Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Adobe AIR Is Flying: 100 Million Installations Accounted For

Adobe has announced that they’ve recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR,the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release.

Adobe says the 100 million mark for Adobe AIR installs is a minimum for the total install base of the AIR runtime (read: they think it’s actually more than that) since they only count the ones that are deemed 100% successful (i.e. they can be confirmed by code running after the installation). As for developers building Web applications using the Adobe Flash Platform, the company claims that in the last 12 months there have been over 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit (SDK), open source Flex framework and Adobe Flex Builder.
Based on the results of a Millward Brown survey, Adobe also boasts that Flash Player 10 has been installed on 55% of computers worldwide, and they expect to surpass 80% penetration by next quarter. In total, no less than 99% of internet-enabled desktops are said to have at least some version of Flash Player installed.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tag your files by keyword

TaggedFrog is a free utility that allows you to tag any files on your hard disk by keyword and access or filter them through a tag cloud. File tagging is one of those simple, straightforward ideas that make me wonder why it is not simply built into the operating system to begin with. TaggedFrog will tag images but goes further to tagging any and every file on your hard drive.

Here are more notes on this program:

  • The user interface: looks very polished and sleek but takes a little getting used to. Should have been more user friendly, really, but you will soon get the hang of it. TaggedFrog is a standalone program that does not integrate into the context menu or the filesystem.
  • What is tagged: you can tag any type of file, irrespective of where it resides on your hard drive. Tagging is done by dragging and dropping your files into the interface (or dragging already-tagged-files back to the upper pane to tag them further). Folders cannot be tagged.
  • The tags: can be anything that you type in. If you type in multiple words TaggedFrog will assume each word is a distinct tag unless you surround them with quotes (e.g. “project alpha” with the quotes is a single tag).
  • Filters: these are groups of file extensions (e.g. “.zip, .rar, .cab, .7z”) that can be used to further filter your results. So for example say you click on “ebooks” then “comics” in your tag cloud, you could then filter the resulting set further by, say, PDF or “.CBZ, .CBR” if you are looking for that particular type of ebook.
  • Favorites: are merely a collection of tags. You could set these up so you could quickly access them in the sidebar.
  • Tag cloud: note that the size of the labels in the tag cloud by default is dependent on your most commonly used tags (i.e. the tags you click on the most will grow largest). You could change this in the settings to reflect the number of entries that exists for each tag instead.
  • Memory consumption: takes up anywhere between 30 to 40 megs but this program uses the .NET framework and therefore its memory consumption is
    inflated as a consequence.
  • Portable version: is available (although the program requires the .NET framework to be installed in order to run).


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Saturday, January 24, 2009

UltraExplorer

The user interface is completely customizable. You can hide or show as many of the featured windows, dock them in other places or let them float as free standing windows. The same is true for the tool bars as well. You can even move buttons from toolbars to other toolbars and assign your own short cuts keys.

Some of the key features of UltraExplorer are:

  • Drop Stack Window - Drop blocks of files into the drop stack for quick access later

  • Favorites Window - Build a favorites tree with any object you like from the shell. The tree is fully aware of drag and drop and the clipboard. Use the objects in the favorites tree just like the normal treeview and listview controls.

  • Command Line Window - Can't give up DOS and a command line? UltraExplorer has a built in command line window that stays synced with the current view of the application.

  • Filter Window - Too many files to find what you want? Use UltraExplorers Filter window. Create new filter arguments by:

    • dragging and dropping objects to the window
    • using the selected objects in the active listview
  • Folders Window - Ultra fast Folder treeview that is positionable anywhere in the application.

  • History Window - User defined level of previously browsed folder. Objects in this window can be used just as in the treeview or listviews, drag drop and clipboard aware.

  • Listview Window - A secondary listview window that can be used identical to the fixed listview. Allows for a dual listview display if desired.

