PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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Asustek Fires Back at Gigabyte in Motherboard War
Gigabyte's allegations regarding the fact that Asustek is artificially marketing its motherboards as more energy-efficient than similar products, have just been refuted by the Taiwanese Eee PC manufacturer. As previously presented, Gigabyte claims that Asustek's EPU technology is mostly related to software and brings no real benefits in terms of energy efficiency. Moreover, Gigabyte also claims that the so-called solid-aluminum Japanese capacitors are also forged and they are likel…
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Asustek Fires Back at Gigabyte in Motherboard War
Gigabyte's allegations regarding the fact that Asustek is artificially marketing its motherboards as more energy-efficient than similar products, have just been refuted by the Taiwanese Eee PC manufacturer. As previously presented, Gigabyte claims that Asustek's EPU technology is mostly related to software and brings no real benefits in terms of energy efficiency. Moreover, Gigabyte also claims that the so-called solid-aluminum Japanese capacitors are also forged and they are likel…
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Yahoo releases Delicious plug-in for IE

Yahoo now offers a beta version of its Delicious browser plug-in for online bookmarking functions.

(Credit: Yahoo)

Delicious, Yahoo’s “social bookmarking” site that lets people archive, tag, and share Web site addresses, got its start closely tied to the Firefox open-source Web browser. Now Yahoo is branching out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, too.

The company released a beta version of the IE plug-in Tuesday (available on Download.com). Though there are differences, the IE version is similar, offering users the ability to add and tag bookmarks and to search their own bookmark collection.

“We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser,” said Nick Nguyen, senior product manager for Delicious, in a Delcious blog postint Tuesday.

The software works on IE 6, IE 7, and the IE 8 beta on Windows XP and Vista, Yahoo said.

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Ad-Aware 2008 Beta released with redesigned interface, Vista compatibility

Filed under: Security, Utilities, News, Windows, Freeware, Beta

Spyware beware: Lavasoft has just announced a beta of its popular anti-spyware software Ad-Aware.

Ad-Aware remains one of the most popular free anti-spyware solutions out there, with over 280 million downloads worldwide. That a big, hard to visualize number, but we’ll put into context for you: that’s four times the downloads of any laughing baby on YouTube.

The new features of Ad-Aware 2008 include:

• New rootkit removal system
• Reduced use of computer memory
• Faster updates
• 64-bit platform support and full Vista compatibility

What’s not to love?

Actually, we don’t love the redesigned interface, which looks like it took some hints from the web 2.0 designers: lots of big round buttons, and text that reflects itself, as if it were sitting at the edge of a still summer pond. That was cool, like, five years ago.

If you want to take a closer look at Ad-Aware 2008, you’re in luck: everyone is invited to be a beta tester.

Ad-Aware 2008 is Windows only.

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PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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Pedal for the Metal : the AmpliTube Metal Software
It's time for all metalheads to rejoice, with the long expected all-metal-oriented version of the AmpliTube software from Native Instruments, with a more than obvious name: AmpliTube Metal. After so many years of excursions in the world of vintage guitar tone reproduction and modeling, it seems like the metal sound has finally gained a place of its own, and thanks to Native Instruments, your shot at fame as a rockstar should be more at hand than ever. [admark=1]The AmpliTube Metal builds…
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Bill Gates talks about open source. He’s doin’ it wrong.

Filed under: News, Microsoft, Commercial, Open Source

We can’t deny some of us here at Download Squad love open source software. But there’s not a damn fool here that will disagree with the statement: “Bill Gates is an extremely intelligent man.” We won’t disagree that he’s done amazing things for technology as a whole. And yes, we even wish heartily we had the faith in ourselves to say if we had that much moolah, we’d be even half as charitable with it.

But right now we’re all kind of standing around scratching our heads and saying, “Wha?”

Today Techdirt points out a nice little quote by the venerable Mr. Gates in a Wired article. It seems as though Gates says that open source created a licensing situation “so that nobody can ever improve the software.” All right, now, that would be a self-defeating license, wouldn’t it? What have the brain-sucking aliens done with the Bill Gates we all know and love whose intellect we respect greatly?

Of course, we’re willing to throw poor Bill a bone. The Wired quote is not a complete quote. It very well could be out of context. They then quote him saying that pharmaceutical companies who invent drugs should be able to charge for them. Well, yeah. Duh. And people who develop open source applications can also charge for them.

Open source doesn’t necessarily mean it’s free as in beer. Conversely, just because the local brewery is giving away free lager, it doesn’t mean you’ll get anywhere asking for the recipe.

We’re wondering if Wired slipped up, or if Bill Gates is truly puzzled about the distinctions between free software and open software? Has he read the GPL? There are quick versions on their site… so even those of us who aren’t as smart as Gates can get the general idea.

[via Techdirt and Wired]

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Times Reader headed to the Mac

The New York Times is bringing its e-reader desktop application to the Mac this month. The newspaper publisher unveiled its latest efforts last night, with a slew of screenshots. The Times‘ First Look post notes that the application will be running on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, enabling rich-media effects and rendering. Users will be able to read, browse, and search the entire publication while offline.

The big difference between the PC application and the Mac version will be the ability to view pages in three different sizes, all of which have been crunched on the company’s servers instead of on people’s machines. Mac users will also be able to do a text search with an index of the last seven days’ worth of news, while PC users are currently limited to just one day’s worth.

PC users will still have the leg up on Mac users for a few features, including Pictures of the Day, which Rob Larson, vice president of digital production for the Times‘ Web site, says has been quite popular on the PC side.

The company will be offering the new Reader to Mac users free of charge over the “beta” test period. After that, it will assume a similar role to the PC version, which gives access only to people who are current physical subscribers, or who have subscribed to the paper’s digital editions. The software is expected to ship in the next two weeks.

Mac users will soon be able to enjoy reading The New York Times while offline with the company's upcoming Reader product.

(Credit: The New York Times)

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McAfee and Acer Sign New Partnership
McAfee and Acer have just announced a partnership that will provide the computing company users with a more secure computing experience. Starting with the second quarter of 2008, Acer notebooks and desktop computers will be shipped with McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor. The software bundle comes to furnish Acer users with a ready-to-use product. Acer is one of the biggest manufacturers of portable and desktop computers. The company already has a very appraised line of portable …
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