Twitter on Sunday restored access to its API for UberMedia, the company that produces twidroyd and UberTwitter, now named UberSocial.
On Friday, the micro-blogging site suspended the UberTwitter and twidroyd apps for violating the company's API policies; those issues have since been resolved.
"We've given the developers of twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter) access to the Twitter API again," Twitter said in a note on its support site. "Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications."
"When the developer updates twidroyd and Ubersocial, you'll be able to download their updates to access Tweets again on these applications," Twitter continued.
Twitter said last week that the two apps had violated its policies and trademarks in several ways, including a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users' Tweets in order to make money. Twitter said it had been in discussions with UberMedia, the company that produces the apps, since April 2010 but had not reached a resolution.
In the wake of the suspension, UberSocial said via Twitter that it had changed the UberTwitter name to UberSocial "to be a better partner with Twitter." Yesterday, it tweeted that "Twitter has approved our changes, and we expect to provide a new version in about an hour."
Monday, February 21, 2011
Technology’s Richest Leaders
Technology’s Richest Leaders
It's President's Day here in the United States, which got us thinking about great leaders. Since PCMag is in the business of covering and reviewing technology, of course we're thinking about tech leaders.
Tech leaders may not wield the political power of, say, a president, but they do have their own kind of power, influencing the lives of billions. Like many U.S. presidents, many heads of tech companies had humble beginnings. After all, the start of the personal computer revolution really took place in garages and meeting halls. But now, many of these same folks have amassed billions of dollars while working in the technology industry.
Unlike holding presidential office, once someone hits the top in technology, there are no term limits and there's no minimum age requirement. Some of the richest, tech commanders in chief are part of a second revolution that centered on the Internet, which means they're still quite young (although the "old guard" is far from ancient).
So who are the richest leaders in technology? Be prepared to see some familiar faces, such as our old pals Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. After all, amassing a fortune doesn't happen overnight, unless you're someone like a certain social networking service co-founder. Find out who the richest leaders in technology are in our slideshow.
It's President's Day here in the United States, which got us thinking about great leaders. Since PCMag is in the business of covering and reviewing technology, of course we're thinking about tech leaders.
Tech leaders may not wield the political power of, say, a president, but they do have their own kind of power, influencing the lives of billions. Like many U.S. presidents, many heads of tech companies had humble beginnings. After all, the start of the personal computer revolution really took place in garages and meeting halls. But now, many of these same folks have amassed billions of dollars while working in the technology industry.
Unlike holding presidential office, once someone hits the top in technology, there are no term limits and there's no minimum age requirement. Some of the richest, tech commanders in chief are part of a second revolution that centered on the Internet, which means they're still quite young (although the "old guard" is far from ancient).
So who are the richest leaders in technology? Be prepared to see some familiar faces, such as our old pals Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. After all, amassing a fortune doesn't happen overnight, unless you're someone like a certain social networking service co-founder. Find out who the richest leaders in technology are in our slideshow.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Intel Core i7-2600K
Given the towering number of broken promises we've experienced over the years, we were naturally skeptical when Intel began giving us the hard-sell on its new "second-generation Core" processing platform (a.k.a., Sandy Bridge). Onboard graphics! Terrific with media! Better than Westmere! Upon testing one of Intel's first Sandy Bridge CPUs, the Core i7-2600K ($317 list), we were astonished to find that it mostly lived up to the hype. It's not legendary in the 3D department, but its media processing is superb, and in many ways it surpasses similarly priced predecessors from both Intel and AMD. The Core i7-2600K won't satisfy die-hard enthusiasts, but everyone else is likely to like this power-packed processor.
