What is DRM, Digital Rights Management?

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers, publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. Whereas copy protection only attempts to prohibit unauthorized copies of media or files, digital rights management allows the issuer of the media or file to control in detail what can and can not be done with a single instance. For example, an issuer can limit the number of viewings, number of copies, which devices the media can be transferred to etc.

There is a huge controversy all around the globe about the DRM and the dust is not yet settled. The protection enthusiasts have their own reasons to advocate the DRM, and on the other hand, their are people and organizations, which oppose it in the name of freedom of speech.

Whosoever is right, one thing is very much clear. As far as you are using the copying or Media format conversion for your own use, it comes under Fair Use Policy, and it should be allowed. Courts all over the world, have also held this view, and it is the legally accepted doctrine as of now.

Enter TuneBite, the master to circumvent DRM restrictions.

So, if you are a music buff, but always feel cornered because of DRM restrictions, then you can safely rely on TuneBite.

TuneBite is the amazing software, which legally removes DRM copy protection from music, audio books and videos at the highest quality levels. With TuneBite, you can convert media into the formats of your PC, mobile phone and other mobile devices. More than 100 formats are supported by Tunebite plus it automatically populates your music with ID3 tags, CD cover artwork & lyrics. What’s more, you can also create free ringtones from your favorite songs and transfer them to your mobile phone

With Tunebite’s professional-grade format converter, you can configure individualized conversion settings that produce exactly the media formats you need – optimized for the power and resolution of your device.

Tunebite searches the Web for the ID3 tags that are missing from every music and video file in your collection and inserts these automatically. Not just ID3 tags like title, artist, album and year of release, but also CD cover artwork. And Tunebite is the only software that also finds the lyrics for each track. For real fans, this is the icing on the cake.

Tunebite is equipped with an optimized audio studio that lets you edit music tracks you’ve recorded from Internet radio stations.

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Talking about the Security tools, there are primarily three types on Security tools available in the market today.

• Desktop Security Tool, which provide you the real time security - for instance your favourite antivirus
• Desktop Security Tools, which do a scheduled / manual scan of your system and files
• and, Online security tools, which scan your system and files.

However, there remains a need for a product, which can scan the files and scripts on a webpage, which you are intending to visit.

For example, suppose you find a link on a webpage, which promises to take you to a webpage or to a download, which is the next best software in the world. You find it tempting to visit the page by clicking on the link, but you do not have full faith on the security aspects of that software / webpage. At that time, you wish to a have a tool, which could scan the destination before you proceed to visit that.

I am sure there may be such tools available, but at least I was not aware of them, till I came across Dr. Web.

It is a cool Firefox Addon, which quietly sits in your Firefox Browser and does exactly what you require.

The only issue is that I have come across some negative feedback about it, which say that it is not that effective. But still I feel, it is worth try for two reasons. It is unique in concept, and off-course, it is free.

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What is RadioTracker Platinum

Simply decide the genre or artists you’re interested in and Radiotracker will do everything else.

RadioTracker searches thousands of Radio Stations simultaneously and brings them directly to your desktop based upon your search query. You can download them and make your personal library. I have found that RadioTracker software performs quite flawlessly in monitoring the type of music you want to rip and save from Internet Radio. You just have to enter the genre or the name of the artist and you will be surprised to find the number of simultaneous possible download you will see. It performs with an amazing accuracy.

If you are concerned about the quality of the download, I must vouch that the quality is extremely good. There is only on glitch that sometimes if a DJ is saying something in the background, that will also get recorded. Personally speaking, I like that thrill of live recording more than the original one.

But isn’t it illegal

Not at all.

When you are downloading a file from a copied version over the Internet, there may be a copyright issue involved. Because you are making a copy or replica of something, which has already been recorded. But in the case of RadioTracker, you are recording yourself. The software is listening to the music and then recording it in the background before serving you for download.

This is not copying. This is recording. And it is perfectly legal.

What else is good about RadioTracker?

The other option to get your favorite MP3 files is use some peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and LimeWire.  I have seen many people using that. But they are unaware of the fact that such networks are a huge source of Spyware. Kazaa is known for distributing lots of adware and Spyware, and I know lot of people whose PC got extremely slow after they started using Kazaa.

Yet another option is to use Torrent sites like BitTorrent and MiniNova. You may find lots of MP3 files there, but again, Bit Torrent are a huge source of spreading malware, and I will never recommend anybody to use Torrent sites to download anything in wake of huge online threats lurking around.

In such a situation, a software like RadioTracker is as perfect tool for quickly building your MP3 library. A licensed version will cost you around 20-30 bucks, but it will be a wise investment, if you are a true music buff.

