By The Gmail Team, on 2010.04.08, 07:27.00 pm
Posted by Manu Cornet, Software EngineerLabels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can't be in several folders at the same time. A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically.  If you think this might be useful to you, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for " Nested Labels," enable it and click "Save." You'll then need to name your label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. For example, let's say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a "Home" label, and inside it a "Family" and a "Vacation" label. Just create three labels with the following names: Home Home/Family Home/Vacation You can then create "Home/Family/Kids," "Home/Pets," etc., to get something like the screenshot on the left. If you had the parent label "Home" before you don't have to create it from scratch. You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that's the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You'll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it's bold or not. Please note that this lab doesn't play nicely with the "Hide Read Labels" lab. You might not get exactly what you expect if you have both labs enabled; for example, the collapse/expand icons won't always appear when they should. Another highly requested feature is the ability to preview messages to get a glimpse on what they contain and maybe take immediate action without opening them.  This is exactly what " Message Sneak Peek" does. After you turn it on, right-clicking on a line in your inbox shows a preview pane with the message in it. You can also use keyboard shortcuts for a faster sneak-peeking flow (enable keyboard shortcuts in Settings first if you haven't done so): hit 'h' to open a sneak peek card, then navigate with 'j' and 'k,' and dismiss the current card by pressing "Escape." Messages you peak at will stay unread (or it wouldn't really be a sneak peek, would it?). Happy nesting and peeking! 
By Neowin, on 2010.01.06, 08:10.53 am
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Key Features: Create PDFs from any program that is able to print Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc. Send generated files via eMail Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc. Merge multiple files into one PDF Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2010.01.05, 07:40.52 pm
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. What's new: Implement missing tab creation from context menu *nix: Reduce flicker on tab creation Set initial focus in chmod dialog to input box for numeric value Correct handling of unexpected closure of SFTP connection Download: FileZilla 3.31 Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.12.22, 12:30.54 pm
In an October knowledge base article, Microsoft gives certain recommendations to users running virus protection that could potentially lead to huge security risks. The suggestions come as a result of virus scan programs' tendency to slow down computer performance, especially when certain files are accessed. According to the article, certain files and folders do not need to be scanned by virus protection software. The article states, "Do not scan the following files and folders. These files are not at risk of infection. Read full story...
By CrunchGear, on 2009.12.03, 12:01.20 pm
I don’t watch a lot of television programming, and I’m not particularly patient with the way “Big Media” treats me, the consumer. I really wanted to like Flash Forward, but it’s pretty clear that the show is more interested in hitting that 100 episodes mark to earn syndication than it is in delivering an interesting, gripping story. So I gave up on that, and on a lark decided to try Fringe, to kill some time. Unfortunately, Hulu doesn’t have the beginning of the series, let alone the beginning of the current season. I’m not excited about jumping into the show midstream. I’m also not interested in navigating the various network websites to find their hosted copies of the shows I might watch. Isn’t that what Hulu was supposed to do for me?
Enter Clicker.com. “Clicker aims to become the complete programming guide to Internet television.” Indeed, they have an impressive catalog of more than 400,000 television episodes from 7,000 different shows, not to mention movies and original web content. They’ve been around for awhile, but today they’re unveiling their new Boxee app, allowing you to access their impressive catalog of content from within Boxee.
From the Clicker blog post:
Clicker’s Boxee app gives you the opportunity to experience our service in a brand new way — on your actual television. You can search for your favorite shows, movies and videos, or you can browse through hundreds of categories. All this while sitting 10 feet away with a (real) clicker in your hand.
Now we’re getting somewhere! I have Boxee installed on the Mac Mini attached to my television, though I don’t often use it. I’ve found it easier (for me) to simply use the Finder to navigate folders of media, and to play said media in VLC. That’s great for the movies I’ve ripped, but not so great for television programming I might like to watch. A unified interface to watch my movies and television would be great.
