Sothink DVD Ripper 2.0

Software Info | Sothink DVD Ripper 2.0 |Sothink DVD Ripper, a powerful DVD ripping software, can rip DVDs to AVI movies (rip DVD to DivX or rip DVD to XviD) with high speed and quality. The highly compressed movie by DVD Ripper with excellent picture just takes up 1/5-1/10 of original DVD space, and even smaller! You can rip DVD movies with Sothink DVD Ripper  and play the output AVI videos on your PC, MP4 Player, Pocket PC, Smartphone and other portable devices at anytime anywhere. See the following features you would like to know about Sothink DVD Ripper: 1. FASTER  speed, better quality, and more stable performance than most other DVD ripping software. Sothink DVD Ripper uses our own decoding core, and executes MMX/SSE/SSE2 optimization during the conversion, so it can rip DVD to AVI format with a speed that is 50% faster than other DVD ripping software, and the picture quality of the converted movie is better than that converted by other DVD ripping software under the same configuration and settings; 2. Rip DVD movies with Little quality loss. 

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VDownloader

Software Info | VDownloader | Would you like to watch your Favorite Videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Google Video, DailyMotion, Yahoo! Video or any other major video sharing wbsite whenever and wherever you please? With VDownloader, you’ll be able to:

* Play video or audio on the road or on vacation on your MP3, mobile device or laptop
* Watch videos without annoying advertisements, captions or other distractions.
* Make backups of online videos in any possible format; they might be lost or removed!
* Skip queueing and buffering thanks to the automatic video Download Accelerator. 

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Norton 360 All-in-One Security 2010 4.0 Build 127

Software Info |Norton 360 All-in-One Security 2010 4.0 Build 127   |Norton 360 (30 Days Trial) is designed to deliver all-in-one security for everything the computer users in your family care about. Easy to use, it helps provide automatic and transparent Protection  from viruses and spyware, fraudulent Web sites, phishing scams, hackers, identity theft, and more. With a renewable subscription, up to three PCs in your Household  can be provided with Norton 360 protection, safeguarding your family when they play games, send and receive email, download files, chat, or surf the Web. And transaction security features allow you to shop and bank online with confidence. Norton 360 also helps keep your PCs tuned for Peak Performance, and safeguards the data on them by making it easy to back up photos, music, financial documents, and other files—and to restore them at any time.  Flexible options allow you to back up your files to CD, DVD, and USB devices. For even more convenience, you can also set up automatic backups to an attached hard drive or a secure online storage service to safeguard your important files in the event something happens to your PC. And for enhanced performance, a smart background scheduler automatically schedules key Norton 360 functions such as scans, backups, and tune-ups so that they don’t interfere with your PC activities.

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Apple Sells One Million iPads

CUPERTINO, California—May 3, 2010—Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore. 

“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

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Call it a Software Update

Call it a Software Update

In addition to releasing new versions of the system software at regular intervals, Apple also releases a stream of free software updates to enrich your computing experience. Mac OS X automatically checks weekly for software updates provided you have an internet connection.

You can choose a different schedule, or check manually if you don’t have a continuous Internet connection. If Software Update finds an item to download, it appears in a list. Click on an item to get a description before downloading it. If you see updates that you will never use, such as a language you don’t speak or drivers for a printer you don’t own, choose Make Inactive from the Update menu.

To get updates immediately, follow these steps:

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple Menu.
2. Choose Software Update from the View menu.
3. Click Update Now.
4. Select the items you want to install, then click Install.
5. Enter an Admin user name and password.
6. After the update is complete, restart the computer if necessary.

Verizon to Offer Microsoft Phones

Verizon to Offer Microsoft Phones,

There will be two new joiners to the smart phone craze, at least according sources who would rather not be named. And Verizon will be the one that will offer them.

According to an article on Business Week, Verizon Wireless will be offering to phones from Microsoft. The phones will reportedly be available by May or June, and is targeted towards teenagers.

Thus far, Microsoft has been content with being a software provider, having its mobile Windows software on phones offered by other manufacturers. This time around, Microsoft will be doing a Google; the latter is now selling its own phone, the Nexus One. What such a move will do to Microsoft’s relationship with other manufacturers and service providers remains to be seen. The source of Business Week, however, mentioned that “Microsoft will continue to work closely with handset companies that make Windows phones and the mobile carriers that sell them.”Verizon to Offer Microsoft Phones, Its presumed target audience belies the features that the phones

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Microsoft is in China for the long haul

Microsoft is in China for the long haul,

SOFTWARE IMPERIALIST Microsoft intends to stick to its guns and keep its empire running in China despite Google's diplomatic shenanigans, according to Reuters.

We reported last month that the usually foot-in-mouth prone Steve Ballmer was surprisingly circumspect when Google said it would cease operations in China. The Vole's CEO called the incident a "Google Problem" that didn't affect any other companies with interests in the Chinese market.

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