Category: Utilities
Released: Nov 18, 2008
Price: $0.99

Description:
* keep your christmas list SAFE from your other half! *Safe Note is the easiest way to keep your information hidden from other people who may get their hands on your phone/iPod.This application is focussed on creating notes and simple documents that you can access quickly and securely. Safe Note requires a PASSWORD to be entered when ever it is:1. Opened from the main screen2. Resumed after unlocking the phone3. Resumed after any calls or interruptions 59pIf your debating spending the 59 pence on this application, well I cant blame you... shouldn't it be free? Every time I pick up a YORKIE bar I ask myself the same question. But the fact is costs must be covered and 59p is the lowest price available. For chocolate covered goodness I think its worth it. For this?.. I will leave it down to you. Perhaps you should keep reading. FONTThe FONT is NOT in any fancy style that you cant read. Its using Arial in a medium size so that you can read your information easily and quickly. FLEXIBLEYou can write any thing you like!!! You are not tied down to any templates or fixed length fields. Simply write what ever you want to keep protected.1. Your girlfriends birthday present ideas2. Christmas present ideas3. A list of how many pens you steal from work....4. ...Anything! ANIMATEDThis simple application is fully animated with rich images and a great SIMPLE user interface. PASSWORDThe application will ask you to setup your password on first launch and from that moment it will be used to keep your information safe. The password is numeric so that it is quicker to enter using the big numeric keyboard (like when you dial a phone number), and it's not limited to just a few characters, which makes it more secure. DATE LAST VIEWEDJust for your piece of mind the date and TIME is recorded each time you view each note, and is displayed on your list. So you can make sure no one has secretly taken a peak when you were'nt looking!!!! LIST ORDERBy default the list is ordered by the first note created at the top and the last note at the bottom (...nothing new there). If you want to change the order you can simply drag the notes into different positions. BACKUPThe application and all your precious data is backed up when you synchronize your phone with iTunes. SIMPLICITYIt's the simplicity that will make this application fit into your every day life! Some applications are just hard to use and its not obvious how to perform certain functions... well dont worry, you wont have that problem here! SIMPLICITY is the key to a good iPhone application. SonnyBunnyDotCom also offer the service of listening to your ideas and improvements. So if you already have this app use the about page to submit your great ideas. People keep saying; "its nice to find an app that actually is useful enough to enter your every day life, instead of one you use once and have cluttering up your home page".