I eagerly installed the Boxee Clicker.com app, and tried it out. It’s a great idea, and shows a lot of promise, but there’s still a long way to go. To be fair, I recognize that this is a first release of the Clicker app, so there’s no way they’re going to have a fully functional release on their first try. Although I set up an account at Clicker.com, there’s currently no way for me to access that account from within the Boxee app. I’m told that’s coming very soon. Perhaps most aggravating, to me, is that the listing of available content within the Clicker.com app shows a lot of stuff to which I don’t actually have access. I foolishly clicked Ghostbusters from the “Popular Movies” column, which is sourced from Netflix. Nothing happened. Even if something did happen, I wouldn’t have been able to watch it anyway, since I don’t have a Netflix subscription. Oh Clicker, you tease me so.
I’ve spoken with the crew at Clicker and shared some of my frustration with this user experience. There are a number of challenging constraints with what they’re trying to do. From the Clicker website itself, clicking on a Netflix-sourced movie will take me to Netflix where I can sign in. From the Clicker app, selecting a Netflix-sourced movie should transfer the connection over to the Netflix app, assuming you’ve authenticated it. I uncovered a bug: when you don’t have the Boxee Netflix app activated, nothing happens. The Clicker team told me that they’d get to work on fixing this in a future version.
I can watch Ghostbusters for free at Crackle.com, and I can see that at the Clicker.com website. But the Clicker Boxee app doesn’t contain everything that their website indexes. From the Clicker app announcement:
Not all the programming you can discover on Clicker.com is available on Boxee yet, so our Boxee app explicitly features only shows or movies that are currently available through Boxee. That includes over 180,000 episodes from over 3,000 TV and Web shows, as well as 5,000 movies. We’re working with Boxee to add more content and many more sources in the future.
It’s true. There’s a lot of content displayed inside the Clicker.com app. Navigating all that content can be a little time consuming. Searching that content, right now, feels like a waste of time. Here’s a screenshot of me trying to search for Fringe:
Okay, so Fringe isn’t available through Clicker on Boxee — I can dig that. But the search results provided make no sense to me. I have no idea how a search for “fri” would produce that set of results.
Speaking with the Clicker crew, and using the Clicker website a bit more, clarified the situation: I was expecting a straight match of my search term against the raw show titles. Clicker, however, is being a lot more helpful. They don’t have Fringe to show me, but they are showing me other media that is related to Fringe in a number of ways. Maybe an actor from Fringe was a guest on Jay Leno’s show; or some behind-the-scenes piece about Fringe appears on another program. That’s what the search results are in the screenshot above. This is made much more obvious when you search the Clicker website: the results clearly indicate the connection to the search term. Again, it looks like I uncovered a bug, and the team is going to brainstorm ways to improve the search result listing to disambiguate why that set of results was returned.
There’s a lot of other little things that show that the Clicker.com app, while a great start, still has quite a ways to go. After speaking with the team, I’m actually quite enthusiastic about the future of the Clicker app on Boxee. The Clicker team says they’re listening to user feedback, and my experiences so far support that, so start tweeting and, uh, Facebooking your suggestions to make the Clicker app better.
By Neowin, on 2009.11.10, 06:09.22 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.11.02, 04:42.09 pm
SE-TrayMenu is a free tray launcher and hotkey manager for Windows. Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable popup menu. Main features: * Add any elements to your Windows system tray: programs, documents, folders, internet links and more * Specify global hotkeys to access everything you want with one click * Quick add of applications and links using drag and drop * Quick add of frequently used applications and installed programs * Completely customizable view with lots of pre-defined layouts and color schemes * Clear multilanguage interface: English, Deutsch, Russian and Hungarian * Portable version is available SE-TrayMenu is absolutely free for personal use. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.10.11, 09:22.43 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.10.05, 04:55.36 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.09.27, 05:53.20 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.09.27, 05:53.20 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By PC World, on 2009.09.18, 02:10.21 pm
By CrunchGear, on 2009.09.11, 04:18.30 am
Well this is a fine kettle of fish: Apple has added a secret folder to our file systems that essentially sucks any content inside into iTunes. The watched folders are:
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes/ in OS X
C:\Users\Your Username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes\ in Windows
If you drop an MP3 into there they get sucked into iTunes and disappear immediately, like a magic box. This would allow you to record your own music, for example, and add it to iTunes when you mix down and/or drag all your recently downloaded tunes straight into iTunes.
