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Windows 7 starter edition with limitations, upsets netbook users

Netbook users are totally upset by the Windows 7 starter edition as the new OS comes with limitations, which you didn’t get with Windows XP on netbooks. Most netbook users were unaware of the limitations although Microsoft have openly said that the starter edition can’t do everything.

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eSecure app lets iPhone take control of your home security system

Protection One has announced their eSecure application for the iPhone or iPod Touch to allow the users to use the iPhone to control and keep track of their home security panels. The eSecure app lets the iPhone/iPod Touch sync and receive real-time updates from the Protection One security panels.

Protection One security panels allow you to have various detections such as gas leakages or any possible intrusion to sensitive areas in your home. Now these security panels are able to send text alerts to an iPhone with the eSecure app installed, once something suspicious detected.

The eSecure iPhone app also allows you to control your home security system remotely. Such as checking if it’s properly armed and disarm it to let cleaning clews in while you’re at work. Read more in the press release below.

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Adobe Photoshop mobile for Android smart phones

How cool is it that you can use Photoshop on your Android-powered smart phones while you’re on the run. Adobe has done it again, releasing the Photoshop mobile app for Android Smart phones, after releasing the iPhone version last week.

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Apple’s next Mac OS X updates will kill Hackintosh netbooks

If you love the Apple Mac OS X but you love more the portability of a netbook, what you can do is to make your own Hackintosh netbook by making use of software hack to install the Mac OS X on a netbook.

But rumors seem to tell that Apple would plan to have updates for their OS X Snow Leopard operating system, which the next release would not come with the support of Intel Atom processors. So if you’d proceed for an update of the Mac OS X on your netbook, the consequence could be your Hackintosh’d stop running.

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Apptizr recommends iPhone apps based on your interests

With more than 100K applications on the Apple App store, it’s hard for iPhone or iPod Touch users to find the best applications that match their interests. Thanks to Apptizr which is going to launch a simple web service that is able to recommend the best iPhone applications based on the user’s interest.

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AudialsOne 4 records Internet audios and videos for free

Last year, we reviewed the AudialsOne, a software that allows you to download and record audios and videos for free from tons of Internet radio stations and online video sites respectively. And now the AudialsOne version 4 has been released, which has got many improvements as follows:

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iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak, Blackra1n RC2 released with fixes

Blackra1n is the jailbreak tool that was released by GeoHot a few weeks ago, which allows you to jailbreak any iPhones or iPod Touches that run the new version 3.1.2 firmware.

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USB Windows 7 installer best for netbooks

Microsoft has officially released a tool, called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT), which allows the creation of a bootable USB installer for its Windows 7 OS. USB installer provides the convenience for installation of the Windows 7 on netbooks, which eliminates the need to hook up an external DVD drive.

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Agile Messenger for Android devices

Agile Messenger – an instant messenger for mobile phones that allows you to connect to many instant messaging networks such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, GoogleTalk etc, is now available for all Android devices including, but not limited to the Google-branded Android devices.

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MailTones iPhone app segregates emails by tones

If you have tons of emails coming into your iPhone a day, you’ll probably need a better way to segregate them, so you’ll be alerted immediately for those important emails that you’ve been waiting for. Here comes the MailTones iPhone app that lets you associate emails from different people with different tones.

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