You are not logged in [login] | [register]
RSS MAD is both an RSS feed archive and online feed reader.
You can browse our categories, search for a feed, or if you already have a URL, use our online feed reader.
Simply start browsing the site, and if you find some feeds you like, register to view them on your own personalized page!
you are here: home » computers & internet » software
Searching 181785 articles in 8938 feeds.
Do you like RSS MAD? Why not spread the news and tell a friend about it - it's as easy as filling out this form!
added: Sun, 16th October 2005 | 187 views | 0x in favourites
feed url: http://news.softpedia.com/backend/english.xml
SoftPedia.com IT and Science News [Viewed: 165]
One of the most expected RTS or Real Time Strategy titles this holiday season is Red Alert 3. Created by EA Los Angeles, former Westwood studios, the creative team behind the massive Command & Conquer universe, it promises to end the seven-year long period from the last title in the Red Alert series. The franchise has been known for its excellent strategy gameplay and for its very funny and lighthearted approach to unit design. The Command & Conquer trademark live action cutscenes are a...
Electronic Arts is really trying to do something new with Dead Space, its survival horror shooter which is supposed to arrive this week. Even if the game is practically not out yet, the publisher, eager to push its new intellectual property, has already offered two new suits for the game protagonist on the Xbox 360.The first one is...
Mirror's Edge is going to be a very interesting and innovative title, promising to bring free running on the roofs of very tall buildings while evading the authorities. The whole action is set to take place in a future dystopian city, where all of its residents are being tightly watched, and only runners, special couriers, can walk freely, jumping from building to building to deliver their cargo. The main character is Faith, a young girl who seeks revenge on the rulers of the city, and ...
More and more people with very strong connections with the technology world are turning towards designers to help them give life to their dreams. And one of the key words these days is "green" – not exactly the proper color but the attitude towards energetic issues and eco-friendly sources of energy. And of course, such a trend could have never left the fashion world on the outside: that's why we now introduce to you one of the neatest "green" inventions, the Solar Powered Ski Jac...
Exploring the dungeons is something RPG fans have always loved, especially if these dungeons are filled with hundreds of monsters ready to feel the wrath of your sword or the power of your spells. Hudson seems to know that, since their announced action RPG is called Dungeon Explorer Warriors of Ancient Arts - and they surely didn't name it this way just to be catchy.Here are some of the features for the DS version:- the story takes place centuries after...
One of the biggest games for the original Xbox was the first Halo title, which brought the futuristic shooter into people's homes and, with a solid single player campaign, placing gamers into the Spartan armor of Master Chief, captured the attention of the whole world. But it wasn't the single player aspect that attracted most of the customers, but the online multiplayer one, which was extremely good. Benefiting from the early beta stages of the Xbox's Live system, it gave gamers the ch...
Sony is really eager to get news regarding its gaming consoles and the video games it is developing to potential customers and apparently the content that's available on the PlayStation Network is not enough anymore. The company has decided to partner up with YouTube, the biggest videosharing site in the world, in order to create an official PlayStation Channel which is set to deliver all the content Sony can create, all the time.The launch took place yesterday and...
HDTVs and High-Definition signal sources (Blu-ray players) have been around for a relatively long time (given the current rate of technological development), so it was to be expected that, at some point, a device that combined them both would arrive on the market. And it would seem that the moment has finally come, since Sharp has just launched a whole new family of AQUOS LCD HTDVs, the DX series, which provide Blu-ray support right out of the box, since they feature their own, built-in...
Microsoft made available for download the first service pack for Windows Vista on March 18, 2008, this even though the bits had been released to manufacturing as early as February 4...
A shadow-like evil has covered the Raposas' village with darkness and has taken the sun, moon, sky and much more. You can help save their dying village and rebuild it back to greatness by creating a Hero! Play as your newly created Hero and fly, run, jump, swim or smash your way through new worlds and dangerous enemies. Complete your adventure by creating weapons, tools, animals, plants and almost everything in the game. Play as your creations and conquer a variety of different environm...
The successor of Firefox 3.0 has entered the Beta development stage as of October 14, 2008. In this context, Mozilla has made available for download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. The next iteration of the open source browser, codenamed Shiretoko, is making headway in terms of development, having already passed through a couple of Alpha phases. With the 3.1 Beta 1 release, Mozilla is touting various improvements across the browser, including enhancements delivered to performance, web compatibility...
Apple has come a very, very long way since it rolled out its first Macs. Apple's technological feats throughout the years literally sound off in this single video footage of how the new MacBook is crafted, starting from...
Microsoft is attempting to make aspects of the new $300 million Windows marketing campaign as pervasive as possible. In this context, not only is the Redmond giant moving to an international stage with the video advertisements put together by ad agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, but also “breaking barriers” between products. In fact, even though Windows: Life without Walls is focused on the Windows ecosystem, spanning from the desktop client to mobile devices and ...
