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Facebook Timeline Movie Maker

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timeline-movie-makerEver wanted to create a movie about yourself, and star in it as well? Now you can, thanks to a new Facebook app called Timeline Movie Maker that takes content from your Facebook timeline and creates a movie highlighting the special moments of your life. Timeline Movie Maker was created with marketing agency Definition6, and it will only work for users who have upgraded to the timeline profile.

Simply go to the www.timelinemoviemaker.com and click "make your movie". Install the app like any other Facebook app and grant it permission to access nearly your entire Facebook content including your e-mail address, your profile info (activities, birthday, hometown, Likes, location, relationship status, religious views, political views, and work history), as well as your stories (events, photos, videos, and posts with location) -  after all, it’s going to make a movie about your life! If you are willing to allow the invasion, it will give you back a nice and nostalgic 1 minute-long clip about your life.

The movie looks exactly like the Timeline promo video on www.facebook.com/about/timeline but starring your profile instead. Timeline Movie Maker clearly works for only those users who share plenty of pictures and videos on Facebook. The app will need a ton of these to produce a watchable movie.

Once the movie is done creating, users can edit and replace images, videos, and check-ins that appear as well as select from various soundtrack options (original, nostalgic, cinematic, romantic, playful). The completed movies can be shared via Facebook. Disappointingly, there is no option to post the finished product to YouTube or download the movie.

The app is an obvious attempt by Facebook to build up hype around Timeline. Last week, the company announced that they will start pushing Timeline to all of its users, so you better start getting used to it.

More New Features Planned For Windows 8 Explorer

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windows8Microsoft has published a new blog post regarding changes that have been made to Windows 8 Explorer, this time, based on actual feedback received from blog commenters, newsgroup discussions, and reviews that have been written about Windows 8. Back in the summer, last year, Microsoft detailed the Explorer ribbon and explained how Windows 8 Explorer will handle file copy operations and resolve conflicts. In response to the mountain of feedback received on those particular features, Microsoft is incorporating new changes just in time for the first public beta of the operating system slated for release next month. Microsoft noted that nearly 2,200 reader comments were taken into consideration when deciding which features to include and which ones to axe.

Here are some of the changes to look forward to.

Identifying duplicate files during conflict resolution: Windows 8 already offers detailed conflict resolution dialog boxes when copying files. In the beta, they have added a new option by which users can filter out files that match on name, size and time. This way users don’t have to bother about files that are duplicates and tackle only those files that are different but with same filenames.

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Pause copy operation in between system sleep/hibernation: When a system sleeps or hibernates, the copy operation will automatically pause, and when the machine wakes, you can choose to resume the copy by clicking the depressed pause button.

Speedup network file transfer with wires: If you are copying a file over wireless and then plug in a network cable, Windows 8 will automatically detect the faster connection and take advantage of the increased throughput on the fly. For this, both machines should be running Windows 8 though.

Respect picture orientation EXIF data: Explorer on Windows 8 will respects EXIF orientation information for JPEG images. If your camera sets this value accurately, you will no longer have to rotate images.

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Pin favorite folders to Start Screen: Users will be now able to pin their favorite folders to Start from the Explorer ribbon.

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Ribbon is minimized by default: Microsoft acknowledges that a section of the users are opposed to the ribbon but believes that the negativity is evenly balanced out by a majority of people who are happy and more productive with the changes. In any case, Microsoft decided that the ribbon will be kept minimized by default.

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User setting roaming: Last but not least, Microsoft has added Explorer settings to the attributes that are roamed to your other Windows 8 PCs in the “Sync your settings” UI.

2 Free Services to Electronically Sign Documents On Any Device

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electronic-signature Every business owner, freelancer, office worker, parent, and almost everyone else has to sign legal documents at some point of time in their lives. Typically you receive papers which you need to sign in ink and send them back either by post or in person. This, being the digital age, you often receive these documents as email attachments. The sender expects you to have the documents printed, signed, scanned and emailed or faxed back to the person. The ability to receive and send documents through email is convenient, but having to print or scan them is not. Not only does it require access to these stupid devices, it prevents you from getting them signed when on the road.