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft asked a federal judge Thursday to end the#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/03/HNmsclassactionsuit_1.html"class-action lawsuit about its quot;Vista-capablequot; tag/a #160;that has been the source of a treasure trove of embarrassing insider e-mails that have showed the company bent to pressure from a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Intel+Corporation"Intel/a and infuriated long-time partner a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Hewlett-Packard+Company"Hewlett-Packard./a/pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In a pair of motions filed with U.S. District Court Judge a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Marsha+Pechman"Marsha Pechman/a , Microsoft#39;s lawyers asked her to decertify the class and rule on a summary judgment to dismiss the charges./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[#160;InfoWorld#39;s#160;a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/11/is_vista_capabl.html"Robert X. Cringely did a rundown of the legalese of this case -- and the humor of it/a#160;]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"If Pechman rules for Microsoft on the decertification motion, the case could conceivably continue, although it would no longer be a class-action with a large pool of plaintiffs; instead, each plaintiff would have to sue Microsoft separately. A ruling for the company on the summary judgment would effectively end the case./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Unlike recent filings by the plaintiffs, which have been packed with quotations from internal Microsoft e-mails that covered everything from a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=Operating+Systemsamp;articleId=9120938"managers badmouthing Intel/a to others who worried how a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Vista"Vista/a would be compared to Apple#39;s Mac OS X, Microsoft#39;s motions were densely worded and full of case citations./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"According to Microsoft, the plaintiffs have not demonstrated that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista was not the quot;realquot; Vista, or showed that users paid more for PCs prior to the new operating system#39;s launch because of the Vista Capable campaign. That means the plaintiffs have not met the legal standards set by Pechman, and so have no case, the attorneys argued./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The evidence refutes Plaintiffs#39; claims that Windows Vista Home Basic cannot #39;fairly#39; be called Windows Vista,quot; Microsoft said in the motion for summary judgment. quot;Windows Vista Home Basic has nearly all of the same computer code as the rest of the Windows Vista family, and ... Microsoft never publicly defined Windows Vista in a way that would exclude Windows Vista Home Basic.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Vista Home Basic, the lowest-priced and least-capable version of the operating system, is a key to the Vista Capable lawsuit; the plaintiffs have argued that they bought PCs before Vista#39;s January 2007 launch and expected them to be able to run more than just Home Basic. That edition lacks several advanced features found in some or all of the other versions, notably the Aero graphical user interface./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Elsewhere in the motion, Microsoft claimed that Vista Home Basic shared 93 percent#160;of the code found in Vista Home Premium, the next-most-expensive version and also the most popular of the consumer editions./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The lawyers also hammered at the price inflation reasoning promoted by the plaintiffs. quot;Plaintiffs have no evidence that the Windows Vista Capable program (#39;WVC program#39;) caused an artificial increase in the demand for or prices of Windows Vista Capable PCs (#39;WVC PCs#39;) that were not Premium Ready,quot; the motion continued./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Last February, when Pechman a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyId=89amp;articleId=9064520"granted the case class-action status/a, she blocked the plaintiffs from arguing that Microsoft deceived consumers because that would have required an individual determination for each member of the class action. Instead, she allowed them to pursue a quot;price inflationquot; line of reasoning, which would argue that PC buyers paid more than they would have otherwise, after Microsoft#39;s marketing boosted demand and increased the prices of systems that could run Vista Home Basic./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"In the motion to decertify the class, Microsoft#39;s lawyers said that the plaintiffs had not met the bar Pechman set when she allowed them to explore the price inflation line. quot;With discovery closed, Microsoft asks the Court to decertify the class because Plaintiffs have done nothing and propose to do nothing to further develop their price inflation theory,quot; Microsoft said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Discovery, the legal procedure where the each party is allowed to request documents from other, closed a week ago in the case. quot;The Plaintiffs have no viable method of establishing class-wide causation,quot; the motion continued./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Over several pages, Microsoft argued that the economist the plaintiffs brought in as an expert witness, Keith Leffler, of the University of Washington, had been unable to come up with a way to quantify the impact of the Vista Capable program on PC prices in the run-up to Vista./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;Dr. Leffler admitted that he cannot develop a model that would quantify the price inflation, if any, that supposedly affected the class, much less do so across the entire class period,quot; the motion said. quot;That fact, standing alone, mandates decertification.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft crafted the Vista Capable program to keep sales of PCs from flagging as the new OS#39;s release loomed. A message by a Microsoft director working on the campaign made it clear that was the top priority. quot;The primary goal of Ready PC [ an earlier name for what would be recast as Vista Capable -- Ed. ] is to limit stall of XP PC sales as we continue to build Vista buzz,quot; said Rajesh Srinivasan in October 2005. quot;We believe [the program requirements] strike a balance between limiting impact on XP PC sales, ensuring OEM support and participation in the program and providing a good customer experience after Vista upgrade.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"The lawsuit, which began in April 2007, has become best-known as the source for hundreds of Microsoft e-mails that have been made public by the court. Earlier disclosures showed that Microsoft relaxed the requirements of Vista Capable to a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9120299"accommodate Intel/a, a decision that then a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9120478"enraged HP/a, and that company managers a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=Managementamp;articleId=9120798"feared comparisons/a between Vista and Apple#39;s Mac OS X more than a year before Vista went public./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"The case is currently set to start trial next April./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emComputerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate/em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=356002944c77ec8ae016fae3e6c55e8dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=356002944c77ec8ae016fae3e6c55e8dp=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=356002944c77ec8ae016fae3e6c55e8d style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. For all the sound and fury over recent