Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Welcome to a new way of doing things.
Corel WordPerfect Lightning is free software that makes it easier than ever to capture, use, and reuse ideas, information and images.
It helps you perform your most common tasks simpler and faster!
Find out what ‘Navigator’, ‘Notes’, ‘Connector’, and ‘Viewer’ will do for you. Start your Lightning experience!
Corel WordPerfect Lightning is not a trial version. You will be downloading the free version of Corel WordPerfect Lightning, which includes:
:: a Notes tool for word processing, note taking and copying text and images from email and the Web
:: a Viewer to open PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft Word documents
:: a Navigator to organize your ideas and documents
:: a free online account with 200 MB storage plus many more services!
Download: Corel WordPerfect Lightning 1.0 Windows XP/Vista
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Portals are so twentieth century. Or are they?
Joanne Bradford, chief media officer for Microsoft’s MSN site, is brushing aside any criticism that online portals have seen their best days. Speaking at VentureWire’s Consumer Technology Innovations conference here today, she said the portal concept, and MSN in particular, are alive, well and getting plenty of Microsoft’s investment money.
Asked if portals were “dying a slow death,” Bradford said quite the opposite. “Everything is looking more like a portal these days if you look at Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. I think there’s a reverse portal phenomenon going on where you stuff the tail back in the head and make it mean something.”
In other words, while a lot of social networking sites carry more personalized, user-generated and long tail content (referring to the theory of niche sites creating their own markets), they’re all trying to organize content like a portal does.
Full story: internetnews.com
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
For fast, easy and convenient remote PC access, try LogMeIn Free.
Like the millions of users who already rely on it every day, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Simply install LogMeIn on the computer you want to access, and then you can beam into that PC from anywhere using just a web browser. Whatever you can do when you’re physically at the PC, you can now do remotely over the web.
• Open remote files
• Access from any browser
• Check your email
• Access from wireless Pocket PC
• Run programs
• Easy-to-use interface
• Support remote users
• 100% FREE to use!
LogMeIn Free gives you the flexibility to access and control your PCs from anywhere. It’s safe, easy and completely free.
Download: LogMeIn Free 4.0.667 | LogMeIn Free for Mac (Preview)
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox is so easy…
With this extension, you can add your favorite search engines to search box by only few clicks. It’s easy to use, and saving your time.
1. Open the search webpage(waiting until the page is completely loaded)
2. right-click on the input field of keywords, and click “Add OpenSearch plugin”.
3. change the name and icon (if you want), and done!
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.
Download: OpenSearchFox 0.1.5
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Having gained a certain degree of expertise in developing and designing its own energy efficient data centers, Google thinks it’s in a position to help spur on the adoption of even more renewable energy sources.
The Mountain View company announced on Tuesday a new research and development group whose mandate will be to continue to develop electricity from renewable energy sources much cheaper (and cleaner) than coal. The new initiative, dubbed Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, will primarily target energy sources like advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies and enhanced geothermal, according to Google co-founder Larry Page, and the company plans to shell out tens of millions of dollars in 2008 on R&D and related investments.
Full article: wired.com
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
NullFXP is a cross-platform SFTP/FTP/secure FTP client with GUI , it supports multi host connection.
Operating System: Windows, Linux.
Download: NullFXP 1.5.1
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Easy to use Backup program with many features including backup disk spanning to CDR (WinXP) and CDRW.
The most critical advantage of Back4Win 5.0 over other backup software is its reliability.
Losing partition Data (computer files) is at least disconcerting, at most potential failure of your business!. Backup software used regularly , insures your computer against these losses by storing copies of your data in a safe place. Back4Win is free, and is highly regarded by thousands of users as a no-cost solution for data integrity.
Download: Back4Win 5.0.0.4
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The new Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download.
It has everything you already love about Messenger your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video plus new ways to connect and share documents with magical ease.
When you move to the new Windows Live Messenger, it will be like upgrading from one MSN Messenger version to the next. All your contacts will move with you, as will all your personalised elements (emoticons, winks, user tiles, themes, etc.
Features
· Have free real-time text, video and voice conversations with other Messenger users
· Call your friends mobiles or land-line telephones by signing up for MCI Web Calling to make affordable domestic and international calls
· Send all your familiar winks and emoticons, plus some cool new ones
· Share cool activities such as music mix, games and remote assistance
· Easily share documents of all kinds with Sharing Folders
· Talk to your Yahoo! friends from Windows Live Messenger
Download: Windows Live Messenger 8.5 | Windows Live Messenger 9.0.1407.1107 Beta (Softpedia.com)
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
jIRCii is an Internet Relay Chat client (IRC) for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux.
jIRCii provides an irc experience similiar to ircii, hADES, and BitchX with the advantages of a solid user interface. Features include DCC/CTCP support, multiple server connections, IRC over SSL support, tab key nickname completion, and over 75 built-in commands. jIRCii is fully scriptable using sleep, a Perl-like language.
jIRCii requires Java 1.4.2 or later.
