This week’s Deal Of The Week is G Data’s AntiVirus 2011, your all-round solution for optimum virus protection, as well as against worms and digital spies without interrupting speed or workflow on your PC. Get your download copy  this week from your Softwareload Shop for just £12.90. For more information about G Data AntiVirus 2011, read more

Just a few days left to win one of 3 great prizes  by completing the Softwareload survey and letting us know what you think about the portal! The Survey, which started a few weeks ago, has proved to be a big success, with lots of you telling us what you think is good and bad about the portal. As well as taking your advice to heart, we’re also getting ready to fork out the prizes, including a 3D mouse from Logitech, a 120 GB Lacie Mobile hard drive, and gift vouchers for Softwareload. ALSO, for those of you who enter the competition now, get £5  Softwareload voucher just for taking part! read more

Yes you did read that right! Snoop Dogg has teamed up with Virus protection gurus Symantec to “raise awareness” about online cybercrime threats and malicious software and how to best protect your PC and its data from intruders, viruses and the like. Wannabe rap stars have 2 minutes to prove their skills  and spit a text about anti-cybercrime, record it on video and submit it at hackiswack.com. The prizes are substantial, the idea perhaps daft, but fun to watch, as the first 4 posted videos would lead to believe. read more

Microsoft has released a Fixit tool enabling system admin users to protect their PCs against a wide range of critical vulnerabilities discovered in over 100 applications from various software manufacturers. The Fixit tool works in combination with the workaround provided by Microsoft tech support last week, enabling users to tweak settings responsible for application compatibility. read more

The latest release of OpenOffice is just around the corner and 3.3 beta already online, and we decided to have a closer look at what can/should be expected from OpenOffice 3.3.  With the difference in layout between the open source’s Windows XP resembling interface and the development of both design and functionality of more modern competing popular office packages becoming increasingly evident, we had a look at the top potential changes to the pending full 3.3 release. read more

This week’s Deal Of The Week at your Softwareload Shop is the very popular Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010, the first choice in registry optimisation and error detection. Uniblue RegistryBooster cleans, repairs and optimises your PC system, freeing it from registry errors and fragmented entries. Advanced error-detection technology, comprehensive registry optimisation and swift registry error solutions are some of the few things Uniblue’s RegistryBooster has to offer. Get your download copy now for the massive sale price of £11.90 (£15 off the RRP!) at Softwareload today, and for more information, read more

The two big words in the recently launched fourth beta release of Mozilla’s Firefox 4 are “Panorama” and “Sync”. Panorama, A.K.A Tab Candy, is slick picture device alloing users to simultaneously view all tabs open at one time and sort them into groups by simply dragging and dropping them. The other new addition, namely Sync, lets users keep track, manage and move their browsing history, passwords, bookmarks, awesome bar and so on from PC to PC (and to iPhone with Firefox Home), encoding all stored info, protecting it from the prying eyes of others looking to trace users’ footsteps. read more

Google has announced its US initiation of Google Voice, with UK users surely not too far behind, depending on its success. Google Voice and the Video Chat platform offer Gmail users the chanced to call landlines, mobiles, send texts, leave and pick up voicemail from several numbers in box… basically everything Skype does. Google is enticing Us users away from Skype by offering free calls within the US and Canada, according to the official Gmail blog http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/, for the rest of the year. read more

The new beta version of HM Goverment’s central website for government data and general info point, data.gov.uk is up and running. Apart from receiving a hefty facelift, data.gov.uk opens up a completely fresh and user-friendly approach to open access data. The new design and structure of the data.gov.uk should now enable the public to keep track of resources and local data readily available to them, embodying Hm Goverment’s website slogan Transparency is at the heart of this Government. Data.gov.uk is home to national & local data for free re-use”. read more

Microsoft has warned users of a vulnerability in Windows applications manufactured by out of house developers, which potentially enable intruders to inject malicious code straight into your PC. The attacks, also known as binary planting or DLL preoload attacks exploit the way in which programmes load associated libraries, which in combination with binary files stored in hacker-controlled directories, can swiftly relieve you of complete control of your PC. read more