The solution is digital signature. Here are two free services that lets you sign documents electronically while on the move.

SignNow

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SignNow is the easiest document signing service. Users simply visit the website through a browser either on their laptop or mobile device, select the document they want e-signed from their computer and use their mouse or smartphone touchscreen to sign the document with a digitized signature. As an alternative to signing with a mouse (which is difficult) or finger or stylus, users can also type in their signature in a handwriting font, or upload a previously scanned copy of their signature. The signature can be resized and dragged and placed anywhere on the document. The document can be a Word, PDF or image file – it doesn’t matter if it cannot be edited, as the signature is placed over the document as an overlay.

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Once the document is signed it can be downloaded straight back to the computer. The document is deleted from SignNow's system within 30 minutes of signature completion. Logged in users can save the document in their SignNow account for later use.

To verify each signature, SignNow uses certificates signed and encrypted using 256-bit AES that are attached to each unique usage of SignNow. Also attached is the unique IP address of the signer. The certificates are electronically issued by Symantec and are authorized by VeriSign. Signing with SignNow is as legally binding as a physical signature and such digital signatures are honored in the US, EU, China, India, Canada and most developed countries.

DocuSign

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DocuSign is another e-signing portal whose service is freely accessible for personal use. DocuSign is particularly useful when you are the one who is collecting signatures from several people rather than the one who is signing the document. You upload documents from your local hard drive or from online storage services such as Box, DropBox, Google Docs and Salesforce. DocuSign supports all main file formats including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat PDF and many others.

Next you add recipients, either from your address book or just by typing in the information. The document is not sent to the recipient as attachments. Instead, it stays secure in DocuSign and the signers are only sent a link to the document. The signers do not need a DocuSign account to sign.

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You can have the “envelope” sent out to all addressees at once or have it sent sequentially. Once the first recipient has signed it, DocuSign sends it along to the next person with the first recipient's signature. You can also add individual notes for each recipient, and configure reminder and expiration settings for the envelope. For an extra fee, you can use DocuSign's phone authentication system, which telephones the recipient's number and supplies a validation code.

It's possible to integrate DocuSign with Outlook, and dedicated apps for iPhone and Android devices exist that makes the process easier to accomplish.

Your online signature doesn’t have to be identical to your handwritten signature. When using DocuSign or SignNow, you may use copies of your handwritten signature or write on touchscreen. What it looks like does not matter, what matters is your step to create a signature which the application captures.

Visit both SignNow and DocuSign to see which which options work for you.

World’s Longest Running Lab Experiment: 85 Years On and Viewable on Webcam

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The pitch drop experiment began in 1927 when Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, set out to demonstrate to his students that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very high viscous fluids. He used tar pitch, a derivative of coal once used to waterproof boats, in an experiment to prove his point. At room temperature, pitch appears to be solid and can even shatter if hit with a hammer, but despite its look and feel, pitch can also flow at room temperature, albeit extremely slowly.

For his experiment, Parnell melted some pitch into a glass funnel with a sealed stem and allowed it to cool for three years. In 1930 he cut the sealed stem, hung the funnel over a beaker, and waited. It took eight year before the first drop fell into the beaker and another nine years before the second drop hit. Parnell didn’t live to see the third drop fall in 1954, as he passed away in September 1948. By then, the experiment was stored away in a cupboard of the physics department.

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The Pitch Drop Experiment with its current custodian, John Mainstone in a picture taken in 1990.

The pitch-drop experiment might have fallen into obscurity had it not been for John Mainstone, who joined the University of Queensland physics department in 1961. One day a colleague said, “I’ve got something weird in this cupboard here” and presented Mainstone with the funnel, beaker and pitch, all housed under a bell jar. Mainstone asked the department head to display it for the school’s science and engineering students, but he was told that nobody wanted to see it. Finally, around 1975, Mainstone persuaded the department to publicly display the experiment in a cabinet in the foyer of the department building.

