentages. For starters, the sector still managed to grow 11.5% in Q3 2008 compared to a year prior, but that increase is the smallest since it began tracking. Of course, given the current economic climate, [...]

Not even a full day after hearing that the Windows Vista / Server SP2 beta would be breaking loose for select individuals tomorrow, in flies word that a Windows 7 beta could be out and about as early as next month. Granted, this conjecture is far less written in stone, but on the official MSDN [...]

Windows/Mac/Linux: The long-awaited cross-platform media player Songbird officially reaches its 1.0 release today. The open-source application—built on the same platform as Firefox—promises to bring exciting new innovations to a software jukebox market that has become arguably quite stale. Like Firefox, Songbird is extensible, meaning that users can customize the look, feel, and features of Songbird [...]

Windows only: If you’re in no hurry to adopt Windows Vista but you’ve taken a shine to the Vista Sidebar, Joshoon over at Deviant Art has uploaded a port of the actual application to Windows XP. Using a combination of resources such as Alky for Applications, a Windows Vista to XP compatibility client, and the [...]

Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free Adobe AIR application MiniTask is a lightweight task manager with a surprising number of features. MiniTask displays in single window, the entire functionality of the application exists in one menu available via right click. You can bulk remove done tasks, separate tasks them with a simple labeled line break, set alarms, [...]

by Christina Warren on Nov 11th, 2008 Virtualization vendor Parallels has just released Parallels Desktop 4.0 for the Mac. Parallels Desktop is designed to let users run Windows (or Linux) on your Intel Mac within OS X. The newest version of Parallels Desktop boasts better performance (Parallels is claiming a 50% increase over Parallels Desktop [...]

MobileMe, is a service replacement for .Mac (dotmac) with new features, and also new look! If you don’t know .mac, .mac is an online service suite for Macintosh user. Like .mac, MobileMe also allows you to save data on MobileMe’s server and sync between your devices via internet. And, with the change of name, MobileMe [...]