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Ubuntu One Music Store

By on March 25, 2010

Ubuntu has launched a new song service . It  has been named Ubuntu One Music Store whichwill be integrated into Rhythmbox music program, which will be released with Ubuntu 10.04. Recall that the users of Ubuntu One of service receive free online only 2 GB of space, so those who are seriously going to keep the resource to music, pretty soon need to transition to a paid account.

Canonical has not invented the wheel again and has partnered with 7Digital, a music distributor with 4 million DRM-free tracks in his book.

Via Rhythmbox, it is possible to buy both albums and individual tracks, which you can choose to save locally or online as part of Ubuntu One cloud services.

It is expected that Ubuntu 10:04 (Lucid Lynx) released in April.

Beware of online music services when you listen to music on mobile

Waving the Phone To Pay

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Opera mini new version for android

By on March 21, 2010

Opera mini new version  for android is currently in beta   The main feature of this mobile Internet browser is its speed, all data passing through the servers of the company and finally end up on your screen with a compression ratio of 90%. Making pages load very fast.

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Opera Link feature also lets you synchronize your data between your phone and your computer. Personally, if I had time to hang with version Opera Mini 4I rather difficult now to get used to this new version.

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Twitter’s Path To 10 Billion Tweets

By on March 21, 2010

Browse tools have posted a very informative image of how twitter has achieved the mark of 10 billion tweets . The image is actully a study conducted by Muhammad saleem .

Twitter’s Path To 10 Billion Tweets

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Download Opera version 10 and 5 for Java & BlackBerry devices

By on March 16, 2010

Opera Mobile and Opera Mini is now out form beta and avaialble in final versions (version 10 and version 5).  Opera Mini 5 can be used on all java mobile phones and BlackBerry devices. Versions for Android and Windows Phone is still in beta. Opera Mobile 10 is available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60.

Mobile Browsers  can download here you can surf with his cell phone in to the address m.opera.com.For both browsers, Opera pointing out that they have been focusing on giving users the best browsing experience on virtually any mobile platform. This includes the inclusion of tabs, a feature for remembering passwords and their “Speed Dial” feature that allows you to quickly find frequently visited websites.

Keeping in mind the needs and wants of our 50 + one million users, we have emphasized speed, desktop-like functionality and data savings in our mobile browser. Today, we have made it even easier for everyone two surf, search and Socialize on the Web.Lars Boilesen, director of Opera Software

Sony will release Play station enable phone with out Ericsson

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Round up of some amazing posts

By on March 12, 2010

Vista running 108 apps

WOW can you believe that how many applications are running in vista at one time. There was a photo at Flickr circulating during the weekend of a MacBook Pro running 150 different applications at the same time, and now a guy has posted a video of his Vista machine running 108 applications at the same time. Looks like it’s running pretty smooth actually.

What’s Good for Apple Is Better for Everyone Else

As Apple prepares to launch the iPhone 2 on Monday, competitors like Palm and RIM are not worried. On the contrary, they are licking their chops, preparing for a surge in sales, even though Apple expects to sell millions of new iPhones worldwide.
“The way I look at it is there are 1.2 billion cellphones out there, and we’re just scratching the surface,” said Mike Laziridis, CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry,

Think of a way to pay back if you recieved

Sarathbabu 27-year old when  graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, he created quite a stir by refusing a job that offered him a huge salary. He preferred to start his own enterprise, inspired by his mother who once sold idlis (rice cakes) on the pavements of Chennai, to educate him and his 4 siblings.

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Read the full article ? WOW can you believe that how many applications are running in vista at one time. There was a photo at Flickr circulating during the weekend of a MacBook Pro running 150 different applications at the same time, and now a guy has posted a video of his Vista machine running 108 applications at the same time. Looks like it’s running pretty smooth actually

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Twitter introduces link-scanner

By on March 11, 2010

As Twitter began to become popular, the service was also a target for people who do not have something to hide in the bag. Now is the gap that rogue users have used to spread links to malicious websites run malicious code on the visitor’s computer, or to phishing attacks, finally closed.

