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Microsoft Zoom.it Live service

Microsoft Introduces Social Lightbox Zoom.it from Live Labs and Silverlight

Microsoft Live Labs has released an early version of a free tool for easy sharing of high-resolution Web- images. Enter a URL at http://zoom.it and it will spit out a short link and embed code for a basic but sleek image viewer that lets you zoom around an image or image of a website.

The tool is usable and it looks great, reminding us of the fun and zoomy Street Slide feature Microsoft recently introduced in Bing Maps.

The tool converts any image to Silverlight's Deep Zoom format and is ideal for bloggers, photo galleries and any situation in which people would want to share high-quality images on the internet. It holds promise for e-magazines and social readers like the blockbuster iPad app Flipboard.

Run Windows Programs inside Ubuntu

Want to run a few Windows programs on your Ubuntu install? You can use a program called Wine to install certain Windows applications on Ubuntu. Read this in-depth tutorial to learn how.

Run Windows Applications on Ubuntu

When Playing DVD Movies in Windows 7, "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file"

When you insert a DVD media in the drive, right-click on the drive and choose Play from the context menu, the following error may occur.

Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

However, you may be able to play DVD movies via the AutoPlay dialog, or by starting Windows Media Player and using the Play menu. This happens if the DVD/Play association setting is missing or incorrect, or is of incorrect value type. The DVD Play verb is stored in this registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD\shell\play\command

The value data for the (default) value in the above key is as follows:

Windows 7 64-bit:

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:4 /device:DVD "%L"

Windows 7 32-bit:

"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:4 /device:DVD "%L"

 

How could this problem occur?

When the above key is missing or its (default) value data is incorrect, the following error occurs when accessing Play from the DVD drive context menu:

This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel.

… so you try to reset Windows Media Player as the default via Default Programs / Set program access and computer defaults…

When resetting the values using Set program access and computer defaults, it does reset the data (unexpanded path), but the value type is incorrectly set as REG_SZ where as it should be REG_EXPAND_SZ. As a result, the following error occurs:

Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

Registry Fix

Download w7-dvd-play.zip, unzip and run the corresponding REG file for your Windows 7 Edition (32-bit or 64-bit.)

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WhoCrashed: Analyze Windows Blue Screen Errors

There are times when Windows hangs without warning, and the resulting error message is too complicated to understand. WhoCrashed is a simple application that tells you why the crash occurred, so you can fix the problem.

Whenever Windows encounters a critical system error, it crashes and forces the user to restart the computer. Previously, these errors used to be displayed on a blue background, leading to the name "Blue Screen Errors" (or the blue screen of death as they are infamously known).

To help with analysis, the moment it encounters a system error, Windows copies all files in memory into a folder called the ‘crash dump’ (or mini dump). This is what WhoCrashed analyzes.

WhoCrashed is free and simple to use. It requires administrator privileges and with one click it analyses your crash dump files and displays the result.

The program is fast and straightforward. It displays the result in the same window with detailed information on the origin and probable reason for the crash. Each entry has detailed information on when your computer crashed, to allow you to pinpoint the reasons for the same.

Once you know the source (for example, in the above screenshot you can see it is the graphics card driver), you can update or reinstall the driver to fix the problem.

If you do not have crash dumps on your computer and you still experience system crashes, it can also give you pointers on the reasons for the same. For example, your crash could be caused by an overheating CPU or a failure in your power supply.

If all else fails, WhoCrashed also allows you to contact the makers for further support on the problem.

In conclusion:

· WhoCrashed is a useful tool to diagnose your unstable PC

· It can be used to analyze crash dumps to locate flaws

· In the case of no dumps being found, it provides relevant suggestions

Download WhoCrashed to know why you keep getting those blue screen errors.

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JAM Software - Windows Freeware

Windows Freeware

TreeSize Free

V2.4

Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. TreeSize Free tells you where precious space has gone to.

TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize Free is working. The Explorer context menu is supported within TreeSize, as well as the usual drag & drop operations.

Take a look at the advanced analysis and management functions of TreeSize Professional.

TreeSize Free is freeware for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. Users of Windows 9x/ME can download the last compatible version TreeSize Free V2.1.

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TreeSize Mobile - Manage the disk space on your smartphone

V1.4

Sometimes you get to a point where your smartphone runs out of disk space. The manual search for large files and folders can take a long time. TreeSize Mobile helps you to find these folders and files and enables you to remove them. The file system is represented in a tree view and it shows you the size of folders, including their subfolders. TreeSize Mobile finds the 100 biggest files and presents them in a list.

TreeSize Mobile requires Windows Mobile with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (or higher) (contained in Windows Mobile since version 6.0).

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SmartCallMonitor – Phone Monitoring Software

V1.4

SmartCallMonitor is the new phone monitoring software for TAPI capable hardware like a telephone system or an ISDN card. It also monitors calls using a NCID (Network caller ID) server (which is provided by a VoIP-Box (like Fritz-Box). It automatically tries to match incoming phone calls with data stored in your Microsoft Outlook contacts to provide you with information about the caller (e.g. name, address etc.). The information will be shown in a clearly arranged datasheet.

If SmartCallMonitor cannot find matching information about the caller in your MS Outlook contacts, it can use an internet reverse search service to obtain information about the caller (via "MSN.WhitePages.com"). With just one click, you can start a Google search directly from the monitoring software to look for further information about a call (e.g. the company's website). The detailed view shows you all information about the selected entry at a glance. With SmartCallMonitor you always know who is calling. In the integrated journal, you can filter missed calls or specifically search for a contact or a number in the call log. For missed calls, e-mail notifications and call back reminders can be created. Answered calls can be registered additionally in the Outlook Journal.

SmartCallMonitor can simplify your daily office routine by monitoring incoming calls, saving information about the caller (e.g. time and date of each call), creating call back reminders and many other features.

SmartCallMonitor V1.4 fully functional version is completely free.

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UltraSearch

V1.3

UltraSearch searches files on local NTFS drives and provides the results within just a few seconds. UltraSearch does not use a previously built index or background process, it achieves its speed by working directly on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions. You can enter a file name or a pattern like *.exe and often will see the results already while typing. Additional information like size and last change date will be shown for the listed files. Moreover, the Explorer context menu is available inside UltraSearch. The search results can also be printed or exported as text, CSV and Excel file.

Use UltraSearch wherever you like with the portable ZIP version.

Our software TreeSize Professional offers a custom file search where you can search for and filter by further criteria such as file size or file date.

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HeavyLoad

V2.4.1

Heavyload is intended to stress all resources of a PC (the CPU, RAM, hard disk, network, operating system, etc.) in order to test reliability under a heavy load. This is useful for testing important MS Windows file or database servers before using them for production, or just to check if your new PC might get too hot when used intensively. To stress your PC or server, HeavyLoad writes a large test-file to the temp folder, it allocates physical and virtual memory, performs complex calculations and it draws patterns in its window.

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FileList

V2.2

FileList is a command line utility that produces a list of files of the given path in the CSV format, which can be imported into a spreadsheet or database. The list includes the file name, the size, the path, the file extension, the owner of the file as well as the last access and change date and the creation date of the file. Optionally the author of MS Office documents, MD5 checksums and version information of program files can be displayed.

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SpamAssassin for Windows

V1.0

SpamAssassin for Windows is a powerful e-mail filter which attempts to identify spam using a variety of mechanisms including text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases.

SpamAssassin is a project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and was adapted for Windows by JAM Software. In combination with an MTA (Mail Transport Agent), e.g. Hamster or MS Exchange, it is a very effective anti-spam solution. The freeware contains, beside several modules, the following SpamAssassin components as executable files for Windows (.exe):

· spamassassin.exe (mail filter)

· spamd.exe (SpamAssassin as a server process (daemon))

· WinSpamC.exe (client for spamd)

· sa-update.exe (SpamAssassin rule updates)

· sa-learn.exe (trains Bayes filter with spam/ham mail)

Please note: SpamAssassin for Windows is not a mail router and should be watched by a service when used in a productive server. For professional use or if you need additional functionality, try SmartPOP2Exchange or Exchange Server Toolbox. Both include SpamAssassin which is already preconfigured in the installation.

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File Renamer

The list of batch file renamers that we’ve covered is about to grow by one thanks to Advanced Renamer. So many of these apps accomplish the same kind of thing, but they all do it in a different fashion. We try to cover the best bulk file renamers so that you can choose for yourself which suits your needs.

Advanced Renamer has a lot of the features I’ve grown accustomed to… like real-time previews. As you stack up file renaming operations you’ll see a live preview of how the changes will affect the files it will be run against. Once you’ve used this feature in any file renamer it quickly becomes a must-have.

One of the more interesting aspects is the ability to change attributes of the files, such as date created/modified, read only status, or whether a file is hidden. You can also have it pull in EXIF data from images, ID3 tags from music files, or some other file attributes so that the information can be used in the renaming process.

Here are some of the other things Advanced Renamer supports:

· Undo functionality

· Real time preview of file rename

· MP3/ID3 renaming

· Regular expressions

· Image renaming with EXIF support

· Thumbnail view

· Supports both files and folders

· Several renaming methods

· Use multiple methods at once

· Tag rename

Advanced Renamer Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

Advanced File Renamer

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