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		<title>free windows apps you should know about</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Seifi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[miniMIZE &#8211; miniMIZE catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window on your desktop. This is great for getting a visual representation of your taskbar and makes more sense to me. It also creates an uncluttered taskbar. Launchy &#8211; Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://aquaria.za.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=133/" target="_blank">miniMIZE</a> &#8211; miniMIZE catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window on your desktop. This is great for getting a visual representation of your taskbar and makes more sense to me. It also creates an uncluttered taskbar.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.launchy.net/" target="_blank">Launchy</a> &#8211; Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! It is like QuickSilver for the Mac and makes finding and launching stuff on your PC a breeze and joyful. It supports plugins, skins and more. Just hit Alt+Space to get to it after you install it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.defraggler.com/" target="_blank">Defraggler</a> &#8211; A cool defragmenter tool that lets you easily defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Once you run it it shows you list of the files and the number of fragments per file. Now you can target just the major defragmentations.
<p><a href="http://www.hottnotes.com/" target="_blank">hott notes</a> &#8211; Post-it pads for your windows desktop, without all the fuss. Supports lists or notes format and you can set reminders and alarms as well.
<p><a href="http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/" target="_blank">Eraser</a> &#8211; Its like an eraser for your PC with options to integrate into the Recycle Bin. It completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
<p><a href="http://www.ccleaner.com/" target="_blank">CCleaner</a> &#8211; The C stands for Crap and it does just that. The program is split into 3 sections, Cleaner: which finds crap in your Windows, System and IE folders, Registry: finds errors in your Windows registry, and Tools: does Uninstall and Startup tasks. </p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Missing from the iPhone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Seifi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After playing with the iPhone this weekend I can say that its pretty darn cool. I&#8217;m quite impressed with the touch sensor and the rotation features, specially for web browsing and watching videos on YouTube.&#160;After signing up on Saturday night,&#160;the iPhone was &#8220;activated&#8221; on Sunday morning. It is now Sunday afternoon and and the phone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After playing with the iPhone this weekend I can say that its pretty darn cool. I&#8217;m quite impressed with the touch sensor and the rotation features, specially for web browsing and watching videos on YouTube.&nbsp;After signing up on Saturday night,&nbsp;the iPhone was &#8220;activated&#8221; on Sunday morning. It is now Sunday afternoon and and the phone calls still go to the old T-Mobile phone. Here are a list of features that&nbsp;as&nbsp;far as I know are missing and&nbsp;would be nice to have (the iBads) and stuff that absolutely rock (the iGoods).</p>
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<p><a href="http://seifi.org/wp-content/uploads/WhatsMissingfromtheiPhone_EE70/Photo_070107_001.jpg" atomicselection="true"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="180" alt="Photo Taken with a Treo Camera - iphone cover by incase" src="http://seifi.org/wp-content/uploads/WhatsMissingfromtheiPhone_EE70/Photo_070107_001_thumb.jpg" width="240" border="0"></a> </p>
<h3>The iGoods</h3>
<p>All the graphics and icons on this thing look absolutely amazing, and load super&nbsp;fast.</p>
<p>The Map is terrific, specially when you are using Wi-Fi. The step by step direction view can be a life saver.</p>
<p>The photos&nbsp;the iPhone takes are&nbsp;so darn crisp and sexy.</p>
<p>In iPod you can easily change the volume using drag.</p>
<p>in Safari, there&#8217;s an innovative URL history, and even a thumbnail history version that you can drag left and right to browse.</p>
<p>The web browsing capability is really good. Clicking on tiny links on a webpage seem to accurately pick the right one and typing URLs is breeze. </p>
<p>Using the Wi-Fi connection makes surfing even&nbsp;faster. You get an alert about available Wi-Fi networks wherever you go. This can become annoying after a while however.</p>
<p>Setting up a Gmail account was a piece of cake.</p>
<p>The suggestions as you type for spelling are nice. But after a while they started to get on my nerves. I hope I can disable this feature.</p>
<h3><strong>the iBads</strong></h3>
<p>Setting Ringers from Songs in my library. Why can&#8217;t we do this? or is it possible and I&#8217;m just missing out on how to do it? I was upset when I found out my <a href="http://www.seifi.org/gadgets/mojos_treo_650_mini_review.html">Treo</a> can&#8217;t do this but iPhone?</p>
<p>VoiceMail innovation &#8211; I was expecting some innovative features like that of <a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/home/features">GrandCentral</a> such as personalizing greetings by caller, and listening to voicemails as they are being recorded.</p>
<p>Adobe Flash plugin for Safari. I can&#8217;t view any videos in Safari, only via the You Tube application. Hmmm&#8230;</p>
<p>The Bluetooth doesn&#8217;t have an automatic sensor, and requires you to turn it on every time you need it. Leaving it on the drains the battery. It would be nice to have a sleep mode.</p>
<p>There is no week view in Calendar. Calendar doesn&#8217;t change view as you rotate the iPhone.</p>
<p>The Map is not rotation sensitive.</p>
<p>It appears that I&nbsp;can search for business listings by type, but not by name.&nbsp;A search for Pinkberry returns no results but a search for Yogurt returns 21 Choices, Pinkberry and a slew of other local yogurt shops.</p>
<p>The Calculator is&nbsp;nice but doesn&#8217;t support advanced calculations such as financial and statistical functions.</p>
<p>The sync cable doesn&#8217;t have a release button so it feels like you are yanking it out of the iPhone.</p>
<p>I have long fingers and keep hitting the wrong letters on the keyboard. I hope this is a short lived problem and&nbsp;one&nbsp;will eventually get used to&nbsp;keying accurately.</p>
<p>Setting up a pop email account is doable, but I can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to set advanced settings such as specifying an SMTP port number.</p>
<p>SMS messages don&#8217;t render smileys <img src='http://www.seifi.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>No MMS picture messaging</p>
<p>No GPS</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t buy music or video content from iTunes store</p>
<p>Dude, where are the Games?</p>
<p>No Instant Messaging built in (AIM,Yahoo,Google Talk,Jabber,ICQ)</p>
<p>No Video Recording</p>
<p>No Flash or Zoom in Camera</p>
<p>No Java</p>
<p>No 3G</p>
<p><p>No Highlight/Copy/Paste functionality</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t easily check the weather in other cities using the weather widget</p>
<p>No Ajax support in Safari</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t exchange contact information via vCards etc.</p>
<p>Uswappable battery</p>
<p>Bluetooth is not Stereo</p>
<p>Potential <a href="http://www.dhanjani.com/archives/2007/07/iphone_users_att_cingular_voic.html">Voicemail Security </a>Exploit</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t sync via bluetooth.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t sync email.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t install new Apps</p>
<p>Finally, no way to use the 8GB of space as storage for storing files.</p>
<p>Most of these can easily be fixed via software releases, and the others will require hardware changes. I guess that&#8217;s why lots of people are waiting for the second revision.</p>
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		<title>Microsoft Surfaces Ubiquitous Computing TouchScreen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 06:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Seifi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Wow haven&#8217;t gone hand in hand in a long time. Until now! Since, being first means everything, Microsoft&#8217;s latest offering surfaced today as the first step towards ubiquitous computing. With touch and drag technology, there are tons of potential for this. If you have ever used an ATM machine or been to uWink [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft and Wow haven&#8217;t gone hand in hand in a long time. Until now! Since, being first means everything, Microsoft&#8217;s latest <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10554012">offering</a> surfaced today as the first step towards <a href="http://sandbox.xerox.com/ubicomp/">ubiquitous computing</a>. With touch and drag technology, there are tons of potential for this. If you have ever used an ATM machine or been to <a href="http://www.uwink.com/">uWink</a> you&#8217;ve see similar ideas being put to use. Microsoft <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/surface/">Surface</a> is a commercial product for use by partners such as casinos, and will require device manufacturers to release compatible products. It has many features that are similar to that of Apple&#8217;s touchscreen computing technology, some of which will be seen in the iPhone. Here are the videos for these products.<br />
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<p>Here is a video sneak preview of Surface. It is a coffee table touchpad computer with some really mindblowing features. The user or users for that matter use their finger(s) to control it. The computer actually has a camera that recognizes objects placed on its sruface such as Phones or Cameras and allows for specific device actions such as transferring photos and contact information.</p>
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Wireless computing is about to get really exciting. I guess pretty soon our homes will look like a scene out of Minority Report.</p>
<p>Here is the first demo of multi-touch computing from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Han">Jeff Han</a> which aired back in Feb 06<br />
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And another famous demo from Jeff<br />
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<p>Apple&#8217;s iPhone uses Multi-touch technology, but apparently they have not been able to hire Jeff Han. Apple bought <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/some-iphone-touchscreen-roots-splained-by-fingerworks-inventors/">FingerWorks</a> in June 2006. Jeff was <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1992309,00.html">quoted saying</a> &#8220;The iPhone is absolutely gorgeous, and I&#8217;ve always said, if there ever were a company to bring this kind of technology to the consumer market, it&#8217;s Apple. I just wish it were a bit bigger so I could really use both of my hands.&#8221; And last but not least here is the complete iPhone demo, which by the way will be the first one released on <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/">June 29th, 2007</a>.<br />
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		<title>Multiple Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Seifi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Does Your Birthdate Mean? What Age Will You Die? What Kind of Blogger Are You? What Do Your Dreams Mean? How&#39;s Your Karma? and loads of other quizzes to keep you busy for a while at <a href="http://www.blogthings.com/quizzes.html">blogthings</a>. I was glad to find these results from few of the quizzez. <blockquote><em>You don&#39;t really try to seduce people... it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious - a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.</em> </blockquote><p>and supposedly my name MOJO stands for </p><ul><li><em>M????is for Modern </em></li><li><em>O????is for Old </em></li><li><em>J????is for Joyous </em></li><li><em>O????is for Openhearted </em></li></ul><p>It&#39;s great to get complimented by a script, no matter how cheesy it may sound.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Does Your Birthdate Mean? What Age Will You Die? What Kind of Blogger Are You? What Do Your Dreams Mean? How&#8217;s Your Karma? and loads of other quizzes to keep you busy for a while at <a href="http://www.blogthings.com/quizzes.html">blogthings</a>. I was glad to find these results from few of the quizzez.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>You don&#8217;t really try to seduce people&#8230; it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious &#8211; a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>and supposedly my name MOJO stands for</p>
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<li><em>M????is for Modern </em></li>
<li><em>O????is for Old </em></li>
<li><em>J????is for Joyous </em></li>
<li><em>O????is for Openhearted </em></li>
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<p>It&#8217;s great to get complimented by a script, no matter how cheesy it may sound.</p>
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