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HTML5 is a Flash killer. Hmmmmm. Say it over in your head a few times. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

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When a virus strikes, you don’t have time to wait for your AV tool to update itself. Panda Cloud Antivirus takes a slightly different tack to most by storing the latest virus information and definitions online, and the benefits are of this system are clear. Ordinarily, whenever a new virus threat is detected, this fact must be recognised and acted upon by the antivirus software’s manufacturers. A virus definition update then has to be made available to users in the hope that automatic updates are enabled in the program, and that the servers pushing out those updates are up to the task of handling potentially millions of downloads before the virus in question has time to strike

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Much like Google Wave, the first problem with Buzz is trying to neatly encapsulate just what it is. It’s a dash of Twitter, a bit of FriendFeed, a smidgen of Google Reader plus several other services – most notably Foursquare’s location check-in system for mobile devices. At its heart, though, the idea is for Gmail to be your social hub rather than just your mailbox, with friends’ status updates, videos, photos and more, all presented in one handy list. The service rolled out literally overnight, giving Buzz user numbers that other budding networks can only dream of

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Fans of distraction-free writing are well catered for on the Mac. Full-screen editor WriteRoom is excellent, and the superb Scrivener offers a similar mode, as does Pages and the idiosyncratic ‘writing environment’ OmmWriter. myTexts snow is another option in this field, although one perhaps even more unconventional than OmmWriter. In a way, myTexts snow feels more like an iPhone app than a desktop one – it abstracts file management, aiming to be an all-inclusive environment

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When it comes to Mac security, Intego is a veteran, publishing blogs and bulletins as well as producing software. It even has the dubious honour of being taunted by a line of malware code; high praise indeed. They have now combined VirusBarrier and NetBarrier (a personal firewall) under one banner. Enter VirusBarrier X6

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As your hard drives fill with photos, music files, images, documents, movies and apps, you could waste substantial storage space by holding duplicate copies of the same file. Tidy Up! 2 is here to seek them out. There’s a comprehensive range of search modifiers on offer, and you can set specific exclusions, which is especially useful if you use Time Machine. On completing a search, you can manage or delete duplicates, with options to burn them to disc, archive in another location or label them in Finder for later identification, among other things. You can replace deleted files with aliases or symbolic links, which is excellent if you want to dump the duplicates but retain the overall organisation

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The founder of Bare Bones Software calls Yojimbo a ‘digital junk drawer’. It’s an honest description of a tool that won’t transform your Mac life, but helps you rationalise and keep track of odd documents that inevitably accumulate on your hard drive. You can copy files to Yojimbo in many text and image formats, as well as PDF and HTML, and tag them with descriptive keywords if you wish, then dump the originals in the Trash. Importing documents is easy, via either drag and drop or a dialog, and if you want to import a non-supported file type (such as a spreadsheet), you can print a PDF directly to Yojimbo from an app that does support it

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While QuickTime X offers basic screen recording in Snow Leopard, ScreenFlow is an all-in-one solution, enabling you to record several sources at once – screen, camera, audio – and edit and export the results. A year back, we liked ScreenFlow 1.2, and this is a strong upgrade, still offering excellent performance and a userfriendly editor. Control over video is improved via several new settings and features. There’s basic colour correction and effects, such as rotation – previously a little abrupt – which can be softened via the Curve feature’s ‘ease’ settings.

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Mac users with a MobileMe subscription may well be familiar with the Back to my Mac feature that enables you to connect to and use your Mac from another one anywhere in the world. But it only works between Macs, and chances are you’ll only have access to a PC when you really need access to that one essential file. Step forward, GoToMyPC for Mac. GoToMyPC has been available to PC users for some years. Now the company has made a version for Mac users, so you can connect to your home Mac from any computer anywhere, as long as it’s on the internet and can run Java

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Although many designers and illustrators have a natural eye for colour, there’s science behind great colour schemes. ColorSchemer Studio is an interactive colour wheel that provides shortcuts to creating schemes, enabling you to pull palettes from images, use a colour wheel to identify harmonies, preview colours via drag and drop into several predefined layouts, and export your creations in text or image formats. Version 1 of the app was a little limited, but the new LiveScheme feature brings to mind Code Line’s discontinued Color Consultant Pro, in that it enables you to pick a lead colour, then combine and experiment with various harmony types to create exciting colour schemes. Schemes can be accessed via the SchemeBrowser, which also offers several predefined schemes

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