Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Tomodachi is a program that shows graphically the the way that you, your friends and other people in Orkut’s
network are connected. To be able to use it, you must necessarily be an Orkut member.
Don’t you know what is Orkut? Orkut is a social network website. This means that an Orkut member can search, among all Orkut members, for her friends (or relatives or classmates or acquaintances or whatever) and add them to her list of friends. If someone is not in the Orkut network, an Orkut member (and only an Orkut member) can send her an invitation to join it. Someone can after navigate through these friends lists and know who are the friends of her friends or the friends of the friends of the friends of her friends and so on. Besides that, there are also communities that are a kind of Internet forums created by Orkut members.
But in all this “friend of your friends” thing, we missed a way to visualize through graphs things like “did our friends knew each other?” or “has someone recently joined Orkut and all my friends have added her to their friends list except me?”. We expect that Tomodachi will help filling this gap.
Download: Tomodachi 0.4 Alpha 4
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
xProcess allows any team to take their processes, methodologies and best practices into live project plans that enable collaboration across the organization. The plan is real-time and is always in-sync so that any changes in resources, estimates, priority, etc is visible to all project participants.
xProcess can manage your project artifacts and requirements while maintaining an audit trail via a SubVersion repository. Integrated workflow allows tasks to be automated based on your criteria. xProcess participants can use Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux based workstations along with web clients.
Download: xProcess 2.7 Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
ARLINGTON, Va.–PC hardware components can provide a way for hackers to sneak malicious code onto a computer, a security researcher warned Wednesday.
Every component in a PC, such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries, has some memory space for the software that runs it, called firmware. Miscreants could use this space to hide malicious code that would load the next time the PC boots, John Heasman, research director at NGS Software, said in a presentation at this week’s Black Hat DC event here.
“This is an important area and people should be concerned about this,” Heasman said. “Software security is getting better, yet we run increasingly complicated hardware. Unless we address hardware security, we’re leaving an interesting avenue for attack.”
Read more: CNET News.com
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Hybrid Share is a simple (User Friendly) Mono C#/Gtk# Application that allow Mac, Windows and Linux Users To Share Files. The Application is extensible via Plugins, so you can Talk with connected people, check your mailbox or other things that plugins could do.
Hybrid Share has a core of P2P but is more like a traditional IM (Instant Messenger), like GTalk, MSN, Gaim, Adium and so on…. No Network Configuration is needed, You’ve only to add your “buddies” (like an IM) and Drag File Into their folders…
Hybrid Share is Portable and Easy to Use
Download: Hybrid Share 1.2.0 Windows, Linux
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Its success was “wake-up call”…
Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie doesn’t necessarily think Google has all the answers but he does credit the company with opening Microsoft’s eyes.
Speaking to analysts at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in Las Vegas, Ozzie said: “Google’s success very clearly caused an inflection point within our industry and within Microsoft in terms of understanding advertising as an economic engine. It was a wake-up call within Microsoft.”
Full story: silicon.com
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Easy Burning is the easiest way to backup your files in a cdr(w). Integrated to the shell (send to) or used as a normal application, EASY Burning works with any CD writer. Write a folder and files, pictures and what ever you want. Easy to use. Create Data CD from a folder. Backup your MP3 collection. Integrated into Shell. send to Integrated into Desktop, Can write CD/DVD in the UDF format.
Multissession, Multifolder, Multifile(s) support. Incl. Folder compare and Check-File. This program have an independant internal ASPI/SPTI detection.
Multilanguage file (english, german, french, finnish, spanish, danish, portuguese, hungarian, galician, macedonian, polish, catalan, italian, russian, japanese, nederlands, ukrainian, SimpChinese and korean ).
Inclusive VisualISO for multi file and folder. Now include Verify file after burn. Burn Video DVD (DVD Version only)
Designed for Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP.