a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/linden-lab-s-survival-plan-spike-second-life-user-fees"price hikes/a and a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/linden-lab-pulls-back-second-life-price-hikes"layoffs at Linden Lab/a, Second Life has a community of fanatically loyal users. Since Linden Lab derives its revenue from user fees, not advertisements, Second Life is much more likely to survive the Web 2.0 shakeout than most other startups./p pIt's hard to say what, if anything, Linden Lab can do to make Second Life appeal to a general audience. The very things that most appeal to Second Life's hardcore enthusiasts are either boring or creepy for most people: Spending hundreds of hours of effort to make insignificant amounts of money selling virtual clothes, experimenting with changing your gender or species, getting into random conversations with strangers from around the world, or having pseudo-nonymous sex (and let's not kid ourselves, sex is a huge draw into Second Life). As part of walking my "beat," I'd get invited by sources to virtual nightclubs, where I'd right-click the dancefloor to send my avatar gyrating as I sat at home at my computer. It was about as fun as watching paint dry./p pBut here's how Linden Lab can make Second Life more fun and a better business:/p ol listrongBuild good newbie-oriented content./strong Linden has always taken the position they're in the 3D platform business, and can't be expected to build anything with their own tools or even know what others are doing in Second Life. 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New CEO Mark Kingdon has an ad background and should have the right r sum to pull off a makeover./li listrongRadically simplify the user interface./strong The Second Life UI is a mess, and there's been no major changes to it in Second Life's 5+ years. Making the Second Life experience easy-to-use, even graceful, isn't a nice-to-have, it's a business imperative./li listrongAbandon the idea that Second Life is a a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"business app/a./strong I wasn't in Second Life to play, I was there on assignment for Reuters. The login server would crash. I'd try to reach sources, but Second Life's IM window would hang on "waiting" all day when trying to figure out who was online. "Teleports" -- the ability to move from point to point anywhere in Second Life -- would stop working and I'd get locked out of my own office. These weren't one-offs, they were my daily, first-hand, happens-all-the-time experiences. For all its bugs, Second Life is tolerable as a playground, but enterprise users will never and should never use it for business. Re-focus on the core mission: Keeping the hobbyists happy and converting potential recruits into hardcore (read: fees-paying) users./li /ol pNone of these things will make Second Life palatable to the general public, but it will draw new traffic and keep a lot more potential users with the right temperment for Second Life from quitting in frustration on their first day. That might be enough for the next year or two./p pThere's an incredible depth, passion, and camaraderie to the Second Life community that more popular online experiences like MySpace or World of Warcraft can't match. And while I didn't find it compelling, there really is something awesome about buying be able to "buy" a grid of blank 3D space, mold it like clay into an elven forest, a futuristic space station, or a bdsm dungeon, and then invite your friends to hang out./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/linden-lab-s-survival-plan-spike-second-life-user-fees"Real Estate Crashes In Second Life, Too: Linden Lab's Bailout Plan/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/linden-lab-pulls-back-second-life-price-hikes"Linden Lab Pulls Back Second Life Price Hikes, Confirms Layoffs/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"Second Life Offers Business Teleconferencing, Now Penis-Free/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-google-could-have-made-lively-work"How Google Could Have Made Lively Work: No Sex, More Ads, Firefox /a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Ca7lLqMaVq-hTM2p0wxFd0sj0o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Ca7lLqMaVq-hTM2p0wxFd0sj0o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=o7Yix8mb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=o7Yix8mb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=m9QePwLd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=2jVSFrEs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=8KiM934T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=8KiM934T" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jXcJQ9Zx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=oOwtP6Px"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YOiDJKL4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=L1kgB3T4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/VFnMRFy9-4Y" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4926bde8796c7a65008cd3dcmaxX=320maxY=213" border="0" alt="iphone-street-view.jpg" title="iphone-street-view.jpg" width="320" height="213" /Another free time waster (and useful feature) for iPhone owners, courtesy Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 2.2 software update, which rolled out last night: Google Maps Street View./p pThis catches the iPhone up with Google's (GOOG) G1 'GPhone', though the iPhone doesn't seem to have the same automatic "digital compass" technology as the G1, so you have to move around manually. That's fine -- either way, very addictive./p pThe software update also includes some user interface improvements and lets you download podcasts over the air. It does emnot/em include over-the-air iTunes purchases, as a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/are-over-the-air-itunes-downloads-coming-soon-"we had supposed it might/a. Seems like that's a rights/pricing issue./p pList of new 2.2 features, a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/21/apple-releases-iphone-2-2-firmware/"via MacRumors/a:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Enhancements to Mapsbr /- Google Street Viewbr /- public transit and walking diretionsbr /- display address of dropped pinsbr /- share location via emailbr /Enhancements to Mailbr /- resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of emailbr /- improved formatting of wide HTML emailbr /Improved stability and performance of Safaribr /Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular)br /Decrease in call set-up failures and call dropsbr /Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messagesbr /Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screenbr /Preferences to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard settings/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"RIM's BlackBerry Storm Is No iPhone, But Should Sell Well/abr /a href="../../2008/11/next-year-s-iphone-sales-your-guess-as-good-as-the-analysts-aapl-"Next Year's iPhone Sales: A Crapshoot/abr /a href="../../2008/11/blackberry-storm-coming-to-verizon-nov-21-for-199-rimm-"BlackBerry Storm Coming Nov. 21 For $199, iPhone Not Toast/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Adei4t3QPPYDV7aefOcVissMrHA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Adei4t3QPPYDV7aefOcVissMrHA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=QFvbOnTg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=QFvbOnTg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Xr6fPqT2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VuvJ3ONB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=E3o2oveg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=E3o2oveg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Do6ml4OF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=XJJaztog"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xVdscmSf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=qPtACp17"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/WcO_mUIrSxQ" height="1" width="1"/

