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Saturday 29 December 2012

Image Tuner

An efficient tool for mass image resizing, renaming and conversion.






Downloads:




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Image Tuner is a free batch image resizing, renaming, conversion and watermarking tool with a super-intuitive and straightforward interface. Based on an extremely fast image processing engine, this award-winning software has a bare minimum of controls and will help you with the most typical image-related tasks. You can work with individual files and entire folders to resize, convert, rename and watermark images with surprising ease.

Features:

  • Resize, rename, watermark, convert and adjust images in batch mode
  • Resize by percent, preset (iPad, iPhone, Facebook etc.) or custom size
  • Flip, rotate, sharp, colorize, round your digital photos
  • Auto search for digital pictures within any folder and subfolders
  • Preview, import and export image list
  • Supports common formats (JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX etc.)
  • Supports camera RAW (CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, DCR, X3F, ORF etc.)
  • Variable options and settings for advanced users
  • Configurable compression / resolution ratio

Benefits:

  • Fast image processing algorithm
  • Super easy-to-use user interface
  • Small installation file size
  • Low CPU resource usage
  • Free for personal and commercial use
  • Supports Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 (32 and 64 bit)

ISO Workshop: Create, Burn, And Convert ISO Files


Recent versions of Windows operating system have options to handle ISO files. While Windows 7 comes with an option to burn ISO files, Windows 8 supports ISO mounting as well as ISO burning out of the box. But if you’re in need of advanced ISO handling features you have no option but to use third party tools.
ISO Workshop
While there are tens of free tools available to create, burn, and mount ISO files, ISO Workshop is probably the only tool which not only features an easy-to-use interface but also decent set of features. With ISO Workshop, one can create ISO image out of local files and folders, burn ISO files to CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, extract files from ISO images, and convert various disc image formats to ISO.
ISO Workshop for Windows
With Convert to ISO feature, one can easily convert BIN, NRG, CDI, MDF, IMG, GI, PDI, DMG, B5I, and B6I image files to ISO. The extract tool lets you extract files from above mentioned image file formats. One can also use ISO Workshop as a backup tool. Use the Backup feature to copy a disc to ISO or BIN image file.
ISO Workshop Windows
Please note that the the current version (v3.7) of ISO Workshop setup offers you install AVG Security Toolbar during the installation. To avoid installing the toolbar, simply uncheck “Install AVG Security Toolbar and improve my internet protection” option that you see during the product installation.

Overall, ISO Workshop is a fantastic tool to handle your ISO files. An option to mount ISO files right-from the context menu would have made this tool best in class. And it would also be useful if there was an option to add create, extract, burn, and convert to the context menu. Nevertheless, it’s a handy tool.

ISO Workshop is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 operating systems.


Features:

  • Make standard and bootable ISO images
  • Extract files and folders from disc image
  • Copy disc to disc image (including Audio CD)
  • Convert disc image to ISO or BIN format
  • Burn ISO or CUE/BIN image to disc
  • Supports common formats (ISO, CUE, BIN, NRG, MDF, CDI etc.)
  • Supports CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD+R DL, BD-R/RE
  • Supports verification of written files

Benefits:

  • Supports all types of CD/DVD/BD Recorders
  • Super easy-to-use user interface
  • Small installation file size
  • Very low CPU resource usage
  • Free for personal and commercial use
  • Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 (32 and 64 bit)
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Drag and Drop a Photo on Facebook Status Box to Upload

Yes, it possible now you can upload a photo on facebook with actually required to click on photo and video option and then locate the video or photo but now you can simply drag and drop a single or multiple photos on the status box to upload directly.

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Facebook has recently rolled out this new feature across most of the facebook profiles and it works both on the facebook timeline and news feed page.

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This new feature from facebook becomes really handy as it makes easy for users to upload photos on facebook and all the photos will be uploaded to Timeline Photos album which will be automatically created if it does not exist under your facebook photo albums. We tried uploading videos on facebook this way but it gave us the error saying please drag a photos here, so this feature right now only supports uploading video this way.
Please Note: While uploading photos this way you cannot select the photo albums where you want these photos to be uploaded which you are dragging and dropping in status box on facebook.

Friday 28 December 2012

2 New Windows 8 Full Length Songs With Original Quality Sound.

windows 8 commercial song DOWNLOAD HERE

Windows 8 Add Kyu Darta Hai Tu Yaar Remix Full Song DOWNLOAD HERE

 Lyrics of windows 8 commercial song

As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox
As fast as a hare, as brave as a bear
As free as a bird, as neat as a word
As quite as a mouse, as big as a house


All I wanna be, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything


As mean as a wolf, as sharp as a tooth
As deep as a bite, as dark as the night
As sweet as a song, as right as a wrong
As long as a road, as ugly as a toad


As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture
Strong like a family, strong as I wanna be
Bright as day, as light as play
As hard as nails, as grand as a whale


All I wanna be, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything


As warm as the, the sun, as silly as fun
As cool as a tree, as scary as the sea
As hot as fire, cold as ice
Sweet as sugar and everything nice


As old as time, as straight as a line
As royal as a queen, as buzzed as a bee
Stealth as a tiger, smooth as a glide
Pure as a melody, pure as I wanna be


All I wanna be, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything

Thursday 27 December 2012

GiliSoft USB Lock3.0 with crack


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GiliSoft USB Lock - This is an easy and powerfull Endpoint DLP Suite that helps you to lock usb port,make dvd/cd burner read-only,block some websites,forbid some programs and disable more devices.