Apple didn’t quite publicize this feature for obvious reasons. Maybe this is the folder where they stuck the part of the presentation on the iPod touch with camera?
via LifeHacker
By CrunchGear, on 2009.08.27, 02:00.29 pm
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 in June of 2008, but there’s still a few of you out there who haven’t upgraded, despite, if nothing else, the security improvements. So what gives? Mozilla asked the abstainers, essentially, “Why haven’t you upgraded?” The answer, of course, has to do with Internet pornography. Doesn’t it always?
One of the shiny, new features of Firefox 3.0 (we’re now at Firefox 3.5.2, by the way) was the AwesomeBar, the nickname applied to the improved address bar. In older versions of Firefox, the address bar would only store addresses that you visited and/or typed in. So, if you always visit marca.com, whenever you typed “m” “marca.com” would pop up. And that’s the way these people liked it.
The problem with the AwesomeBar is that, not only does it search addresses you’ve typed/visited, but it also searches your bookmarks. Let’s say you have “hotgirlsdoinghotthings.com” bookmarked way in there, several layers below the fold, as it were. This becomes a problem if you share a computer with, say, your wife, and you don’t want her to see your crazy Web sites you’ve bookmarked whenever she types in the letter “h.”
Says a Mozilla designer:
When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn’t really want to have displayed. In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object. Having something from your previous browsing displayed to someone else who is using your computer (or even worse) to a large audience of people as you are giving a presentation, is really one of the most embarrassing things that Firefox can do to you.
So, tsk-tsk, people are, to use a rubbish cliché, biting their nose to spite their face, denying themselves the wonders of Firefox 3.0 because they’re being all secretive. Oh, dear.
By Neowin, on 2009.08.24, 06:39.24 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Bugfixes and minor changes: Fix crash if adding new filters Small performance optimization for local directory tree News source: Official website Download: FileZilla 3.2.7.1 Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.07.17, 04:32.22 am
Microsoft has announced Power Pack 3 (beta) for Windows Home Server today which adds important Windows 7 support to the list of features. Full Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows Home Server Connector is installed on your Windows 7 PCs, Action Center should no longer display that your files are not being backed up.Windows 7 Libraries Support. Music, Photos and Videos shared folders from your Windows Home Server will be added to Windows 7 Libraries. Content saved to these shared folders will be able to be quickly accessed through your Windows 7 Libraries. Read full story...
By CrunchGear, on 2009.07.07, 07:00.18 pm
What can be said about the latest Eye-Fi SD card that hasn’t been said about every other iteration? The Pro is just that, a Pro. With support for RAW files, Ad Hoc network support and Selective Transfer, the Eye-Fi Pro is perfection.
Using the Eye-Fi Manager, it took all of three minutes to get the Pro up and running on my Mac. Setting up an Ad Hoc network to my Mac was simple enough that a donkey could do it. From the wireless network dropdown list, select the “set up ad hoc network” option and create an ad hoc network. Once you’ve done that, refresh the network list, select your new ad hoc network and configure the Pro to recognize it going forward. Switch back to your wireless network and you’re done.
DSLR users can now shoot in RAW or RAW+ and have those images directly upload to their respective desktops/laptops over Wi-Fi. Eye-Fi creates two separate folders for RAW images (7-6-09) and JPEG images (July 06, 2009) with differing date formats.
Rather than uploading every single image or video that you capture, the Selective Transfer mode utilizes your camera’s protect function to identify which images to upload and which ones to leave. It’s dead simple. Protect the images you want to upload and then Eye-Fi takes care of the rest.
The Pro, as I’ve said before, is a dream come true — but at $150 it’s tough to justify such a purchase for a slow 4GB SD card. However, it also automagically uploads to your photo sharing site of choice and supports Ad Hoc networks. In a pressure-filled situation, like a live blog, the Eye-Fi Pro is a required gadget in a blogger’s bag. I’d throw down $150 clams for one, but I have the luxury of expensing it back to the big guy.
