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This article was written on July 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

Our Tuesday CyberNotes articles have always been a favorite of mine because they focus on applications and tips that can help make you more productive. For the most part everything that’s featured in these articles is freeware, and that means almost all of our readers are able to take advantage of our tips. Plus it goes to show that making a good free application will earn itself the attention it deserves.

Here are our favorite Tuesday CyberNotes articles from over the years:

Keyboard Shortcuts for your Programs
We assembled a rather long list of where you can find keyboard shortcuts for your favorite applications. Included are web browsers, operating systems, office programs, and much more.

QTTabBar Adds Tabs to Explorer in Vista and XP
Some file managers have found it to be in the best interest of the users to offer a tabbed navigation system, but not Windows Explorer. QTTabBar takes care of that by incorporating an excellent tab system right in Windows Explorer. Now you don’t need to have 10 different windows open for navigating through your files.

Free Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, and Firewall Downloads
It took a little while but we assembled a rather long list of free antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewall applications. We even made sure to point out which operating system(s) each one could run on (at the time the article was written). Then for each category we left it up to our trusty readers to let us know which ones were their favorites by voting in our poll.

Bigger Thumbnails for Vista’s Alt-Tab
Windows Vista introduced a new way to switch between running applications called Flip-3D. It’s cool and all, but I still find myself using the classic Alt-Tab combo for getting the job done. With a little bit of work you can enlarge the thumbnail previews shown in Alt-Tab so that they make better use of the screen space available.

Photoscape Makes Image Editing Effortless
This is an image editor that is brimming with features to dazzle up those photos you have lying around on your computer. You can create collages, animated GIF’s, bulk rename files, and much more.

Revo Uninstaller Cleanly Removes your Apps
When I first stumbled across this application I was thoroughly impressed with how well it worked. It was able to cleanly remove several of my applications without leaving much of a trace, and for that reason it will always have a home on my computer.

Top 15 Ultra Tiny Apps
Most of today’s applications are becoming exceedingly large, and this article celebrates those programs who have found a way to offer something useful without compromising their size.

Best Application Launchers for Windows
Sometimes it’s hard to find an application on your computer because you have so many different ones installed, but these application launchers aim to ease the process. The articles covers various types of application launchers ranging from docks to widgets/gadgets.

Free CD, DVD, & Blu-ray Burning Software
I used to be a big fan of Nero because it was an advanced CD/DVD burning application, but it has evolved into a bloated monster over the years. The reason they’ve had to include to many new things in Nero is because free applications like these were creeping up on their territory, and they had to do something to distinguish themselves. If all you’re looking to do is burn CD’s or DVD’s then these free programs are just what the doctor ordered.

Powerful Free Backup Software
One thing that people don’t do enough of is backing up important data. External hard drives are becoming fairly inexpensive these days which means backing up your data is pretty affordable. Cobian not only makes it easy to do this, but it also has many advanced features that would even appeal to power users.

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Nokia is joining the ever-growing in-demand tablet market, according to Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia Corp. He said that the company is planning to design a unique tablet. Here are Mr. Elop’s full comments.

We have a number of options in the tablet computing space given the changing strategy that we have. For example, we could take advantage of Microsoft technology and software and build a Windows-oriented tablet, or we could do things with some of the other software assets that we have. Our team right now is assessing what’s the right tablet strategy for Nokia how does that fit in

There are now over 200 different tablets on the marketplace, only one of them is doing really well. My challenge to the team is I don’t want to be the 201st tablet on the market that you cannot tell from all of the others. We have to take an uniquely Nokia prospective and so the teams are working very hard on something that would be differentiating relative to everything else that is going on in the market

While Nokia has yet to set a target date or even develop one, we can all take a look at what we can expect from it. Since Nokia has dropped Symbian, that leaves us just two natural choices Windows or MeeGo. However, Nokia seems confident that its tablet will be state of the art, which means that Android or Linux could be used.

Like we stated above, all of this news is just the start of it for Nokia. But it should be exciting to see how Nokia takes on Apple, along with Android in this tough market.

Via Xbit Labs

Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet finally gets some much-needed apps, including one for video calls.

Originally posted at Dialed In

After months of speculation, Time Inc. has finally inked a deal with Apple that will allow print magazine subscribers to access the company’s iPad editions for free. Beginning this week, subscribers to print versions of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time will be able to download the iPad counterparts at no cost, directly within the magazines’ apps. Today’s deal comes just a few months after the company struck a similar arrangement with HP, but iPad users, unlike TouchPad readers, still won’t be able to purchase exclusively digital subscriptions to Time Inc.’s stable of publications. It’s no secret that Time Inc. wants to incorporate digital subscriptions to its iPad model, but negotiations have hit some roadblocks, largely thanks to disputes over how Apple shares subscriber data. Publishers say they need that data to apply the TV Everywhere model to magazines, but Apple thinks subscriber information should only be shared on an opt-in basis. We don’t really expect Apple to budge any time soon, but execs at Time Inc. seem optimistic, telling the Wall Street Journal that today’s deal proves that the two parties are “moving closer” on the issue — apparently not close enough, however, for Apple to comment.

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Intel may have just released the first generation Thunderbolt this spring, but Intel is already planning it for long term. Intel is already working on the Thunderbolt’s successor, even before the original really takes off. Here is what the director of Intel Research labs had to say:

We see them as complementary. It’s the evolution of these connectors and protocols as they move forward. 

[Besides], Thunderbolt is more than a cable. It’s a router chip that aggregates DisplayPort and PCI-Express.

No reason was given for the upgrades being developed so early on. Some companies outside of Apple have shown interest, but by no means have we seen anything big for it yet. Intel appears to be living more in a dream than a reality.

Via TG Daily