Features and Benefits:

• Block USB Drives:
Disable reading from USB disks or disable writing to USB disks.USB Lock doesn̢۪t allow any type of USB drive to access your computer unless you authorize it. By default, all types of USB drives are blocked including external drives, FireWire, Enhanced mini-USB, Host Controller Interface (HCI), HP-IL, Com, LPT, IrDA, USB on-the-go, U3, EHCI, RAID Controller, Host adapter, Serial Cable (use with data transfer), Serial ATA, ACCESS.bus and any storage device that is attached to USB port showing a drive in the system.

• CD Lock,Block Media & Blu-ray Discs:
Disable reading from DVD/CD discs or making DVD/CD burner read-only.The application also blocks any disc that uses the disk hub, bay, combo or CD/DVD drive and allots a drive letter, for example; CD-R, CD-RW, CD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, HD-R, HD-RW, HD-RAM, Blu Ray-R, Blu Ray-RW, Blu Ray-RAM, Floppy Disk A, Floppy Disk B and Zip Drives.

• Website Lock :
Block accessing some websites. This utility allows you to block unwanted websites from display in Internet Explorer. If a website is blocked the user is forwarded to a blank page or to a "blocked page" and the contents of the original page are not loaded on your PC. Stop loading banners and ads, stop your kids from spending hours in chat rooms or remove undesired websites from their view. Prevent your children from having access to certain websites content such as adult sites and gambling.

•Programs Lock :
Block running any programs, including IE, Outlook, AOL, AIM, and more. You can even lock your control panel with one button click. Other features include the ability to choose your own message to display if anyone attempts to run one of your locked programs, and also includes password protection so only you can unlock the program when you are ready to use it. Allows the entire computer to remain active and running, and it only locks and prevents access to the programs that you specify. Easy to use interface shows you current status of all locked programs, and allows you to easily click and unlock as you wish

• Devices Lock:
The program can be used to restrict read or write access to removable media devices such as CD, DVD, floppy, flash and USB drives.It also can be used to disable printer,moderm,com lpt ports,infrared,bluetooth,1394 ports.

• Alarm Notification :
If user enters wrong password more than 5 times,it will send alarm notifications to your e-mail .

• Copy Protection:
The program uses an advanced level of data leak prevention technology that does not permit duplication of your important files and copyright material to any USB drive or other such storage devices without your permission. The program works by blocking all types of unauthorized storage devices like USB drives, external drives, CDs, DVDs, etc., in this way it prevents plagiarism, piracy, illegal distribution and copying of your data

•Data Leak Prevention:
USB Lock is a data leak prevention software. It prevents your data from getting leaked out to USB drives and other such storage devices by letting you control which device can access your computer while blocking all other unauthorized devices that do not belong to you. With USB Lock installed on your computer, you can feel safe that your data will remain on your PC safe and secure.

OS : Win XP/2000/Vista/Win 7
Language : English

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Note: PASSWORD- mac
          Downlaod The Software Extract The RAR file.

Monday 24 December 2012

Lodge Complaint Against Overcharging or Refusing Auto Rickshaw Drivers in Bangalore




How the service works

If Auto Rickshaw drivers are refusing to come to your destination or overcharging then you can lodge a complaint with Bangalore Traffic Police by any of the following ways:
Send a SMS in the following format:
In case of REFUSAL

AUTO <SPACE> REF <SPACE> AUTO NO <SPACE> LOCATION <SPACE> TIME OF REFUSAL

EXAMPLE: AUTO REF KAO1XY1234 MG ROAD TO KORAMANGALA 5.30. PM
In case of OVERCHARGING

AUTO <SPACE> OVR <SPACE> AUTO NO <SPACE> LOCATION <SPACE> TIME OF
REFUSAL

Airtel customers send the message to 52225 and,
Other cell phone carrier users can send the message to 9663952225
Alternatively there is a 24 hours hotline IVRS for reporting auto complaints, call:
080 25588444  OR  080 25588555

YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL THE COMPLAIN
 
Note the vehicle number (KA-XX-YY-ZZZZ) and email the details to transcom@kar.nic.in. Based on the prefix XX (for example KA-01), complaint will be sent to one of the ten RTO offices in Bangalore and adjacent taluk areas.Alternatively, one can also call these offices at the number given below based on the vehicle number prefix and directly lodge a complaint.Vehicle Prefix (KA-XX) Bangalore location Phone number
 
KA-01 Koramangala 080-25533525

KA-02 Rajajinagar 080-23324104

KA-03 Indiranagar 080-25254310

KA-04 Yeshwantpur 080-23376039

KA-05 Jayanagar 080-26630989

KA-41 Gyanabharthi 080-28602833

KA-50 Yelahanka 080-28561366

KA-51 Electronic City 080-25735522

KA-52 NeelaMangala 08234-285598

KA-53 KR Puram 080-25617951



After the SMS and EMAIL is sent, the complaint is registered in the server, after which a notice is generated and sent to the owner of the autorickshaw. He then needs to pay a fine of Rs. 100.
“There are 39 police stations in the city where they can go and pay their fine, and they can also pay online. But these notices are sometimes ignored by them.