pobject width="494" height="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vQL0tqLCjcQhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vQL0tqLCjcQhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="400"/embed/objectMercedes-Benz new myCOMAND system has appeared at the a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/la-auto-show/"Los Angeles Auto Show/a, taking on the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5070122/bmw-idrive-40-remixes-xbox-360-and-ipod-into-simpler-control-system"fourth-generation BMW iDrive/a. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple's, specially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple TV and Front Row. One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps. Looking at the high resolution screens and the feature list, it looks very good:/p pscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"galleryPost('mycomand', 3, '');/script/p p· Off-board navigation: The GPS is constantly updated, from the maps to the points of interests. It also has a satellite overview and the search language is open: you can write directions without having to follow a format. It looks like the are plugging into Google Maps for this one, although I'm not sure how well the writing will work using their navigation knob./p p· Trip assist: This part is quite nice, grabbing information pertaining your planned trip from different web sources and presenting it in a useful manner. You can, for example, see the weather forecast for the trip, as well as giving you the possibility to make hotel and restaurants reservations from the system itself./p p· World radio: Instead of using a normal radio, this one plugs into the web to access all the stations available. The menu gives the possibility to access radio via genre. More interesting is the idea of storing your music in a web server and accessing it through the system directly, without the need to connect an digital music player or storing things locally./p p· Internet telephony: It has support for voice over IP systems like Skype./p p· Web browser: They also include a web browser, in case you need to get more information than the one provided with the thin clients above./p p· YouTube: For huh... hmmm. iSome/i reason./p pThe navigation knob, which looks similar to the a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/powermate-5576.php"Powermate/a, is simpler than the iDrive 4.0. Our a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/la-auto-show/"Jalopnik comrades/a will have to try it to see if their user interface approach is better or not. [a href="http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Nov08/19_001517_Mercedes_Benz_Debuts_myCOMAND_Internet_Based_Infotainment_System_At_Los_Angeles_Auto_Show.html"Mercedes Benz/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=86e1f373f34c866416f246fd64fe5ff6p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=86e1f373f34c866416f246fd64fe5ff6p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=86e1f373f34c866416f246fd64fe5ff6" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=h7HDN7dU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=nGkNAEin"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=73nHQO7j"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=73nHQO7j" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=TIXZOHyO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=TIXZOHyO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/2wCMaabbx0s" height="1" width="1"/

