Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
If the file format does not become a standard, some governments could shy away from using Open XML — and therefore, potentially, Microsoft Office.
After years of wrangling, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Office Open XML file formats are set to gain or lose approval as international standards. The ballots are in and being counted, but the world won’t know the verdict of the International Standards Organization until Wednesday.
The voting ended over the weekend, and it’s not clear exactly what is delaying the results. A total of 87 national standards bodies are voting. In at least one case, Steve Pepper, chairman of Norway’s committee on the approval of Open XML is reported to have filed a formal protest with his country’s yes vote, citing “serious irregularities” with the vote.
Read more: informationweek.com
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
You can use Elite Proxy Switcher to protect your Internet privacy or access the blocked sites by hiding your real IP using a proxy.
Elite Proxy Switcher (EPS) is a professional proxy switcher for your browsers as well as a proxy checker. It can test the details (speed, anonymity, country and whether gateway, ssl/https, dangerous or codeen) of the proxy and automatically change the proxy settings of your browsers (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox).
Download: Elite Proxy Switcher 1.05 Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
But movie has gone viral
Video-sharing website LiveLeak has removed the anti-Koran documentary Fitna by Dutch MP Geert Wilders after receiving threats. “We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high,” a statement reads. No details were given, except that the threats were “of a very serious nature”.
LiveLeak.com, based in Manchester, says it has strict stance on remaining unbiased and allowing freedom of speech within the boundaries of the law. There was no legal reason to refuse Wilders the right to post his film. “This is a sad day for freedom of the speech on the net,” the site says.
Over three million people visited LiveLeak before the 17-minute film was pulled on Friday. Since then, the movie has gone viral. YouTube is now one of many sites hosting a ripped version of the LiveLeak video.
Full article: theregister.co.uk
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Collect, Store, Categorize, Review, and Re-use all types of information in all types of documents with a few simple keystrokes or mouse clicks. No complicated setup procedures, no scripts to write, no “coding” needed, and no special knowledge of PCs required. In fact, after installing Tagkeys, we will have you up and running in under 5 MINUTES!
Whether you are an office professional, engineer, consultant, software programmer, technical writer, data entry technician, or just someone who uses a PC occasionally, Tagkeys will help you work faster and smarter!
Automatically Save Information in Tagkeys from any Document, Webpage, or Email with a SINGLE MOUSECLICK! Simply highlight the text you want and right-click on Tagkeys’ tab. Tagkeys automatically inserts it into the database. Give your captured data a name and press . That’s it!
With Tagkeys, your work just got a whole lot easier! In any document, form, email, or webpage, simply type a “tag” and let Tagkeys do the rest!
Download: Tagkeys 2.2
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
eMailaya is a small email client
Features
· No Installation
· Backup files on the server
· Delete mail on the server
· Simple ISP switching
· Automatic updates
· Timing of send/receive
· SMS on new mail
· SSL support >> Mail server as a drive
· Calendar + SMS notes
· Individual check interval
· DiskOnKey compatible
eMailaya is freeware, and it does not require any installation.
Download: eMailaya 3.1.5
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Liberator is the most performant and fully-featured server currently available for streaming real-time data to web pages. The technology behind many of the world’s leading financial trading portals, it is now available FREE for evaluation and non-commercial use.
Liberator Free Edition comes with a comprehensive client library for integrating with Ajax or Flex RIAs, a Java server library for connecting to sources of data and building application logic, and full documentation.
Liberator is written in C and runs on Linux, or on Windows using VMware.
Download: Liberator Free Edition
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.
The network can be used in a number of different ways and isn’t restricted to just sharing files like other peer-to-peer networks. It acts more like an Internet within an Internet.
Download: Freenet 0.7 Windows NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology detects objects that are hidden from users and security tools and offers the user an option to remove them. The main purpose is to fight rootkits and all kinds of malware that use rootkits. The F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology works by examining the system at a deep level. This enables BlackLight to detect objects that are hidden from the user and security software.
The F-Secure BlackLight Beta works on Windows 2000, Windows XP (32 and 64-bit), Windows 2003 Server (32 and 64-bit) and Windows Vista (32-bit only). The current F-Secure BlackLight beta does not work on Windows NT, 95, 98 or ME.
Download: F-Secure BlackLight 2.2.1070 Beta
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
According to Bank of America Corp., Apple will produce at least 11 million 3G iPhones by the end of the third quarter of 2008. This new phone will operate on AT&T’s faster network, which will provide Internet users with a significant speed boost. The range of its uses will be diversified even further, as it will also feature GPS navigation.
There is a close on-going competition on the phone market these days. Apart from Apple, the main players are Sony Ericsson, with its upcoming Xperia phone (touchscreen design with slide-open keyboard), Garmin, with its nuvifone, which is actually a GPS touchscreen device featured with a built-in phone and Research in Motion, with its highly anticipated 9000 BlackBerry.
Read more: eNews 2.0
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Nero InfoTool is a utility which analyses and displays the most important information about a drive, disc, configuration and software.
The information can also be printed or saved to a text file.
Download: Nero InfoTool 5.2.3.0
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Yahoo has launched a niche site aimed at women called Yahoo Shine that features a mix of original blog content, articles, and videos with the help of content partners such as Glamour and Good Housekeeping magazine. Yahoo says Shine won’t be anything like your mother’s Web site that may have featured lean meatloaf recipes and celebrity gossip.
Shine says it is not attempting to reach the usual women Web site demographic of a “32.5 year-old with 2.2 kids” most women Web sites pander to. Rather the Ladies of Shine proclaim women today “no longer need to stand by passively as the media portrays us as fashion-obsessed diet victims.”
Read more: pcworld.com
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others.