When drivers ignore the notices sent to them and their records show over three pending offences, inspectors across the city go on a special drive and constantly check their records through the Blackberry phones provided to them by the traffic department.

“Inspectors check the number plates of a large number of autorickshaws every day. When they come across one that has many pending offenses, they detain the vehicle and force the driver to pay up the fine.

New, convenient system preferred over elaborate, older system 

Earlier, letters were sent to the deputy commissioner of police, who in turn would forward them to the concerned police station. Information on the driver would then be requested from the RTO, and the notice would then be sent to auto driver.

Complaint cards were handed at police stations before this service was started.

“The earlier system was very long. This SMS service has made things convenient for people.

Though this SMS service is more widely used now, the complaint cards did, and still do, provide a larger number of areas under which complaints can be filed. These are:
  • Refusal to ply.
  • Demanding excess fare.
  • Failure to reach named destination.
  • Faulty meter.
  • Speeding or dangerous driving.
  • Number plate not displayed inside the auto.
  • Rude behavior.
  • Giving lifts to strangers.
  • Repeatedly cutting across traffic lanes.
The SMS service only allows complaints against overcharging and refusal by the drivers.

Facebook creates private posts that disappear after being read

Social networking site Facebook has launched a new app which erases pictures and messages within 10 seconds of being sent. 

It is an advanced version of one of the the social networking site's original apps, the 'poke'. 

The equivalent of a head nod or wink, the 'poke' in its old form is rarely used today as the site has become more advanced, the 'Daily Mail' reported. 

It has now been reinvented to be called 'Facebook Poke' and allows users to send fleeting messages, pokes, photos and 10-second videos to friends. 

The messages expire after a set period of time, from 1 to 10 seconds, and cannot be retrieved by either party again, making it perfect for sending salacious images without leaving a trail. 
Social networking site Facebook has launched a new app which erases pictures and messages within 10 seconds of being sent.
"With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, or video to Facebook friends to share what you're up to in a lightweight way," said the site in a blog post announcing the new app. 

When you open the app, you can choose from a set of icons at the bottom of the screen to send a poke, type a 120-character message, open the camera to snap a picture - you cannot choose an existing photo - or shoot a 10-second video. 

You then decide how long you want the recipient to see the message for. 

It is said the new facility is similar to Snapchat, an app which is popular with younger age users, and which has gained a reputation as a tool for sending risque images. 

Facebook is encouraging users to report inappropriate messages. 

"If you ever see something you're uncomfortable with, you can click the gear menu and report it," the paper quoted the company as saying.

Sunday 23 December 2012

5 Sites to compare prices online.

When shopping online, you often end up browsing several sites to look for its price and also what discount or offers are available. And if you are a regular online shopper, then you will know that the prices, especially the discounts on products, vary from one site to another. And not to forget the additional benefits like coupons and even reward points, which means more money in your pocket. But then, browsing several sites is cumbersome to say the least and you may even miss out on some. What you then need is a tool or a site that will actually do all the work for you and bring you results from the whole range of sites. Featured here are some sites that allow you to compare prices, not only for online retailers, but some of them also provide you with prices from offline retailers. So before you step out shopping this festive season, don’t forget to check out the price of the product you intend to buy.

CompareRajaIt also features coupons and deals
It also features coupons and deals


Catering to the needs of online shoppers is CompareRaja. How it works is very simple – you just select the category, type in the name of the product and it will show you all the e-commerce sites selling that product, along with the price. The result is arranged beginning with the lowest to the highest, with the best deal highlighted. Additionally, it will also show you the discount coupons, if available. It will show you results from top ecommerce sites like Flipkart, HomeShop18, IndiaPlaza, Naaptol, Yebhi, InfiBeam, Indiatimes Shopping, Sulekha, Tradus etc. Choose the best deal and it will take you to that ecommerce site to complete your transaction. An interesting feature is the addon for Chrome and Firefox that when installed will bring you price and discount details form all other sites, even when you are browsing one particular ecommerce site. For instance, if you are browsing on Flipkart for a product, then the CompareRaja addon toolbar will reflect the price and deals for the product form the other sites, without you having to even leave the browser. Apart from the straight forward price comparison, additional features include social networking integration that allows you to ask your Facebook friends their views about the product before making the purchase. You can also set price reminders, a feature that will notify you when the particular product is available at the price you desired. It also has an app for Android.  

MySmartPriceYou can get information about available coupons
You can get information about available coupons


MySmartPrice is a price comparison portal that gives you prices for the product you are looking for, from all the leading ecommerce sites. For instance, say you are looking to buy Samsung Galaxy S3, then mention the same in the search box and it will show you results for the ecommerce sites selling it, arranged in a list starting with the lowest price. Here, at a glance you will see which site is offering what price. It brings you results from sites like eBay, HomeShop18, SnapDeal, Zoomin, Tradus, Yebhi, Napptol, IndiaPlaza etc. Apart from the price, you can also see other details like the delivery time and the shopping cost. In addition, it will also show you further discounts, if available, for each site. Other handy features include product specifications, reviews, videos and the ability to even compare the product with others. The product category on the sites is not just limited to gadgets and electronics, but also extends to books, fashion, cameras, computers, personal care and more. Additionally, the site also features coupons and deals you can avail. Another useful aspect of the site is the mention of the exact date and time when the prices have been refreshed, so you can rest assured that the prices that you see are the latest ones. It also has an option where you can sign-up to be notified when the price of the product falls. 

