Twitter has acquired Summify, a social aggregation service that digests the links in one’s Twitter feed and puts them into a daily summary.
And what’s now:
disabled new account registrations.
removed the ability to make your summaries public (i.e. all summaries will be private)
removed profile pages and influence pages
removed the auto-publish feature
disabled user registration from the website, iPhone and Hootsuite apps.
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Volume2 is free and a complete replacement for the windows standard Volume Control.
Main features:
easily change the sound volume just by rotating the mouse wheel or by using keyboard hot keys or just mouse move on screen border.
audio mixer with advanced volume controls support
a scheduler, an on-screen display, command line support,
store and recall different unlimited presets via one mouse click or system-wide hot keys.
Supportedlanguages: English, Russian, Greek, Chines, Armenian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, German, Serbian, Portuguese, Armenian.
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Converseen is an open source software to convert and resize an unlimited number of images to any of the most popular formats: DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
Main features:
process more than one image with one mouse click.
very simple user interface without strange options.
Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
Resize one or multiple images.
Compress images for your web pages.
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Pretty Run helps to searche start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query.
Main features:
Search Internet Explorer favorites
Search Firefox bookmarks
Search Chrome bookmarks
Search printers and start printer properties
Search Control panel items
Setup internet search engines and you can search internet with selected engine
Remember last items copied to clipboard and bring them back in case you need them
Search mp3 files (not file names but tags)
Run a group of programs with one click
Setup your magic words and start favorite programs really quickly
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UNetbootin is free software to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Main features:
create a bootable Live USB drive.
frugal install.
built-in support for automatically downloading the distro.
USB drives are bootable only on PCs.
load pre-downloaded ISO file
Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux, or Mac OS X 10.5+.
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Pogo is a free and open source light-weight audio player for Linux. It is a fork of popular Decibel Audio Player. It supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC file formats. It is best player for people who organize their music by albums on the hard drive. It is simple and minimalist Media Player. You can quickly search for music on local drives and in the playlist. It also comes with an equalizer and displays covers and desktop notifications support. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ and GStreamer.
Microsoft revealed its NTFS replacement yesterday, the Resilient File System on the Building Windows 8 blog.
key features of ReFS:
Metadata integrity with checksums
Integrity streams providing optional user data integrity
Allocate on write transactional model for robust disk updates
Large volume, file and directory sizes
Storage pooling and virtualization makes file system creation and management easy
Data striping for performance and redundancy for fault tolerance
Disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors
Resiliency to corruptions with “salvage” for maximum volume availability in all cases
Shared storage pools across machines for additional failure tolerance and load balancing
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AllDup is a free software tool for searching and removing file duplicates on your computer.
Main features:
Find duplicates with a combination of the following criteria: file content, file name, file extension, file dates and file attributes
Search is performed in multiple specified folders, drives, media storages, CD/DVDs, network drives…
Search through an unlimited number of files and folders
Search for duplicates of music and video files,digital photo files,executable and any other files and hard links
Entire folders or individual files can be excluded from the search by masks or size conditions
The built-in file viewer allows you to preview many different file formats and analyze the content of the file before deciding what to do with it
Ignore the ID3 tags of MP3 files
Many flexible options help you to select unnecessary duplicates automatically
The unnecessary duplicates can be deleted permanently or copied/moved to a folder of your choice
Save and restore the search result for continue working later
Export the search result to TXT or CSV file
Turn duplicate files into hard links (NTFS file systems only) or shortcuts
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Evan’s Movie to GIF Converter is free software to open an MPEG, AVI or WMV movie and convert a section of it to an animated GIF. It is a quick and easy tool for clipping and exporting your video files to an animated GIF.
Main Features:
supports unprotected MP4 files and can serve as an MP4 to animated GIF converter.
supports, AVI, MPEG and unprotected WMV files.
Windows 7 is required to run this version.
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Free Video Dub is free video editor to edit AVI (DivX, Xvid, MPEG 4), MPEG 1 and 2 video.
Main features:
Delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding (without loosing original quality).
Supports: MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and even MPEG 4 AVI, MOV, MP4 (MPEG 4), M4V, MPG and FLV files including DivX and XviD.
System requirements
Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista, 7 with .Net Framework 2
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