With four cores and eight threads (thanks to Intel's Hyper-Threading technology), the Core i7-2600K processor definitely occupies a position in the upper ranges of Intel's new Sandy Bridge line. It has a base clock speed of 3.4 GHz, but can go as high as 3.8 GHz when Turbo Boost is enabled; 8MB of L3 cache; and has a TDP of 95 watts. The K in the CPU's name means that, in addition to its latent power, it also has an unlocked multiplier for greater ease of overclocking. That makes this a chip that's geared toward wallet-watching enthusiasts who want a lot of the performance benefits of top-of-the-line Intel chips without the bank-account ache that can accompany splurging on something like a Core i7-980X. (If you don't care about overclocking, the regular Core i7-2600 will run you $294; you'll also have to cope with a lesser version of the video hardware, Intel HD Graphics 2000.)
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Intel Core i7-2600K : CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K : Die Map
Intel Core i7-2600K : Box
Intel Core i7-2600K : Fan and Heat Sink
More
At least for now, even getting a reasonably priced Core i7-2600K will mean having to spring for a new motherboard as well. Though this chip is the part of the line that's the direct successor to Intel's last-generation "Westmere" family, it won't work in the same LGA1156 socket designed for that one—the new LGA1155 socket is what's required. As is some patience, particularly if you plan to upgrade in the future. The Core i7-2600K comes with a new fan–heat sink unit similar to the one introduced with the Core i7-980X last year, and that requires a special bracket to be installed underneath the motherboard; this is easy if you're assembling a system from scratch, but not if you want to replace a chip in one you've already built.
Depending on what you intend to do with the resulting system, the total purchase price and frustration may be a bargain. The Sandy Bridge CPUs represent some seismic technological shifts that have both introduced new capabilities and expanded or improved on the old ones. We've written a lot about what's new in Sandy Bridge, so we won't rehash those details here. We will say, however, that some of Intel's extravagant claims about Sandy Bridge's performance were more fact than fairy tale.
We saw some terrific performance from the Core i7-2600K in our basic performance tests, including a 12,088 overall score in Geekbench that ranks as the highest in this price class. (The six-core AMD Phenom II X6 1100T earned 9,488.) The same was true of our 1GB TrueCrypt 7.0 encryption test, with the Core i7-2600K taking the prize with a best-in-class speed of 195 MBps.
What Intel had told us about the Sandy Bridge chips' prowess plowing through media-centric chores was even more fully proven. Things started to look impressive with Cinebench R11.5 rendering test, where the 2600K earned 6.86 points—the highest we've seen for any CPU within this general price class. Likewise, a round with Futuremark's PCMark Vantage full-system benchmarking app produced results of 5,905 in the Memories (photo editing) test and 6,280 in TV and Movies—again, the highest we've seen in both categories.
The picture brightened still further with our more practical tests. Handbrake, ArcSoft Media Converter, and Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso, all made quick work of transcoding our test video file into one optimized for the Apple iPhone 4, respectively requiring 93, 59, and 26 seconds. Those results were as good as or better than what we saw with budget discrete graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia. The Core i7-2600K also smoked all comers in our Photoshop CS5 test, blasting through all 12 filters in 2 minutes 57 seconds. That's well beyond even what we've seen with six-core chips from both AMD (4 minutes 20 seconds for the Phenom II X6 1100T) and Intel (the Core i7-970, which costs upwards of $800, needed 3 minutes 37 seconds); the closest non–Sandy Bridge competitor we've seen was Intel's four-core Core i7-870, which still took 3 minutes 34 seconds. If you're big into photo and video work, the Core i7-2600K can give you one of the biggest boosts on the market.
This is not to say that game lovers will want to chuck their discrete cards, especially if they're of the high-end persuasion. As fine as the Core i7-2600K was at photo and video processing, it had more trouble getting over the hump in terms of 3D gaming. In Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage, its score of 11,583 is okay and its 2,173 rating is solidly unexceptional—at the Entry (1,024-by-768) and Performance (1,280-by-1,024) presets respectively. The average frame rates we saw in our 1,280-by-720 tests weren't much better with the Heaven Benchmark (13 frames per second), Lost Planet 2 (22.3 fps), or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (22.2 fps). Because, in every case, the Core i7-2600K alone can't even break the 30 fps barrier, you can expect some noticeable choppiness even at this very modest resolution. And because the CPU only supports DirectX 10.1 and not DX11, you won't be able to see all the brightest bells and whistles on newer titles, even at resolutions the chip can struggle through.