CompareIndiaComapreIndia will provide you results from online as well as offline retailers
ComapreIndia will provide you results from online as well as offline retailers


If you want to compare price for products from online as well as offline retailers, then head to CompareIndia. The site will show you prices for products from both online as well as offline dealers. The product categories on the site is quite vast and features mobile phones, tablets, laptops, netbooks, cameras, printers and other electronic home appliances like TV, ACs, Microwaves, washing machines etc. Navigating the site is pretty straight-forward and you will quickly access the product you are looking for. You can browse products according to brands, best sellers, most popular etc. The site also features ‘Deal of the Day’ across the product categories. Another useful aspect is the ability to compare products. The comparison results will provide you with the product specifications, which will help you arrive at a decision of what product to buy. You also have the option to set price alert that will notify you when the product is available at the price desired by you. You can also write a review. CompareIndia will get you prices from offline dealers and online sites like LetsBuy, HomeShop18, TimTara, GreenDust, SnapDeal etc.     

Where is CheapestPrice for offline retailers
Price for offline retailers


While there are sites that allow you to compare prices for online retailers, there are very few that will let you compare prices for offline retailers. One such site is ‘Where is Cheapest’. You may call it a social networking site for people who want to buy a product and are looking for information about best deals, offers etc. you can sign-up using Facebook or create a new account. When you log-in, you will see a listing of all the products and the price they are available for, much like a Facebook wall. Here you can browse through the products, click on the ‘eye’ symbol to view details or click on ‘iwant’, which functions similar to Facebook ‘like’. Additionally, with ‘iwant’ you can also key in the details like the price you are willing to pay and by when you need it, as well as the city you will buy from. When you create ‘iwant’ requirement, the information will be shared with other users, who can then get back with relevant details. You can also search by typing in the product name in the search box. The results will be displayed with the help of a map where you will find the retail outlets marked; the same outlets are listed alongside. You can see at a glance where you will get better deal. Additionally, if you know of a good deal that is being offered, then you can share the same with fellow users. The site started out with Pune and is slowly expanding to other cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore.

PricedekhoCompare prices for online retailers
Compare prices for online retailers


Another site that allows you to compare prices for products offered by online retailers is Pricedekho. This sites vows to make your shopping experience a whole lot easier. Whether it is a mobile phone, camera, MP3 player, or even other electronic gadgets, you can check for their prices here. Just key in the details of the product you are looking for and it will bring you results from sites like SnapDeal, Infibeam, Croma, HomeShop18, Buytheprice.com, Indiaplaza.in, Bitfang.com, Gadgetsguru.com, themobilestore.in and many more. Alternatively, you can also browse based on your budget, popularity, brand, features etc. Alongwith the price, you will also find other useful information like specifications, photos, videos and reviews of the gadget. At the end of the page, you will see find a summary showing you which site offers maximum discount, as well as when was the price last updated. Usually, the prices are updated daily, but it’s always a good idea to check the same. You can also compare two or more gadgets. Another useful feature is the Price Alert notification. If you are keen on buying a particular gadget, but want to wait till the price drops a bit, then this is a good feature for you. You can set your target price, provide your email address and whenever the poduct is available at your desired price, you will receive an alert. 

Do you know of any other sites? Let us know.

Android malware to rise in 2013, predicts ESET


In its latest study, ESET points out that viruses and worms spreading through flash drives along with rise in malware targeting Android OS are the main trends of malware landscape in India in 2013. In its official statement, ESET adds that as per its last year’s report, malware for mobile phones was marked a main trend of 2012. This time, the researcher focused on malware for Android OS as the market share of Android mobile phones has been increasing dramatically.

During the first quarter of 2012, according to IDC statistics, the Google OS Android recorded a year-over-year rise of 145 percent in market share. Furthermore, Juniper in its whitepaper “Banking Anytime Anywhere” estimates that in 2013, the number of users accessing banking services from their smartphones will rise to 530 million. According to the same study, in 2011, there were only 300 million individuals who accessed banks from their phones.
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Malware on Android to rise


There are over 27 million smartphone users in India, according to different estimations. Though it comes to about only 3 percent of total mobile phone users in the country, we see the huge growth of smartphones’ usage. Moreover, even the majority of cheap handsets run Android OS. Although we didn’t register many cases of Android malware in India, comparing to some other countries, once Indian will start actively using their mobiles for online shopping, banking, etc. the picture will change immediately”, says Pankaj Jain, Director at ESET India.

Not only an exponential growth of mobile malware, but the fact that malware is becoming more complex, thus expanding the range of malicious actions they perform on an infected device makes it the main concern for security community in 2013. Going further, ESET highlights another trend: the malware propagation by means of removable storage devices is decreasing globally in favour of the use of an intermediary in order to attract new victims. Simply speaking, instead of compromising system through infected flash drives and other removable media, bad guys compromise web servers to host malware and then send out the hyperlinks leading the users to the malware.

