Software
Snagit Mac Beta is a powerful new image capture tool
Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, BetaSnagit is a flexible, powerful tool for capturing some or all of your screen, and it's now available for OS X as a public beta. It docks on a screen edge, where you can either click ...
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Weird Wednesday Holiday Edition
Filed under: Weird WednesdayI'm more of a Festivus guy, but apparently there are weird and wacky holidays every day of the year -- and that's just in the good ol' USA, where we can find a reason to "celebrate" anything. ...
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Minitube streams YouTube videos to your Linux or Mac system with no Flash required
Filed under: Video, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source
Those of you using a Linux or Mac system who want a no-fuss way to enjoy YouTube videos should check out Minitube - a standalone desktop player which doesn't even require Adobe Flash Player. ...
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Format wars: Can DivX still go legit, or has H.264 already won?
Filed under: Internet, Video
Once upon a time, DivX was the hot video codec. That wasn't because any major company was backing the format. It's because it offered high quality standard and high definition video encoding at relatively small file sizes. ...
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Game on, for real this time – Nexus One has OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Filed under: Games, Google, iPhone, Mobile, AndroidWhy am I writing about hardware on Download Squad? Well, because I'm sick and tired of people squinting their eyes at the mobile market in a vain attempt to understand why Apple's tabula rasa ...
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Fake Steve Jobs wants to put the squeeze on AT&T's network with Operation Chokehold
Filed under: News, AppleFake Steve Jobs, occasionally also known as journalist Dan Lyons, is fed up with AT&T's data network. The shoddy service AT&T has provided for iPhone users, especially in major cities, has become such an issue that AT&T ...
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VLC for Mac in its dying throes due to lack of developers
Filed under: Utilities, Video, Macintosh, Open Source
Quick! Are you a Mac programmer? An open source advocate? Well, VLC has a job for you! You've always wanted to lead up an entire development branch of the world-famous VideoLAN Client, right?
It seems, ...
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Twitter app helps Zune HD inch closer to having a real platform
Filed under: Microsoft, Social Software, Mobile
The Zune HD has awesome hardware. The NVIDIA Tegra chipset lets you play 720p HD video for up to 8 hours on this low power device that weighs just 2.6 ounces. It's also thinner and ...
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Sub DiggerPlus makes it easy to browse your friends' Digg submissions
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Social Software
Here's a segment we don't often cover: toolbars!
Actually, we do cover them, but usually it's how to remove them, not add them. Well, that's about to change: today, I bring you a neat little ...
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Three Goo.gl powered Chrome extensions hit the Gallery
Filed under: Google, Social Software, Browsers
While Google may not have intended their new Goo.gl short URL service to be used anywhere other than the Google Toolbar, I doubt they're too upset about developers figuring out how to tap into it.
Three ...
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