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United States Computer Emergency Research team, US-CERT, has issued a warning about a serious vulnerability of all the popular Browsers like IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari etc. They have warned about an an attack that inserts itself in the middle of a user’s interaction with a Web page through clicking buttons. As soon as a person clicks on a link on a web page, his browser can perform any arbitrary function, including redirecting the browser to a third-party site, and a totally unwanted function may get performed.

This is called ClickJacking

According to one of the reports, Clickjacking gives an attacker the ability to trick a user into clicking on something only barely or momentarily noticeable. Therefore, if a user clicks on a web page, they may actually be clicking on content from another page. A separate report indicates that this flaw affects most web browsers and that no fix is available, but that disabling browser scripting and plug-ins may help mitigate some of the risks.

And the worst part is that not only the malicious web pages, any legit site like Newsweek, Digg or BBC may carry this to you. The exact magnitude of risks is yet to come out, but is clear that present browsers are incapable of avoiding it.

In such a situation you can only hope to not come across it, while browsing.

So, right now, there are four options for you.

1. Stop Browsing the Internet, I know you can’t do it.
2. Suspend your browsing and wait till these browsers get updated, this is also difficult.
3. Start using Firefox, and install NoScript firefox plugin., You may not like it either, because this will make many of the sites you visit to appear as broken.
4. Pray, that you do not fall victim to the attack.

I think the only option is the last one.

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Internet is spreading fast. And with this, the online threats to your privacy and security are increasing day-by-day. Hundreds and thousands of innocent users are made victims by these spyware and malware programs every day. There is a continuous race between malware developers and security experts and vendors to stay ahead. HiJackThis, is a tool in the hands of a user, to detect malware and remove it from their system.

But Beware. HijackThis is not a tool, which is easy to use. Its use requires you to be able to fully understand and interpret its results and logs. Thankfully, there are lots of forums and platforms, where you can post the log files of HiJackThis, and the volunteers may help you after going through your logs.

HijackThis, sometimes abbreviated HJT, is a freeware spyware-removal tool for Microsoft Windows originally created by Merijn Bellekom, and later sold to Trend Micro. The program is notable for taking a heuristic approach to detecting malware - rather than relying on a database of known spyware, it quickly scans a user’s computer, creates a list of differences from a known spyware-free environment and allows the user to decide what from the list needs to be removed. HijackThis is used primarily for diagnosis of spyware, as blind use of its removal facilities can cause significant software damage to a computer.

Use HijackThis can generate a plain text logfile detailing all entries it finds, and most entries can be removed or disabled by HijackThis. Inexperienced users are often advised to exercise caution, or to seek help when using the latter option[1], as HijackThis does not discriminate between legitimate and unwanted items, with the exception of a small whitelist of legitimate entries — thus allowing a user to unintentionally prevent important programs from running, which may cause their system or its peripherals to stop working. HijackThis will, however, attempt to create backups of the files and registry entries it removes, which can be used to restore the system in the event of a mistake.

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This happens with everybody, with you, with me, with that computer geek, or this average Joe.

You delete a file, thinking that it is just cluttering your hard dick, only to find later after a week, that it contained the all important information, you require today. BANG.

There may be other ways also to lost your files and documents. A hard disk corruption, a rogue virus or worm or even a well thought out partitioning or formatting a disk drive. You always think about that lost file.

But there are programs and software available, which can perform data recovery of that old file. There are many of those, and it will be difficult for you to choose the best one among them. Among them, there is at least one software, which delivers exactly what it promises.

Welcome to Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software.

This is a magical piece of file recovery software from renowned Steller Information Systems, which is a complete data recovery solution that helps you to search, locate and recover your lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted data. It is powered by ‘Raw File Recovery’ feature that recognizes & recovers more than 300 file types including documents, spreadsheets, web content & images.

The key features include…

• Advance Search: Helps recover selected files and folders
• RAW File Recovery: Recover more than 300 file types in case of severe file system corruption
• Enhanced Photo Recovery: Recover RAW camera format files.
• Compressed FS Recovery: Recover data from compressed NTFS file system
• Create Image of the Media: Recover files from storage media having lot of bad sectors
• File Preview: View the file contents and get an overview about the recovery results.
• Improved User Interface : It makes data recovery easier without requiring any technical knowledge. The interface includes options such as Find File, File Mask and File Filter to help you search, view or recover any specific file type.
• Multiple Recovery Options: Recover large volume of data as compressed file or to a FTP server.
• Live Update: Receive latest product enhancements and keep your application updated
• Save Scan: So that you are able to resumes recovery at a later stage

Yet another feature is that it is a flexible tool. If you want to recover a file type, which is not included in the standard list, you can add that to it using a wizard. It is meant for the Windows platform and works on all versions including Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista in all of the file systems like FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system.

You can download a demo version from their site, but the full version with the standard features will cost you $99 USD.

But this will an investment worth making, if you store sensitive data on your computer.