Download: Easy Burning 2.03
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
You’re probably familiar with SpeedPass, even if you didn’t have one. SpeedPass was a simple concept; an RFID tag inside a keychain attachment that you waved in front of the Mobil gas pump. It recognized you by your keyring and were charged accordingly. No credit card needed, since your card was already registered to your SpeedPass key.
Well, ViVOTech is looking to bring that same kind of rapid payment method to your cell phone. After years of development, it has begun to strike deals with credit card companies and retail outlets to support cardless and contactless purchases, just by waving a cell phone.
RFID is expected to take off in a big way. There have already been 20 million credit cards issued with RFID chips, allowing for purchases without having to manually hand over a card, according to Mohammad Khan, president of ViVOtech. But he thinks there’s even more security to be had with a cell phone than a credit card.
Full article: internetnews.com
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Web mail and message forums are the newest vehicle for the quickly spreading Storm Trojan, security researchers say. The latest attack injects a link to a malware site whenever infected users write online.
According to Symantec, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL are among a number of vulnerable Web-based e-mail products. Message forums based on Virus Bulletin and phpBB software are also at risk, said a spokeswoman.
Users are first infected by clicking on an e-mailed link, which downloads a malware rootkit able to watch network traffic, according to Dmitri Alperovitch, Secure Computing’s principal researcher. The worm then inserts ‘Have you seen this link?’ in messages posted on a variety of Web mail and online forums.
Full story: internetnews.com
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
BeLight is a Graphical User Interface for BeSweet, one of the best audio tools for transcoding.
Features :
- AC3, WAV, OGG, MP2, MP3, AVI, VOB, LST & MUX in input.
- AAC/MP4, AC3, MP2, MP3, VORBIS, WAV and AIFF in ouput.
- Most of BeSweet functions (Gain, SSRC, Boost, Partial Encoding, Change Frame Rate, Soundtouch…)
- MultiLanguages Support (German, Spanish, French, English, Polish, and Russian actually…more are welcome )
- Delay Detection for input files.
- Some AAC/AC3/MP2/MP3/VORBIS/WAV Presets.
- Mux File Wizard (in version 0.22 )
- File List Creator (in version 0.22)
Download: BeLight 0.22 RC1
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Is Windows getting cheaper or more expensive?
The short answer is easy: neither. Roughly speaking, the Microsoft product sells for the same price it has had for years.
The full answer is more complicated. There are all sorts of factors that go into one’s sense of whether the leading operating system “feels” more pricey or less expensive–the cost of other PC components and what gets bundled into the operating system are just a couple of them.
Microsoft General Manger Brad Brooks argues that Windows is a bargain, noting that it keeps getting more features for the same price.
“If you break down the cost of the software over the life of the PC, it works out to be less than how much you’d spend on milk for your family over that same period of time,” Brooks said.
Full article: ZDNet
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
CellNet is a very fast desktop application for keeping files organized on your computer. It can also play music, video, DVD, load documents and URLs, display and edit photos, run programs and keep shortcuts to Windows file system. You can write cells and files to CDs, extract music from CDs or make an audio CD. Other features include, photo slideshows, full editor to move and copy files within the CellNet system, keep playlists of photos, music and video and screen capture.
Because CellNet remains on the desktop it is possible to completely clear your desktop of icons and organize them within CellNet in neat labeled columns, you can do the same with documents, movies, music, programs, flash files, photos and favorite internet places. CellNet will park itself just behind the top of the desktop when not in use all ready to be pulled down giving you instant access to your computer.
Because of its unique interface CellNet is especially useful for finding files quickly. Anyone who needs almost instant access(even on slower computers) to their important files will soon discover the benifits of using CellNet.
100% free. No spyware or adware of any kind
Download: CellNet 3.1
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
A small Texas based company is suing Apple, Samsung, and Sandisk for infringement on patent 7,065,417, which describes “an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing sound data compressed using the MPEG method.”
