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Get a Windows 8 experience with Immersive Explorer 0.3.0 Alpha

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Version reviewed: Immersive Explorer 0.3.0 Alpha

Download Immersive Explorer

Immersive Explorer has been built as an alternative to the default file manager in Windows.  It is basically a  small software  that you can download in a minute and install that transforms your existing Windows into a windows 8 Display version , by simply using your existing windows install.

Its easy  as a preview because it does not make any permenant changes , but just gives you a a display window just like windows 8 which you can just click on x and close if you don’t wish to use it. It definitely looks awesome and cool

It uses hardware acceleration for fluid display of animations and is designed around the Modern UI available in Windows 8.

files for windows 8 Immersive Explorer 

Just like in the Windows’ file manager, the default initial view shows the group of libraries, favourites and the drives.

The navigation controls that allow you to move back and forth and go up one level or return to the initial screen with all the drives.

windows 8 interface software Immersive Explorer

Development is ongoing and any flaws pointed out in the review might be fixed in the stable release.

Download Immersive from softpedia

If you want the real thing you can always download the preview windows 8 –

Free – Windows 8 RTM Build 9200 (2.5 GB)

The product keys for using the Release Preview are available on this page.
Windows 8 Release Preview Setup will check to see if your PC can run Windows 8 Release Preview and select the right download.


If you would prefer not to use Windows 8 Release Preview Setup, you can download Windows 8 Release Preview in ISO format instead.

You can also download Windows 8 Release Preview Setup, which includes tools that allow you to create a DVD or USB flash drive from an ISO file (Windows Vista or Windows 7 required).

Requirement for windows 8

· 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor;
· 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit);
· 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit);
· DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.
· Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

Best home pc to tv gadget wifi USB media drives

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This post was originally written in 2010 but a lot has happened since then, tv’s have become smarter and so a lot of these gadgets  reviewed  below have become obsolete now in 2018 and beyond. The eye-fi pro still stands out as a gadget that can stand the test of time for its unique capabilities. Do check out our latest Google home gadget  & tech reviews too.

Share Your PC media to your TV wirelessly

The IUM has built in WiFi and pairs to the WiFi Interface of your laptop.The IUM is paired with one Host PC/Laptop then can be used in any USB Equipped Device that accepts USB Flash Drives

3 Great wireless USB  Memory  Media sharing drives

Infinite IUM USB Media drive

Open for orders from 01 august 2010

The device has built-in wireless and uses the wireless interface of your laptop on the end. The connection is point to point and not via other access point or internet.

PC to PC works fine. The shared files are visible on the IUM like a normal flash drive so the PC will read them as if they are actually on the device.

IUM wireless usb drive media drive

It’s very nice and handy, but as you said, $129 is a bit much for something like this.

“instead of storing data inside the stick it uses any thing that has a USB port as the storage space, enabling “infinite” data sharing ( videos, photos, doc..etc) using WIFI network meaning the device act as wireless connector between a personal computer and anything that is USB-enabled.”

More features for this drive at the vendor website at http://www.infinitec.com/ium_drive/features.php

HSTI Wireless Media Stick™ @ $99 Only

THE Option similar to this which is already available in the market is the “HSTI Wireless Media Stick™”.

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Simply share your files from any computer within your home/work wireless network, plug the Wireless Media Stick™ into the USB port of your playback device and stream your media instantly. The Wireless Media Stick™ references shared media files from any networked computers and NAS devices and presents them to the playback device it’s mounted to as if the files were stored locally.

Once a file is selected for playback, the Wireless Media Stick™ then streams the file via a wireless router from any PC, Laptop and NAS device.

MSRP: $99.99 – Introductory Price!

 

wifi stick in usbThe Wireless Media Stick™ is a patented technology (Patent Pending and World P.C.T) that streams media files from any computer connected to a home/office wireless network to any USB enabled media playback device.

