Monday, August 31, 2009

Songbeat - MP3 search and download the application

Songbeat, MP3 search and download the application, click, uh, questionable legal standing, returned as an application on Adobe AIR platform. As before, it's like an old school MP3 Napster to launch a strike with little warning.


The application itself works the same as its previous incarnation. Search by artist or song name, double-click a title to read like an animal, or drag the shortcut library for download. You can also Discovery of an artist to check and see the artists and their discography related, and check if they are on tour in your area in the short term.


The only change is that Songbeat looking for an artist or a title that now it costs one credit, and the installation of Songbeat that start with 50 credits. In fact, downloading or streaming of a track does not cost credits, curiously, but the investigation Songbeat own servers (Update: As a result, it appears, scroll down for more results of the investigation). You still can win 1000 credits for $ 15 through Paypal, if you dig Songbeat service, which undoubtedly will be very long. However, 50 searches and unlimited downloads must be those who have lost their tools for the DIY business model of the music industry.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

FORCES

FORCES (also known as BattleForce) is a free online game turn-based strategy that is played in the browser in solo mode or online multiplayer. It takes a number of risks and concepts of strategy war games and other partners in a game that is surprisingly playable and addictive.

My strategy for this review is: I'll start with how this game is similar to the risk, as I think many readers are familiar with this game, then spin the concepts that new employees are completely different risks, and finally I to continue to shed light on some of the dynamic game in detail.

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Five tips to help you speed up disk defragment

Are you boring that the slower the more you use computers? Are you boring the Windows Disk Defragmenter is cumbersome and inefficient? These five tips that can help us to accelerate the speed of disk defragment.

Close the application

As a result of the operation of certain programs may need to repeatedly read the data in the hard disk, normally it will affect the defragmenter work. If the system is instability, it will even lead to the blue screen of death. Therefore, in order to speed up the speed of disk defragment, the best way is to close all running programs.

Modify the registry to automatically shut down the screen saver

Before disk defragmenter work, we must first turn off screen saver, or disk defragmenter will start again, but if every time manually close the application, may be more trouble. Here tell everyone a small trick, that is, by modifying the registry to automatically close the screen saver. Specific steps are as follows:

First, use the "regedit" command to open the registry, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets", then find whether there is the "Defrag" key under this path, if there is no then create a new key. In the "Defrag" and then create a new key called "Settings" the main key, and then in this new one of a primary key named "DisableScreenSaver" primary key, and finally change the default string value to "YES". After each run the disk defragmenter, the screen saver will be automatically closed, run automatically after finishing of the defragmentation.

To change the temporary folder location

IE will generate a large number of temporary files in the directory of Temporary Internet Files, hard drives will also read and write frequently, resulting in a large number of fragments, thus slow down the speed of access. In order to avoid this, we can assign the same temporary directory to other partition.

Methods are: First, create a new directory in the other partition to storage the temporary files. Second, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options. In the opened dialog box, click the "Settings" button, and then click "Move folder" button, select the directory created before.

Retain sufficient disk space

We will find when using computer, if the remaining space of hard disk is too small, the speed of running an application will be very slow, disk defragmenter is also difficult. Therefore, for the small disk partition, it is best to keep more than 15% of available space; for the large disk partition, it is best to keep more than 5% of the available space; for the boot partition, at least more than 200MB space.

In addition, when using computer, we should release the waste of disk space, such as frequent emptying the recycle bin, delete internet history, as well as delete the files of temporary folder.

Adjust the parameters or the use of professional software

If the size of hard disk partition or volume is very small, it will defragment a long time, but for a number of full data for large hard drives and partitions, you need to wait a long time. Therefore, for the large hard disk or partition, you can take the following two methods:

First of all, turn off the optimization parameters of the system disk defragmenter, so that defragmenter can accelerate the speed, but this approach effect may not be very obvious.

Another approach is to use a professional tool to defragment the hard disk or partition, for example, Smashing Defrag can defragment disk with a very high speed. If we use Smashing Defrag every day, the disk will be optimized in a little minutes, the system will be able to maintain the best condition. The suggestion is that you can use the windows task schedule to keep the defragmenter run automatically at least once a week.

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Why Do I Need to Defrag My Hard Drive

A number of people don't understand the meaning of defragmenting the hard drive, which leads to the fact that they don't bother to perform it. And their computers become slower and slower because they don't do it. They panic until their computer freeze up and die. A routine defragmentation of the computer is of vital importance to the high performance which is what most of people require.

