The Kindle app for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher is now available, and this free application weighs 22MB. Many have sought since its announcement last October, when the iPad was only a rumor. With this app you can download Kindle books and read them on your Mac. The timing of the increase is entirely automatic, so you can switch between your Kindle and the iPhone on the fly, and resume from where you left off.
And it does not seem ready to stop. In short, even if Google refuses to give the exact number of applications available on the Android Market (free and paid), an official of the firm informed the site mobilecrunch.com the number of the 30,000 had been exceeded since little.
To recall, the number of 16,000 applications available was taken in December 2009. This figure doubled in only 3 months, it’s still a sign of enthusiasm on the part of developers to the platform.
Opera has announced that its mobile Web browser Opera Mini 5 Beta is now available for smartphones running Windows Mobile 5 and 6. This version, which offers a compression of data traffic up to 90%, provides tabbed browsing, password management, Speed Dial function and bookmarks. To download this version, go here for your smartphone.
Well, it’s funny that it is not Google that proposed it. Still, you can find it here, a Android theme for Google Chrome Web browser.
Announced at the MWC 2010, RIM is making available for free download the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express software, a new free server software which will deploy the BlackBerry solution at lower cost. Basically, it allows the synchronization of the smartphones of the brand with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server. If you are interested, it is here for compatibility stories and here to download it.
Finally: the final version of Opera 10.50 on Windows is available for download. Self-proclaimed “fastest Web browser in the world”, Opera offers this version with a brand new interface, a private browsing mode, compatibility with existing Aero Glass, Aero Peek and Jump Lists technologies (Vista and 7 only).
Note that the browser is available for Windows in 42 languages, and that Mac and Linux versions should no longer delay to be available too. You can download the the final version of the Web browser here.
ChatRoulette is the hype thing of the moment and everyone talks about it… more difficulty than many elsewhere. Still, if you have not yet grasped the concept, this video should help you to see clearer.
Don’t want to wait for the official release of Chrome OS to test it (of course, you can already test it…) and well aware that “Hexxeh” has released a custom version of the OS. Named Chromium OS Zero, this version adds a few handy features (support for many Wi-Fi cards, increased stability, etc…). You can install it from a USB key of 1GB. You can download it here.
Bing is getting more and more market share in the place of search engines (it’s just above 10 percent), and with the release of an iPhone applications, the Bing search engine is getting serious about expanding their presence on every platform they can.
Here is VMware Fusion 3 is a software that can create a “virtual machine” and turns your Mac into an all-purpose system that’s not limited by its own OS. The program can run whatever applications you like any way you want to run them. All software designed for Linux or Windows would also be designe to run natively on a Mac, but that won’t happen and VMware Fusion (or even Parallels Desktop) is the software to have till it happens. Price: $79.
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