If Intel's Core i7-2600K isn't an ideal standalone gaming-graphics chip, that's about the only aspect of the platform's promise it doesn't fulfill. With double take–inspiring performance, particularly when media is involved, it's going to be nearly ideal for mainstream enthusiasts who want top capabilities without paying top dollar. It also represents a serious challenge for AMD, whose biggest-and-best desktop CPU lags well behind this one in many circumstances and only costs about $50 less. Because the platform has just been introduced and requires a new motherboard, the cost of entry may be high. But if this inaugural offering is any indication, it may just be worth it.
With four cores and eight threads (thanks to Intel's Hyper-Threading technology), the Core i7-2600K processor definitely occupies a position in the upper ranges of Intel's new Sandy Bridge line. It has a base clock speed of 3.4 GHz, but can go as high as 3.8 GHz when Turbo Boost is enabled; 8MB of L3 cache; and has a TDP of 95 watts. The K in the CPU's name means that, in addition to its latent power, it also has an unlocked multiplier for greater ease of overclocking. That makes this a chip that's geared toward wallet-watching enthusiasts who want a lot of the performance benefits of top-of-the-line Intel chips without the bank-account ache that can accompany splurging on something like a Core i7-980X. (If you don't care about overclocking, the regular Core i7-2600 will run you $294; you'll also have to cope with a lesser version of the video hardware, Intel HD Graphics 2000.)
View Slideshow See all (4) slides
Intel Core i7-2600K : CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K : Die Map
Intel Core i7-2600K : Box
Intel Core i7-2600K : Fan and Heat Sink
More
At least for now, even getting a reasonably priced Core i7-2600K will mean having to spring for a new motherboard as well. Though this chip is the part of the line that's the direct successor to Intel's last-generation "Westmere" family, it won't work in the same LGA1156 socket designed for that one—the new LGA1155 socket is what's required. As is some patience, particularly if you plan to upgrade in the future. The Core i7-2600K comes with a new fan–heat sink unit similar to the one introduced with the Core i7-980X last year, and that requires a special bracket to be installed underneath the motherboard; this is easy if you're assembling a system from scratch, but not if you want to replace a chip in one you've already built.
Depending on what you intend to do with the resulting system, the total purchase price and frustration may be a bargain. The Sandy Bridge CPUs represent some seismic technological shifts that have both introduced new capabilities and expanded or improved on the old ones. We've written a lot about what's new in Sandy Bridge, so we won't rehash those details here. We will say, however, that some of Intel's extravagant claims about Sandy Bridge's performance were more fact than fairy tale.
We saw some terrific performance from the Core i7-2600K in our basic performance tests, including a 12,088 overall score in Geekbench that ranks as the highest in this price class. (The six-core AMD Phenom II X6 1100T earned 9,488.) The same was true of our 1GB TrueCrypt 7.0 encryption test, with the Core i7-2600K taking the prize with a best-in-class speed of 195 MBps.
What Intel had told us about the Sandy Bridge chips' prowess plowing through media-centric chores was even more fully proven. Things started to look impressive with Cinebench R11.5 rendering test, where the 2600K earned 6.86 points—the highest we've seen for any CPU within this general price class. Likewise, a round with Futuremark's PCMark Vantage full-system benchmarking app produced results of 5,905 in the Memories (photo editing) test and 6,280 in TV and Movies—again, the highest we've seen in both categories.
The picture brightened still further with our more practical tests. Handbrake, ArcSoft Media Converter, and Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso, all made quick work of transcoding our test video file into one optimized for the Apple iPhone 4, respectively requiring 93, 59, and 26 seconds. Those results were as good as or better than what we saw with budget discrete graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia. The Core i7-2600K also smoked all comers in our Photoshop CS5 test, blasting through all 12 filters in 2 minutes 57 seconds. That's well beyond even what we've seen with six-core chips from both AMD (4 minutes 20 seconds for the Phenom II X6 1100T) and Intel (the Core i7-970, which costs upwards of $800, needed 3 minutes 37 seconds); the closest non–Sandy Bridge competitor we've seen was Intel's four-core Core i7-870, which still took 3 minutes 34 seconds. If you're big into photo and video work, the Core i7-2600K can give you one of the biggest boosts on the market.
