Software

An optional mode has been added on YouTube which allows users to filter out any objectionable content or user comments. Dubbed Safety Mode, the filter is activated by navigating to the bottom of any YouTube page, then clicking the “safety mode is off” link, turning the mode on and hitting the save button takes away the objectionable content and comments while you view the site.

"While no filter is 100 percent perfect, Safety Mode is another step in our ongoing desire to give you greater control over the content you see on the site," a post on the YouTube blog said. So it would seem.Read more

Sirius XM Radio has launched a new BlackBerry website page on its website, with several BlackBerry smartphone applications available. Each app is designed for a specific BB model, including the BlackBerry Curve 8500 and 8900, Bold 9000, Bold 9700, Storm, Storm 2 9500 and the Blackberry Tour.

All Internet lineup programming is available, exception for the Howard Stern show, since he owns all the rights to his content and apparently nixed the idea. You still get Sirius XM’s 120 channels of commercial free music in just about any genre you can think of, plus news, comedy, talk shows and sports programming. Sirius favorites like Oprah, Doctor Radio, Opie and Anthony and Martha Stewart are all on the menu.Read more

STOIK Imaging, a software company headquatered in Moscow, today announced the release of their STOIK PanoramaMaker for Mac, a Mac OS version of their Windows panorama image making tool. Creating a wide angle image by stitching together several smaller digital images is a common feature of photo editing software. But most of them have a problem rendering moving objects in the shots, introducing misshapen or blurry images and marring your painstaking work.Read more

Yelp power users will welcome the new Yelp for Android 1.2 update, which now allows you to upload photographs from your Android based smartphone to Yelp.com. The popular review site on December 7 released a somewhat crippled Android App with basic features, but lacking the iPhone Yelp App ability to add photos, write reviews and add tips. That has been somewhat remedied now with the addition of photo uploading, although review and tip writing are still missing.Read more

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could be at risk; a newly discovered unpatched vulnerability in versions 6 & 7 of the browser enables hackers to trick users into visiting malware or phishing sites.

According IT security research company VUPEN: “This issue is caused due to a memory corruption error in the Microsoft HTML Viewer (mshtml.dll) when retrieving certain CSS/STYLE objects via the "getElementsByTagName()" method, which could allow attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a malicious web page.”Read more

Windows Mobile and Blackberry phones are now the only mobile phone platforms that can’t use Spotify, as Spotify Mobilehas just announced support for Symbian phones. The world’s most popular streaming music service has been available on Android devices and iPhones up to now. If you are not a Spotify member, you will have to wait for an invite, as that is the only way to get in right now. You need to be a Premium member (£10 per month in the UK) to use Spotify Mobile. Although some innovative carriers are starting to offer pre-paid premium memberships as part of their contract pacakges.Read more