Before we get to experience the defrag program, why not get to know how it works first?

Your file in the hard disk is saved in what we called "clusters". Every cluster has a fixed size of 512 bytes. When a file is to be saved in the hard disk, it takes up as many clusters as it needs. For example, if the file is 20 bytes, it would need one cluster that is 512 bytes. And if you have a file that is 520 bytes, it will takes up one cluster and another 8 bytes from another cluster. Then the other 504 bytes is left unused.

The file can also be chopped up into different chunks in the hard drive. And the cluster are nor always next to each other. Over time, the split files are scattered all over the hard disk. That is called fragmented files. The computer needs more time to find and load those fragmented files when there are too many in existence.

There is also another way to explain this course.

The hard disk in your computer is like your CD shelf. When you fist bought it, you place all your CDs on the shelf according to the artists' names, years of publication or styles. Sometime you may take out one CD and play it. It is easy to find the particular one you want because you have already arranged them in a special way you know well. However, you only have one shelf and there may be some shift between the CDs. You may need new ones and throw out old unused ones. Now you have free space for new ones but there are dotted all over the shelf. Therefore, the CDs are no longer placed in its original way. Maybe you will find one CD in another case.

Over time, it is complicated for you figure out which one is in which place. Then you need to clean this shelf and place them in the proper way. That is what happens to your computer.

Defragmentation is like the cleaning work in your computer. It might not simple create more space on your hard disk, but it makes those fragmented files into a complete one. Imagine that if one file is split into to pieces and placed in two different locations, it will take your computer twice much time as it needs to find them. No wonder how long will it take to find a larger file that have more fragments. Defragmenting process is helping you and your computer to save both the time and energy for other works.

Think about give your hard working computer an opportunity to experience fresh and quick working condition! Then you will find the whole course worth it.

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Balihoo - help manufacturers to market effectively to regional level

Balihoo, a service that aims to help manufacturers to market effectively to regional level, has completed a financing round of $ 7 million led by OpenView Venture Partners with existing investors Highway 12 companies and Lacuna capital deficit is also involved . Balihoo The new round brings total funding to over $ 12.5 million since its inception in 2006.

Balihoo is a service that enables manufacturers to automate the efforts of local marketing - campaigns that have been operated by franchisees and affiliates. This installation can lead to a lack of consistency in brand image between different regions and cost overruns for the regional franchises actually have to repeat the same ads.

To help streamline these efforts, Balihoo offers a manufacturer announces that can generate advertising on various media types and tools for carrying out ads and planning, among other things. National brands can manage these efforts, access to its local subsidiaries to keep in the loop. Balihoo said it can help reduce marketing costs and improve overall brand recognition to increase uniformity.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Google Docs - support share in different languages

Google Docs is a useful application for sharing documents, but not yet allowed to share in different languages. Today, Google launched a feature of Google Docs automatically translate documents into 42 different languages.

In the tools menu of Google Docs, you can now click on "Translate the document" and select the language to translate it. This feature utilizes Google Translate technology. You can replace the original with the translation or save the new version is translated as another document.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Snow Leopard adds anti-virus applications

Mac are not affected by the most famous and virus outbreaks, even if Apple has recommended the implementation of anti-virus applications. Apple is taking things into their own hands malware by scanning to automatically install packages things wrong.

The location was the first blog Intego, and while Apple has not confirmed the automated malware analysis, it seems more pleasing design. No word yet on what the virus database or back-end Apple uses to verify that the installation images, or how the system scans

Are you happy to see Apple take the security system a bit more seriously, or if preferred users have the freedom to choose their own protection and the protocols?

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke

The biggest concern when you dispose of your old computer is secure and private important data falling into the wrong hands. Simply deleting files and emptying the trash is not enough. Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a popular free software overwrites every sector of your hard drive, making data unrecoverable. It is very safe and discourage people from the hard disk using the forensic analysis to recover the data. Burn the ISO image to disk and boot from it to get the main menu. From there you can choose how you want to erase the disk.   