This is not to say that game lovers will want to chuck their discrete cards, especially if they're of the high-end persuasion. As fine as the Core i7-2600K was at photo and video processing, it had more trouble getting over the hump in terms of 3D gaming. In Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage, its score of 11,583 is okay and its 2,173 rating is solidly unexceptional—at the Entry (1,024-by-768) and Performance (1,280-by-1,024) presets respectively. The average frame rates we saw in our 1,280-by-720 tests weren't much better with the Heaven Benchmark (13 frames per second), Lost Planet 2 (22.3 fps), or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (22.2 fps). Because, in every case, the Core i7-2600K alone can't even break the 30 fps barrier, you can expect some noticeable choppiness even at this very modest resolution. And because the CPU only supports DirectX 10.1 and not DX11, you won't be able to see all the brightest bells and whistles on newer titles, even at resolutions the chip can struggle through.
If Intel's Core i7-2600K isn't an ideal standalone gaming-graphics chip, that's about the only aspect of the platform's promise it doesn't fulfill. With double take–inspiring performance, particularly when media is involved, it's going to be nearly ideal for mainstream enthusiasts who want top capabilities without paying top dollar. It also represents a serious challenge for AMD, whose biggest-and-best desktop CPU lags well behind this one in many circumstances and only costs about $50 less. Because the platform has just been introduced and requires a new motherboard, the cost of entry may be high. But if this inaugural offering is any indication, it may just be worth it.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Hands On: Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials IV
When used on Windows 7, Windows Live Photo Gallery also includes a wizard-like import tool that launches when you plug a device with pictures or videos on it into your computer.
It's easy to share photos and videos with a variety of sites, including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Windows Live Groups and your SkyDrive account. On the Ribbon, you click the icon of the site where you want to share photos, and it takes one more click to share them. There's also integration with other Windows Live Essentials software. You can, for example, send a photo e-mail from within Windows Live Mail.
Windows Live Movie Maker
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
The most significant change you'll see in the new version of Windows Live Movie Maker is -- surprise! -- that it now gets the Ribbon treatment. But there are several other useful changes as well.
For example, Windows Live Movie Maker sports the same interface on the Ribbon as Windows Live Photo Gallery for sharing videos via SkyDrive, Facebook, Windows Live Groups and YouTube.
Also notable are the new AutoMovie themes, which add a title, transitions, captions and a soundtrack to your video. You get a choice of six themes, such as a Sepia theme that turns your movie sepia-toned. In addition, Movie Maker now features a live preview feature, so you can see your movie in the playback window before making any changes.
More Windows Live Essentials
Microsoft has updated or introduced several other tools in its Live Essentials suite.
The Windows Live Writer blogging tool has gotten a minor redo, with -- yes, you guessed it -- a Ribbon interface. In addition, built into Writer is a way to easily link to SkyDrive-based photo albums and display them, so you don't have to create and embed that code yourself. You can also embed a Bing map into your blog.
Apart from this, though, there's not much new. Windows Live Writer remains a nifty front end to a variety of blogging applications, including Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint and others. Note that, depending on your blogging service, it may either be very simple or very difficult to get the software to work with it. It's very easy to get it to work on Blogger, for example, but when you try to get it to work on a site that may have built its own blogging front-end with WordPress, it can be tough to do.
Microsoft's new browser toolbar, the Bing Bar, takes the place of the old Windows Live Toolbar. There are versions for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. It adds the Bing search box on the left-hand side of Internet Explorer's toolbar, which is overkill, considering that there's already a search box on the upper right-hand side of the browser. There's also an autofill function for filling out Web forms, and links to various Microsoft services, such as Bing video, Bing weather, MSN stocks, and so on. If you like that sort of thing, you might find it useful, although many people will find it superfluous.
