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I love my Nokia N95 is the wide range of applications that can be installed. Just feast your eyes on If you’re looking to pimp your Nokia N95 then there are some great applications here:

1. Fring: Free mobile VoIP app with Skype, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Twitter support
2. SlingPlayer Mobile: Stream and control your SlingPlayer
3. The Filter: Navigate your music in style and create on the fly playlists
4. Emoze: Full Outlook push sync - who needs a crackblackberry?
5. Nokia Sports Tracker: Keep track of your training schedule
6. WWIGO: Webcam Wherever I Go - works both ways, using the N95’s camera
7. Movino: Collection of open source for broadcasting/streaming to smartphones
8. Calcium: One of my personal favs, the best calculator for S60 handsets
9. Lifeblog: blog and share your photos on the move
10. Shozu: Post your photos and videos to multiple sites
11. Gizmo: Make calls over WiFi to save money
12. Jaiku Mobile: Alternative to twitter
13. MyStrands: Great music player and discovery tool
14. Handy Taskman: Adds several useful toos to your Nokia phone
15. RotateMe: Give the iPhone a run for its money with this cool screen orientation
tool
16. Screenshot For Symbian: Save your screenshots in popular image formats
17. Opera Mini: Great browser for smartphones
18. Flip Silent: When a call comes in, go into silent mode just by flipping your
phone!
19. Shutup: Another silence/flipping service
20. Wavelog: Blogging service for S60
21. Dr Kukka’s Inclinometer: No practical use other than to show off to mates. Tells you when you are tilted….
22. QIK: Stream videos from your N95 to the web
23. Nokia Internet Radio: A….radio service
24. EXTGPS: Use the N95 GPS with your laptop via bluetooth

Thanks to N95 blog for the list.

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That old email might come in handy one day. Email backup should be the simplest task in the backup calendar, but it rarely turns out to be so. Outlook – the market leader – is best used with a cloud of other Microsoft messaging system around it, but anyone who dares to use it on an isolated basis will have to watch out for themselves.

If your company has an Exchange server setup then the backups will do done for you on a periodic basis, usually a week, and all that is needed is a call to the sysadmin to get a restore. If you work for a small business, or are on your own, the world might be a lot more complicated.

This article assumes that email is not left on or used with an Exchange server, and that email backup from the client is a critical task. The main reasons that Outlook backup on standalone PCs is important is data loss and migration from one machine to another. It’s only been with the arrival of XP and Office 2003 that Microsoft has started to pay attention to the fact that people other than corporate users have been using Outlook for their POPmail, and need tools and guidance to make the process easier.

1: The long way

In principle, it should be an easy if manual process – just back up the relevant files, specifically the Outlook .pst file (containing email, folders, contacts and calendar), on a regular basis. There are a number of ways to find this file in the blizzard of directories on a hard disk, the easiest of which is to use the MAIL setup in Control Panel. Click on this, the click on Data files, then Personal Folders, then settings. The directory path to the .pst file will be visible. This file can be copied manually, or noted to be added to a backup schedule.

Unfortunately, as simple as this sounds, the .pst file has to be created from within Outlook on a regular basis. Its creation is not automatic, and this is where most of the problems begin. The manual operation involves using the import and export feature on the FILE menu, and following the prompts using “export to file”. There are several types of output file – which go unexplained of course – but the one to choose is the “Personal Folder File (.pst)” option. Using any of the others will necessitate adding a filter from the Office install CD. Are any of these alternative file formats useful? Only perhaps if you want to export for import into a separate database, otherwise they should be ignored.

Make sure to select the correct root folder in Outlook, and to click the check box that specifes to copy sub-folders. Depending on the version of Outlook (i.e not the cut-down Outlook Express), there will be an option to compress and encrypt the data, and add a password.

2. The simpler way

Being a Microsoft application, there is always a simpler but less obvious way to do all this. Just click FILE, then NEW, then “Outlook Data file”. Copy that file. Just remember where you copied it from when the time comes to copy back. See Microsoft’s description.

3. The best option

The main issue with these solutions is that they involve the user remembering to back up the file manually, an obvious weakness. But there is another way that an amazing number of people don’t know about. For some time now, Microsoft has offered a 160K plug-in for outlook that turns Outlook backup into a one-command task that can also be configured to remind the user to run the command on a scheduled basis.

The tool can be found here, installs in seconds, and puts a simple “backup” command on to the File menu. Open this and folder (data) files and archives can be selected for backup as needed. It also automates the restore process, so no need to remember which directory the .pst must go in as would be needed when using the above methods.

Make sure this backup setup has been tested, perhaps using a second dummy email account. Create the account, import a .pst, then back it up using the plug-in command. No point in getting to the desperate day when a reinstall is needed only to discover that not all the folders or emails have backed up correctly. It does happen.

So why bother with options 1 and 2 at all? It never hurts to know your enemy, particularly if (as is possible), the backup is being made while the PC hard disk is failing and won’t allow certain types of menus or Windows functions to be accessed. In that case – if the above software is not functioning properly – there is a final line of defence called MS-DOS which will allow you to get at the *.pst file.

