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Trim mp3 songs as you love (IT-50-TN-26.02.10)

Know your type of music and them trim it in your way.

We all love have a unique ring tone in our mobile. Mostly some parts of our favorite songs. So we go to our friends who are tech buff, or rash to mobile repairing shop where they upload some parts of song as per your requisition into your mobile. And that's costs money and we normally have to depend on them.

Today we are showing you two services. Two can be used independently but two are very much related to music.

The first SAGA : Online mp3 cutter. People with computer at home and crazy about music must have a mp3 cutter at home ,to trim music accordingly to their in need and upload into mobile phoe. But the software used is normally a pirated one, cracked and not reliable in many cases.

We are showing you way to do the same job, without installing any software in your pc, and using an authenticating software. And most importantly you need not to be a tech buff.

Fire your browser to http://mp3cut.net/

You will find a cutter free, simple inferface inviting you. Now our job is only to select a song, upload it to http://mp3cut.net/, get it played from web and trim according to our need. Cut it and download the cut portion for our mobile.

The process is very simple. Just brows the computer by clicking upload mp3. We recommend not to do any process when you are uploading a music file. It is because upload speed is much less in comparison to download so allow full bandwidth to use. After uploading the status will be shown to you, in percentage format. Just after upload the http://mp3cut.net server will prepare the file for online playing. It may take some time, and you will be shown real time preparation status.

When the file is 100% prepare we can go to step 2.

If the file is successfully prepared for play, the play button will lighten. Click on it and the song will be played online. Now just use your mouse to drag the arrow button below the song bar to select the desired start area where you want your selection will start. Then drag the second button from the end of the song bar to the position where you want your selection will end. You can try as may ways as you want. No issue.

So after you select the portion which you want to cut,click the pause button the play will stop.

Now just click "split and Download" button. within some second your download will start and the desired Cut version of music will come to your pc. Now upload it in your mobile.

The process is so simple that everyone can do this. And the advantage is no need to go for software installation in your pc, don't worry for pirated software,and ability to use this service anywhere. LIke you visit your friends home, find a good tune, just open the web browser cut , and mail the downloaded piece to your mailbox.

SAGA - II Knowing more about the music you have.

This service is about to know more about your music collection, LIke the artist details, like information about the track title, artist name, album title, etc. Most interestingly you need to upload the full file, information can be received from some 15 sec fragmentation also.

visit http://audiotag.info/ , again a simple interface will greet you.

just select the song by clicking brows if you are at your computer. Of if the song is not in your computer you can select music from other website and use the link of the song in the second box.

This is really amazing, as you need not have to upload a song also, if you can give link of the song , from song download website you use. Recommended duration for song is 15-45 second but we recommend if you have speedy internet connection then upload the full song. After you upload the song the system will check about your identity as human. And we see one of the
most advanced form of capta using here. You will have given some simple math and you have to put the result in capta box.

After that the software scan the song for about 2 min and will provide the required information. Please note that if it does not find the song detail it will say sorry to you.

The software provider confirm that now only english and russian songs are presumed to be used in their database. The database is over one million songs.

The provider also recommend that if you are uploading a 15 -45 sec clip , then please do it from the middle of the song. For better result.

So this are the two services for you at the end of this valentine month.

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Microsoft Security Essential (IT-49-TN-23.02.2010)

Microsoft security essential

Microsoft is trying continuously to be visible in security market from long time. Lastly they introduced Windows live one care , a paid security software for total pc protection. But the product did not get the market at all. Its because it has overpriced, as per people and it has not efficiently build as people experience.So Microsoft dropped. But they have not gave up. Now they are again in the market with new security software "Microsoft security essential".

With the lunch of this microsoft trying to eliminate the need of user to purchase their party security software for basic home using computers.Pleas note microsoft specifically announced its only intended to protect home users. so don't expect that much expertise that you find in professional security softwares.

This software is intended to protect you from virus, spyware, and other malware. Microsoft's new firewall which comes with vista and windows 7 has inbound and outbound link scanning capability. So your round is complete. Provided windows firewall is on ,and microsoft security essential is installed your pc is seemed secured.