Today the experiment is broadcast on a live webcam. The eighth and most recent drop fell on November 28, 2000, but it couldn’t be recorded as the camera malfunctioned when it fell. To this day, no one has actually witnessed the pitch drop fall, but you could try your luck.

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The Pitch Drop Experiment on webcam

The experiment was not originally carried out under any special controlled atmospheric conditions, meaning that the viscosity could vary throughout the year with fluctuations in temperature. However, sometime after the seventh drop fell in 1988, air conditioning was added to the location where the experiment resided. The temperature stability has lengthened the interval between each drop.

Mainstone says it’s impossible to predict when future drops will occur, especially because the lapses between will grow longer as gases in the pitch escape and the weight of the pitch in the funnel decreases. He expects, however, that the ninth drop won’t break off before 2013. The experiment is far from complete. Mainstone says that it has at least 100 years left if someone doesn’t throw it out.

In October 2005, John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, an America parody of the Nobel Prize, for the pitch drop experiment.

The experiment is also recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest continuously running laboratory experiment.

[via Cnet and Popsci]

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SyncWall: Wallpaper Changer With Synchronization and Image Effects

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SyncWall is an open source wallpaper changer program with special abilities such as synchronize wallpaper change between computers on a network, and add special effects like desaturation, Gaussian blur, sharpen, sepia color and more. Wallpapers can be changed automatically on schedule or on demand with global hotkeys, and the change can be pushed to other computers on the network so that they all change at the same time. Isn’t that cool?

You start by adding wallpapers to the program by importing folders or multiple files. Here you can preview the images, set wallpaper, auto rotate and delete wallpapers. Under the Preference section you set a global hotkey, set scheduling parameters like change interval and time of change.

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Under Display Parameters, you can configure wallpapers across multiple monitors, set resizing method like stretch and tile, and apply special effects. The Network tab allows you to synchronize your wallpaper by entering the Server IP address and Port. Each workstation must however share the same pool of files, as there is no FTP or Internet download to transfer the actual wallpaper image to the remote computer.

Because SyncWall is written with Qt, it runs on Windows as well as on Linux.

Giveaway: Auslogics File Recovery 3

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Auslogics File Recovery is an easy to use file recovery software for Windows that can recover any type of files irrespective of the file extension/type from any kind of storage media such as hard disk, SD card, USB drives, digital camera, iPod etc. The software also supports file recovery from major file systems: NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT.

Features:

  • Recovery Wizard: The Recovery Wizard guides you through the steps that helps streamline the process and minimize recovery time when working with deleted files. The Recovery Wizard allows you to select the drives you want to scan, specify the file types, when last modified, specify a date range or just recover a deleted file by name.
  • Advanced Filter to Sort Scan Results: You don’t need to go through hundreds of deleted files to find the file(s) you want to recover. An advanced built-in Filter will help you sort the deleted files quickly and easily. Filter by date, size, file type or a combination of these options.
  • Deep Scan for Tough Recoveries: The Deep Scan lets you dive deep into your file system to recover the deleted files you thought were lost for good.
  • Preview Files: The Preview option lets you preview photos, videos, documents and PDF files right from the program. Just browse through the list of deleted files you find and start recovering the deleted files you want back.

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Giveaway

We have 5 licenses for Auslogics File Recovery 3 for giveaway. The license allows you to install the program up to three PCs – perfect for use in homes with more than one computer. Each license in this giveaway is worth $50. Those who are interested in entering the sweepstake may leave their name and email ID in the form below. Winners will be selected by a random draw. The contest closes on 3 February, 2012.


6 Cool Things You Can Do By Double Clicking in Firefox

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The double-click mouse action was introduced by Apple Computers when they created the first Macintosh computer in 1984. The original Mac came with a single button mouse, but since not much could be done with one button, a second action was attached to the button by the way of double click. When Windows came out with support for two-button mouse, it became possible to make three unique actions with the device. Today, a typical mouse has three buttons with a clickable scroll wheel acting as the middle button, and some modern mice have even more buttons on the side.