Read more: MacRumors.com
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
FS-Db is a volume manager that indexes any media for searching (offline).
It is especially useful for indexing large collections of CDs, DVDs, etc, containing a very large number of files and folders.
Requires .NET Framework 2.0
FS-Db is free for personal use.
Download: FS-Db 0.517 Beta
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
A media-streaming device designed to bring iTunes to the living room will not be on sale as early as expected.
The Apple TV, announced at the MacWorld Expo in January this year, was expected to go on sale this month in the UK for around ?Ǭ£199. However, it isn’t quite ready and will not launch until the middle of March.
“Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March,” Apple said in a statement.
Read more: webuser.co.uk
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
WinTools Vista is a freeware application that provides quick and easy access to Windows Vista’s built-in system utilities such as Command Prompt, Device Manager, Disk Cleanup, Registry Editor, User Accounts, and more - from one convenient spot.
Download: WinTools Vista 1.0 Windows Vista
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Just one per cent likely to pay $500 for Apple phone
New research has suggested that the iPhone may be bad news for Apple but good news for its network partner Cingular.
A survey by research firm Compete Inc found that only one per cent of US consumers would be happy to pay $500 for an iPhone, mirroring concerns from some analysts.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said at the iPhone launch that the “low end” version of the mobile device would be sold at $500.
Full story: vnunet.com
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
At around 8 AM PST this morning, Moscow-based search engine Quintura will relaunch its visual search engine with a new user interface.
The company, which is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype, AllPeers, Piczo, Nimbuzz) and OpenView Venture Partners, has developed technology that clusters related search terms to the initial query and presents those terms as a tag cloud.
Read more: Techcrunch
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Modern computers have a lot of space on their disks. And people stopped watching the space thinking that disks of that size just cannot be too small. Most likely, some software developers stick to that opinion as well and some software occupies quite a lot of space on disks or do not save it. In addition, software capabilities increase together with the development of computers. A lot of people can now work with large amounts of data, for example, editing home video, processing high-resolution photos or complex graphics, recording music. All this is impossible unless you have free space on your disk, which invisibly becomes less and less. And unexpected lack of space on your disk, especially on the system one, may result in your work being lost or even in operating system failures.
The simple, but still useful tool Abaiko Disk Space Monitor will keep you informed about the amount of free space on your disks. The news that there is not enough space on the disk will not take you by surprise in the worst time any more and you will no longer have to worry about it.
Features:
?¢‚Äî?† Easy to use and configure
?¢‚Äî?† Running at Windows startup
?¢‚Äî?† Monitoring disks of any types
?¢‚Äî?† Access to the application via the tray icon
?¢‚Äî?† Warnings as balloon messages
The tool can monitor disks of any types your computer supports.
Abaiko Disk Space Monitor is intended for both regular home users and system administrators that need space for quickly growing logs of various systems, enlarging databases, data backups, or for software caching data.
Download: Abaiko Disk Space Monitor 1.21 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Cerberus is an easy to use webcam monitoring application. Monitor up to ten webcams in realtime, in a fully configurable environment. Upload captured images from each camera to a seperate website/intranet/network/ftp site. Save images at regular intervals in a ‘time lapse’ sequence - or do all of the above - for EACH camera.
Features include;
• English, German, Portugese and Finnish languages.
• Captured images from each camera can got to seperate locations
• Each webcam can capture at a different size and different interval.
• Monitor up to ten cameras at any one time
• Option to save every captured image in ‘time lapse’ mode.
• Option to activate capturing at specific times every day.
• Built in viewer / player for captured time lapse images.
• Telnet connectivity. (simple command set as example)
• Set the output size for each camera.
• Add overlay graphics to the final saved / uploaded image!
• Motion capture modes
• Alpha blending on overlay images
• Rotate mode, cycles through available webcams
• XP Style support
Cerberus is completely free of charge.
Download: Cerberus 3.1 Beta Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
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