Microsoft Windows 7 may be due to come out a far year and a half from now, but the brouhaha that manifests the curiosity and excitement among concerned sectors – or just about anyone – is all around, this early.
Backup Platinum is a software that backups your data on many types of storage media, easily. It supports hard drives, USB drives, CDs, DVDs or Blu-Ray and can also send the data to a FTP server or through a Local Area Network. It is very easy to use and your data will be secure, due to the 128-bit encryption with Blowfish the software provides, along with the ZIP compression, so the backups will be smaller and easier to transfer.
It really is a powerful software and can even erase a rewritable CD or DVD to backup the data on it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work on Linux or Mac, but supports all versions of Windows, from 95 to Vista. If you don’t have the time or forget to start the backups manually, you can simply schedule it to automatically start. Also, you don’t even to be logged in the OS, because it can work in service mode.
Another advantage is that it can even backup the files that are in use and also makes detailed logs of everything it does. In my opinion, Backup Platinum is a really good software, with a medium price of $67. Fortunately, they do offer a 30-day trial version, so you can be aware of what you are buying.
The Fedora 9 Sulphur was finally released and we heard that its the best ever. This new version of the OS features a better KDE Desktop 4.0.3, improved Bluetooth support, FreeIPA support, revised Anaconda system installer and persistent USB key support. I think that it’s available on all torrents. Hurry up and tell us what it’s like.
Now, everybody can be a singer. How? With the help of a music recording software called Direct Note Access, you can manipulate groups of musical notes, individually. It was created by Peter Neubäcker, programmer and erstwhile guitar at his German-based company, Celemony.
The software will be used as a plug-in for the Melodyne voice and instrument tuning software. Before this software, this was possible only for single notes and from now on, the engineers will create new music from already existing recordings. Check out the video below and see what Direct Note Access can do.
AT&T are entering the browsers market with Pogo, a new concept from Vizible. AT&T are investing in Vizible, a company based in Toronto that wants to apply its 3D rendering engine to Pogo to make it look very different from a regular browser.
Anthony Gallo, the company’s founder and its current CTO, says that their vision is not to change the browser, but to extend its possibilities. Pogo is based on Mozilla and will be available for Windows machines, for the beginning.
Instead of tabs, it has a strip at the bottom with thumbnail images of the sites visited during the current session. The rectangular cells of your favorite sites can be viewed in a variety of Coverflow-like animations. Bookmarks are treated as collections and you can drag website images into collections or assign tags to any collection. Then any page you tag will go into the collections with the same tag.
It surely looks more visually attractive, but I don’t know how helpful it would be for those who want to find websites faster or to simply read articles on a few websites. I don’t even want to think about the PC resources something like this would use compared to Firefox, for instance. I also think the regular Internet user likes to keep things simple and to navigate through the web fast. So far, from this point of view, Firefox has been doing a great job for me.