Seen Hancock? Liked it? Want to see it again but can't wait for the DVD and/or Blu-ray versions to hit the shelves? Well, it seems that you might be in luck, since Sony has decided that it’s about time to push further its BRAVIA Internet Video Link service and will use it for streaming the famous superhero flick directly to customers' HDTVs.According to the company's statement, Sony will offer three versions of Hancock, including a high-definition stream ...
October 14 was synonymous not only with the availability of a new release out of the Microsoft monthly patch cycle but also with the introductions of a couple of new security from the Redmond company: the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) and Exploitability Index. Microsoft has patched a fresh round of no less than 20 security vulnerabilities impacting a range of its products, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. Almost a dozen security bulleti...
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime is an adventure game, and is the sequel to Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest: Shougeki No Shippo Dan. It was released in Japan on December 1, 2005 and in North America on September 19, 2006. It is a spin-off of the Dragon Quest series and stars Slime, a common enemy in the Dragon Quest series as well as its official mascot. The game is played from a top-down perspective. The play begins in the town of Boingburg, where the player can talk to its inhabitants, p...
Egosoft is announcing that X3: The Terran Conflict, the last chapter in the X saga, is due to be launched via Steam on October 17. Those interested in the game can now pre-order via Steam, the digital distribution platform from Valve. A boxed version will also be available, but Steam offers the chance to get the game quickly and without any hassle....
World of Warcraft is a pretty popular game – with over 11 million subscribed users, some people would call it a blockbuster title. Holding a massive 62 percent of the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market, it is the title all of the new ones, like Warhammer Online, are trying to rival. Launched by Blizzard in 2004, it is enjoyi...
Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has reached version 4.0, adding almost two dozen new features, and double that amount in changes and bug fixes. The freeware torrent client is the most popular of its kind for Mac, having been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times here on Softpedia.Vuze is a powerful BitTorrent client that greatly extends the original pyt...
Despite no official word on NVIDIA's official website, it appears that the Santa Clara, California-based green company has finally unveiled the details of its next-generation integrated graphics chipset, designed to accommodate Intel's current desktop processors, running on Socket 775. Anticipation for the new NVIDIA GeForce 9300 and 9400 Motherboard GPUs has been building for quite some time and now, recent rumors indicate, the company o...
Free radicals are organic molecules that don't have the necessary even number of electrons in their composition, which makes them very unstable. They get their needed electrons from almost anything, creating other free radicals in the process. For humans, this translates in severe illnesses. Antioxidants, on the other hand, are molecules that prevent and reverse the effect of the free radicals. Such antioxidants are found in the selenium ...
Latest scientific discoveries point to the fact that coral reefs and sand are "allergic" to each other, in that they can't survive together. This is especially true for the coral reefs, which, once sand gets in their midst, die and cannot regenerate even after long periods of time. The find is essential in understanding how exactly global warming and climate change will affect the existence and development of already threatened banks of reefs worldwide.CoECRS m...
The acoustical magic of the Boston Symphony Hall is due to the fact that the architectural company that built it resorted, for the first time in history, to the services of a physicist. It was built based on the design of Leipzig's Gewandhaus, which was devastated later on, during World War II. Constructed in the late 1...
If you’re a fan of Samsung phones, or if you like to text a lot, then T-Mobile has a new toy especially for you, coming on November 17. Moreover, the upcoming device is expected to have an acceptable price.The Samsung Gravity t450 is a slide-out phone that provides users with all the basic functions and a little somethin...
Folks over at iPhoneFootprint have this interesting theory of how Apple's products will eventually hold hands, talk the same language... eh, enough metaphors – use matching accessories.[...
Since we're going through some rather tough times, most consumers are pretty reluctant to spending a lot of money on their home entertainment systems. This is why most major names in the industry are trying to come up with certain specific solutions that will help them cope really well with this situation, and that's also the case with projector manufacturer InFocus, which has just introduced the X9 model, a device designed to offer an HD-grade experience even to users on a tight b...
The Chemistry Council won another victory against the environment today, when the Dallas city council rejected a proposal to ban plastic bags altogether. The measure was aimed at reducing the impact that plastic has on the environment, seeing how it takes a couple of hundred years to decompose and all that. But apparently, Linda Koop, a city council member...
It's probably the best title in the huge Castlevania saga that finally got ported on the Nintendo DS. There's no console in the world that hasn't had the honor of hosting Konami's masterpiece and our favorite vampire hunting heroes are back, with the same manga hair-styles and the trademark whip that would make Indiana Jones jealous. You will be able to control two different characters: vampire hunter Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin, a young witch. Also, you can switch characters wh...
Today, we have sad news for existing Linux Mint 3.0 and Linux Mint 3.1 (GNOME, KDE and Xfce editions) users, as starting October 19th, these operating systems will no longer be supported, and the users will not receive security/critical fixes and software updates anymore. Cassandra and Celena were based on Ubuntu 7.04, which will also reach end of life on the same day.The software repositories will remain open for a while after they reach end of life, but in this t...
» more
» more
Is RSS MAD missing something? Tell us about new feeds here.