Windows Live Family Safety is a piece of software that I believe few people will ever use. It is intended to fill a hole that Microsoft created when it inexplicably weakened parental controls in Windows 7. This new version appears to work very much like the old version; I was unable to discover what was new.
Windows Live Family Safety requires such a ridiculously confusing setup that it's hard to imagine anyone going through the pain required to use it. You'll need to create a separate Windows Live ID for every child, and then link those Windows Live IDs to a master parental Windows Live ID, then map the IDs to individual user accounts... let me just stop there, and say it's not worth the effort.
It's easy to share photos and videos with a variety of sites, including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Windows Live Groups and your SkyDrive account. On the Ribbon, you click the icon of the site where you want to share photos, and it takes one more click to share them. There's also integration with other Windows Live Essentials software. You can, for example, send a photo e-mail from within Windows Live Mail.
Windows Live Movie Maker
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
The most significant change you'll see in the new version of Windows Live Movie Maker is -- surprise! -- that it now gets the Ribbon treatment. But there are several other useful changes as well.
For example, Windows Live Movie Maker sports the same interface on the Ribbon as Windows Live Photo Gallery for sharing videos via SkyDrive, Facebook, Windows Live Groups and YouTube.
Also notable are the new AutoMovie themes, which add a title, transitions, captions and a soundtrack to your video. You get a choice of six themes, such as a Sepia theme that turns your movie sepia-toned. In addition, Movie Maker now features a live preview feature, so you can see your movie in the playback window before making any changes.
More Windows Live Essentials
Microsoft has updated or introduced several other tools in its Live Essentials suite.
The Windows Live Writer blogging tool has gotten a minor redo, with -- yes, you guessed it -- a Ribbon interface. In addition, built into Writer is a way to easily link to SkyDrive-based photo albums and display them, so you don't have to create and embed that code yourself. You can also embed a Bing map into your blog.
Apart from this, though, there's not much new. Windows Live Writer remains a nifty front end to a variety of blogging applications, including Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint and others. Note that, depending on your blogging service, it may either be very simple or very difficult to get the software to work with it. It's very easy to get it to work on Blogger, for example, but when you try to get it to work on a site that may have built its own blogging front-end with WordPress, it can be tough to do.
Microsoft's new browser toolbar, the Bing Bar, takes the place of the old Windows Live Toolbar. There are versions for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. It adds the Bing search box on the left-hand side of Internet Explorer's toolbar, which is overkill, considering that there's already a search box on the upper right-hand side of the browser. There's also an autofill function for filling out Web forms, and links to various Microsoft services, such as Bing video, Bing weather, MSN stocks, and so on. If you like that sort of thing, you might find it useful, although many people will find it superfluous.
Windows Live Family Safety is a piece of software that I believe few people will ever use. It is intended to fill a hole that Microsoft created when it inexplicably weakened parental controls in Windows 7. This new version appears to work very much like the old version; I was unable to discover what was new.
Windows Live Family Safety requires such a ridiculously confusing setup that it's hard to imagine anyone going through the pain required to use it. You'll need to create a separate Windows Live ID for every child, and then link those Windows Live IDs to a master parental Windows Live ID, then map the IDs to individual user accounts... let me just stop there, and say it's not worth the effort.
Hands On: Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials III
Windows Live Messenger
Microsoft has also given its instant messaging application, Windows Live Messenger, a facelift -- most notably by integrating it closely with social networking sites.
There are now two views in Windows Live Messenger: a compact view, which looks very much like the old Messenger interface, and a new (and default) full view. The full view is designed to make Messenger not just an instant messaging application, but instead a central hub for your electronic communications, with a full view of activities on your social networks and the ability to interact with them without having to actually visit those networks.
