Mulve, Windows Music Downloader

Mulve, Windows Music Downloader: "

Earlier today, reviews of the free portable app Mulve made their rounds on the Internet. It probably originated at Torrentfreak and got picked up by other sites shortly thereafter as well.

Mulve, is a free, standalone program to download music from the Internet. It’s biggest feature? Simplicity. A double-click to start, a search phrase, and clicks on the Save button to save the music to the local hard drive. That’s all it takes to download music.

The availability of music is huge. The developers claim the program has access to ten million songs, and it surely feels that way. Search for some hip charts pop trash and you find it, search for other genres or artists and you find them, search for rare stuff and you are likely to get hits as well.

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A click on Extend Search will display more results on the same page. All downloadable with a single click. All results are shown with the artists name, title, length, bitrate and size of the song. It is even possible to sort the music, for instance to display the largest files on top, or to better handle results with multiple artists.

Download speeds are ok and it is possible to download multiple songs at once.

From a technical standpoint, there is not much that can be more comfortable or better. The program could use a search filter and an option to start downloads of multiple files at once.

Torrentfreak scanned a few of the downloads and found out that their source leads to Russia, more precisely the huge social network Vkontakte. Downloads are direct http downloads, there is no sharing involved in the process and the only way to find out that a user has downloaded music is from the traffic logs of the server they were downloaded from.

It is legal? We are no lawyers here. Legalities depend on the laws in the country of the user. For many countries this will likely be a No. The likelihood of discovery on the other hand is slim as well.

What’s your take on Mulve? Let us know in the comments.

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Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey

Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey

Free Face Recognition Software Blink! Improves The Windows Login Process

Free Face Recognition Software Blink! Improves The Windows Login Process: "

Most Windows users need to log into the system before they can access their system account. Some single computer users configure Windows to log in automatically, which is comfortable but not very secure. The free face recognition software Blink! offers a way to log in that is both secure but also comfortable.

The main requirement is a webcam, as it is used by the software to recognize the user’s face. Faces need to be registered and associated with Windows profiles. This step is best undertaken right after installation of Blink. It is a one time process to setup the face recognition system properly.

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Two basic steps need to be completed for every user account. The user needs to look into the webcam during the configuration, so that Blink can add the face to the database. Once the face has been recognized the Windows username and password need to be supplied. Those are then automatically used by Blink! to log in the user if the facial recognition was successful.

From that moment on, registered users can log into Windows by looking into their webcam. This works on fresh starts, on locked computers, after hibernation, standby and every other possible computer state.

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It is however still possible to log in normally by entering the password of the account with the computer keyboard. That’s a fallback if the webcam happens to be not available at that time, or the face recognition software fails to recognize the face of the user.

Blink! can be disabled at anytime, which takes effect on the next login attempt. The software is freely available for personal use. Downloads for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 are provided on the developer website.

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Spazzolino elettrico solare: elettroni come dentifricio!

Spazzolino elettrico solare: elettroni come dentifricio!: "

Uno spazzolino elettrico a energia solare, ecco la classica idea che non poteva che arrivare dal Giappone. Un bel solar powered toothbrush che si ricarica grazie all’energia pulita e gratuita del sole e non richiede,…"

E’ uscita la CyanogenMod 6.0 stable!

E’ uscita la CyanogenMod 6.0 stable!: "Finalmente dopo 3 release candidate stamattina è uscita la nuovissima CyanogenMod 6.0 stabile, il primo rilascio basato su FroYo della celebre ROM. QUI l’annuncio ufficiale, mentre QUI abbiamo aperto una discussione nel nostro Forum con i link al download disponibile comunque anche nel nostro TrovaFirmware."

Ricerca in tempo reale sui social media con 48ers

Ricerca in tempo reale sui social media con 48ers: "

48ers è un promettente motore che effettua ricerche attraverso i social network. Supporta del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Google Buzz e Twitter (in rigoroso ordine alfabetico). L’engine è ancora in fase sperimentale, ma è aperto al pubblico e già pienamente funzionante.