Most importantly its free. Microsoft is not charging anything and its hard trying to give you an alternative to popular free antivirus, AVG, OR AVAST with added firewall security.

What specially we noticed that this time microsoft send this software for testing to world's renown security research firm like vb100, ICSA LAB, westcoast Lab. They get checkmark stamp from westcoast lab. So by this move microsoft assures people that this time they has industry grade security.

Installation is smooth and fast with custom installer.

here is the system requirement as per microsoft..

Operating System: Genuine - Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3); Windows Vista (Gold, Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2); Windows 7

>> For Windows XP, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 500 MHz or higher, and 256 MB RAM or higher.

>>For Windows Vista and Windows 7, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 1.0 GHz or higher, and 1 GB RAM or higher.
      > VGA display of 800 × 600 or higher.
      > 140 MB of available hard disk space.
     > An Internet connection is required for installation and to download the latest virus and spyware definitions for Microsoft Security Essentials.
     >Internet Browser:
          o Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
          o Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later.

One of the most interesting think is microsoft enables installation of this product in windows 7 which will take care of windos xp mode in windos 7. It means you can also protech the windows xp installed in windows 7 through this software suit.But for this you need a windows 7 with minimum this requirement

#1 GHz 32-bit / 64-bit processor required
#Memory (RAM) * 2GB memory or higher recommended

#Recommended 15 GB hard disk space per virtual Windows environment

After installation you need to update this software for latest virus definition. Please note that while installing this software will check wheather your windows version is genuine. It if fails this software is not going to install on your pc.

Its a real time software, so as soon as it installted and updated it will start background monitoring of your pc's process and files. You can also initiate a custom scan, so that you can manually scan your pc for any issue.

The interface is very clean and neat in look. Microsoft worked hard to get the appearence looking professional. We are not professional tester, but in our informal test we find the software working smothly with tight integration with windows firewall.

As the software running realtime so, it will promot you will a nice little dialog bos colore coded then it found security flow, or virus. You can simple click the clean button, to clean it . Or you can also go for a detail view before going to treat it. In the overview window you will given options of different clean method.

Whenever your pc is infected the software interface colore will change accordingly, from green to brown to red. So you will be always know what is the issue. The simple cute interface only has four tab, HOME, UPDATE, HISTRY, AND SETTING.

There are four alert lever for you. Severe and high is for urgent take care. Medium and low is for moderate flaw and you can check it for yourself before removing.

A very useful service introduced with this software is privacy setting. The administrator can restrict the other user of computer to see the list of virus detected. It is helpful for accidental misuse by kids at home. You can activate this feature in the setting menu.

Like all other antivirus vendor microsof also rely on community support , so there is a community called spynet, you can send automatically the threat find in your computer to community for saveing others.Based on the membership level, you will be send email , or newletter regarding security issues.

Very interestingly microsoft may require administration password before installing a severe rated software in your pc.That is if security essential mark a download denger and yet you are trying to install it. This is very useful as your pc will alwasy be safe from kids accidental installtion of corrupted game or software.

Finally, microsfot is getting closer to customers. They have added a lot resources to support you regarding any issued relating to security essential software. There is knowledge base, community support, then lastly e-mail direct to microsoft.

We find that this software is effectively workes to save your pc. Detection is fine for home user and a very clean well difined interface can give a royal challenge to avg or avast.

Download the software from here :

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Google Buzz !! (IT-48-TN-19.02.2010)

Google Buzz, Google’s new google to us.

The very latest buzz in the market is google buzz. Its Google's effort to do something similar to twitter, the world’s no 1 , micro blogging site. Twitter is capturing the market in such phenomenon speed that every major market giant is getting themselves at a loss to compete.

Everyone is trying to make something comparable with twitter or alike. But few make a mark, and lastly all ending up to offer user to attach their twitter account in respective websites. In this crowd, google buzz is a interesting move an innovative too. It may, if user accept it will create a new standard in micro blogging , embedded in email service.

The main war mainly stated by Microsoft a year ago, by offering a complete package to users which is yet unbeatable . Microsoft’s offer is to give a user a platform where from a single point, they can use e-mail, chat, social network, share photo, document, video, fev , use blog, and use a mammoth 25 GB online drive. This service is yet incomparable and has a huge reputation for international users. Every other is trying to give something like this.