Although throughout 2012, all detections related to INF/Autorun malware family, variety of malware using the file autorun.inf on Windows computers as a way of compromising a PC, have been steadily decreasing in India, this threat continues to dominate. That means USB flash drives are still an effective way of compromising computers. One of the reasons, according to ESET researchers, is that Indian users are still prone to using pirated software including OS itself along with pirated security software if at all the latter is installed on the system. Moreover, a very basic security practice as scanning removable media with security software is ignored by majority of Indian computer users.

The report, among its other trends, noted that SMS Trojans are the most common malware types for Android devices and the highest increase in the number of variants were represented by just two threats of this kind.

During 2012, out of the reports of all unique detections of malware designed for the Google operating system, the Android/TrojanSMS.Boxer.AQ Trojan tops the list. It is followed by Android/Plankton.H and Android/TrojanSMS.Agent.BY.Gen.

As long as this type of fraudulent business stays profitable and easy to implement for cybercriminals, it is likely that SMS Trojans will continue to be the most common mobile threat category during 2013.

Top 10 Worst Apple Products Of All Time

If you’re the kind of person who thinks that Apple can do no wrong, and that anyone who points out that the emperor occasionally has no clothes is a filthy disciple of Bill Gates in the pay of the Wintel conspiracy then stop reading right now.
In the past I’ve been guilty of saying bad things about Apple and their users but Shaun’s keeping me honest on this one. Let us know if you think we’ve missed anything in the comments section below.
Honourable mention: Mac Portable
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Iain Thomson: OK, we can all have a giggle at ‘portable’ computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss.
It was four inches thick, bulky enough to be awkward to carry and had a screen that was unreadable half the time, with the original models. Occasionally you’d see some poor devil struggling down the street with one of these and hope he or she had a good chiropractor. The fact they’d paid a small fortune for the device can’t have helped their mood either.

The Mac Portable also had a novel problem when it came to power. Because the power supply was wired in series if you ran the batteries down completely then the computer wouldn’t recharge. This led to a lot of users having to find workarounds to avoid owning a very expensive doorstop.
Shaun Nichols: It’s hard to believe that in only two years time Apple went from the suitcase monstrosity that was the Mac Portable to the sleek, powerful Powerbook 170 model.
The two systems were night and day: the portable was big. Like 16 pounds worth of big. The Powerbook was smaller, just as powerful and sported a great design and big, bright screen.
As Iain noted, the Portable used lead acid battery packs that didn’t do it too many favours. They made the system both heavy and unreliable. Add to that the full compliment of drives and connections, and you had monster of a computer that in reality wasn’t much more portable than a regular desktop box.
This was a rare case in which Apple messed up by putting computing muscle above sleek form factor. Fortunately they were able to correct the issues by 1991 with the first Powerbooks.
Honourable Mention: Color Classic
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Shaun Nichols: While making the list I jokingly suggested to Iain that we could do an entire Top 10 list based on what Apple did between 1991 and 1996. In fact, don’t be surprised if we actually do one this summer.
The Color Classic was a system that might have been a good idea had it been rolled out a few years earlier. The aim was to produce a compact system in the style of the original Mac models, but equip it with a colour screen. In essence, a system that combined the best features of the classic Macs with the best features of the latest Macs.
Unfortunately, the actual product managed to combine the worst of both worlds. The space constraints of the classic case limited the effectiveness of the colour screen and forced the company to go with underpowered hardware. Meanwhile, the falling cost of computers made the Color Classic’s $1800 price tag seem steep for a low-end system.
Iain Thomson: Technically the Color Classic is part of the Performa range, of which more will be said later.
The failings of this system are many and manifold. A colour screen sounds good but in fact didn’t add much to the computer, besides jacking up the price considerably. Originally designed for the education market the Color Classic failed to get much traction and was not one of Apple’s success stories.
It could be argued that this system forced Apple to rethink building screens into systems. Sure it looks very good but it increases the overall cost of the system and limits users to a particular view. Built-in screens made sense at the start of the computing age but they have thankfully gone the way of the dinosaurs.
10. QuickTake
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Iain Thomson: In the early 1990s Apple decided to get into the digital camera business. This was during Scully’s ill-fated first attempt to get into the consumer electronics market and nothing typified why this didn’t work more than QuickTake.
At the time the digital camera market was in its infancy and megapixel ranges were so low you wouldn’t even consider them usable in your phone today. Nevertheless Apple chose a stinker of a product to slap its logo on. The QuickTake range were outdated at launch, had no zoom or focus and stored just eight pictures.
Sure you could download your snaps very easily onto your computer but that hardly made it a usable product. It typified Apple’s approach at the time, when the company’s management thought that its users would buy almost anything if it had an Apple logo on it. That attitude seems to be largely reformed now, although if you look at the iPod Shuffle I have my doubts.
Shaun Nichols: Peripherals are very much a hit-or-miss area for Apple. Sometimes you get a great product like the Cinema Display or the Laserwriter, and other times you get the QuickTake.
In hindsight, we can say that computer companies make for lousy digital camera vendors. The high-end brands we see in the market today are almost all companies that made old-fashioned film cameras, and that’s because it turns out that the digital part of the camera is actually the easy part. It’s the optics technology and features that really make the difference.
That Apple wouldn’t be able to make a decent digital camera should be no more surprising than finding out that the engineers at Nikon build pretty lousy desktop operating systems.
apple pippin product
9. Pippin

