Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on February 06, 2007 by CyberNet.

I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with the Giveaway of the Day site, but I subscribe to it in my feed because I’m always looking for a great (free) download. Basically, the site legally offers a download each day that would normally cost you money. There is one catch though, you have to download and install the application that same day! You’re sorely out of luck if you ever have to format your hard drive.

Normally on Giveaway of the Day, the software doesn’t seem to be that great, and I actually haven’t downloaded any of their offerings. After you download one of their programs you have to run their activator before you install the program, and I assume that their activator only works for the day that the download is available for. If you try and activate it anytime after that you’ll probably receive some sort of warning stating that you cannot activate the software yada yada (although I’ve never tried so I’m not sure what the activator would do).

I’m sure that is the only way they can get these companies to offer the software to them for their readers, because this way they get their software on the computers of a variety of people. Then, when a user clears their computer they’ll realize that the software can no longer be installed so they might actually go and buy it if they grew accustomed to it.

Today the software available is Post2Blog which is exactly what the name implies: blogging software. It normally costs $39 but it is available for you to download and install for free during the next 7 hours from Giveaway of the Day. I was a little skeptical about giving the software a trial run because I didn’t want to cozy up with it, and then later on down the road want to buy it since I have become so used to it. However, we write a lot of articles so I was curious what a commercial blogging application had to offer that other free alternatives, like Windows Live Writer, didn’t have. Here are the features that the site boasts…and there was one that really caught my attention in regards to the activation scheme (see if you can find it before I point it out):

• WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with complete hot-keys support
• Built-in "Live" spell checking
• "Portable Mode" support
• Images are uploaded automatically (supported uploading types: Flickr, file area of your blog, imageshack.us, picturelli.com, custom FTP server)
• Post text and/or images from Firefox or Internet Explorer to your blog with 2 clicks only using plug-ins for Firefox (check example) and Internet Explorer
• Compose new posts in MS Word and post them to your blog using Post2Blog toolbar for MS Word
• Integration with RSS Bandit (rssbandit.org) and Sharp Reader (sharpreader.net) – you can post selected items from these RSS readers using Post2Blog plug-in
• Post files, images, documents from Explorer or any other program using "Send To -> Post2Blog" command
• Add Technorati, Del.icio.us, Buzzwords, 43 Things tags to your posts
• Automatically send trackbacks, ping web-services to notify about updates in your blogs
• Earn money using "Insert Amazon Link" feature
• Use built-in smiles for use in your blog

Did you see it? The third option down mentions a "Portable Mode" that I was intrigued to see how it worked. Very rarely have I seen commercial software offer a portable version, and I was excited to see this. Being able to have a great blogging utility on my USB drive wherever I go was an appetizing thought, so I was excited to give it a shot.

After installing the program there is a new option in the Start Menu entry called "Create Portable version" that you use to put the application on your USB drive. All it does is copy the files for the program and your settings into a single folder (that you specify) so that you can run the app from anywhere. Pretty slick, but that also brings up the big point that I want to make…this portable version has your settings, files, and registration info! If you save this folder you’ll never have to install the program again, and it will always be registered. So if you reformat your computer, there is no risk in having to go and purchase the program.

I was thinking to myself that this might be against the terms of Giveaway of the Day somehow, but I don’t see how it could be since you are just taking advantage of features the program has to offer. The download only has 7 hours left so you have to download and install it before that time expires. Then you can go about creating the portable version whenever you feel like it, as long as you do it before you format your computer!

Hope this helps any bloggers looking for a nice commercial application to use! I really like it, but I’m not sure if it is worth the $39. Oh yeah, and for those of you who like Web standards, this does have an XHTML option to generate XHTML code.

Thanks to Radu for pointing out that this software was available.

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When we announced back in March that Photoshop CS4 had been leaked there were (and still are) some skeptics that it’s the real deal. The timing of the leak seemed about right since the Adobe Creative Suite is on an 18 to 24 month release cycle, which would place the final release of Adobe CS4 somewhere between October 2008 and April 2009. It took 5-months for Adobe to release Photoshop CS3 from the time they unleashed the first Beta, and today we are one step closer to that stage.

Photoshop CS4 Beta hasn’t been released yet, but three other Beta products of the Creative Suite are available: Dreamweaver CS4 Beta, Fireworks CS4 Beta, and Soundbooth CS4 Beta. I think that’s a good indication that Photoshop CS4 Beta is on the horizon, but in this article we’re going to focus on the new Dreamweaver. If you already have a Dreamweaver CS3 serial number you’ll be able to use CS4 Beta outside of the trial mode, otherwise you’ll have just 2-days to evaluate it.