Eye-Fi Pro [Eye-Fi]
By CrunchGear, on 2009.07.07, 01:30.41 pm
E-book readers tend to be the sizes hardcover books - or a lot larger. That might be all well and good if you’re laying in bed, but the Bookeen Opus is about the size of a paperback, which makes it truely portable. The folks folks over at MobileRead got their hands on the small, but impressive, Opus for a sneak peak.
To sum it up, the Opus is somewhat small with a 5-inch 600×800 screen along with 1GB of internal memory. The small size might not be for everyone, but there is probably a market for such a device. Plus it supports ePUB and PDF files and even allows for organization via folders. There wasn’t any mention of pricing or availability just yet though. Any potential takers?
MobileRead via SlashGear
By Neowin, on 2009.07.02, 06:36.50 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By The Gmail Team, on 2009.07.01, 11:07.00 am
Posted by Damian Gajda, Software EngineerA few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit.  1) New location for labelsYou'll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having their own section, your labels are now above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels. 2) Label hiding and showingYou now have control over which of your labels show. We've done our best to get you started by automatically showing the labels you use most and hiding the rest. Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the "more" link.  You can show, hide, or delete a label by clicking the down-arrow to the left of that label.  If you want to make a lot of changes at once, go to the Labels tab under Settings where you can edit labels in bulk. For those of you who created label names like _stuff or ++todo++ to force your most-used labels to the top of the list (come on, you know who you are, I did it too...), you don't have to come up with clever tricks like that anymore ;) 3) Drag and dropYou can now drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders. This does the exact same thing as "Move to" -- it labels and archives in one step.  You can drag labels onto messages too. It's the same thing as using the "Label" button. To label or move many messages at once, first select the messages and then drag and drop the label.  It's also possible to drag labels into the "more" menu to hide them and vice versa. If you only want to move a couple labels around, I've found it quicker than going to Settings. All of these changes also mean the end of Right-side Labels, an experimental Gmail Labs feature. This is the first Labs feature we're retiring. (The idea behind Labs was always that things could break or disappear at any time or they might work so well that they become regular features. More on that soon...) Now that labels aren't in their own little box and take up much less space, moving them around the screen didn't seem as important. We realize quite a few of you used and liked Right-side Labels, so if you feel strapped for left nav screen real estate without it, try turning on Right-side Chat in Labs instead. We hope these new changes make labeling even easier and help you stay organized. We'll be rolling out these labeling features for everyone throughout the day, so if you don't see them right away please check later today. 
By Neowin, on 2009.06.29, 01:25.05 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Bugfixes and minor changes: Don't display error messages multiple times if modification times of edited file cannot be obtained Fix problems with certificate dialog introduced in 3.2.6-rc1 News source: Official website Download: FileZilla 3.2.6 Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.06.23, 01:13.33 pm
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.06.19, 10:25.08 am
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. What's new: Fix adding remote directory symlinks to queue not working Fix "Timer creation failed" message boxes on update download dialog. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar. Read full story...
By Neowin, on 2009.06.17, 03:54.33 pm
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is a high performance anti-malware application that thoroughly removes even the most advanced malware and spyware. With one of the fastest, most effective quick scans and malware removal capabilities on the market, this program is the perfect addition to your PC's defenses. The full version of the product includes a number of key features, including the ability to schedule updates and scans and most importantly, a real-time malware protection module that blocks malicious processes before they even start. What's new: (FIXED) Minor issue with updating. (FIXED) Certain types of freezing during full and quick scans. (FIXED) Problem with Estonian language and installer. (FIXED) Certain folders showing up as files in results list. Read full story...
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If you think this might be useful to you, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for "Nested Labels," enable it and click "Save." You'll then need to name your label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. For example, let's say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a "Home" label, and inside it a "Family" and a "Vacation" label. Just create three labels with the following names: 
This is exactly what "Message Sneak Peek" does. After you turn it on, right-clicking on a line in your inbox shows a preview pane with the message in it.