Shaun Nichols: For many years now users have been clamouring for Apple to step up its efforts in the computer gaming space. If they knew about the short-lived Pippin, however, they may just change their minds.
While it didn’t compare to the video game boom of the early 1980s, there was a brief period of time in the mid-1990s when faster processors and CD-Rom games were looking to replace the old cartridge consoles. This opened the door to new companies and led to the launch of a handful of competing consoles.
The Sony Playstation came out as the big winner of this era, but there were many other consoles that didn’t make it into the later end of the decade. Among them was the ill-fated Apple Pippin.
Basically, the idea was to modify the Macintosh hardware and operating system and then license the whole platform out to third party vendors as a gaming console. The result was the Apple-Bandai Pippin.
Unfortunately for Apple, developers didn’t quite jump at the idea, and with little outside support, the Pippin sold less than 100,000 units.
Iain Thomson: Actually I heard less than 50,000 but we’ll agree to differ.
The Pippin was designed and sold as a computer but perceived, rightly or wrongly, as a gaming console. As such the price tag for the system was too expensive for the gaming market and the platform failed to take hold. Games manufacturers too were less than enthralled. The console market was more crowded than it is today and they had enough to worry about with other systems.
As Microsoft found out to its cost entering the gaming console market is a major step. It’s fashionable to dismiss consoles as dumb computers but it is a sophisticated market to crack and you need a great console, wide support and great games. The Pippin failed on all three counts.
8. iPod Hi-Fi
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Iain Thomson: In the summer of 2006 I was at a particularly bad party when I first saw one of these.
Our host had picked it up one from a recent trip to the US and had his iPod in the top to provide background music. I’m a bit of a hi-fi nerd so asked him what he used for his normal music. It turns out this was his hi-fi, and when he told me how much he’d paid for it restraining my disbelieving laughter was hard.
From a sound perspective the iPod Hi-Fi had all the depth and fidelity of a drunken one-night-stand. The docking station wasn’t compatible with some iPods and while having two speakers next door to each other is all well and good from a design perspective but it cripples any attempt as stereo sound. For the same money you could have bought a semi-decent hi-fi system that played CDs, cassettes and linked into your computer.
The iPod Hi-Fi highlights a consistent theme in Apple’s audio approach. When it comes to converting data into sound the company is top notch, DRM issues aside. But it always seems to fail at the final gateway.
The iPod is a wonderful device for storing and playing music for example, but the earbud headphones are dire in the extreme. Its desktop systems fared better, but only just. When it comes to audio Apple needs to look at music from start to end, not just from the data perspective.
Shaun Nichols: Apple did manage to get some pretty good sound when it teamed up with Harman Kardon on the SoundSticks, so it’s not like they’re incapable of producing a decent speaker system.
Unfortunately, the iPod Hi-Fi was not one of those products. Really, it was a classic case of Apple not knowing when to back off and let its partners develop the products rather than compete with an in-house offering.
As Iain noted, the basic design didn’t lend itself well to solid acoustics. Probably not a big issue when you’re using it as a desktop or bedside stereo system, but for $350 the Hi-Fi should have delivered the performance of a complete home stereo system.
In the case of the Hi-Fi, it was better to just go low-tech: plug your iPod into the wall charger and plug the headphone jack into your regular stereo system or even a high-end set of computer speakers.
7. PowerPC
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Shaun Nichols: Some might be surprised by this one, but hear me out before you pick up the torches and pitchforks. The PowerPC project was a marvellous piece of engineering, but not a great business decision.
The merits of the chip itself are readily apparent today, derivatives of the POWER line are widely used for high-performance systems, gaming consoles and embedded systems.
But it wasn’t the right choice for personal computers. The high price of the chips combined with its increased energy consumption were all major drawbacks, as was the ordeal involved in porting over software from x86 platforms such as Windows.
There were many factors to the growth in Mac sales Apple has seen in the last five years, but the decision to go from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors should certainly be recognised as key. As the largest chip maker on the planet, Intel is far more able to develop and supply chips tuned to the needs of Apple’s desktop and notebook models on a scale the IBM-Motorola partnership never could.
Iain Thomson: Well you certainly surprised me when you came out with this one Shaun.
The decision to go for the RISC architecture was a good one at the time; it certainly made sense from an engineering standpoint. It also encouraged competition in the computer marketplace, but by the time serious work started on PowerPC that battle had been lost and failing to get on board with Intel basically condemned Apple developers and customers to a ghetto of also-rans, with a tiny per cent of the market.
The PowerPC chips were marvellous bits of engineering to be sure, but squabb ling among the various partners, as well as the technical limitations of the chip for PCs, doomed the whole process. There’s still a place for PowerPC chips, usually in your car control system, but they have little place in the PC.
6. Mac OS9
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Iain Thomson: OS9, released in 1999, was Apple’s last flogging of the dead horse that was System 7. It was a dog of an operating system in many ways, and a great thing to remind OSX fanboys about during flamewars.
Newly-returned Steve Jobs might have hailed OS9 as the best thing since sliced bread but OS9 was pathetically bad at multitasking and if you were trying to do more than two things at once reboots were the order of the day. I wasn’t using Macs at that point but judging from the frequent, loud and occasionally obscene comments coming from the design department I gathered it had few fans there.
Ever since Apple’s move to the Intel processor platform OS9 has been largely incompatible but there are still a few dedicated fans running OS9 and keeping the flame sputtering. Why they bother is beyond me. OSX is a great bit of work and there’s no reason not to upgrade.
Shaun Nichols: Come on now, Iain, Jobs had to play up OS9.
What was he going to say? “Look, we’re working on a decent operating system, but until we can figure out how to make it run without setting your computer on fire, here’s a few bells and whistles on the same crappy system we’ve used since the Reagan years.”
OS9 was pretty much a stopgap. Apple tried to play it up as much as they could, but it was pretty much implied that they were just trying to have something fresh to pitch with the new computers. Much like Microsoft tossing out updates between Windows 98 and XP, the company was just meeting the marketing cycle while it worked on the real update.
I also think that OS9 gets a bad rap because it was followed by such a huge leap in OS X. When you run the two side by side you feel like you’re hopping into a time machine 10 years in the future.
Ironically, because it can run in tandem with OS X on PowerPC systems, OS9 is also probably the most widely used version of the old MacOS still floating ar ound today.
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5. eWorld 