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Now you can earn money by displaying contextual ads on your pdf documents. It has been made possible by a combined effort of Adobe with Yahoo. You have to use a special plugin "Ads for pdf" of Adobe PDF Acrobat 9, which will allow you to serve context based ads related to your content, when any user reads your pdf document in his PC. If he clicks on these ads, then a browser window opens and he is taken to the advertisers website. The advertisers pays money, and you are given a share of that.

Ads for Adobe PDF is a new opt-in service that enables publishers to monetize their PDF content through advertising. The advertising service, powered by Yahoo!, automatically matches and displays dynamic, contextual ads in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat when a user views the PDF. Publishers that sign up to participate in this program are eligible to be paid for valid clicks on ads. In this unique advertising relationship, Yahoo! helps connect advertisers from its extensive network of online advertisers with publishers that are distributing content through Adobe PDFs. Yahoo! will incorporate this new advertising inventory into its portfolio of online advertising opportunities.

There are a total of 10 different ad sizes and a variety of ad color palettes, including a combination of border, background and text colors. The Ad formats are similar to hugely popular Adsense ads.

This will surely pave a new income stream for offline publishers and content developers.

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Last week Microsoft Office Labs announced a new MS Outlook addon, which  assigns priorities from 0 to 3, to the arriving emails. This priorities is assigned based upon your preferences. There seems to be many factors taken into consideration while deciding the priorities, including the name of the sender, whether the receiver is added in ‘To, or ‘CC’ or BCC’. You can also change or assign the priorities.

Email Prioritizer also has a DO NOT DISTURB feature, which allows you to restrict receiving new emails for a specifies time from 10 minutes to 4 hours.

The product is still in development stage, and Microsoft is collecting User Data to further improve upon it. 

Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.

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But a visit to them quickly tells that something is different here.

The reviews are in-depth. They are neatly arranged and categorized. There are multiple ways to search for a review on your desired product. The site structure is neat with easy navigation. And the best part is that they are not restricted to computers only. Here you can find the tech reviews on every thing techie, right from Computers to peripherals to Cellphones to GPS tools to Software to MP3 players and even HDTV and home theatre systems.

They seems to be having a special association with Dell Computers. Here you can find special mention of Dell Laptops including Dell XPS m1330. For the benefit of newbies, they have an extensive pool of How-To and Buying Guides, which are real helpful even for some of computer nerds. Like a true professional site, they are running a decently updated blog, where they discuss the latest trends and new products and also run a forum, with an active user participation.

Over a decent useful tech review site, which you may consider to visit, if you are seriously looking to buy online something techie.

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What is MP3Videoraptor: It is basically a music search engine, which allows you to search for your favorite music or video, by the name of artist or album, and allows you to download the same in your hard disk. Thus you can make a personalized album of your favorite music very easily. It’s an Internet media search program that records music and video from a number of websites, including, Last.fm, YouTube, and SoundClick. It also has a ringtone maker to generate ringtones for your cell phone, an ID3 tag editor, and a built-in CD burner.

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But isn’t it illegal: No, it’s not. Because when you search for a particular music, they actually search for the that music on the many Web 2.0 webradio sites and play that file in the background. While playing, they record it and then serve you to download. This way, you are not copying something and infringing upon somebody’s copyrights, but instead you are considered to be recording the personalized music of your own, and hence legal.

What are its feature:

• Music and Video Search: Just type the name of your favorite artists or album and start search. It is incredibly fast to search what you want. You can select the media type, whether music or video. You can also just click on the Artists button which brings up a list of genres and suggested artists. Once the list comes up, just click on any of the search results to start the download process.
• Autoload: If you want to avoid clicking and downloading each file individually, then it is ideal for you. It makes full use of your Internet bandwidth to quickly build your media library by downloading the selected files one by one on its own. If you are a bit worried about your download bills from your ISP, then you can configure the number of files you wanna download, default is a huge..100.
• Surf & Catch: This Tab lists links to many sites like Pandora, Last.fm, MySpace, and YouTube. When you click on them, they are opened in your Internet Browser. As you surf these sites and play some file, that file is automatically downloaded onto your hard-disk. This feature also has links to some adult sites, so parents are advised to use the parental control feature here.
• Built-in Player: Although it is just a basic media player, but still quite useful with all the basic features included.
• CD Burner: It makes it a complete tool.
• Ringtone Maker: This is the bonus feature. With the downloaded mp3 file, you can make cool ringtones for your mobile phones with just one click of your mouse button. You can download these to your mobile phones through WAP or through your hard disk.

The best part, which I liked about mp3videoraptor was the excellent quality of its downloads. It is really outstanding.

Update: All of the 10 FREE MP3Videoraptor License Keys, which we have mentioned earlier, have already been sent. The offer has now ended.

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