Why? Because it’s a great way to make money. FileHippo is testing it now. Several download portals have started to use services like Open Candy in their installers to earn money. Remember when c|net undled home page switchers, toolbars and browser changers? Same song, different singer. You can read about the downloader here . “After launching the FileHippo Download Manager from your Downloads folder, just double click on the file that will be clearly named and then ...
Google has a good project ( Google Cultural Institute ) which allows you to tour great museums and see wonderful works of art, such as here . Yes, I chose “Meeting Street” for CarGuy1 and Daiwa. Imho, this is a great thing. So how do they do it? With “Street View” technology, but, using a ‘Dalek-oid’ robot draped in a weird cloak. Wait, it gets better. The robot likes taking weird ‘selfies’ in front of mirrors! This pretty much dispels the ‘Evil Skyn...
Besides being my late father’s birthday, the fourth of July means a very great deal to me. It means more than the fireworks, picnics, and barbeques; but yes, we should celebrate our Independence Day. We really should. We should also remember how brave those colonists were, what they endured: Their suffering, their hopes and dreams back then and all those who lived and fought for the greatest and most revolutionary words ever dared written by any people anywhere, ever: ...
This sounds very interesting: The purpose of this one is to unify OSs across devices. This comes from Google I/O. There will be changes to the UI (complete redesign…icons, colors, themes, sounds and fonts), “Notifications and the Lock Screen” - (notifications will appear on ‘cards’) and use a Motorola type HUD for urgent notifications. “Safe Place” – locations where your PIN won’t be necessary (like at home), but leave ther...
Came across a nice, useful article on an Oz edition news site… International Business Times . Anyway, let’s say there’s an app you absolutely love, an Android one and you have iOS or a Windows PC, especially with W8. Used to be you’d heave a sigh and that would be that. Not saying there aren’t excellent apps in the Windows store, just that some like say, ‘peaches’ more than ‘pears’. Now, Android apps can be used on Mac...
Who hasn’t this happened to? You generally find out when friends/family let you know they got an email from you that had ‘questionable’ content. Another way is you checking the ‘Sent’ box, or, you can’t access your account. So what do you do? This is just a general guide with some useful links which you might wish to use/save. 1. Don’t panic . Access to your email again (hackers generally don’t change passwords)…they generally just access it and send out a mass emai...
Although it’s been around for iPhones and Android for about four years, and for Windows 8/8.1 since last year, it has finally come to MS’s Windows Phone. Its features? Easy touch-ups Fix photos fast—crop, straighten, rotate, flip, adjust color, and remove red eye and pet eye. Adjust hue, brightness, white balance, and more with easy slider controls. Enhance in fun artistic ways with Looks like Vibrant, Superpunch, and Glow. Add a finishing to...
Verizon your provider? You can’t pay your bill? Not your fault. Turns out Verizon is having major problems with its billing software. The Northeast, Midwest and Southern regional customers are hitting a wall when trying to pay their bills. Worse? No ETA for a fix. Apparently this glitch isn’t affecting home phone systems or internet connection, but, if your bill is due right now, you could have problems. Engadget is tracking the problem, but so far no news of a fix...
Just saw this at gHacks.net , with a good review by Martin Brinkmann. There are some major changes. First, it’s supported on W7 SP1 and newer Windows OSs. So, if you have anything from before them, stick with the older version. The new one requires .NET Framework 4.5. It will be installed automatically when installing Paint.net 4.0 if not on the target machine already. “Paint.net 4.0 ships with a new rendering engine that supports multi-core processors and GPU hardware...
“When I'm gone, I hope there's a theater in the next world where I can work.” He was the son of Polish immigrants and grew up poor and Jewish in an Italian neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents owned a candy store. After appearing in a school play at 15, he knew he would be an actor. He moved to Texas to attend the University of Texas in Austin. where he earned a B.A. and earned a Master's Degree in Education from CCNY. He won a sch...
Zuckerberg is changing Facebook’s privacy policy (again) in the very near future. Used to be, they would watch their more than 1 billion members’ activity closely on the site. Now they intend to watch your activity off their site as well. Facebook has announced that it will soon begin collecting data on off-site user activity , meaning that the social network will monitor the websites and apps you use when you're away from Facebook. In other words: if you frequently v...
At Newegg…the deal is for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro Lifetime on 1 PC and includes free, AVG Internet Security software…until 6/24 at 11:59 p.m. Not a bad deal considering it’s for $17.99, and usually Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro Lifetime 1 license costs $29.99. One thing to know: It’s for the lifetime of that PC, not your lifetime – which I sincerely hope is much longer than that! AVG Internet Security costs $54.99. Not sure if the edition w...
I know you guys don’t get very excited about Adobe anymore (since the update model changed), but it might be worth looking at the live webcast today at 1 pm. You can find the webcast here: https://creativecloud.adobeevents.com/ccnext/?sdid=KLUAV So far, the newest feature revealed is the Focus mask: http://youtu.be/ARFbJQxgjSA Described here: http://petapixel.com/2014/06/12/sneak-peek-useful-focus-selection-tool-coming-photoshop-cc-june-18th/ Update: ...
Take a look at this ad (courtesy of Neowin.net ): Looks to me like MS is going to be weeding out old code and putting newer and (hopefully) better stuff in. Even better: ‘top level UI surfaces’…replacing/refactoring pieces of code (i.e. Win32 code). Even better…the new frameworks allowing more frequent updates. We’re talking Windows 9. We’re talking streamlining. Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-about-to-make-big-changes-to-...
Their motives were sincere. They wanted to assess the risk of a 1918 “Spanish Influenza” (H1N1) type outbreak in the future. They believe that since there are Avian Influenza viruses, the H1N1 outbreak resulted from mutations in that virus causing cross species infectivity and transmission. The experiment (their graphic): Reasonable, it would seem, until you think a bit and conclude that “post hoc ergo propter hoc” logic isn’t really val...