Access DOS (type “cmd”), and hunt for the file using the DIR command in the Outlook sub-directory below C:/Program Files. I encountered precisely this problem recently, and the command that saved the day was a piece of DOS poetry. The following found the file, allowing the simple copy command (with verification) to be wielded once the file had been located.

DIR C:\ /s /b | FIND “*.pst”

Using Outlook Express? It’s not as easy to do, but Microsoft provides the basics on its website.

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By David Geer, CSO

Mobile phone malware - viruses, worms and Trojan programs created to attack the devices - are rare, but starting to appear in Japan and Europe, where 3G technology is more popular, according to Corey Nachreiner, a network security analyst at vendor WatchGuard Technologies.

By the time such malware hits domestic users’ handsets the programs are expected to blend into more complex threats. Some examples recently hitting overseas users include:

More generally, buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the Windows Mobile software, according to Fogie, in cases where an application has not been programmed to properly check the format of incoming data. Such attacks will become more prevalent as the platform grows, Fogie says.

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If your Adsense earning per day drop suddenly while the site traffic remains stable or even on the uptrend, most likely there are too many junk ads appear on your account!

Junk ads used to be low-cost-per-click (LCPC) ads that lead readers to made-for-ads (MFA) websites which are 99.99% classified as link farm, splog, nonsense, etc.

Please don’t click your own ads to preview the link, You will be ban from adsense if you do this.

You read more about Top 10 AdSense Don’ts

So how do i preview the link by not clicking them?

You need to install adsense preview tool on your web browsers.

For Firefox click here

For IE click here

After you have install them, you can preview your ads link.

After you get the link How To Identify LCPC/MFA Ads?

Adsense junk ads usually lead the readers to a website that sharing one or more of these characteristics:

1. With a zero Google Pagerank

2. With a really simple and plain web template / theme design - the web design looks like a homework of novice who have just completed the first day of web development course.

3. There is no About or Contact page that can convince readers about the site history or trustworthy value.

4. Redirect readers to another URL that is different from the URL shown in the ads.

5. The same web theme / template used among few tens of URLs that own by the same entity!

6. Made-for-ads (MFA) link farm - full of ads and links that point visitors to other less popular websites.

7. URL with misspell word (e.g affiliate as affilate, junction as junktion, etc), long domain name and/or with dash symbol, etc.

8. Using free hosting site example Blogger or Wordpress

Other than these manual ways to identify LCPC junk ads, there is a web service that used to automatically and directly update the list of junk ads in your Adsense account!

Once the LCPC junks are identified, use the Adsense Competitive Ad Filter to blacklist or block them from appearing!

How to add links to Competitive Ad Filter?

Login to your adsense account, click adsense Tab then Competitive Ad Filter Tab.

Paste your junk link and save changes.

Good luck on your adsense earnings!!

With Windows Live Photo Gallery, your images are no longer limited to what you can squeeze into one photo. Windows Live Photo Gallery can automatically “stitch” together several photos in a series to create a larger, more interesting composition.

In the past, taking panoramic photos required a special camera or the ability to use complicated camera features. The only other option was to paste photos together by hand. Photo Gallery makes creating panoramic photos much easier—and much more fun.

Getting started

1. Take a series of photos that overlap a little. Here is an example using photos of Amsterdam.

The four photos used to create the panorama

2. After you import the photos into Photo Gallery, select them by holding down the CTRL key while you click each photo.

3. Click Make, and then click Create a panoramic photo.

4. Photo Gallery analyzes and adjusts the photos so they fit together smoothly.

5. Select a name and folder location for the panoramic photo.

Photo Gallery stitches the photos together

The quality of the panoramic photo depends on the amount of overlap in the photos and the similarity of the lighting between the photos. Experiment with it a few times until you get a good feel for the type of photo scenes that stitch together best from your particular camera.

6. After the photos are stitched together, you can clean up the rough edges by cropping the photo. Click Fix, and then click Crop photo.

You can crop your panoramic photo to clean up the edges and create a good composition

7. Select the section of the photo you want to keep and click Apply.

You can apply the changes to your panoramic photo

8. When you’re finished editing your new panoramic photo, click Back to gallery to return to the gallery. Photo Gallery automatically saves the photo for you.

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Sometimes while giving presentations in office you want to play some management related YouTube videos and those you play in between presentation by opening YouTube website but now you can include them in your PowerPoint presentations.

Shyam Pillai, a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional), has developed a tool to use to link to a YouTube Video within your PowerPoint 2007 presentation. Use this to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint slide. All you need to do is to provide the YouTube video URL that appears in the browser address bar, the rest is taken care of by the YTV Wizard.

A live internet connection is required to playback the video during the slideshow. Use the free FlashBack add-in to play/rewind the YouTube video automatically.

How to install ?

1. You need to first extract the contents of the zip to a folder.
2. Open PowerPoint.
3. Click on Office Button PowerPoint Options.
4. In the PowerPoint Options dialog, select the Add-ins tab.
5. Select ‘PowerPoint Add-ins’ from the Manage drop down and click ‘Go…’
6. On the Add-ins dialog, click ‘Add New…’ .
7. Navigate to the folder where the contents of the zip file was extracted and select ‘YouTubeVideo2k7.ppa’ and click on OK.
8. During installation process you might be prompted with the macro virus warning. Enable the macros. When the Add-in is properly loaded, it will display a tick against the add-in name.

