Software & Design
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Android ‘O’ Is Officially Called Oreo, But When Will Your Phone Get It?
After being made available to developers back in March, and then more broadly through a public beta in May, the eighth major release of the Android operating system finally arrives today with Google revealing that the mysterious “O” actually stands for Oreo: A sandwich cookie suffering from a terrible identity crisis over the past few…
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iOS 11: All The Cool New Features Coming To Your iPhone And iPad
Can you believe Apple’s iOS is 11 iterations old already? It seems like just yesterday we were excited about the prospect of an app store, or the ability to select and copy text. At today’s WWDC keynote, Apple revealed a host of updates and upgrades to iOS, including many longtime requested features.
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How To Keep Shady Apps From Screwing Up Your Computer
Not all applications and browser add-ons come in peace. So you need to know a few warning signs to look out for if you want to make sure that only legit software makes it onto your machine. Here’s how to avoid bad actors and weed out any shady apps that have already taken root.
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Adobe Director, Shockwave For Mac Get The Axe, Finally Burying The Corpse Of Macromedia
Macromedia isn’t a name you hear often these days and even if you did, you’d self-correct it to “Adobe” in your head. But we all remember Macromedia Director, a dedicated program for “interactive multimedia” that was all the rage in the 1990s. The decades however have not been kind to Director’s popularity, so much so…