Files are not copied or moved from the original location. The capacity of the stick varies according to how many files are shared and can grow in relation to the file systems that are shared. – Ref ( More info @ HSTI Media Stick )

Features of the HSTI Media stick

  • Wireless USB Dongle
  • Wireless Media Streaming
  • 720p Resolution Limit
  • Windows Compatibility
  • 2.4GHz Wireless Technology
  • Preloaded Software

SPECS

  • Wireless: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4GHz)
  • Host Interface: USB 2.0
  • Frequency Range: 2.412 ~ 2.4835GHz
  • Security: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES
  • Data Range (802.11a/g): Up to 54Mbps
  • Data Range (802.11b): Up to 11Mbps
  • Data Range (802.11n): Up to 300Mbps

“Eye-Fi Pro”  Wireless memory card

The cost for this convenience is $129, which seems rather steep to me, although (for what it’s worth) it’s generally equivalent to the Eye-Fi Pro, which offers the same kind of wireless ad-hoc network functionality.

eye wifi memory card

Also released recently “Eye-Fi card”, the “Eye-Fi Pro”. It costs $150, and is able to handle RAW files, as well as connect to a computer via an ad-hoc wireless network, i.e. no router necessary. These are certainly nice features, although RAW support at least seems more like a firmware upgrade, and it would be cool if Eye-Fi would push that option out to their other cards

Get your eye-fi pro from amazon here –> Eye-Fi Pro X2 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-8PC

Overview:

The Eye-Fi Pro X2 Features:

  • Fast wireless transfers of photos and videos from your camera to computer or favourite online site.
  • Instant photo and video sharing while on the go.
  • Loads of storage space with 8GB of high performance Class 6 memory capacity.
  • Location information that is captured and stored in each photo.
  • RAW file wireless uploads so you can edit photos like a pro.
  • Wirelessly uploads your photos (RAW and JPEG) and videos via Wi-Fi or via an ad hoc connection
  • Wirelessly uploads only the photos and videos you select to your computer

Monitor Your Employee Activities Using Mobile Spy Technology

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Are you inquisitive to know what your employees are doing during office hours? Well, the only reason for this can be your doubt on those employees who tend to waste time by casually chatting with friends, or passing private information about the company to others through e-mails. In that case, if you really want to find out whether your doubt is valid or not, the only way to do so is to spy on the concerned employee’s mobile phone that has been probably allotted by your own company. Well, the good news is that you can do so to find out what your suspected employee does during office hours, without his or her knowledge. Interestingly, you can read the exact message and e-mail text that your employee has just sent as well as the number that she or he has dialled.

smartphones and mobile spy technology software

This is the Magic of Mobile Spy Technology!

Yes! The mobile world has been blessed by the boon of mobile spy technology. This is the next generation technology that can make an employer a secret detective agent to remotely keep an eye on the phone activities of the employer no matter where she or he is! With this eye, the employer not only comes to know what the employee was doing during the office hours of the day, but also comes to know where the employee was! Apart from that, the employer can even secretly listen to live calls through Internet!

The Working of the Mobile Spy Technology Occurs Invisibly

The best part of the technology is that it enables you to spy on the concerned mobile phone without letting the user know about it. There are many mobile spying apps that harness this technology to work on different mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, Symbian, and Blackberry. Some of the most preferred apps are Mobile Spy, Spyera, Phone Sheriff, and StealthGenie. Once you download and install the most appropriate app on the concerned employee’s phone, it begins to work in a stealth mode in the background to track and log:

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● Incoming and outgoing calls and SMSs even if they are wiped off

● Inbound and outbound e-mails even if they are wiped off

● Messenger chats

● Chats and posts made on social networking sites

● Visited sites and bookmarks

● GPS location at every fixed intervals

● Viewed photos and videos

● Installed apps accessed such as memos and to-do list manager

Apart from its invisible functioning, another highlighting feature is its independent functionality. This means that it does not depend on the phone logs. Rather it saves all the activities by its own as soon as they take place. This is the reason why it can even track and log the deleted calls, SMSs, or e-mails.

Once the installed mobile spying app creates the logs of all the activities happened on the phone, it uploads them to a distant server on the Internet through an encrypted medium of transmission. Just after an hour of installation, these logs are made available to your online account that you had created on the app’s official site before downloading it. Usually, at regular intervals, the logs of latest activities are created as well as uploaded to the destined server.