At this point, Live Messenger only partially fulfills that promise, because it integrates with onlyFacebook and MySpace, and leaves out other important social networking services such asTwitter. So, for example, you can see Facebook and MySpace friends and their updates from within Windows Live Messenger, and share your status with your Messenger contacts. You can make comments on your friends' Facebook posts from within Messenger, view videos they've posted, and so on.
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
Will these changes be enough to make you begin using Windows Live Messenger if you don't already use it? Not likely. But existing Windows Live Messenger users will be very pleased by what they see, especially if they're also users of Facebook or MySpace.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
The previous version of Windows Live Photo Gallery was a solid piece of work -- a good tool for organizing and viewing photos and for performing basic photo editing tasks. This new version juices it considerably, not only redoing the interface but adding some very clever new features such as face recognition.
As with Windows Live Mail, the primary change to the interface is the addition of the Ribbon. (Notice a pattern?) The Ribbon is particularly welcome here, because a considerable number of new editing tools have been added, and without the Ribbon interface, they would have been difficult to reach.
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
These tools include a Retouch feature for removing blemishes, scratches and similar glitches. You can also auto-adjust batches of photos at a time, changing color balance, sharpness and exposure.
The new Photo Fuse feature is nifty and will be welcomed by everyone who has ever taken group photos. It works this way: Let's say you have two photos of the same group of people. In one photo, two of the people are blinking, and in the other photo, two other people are yawning. With Photo Fuse, you can replace the faces from one photo with faces from another and come up with a photograph in which no one is blinking or yawning. The resulting image doesn't come out absolutely perfect -- you may notice a bit of ghosting -- but it will be better than either of the original photos.
Also new is a face recognition feature. When you tag a photo of someone in Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can ask the software to look through all of your other photos, and find pictures of that person in other photos so that you can tag those as well.
Microsoft has also given its instant messaging application, Windows Live Messenger, a facelift -- most notably by integrating it closely with social networking sites.
There are now two views in Windows Live Messenger: a compact view, which looks very much like the old Messenger interface, and a new (and default) full view. The full view is designed to make Messenger not just an instant messaging application, but instead a central hub for your electronic communications, with a full view of activities on your social networks and the ability to interact with them without having to actually visit those networks.
At this point, Live Messenger only partially fulfills that promise, because it integrates with onlyFacebook and MySpace, and leaves out other important social networking services such asTwitter. So, for example, you can see Facebook and MySpace friends and their updates from within Windows Live Messenger, and share your status with your Messenger contacts. You can make comments on your friends' Facebook posts from within Messenger, view videos they've posted, and so on.
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
Will these changes be enough to make you begin using Windows Live Messenger if you don't already use it? Not likely. But existing Windows Live Messenger users will be very pleased by what they see, especially if they're also users of Facebook or MySpace.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
The previous version of Windows Live Photo Gallery was a solid piece of work -- a good tool for organizing and viewing photos and for performing basic photo editing tasks. This new version juices it considerably, not only redoing the interface but adding some very clever new features such as face recognition.
As with Windows Live Mail, the primary change to the interface is the addition of the Ribbon. (Notice a pattern?) The Ribbon is particularly welcome here, because a considerable number of new editing tools have been added, and without the Ribbon interface, they would have been difficult to reach.
(Click to view larger image. For a slideshow of Windows Live visit Computerworld's image gallery)
These tools include a Retouch feature for removing blemishes, scratches and similar glitches. You can also auto-adjust batches of photos at a time, changing color balance, sharpness and exposure.
The new Photo Fuse feature is nifty and will be welcomed by everyone who has ever taken group photos. It works this way: Let's say you have two photos of the same group of people. In one photo, two of the people are blinking, and in the other photo, two other people are yawning. With Photo Fuse, you can replace the faces from one photo with faces from another and come up with a photograph in which no one is blinking or yawning. The resulting image doesn't come out absolutely perfect -- you may notice a bit of ghosting -- but it will be better than either of the original photos.
Also new is a face recognition feature. When you tag a photo of someone in Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can ask the software to look through all of your other photos, and find pictures of that person in other photos so that you can tag those as well.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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