By using advanced methods take a considerable amount of time and if you have some secret government or the secret recipe for KFC in the disk, you can choose a faster method. You can get a list of other methods to the main menu by pressing F3. The quick method to overwrite all sectors with 0 in one pass and it might be the easiest way for home users. However, some of them with the right equipment could retrieve the data from this method and is considered the least secure.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Zoho Notebook

No one stop to adjust and improve the built Zoho Notebook recently introduced universal search, import and export HTML, and tools to move your notes around laptops and between pages.

Research is the big thing here again, because without a reliable research tool, notebooks lose their ability to help you remember things quickly, once had a bit of inspiration to write. Zoho search bar on the right holds notes of notebooks in particular or all of them, and the results by clicking in this paper opens a new tab, you can try a few places to find what you want.

The import and export tools can take notes from Web sources that support HTML. Are you a fan of Zoho, or user of laptops in particular? Tell us how you use it, and what remains to add comments.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

KissTunes - the simple computer-as-musical-keyboard model

Probably not start any concert concert KissTunes worth using, but you can have a little fun with the computer model as a simple musical keyboard used to generate user-created songs.

Rank KissTunes turns and some side buttons above the line at home, on a keyboard as a tool for composing simple melodies. You can edit your work, share, and even save the music you create for your team. Watch the video below, which covers almost everything you can do with KissTunes

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Auslogics System Task Manager - track every process on your system

Free Portable Auslogics System Task Manager allows you to troubleshoot a PC to control processor, disk, memory and internet usage by all processes on your system.

Auslogics Task Manager is very similar to all other applications in the Task Manager that we discussed above, including Process Explorer, perhaps the best of the bunch. Auslogics shines where Task Manager, however, is that it is extremely simple and easy to find what are the processes using the hard drive or network connection, you can even select a process and see to what extent a given process is hitting the disk. Like many other public services, you can also find a stranger to know what it is, or can see a list of open files to see what is a lock file.

Auslogics Task Manager is available as a free download for Windows only. Readers should note that traffic in the configuration of the terrible Ask toolbar installed on your computer, if you want to take the portable version without crapware.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Explore&Burn - Free Burn Tool

Free Explore&Burn implementation adds an entry to the right click context menu that allows you to quickly burn the files and folders to a CD or DVD.

This right-click the utility is dead simple: Click on a file, folder or disk image (eg ISO, IMG), choose Burn Disc from the shortcut menu, and go through the wizard recording very quickly. The application is compatible with most types of fuel in the media (including double layer discs) and pass the size that comes with a lot of recording software, opting for an interface completely reduced and footprint.

Explore&Burn is free, Windows only. Explore&Burn is here: http://exploreburn.com/Home.aspx
 

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

How to Close Windows 7 System Restore Function

If you need a way to save space on the hard disk is a trick to reduce the size or completely disable the System Restore feature. We want to share all the options on how to take control of your operating system, even for readers who live on the edge of this advice is for you.

Note: Please note Windows 7 has just been published and there may be errors, accidents, etc ... and you will not be able to restore the system in case of disaster!

Disable System Restore

Now, with everything you say ... Open the Control Panel, go to the list of all items, then click System. In the next window, click System Protection.     

The system opens the Properties dialog box, choose where you want your system disk, then click the Configure button.    

Under the Restoration settings select "Disable system protection" and click Apply.    

You will receive a warning from the confirmation screen that you want to verify the closure ... so it's not too late to change his mind. Click Yes to save space, as if still living on the edge.   

Adjust the System Restore

With the large capacity hard drives in computers today, it's really no reason to completely disable the system restore, but you might consider limiting the amount of space required on disk as necessary . By limiting the amount of space used for the oldest restore points will be deleted. Fewer restore points as well. 
After reducing the amount of space it uses, you can create a restore point immediately.
 

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

OpenDNS - content filtering

OpenDNS is a perfect solution for people who either do not have the time or knowledge to create and manage a server completely out of content filtering. OpenDNS replaces your DNS server and allows you to filter the output of each connection of your home if you change the DNS settings on the router level. Whether someone is on your desktop or a wireless connection through a laptop, everything is filtered by OpenDNS. You can create custom filters to the whitelist and blacklist specific sites and to customize the range of filters that you provide. If you plan to use OpenDNS as a filter for your home, consult our previous article on the subject.