Google buzz is a try from google to catch up Microsoft. We first referred about twitter, because market conception is like that. But our analysis says that google is eyeing big, and twitter’s platform is limited.

Google buzz is micro blogging embedded in google . And not only micro blog, but a extended feature of micro blog, photo blog. Google trying to give micro blogging a photo sharing platform as we feel.

Google buzz is very useful for those who are using twitter. For newcomer its also easy. Here we are given a first view of google buzz. You can try yourself to unlash the full features of google buzz.
Google buzz is tightly integrated into google email account. Most of people has a google account , with the misconception that orkut needs a gmail account to open. However google mail is one of the most used mail in the world. And also many organisation use google apps premium /standard edition for their employees. ( we also use google apps for our co-workers.)

So , now on when you open your google account, you will see a colourful ball just below the inbox icon in your mail. By clicking that you can enter the buzz area.

In the open box, you can create a buzz and spread it. You have the option to follow to your favourite persons from you contact and also from google’s network. People can follow you also. Your buzz will be shown in the buzz zone of your followers. In the same manner you can see the buzz of people you follow. Its just like a update option in the orkut. You create a buzz, spread it, and wait for comment, directly or through e-mail. So for sending a comment on the latest movie don’t need you to write 100 of scrap. Just buzz it, all goes to all your friends. Conversation can also be done through buzz. Adding a facebook famous function, google added the Like button to judge your popularity of your buzz in the web world. People can make open comment on buzz and also do private emails. And to make buzz totally free from any bias, there is no rule that you can follow person only in your e-mail contact list. You can find people form google large network also.

Very interestingly google integrate its chat function with buzz, so if you like a buzz, and the buzzer is online, you can instantly initiate a chat with him/her. This is the function we like most. And also we are expecting google chat standalone client will integrate buzz in its next update.

In a smart way google integrate the reply option of twitter to buzz. You can reply a user, so that your comment will be seen only be the user to whom you are commenting and his/her follower. Just like twitter. But for this there is no reply button, what you have to do is to just start your comment with a @ symbol. It will go to directly to the buzzer’s inbox. But for this the buzzer must be in your contact.
You can buzz photo, video. Just share the link, just like you do in orkut. Its easy. And the photo rendering is faster than orkut when your follower will see the photo you send.

Just like your remote for muting sound, you can mute buzz also, just enable keyboard shortcut, and press ‘m’ , the update of your buzz will stop entering in inbox.

There is a very easy option to share a buzz you like, just click the email button, the email will be ready with buzz content on it.

Finally google allows you to connect your account in twitter, flickr, picasa and google reader. So enough space to share photo, and your twit directly to buzz. So people not following you in twitter but in your contact list will get your twit easily.....

That’s all about in the first look. But as we know google buzz is the beginning. Surely in future google will take buzz to next level, with surprising feature under the hood.

And remember , buzz can be used from mobile. So buzz on........

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Slide Show Magic (IT-47-TN-09-02-10)

WEB WATCH : expand your imagination with slide

We all have one id at least in any of social network. Be it orkut, facebook, or myspace. And we make friends. Mostly we do share photo. We love to share photo. Clicked by us , of our memorable event. Social networking sites now a days are most powerful tool for sharing photo. Google’s picasa is big hit. Now everyone have camera mobile. So we shoot photo and post it in orkut, and in seconds it goes to millions of visitors including our friends.

But there is a little problem. All of the networking sites have a slide show facility. But that is very basic. Today we are living in High definition age. We use internet at more than 1 mb per second. So we can do more. More than just a slide show.

So here we are going to share you a brand new way of sharing photo in your favourite social networking. With slide show, back ground music, your personalised theme, and lots more. After you posting your photos it seems it is done a professional photo/video editor and not you. And no visitor feel bore if he / she otherwise would be. The aesthetic will make them to sit straight. We are showing it to you, now its your imagination and creativity that may take you high in your friends eye.

