Software & Gaming

The day is finally here – Microsoft have made SP1 Release Candidate for Windows 7 freely available for download. This is the final beta download and according to the Microsoft schedule, SP1 will be ready and available for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 in the first quarter of …

Microsoft have announced that over 240 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold since releasing the operating system over a year ago. This is now officially the fastest selling OS in their history. Vista was never warmly received, although at KitGuru we think some of the uneducated press damaged …

KitGuru loves the Kindle 3 – our recent review said it was one of the most exciting devices released this year. Amazon electronic book sales are very strong already, however with a new initiative Amazon might be driving even more sales to customers who find reading books a bit of …

Yesterday Microsoft issues patches for 49 security holes in Internet Explorer, Windows and other software. This is the largest number of bugs to be squashed in a single Tuesday release. The 49 fixes were classed as critical, one of the highest security ratings that generally indicates potential ‘rogue takeover' issues. …

A senior researcher at Microsoft says that virus infected computers that pose a threat to other PC's should be blocked from accessing the internet. Scott Charney of the trustworthy computing team said that this concept follows ideas learned from public health situations. Putting infected computers into a temporary quarantine would …

KitGuru is an old fart who likes nothing better than watching old Metallica videos while munching breakfast and preparing for a day under the radar of the world's leading technology companies. Who knew ? Imagine our surprise this morning when tried to go from Enter Sandman at the Freddie Mercury …

ZeuS malware has been used for some time now to steal personal information from online accounts and while several arrests have taken place in the US and the UK this Trojan is proving difficult to stop. Arresting several organisations unfortunately won't suddenly mean that this nasty piece of software vanishes. …

As you know, KitGuru is powered by Multiplay – the world's leading online gaming and LAN event organisation. They're massive, with the ability to host more than 100,000 simultaneous gamers. Big Stuff!  But what many of you may not know is that Multiplay also owns Fileplay. KitGuru sticks in its …

The Joint Photographic Experts Group format (or JPEG as it is more commonly known) has become such a part of our lives in 2010, it is hard to image it ever being replaced. If Google have their way however, their new image format called ‘WeBp' will do just that. Google …

Outspoken Google CEO Eric Schmidt has dismissed the potential threat from social networking giant Facebook and has instead pointed to Bing as being Google's main competitor. Schmidt has said that Bing is ‘doing well' and is owned by a company who has more cash and resources than Google and has …

Facebook has not been having a good week, facing the second wave of downtime, the most it has faced in four years. This time it has been throwing out continuous error messages which was due to an internal system error. With a blog post they have explained the outage was …

Kitguru posted news earlier this week that IE9 will not work on Windows XP, but latest reports are in which detail that it will require Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Vista SP2 to work properly. According to an FAO which was posted on the companies website, Windows 7 users will …

Terrible news has reached us today that security researcher Samy Kamkar has created a horrific tool designed to create browser cookies that can not be deleted, The EverCookie API. Kamkar is coming under flak from many organisations due to his coding which is able to generate a series of cookies …

The Twitter worm that has been running rampant was the brainchild of a 17 year old kid from Australia, named Pearce Delphin according to sources at AFP. The teenager had worked out the flaw to allowing javascript code to appear in tweets and he posted some code which was picked …

Microsoft have made the first public preview of Windows Small Business Server 7 (SBS7) available for download. This version is built upon Windows Server 2008 R2 and includes Exchange Server 2010 SP1, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Windows Software Update services. SBS7 is a part of the suite due to be …

Planet Michael, an online virtual world devoted to the memory of the late Michael Jackson is going to be released next year in the attempt to give the general public an interest in the MMO genre. People who would find World Of Warcraft intimidating. “There will be a whole restructuring …

Microsoft often make decisions that befuddle enthusiast users and many across the net are wondering if the recent news about IE9 being incompatible with Windows XP is going to cause a massive backlash with the Windows user base. Research firm NetApplications have reported that in August 61 percent of all …

Apple owners rejoice because Napster have finally released an application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Historians among us will remember that Best Buy bought Napster for $121 million which has helped its survival in this tough climate. The NAPSTER application allows the end user to list to over …

A 64 bit version of Flash has been on the ‘want list' of many enthusiast users for a very long time now and they will be pleased to hear that Adobe have just launched a new Flash Player with 64 bit support across all major operating systems. This is welcome …

Yahoo are updating their email service to try and counteract a drop in user count and to help counter alternatives from Microsoft and Google. Yahoo are planning to change their email as part of a project called “Minty” which is aimed at increasing the speed of the service outside the …

UK game retail outlet GAME have announced the launch of a new service which has been designed to update all PC games – they are calling it Game Downloader. The program is still in a beta state however they are offering it for free through their official website over here. …

A new version of dangerous rootkit Alureon is back – this time in the shape of a 64 bit edition. We are always dismayed to hear about new security issues, but this one looks to be particularly nasty as it has been designed to specifically target the ever expanding 64 …

A Russian website has revealed details about the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) which showcases the user interface – highlighting new features such as quick release tabs and a ‘Chrome' style address search bar. Microsoft have issued several developer previews of IE9 since March but they have all, to date, …

Intel wants to be part of our lives. It's professed strategy is to be in every device and for all devices to be constantly connected. When KitGuru says that, are we describing a digital dream or an Orwellian nightmare? How does the McAfee purchase fit in with this plan and …

KitGuru reported that Intel bought McAfee yesterday for $7.68 billion. That's interesting enough. But when you consider Intel's other investments, it leads to some intersting possibilities. KitGuru investigates. When Jan Gritzbach and Tomas Hofer got together in 1991, it wasn't the AVG antivirus program they developed that had the biggest …

Google have bought Jambool, the company who make Solid Gold virtual currency which competes with Facebook Credits. Google have stated that the buy over took place on the 13th of August and this is a part of their new and aggressive social networking strategy to challenge the big players. This …

Microsoft have announced a monster list of security software fixes coming this Tuesday. 34 vulnerabilities are being sorted in this months patch list. This patch list has been confirmed by Microsoft in an advanced notification which they posted on their TechNet site. It lists eight of fourteen security bulletins addressed …

Net giant Google have decided to cancel Google Wave after it was released last year. Australian developed Google Wave was released with the intention of radically changing email and group communication. Unfortunately the platform did not reach expected adoption figures. Australian Lars Rasmussen was the brains behind the idea which …

Well we all knew it was going to happen, but StarCraft 2 has managed to sell a staggering 1.5 million copies in only 2 days after release. Blizzard Entertainment have certainly gone some way in recurperating the $100 million costs of developing the game, even in such a short space …

Microsoft have released a new patch which is an out of band security update for the Windows Shortcut vulnerability. This out of band patch is important as it locks down a loophole which allowed hackers access to user rights of an affected system by code related to Windows Shortcut Files …