September, 2012 - Softonic English

Get YouTube back on your iPad running iOS 6 with Jasmine

If you’ve recently upgraded to iOS 6 on your iPad or iPhone, you probably noticed that something went missing. While Apple replaced Google Maps with its own maps app, it removed YouTube entirely without offering an alternative application.

If you’re on an iPhone, Google recently released a dedicated iPhone YouTube application. It is excellent and offers a great YouTube viewing experience on the iPhone. Unfortunately Google hasn’t released an iPad specific application yet.

Luckily there’s an app for the iPad called Jasmine that will bring a dedicated YouTube experience to the iPad. Continue reading “Get YouTube back on your iPad running iOS 6 with Jasmine”

How to stop Facebook from tracking you

Over its life, Facebook has increasingly become interested in your online habits to “better” target the ads directed toward you. While most users may not find this a breach of privacy (considering they agreed to the Terms of Service), it’s one thing to think that Facebook is using the data to improve your Facebook experience.

On the other hand, the data that Facebook has collected is, in itself, worth a lot of money to advertisers. Recently, Facebook partnered with Datalogix to create a database for marketers to direct their ads. For the user, that really means these two companies want more of your information so they can use the data to try to sell you more on Facebook.

While you may not mind receiving targeted ads during the hours you are on Facebook, the amount of data that is collected from your usage should be a concern. The best idea may be to take a look at what you do on Facebook and disable tracking of certain things in your account.

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Find out how long you spend on Facebook per day

How do you deal with a Facebook addiction? The first step is to recognize that you have a problem. There’s a very simple way to check how much time you spend on the social network, using a program called Facebook Runner. Then you can decide whether or not you have an addiction that needs to be addressed.

Facebook Runner is a browser extension that monitors your Facebook activity whenever you’re on the site, telling you exactly how long you’re on it. Facebook Runner can be set to appear under your name on the home screen and logs different information about your Facebook usage.

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Download the Pro Evolution 2013 demo 2

Konami has released a second demo of Pro Evolution Soccer 2013. Now the full game has been released, you can be sure this demo features the gameplay of the finished product.

PES 2013 has closed the gap with FIFA 13, but it lacks a killer feature that will convert serial FIFA fans. It’s still a great soccer game, and we seriously recommend you try it.

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Flip4Mac 3.0 final released for Mac

Telestream has released the final version of Flip4Mac 3.0 for playing Windows Media Video (WMV) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) on Mac. In July, OnSoftware published an exclusive preview of Flip4Mac 3.0 featuring the new Flip Player, which is Flip4Mac’s new useful media player.

No longer just a codec, Flip4Mac now offers features such as background dimming, cropping video, creating iPhone ringtones from WMV and WMA files, and exporting to Apple apps and devices.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown demo out on Steam today

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is on Steam today as a demo. The official game will come out on October 9th but until then, you can get a full featured demo of the game.

The premise of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is simple. You are part of a secret paramilitary organization known as XCOM and have to investigate reports of extraterrestrials that have landed in Germany. The alien space crafts contain little martian looking aliens who have the ability to control humans.

Yes, the story has been done to hell, but XCOM: Enemy Unknown does feature some interesting gameplay elements.

Read on to find out what they are. Continue reading “XCOM: Enemy Unknown demo out on Steam today”

Internet Explorer: A fix for the Zero Day security flaw

Microsoft is under a bit of fire for a security issue in Internet Explorer 9 (versions 8 and 7 too). The vulnerability, called Zero Day, can allow other people access to install trojans and other malware on your PC.

Millions of users are potentially affected by this vulnerability due to the widespread use of Internet Explorer versions 7, 8, and 9 worldwide.

Thankfully, Microsoft has released a solution to prevent possible problems related to this issue. Continue reading “Internet Explorer: A fix for the Zero Day security flaw”

Facebook Messenger for Android adds SMS threading

Score one for Android over iOS on the Facebook messaging app front. The popular social network has updated their Facebook Messenger for Android app to support threaded SMS and Facebook messages on select phones.

Essentially, any text you receive will get delivered to Messenger for Android, on top of your primary SMS client. No local texts will ever get sent to Facebook or to Messenger apps on other platforms. This means that all your SMS and Facebook messages are kept in one app.

Why is this only available on Android? Quite simply, the iOS API won’t allow access to users SMS messages. Plus, Apple want everyone to use their iMessage service instead. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android adds SMS threading”

Pocket for Android adds text-to-speech

Android users have something to feel smug about this week as Pocket for Android updated with an exclusive feature: text-to-speech. iOS users can’t even hope for this feature as iOS SDK doesn’t support any text-to-speech API. While iOS devices are fully capable of handling text-to-speech as seen with Siri, there’s no way for app developers to tap into her text-to-speech framework.

The text-to-speech feature within Pocket is called ‘Listen‘ and can be enabled in any article you save in Pocket. Listen is great for people who save long, text heavy articles with Pocket but cannot read them at the moment.

It’s nice to see Pocket stepping up with new features to further differentiate itself from competitors like Instapaper and Apple’s ‘Reading List’ feature in Safari. So how does Listen work? Let me show you. Continue reading “Pocket for Android adds text-to-speech”

Safari 6.0 only available via Software Update

Apple has released version 6.0 of Safari for Mac but it’s only available for Lion and Mountain Lion. In addition, you can only update it by running Software Update.

It seems that at the moment, Apple has completely removed the download link for Safari on Mac. However, you can still download version 5.1.7 from Softonic.

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