Download: jIRCii Beta 42
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards.
Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
Main Features
· No limits overclocking.
· Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts.
· Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards)
· Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series.
· Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility.
· Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup.
· Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile.
· 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required.
· Gamma control
ATITool will only work on Windows 2000/XP/2003 (64 bit versions are supported).
Download: ATITool 0.27 Beta 3 | ATITool 0.26
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
oogle has provided the IP address of an anonymous blogger to an Israeli court voluntarily as part of a defamation case.
The defamation case centers on allegations against three members of the Shaarei Tikva council posted on Blogger, including posts that suggested the council members took bribes, pretended to be disabled to gain tax advantages, and that the councilmen have links to organized crime. The councilmen asked the court to order Google to hand over the IP address details of the anonymous blogger but the court did not order Google to do so. Instead Google entered into an arrangement where by they would contact the blogger and give him or her 3 days to respond anonymously to the allegations. There was no response from the blogger so Google handed over the IP address to the court and plantiffs despite there being no legal requirement for them to do so.
Full story: techcrunch.com
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player for Windows supporting the following formats:
MOD - Sound/Noise/ProTracker, MTM - MultiTracker, S3M - ScreamTracker, XM - FastTracker, IT - ImpulseTracker, MO3 - MO3 Packer, MP3 - MPEG Audio, MP4 - QuickTime MPEG-4 (AAC/Apple Lossless), MPC - Musepack, OGG - Ogg Vorbis, FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec, APE - Monkey’s Audio, WMA - Windows Media Audio, WV - WavPack, WAV - Windows PCM/ACM, CD - Audio CD
Features include:
- gapless playback
- MP3/OGG internet file streaming
· optional 32-bit mixing
· 9-band graphic equalizer
· volume, balance & pitch controls
· full system tray functionality
· timer playback/screen saver feature
· configurable system-wide hotkeys
· support for multiple visuals via a plug-in system
· digital audio extraction
· encoding to Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, APE, WMA & WV formats
· Audioscrobbler support
· remote freedb suppor
· CD-Text support
Download: VUPlayer 2.49 Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Google Maps has launched a mapmaking feature letting users invite people to contribute to a map they’ve created.
Mapmakers can ask friends or family to contribute, or click the “Allow anyone to edit this map” to make it open to anyone. The new feature makes it easier for multiple people to plan events on Google Maps.
Read more: webuser.co.uk
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.
Requirements
• Latest version of JRE
• MPlayer to view subtitles
• ASpell to spell-check the subtitles
It is open source under a liberal (GNU) public licence. It is written in Java 5.0 (a.k.a. Java 1.5.0) in order to be really multi-platform. It has been tested under Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X.
Download: Jubler 3.4.1
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, and provides server-level protection against the latest e-mail threats.
System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003
Download: Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
French mobile carrier Orange has made a mockery of the T-Mobile charge of €600 to unlock an iPhone, which was forced upon it by a Vodafone injunction. Orange has offered to unlock iPhones for much more reasonable prices which will give customers an incentive to choose their own carriers in France.
The price to unlock an iPhone purchased in France through Orange is a relatively affordable €150 if they stay with the carrier on an non-iPhone plan and €250 if they choose not to take a plan without the carrier. In addition, an Orange customer can unlock an iPhone for €100 within six months of purchasing an iPhone if they choose an iPhone plan. The resulting prices of €549 and €649, while still relatively expensive compared to the €399 with an Orange iPhone plan, are not totally outrageous for consumers wanting a premium smartphone product in Europe.
Full story: itwire.com
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
NT Registry Tweaker is a free registry tool to manage your Windows. Speed up your system and Internet, tune Explorer, apply security policy. It is simply and useful. Windows Vista supported.
System Requirements:
- Windows 2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista
- Administrator privileges
Download: NT Registry Tweaker 1.0
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Avi2Dvd is an All In One tool in order to convert with just few clicks an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd.
Supports multiple audiostreams and up to three subtitles. From the version 0.3.4 and later can support DV-AVI videos, so it can handle captured avi’s from digital videocameras. Avi2dvd can also produce semi professional dvd menus with chapter/audio/subtitles buttons with extreme facility !
This utility is 100% freeware and uses only freeware software.
Download: Avi2Dvd 0.4.5 Beta
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests, regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer, says Devil Mountain Software.
In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he’s “downgrading” from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s newest operating system.
Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests — and Vista, even after it’s been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.
“The hoped for performance fixes [from Vista SP1] that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized,” said Devil Mountain researchers, in a blog post summarizing their results.
Full article: informationweek.com
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