First go to the site http://www.slide.com/ and make a profile first. This website features more than one service..but let’s concentrate only in photo sliding..

First choose the background music you want to be with your photo slide. You will find here the top numbers from international singers. So there must be one of your favourite.

Now you have to upload photo to put into your slide show. What is wonderful company done is that you now can choose photo not only form the pc you are working but also from any other network site (included their service) where your photo is stored. And they tied up with best photo storing and sharing sites, like Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Flickr and some more. So if you are in a public pc, them simple use the button to go to facebook or flikr to get your photo directly to your operation table. Even if the website where you have stored photo is not in the list, no problem, use the last option. Image url, just find your photo in net, click the url and copy paste to the operation table. The photo will add to your slide show.
Now a little housekeeping and its time to show your creativity. There are a lot of customization option given. You can change style , skin, theme, music /video, effect , size. Do all your creative work to make your friends surprise . last but not the least. You can set the privacy too. Means if you want this slide show will not be viewable to public except with whom you share.

Now come a little bit in bottom of the screen do more customisation. You can change the size of the picture, colour, and background colure, slide show name and shuffling option. Remember for changing colour or background colour you have to double click on the colour tab.One interesting thing , you can change the name of the picture too. Means renaming function is also present there. For changing order, just click the photo and drag to required position. Ultimate customisation, we are amazed. Take note, if you are creative enough, you can make a skin of your slideshow of your own.

Also , if you are not satisfy about your photo quality you can edit it online. Change the order the photo will come or shuffle. So do all your housekeeping and after that click SAVE (and get code).

Now after saving, you can view a preview of your creation. And you will delight too. It is more than you expect for sure. Now just click classic or pink. And experience the magic. Its a complete movie made by you. You can add the full cast behind your photos. If there are any. Now put some details and save it.

Now all done, start sharing. The first option is to share by a URL. You can find the url in the middle of the page, named “share slide show”. Copy and link and mail it/ scrap it to all your friends. They will click the link and can see the slide show instantly.

You can other lot option for sharing. This is perhaps the best think in this site. You need not to share tears for posting it to all your joined network. The service itself has very good posting guidance for you. On the left hand side you will find the lint of network , there are facebook, orkut, and more and for those whose network are not in the list there is plain html conversion process.

So click your desired network name and your network specific guideline for posting your slide show will come up in the page. Just follow it and you are done. You can also share direly from here through email. Click the Share Slide show, and fill up the form, rest will be taken care of by the website.

So now your wonderful creation is ready for public view. Wait for call from your friends to say congrates.

This service is available in 8 language so most coverage is done. www.slide.com has some other service that we will cover some time in future. Now enjoy with your photo.

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Delete Stubborn File Easily (IT-46-TN-05-02-10)

Delete Stubborn File Easily

Perhaps one situation we always face, with our printer. At times you give the print command and print stopped. And so badly that you cann’t cancel the print. It shows the message “ deleting” but the process is endless. You re-start your pc but the problem remains. The file in the print Q and you can give another print comment. You know the problem is in temporary files. That catch with the printer. But you can delete all temporary file. You will encounter a message “ file in use” .

There are a lot of situation where you find “can’t delete, write protected”, “ file in use “ message while trying to delete or moving a file. It indicates that file you are intending to delete or move is locked by some program, running in background. And we are not so expert to delete then because we don't know how to stop background process.

Here is a simpler process to do that.

Download and install a very tiny software. Get it from here http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/ . the software name UNLOCKER. It will help you a lot in many situation. Even in deleting some software traces which are normally not deleted by uninstalling through any means.

Installation is very fast and there is an option to have e-bay shortcut in your desktop. Tick it off if you don’t need it. On the first installation it goes to your taskbar and will add to start-up entry. We recommend it to off it from loading in start-up. And remember if you are using windows vista or windows 7 , then install it in administrative right.

Now you find unlocker in your right click context menu.

Now lets use it.

Just right click the file you want to delete. Remember don’t click multiple file at a time. Click only one at a time. Then if the file in use you will have a dialog that will show you which software is using the file. Just select or click “unlock all” , the desired file will unlock. Then you can delete is easily. Even if it does not delete as it is a stubborn file or core operating system file, this wonderful software can easily delete it in next booting up of your pc. But make yourself very sure that you are not deleting a legitimate file.