OpenDNS is here: http://www.opendns.com/

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

PDF-XChange - A PDF Viewer and PDE Editing Software

PDF-XChange is an alternative to Adobe, it currently has the snappy subtree load time and functionality beyond the basic core functionality of Adobe Reader. With PDF-XChange are open and searching PDF documents, make annotations simple page with text and drawings, and type out a preset boxes using the PDF-XChange machine tool to position text where you want. Advanced features such as the reorganization of the extraction of text and pages are available only with Pro update. PDF-Xchange is available as a portable application.

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Friday, August 14, 2009

How to furnish your eyes

What are you thinking when you read the topic? You may be laughing a lot. But I will tell you that the eyes can be furnished by something—the glasses. The glasses are the best furniture to your eyes. If you are able to use them in the correct way, they will make you charming and attractive.

So, let’s go to see how to furnish the eyes now!

There are two steps for choosing. First step is to choose your favorite frame, and the second step is to find appropriate lens. Both of them are important!

In general, we choose the frame by our faces. If you have a round face, you should the rules as follow. Because round face is characterized by round cheeks and chin, wide forehead, you should wear the glasses with wide and quadrilateral frame. The kind of glasses will make your face longer and beautiful. Don’t worry about it when your face is long with high-brow and long jaw. If you can get a kind of suitable .you can change it. The glasses with broad brim and large frame could cover the most part of your face. I advise you to have a try. Then it’s the oval face. The wide flat forehead and the sharp point's chin form a triangle shape, the jaw bone has been nearly impartial with the eyes. The lower part line is smooth, so you’d better wear the eyeglasses which may forms “the longitudinal line” on the face. Many people want to know how to make a choice if they have square faces. This kind of facial features' characteristic is the wide forehead, distinct face edges and corners, high jaw bone area. Generally speaking, the facial form is upright and square. Wearing the eyeglasses with ellipse and circular picture frame will make your face appear gentle somewhat. There are many kinds of glasses that you could choose, and you also could get more information.

After choosing the frame, Let’s choose the lens now. There are different kinds of lenses .How to make a choice? You need to know some knowledge about lens. The material for lens can be divided into three kinds as follow:

The first is natural material. Its principal constituent is the silicon dioxide. Normally, there are two kinds: the achromatic color and the dark brown. The advantage is that it is hard as well as not easy to wear and tear. But it has the unique transparency to the ultraviolet ray, so it is easy to cause our eyes tired. In addition, the price is expensive.

The second is glass .The principal constituent of it is the silicon dioxide, too. The visible light transmissibility reaches 80%-91.6%, and the refractive index is 1.512-1.513. When light through the glass, the thicker the surface is, the weaker the light’s intensity is. Because the chemical composition in the glass is non-uniform, it will affect the quality of lens.

The third is resin. Its proportion is 1.32, 1/2 of the glass. The most important nature is light. When something attacks it, it can’t be broken easily. I believe that the nature could make you feel safe. When you wear it, you will feel comfortable. It can be used in different frames, including half frame or the non-frame.

So you should choose the appropriate material when you want your eyes healthier. After reading all above, if you still have some questions, you may go to ask “Glassesshop.com” for help. There are different materials , you always can find your favorite kind.

Until now, I think that you have known how to furnish your eyes. I hope that all the information above will help you to be more charming successfully.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

How to make a photo book

Nowadays to buy a digital camera is no longer a dream, for electronic products as such are springing up like mushrooms each day. I bet that everyone must have a large collection of photos, perhaps they were taken just yesterday or long before. With their respective meaning and specific image on everyone's face, these photos record the life accompanying us, including our happiness and sorrows. Time is passing and we're growing up, or old. This is what life means to all of us. In this sense, to treasure the process rather than the end to meet of life is a wise suggestion to me, and I am sure, to everyone.

Now I am still single, I cherish my time growing up with my parents. In the near future, I will get married and have a family. It is the invaluable affection to our family members that we should think of most. The stories which happened in our childhood, puberty, youth constitute a considerable fortune for us to appreciate. I love my parents, for their selfless care and love. I'd like to keep the happy time in mind forever.

Yesterday I made a photo book with the old pictures with my family. In the end l printed them and hung the large picture on the wall of my bedroom. Every visitor to my house wondered how I could design such wonderful pictures. They had thought I should have paid for this, but in fact I made it with the help of the software "Picture Collage Maker". To tell you the truth, everyone even green hands of computer can follow me and make such wonderful pictures of yourselves.

Trust me, and now just read my instruction. Ok, let's get down to business.

