Google said that it has temporarily disabled its Realtime search function in the wake of the introduction of its social network Google+. The feature was developed to integrate real-time data from Twitter and other social-networking sites. The option for the feature has been removed from the right side of Google's search bar, and the feature's Web page now contains a 404 message.
Read MoreWith the launch of Google Plus (Google+), there may be some confusion as to how the photos uploaded to the social network, Google+ integrate with Google's online photo-sharing service, Picasa, especially in terms of storage limits. The answer provides some great news for Google+ users - nearly everything you upload to Google+ won't count towards your storage limits on Picasa, with the only exception being videos longer than 15 minutes.
IE10 Platform Preview 2, the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as well as improving performance.
Google has announced a few more social services that are currently undergoing field trials. The network of services is called Google+ and its aim is to make social networking a little more structured. Google recognizes that it can be difficult to be completely open on social networks because of the different types of relationships we tend to have with online “friends."
Read MoreMicrosoft has released the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 which combines improvements, new features and previously released updates in a single update pack. The update is available for free if downloaded from the Internet. Microsoft notes that Office 2010 SP1 contains all “public updates that were released through June 2011? and all “cumulative updates that were released through April 2011? in addition to “improvements in stability, performance, and in security”.
Read MoreOpera has released the final version of its popular alternative web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux, Opera 11.50. Codenamed "Swordfish", this latest release actually debuted as Release Candidate 5, but was quickly updated to become a final release.
Read MoreMicrosoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service, at a predictable monthly subscription.
Read MoreThose who screw up their iPhones with an unsupported jailbreak—or who have bad luck with their iOS upgrades and want to roll back to an older version—are usually able to make everything right again by downgrading their phone's OS back to the previous version. That practice appears to be on the endangered list, however, thanks to changes within iOS 5. A post at the Dev-Team Blog indicates that Apple is taking steps to inhibit downgrades to previous versions of iOS, in addition to untethered jailbreaks.
Read MoreThe Adobe Pixel Bender Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 supports image processing of Pixel Bender filters opened in Photoshop CS5. These filters can be executed on the graphics card (GPU) or CPU of a computer. Pixel Bender customers as well as members of the Adobe Pixel Bender team have authored the filters that are included in this plug-in.
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