In this way, you can monitor the employee activities using the mobile spy technology.

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Free software– Ispy webcam and camera software

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iSpy uses your cameras, webcams, IP cams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound.

ispy spying camera or webcam network cam

Free ispy camera / webcam software

I was trawling the internet to get some software to use with my new webcam i purchased from Woolworths for a measly $10 when ic ame across this “FREE software ISPY” on the internet .I can tell you the camera works pretty well ( let me know if you want to know the brand)

I spy’s captured media is compressed to flash video or mp4 and streamed securely over the web and local network. iSpy can run on multiple computers simultaneously and has full Email, SMS and MMS alerting functions and remote viewing.

The ispy software has  nice blurb on how he came about to making this software for webcam and cameras for everybody  for free. go read it here – www.ispyconnect.com . An donate to the website  if you like the software

Here are some specification requirements for ispy camera

OS: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8 (32 bit & 64)
Microsoft .Net framework (v4 client) – will be installed if required
License: Free (Open Source)

Download the ispy Camera software here

iSpy is available in :
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Español, Française, Hrvatski, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Português, 中文 (繁體), 한국어 and 中文

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DNS CHANGER– Is my computer affected By malware ( Dont lose Internet Access)

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A quarter-million computer users around the world could lose  Internet access on Monday 09/07/2012 , due to a malware( or virus ) that has infected computers the world over.

Avoid losing your internet with DNS CHANGER

There are fears of a potential "blackout" and describing the Alureon malware as the "Internet Doomsday" virus. These  viruses were designed to redirect Internet traffic through rogue DNS servers controlled by criminals

On November 8, the FBI, arrested several cyber criminals who distributed DNS changing viruses, variously known as TDSS, Alureon, TidServ and TDL4 viruses.

dns changer blackout TDSS, Alureon TidServ and TDL4 viruses spyeye zues

AFFECTED COMPUTERS IN AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND US ON JUNE11th

| AU |       8518 |
| US |      69517 |
| IN |      21302 |
see more countries here

The botnet operated by Rove Digital altered user DNS settings, pointing victims to malicious DNS in data centers in Estonia, New York, and Chicago. These malicious DNS servers would give fake, malicious answers, altering user searches, and promoting fake and dangerous products.

Because every web search starts with DNS, this virus showed users an altered version of the Internet on thier browsers

Viruses such as Zeus and SpyEye, which infect millions of PCs and are used to commit financial fraud have also been spreading sometimes via the cloud

How to fix up and check if you are affected by DNS CHANGER

Information on how to identify and clean up infections can be found on a website that a group of security firms and other experts set up: http://www.dcwg.org.

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The panda update has got you, tips to fix it

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One of my websites got hit bad by the Panda update and i know how people feel when they get hit by google “devastated”.

Got the Kungfu Google Panda Kick ?

You get this feeling all that hard work suddenly went down the drain. there is nothing much you can do other than appealing your case and getting a standard response from google.

Tips – Fix you panda problems for Good

This can be frustrating , but you could instead get to work in the meantime  to  fix your blog. here are some “tips to fix the panda downdate”

kung-fu-panda- google post seo

Tip 1 – Focus on getting more natural looking backlinks to your blog, don’t excessively use your primary keyword  in anchor text-link, diversify your words (long tail it). Apply the same to in-links to other pages in your blog.

Tip 2 -Don’t rely on few or couple of sources for all your backlinks Diversify use forums,blogs , well established directories, web 2.0 property sites, niche blogs, social book marking sites, edu links

Tip 3 – Make it really easy for your readers to share your content on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest with plugins or coding

Tip 4 – Check your blog for any broken links, use a plugin like the Broken Link Checker to find and fix broken links.

Tip 5 – Get Google analytics , its free and Work on trying to reduce your blog’s bounce rate, . Try and get your bounce rate  under or around 70%.

Tip 6 – Check your blog’s loading time and fix it if too long and don’t overpopulate your blog with ads over the fold

if you are a little bit short on time  to get these fixes all done , you can check out  this panda Update fixer link  which can also help you out