  • Tabbed Folders - There are several ways to create a new tab

    • Simply press the Control key when clicking on a folder and the folder is browsed in a new tab.
    • CTRL-T creates a clone of the current tab (CTRL-W closes the current tab)
    • Use the menu item in the Main Menu under "File"
    • Use the right mouse click context menu while hovering over the Tabs

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Run a Program Quickly

Run a Program Quickly
OS: Windows

Run (win+E) -> regedit ကိုသြားပါ။ ျပီးရင္

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths

အဲဒီကို ေရာက္ေအာင္ သြားလိုက္ပါ။ ကိုယ္ထည့္ခ်င္တာက IDM ဆိုျပီး ရိုက္ထည့္လိုက္ရင္ Internet Download Manager တက္လာေစခ်င္တယ္ဆိုပါစို႕။ App Paths ကို right click -> New -> Key ကိုႏိွပ္လုိက္ပါ။ IDM.exe လို႕ရိုက္လိုက္ပါ။ IDM.exe လုိ႕ေပးတာက IDM လုိ႕ရိုက္ထည့္ရင္ တက္ေစခ်င္လို႕ပါ။ IDM.exe folder ေလးကို ႏိွပ္လိုက္ရင္ ညာဘက္မွာ Default ကို double click လုပ္။ Value မွာ IDM Path ျဖစ္တဲ့ C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager\IDMan.exe ကို ထည့္ေပးလုိက္။ OK လုပ္။

ျပီးရင္ေတာ့ run ကေန IDM လုိ႕ရိုက္ၾကည့္လိုက္ပါ။ IDM တက္လာပါလိမ့္မယ္။


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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Microsoft to cut 5.5% of work force

www.chinaview.cn
2009-01-23 02:55:30

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Software giant Microsoft announced on Thursday that it would slash 5.5 percent of its jobs "in light of the further deterioration of global economic conditions."

The cut would affect 5,000 of its nearly 90,000 employees, and 1,400 layoffs would take effect on Thursday, according to the announcement.


This would be the first mass layoff in the 33-year-old tech giant's history.

Meanwhile, Microsoft said it posted revenue growth of only 2 percent, to 16.63 billion dollars, and an 11-percent drop in net income, to 4.17 billion dollars in its fiscal second quarter.

This fell short of Microsoft's previous forecasts and Wall Street's expectations.

Microsoft attributed all this to weak demand for personal computers that run its Windows operating system and Office software.

The news sent Microsoft shares down by more than 8 percent on Thursday morning.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said his company was not immune to the effects of the economy, but he was confident in the strength of Microsoft product portfolio and soundness of its approach.

"We will continue to manage expenses and invest in long-term opportunities to deliver value to customers and shareholders, and we will emerge an even stronger industry leader than we are today," he said.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Seven worthy Google Notebook replacements

Google is discontinuing development on its Notebook service, it may leave a few people looking for a viable replacement. The good news is that there are a handful of really solid products that do the same thing, and in some cases--do it better. Here's a list of seven of our favorites, in no particular order.

1. Evernote

Evernote has a few big things going for it, the main one being its cross-platform architecture which lets you access and add to your Evernotes from multiple devices. It also has optical character recognition, which means any photos you send in will be scanned for text, which gets indexed for searching.

Serious desktop users will most likely want to download the local client, which enables you to create and edit notes even when you don't have an Internet connection. There's also a browser plug-in that lets you clip entire Web pages, or simply bits of them, to save for later.

If you want to get at Evernote on your phone there are clients for both the iPhone and Windows Mobile handsets. Both let you access your notes collection and create new ones right from your device. This includes things like voice messages and snapshots from your phone's built-in camera and microphone.

The service is free to use up to a certain amount of data per month, which you can easily go over if you intend to use it for archiving high-resolution photo scans or for storing large files. However, if you're just using it for quick notes, and a few photos and Web clippings you'll be well under the limit.

Shortly after the news that Google Notebook was ceasing development, Evernote announced it would soon be providing an escape hatch for users to export their stuff over to Evernote free of charge.


2. Zoho Notebook

Zoho's Notebook is probably one of the best services for ex-Google Notebookers to flock to if only for its collaborative features. Several people can work on the same notebook at once, and it combines a handful of Zoho's other Web productivity services into one place. For instance, you can drop in a presentation from Zoho Show, add a video from YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, or any other site that uses embed code, as well as upload files from your desktop to share or squirrel away on Zoho's servers.

Additionally there's live chat with other Zoho users and collaborators, voice recording, and the capability to link to other notebooks within any notebook.

Its learning curve may be a bit steep for Google Notebook users unfamiliar with other Zoho products, but one thing that might help is the optional browser extension (for IE and Firefox) that lets users clip bits of Web pages to send to specific notebooks.


3. Clipmarks

If you were never really big into Google Notebook's writing feature, you'll probably dig Clipmarks. Once installed in your browser you can start clipping bits and pieces of any page you're on. These get stored in a central archive that you're able to search and browse through from any computer.

Like Google Notebook, Clipmarks lets you team up with other people to create a repository for various clippings. You can group together with these folks and send certain clippings to the shared space right when you're clipping them.

Where Clipmarks trumps Google Notebook is with its sharing, by letting you publish your clipping for the entire Clipmarks community to see and comment on.



4. Ubernote

Ubernote is right up there in both matching and surpassing the utility of Google Notebook. Like Google Notebook you can use it to grab bits and pieces of pages you're on, or simply as a storage space for collaborative writing and bookmarking. It also employs tags to let you sort and search through your content.

Ubernote works in all major browsers, has both an installable toolbar and a bookmarklet that lets you do the clipping. You can access it from the Web or on your mobile phone, and everything you create can be shared with others both in public and private groups.

One thing that makes Ubernote particularly attractive is that it lets you download your notes as an HTML file. This can be squirreled away on your hard drive or as an attachment in an e-mail due to its small size.


5. Springnote

Springnote takes a wiki-like approach to group notebooks. Like Google's effort you can keep a notebook personal or work on it with others. It's also entirely Web-based and employs tags and a quick search engine that lets you browse and sort through your work.

Springnote offers a much richer text editor than Google Notebook does. Like Zoho Notebook it also lets you insert all sorts of random media objects from anywhere on the Web or from your desktop. This includes document files that can be converted into Springnote notebooks. Like Ubernote, notebooks can be exported into HTML files for archiving or sharing.

In addition to its Web editor, there's also a free iPhone application that lets you view and edit your Springnote pages. You can use it to send photos you've taken to any one of your notebooks.

Springnote's one limitation is the 2GB cap per account, which you might run up on quickly if you're using it to store media files.


6. Delicious

If you were using Google Notebook specifically to save and share bookmarks you'll likely be pleased with Yahoo's Delicious service. It's got a huge user base, and a really excellent browser plug-in that lets you access your Web bookmarks just like they were on your local machine.

Like Google Notebook, the power of Delicious revolves around its tagging system. In Delicious' case you get the added benefit of the community, so if you're saving a site that other people have visited and tagged you can see what tags they used, and pick them for yourself.

Two things that Delicious is not able to do that you might have used Google Notebook for is saving bits and pieces of sites you're on, and creating and editing text. For that you're better off with one of the tools above.


7. Magnolia

Magnolia, like Delicious, is focused on communal bookmarking. Magnolia's big claim to fame is that it uses both tags and a five-star system that lets users rate various bookmarks. It also has groups by interest, where users can pool together related groupmarks for others to reference.

If you liked that Google Notebook saved pages you clipped in a "timeless" state, you'll dig that Magnolia does the same thing, except with entire pages at the time you bookmark them. It doesn't work on every site, but is a great way to link to something that may not be up forever.

Again, like with Delicious, you're missing out on the option to make a task list or jot anything down--it's purely for bookmarks.



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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Disable Startup

Disable Startup Stops Unwanted Apps from Creating Startup Entries.
Windows only: Free application Disable Startup keeps just any old app from adding itself to your list of startup applications, keeping your boot time snappy and RAM happy.

if you install a lot of software that ends up sneaking entry after entry into your list of startup apps, this simple utility is perfect. Disable Startup is a free download, Windows only.
Disable Startup

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Auto-Starting Installer CDs

Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications

Windows only: Free app Install-It puts a small auto-starting application on any removable drive that makes installing applications a double-click affair. After downloading the Install-It package, you'll want to extract its files to somewhere you can reach, like your desktop, and open up the Install.ini file in your favorite text editor. This file is simply a list of program descriptions and the locations of their installer files. If you're creating a disc full of useful installers, just replace the default examples with your chosen verbiage for each app and the location/names of the setup files. You separate those two items with a comma, using slashes where necessary, and end each line with a semi-colon.


Copy all your installer files and Install-It's files into a CD-burning app, such as CDBurnerXP, and fire away.

Install-It is a free download for Windows systems only.
Install-It

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Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows XP, Windows Vista & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.


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