They have a new setup routine in place, and it installs surprisingly fast. What I didn’t like, however, was that they took it upon themselves to “skin” the entire application. I tested it on a Windows machine, and as you can see here it doesn’t take on any characteristics of the operating system (window border, menu toolbar design, etc…):

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Aside from the new design there aren’t many breathtaking features. Here’s what Adobe says is new in Dreamweaver CS4 10.0 Build 3963:

• Live View: View your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver — while still retaining direct access to the code. The new rendering mode, which uses the open source rendering engine WebKit, displays your designs like a standards-based browser.
• Related Files: Manage the various files that make up the modern web page more efficiently in Dreamweaver. The Related Files feature displays all the documents associated with your current page, whether CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or XML, in a bar along the top of your document.
• Code Navigator: The new Code Navigator pop-up window shows you all the code sources that affect your current selection. A click in either Code or Design view brings up the Code Navigator pop-up, which displays CSS rules, server-side includes, external JavaScript functions, Dreamweaver templates, Library files, iframe source files, and more.
• CSS best practices: The Property inspector’s new CSS tab shows the styles for the current selection as well as all the applicable CSS rules. Hover over any property to view a tool tip with jargon-free English explanations of CSS principles. New CSS rules can be created and applied in the Property inspector panel and stored in the same document or an external style sheet.
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks: Write JavaScript more quickly and accurately with improved support for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Work with popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.
• HTML data sets: With HTML data sets functionality, you can create your data in a standard HTML table, a series of div tags, or even an unordered list and then choose Insert > Spry > Spry Data Set to integrate that data into a dynamic table on the page with sortable columns, a master-detail layout, or other sophisticated displays.
• Photoshop Smart Objects: Photoshop and Dreamweaver integration has evolved to the next level of compatibility and functionality. Drag and drop an Adobe Photoshop PSD file into a Dreamweaver page to create an image Smart Object.
• Subversion integration: Dreamweaver integrates Subversion software for a more robust check-in/check-out experience with file versioning, rollback, and more. Once you’ve defined Subversion as your version control system, you can update your site to get the latest versions of its pages directly from within Dreamweaver; no third-party utility or command-line interface is required.
• Adobe AIR authoring support: Create multiplatform desktop applications from your Dreamweaver HTML and JavaScript sites with new Adobe AIR authoring support.
• New user interface: Work faster and smarter across Dreamweaver and other components of the next version of Adobe Creative Suite thanks to a new level of integration and common user interface elements.

To download any of the Beta’s you’ll need an Adobe account even if all you want to do is download a trial. Here is a username and password you can use for that compliments of BugMeNot:

• Username: monket@mailinator.com
• Password: monket1

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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This article was written on March 16, 2006 by CyberNet.

Azureus is one of the most popular and most updated BitTorrent clients that are available. Just today they released the next version of Azureus with the build number 2.4.0.2! They have not put it on their official site yet, but it is on their SourceForge site. This build mostly just fixes some of the bugs in the previous build: “encryption bug fix, faster crash recovery hashing, fixed startup when config files are corrupted, and data transfer from slow peers improved”. I guess anything that can improve the transfer speeds are always welcomed so if you are an Azureus user then jump on over to the SourceForge link below and get the most up-to-date version!

Download Site For Azureus 2.4.0.2

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Version 2.0 of Amazon’s Kindle for Android software has snuck out tonight, bringing with it access to the company’s library of newspapers and magazines, the ability to purchase content in-app, and the freedom to choose where you want to store the app itself, which is now happy to reside on your microSD card. Other additions include social networking updates of your reading progress, the appearance of chapter titles in the reader status bar, zoom for images and graphics, and the volume keys doubling up as your page turners should you wish them to do so. The updated app’s available in the Market now — you know what to do with that QR code, right?

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About time, eh? Wintel users have been enjoying the spoils of WiFi music sync on their BlackBerry handsets for the past few months now, but if you’re still stickin’ with RIM (through the thick and thin), and you just so happen to roll primarily on OS X, there’s a new piece of software that you should consider. BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0 for Mac OS has just been let loose, and it’s a pretty substantial update. Aside from supporting WiFi music sync in official fashion, there’s also a new device switch wizard and the ability to import and sync photos and videos with iPhoto and iTunes. She’s waiting for you there in the source link — all 39.713 megabytes. You know what to do.

BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0 for Mac OS brings WiFi music sync, broader iPhoto / iTunes support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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