MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
Dixie_dean writes “Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft’s research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. ‘The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He’s trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He’s gone on to collect images of every Web page he’s ever visited, television shows he’s watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage.” This is a project we’ve been talking about for a long time.
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What’s The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop?
cheapbob writes “Recently HP officially unveiled a budget ultraportable laptop aimed to compete with the likes of Asus Eee PC. According to Compal, one of Dell’s assemblers, Dell is also going to enter the budget ultra-portable market soon. All of these devices lack many of the features associated with larger-sized laptops, such as optical drives and large amounts of storage space, yet demand for them is very high. Initial reviews of these devices unsurprisingly expose them to be underpowered and lacklustre. What’s the appeal? What do you think is the perfect balance of features and price point for a budget laptop?”
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Folder Castle 2.1 has been released
MagneticSoft today announces the immediate availability of Folder Castle 2.1, a popular security tool that hides and encrypts files and folders on the computer. The program runs natively on Windows Vista, making the switch to the newer OS easy to do. The program is very easy to use for any users. You will need no more than couple of minutes to install and start using Folder Castle.
In the new version we have added features for more comfortable and flexible working with the Secure Storage. Now you can create Secure Storage on USB flash drives. Also you can transfer created Secure Storage to another drive.
We have not forgotten about improving the security of your data and have added support Windows Safe Mode. Now Folder Castle allows to hide and encrypt files even in Safe Mode.
And finally, in Folder Castle 2.1 some problems with User Account Control (UAC) under Vista have been detected and fixed.
Build a fortress around your data with Folder Castle!
Folder Castle 2.1 runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and available immediately for $39.95 (USD). Licensed users get free technical support and product updates. Additional information on the product, as well as its free 15-day evaluation copy is available from www.magneticsoft.com.
Download: Folder Castle 2.1 (1.63 Mb)
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The Texas Petawatt Laser
Roland Piquepaille notes the hype surrounding what the University of Texas at Austin is calling the world’s most powerful laser. During a tenth of a femtosecond this laser is 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the US, and is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun. On his own blog Roland points out that UT’s is not the first petawatt laser; that distinction belongs to a system installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1996.
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Object Desktop 2008
Today, Stardock has officially launched Object Desktop 2008 and Object Desktop 2008 Ultimate. Object Desktop is a suite of utilities that enables users to completely personalize the Windows experience - change how Windows looks, feels, and functions to suit the user’s preference.
The 2008 version of the suite is split into two tiers: Object Desktop 2008, and Object Desktop 2008 Ultimate. The standard version is set at $49.95, with the Ultimate edition tagged at $69.95. Customers with current Object Desktop subscriptions will be upgraded to the Ultimate edition of the software for free.
Windows Live Writer Updated (KB 951125)
A new update for Windows Live Writer has been released.This update is being distributed via Microsoft Update, so if you have chosen to have important updates automatically installed, you should receive this update automatically. If you aren't automatically getting updates, you can open Windows Update, check for updates, and the update will appear in the list of available updates.
The update KB951125 fixes four problems that occur when Windows Live Writer publishes posts to Blogger.
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Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x
HighWizard notes the upcoming release, on Thursday, of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in 2000, believed it may hold as much as 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Later estimates have ranged to the hundreds of billions of barrels. Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.
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FileZilla Client 3.0.9.1
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
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CodeLite IDE for C/C++ Revision 1345
CodeLite IDE Revision 1345 for C/C++ is now available for download (for Windows & Linux ).
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CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages (regulary tested on Windows XP sp2, Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, Fedora Core 6 and Debian lenny/sid) CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPL license.
The target of CodeLite is to become the best IDE for C/C++ that the open source communities have to offer!
For more details, screenshots and whats new in this release, visit: http://codelite.org
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$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative’s Best
EconolineCrush writes “Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus’ $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market.”
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