Platform: Windows, Linux and DOS
Download: FreeBASIC 0.18.4 Beta | Forums
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
MJ Registry Watcher is a simple system tray program that monitors for changes to any of the startup folders, startup registry keys, and any files you want alerting on.
If a trojan attempts to change your startup settings, you will be alerted, and you can prevent any changes being made. It is fully configurable as to what keys and files are monitored, so, if you have a vested interest in protecting your file association for the mailto protocol (your default emailer), so that your preferred app loads them, and something else is trying very hard to undermine this association (Outlook for example), this will popup, offering to stop a new association attempt, after Outlook had loaded, say. The key that stores this association is hkey_lmus\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command, and you could protect other associations by changing “mailto” to the desired type, for example, “jpegfile”.
It assumes write access and directory create rights for the path the .exe file sits in (ie. wherever you installed it). The default set of keys and files should ensure that nothing gets run at startup without you knowing about it, and important boot up files don’t get changed behind your back. When monitoring, keys are opened in Read-Only mode, and the application only needs Write Registry access when it has detected a change. It keeps a log of any suspect activity, and displays any such information for the current session in the bottom panel. A log file has this appended to it and can be viewed by pressing the Log button. The file keeps a complete history of alerts.
Download: MJ Registry Watcher 1.2.6.2
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Adobe is joining the Linux Foundation as part of an effort to show its commitment to Linux. Adobe is also now making its AIR platform available for Linux — as an Alpha. Finally there is also an update to the alpha version of Adobe Flex Builder 3 for Linux.
It sure sounds all fine and nice, but there is still is a major problem in my view. Adobe does not lead with Linux, it barely stays even with Linux. Adobe’s product releases for Linux (proof of which are the AIR and Flex alphas) typically follow those for other platforms.
In a quote on a press release issued by the Linux Foundation about Adobe’s decision to join the group, Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation praises Adobe’s move.
Full article: internetnews.com
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
music for nothin’ and your tracks for free
Clickster is the essential application for every lover of music. Clickster enables you to easily search for and download mp3 files from the Internet in a totally legal and safe environment. Because Clickster sources mp3’s which are hosted on web servers, you can expect download speeds which put P2P networks to shame. With currently over 30 million tracks available to download (and growing), we’re certain Clickster will be able to locate the music you really want to listen to and there are no dead/broken links.
Features
· Search and Download MP3’s from the Internet (NOT Peer-2-Peer)
· Rip Tacks from thousands of Internet Radio Stations
· Download Tracks from MySpace* Music
· Compile Playlists and embed them, with player, into own pages
· Download Tracks Directly onto iPod or MP3-Player
· Clickster can be run from a USB Data-Stick
Clickster contains No Spyware, Adware or Malware and is made available as Freeware.
Download: Clickster 1.62 Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping.
It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.
Download: Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder 2.0 Beta 5 | Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder 1.51
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
DVDBuilder was designed to convert your mpeg files to DVD. You can use this software to create DVD from your digital video recorder, Webcam, or downloaded file. DVDBuilder is a powerful, splendid and simple to use application for MPEG file to DVD video converting.
It comes complete with numerous customizable video/audio controls that can deliver the highest quality viewing and listening experience. As well, DVDBuilder offers feature-rich navigation controls, for a more interactive and tailored DVD experience. DVDBuilder is guaranteed to deliver the highest quality and personalized DVD Creating experience possible on the PC today!
DVDBuilder is Freeware
Download: DVDBuilder 3.0b13
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
With the release of Firefox 3 imminent, the rest of the Firefox team is cooking up some crazy ideas for Firefox 4
While Firefox 3 pushes the boundaries of a browser, delivering a cleaner graphical interface, numerous security upgrades, and a variety of new features, it still is far from the “perfect browser”. Of course no browser on the market could earn such a distinction, be it Opera’s “Kestrel” 9.5 browser, which is shaping up to be very nicely, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, which is sure to deliver top end performance, or Apple’s Safari v3.1 browser, which although plagued with bugs of late is still one of the fastest, most compatible, browsers around.
However, perfection is exactly what Mozilla wants for its Firefox 4 browser and it intends to get it through outside the box thinking. With the release of Firefox 3 imminent, Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, has started to talk Firefox 4. Beard is working on many features which, while their underlying components might start to pop up in Firefox 3, won’t truly see the light of day until Firefox 4.
Read more: dailytech.com
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Fsum Frontend is a free, portable and easy-to-use tool that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files and text strings. It supports drag-and-drop and you can handle multiple files at once. The checksum generated can be used to verify the integrity of the files.
It supports 96 algorithms: alder8, adler16, adler32, ap hash, bdkr, cksum, cksum mpeg2, crc8, crc16, crc16 ccitt, crc16 ibm, crc16 x25, crc16 xmodem, crc16 zmodem, crc24, crc32, crc32 bzip2, crc32 jamcrc, crc32 mpeg2, crc64, crc64 ecma, djb hash, dha256, edonley/emule, elf32, fletcher8, fletcher16, fletcher32, fnv0-32, fnv0-64, fnv1-32, fnv1-64, fnv1a-32, fnv1a-64, fork256, ghash3, ghash5, gost, has160, haval (128, 160, 192, 224, 256 bits) (3, 4, 5 passes), jhash, js hash, md2, md4, md5, panama, pjw32, ripemd128, ripemd160, ripemd256, ripemd320, rs hash, sdbm, sha0, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, size64, snefru2 (128, 256 bits) (4, 8 passes), sum8, sum16, sum24, sum32, sum64, sumbsd, sumsyv, tiger128, tiger160, tiger192, tiger2, tiger tree, tiger tree 2, whirlpool0, whirlpool1, whirlpool2, xor8, xum32.
It also supports SFV, MD5, SHA1/SHA2 files creation and verification.
Download: Fsum Frontend 1.5.4
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