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It concerns that Twitter has not previously scanned private messages between users, which means that you have freely been able to send links to other users.

Twitter now introduces a service that scans all links before they reach the user, leaving many of the problematic messages can be sorted by.

Dell offering its employees unpaid leaves to cut costs

Ping.fm lets you update your social networks from your mobile

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World’s first SMS museum opened

By on March 10, 2010

Are you curious what others write when they send SMS messages? Now you can get the curiosity made – at least in Norwegian. In Norway’s telecom company Tele2 therefore taken the initiative to open what is being described as the world’s first SMS museum. Here you can see some examples of what is in the small mobile messaging, Norwegians send to each other.

- “We invite all Norwegians to send SMS messages into. Funny, sad, embarrassing or sad messages. Everything must. Even before opening, we have close to 4,000 SMS messages, and we are very satisfied with,” says Haakon Dyrnes, Managing Director of Tele2.

The initiative is not only that everyone can get an insight into the SMS, which flies from mobile to mobile. The museum may also provide language-and trend researchers valuable information about language and SMS habits.

- “Sms-museum is an important measure that will show how SMS messages are used in everyday life. It will give us valuable insight into what people are concerned and how we express ourselves. The museum will thus reflect the time we live in. Sms’erne can be a resource for those who want to follow trends – both in SMS language and the Norwegian language over time, “says SMS researcher Berit Skog simultaneously SMS museum’s first director.

You can find the museum on www.smsmuseum.no

Mobile Map Use Grows 82% in US, 49% in Europe

No more unwanted messages and SMS Spam!

Wap Portals and live WAP SITES

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Pixel Qi replaceable laptop screen

By on March 9, 2010

Mary Lou Jepsen of Pixel Qi’s company on his blog announced that the company is ready to launch a new, easily-replaceable laptop screen. The screen should be good to use in sunlight, and the inspiration to change comes from Jepsen’s experience with the One Laptop per Child project. Here was computer designed so that children could even replace the basic parts that could break.

The new monitor comes as a do-it-yourself kit, so it according Pixel Qi would not be very difficult to change the screen in his laptop than it is to change a light bulb. Message from Pixel Qi is that if even a 11-year old Nigerian girl can do it, so you can too.

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How to Integrate Facebook and Windows Live Messenger in Firefox

By on March 3, 2010

Apart from many Mozilla Firefox extensions we have got this addon  for IMs and facebook . Yoono is an interesting plugin for Firefox which allows the integration of social networks and instant messaging with your browser.After you install, adds a new sidebar to Firefox through which you can access quickly to major social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
In particular, it is possible to update the status and share links directly from the browser, without logging to the site.

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Yoono also offers integration with major IM systems such as Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk.
Is in fact possible to communicate with their contacts directly from the sidebar.

The plugin also offers other features like an RSS feed reader, a system of notification for incoming mail on Gmail and Yahoo and playing music streamed from Last.fm.

Yoono is therefore a very useful tool for those who want to better integrate social networks with your browser.

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Facebook does not delete fake profiles

By on March 1, 2010

With over 400 million profiles, it says a lot about many people on Facebook, but number remian high because of high numbers of facebook fake profiles.  It is especially profiles of personalities that exist in multiple copies, created by other, often to abuse the name for their own benefit. It can be annoying for people who profile deals, but a bigger problem is that Facebook does not delete fake profiles.

Several Danish celebrities are up to several sections, including Caroline Wozniacki, Niklas Bendtner and Mads Gleager. The latter is known from the Paradise Hotel, and the fake profiles of him include used to achieve contact with girls.

A letter to Facebook often results in that you do not hear more from them, which, according to Politiken may be due to the Facebook organization. With 400 million profiles, and only about 1,000 employees, they simply do not have the resources to serve so many people. To the Danish market, with over 2 million profiles have been employed one person, and he handles sales of advertising.