Screenium 1.0.6Screenium... Make live movies of your Mac's screen, capture everything that's happening there, including mouse pointer, selections and movements - in real-time!

With on-the-fly voice recordings, you can easily describe what you are doing on-screen. Simply use the built-in microphone or any external audio source or input device connected to your Mac.

You can actually capture movie-in-movie: Screenium records your screen just like it is - including ongoing video playback in multiple windows.

The final version is imminent. Feedback is always welcome! Whenever you wish to contact us with suggestions, comments or improvements simply drop us a line at screenium (at) synium.de
WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.0.6:

• iSight: Screenium now allows for on-the-fly switching between multiple webcams connected via FireWire and USB; inegrated and external QuickTime-compatible cameras are supported
• iSight: pop-up button and menu display verbose camera names (this should work even if Apple's System Profiler only presents the camera as a generic USB device)
• iSight: connect/disconnect cameras while Screenium is still running
• iSight: added 'Camera Search' to manually search for newly-connected cameras (only required if a camera does not automatically appear)
• iSight: improved user interface for iSight configuration improved Fixed Area selection
• Media Library: added contextual menu for 'Export'
• Media Library: movie files created with Screenium will automatically be named with an ISO date and time stamp
• added French localization
• added Italian localization
• overall improved performance and stability; successfully fixed a few very rare and random issues/ul>
  REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4 or later.
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pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag"iPhone/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/app-store/" rel="tag"App Store/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipod-touch/" rel="tag"iPod touch/a/pimg width="225" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="325" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/ziibii-floats-updates-to-your-iphone_cb_1273.jpg" alt="" /Do you like keeping up with friends on social networks? Do you have an iPhone? If so, you might be interested in a new social networking application for the iPhone called Ziibii. Ziibii [a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=296290455amp;mt=8"iTunes link/a] brings an innovative approach to viewing your social networking sites and RSS feeds -- without ever leaving this one app. Ziibii allows you to see friend updates, videos, and photos from a href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a, a href="http://facebook.com"Facebook/a, a href="http://flickr.com"Flickr/a, and a href="http://youtube.com"YouTube/a.br /br /Ziibii's killer feature is its "River" feature, which depicts friend updates, photos, videos, and RSS feed headlines "floating" down a river on tiny rafts. You can interact with the river and rafts with gestures. Moving too fast? Move your finger left or right on the screen. You can even make the river flow in the opposite direction by swiping your finger against flow. br /br /Rafts too close together? Pick it up and move it. If you tap on a raft, you will be presented with a full screen view of the update and get the option to share that update via email or Twitter. If you get sea sick with River view, you can also give list view a try, which stacks updates on top of each other; swiping right to left loads more updates.br /br /Ziibii comes pre-loaded with some good blogs (TUAW is listed under the "iPhone Stuff" section), and you can also add your own RSS feeds via the "My Feeds" setting.br /br /Ziibii has a very nice user interface, and allows you to quickly see all of your friend updates in a unique fashion. However, we would like to see an option to post updates and photos to Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. We would also like to see support for a href="http://pownce.com"Pownce/a and a href="http://digg.com"Digg/a, among others. With the price of free, Ziibii is a must-have application for anyone that uses social networks. You can download Ziibii from the a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=296290455amp;mt=8"iTunes App Store/a. br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/"Ziibii for iPhone/a/strong/pa href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/1176276/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/1000.cb_firstlook_ziibii_for_iphone_1234_thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/1176298/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/1001.cb_firstlook_ziibii_for_iphone_1234_thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/1176284/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/1002.cb_firstlook_ziibii_for_iphone_1234_thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/1176285/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/1003.cb_firstlook_ziibii_for_iphone_1234_thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/photos/ziibii-for-iphone/1176281/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/1004.cb_firstlook_ziibii_for_iphone_1234_thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" //a/divp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/ziibii-floats-updates-to-your-iphone/"Ziibii floats updates to your iPhone/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST. 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Category: Finance
Released: Nov 18, 2008
Price: $4.99

Description:
Pro Loan is a sophisticated tool to help you evaluate whether or not a loan is a good deal. No need to trust the banker or car dealer, trust yourself and compare loan options using Pro Loan. Other loan calculators trap you in one monthly payment calculation for one loan. How does that help you evaluate the options or look at the calculation from different angles? Short answer: it doesn't! Pro Loan does! It's Edit page solves for monthly payment, loan amount, interest rate, etc... You highlight the item you want and it automatically solves. Pro Loan names and saves your loans for future use. Pro Loan explains every item entered to you in plain English to help you understand loans. Pro Loan's Compare page shows you which of two loans is a better deal. It compares the cumulative interest and principal at any year you select during the loan term. Want to know if a 15 year loan at 5.75% is better than a 30 year loan at 6.125% if you pay off the loan after 8 years... Pro Loan compares the two for you and gives you the answer! Pro Loan's amortization table shows the interest and principal on every monthly payment and sums it up to a month you select. This is very useful for calculating the amount of yearly mortgage interest that is deductible off your income taxes. Pro Loan has a slick user interface that is designed to help you understand loans and get the best deal. Try it out and you will see how powerful it is!

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Get it on iTunes: Pro Loan

TV Show Tracker 1.1.1TV Show Tracker lets you track all of your favorite TV Shows really easily in a user-friendly interface. Get information about the latest episode aired and the next episode scheduled.