On the web, the extra mouse buttons are a waste and your motor skills put to rest. Here it’s mostly single-click affairs, which keeps things less complicated even if that means underutilizing the full potential of the modern mouse. If the lack of double click on the web is keeping you awake at nights, here are six therapies to cure your double click addiction.

Double Click to Save Picture

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When I use Firefox or Chrome or IE, it always bugs me that I cannot save pictures by clicking on it while holding down the CTRL key like I do in Opera. The DoubleClick Save Picture add-on for Firefox fixes this by putting the unused double click action to good use. As the name says, just double click on pictures to open the ‘Save As…’ dialog box. It’s even possible to automatically save pictures to a pre-configured location without prompting.

Double Click to Open in New Tab

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The DblClicker add-on for Firefox also emulates the CTRL+click feature, but this time on hyperlinks. It opens links on webpages and links on your bookmarks and history to in new tab.

Double Click to Duplicate Tab

This function can be implemented using the DblClicker add-on mentioned above. Aside from opening links in new tab, this add-on can be configured to either duplicate or close tab when double clicked on the tab.

Double Click to Open Context Menu

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The DoubleClick ContextMenu add-on emulates another Opera feature, and that is to open the context menu when double clicked on any text on the page. This add-on will select the text you double click on and also open the context menu for you to choose an action, such as search or copy

Double Click to Close Tab

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Double Click Closes Tab is an add-on that does exactly as it says. Simply double click anywhere on the page to close it. No need to hunt for the micro ‘x’ button.

Double Click to Reload Tab

If instead of closing the page, you would like to refresh it try Reload Tab On Double-Click. Unlike the Double Click Closes Tab add-on, you will have to execute the double click on the tab and not on the page.

So there you are, plenty of double click actions. Did I miss anything?

5 Tips to Streamline Your Facebook Feed

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facebookIn recent months, Facebook has been revolutionizing how it formats information and connects it together, adding features like News Feed Sponsored Stories, friend lists and Subscriptions.

Facebook will inevitably continue to roll out new apps and features, and your News Feed will continue to grow more crowded. You probably already have a friend or two that posts anything and everything, which doesn't help an already crazy news feed you can't hope to keep up with. Here are a handful of easy ways to streamline your Facebook News Feed to increase efficiency and help you stay in touch with what matters to you.

Limit Posting to your Timeline

Not everyone has this problem, but if you belong to a particularly chatty group of friends or have connections with people that love posting stuff on your wall or timeline, it not only adds to your feed, but can mess up your profile page too.

Limit who can post directly to your timeline by adjusting your privacy settings. Click on the arrow in the upper-right of the Facebook bar and choose Privacy Settings. Click "Edit Settings" next to How You Connect. Choose "Only Me" from the drop-down menu for who can post on your timeline, and then click "Done."

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Cut App Noise

Apps are the biggest annoyance on the Facebook News Feed, hands down. There are a couple ways to control how they behave.

Visit your News Feed (Home link) and hover over a post in the feed until the little menu icon appears in the upper-right corner. Click the menu and choose "Hide all posts by..." This option will clear posts from this person, page or app forever until you change it.

Your App settings are another way to eradicate apps from touching your profile or feed. Click on the main Facebook menu and choose "Account Settings." Click "Apps" on the left side to view the list of apps connected to your account. In most cases, you've probably only connected to an app once to take a quiz or play a game, and no longer need it connected. Remove or change app permissions by clicking on the "Edit" link next to each app.

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You can do your part to help keep app spam off your friend's feeds by changing the setting under "Who can see posts and activity from this app..." to Only Me. Apps you would want to allow Friend or Public visibility might include connected social apps like Twitter.

Filter!

The more friends, pages and apps you accrue, the crazier your feed will get. Facebook Friend Lists help you create groups for segregating types of contacts into any category you desire. For example, you might create a list for close friends, work friends, social connections and business associates. Not only does this allow you to filter your feed, it provides a way to target specific people with specific content so your boss doesn't see your party pictures.

