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Track PC Power Consumption With Microsoft Joulemeter : " Tracking a PC’s or Laptop’s power consumption can be helpful in several ways. It can for instance be used to analyse power usage to reduce the energy bill or find ways to increase a laptop’s battery life by reducing the overall power usage. Microsoft Joulemeter is an experimental program for Windows that can track the PC power consumption. It is compatible with desktop and mobile computers. The application places an icon in the Windows system tray on startup. A click on that icon displays the main interface where the power consumption and statistics are displayed and constantly updated. The power consumption is divided into base, cpu, disk and monitor which are added to get a total power consumption. The application currently is not measuring the gpu’s power consumption which – on modern computer systems – uses lots of power. It also has to be noted that the values are estimations if the application is installed on a desktop

Duplicate Music Files Scanner Similarity : " If you are like me you probably have a big music collection on your PC. Mine was created by ripping music CDs, recording streaming Internet radio and downloading music from the Internet, all perfectly legal of course. It is likely that duplicate music files exist in large music collections that have been build from different sources. A duplicate file scanner like Similarity can aid in the detection of duplicates to free up disk space and make the music collection more accessible. Similarity uses three different detection types for finding duplicate music files. It looks at the content, music tags and an experimental networks mode which basically utilizes P2P technologies to discover duplicates. Usage of Similarity is pretty straightforward. You point the program to one or multiple directories and hit the start button afterwards. Supported are local directories, network directories, removable storage devices and Windows 7 libraries. The

Project Emporia: Microsoft e l'analisi dei social network : " L’approccio di Microsoft ai social network avviene seguendo canali molto diversi tra loro: quello forse meno evidente è legato agli investimenti su Facebook quando nel 2007 la multinazionale acquistò l’1,6% della piattaforma per $240 milioni. Tenendo conto di ciò, sono tre le vie perseguite da Redmond per accostarsi al web 2.0: la prima è Windows Live, che permette da tempo d’integrare sul profilo utente i più disparati servizi esterni. Un secondo avvicinamento riguarda Bing, che da un lato contribuisce alla ricerca di Facebook e dall’altro implementa vari mashup di Twitter. In ultimo, Microsoft lavora assiduamente sui social media attraverso FUSE Labs — noto per la creazione di Docs.com (o, più semplicemente Docs). Dopo la nascita di Spindex è un altro progetto a fare “capolino”: Emporia è sostanzialmente un aggregatore di stream recuperati dai trending topic di Twitter. Quanto FUSE Labs intende predisporre c

Drum machine su internet: Monkey Machine : " Se siete appassionati di musica, su internet potrete trovare tantissime risorse per accedere ai vostri brani musicali preferiti. Ci sono infatti servizi web di ottima qualità, che permettono di ascoltare in streaming la musica che…"

Mettere a fuoco le foto sfocate con Focus Magic : " Quante volte vi sarà capitato di scattare una foto con la propria fotocamera digitale e successivamente scoprire che è venuta sfocata , prima di eliminarla definitivamente possiamo provare a mettere a fuoco la foto e sperare che la qualità sia migliore. Per eseguire questa operazione non è necessario utilizzare costosi programmi ma può essere fatto con un software gratuito e scaricabile direttamente da internet, si chiama Focus Magic e il suo unico obbiettivo è proprio quello di mettere a fuoco le foto sfocate . Nell’immagine in alto a questo articolo vengono mostrati alcuni esempi di immagini messe a fuoco, ovviamente il risultato non è perfetto ma almeno la qualità dell’immagine aumenta rispetto a quella originale. Una volta scaricato Focus Magic dobbiamo installarlo e infine avviare il programma, successivamente carichiamo la foto sfocata e andiamo a selezionare dalla barra dei filtri la funzione “ Focus “, ora non ci

Walking On Water : "Thank you to Tom Furman for posting this to a forum I frequent. In my younger years, I worked as a life guard. After closing, we would put the flexible pool covering over the water and have contests to see how far we could run before sinking - the technique that worked w. it (running "lightly" with quick feet) seems to be what they are using here. We never thought to actually try it on bare water!!! Amazing. :) "

Gestire L’Hardware Del Computer Con Un Live CD : " Sappiamo tutti quanto possano essere utili i Live CD (quei CD in grado di rimettere a posto un computer anche quando questo non parte), tant’è che sono oramai tantissime le software house che hanno rilasciato un loro Live CD. Quello che vi presentiamo oggi è un Live CD che utilizza un’interfaccia piuttosto spartana , accessibile ad utenti smanettoni o che hanno dimestichezza con l’interfaccia DOS. Come gestire l’hardware del computer con un live CD Si tratta di Ultimate Boot CD . una distro Linux contenente una serie di software free per la gestione dell’hardware e il rilevamento e rimozione di virus: il funzionamento è quello di ogni altra Live CD, per cui una volta masterizzata la iso bootabile, basterà avviare il computer con il disco inserito e fare il boot da CD. A questo punto si aprirà il menu di Ultimate Boot CD , con tutto l’elenco dei tool integrati, includenti utility per la gestione delle pa

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MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download : " You've seen it teased , and now it's time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x MeeGo release onto whatever device you've got handy. As of right now, MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks and v1.0 for Nokia N900 are available for download, with the former supporting Atom-based machines and the latter supporting... well, we'll let you take a stab there. The API that's being released includes Qt 4.6, and while the current SDK is tailored for netbooks, the next version -- slated to hit devs in June -- will support 'touch-based devices, such as handsets and tablets.' We're also told that v1.1 will be outed in October, with the development tree already being open. We're certainly digging the layout shown here at a glance, but why not give that source link a visit and find out how it suits you in real li

Paragon Drive Copy Review : " Paragon Software is known for an extensive catalogue of applications related to backup, hard drives, virtualization and data recovery. They release new versions of their programs each year and often give away older versions for free for a limited period of time. Drive Copy 9.5 Personal is offered for free today at the Giveaway of the Day website. Some users might believe that Drive Copy is a backup software but it is listed under virtualization at the Paragon website. Drive Copy can be used to create a virtual clone of the PC. This includes all data on the PC including the operating system, drivers, settings as well applications and files. Drive Copy supports two virtual file formats: VMWare and MS Virtual PC. The user needs the software from the developer of the virtualization solution to use the virtual clone of the PC. Drive Copy 9.5 Personal is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit edition at the Giveaway of the Day website. Installation involves the us

Create HTML Signatures Right Inside Gmail : " This tip describes how you can create sleek and professional looking HTML signatures for your outgoing Gmail messages right inside Gmail itself without requiring any extensions or add-ons. HTML Signatures for your Google Email Gmail does support email signatures but the problem is that it limits you to plain text – you can’t add graphics (like your company’s logo) to the signature and there’s absolutely no support for HTML so you can’t use different font styles or colors for the signature text. There are workarounds . For instance, you can create an email signature in Outlook or some HTML editor and then copy-paste the whole thing to your Gmail message. Or you can get one of these browser add-ons to create rich HTML signatures directly on the Gmail /Google Apps website. There’s a third-option as well – it’s easy, it’s fun and doesn’t require extensions. Best of all, you can create multiple signatures for the same Gmail account a

Train Near Miss : "That photograph must be pretty damn important... ________________________________________ Here's another...Mere seconds from a major fail! "