How to use ?

1. Select on Insert Tab click on YouTube Video.
2. Enter the URl to the YouTube video.
3. Provide the additional info required.
4. YTV will create the slides with Flash control embedded on the slide.
5. Run the slide show.
6. The video will be displayed during the slide show.

Credits to http://www.technologyhacker.com

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By Nadeem Unuth

Answer:
I myself don’t have a fixed way of saying it. So many people in the world pronounce it in so many different ways.

The most commong pronunciations are:

vee-oh-eye-pee (It’s like spelling it)
voyp (like in voice or void)
Voice over IP (that’s rather a phrase)
internet telephony (maybe that’s… evading acronyms)

There is no pronunciation that it more correct than the other, since English is a dynamic language to which certain words are added or changed on popular demand. I’m not sure whether VoIP has entered the dictionary yet, though.

‘Voyp’ (like in voice) and V.O.I.P (vee-oh-eye-pee like spelling it) are the most common pronunciations, but most of those who are not used to the technical term and who know the technology merely as one allowing to make phone calls over the Internet call it either ‘Internet Telephony’ or ‘Voice over the Internet’.

I myself am more at ease with vee-oh-eye-pee, like I say ess-kew-el (geek people normally say see-quel for SQL). I like it maybe because it is more faithful to what the letters represent. But at times of quick blabbering, I realize the importance of ‘voyp’ and ’see-quel’. So, for me, ‘voyp’ is quick and slang type and ‘vee-oh-eye-pee’ is more like ‘clean’ and pretentious language. But that’s only very subjective.

I feel that when an acronym gets a continuous pronunciation like a word (’voyp’), it is a sign of popularity and success.

Did you know the following are pronounced thus?

EBCDIC - eb-cee-dik
WSDL - wiz-dull
WYSIWYG - wi-zee-wig
GUI - goo-ee
ASCII - ass-kee

So, be at ease with ‘voyp’. Whichever way you say it, there still will be voice and IP in it!
The small ‘o’

Spelling VoIP is no big deal as it is an acronym of four letters. The only thing is that while the letters are in capital (like in all acronyms), the ‘o’ for ‘over’ is written in lower case. This is because it is a preposition, and you know how acronyms treat prepositions.

Back to pronunciation: my other daily language is French, so now I have to sort out how to say VoIP in French… whether ‘vé-oh-ee-pé’ or ‘vwap’!

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From Heinz Tschabitscher

If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You’ll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 10 free email services to choose from reviewed here.

1. Gmail - Free Email Service

Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail’s simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device. Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

2. AIM Mail - Free Email Service

AIM Mail, AOL’s free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface. Unfortunately, AIM Mail lacks a bit in productivity (no labels, smart folders and message threading), but makes up for some of that with very functional IMAP (as well as POP) access.

3. GMX Mail - Free Email Service

GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program. More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.

4. Yahoo! Mail - Free Email Service

Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web with unlimited storage and RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot. While Yahoo! Mail is generally a joy to use, free-form labelling and smart folders would be nice, and the spam filter could catch junk even more effectively.

5. Inbox.com - Free Email Service

Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program. Unfortunately, IMAP access is not supported by Inbox.com, and its tools for organizing mail could be improved with smart or self-teaching folders.

6. Gawab.com - Free Email Service

Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 2 GB online space, POP access and many a web-based goodie. It’s a pity Gawab.com lacks IMAP access and full message search.

7. Zenbe - Free Email Service

Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too. With a focus on elegant simplicity, Zenbe provides many sweet shortcuts but also shows quirks and omissions in others. The spam filter is good but IMAP and POP access missing.

8. FastMail Guest Account - Free Email Service

FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, one of the best web-based email interfaces and few ads.

9. Windows Live Hotmail - Free Email Service

Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you a 5 GB of online storage, fast search, solid security and an interface easy as a desktop email program. When it comes to organizing mail, Windows Live Hotmail does not go beyond folders (to saved searches and tags, for example), its spam filter could be more effective, and POP or IMAP access are missing.

10. Bluebottle - Free Email Service

Bluebottle offers email accounts that are practically free of spam (using challenge/response filtering) and can be accessed on the web or using POP with any email program. Bluebottle could offer more tools for efficiently handling mail, though, online storage is in a somewhat short supply, and challenge/response filtering comes with its own share of problems, too.

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Do you know Rapidshare Happy Hours ? Well,basically at this time Rapidshare will deavtivate its CAPTCHA system so that FREE user can download just like premium users.

If i’m not mistaken, Rapidshare Happy Hour time is between 11am to 1pm Eastern Time.

How To Easily Detect Rapidshare Happy Hour?
Actually there is a tool that can detect this happy time.It is called Rapishare Happy-Hour Checker. You can download this tool by clicking the link below :-

:: Download Rapishare Happy-Hour Checker ::

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