Create lists directly from the feed by clicking the "Lists" menu heading on the left. Click "Create List," give it a name, and add some friends.

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To view updates from this list only, click it under your Lists heading on the left of your News Feed. To change the kind of updates you want to see from this list, click the Manage List drop-down menu in the upper-right and click the updates to remove, such as "Games" and "Comments and Likes."

Unsubscribe

Sometimes filtering isn't enough. If you have a contact that goes crazy on Facebook on a regular basis or posts content you just don't care for, you can filter them or simply unsubscribe from their feed altogether. This is usually a better alternative to unfriending them.

If you're on your News Feed when it occurs to you that you don't want to see updates from someone anymore, you can hide their posts the same way you hide app updates. Hover over the post and click the menu icon in the upper-right. Choose "Hide Updates From..." to hide the updates. Note that this may not hide updates from 3rd party apps that you may be using to view your Facebook updates, so Unsubscribe is the safest bet.

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Visit the friend's Facebook profile and click the "Subscribed" button under the cover photo on the right side. Choose "Unsubscribe" from the list of options. You may also choose to simply filter this friend's specific update types you want to view.

Remove the Ticker

The News Ticker is a relatively new feature that adds a lot of unneeded clutter to the Facebook interface, listing recent status updates on the right side of your News Feed. Unfortunately there is no way to turn it off natively from the Facebook settings.Fortunately, there is a browser extension for that.

For Firefox Users

  1. Click on Tools > Add-ons
  2. Search for "Facebook Ticker Removal"
  3. Click "Install" to the right of the Facebook Ticker Removal add-on.
  4. Click "Restart Now."
  5. Visit Facebook and enjoy the new white-space.

For Chrome Users

  1. Visit the Chrome Web Store
  2. Search for "Facebook Ticker Remover."
  3. Add the "Facebook News Ticker Remover" to Chrome by clicking the Add button.
  4. Visit Facebook and enjoy the new white-space.

If you want even more control over your Facebook pages, check out this writeup for using Greasemonkey scripts to remove just about anything from your feeds or profile.

This is a guest article by Vail Joy who is a long-time writer, designer and copy editor with 15 years of experience in corporate business writing, music journalism and internet media design. When she is not hard at work designing something, she loves writing for Wix.com, the free website builder.

One Year Ago: Free US VPN, Earthquake Alerts, Movie Censorship and More

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A selection of articles published between January 22 and January 28 of previous years.

1 Year Ago

  • Hostizzle: Free OpenVPN based VPN service with 100 GB monthly bandwidth. Servers are based on the US. Paid accounts start at $4 per month and includes 1TB of data transfer.
  • Get Earthquake Alerts Over SMS, Email, RSS, Twitter: Tens of different ways to keep track of get notified of earthquakes around you or anywhere on earth. Notification can be received over SMS, Twitter, and Email. iPhone and Android apps are also available.
  • AllVideoDownloader: A free software that can download videos from more than 280 websites including popular names such as YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Megavideo, Reuters, National Geographic, BBC, Spiked humor, break, college humor, crackle, i-am-bored, liveleak, msnbc, veoh, videojugg
  • Movie Censorship: A fascinating website that provides amazingly detailed comparisons between different versions of movie releases – theatrical release, DVD release, Director’s Cut, Unrated edition and releases in different languages. You can learn what extra has been added into the director’s cut, and find out about scenes which has been deleted from the movie.
  • Historic Aerial Photographs: An alternative to Google Earth’s historical imagery providing a large database of aerial photography dating back to the 1930s.

2 Years Ago

3 Years Ago

  • FileMenu Tools allows you to customize the context menu of Windows Explorer, as well as add a handful of utilities to perform operations on files and folders.
  • TaggedFrog: A free software that allows you to tag any files on your disk with keywords and access them through the familiar tag cloud you see everywhere on the web.
  • 21 places to swap used books and DVDs: A large number of places where you can exchange, trade or swap books and DVDs you no longer need, for a fresh one.

4 Years Ago

History Viewer: All Browser and Windows History at One Place

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Windows keeps record of most activities users performs on their computer including which files were opened, which directories viewed, which documents accessed, what commands were ran, what was searched and so on. Browsers keep history of websites visited, cookies saved, and files download. All these records are kept at different places, and often there is no clear way to view them. History Viewer is a handy tool that lets you easily view the history of all that has been done on your computer on a single interface.

History Viewer lets you see Windows-specific traces, such as the recent documents, the search history and run history, the open/save history, the last visited history and, especially for Windows 7, history of connected USB drives and the ‘First Folder’ and typed paths histories.

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Additionally, History Viewer lets you view the entire web history of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The included histories are URL history, Cookies, form history and inputs, downloads, most visited sites etc.  You can also open and view the stored links directly from this program, just by double clicking on them.

If you want History Viewer can generate HTML based report of the information collected. These reports can be saved and accessed later for them to analysis.

History Viewer is free and compatible with all versions of Windows.

Winners of Business Cards Giveaway from Next Day Flyers

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Early this month we had organized a giveaway for business cards sponsored by Next Day Flyers. The winners of this giveaway are entitled to receive a set of 250 business cards printed in their name and shipped to any destination within the U.S. free of charge. We picked three names from among those who participated, and they are:

  1. Sricharan
  2. Pedro
  3. W. K. Prusaczyk

Congratulations to Sricharan, Pedro and W. K. Prusaczyk. You have been already contacted via the email address you supplied and Next Day Flyers is awaiting your answer. You have 30 days to claim your prize. If you fail to respond within the stipulated period, another name will be announced in your place. So please check you email inbox.

Keyword Based Notification for Important Email in Outlook

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Microsoft Outlook provides desktop alerts for new emails but there is no way to filter these notifications such as to highlight important emails or suppress less important ones. It’s either all or none. Important Mail Alert for Microsoft Outlook solves this problem by bringing rule based alerts to the email program. Using this free add-in you can configure Microsoft Outlook to immediately notify you when you receive emails that contain specific keywords or phrases or mails from persons you actually care about.

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Important Mail Alert blends perfectly into Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010’s interface. It sits quietly at the bottom of the inbox pane waiting for new emails to parse. The box is collapsible so there is no worries about wasting screen space. When you need to create a new rule or edit/delete existing ones, just expand the box and select an action. Adding rules is quick an simple: type the phrase you wish to be alerted for in the box and hit the Enter key. No jumping through hoops and no clicking multiple ‘Next’ buttons.

Important Mail Alert accepts only keyword based rules, but these keywords can occur anywhere in the email – it can be the sender’s name or email address, message subject or some text from the message body. Unfortunately, it won't find your alarm text in RSS feeds, tasks or meeting invitations.

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When the e-mail you are waiting for arrives, the add-in shows an Important Mail Alert box on the desktop on top of all applications you are working with. A history of all alerts received is available under the ‘Alerts’ tab on the add-in window.

Features:

  • Important Mail Alert is independent of your standard Outlook rules. Whatever your standard Outlook rules do to the message, wherever they move it, Important Mail Alert will fish it out.
  • It works in Outlook with Exchange Server.
  • If you got more than one Inbox, the add-in lets you select the accounts you want to scan.
  • You can open the message straight from the add-in pane.
  • Works on Microsoft Outlook 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit), Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003.

Grab the Free Beta of Adobe Lightroom 4

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Adobe released a free beta version of Lightroom 4 or Photoshop Lightroom 4, as it is officially known, early this month. This is the first beta of the image management software which is eventually going to replace the current Lightroom version 3, maybe later this year. Lightroom 4.0 drops support for Windows XP, but introduces several new features including a completely new book-creation module, expanded support for video, soft proofing capability, and geo-tagging of still and video images via a Google Maps-powered module. Image editing tools have also been significantly updated, with a new process version that includes a reworking of the Basic panel controls and new localized editing options.

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Brief list of new features and improvements in Adobe Lightroom 4 beta.

  • Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
  • Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips. You can now trim video clips and extract individual frames as JPEGs.
  • Image adjustments settings can now be applied to videos as well, which is perhaps one of the most best thing to have.
  • Easy video publishing lets you publish and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr.
  • There are also new local adjustment controls, which let users to edit specific regions of an image for items like white balance or noise reduction.
  • White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
  • Better highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
  • A soft-proofing feature allows you to preview an image as it will appear when printed on a particular printer/press and paper
  • Adobe has teamed up with self-publishing service Blurb by which you can build books using the print service's templates and send them off for printing directly from within the application. You can also output PDFs for other print services.
  • Email pictures directly from Lightroom using your preferred email program.

You can download the beta from labs.adobe.com and use it until the product expires on March 31, 2012.

[via DPreview]

Comodo Mobile Security For Android is More Than an Anti-Virus

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Security software publisher Comodo recently released their first anti-virus application for Android, Comodo Mobile Security, that provides real-time protection from viruses, unsafe applications, spam messages and more. Comodo Mobile Security offers more than malware protection - in addition to core antivirus protection, Comodo Mobile Security includes SMS and Call Blocking, Software and Process Manager, and Private Space with Apps locking.

Comodo Mobile Security features an ‘always on’ anti-virus module and an on-demand scanner that help keep your device clear of viruses and unsafe apps. One touch scans and scheduled scans are provided as well as a system “Health Check” feature that quickly identifies viruses, unsafe apps and potentially risky settings. A simple task scheduler lets you automate the process of running antivirus scans as well as toggling flight mode setting.

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The Process Manager gives the user control over running processes. You can see how many are running, how much memory each uses and can quickly close down the ones you don’t want. Likewise, the Software Manager lets you view installed apps and uninstalled selected apps with one touch.

If you are using a dedicated SMS and call filtering app, you can uninstall it as Comodo Mobile Security comes with one. You can filter calls and messages by configuring black and white contact lists. Alternatively, block text messages that contain certain keywords.

The Private Space is where you store contacts, phone numbers and text messages that you don’t want others to see or access. The Private Space is password locked and only you will be able to view those communications. In addition to contacts and messages, App Protector enables you to lock your apps from being accessed by unauthorized users.

Comodo Mobile Security is an all-round good product, and light on system resources.

Download: Market link.

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Firefox to Get Reset Feature for Easy Profile Repair

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ResetButton1Mozilla is planning to add a reset feature to Firefox that will enable users to repair their Firefox install or revert to a default state, while also retaining bookmarks, history and other data. The proposed feature will allow users to solve problems such as startup crashes and corrupted user profile without resorting to drastic measures like complete reinstall.

The Reset Firefox feature will provide a way for users to automatically fix Firefox by creating a new profile and migrating their data including bookmarks, history, passwords, and so on to the new one. There are a number of serious Firefox issues - not starting, crashing, unexpected behavior, lost toolbars and more - that can be solved by creating a new profile. The problem is, creating a new profile is not enough. A user will almost always want to also migrate their data to the new profile which is an incredibly strenuous task. As such, many users end up preforming a clean reinstall and lose all their profile data in the process.

The goal of the Reset feature is to take a difficult and confusing repair process that most people never discover and turn it into an easy and discoverable operation that can be done by most users without guidance.

Mozilla plans to provide three ways by which the Reset Firefox feature can be accessed:

  1. During installation the user will tell the installer that this is a repair attempt. That information will then be passed on to Firefox which will start the Reset Firefox process.
  2. A third consecutive startup crash will trigger Firefox to offer to start in safe mode or to reset Firefox.
  3. A user can start this process by clicking a "Reset Firefox" button on the Troubleshooting Information page.

The Reset Firefox feature is still under development and no clear Firefox version target has been set, so it may be a while before you see it.

Below are some mockups showing how the Reset Firefox feature might look when implemented.

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