Designed for a great user experience:

• Find all your favorite TV Shows through TheTVDB.comÂ’s huge database.
• Search for your favorite TV Shows by name in your native language*. The user interface is fully translated.
• Choose how many TV Shows you want to be shown then scroll through the others.
• Keep an eye on your favorite TV Shows offline. Data is stored on your computer and updated as soon as you go online.
• Supported languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.1.1:

• TV Shows now sorted by next air date
• Italian localization added

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.5 or later.
DEVELOPERPixel Perfect Widgets
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Tunnelblick 3.0b10Tunnelblick, formerly known as OpenVPN-GUI, is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 or later. It is written in Cocoa and comes in a ready to use distribution with all necessary binaries and drivers. Versions of OpenVPN older than 2.0 are not supported, because they lack the management interface used by Tunnelblick. Please send feedback and suggestions to info@tunnelblick.net.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 3.0b10:

• fix linking problem that resulted in lzo compression not working on PowerPC
• prevent user from launching tunnelblick directly from the dmg
• remove experimental status from 'Set Nameserver' and make it the default
• upgrade to OpenVPN 2.1_rc15
• let buffered openvpn log messages appear in the GUI log
• possible fix for the crash if password is mistyped when using username/password authentication
• add version number to plist file
• don't restart connections on NetworkDidChange notification. fixes issue where existing connections would be reset when starting multiple simultaneous vpn connections.
• always use --script-security 2 so users are allowed to supply custom up/down scripts. needed for OpenVPN 2.1
• add missing example config file
• properly escape special chars in username or password/passphrase before passing them over to the management interface. fixes issue where the password/passphrase was not accepted when it contained backslashes or " chars.
• use NSStatusWindowLevel for notification windows. fixes issue that Tunnelblick icon remained visible in spaces or fullscreen mode of some apps.
• increase robustness when killing openvpn children by explicitly sending the SIGTERM to the process id instead of just sending "signal SIGTERM" over the management socket
• kill all openvpn processes on quit. fixes a rare condition where openvpn processes would be left over on Tunnelblick quit
• Add German, French, Japanese, Korean and Norwegian translations

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4 or later.
DEVELOPERAngelo Laub
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Shrook 2.64

Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom.

Feature highlights included synchronization, full podcast support, smart groups, built-in browser and innovative user-interface.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.64: Sparkle automatic updating. More robust XML processing. New icon. Various bug fixes.
REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
DEVELOPERGraham Parks
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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tech/" rel="tag"Tech/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/" rel="tag"Mercedes-Benz/a/pembed width="428" height="352" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://videos.streetfire.net/vidiac.swf?video=19d64484-986d-46af-8e06-9b5a01148f6c"/embedbr /a href="http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Mercedes-Benz-myCOMAND_200714.htm?ref=2328ccdb-e8dd-42c5-9501-9a4101775fc2"Mercedes Benz myCOMAND interface/abr /br / German automakers have gotten plenty of flack for their less than intuitive Navigation/Infotainment systems, but Mercedes Benz is working hard to change that with its myCOMAND concept. The myCOMAND system uses high-speed wireless Internet with upload and download speeds of over 3MB to bring the connectivity of the web into any driver's hands. It's similar to interfaces from the competition in that it gives access to phone info, different types of digital media and the web. The difference comes from Mercedes' decision to go entirely Internet-based. Gone are hard drives, CD/DVD players and most computer hardware. Mercedes stuck with a thin-client and incredibly intuitive graphical user interface coupled with the ubiquitous Mercedes command controller to pull the strings. br / br / We got a chance to sit in a myCOMAND-equipped Mercedes at the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/LA-Auto-Show/"LA Auto Show/a today and were up to speed within seconds. We were able to surf the net (Autoblog was one of the presets, nice), explore Google Maps, check the weather and look for the cheapest gas in the area with minimal effort. The myCOMAND system is a concept right now and Mercedes engineers feel the technology is still a few years from production. It does, however, show the potential of future Infotainment systems, and we like what we see. See how it works by watching our video demonstration of myCOMAND with Mercedes Infotainment and Telematics VP Johann Jungwirth above, and you can view high-res pics of the system from Mercedes in the gallery below. As always, a press release with all the official details is after the jump.br / br / div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/"Mercedes myCOMAND system/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/1175728/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/mycomand12mb_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/1175726/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/mycomand10mb_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/1175725/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/mycomand09mb_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/1175724/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/mycomand08mb_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mercedes-mycomand-system/1175723/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/mycomand07mb_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/mercedes-benz-mycomand-concept-brings-internet-safely-into-cars/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVIDEO: Mercedes-Benz myCOMAND concept brings internet safely into cars/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/mercedes-benz-mycomand-concept-brings-internet-safely-into-cars/"VIDEO: Mercedes-Benz myCOMAND concept brings internet safely into cars/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:40:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www