L’idea dei creatori di 48ers è quella di offrire una piattaforma che aiuti gli utenti a rintracciare le conversazioni in corso sui social network. Niente di nuovo, se consideriamo gli sforzi di Bing e Google per fare altrettanto. Eppure, 48ers è particolarmente accurato.

È curiosa l’origine del nome 48ers: si tratta della definizione affidata ai cercatori d’oro californiani in un libro del 1975. Come su Twitter è possibile partire da alcuni Trending Topics suggeriti in prima pagina. I risultati delle ricerche sembrano davvero soddisfacenti, confrontati con motori come Google Real Time.

Via | TheNextWeb

Ricerca in tempo reale sui social media con 48ers é stato pubblicato su downloadblog alle 10:00 di lunedì 30 agosto 2010.

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Upload Picasa People Photos to Google Contacts

Upload Picasa People Photos to Google Contacts: "Picasa 3.8 makes it easier to upload pictures for your Google contacts. After scanning all the photos from your library and adding name tags to your photos, you can go to the Tools menu, select Upload and click on Upload People Thumbnails.


Picasa asks if 'you want to upload and replace all the thumbnail photos from your People Albums to your Google Contacts'. If you click on 'Upload', Picasa saves the photos to Google Contacts and you can see them in Gmail or in any other application that synchronizes with Google Contacts (for example, Android's Contacts app or iPhone's Contacts app, if you use Google Sync).

If you don't want to upload photos for all your contacts, you can click on one of the people from Picasa's sidebar, right on a photo and select 'Set as Google Contacts Thumbnail'. You can also enable 'Upload people album thumbnails to Google Contacts' from Tools/Options/Name Tags (or Picasa/Preferences/Name Tags on a Mac) to upload the new thumbnails you select in Picasa.

It's strange to see that Google didn't add this option to Picasa Web Albums and that the photos tagged in Picasa Web Albums aren't displayed in Google Contacts. Google could at least offer the option to pick one of the photos tagged in Picasa Web Albums when you add a picture to one of your contacts. Right now, you can only select a photo from your public albums.

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Effettuare ricerche su enormi raccolte di dati anonimi con Pivot

Effettuare ricerche su enormi raccolte di dati anonimi con Pivot: "

Se mai vi foste domandati a cosa servano e dove finiscano i dati d’utilizzo raccolti in forma anonima dalle applicazioni, Pivot potrebbe essere una delle tante risposte possibili. È evidente che la maggior parte delle informazioni reperite dai programmi serve per condurre indagini statistiche di mercato, ma cosa accade ai dati trasmessi quando una campagna è terminata? Microsoft Live Labs ci offre la sua soluzione.

Pivot è un’applicazione per la ricerca attraverso quelle enormi raccolte di dati anonimi acquisite da Microsoft. Per intenderci, si tratta delle informazioni inviate ad esempio con Windows Live Messenger (se si è accordata l’autorizzazione). Il risultato è un database pressoché illimitato di dati pubblici da consultare. Pivot è una pesante interfaccia grafica che sfrutta Silverlight per navigare tra queste informazioni.

Sì, Pivot è molto “pesante” perché il trattamento di un simile ammontare di dati richiede elevati requisiti di sistema. Stiamo parlando di un processore da almeno 2Ghz, Windows Vista/7 con Aero abilitato e 256Mb min. di RAM video. Tutto ciò per «partecipare a un esperimento» che a sua volta dovrebbe essere una prova sul campo per il futuro di Bing.

Via | MakeUseOf

Effettuare ricerche su enormi raccolte di dati anonimi con Pivot é stato pubblicato su downloadblog alle 10:00 di domenica 22 agosto 2010.

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Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops

Adeona è il primo sistema Open Source per il tracciamento della posizione del computer portatile per smarrimento o furto . Ciò significa che è possibile installare Adeona su un computer portatile e andare - non è necessario affidarsi ad un terzo singolo partito. Inoltre, risolve una Adeona privacy obiettivo critico diverso dagli attuali offerte commerciali.


http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html