There are by default three option given to you. Delete, Rename and move. You can also rename a file when it is already in use. The change will come into effect from the next time you use the file. You can move a file if otherwise you are not able to move it. In the cases of some very large file movement in windows may cause problem.

Even without unlocking the file when it is busy you can simply kiss the process and use the file for other use. Even you can make a copy of the file in being use. Very nice feature of get a file from working pc, or friends pc without closing the file. Saves a lot of time.

When you are going to unlocking a file, the software will show you the locking path, pic no, and other relevant information so that your decision will be firm based on actual information. Remember you can unlock several process so don’t be tempted. Here are some screenshots that may help you.

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New Features in Office 2010 (IT-45-AP-02.02.10)

Jump lists in Outlook 2010:

As you’ll might have seen, Outlook 2010 now makes use of Windows 7’s Jump list feature for quick access to certain processes. Screen shot

UPDATE:

PowerPoint Gets Word 2007’s Equation Editor & New ‘Action’ Tab

PowerPoint 2010 now has the Equation Editor. Along with it, there is another tab – ‘Action’ which allows you to configure mouse-click or mouse-hover action of objects. Options include running a Macro or a program amongst others. Screen shot:

Some new features in PowerPoint 2010

Broadcast Presentations To Your Clients:

This is one sweet feature! Now you can broadcast your presentations by sending the intended viewer a URL, this works along with Office Live Workspaces & you need an account of the same. Screenshot:

Record Slideshows As Videos!

Well, don’t know why this wasn’t there in O2003 or O2007. Screenshot:

Inserting & Editing Videos Is Painless & Fun:

I never really enjoyed inserting videos in my presentations

Compress Media While Saving Presentations

As shown above, the all new file menu, known as — Backstage gives you options to compress the media files inserted in the presentation to reduce file size, it even gives an estimate of the presentation size. Screenshot:

New Animations & Slide Transitions

My favorite from the new ones is the Gallery transition effect. Another addition to transitions is that can be defined. Screenshots:

Backstage looks changed:

Backstage IMO is an amazing part of Office 2010 and you loved its program specific color gradient look. It’s gone. Replaced with a really sad full white background and program specific color swish at the lower right corner. You really liked the way Backstage looked in Office 2010 Technical Preview. Screenshot:

Besides the look, the options have been juggled a bit as well. In Office 2010 Technical Preview, the Save, Save as options were under the Info tab. In Office 2010 Beta, the Info tab has been separated. Screenshot of the Technical Preview & Beta side-by-side:

Themes are back:

Introduced in Office 2007, a mute option in the Technical Preview, the 3 – Silver, Blue & Black themes are back in Office 2010 Beta. You loved the black color scheme in Office 2007 but didn’t appreciate that it was broken so to say. In Office 2010 Beta, the black color scheme blends perfectly well with Aero. Screenshot, comparing the black color scheme in Office 2007 (left) & Office 2010 (right):

Pixilated icons fixed:

Some of the new features that we saw in Office 2010 Technical Preview had pixilated icons, the icons have been fixed and the features have been refined.

The pixilated icon for Record Slideshow in PowerPoint 2010 Technical Preview has also been fixed.

The new Smart Art sections I pointed out in the previous article had the same icon for Picture & Pyramid. It has been fixed in PowerPoint 2010 Beta.

New Slide Transitions in PowerPoint 2010 Beta:

PowerPoint 2010 Technical Preview added some new transition effects but the icons had a ‘?’. In PowerPoint 2010 Beta, more slide transitions have been added and the icons have been fixed. Screenshot:

Language Review:

In Word 2010 Beta, the Editing Language option as seen in Word 2010 Technical Preview has been replaced with just Language (the new icon is beautiful). The option allows you to change the proofing language & also manage the Language Settings in Word 2010’s options. Screenshot:

Linked Notes:

This little feature looks quite promising since One Note will be able to sync with its web version & mobile version. Word now has the added option of linking your documents with One Note. Screenshot: