Archive for: August 13, 2007

I stumbled across another Web 2.0 social bookmarking scene today and thought I would talk about it a bit. EarthFrisk (EF) is the latest of Web 2.0 social sites that caters to both visitors and webmasters alike. EF is sort of a MySpace social networking site with a twist of Digg.

As a registered user of EF you are able to submit your favorite blog posts or any post you come across while searching the web. You are also provided your own “personal” page where you can blog about anything that crosses your mind. This, in my opinion, is a great way to build relationships while you are spreading your knowledge and expertise about your chosen niche.

Some of the best features of EF include:

A Full Social Networking Side that anyone can create blogs, groups, share photos and more. A Voting side where members can promote their blogs, news items and articles - allowing others to vote and comment on them. An Ef it Button (originally derived from a curse term) where your site visitors can jump to the most popular sites submitted by others, all the while not leaving your site! A full article directory enabling anyone to upload thier articles. A Section called ‘Create a Page’ where anyone can create whole pages to promote their blogs, sites or whatever else they feel like sharing. A full Blinkx Video Wall where anyone can search for videos from across all platforms and companies such as Myspace, YouTube and Daily Motion Video. Results displayed on a huge ‘Matrix Like’ Video Wall. (source PRWeb)

EarthFrisk, I’m sure will grow to be a solid contender in the battle of Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites. With all the options available through their site and the continued explosion in popularity of Web 2.0 social ...

Because of a systemic campaign of de-emphasisby the Man (who is right-handed, of course) today, August 13, Left-Handers' Day, has only a few hours left in it.

I don't know about you, but I can still remember the years and years and years of suffering through classrooms with right-handed desks, trying to cut with right-handed scissors (I finally learned how to cut right-handed) and, of course, right-handed golf clubs. Even place settings favor the righty. I can take some small comfort in the fact that hitting lefty is an advantage in baseball, although, as a stereotypical pitcher, I stunk.

However, we lefties have one key advantage in the tech world. Do you know what it is?

Yep, that's left: the number pad. No lame WASD keying for video games here! Place the mouse in your left hand, move, jump and strafe with your right, and wreak sinister destruction on your foes.

Need inspiration? Check out this list of famous lefties. Hint: President Clinton is a lefty. Pres. George W. Bush is not.

So sit back, crack open a beverage (see the image for a suggestion) and fight to get the lefts of lefties back for good!

Zoom Player Professional is a robust Media and DVD Front End Player
Zoom Player is a robust Media and DVD Front End Player designed to be simple at first glance while being remarkably flexible and dynamic when used to its full potential Zoom Player works in two modes
A Media mode which can play any file supported by DirectShow any file which plays in MediaPlayer and a DVD mode which uses pre installed DirectShow DVD filters to play DVD content It supersedes media player in all it s functions and provides several important functions that media player lacks Zoom Player provides special zooming functions to improve TV Output quality by eliminating overscan
You will notice that there are two versions of Zoom Player Professional and Standard The difference is simple the Standard version is free for non commercial use and is limited to file playback The Professional is a trial version with DVD Front End Capabilities and requires registration
The professional trial version is fully functional and allows you to test every feature prior to registration
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WHAT 39 S NEW IN VERSION 5 5 Beta 1
Zoom Player can now communicate with uTorrent 39 s Web UI interface in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces This feature is accessible under quot Adv Options Interface On Screen Display Fullscreen Navigation File Tracker quot Press the quot quot button on this page for additional information
Zoom Player can now keep track with eMule 39 s temporary files directory in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces This feature is accessible under quot Adv Options Interface On Screen Display Fullscreen Navigation File Tracker quot Press ...

IE7pro is an add on for IE 7 which adds lots of features and extras to make your IE easier more useful secure and customizable You can use IE7pro as Tab Management AD Blocker Flash Block Super Drag Drop Crash Recovery Proxy Switcher Mouse Gesture Tab History Browser Web Accelerator User Agent Switcher Webpage Capturer Greasemonkey for IE and etc Using IE7pro you can Close Open tab by double left click build your own greasemonkey script switch proxy switch user agent block ads and flash recover browser crash apply super drag drop auto scroll page manage tab history refresh tab automatically open new tab from address bar and favorites view page information and save whole page to images quickly and so on
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Change log IE7Pro 1 0 10
EasyHome added
Hotkey full customizable now
Single IE instance support
Tab session restore function added
Can use hotkey to dupliate tabs
DEP problem solved
Fix autofill in iframe bugs
Inline search improved
Spell checking improved
Plugin system improved
IE6 Quick Search Added
Update automatic notfiy now

The Toolbar Uninstaller is a freeware program to get rid of unwanted toolbars that are installed in Internet Explorer and Firefox Many programs come bundled with a toolbar that gets installed automatically if you don 39 t pay attention during the installation Even freeware programs come bundled with toolbars As time progresses there are now more then 10 000 different toolbars and counting Toolbar Uninstaller TbU for short will be able to find some of them to be able to remove them At the time of writing it is only able to detect a handfull of toolbars for both Firefox and Internet Explorer about 30 and is still in a beta stage
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What 39 s new
Added a wait screen for the long progresses could flash an extra screen
Added opprofile for easy detection of the opera profile
Added the icons for Netscape and Opera for future toolbars
Removed the text quot For Internet Explorer quot and quot For Firefox quot for almost every toolbar toolbars that have a toolbar for more then 1 different browser still have this
Removed the update button and replaced it with an options button
Added the ability to create a log file
Added the ability to create a detailed logfile
Added the ability to clear the logfile at the start of the program
Added the ability to check automatically on updates on program start
added the ability to remove the warnings you get before removing toolbars

Google just added StarOffice, a free full-feature Office Suite, to its Google Pack collection of applications. Sun developed StarOffice from the same source code the company released in 2000 that became the foundation of OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 8 contains a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, applications for presentations, databases, math formulas and drawing.

It supports most Microsoft Office documents except the formats introduced in Office 2007 and it can also export documents as PDF out of the box. Normally this would cost you $70 bucks, but you get all this for free in Google Pack. The installer is over 140 MBs so you'll want to download StarOffice from a fast broadband connection. StarOffice is currently integrated with Google Search and Google Desktop. As GoogleSystem points out, the next step will probably be synchronizing local documents with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, so you can edit documents offline, then collaborate and store files securely online.

Via: GoogleSystem

Post by Errol Pierre-Louis

The new BitTorrent 6 0 Beta brings together BitTorrent 39 s proven expertise in networking protocols with micro Torrent 39 s efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client
The new BitTorrent 6 0 Beta client features
Lightweight client
Local peer discovery
Multiple simultaneous downloads
Configurable bandwidth scheduler
Global and per torrent speed limiting
Quick resumes for interrupted transfers
RSS Downloader
Trackerless support Mainline DHT

DVDFab Express is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start Your entire movie including menus trailers and special features is copied to a single DVD with just one click and everything happens automatically

DVDFab HD Decrypter comes with same functionality as DVDFab Decrypter but with full HD DVD and Blu Ray support Removes AACS

DVDFab Platinum is all you need to backup DVDs DVDFab Platinum 3 is brand new is completely rewritten is based on 5 years of DVD copy software development
DVDFab is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start Your entire movie including menus trailers and special features is copied to a single DVD with just one click and everything happens automatically
Backup your entire DVD including menus trailers and special features onto one or multiple discs

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AnyDVD is a driver which descrambles DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies You can remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like
AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc or prevent 39 PC friendly 39 software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs
Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays

Features of AnyDVD
Works automatically in the background
Removes encryption CSS and region code RPC from DVDs
Removes analogue copy protection Macrovision
Removes features such as forced subtitles and warnings
Decrypts without the need to save the data onto your hard disk
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Prevents automatic launching of 39 PC friendly 39 software on video DVDs
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elby CloneDVD 2 copies movies in unparalleled picture quality If it 39 s only the main movie or a complete DVD ndash CloneDVD compresses even long footage in brilliant quality and at high speed A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD titles according to your audio and language selection automatically to a freely adjustable target size Our unique Film Strip assistant will guide you step by step through all settings With the help of the Video Preview you select the desired DVD titles and decide if you want to trim individual chapters Quality bars show the direct influence of the title and language selection on the quality of the movie copy Even beginners always keep track

Features of CloneDVD 2
Copies the main movie Special Features and or the original menu onto a DVD Recordable or onto your harddisk
Newly revamped transcoder Better picture quality also at high reduction rates footage of more than two hours
Impressive program speed also at high reduction rates
Video Preview shows an overview of all selectable DVD titles
You can include or exclude the original menu
Permanent quality control through quality bars during the title and language selection
Target size freely adjustable
Chapter trimming Splitting available
Very easy to use Our unique Film Strip assistant will guide you step by step through all settings very suitable for beginners
Preferences Memorizes the last settings that were made by the user and proposes it the next time the program starts
Layer Break Flag Removal possible
Picture snapshots while transcoding and remuxing
Realtime bitrate and frame statistics while transcoding
Logging window available
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It took a ton of work, but the first part of our annual top Web sites roundup is finally here. This week, we look at the Top 100 Classic Web Sites--well-established sites that we continue to visit, day after day, even after all of these years.

That's not to say that the Classics list is merely a summary of the best-known sites on the Web--doing a run down of those would have saved us a bit of time, sure, but what's the fun in that? The best-known sites are just that because, well, everybody already knows about them. We've dug a bit deeper this year, in order to bring to light some sites that, even with a strong user base, are still possible have missed, in the constant deluge of exciting new sites.

Sure there are some well-established sites on the list--eBay, Google, and Wikipedia spring to mind--but that's because we felt that, even after all of their time on top, they've continued to innovate. In the world of the Web, you don't stay number one for too long, without constantly bringing something new to the table--there are always a million upstarts vying to take your place. We'll focus on the new-comers next time around.

We've broken down the list of 100 into 18 different categories. Have a look, and let us know who we left off, who really didn't deserve to be included at all, and whether or not we just generally blew the whole damned thing. There's always next year...