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Download Opera mobile 10 beta 3

By on February 25, 2010

Opera mobile is known to be the  best Internet browsers in  Mobile industry. And it is now ready for a new version for smartphones  with the Symbian OS S60, which means virtually all Nokia smartphones.

Though the new  veriosn called Opera Mobile 10 beta 3 is still in beta, and thus there is not yet talking about the completely finished version. There would still be a solid web browser, which many prefer rather than the usual browser that comes with the S60.

opera Download Opera mobile 10 beta 3

There is not explained exactly what updates the new version contains, but it is reported that, among other less demanding on the phone to run. You can download the new version, visit m.opera.com / mobile in your mobile browser standard.

smartphone software ar egoing through major change.

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Firefox 3.6 cricitcal error

By on February 23, 2010

The newest version of foirefox is on hands with many users Mozilla’s popular Internet browser Firefox has been affected by an error by Secunia is described as critical. The error was discovered by the Russian company Intevydis and allows unauthorized to gain control over the computer, the software runs on. The company came with information, while they released a version of their software VulnDisco that can exploit the bug.

One is aware of the bug in Mozilla, but there was not a fix for the error among the updates that was released late last week. Instead they write:

Mozilla takes all security vulnerabilities seriously, and have as yet been unable to confirm the claim of an exploit. We value the contributions of all security researchers and encourage them to work within our security process, responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities To ensure the highest level of security and best outcome for users.

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Adam Tablet PC , e-book reader with a reflective screen

By on February 16, 2010

At the first day of MWC 2010 in Barcelona there were many launches for new technologies from microsft windows 7 mobile to smausng andorid devices but the surpirse came from the company Notion Ink which took the opportunity to showcase their bid for a tablet PC.

adam pc Adam Tablet PC , e book reader with a reflective screen

The product is called Adam, and differs from its competitors by being a cross between an e-book reader and a great tablet PC. The most notable is the LCD panel from Pixel Qi, which is transreflektiv.

Website Technoholik have been allowed to look at Adam two days before the presentation and get it reviewed by Rohan Shravan, founder of the Notion Ink.

The screen is 10 “and because it is transreflektiv, it is very suitable for reading by any indirect lighting and direct lighting such. Sunlight. It also means it can save its own illumination, thereby increasing battery life.

The screen is touch sensitive, but nonetheless Notion Ink chosen to locate a track pad on Adam, which is mounted on the back.

Further details and the final specification can be read here.

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Retrieving MS Outlook PST file password

By on February 10, 2010

MS Outlook users know well that they can Protect the files saved in PST files with a password but in case you have forgotten the password it can become really hard to use the file. In case you forget your password you can use set about archiving PST PstPassword to recover it. This is a free application that allows the MS outlook user to retrieve the password for a PST.

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The thing to do is start the program and specifying the pst file, the password will be displayed in the interface. Remember that the encryption system used by Outlook to proteggiee pst files is rather weak and for each password that you set There are three that can open the store.

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Virtual CD ROM:Create a virtual CD Rom

By on February 8, 2010

On the Net you can find software distributed by the ISO images, normally you need to test an iso burned to CD or DVD.
An alternative is to use a cd rom virtual, Vritual CDRom is a free program that lets you emulate a CD player so you can use an ISO image as if you were using a real cd.

Firstly you must download and install Virtual CD ROM, to install the application you must extract the archive to which you have downloaded and copy the file VCdRom.sys folder C: windowssystem32drivers.
At this point you can VCdControlTool.exeIs opened Virtual CD ROM Control Panel through which you must install the driver you copied earlier.

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To do this you need to click the button Driver ControlOpens the window Virtual CD-ROM Driver Control where you can complete the installation by clicking Install Driver and selecting the file you copied earlier.

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At this point you can click the button Start.

A new drive appears in Virtual CD ROM Control Panel.

Once compete this procedure you can use the new drive to load the ISO images.

To do this simply select the drive and click the button Mount.

By accessing the drive via Windows Explorer you can use the iso image as if it had been burned to CD is inserted into a reader.

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