Step 1 Add your photos to the Project

In the Photo Pane on the left, find the folder where the photos you want to add are located and the photos will be shown in thumbnails list below, then just drag each photo in thumbnails list to your collage or double click it. Btw, you can adjust the photos by resizing and rotating them.

Step 2 Adding Text & Clipart to project

l On the Collage menu, click Add Text to add text your collage. To get the best effect, you can set the font and color of the words to be added as you wish.
l Open Clipart Pane .You can see the list of Cliparts in the left part of Picture Collage Maker window. Double click a clipart to add it to the current project. There is an assortment of images for you to make choices.

l PS: In this step, you can also adjust the text and clipart by resizing and rotating with the dragging of the mouse cursor.

Step 3 Apply background patterns to collage

Open Background Pane and Double click a background to apply it to the current collage.

Step4:Add New Page

On the very right part, you can see a Page Pane, now please click "add page", a new blank page will be created. Want to edit it? Yes, we can just go ahead to edit the page just by clicking the new page.

In this way, we can create pictures on and on as we wish.

Step5:Save Project as JPEG file or print

On the File menu, click Save Collage as Picture and specify a folder on your hard disc to save current collage project as a image file. Or you can choose Print Preview on the File menu, and print the photo book you've just made.

See my lovely photo book as follows?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Fortunately chain

Yesterday, when the yield was criticized, it is a high yield. But why not? Anyway, just busy these days to pass the time boring, what is to pass the time on this bad.

Of course, the old can not kill time at home, as if the writer did not contact the outside world not as good works. Hanhan since I read the "triple door" on 8, like the name of the guy. 8, now he does not write-off, the car has! Good thing, young people by young stem, the more he likes doing more, taking into account such as a comfortable old sofa and a pile of manuscript paper is not better. I look forward to a time when the old can see the new works of the old Han Han.

Do not know when had a bad habit, custom pieces of jewelry have a good fortune as their own material. Tu, sounds a bit superstitious, 8 over 8 is a psychological hint it wrong! School psychology students, is not it? ! Playing volleyball in the first term when the original bracelet broke a string, then a casual manner, I knew to be bad luck, and later, which turns out to be my last semester there were the most the first big thing. This blind faith in what, alas!

The afternoon of the mortar, then in the range of hope, many, mess, and most are suitable for little girl's jewelry in a phase I belong to, but ah, no!

So the second best, I like the silicone bracelet Armstrong, this year looks like is also very popular. In fact, as if in a foreign country is involved in a charitable gift, Armstrong France's historic figures, unfortunately, suffer from bladder cancer (like this) so we have a charitable fund, so this seems very popular with the variety of silicone bracelet. 8 If I had a yellow pick, pick, after all, they also mean that Armstrong yellow flag shirt collar, he looks more in line with the original intention. Unfortunately, the result only, or not! I would!

Commercial Street found a bike chain fell to the, TMD, I engage in the dirty hands of the West, behind the heart-mortar stores have not been! Is this year's lucky bicycle chain is a chain! Ah! ! ! ! !

Five Best Video Players

Make use of current high-quality video with one of the five most popular video players.

Media Player Classic (Windows, Free and Open source)

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.

This video is based on the original "Media Player Classic" and was created after Gabest, the original author, stopped working on it. Several new features have been integrated in this player, such as:

  • One option to eliminate tearing
  • MPC Home Cinema in your language (see all languages)
  • Additional video and, in particular, set-top H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support
  • Better support for Windows Vista, including a 64-bit version for the platform
  • Support for EVR renderer
  • Corrects errors and vulnerabilities
  • Characteristics of the prevous all project Guliverkli (MPC) from Gabest.
MPlayer (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

MPlayer is a movie player that runs on many systems (see documentation). It plays most MPEG / VOB, AVI, OGG / OGM, VIVO, ASF / WMA / WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, with supported by many native XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

GOM Player (Windows, Free)

GOM Player is a video/audio player with additional multimedia functions. This is a player of the new generation, which allows you to quickly and conveniently use the advantages of digital technologies.

VLC (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

VLC media player is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as server to transmit unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high bandwidth network.

No need any external codec or program to work.

KMPlayer (Windows, Free)

KMPlayer is an excellent video and audio player that can play a lot of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. Handles subtitles and allows you to capture screenshots.

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