Shaun Nichols: Unless you’re a Mac user going back to the early 1990s, chances are you never heard of eWorld. Like most of Apple’s commercial flops, the ill-fated ISP was an intriguing concept marred by high cost and low availability,
eWorld was an interesting spin on the walled-garden ISP that was so popular at the beginning of the commercial internet. The dial-up service was navigated as a city-style layout. Users accessed different areas of the service by clicking on ‘buildings,’ such as the post office for email or the town hall for chat and forum pages.
Unfortunately, eWorld suffered from the same shortcomings that plagued Apple throughout the decade; it was expensive and obscure.
On top of an $8.95 monthly fee that included 2 free hours of access, users had to shell out $5 per hour during business hours and $8 per hour for night and weekend access. Reading this article on eWorld would have cost you roughly the price of a good sandwich.
Additionally, Apple decided to limit the service to Mac users in hopes of boosting hardware sales. Because taking on Microsoft wasn’t enough, Apple apparently wanted to go after AOL at the same time.
To nobody’s surprise, the service folded in 1996.
Iain Thomson: Shaun had to explain to me what eWorld was, since I’d never heard of it. Based on my research I can see why.
eWorld was an attempt to make the internet a user-friendly place and introduce people to online activities in a safe way. The end result looks painfully bad, like a child’s idea of what the internet would look like. Apple however wasn’t along in sticking useless interfaces on its systems. After all, Microsoft Bob, is similar in a lot of ways.
But to my mind it was the cost factor that really killed eWorld. Apple overcharged massively to the system in a way that makes hotel phone and internet charges look like a bargain.
4. Performa line
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Iain Thomson: Given Scully’s prior experience in the fizzy drinks market he should have realised that when it comes to brand choice more is less. Michael Spindler’s short-lived reign as chief executive carried on his mistake and it took the hands of Gil Amelio to finally give the line the lethal injection it so desperately needed.
The Performa line was Apple’s attempt to segment its market into professional and consumer computers. It was an abject failure, in part because the plethora of choices confused buyers, particularly those who weren’t that savvy about technology to begin with.
Models got different names if they had slightly bigger hard drives or based on what software came bundled. Dealers had a tough time keeping a good selection of stock so many consumers couldn’t get exactly the model they wanted.
To make things worse the Perfoma line produced some of the worst computers in the company’s history. Most of the systems were underspecced, over-priced and lacked any of the design flare that has come to be Apple’s calling card under the tenure of Jonathan Ive. In the past we’ve singled out the 6200 series for special criticism but to my mind the whole range deserves inclusion.
Shaun Nichols: When Steve Jobs tells people “we don’t know how to make a cheap computer,” he’s partially referring to the Performa line.
Apple has trouble producing value machines for a couple of reasons. First, the company sets its own OS and hardware specifications based on what it wants to do, not what is readily available. Apple builds MacOSX around the one or two models it wants to offer. Microsoft designs Windows in large part around what hardware and components PC vendors want to offer.
The second issue is volume. Budget PCs have a very thin profit margin, and companies have to make their money through selling large numbers of the cheaper systems. Apple simply does not have a large enough market to make low-end systems practical.
Unfortunately, these were all lessons the company had to learn the hard way with the Performa series. By cutting back on specs and targeting the low-end market, the company ended up taking a huge hit to its bottom line while having to deal with a generation of machines that couldn’t adequately run its software.
3. “Hockey Puck” mouse
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Shaun Nichols: The release of the original iMac was in many ways revolutionary. The case design, system specifications and marketing were all hugely successful. Not as popular, however, was the iMac’s mouse.
Dubbed the ‘hockey puck,’ the circular, one-button mouse looked pretty slick on a desktop, but for many people it was also a painful lesson in ergonomics. The circular design was a radical change from most mice and could put a great deal of stress on the wrist and elbow.
Some people do still defend the hockey puck, claiming that if held properly (either via the fingertips or pressed into the palm) it’s not so bad, but for most everyone else the mere sight of the puck brings a cringe.
There was some benefit, however. The hockey puck helped to boost the market for third-party peripherals, and its cold reception forced Apple to rethink its ergonomic approach for future mouse designs.
Iain Thomson: I’ve got a touch of RSI myself at the moment but if I’d been using one of these for any length of time I’d have to have someone else open my ketchup these days.
I can only assume Ive suffered a small episode of petit mal episode when he came up with this little monstrosity. It looks very pretty to be sure, but for regular users it was like the Spanish Inquisition had joined Apple’s design department. It’s about the worst thing I’ve seen him do and it was thankfully soon dropped. Like Shaun I’m highly sceptical of claims that if used right it could be fine for the wrist, and who wants to relearn how to use a mouse?
