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This article was written on June 12, 2008 by CyberNet.

The online data backup market has gotten swollen lately with services like Mozy, Box.net, and Carbonite as well as companies like HP (Upline) and Microsoft all offering solutions. Now it looks as though Symantec too wants to get in the online data backup market by acquiring a company called SwapDrive.

SwapDrive calls themselves the leader in file sharing and backup services. Like many other services out there, their customers are able to remotely backup, store, and access their information online. As of June, Symantec completed their acquisition of the company and said that what SwapDrive offers fits right into their strategy.

Our question now is whether Symantec will be incorporating SwapDrive into their Security Suite like Microsoft has done with Windows Live OneCare? You may or may not know this, but part of what OneCare offers besides the antivirus and anti-spyware is a backup and restore feature. They offer “centralized backup management” to make it easy for people to keep their data backed-up.

After doing some digging around, we answered our own question and found Vnunet.com saying, “Symantec will integrate SwapDrive’s service into its Norton consumer storage and security products, selling online storage space as part of broader subscription software packages.

So there we have it, Symantec will soon be adding an online data backup solution to their security suite which tells us that the majority of you won’t be able to take advantage of it. We’ve talked about Norton before, and the general consensus from many of you is that it’s bloated and near useless. Still though, it’s an interesting move for Symantec to make.

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It’s baaack. We’ve gone well over half a year without hearing a peep from black magic makers LucidLogix, but here on the doorstep of CES 2011, the company has resurfaced just in time to ride on the coattails of Intel’s forthcoming Sandy Bridge platform. Sandy is expected to take over CES when companies start to introduce new PCs in just a few days, and thanks to Lucid’s virtualization software, we wouldn’t be surprised if a few are served with NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. This here technology enables the two to play nice, making the outlandish fantasy of using a multi-GPU, multi-vendor setup a reality. DirectX 11 is also supported, with the only real requirement being to “connect the display screen directly to the motherboard’s Sandy Bridge display output.” We’ll be taking a closer look at the peacemaker once we land in Vegas, but for now, go ahead and prepare yourself for a beta version of ‘Virtu’ — it’ll hit at some point next month.

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This article was written on September 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

Okay, we knew it was coming and Apple finally updated their iTunes site to reflect the newly released version 7! There is a whole slew of new features, but the overall interface is pretty much the same:

• Movies
• Cover Flow
• Automatic Album Art
• New User Interface
• iPod Games
• iPod Summary
• Download Manager
• Higher Video Resolution
• Onscreen Video Controls
• Multiple Libraries
• Library Backup
• Gapless Playback
• Ratings and Parental Controls

So it is an impressive list of updates but it was definitely needed since Microsoft has Windows Media Player 11 also being released soon. There is still no word on Vista compatibility on iTunes 7 but I think I’ll give it a try later and see how it goes. Here’s hoping for the best.

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This article was written on June 13, 2008 by CyberNet.

With every new release of Firefox there’s always going to be a few extensions that just don’t make the cut. Developers let the extensions fade into the dust as users keep their fingers crossed that someone else will pickup the project. Google Browser Sync is exactly one of those extensions, and it looks like there is very little chance of a resuscitation. That means you’ll no longer be able to sync your bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, and tabs between browsers!

According to Lifehacker Google has no intention of making the extension compatible with Firefox 3 which is due out on Tuesday. Here’s part of the response that one of their readers received from the Google Team when inquiring about the future of the project:

Thanks for trying out Google Browser Sync and for all of your feedback. It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects that are keeping them busy, we don’t have time to update the extension to work with Firefox 3 or to continue to maintain it.

The response then goes on to talk about how Firefox 2 users who are still running the extension will only receive support throughout 2008. Looks like there’s really no point in someone trying to get it to work in Firefox 3 then if Google won’t be providing the hosting that’s needed to store the information.

My question is how many of you still use Google Browser Sync? I thought it was pretty cool when it first came out, but it didn’t last long on my computer. I just wasn’t comfortable with Google having that much of my information, and right now all I use is Foxmarks merely as a way to keep my bookmarks backed up.

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This article was written on June 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft Monday

I’m one that tends to turn off most of the system sounds on my computer. I’ve never really found them useful, and in fact, most of the time they annoy me. Last August when it was reported that Microsoft was not going to allow you to disable the startup sound in Vista, many people including myself were a little upset. Luckily they changed their minds, and I can now disable it.

If you enjoy all of the sounds in your operating system and you’re using Windows Vista, you’ll notice that many of them sound much different than those in XP.  One major difference besides the actual sounds is the difference that they were encoded.  XP Sounds were encoded at 352 kpbs while Vista sounds were encoded at 1,411 kbps.  Vista sounds are clearly better quality, but they also tend to be shorter than any of the sounds in XP as well.

A nice comparison of Vista Sounds versus XP sounds can be found here.

Customize System Sounds

I don’t know how many of you go explore the Sound menu found in the Control Panel, but there are different sounds that you can choose from to customize what you hear and when. There’s an entire drop-down list of sounds so that you can select a particular sound for a certain event. By clicking the “Test” button, you can hear what a sound sounds like before you select it. You can also click “browse” to select your own WAV file.

Convert Your Own Sounds to WAV

As mentioned above, you can browse to select your own sounds. That means you can search around the Internet looking for sounds clips to then be used for your system sounds. The only requirement is that the sounds must be converted to WAV before you’re able to use them.

If you find sounds that you like that are in any other format like MP3 or WMA, you can use a tool like dBpoweramp to convert it to WAV. It’s free, and simple to use.

Download dBpoweramp Music Converter

Here are three websites where you can find sound clips:

1. WavCentral
2. Bravenet (you can filter by WAV sounds)
3. TheFreeSite.com

Create Your Own Sounds

Instead of going around looking for sounds around the web, why not create your own? Vista already comes with a Sound Recorder, so all you’ll need is a microphone.  Please note: It will record in WMA format, so once again you can use dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert the file to WAV.

Once you’re done recording your sounds and have selected which ones you’d like for different events, you can save it as a Sound Scheme by clicking “Save as.”

SoundPackager

If you’re familiar with IconPackager, SoundPackager will do something similar.  It’s a project in the works over at Stardock, and it looks like a beta will be available in July.  On their website, they say: “It applies sets of sound effects to a host of common Windows actions. Stardock has teamed up with famed composer Mason Fischer to create a series of elegant replacement sounds on Windows.” This will probably end up being one of the easiest ways to modify your system’s sounds, but there hasn’t been any word on the cost.

The screenshot below gives us an idea of what it will look like when it becomes available:

Vista Startup Sound Facts

Just in case you’re interested in more than just how the startup sound sounds, here are a few interesting facts that the Windows Vista Blog posted a few months before Vista debuted regarding it:

• The startup sounds is made of dual ascending “glassy” melodies played on top of a gentle fading Fripp ‘AERO’ Soundscape
• Has two parallel melodies played in an international “Win-dows Vis-ta” rhythm
• Consists of 4 chords, one for each color in the Windows flag
• Is about 4 seconds long from start to finish
• Is a collaboration between Robert Fripp, Tucker Martine and Steve Ball

The video below shows Robert Fripp recording some of the sounds. He was one of the individuals involved.

There you have it, more than you ever wanted to know about Vista sounds!

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