Thankfully the iMac was the first to embrace USB so users could use third party supplier’s kit. It soon became rare to see an iMac with the hockey puck still attached.
2. 20th Anniversary Mac
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Iain Thomson: This was very nearly a contender for the number one spot on the list.
In 1997 you could buy a pretty decent PC system for a couple of thousand dollars. You could buy a top of the range system for a few thousand dollars more, and a fantastic monitor to use it with. So why Apple thought people would be willing to spend $9,000 on an average system in a pretty casing is beyond me, and everyone else as it turned out.
Apple dropped the price on launch, and kept dropping it – much to the annoyance of early adopters who protested at paying such a heavy geek tax. The price fell and fell and Apple was reduced to selling the final units off at a loss just to shift stock.
I’m sure the marketing department thought the idea of producing a 20th Anniversary product was a wonderful one. But they should have talked to the engineers. Based on the specifications of the computer, and the state of the competition, the management must have been using a bit too much Bolivian marching powder if they thought this one was a goer.
Shaun Nichols: I don’t necessarily have issues with the 20th Anniversary Mac in itself, my problem is the time and circumstances in which it was released.
1997 was a time of outright crisis for Apple. The company was struggling to stay afloat and facing major budget issues. With many people seriously doubting the future of the company, the executives chose to occupy precious engineering, marketing and retail efforts on what amounted to a vanity project.
The company is staring down the barrel of bankruptcy court and the execs roll out a $7,500 luxury system that is delivered by limo? Seriously not cool. No wonder one of Jobs’ first actions upon taking over was to clean house.
I know that the 20th Anniversary Mac had nothing to do with the company’s financial troubles, and it was just a little side project to celebrate a company milestone, but given the timing and setting of the move, it sent a signal that the people running Apple paid more attention to what happened over the last 20 years than what would happen over the next five.
1. Apple III
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Shaun Nichols: As we’ve seen a few times on this list, sometimes Apple’s brass will let aesthetics override practicality. Never was this more apparent than with the infamous Apple III.
To keep the system compact and the operation quiet, the Apple III eschewed pesky things like fans and heat sinks, while chips were crammed in together tightly. The result was a system that ran just a wee bit warm.
In fact, the Apple III ran so warm that it had a nasty tendency to cause heat damage in floppy disks and warp the motherboard. The extreme temperatures also tended to cause chips to come loose from the board, prompting one of the strangest repair techniques ever. Users were advised to pick the computer up a few inches off the ground and then drop it, hopefully jostling the chips back into position.
The Apple III only lasted a few years, and the targeted business market went largely to IBM and the PC platform.
Iain Thomson: It’s a measure of the temperance of Apple users that buyers of the Apple III didn’t storm the gates of Cupertino and strangle Steve Jobs with a power cable.
As Shaun has said the Apple III gave rise to the most infamous tech support advice in the history of the industry. If I’d spent nearly $8,000 on a computer I’d expect advice a tad more reassuring than dropping the system, and Apple ended up replacing the first 14,000 Apple III’s after howls of protest..
Woz described the Apple III as designed by the marketing, not engineering, department. That may be true but the design wasn’t the only problem. The software emulation on the Apple III was dire and crippled the system, quality control was poor and the system was oversold. All in all a thoroughly bad egg…

How To Find Who Unfriends You Or Decline Your Friend Request


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We all use Facebook daily. Sending friend requests to our friends especially. But there are some people who didn’t accept our friend request. Also some others unfriend us from their friend-list. So here I have a solution to see who unfriends us or declines our friend request. While surfing on internet I found this script which is working perfectly in all browsers.
 
How This Script Works :
This is a realtime script. A local database keeps the records of our friend list and compared at each refresh. It enables a menu named Unfriends that let us know the persons that are previously your friend but now removed you.  This script works on all browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc..

 Steps :

Step 1 : Download Unfriend Finder Script as per your browser.
Step 2 : If you have Google Chrome Browser it will directly download on you browser just after clicking on Add button when a dialog box prompts.
         
                 But if you use Mozilla Firefox you have to download Greasemonkey Addon in your browser
That’ it.
After Installation of script Unfriends menu will be created near Home menu. And you can find who unfriends you and decline your friend request.

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