Organize Your Windows 7 Desktop with BumpTop

Are you in a habit of keeping your desktop so clustered that at the time of need you couldn’t find the right thing at the right moment? It can happen with anybody. If you are downloading many things from the Internet or if you are installing so many softwares everyday, in a long run your desktop will look like a graveyard - a common place for many (dead) files that are seldom used. Desktop is meant to keep shortcuts of all the files that you frequently use but people use their desktop like a dustbin, when you don’t know where to keep files, just ram them into desktop. Real bad way to use your computer. But let’s not go deep into what is good or bad instead just concentrate on how to organize and reinvent your desktop. Continue reading ‘Organize Your Windows 7 Desktop with BumpTop’

Hide All Opened Windows with ClickyGone Portable

Everybody wants to have privacy when they are doing some important and personal work. But that level of privacy may not be achieved when someone suddenly knock up the door and enter your room without permission. Or, there are times when at work you do all sorts of things, except work and suddenly you get caught by your boss. So there are times when you want to hide all your windows application so that no one else can see what you are actually doing. Continue reading ‘Hide All Opened Windows with ClickyGone Portable’

Convert DVD Files to 3gp Format for FREE

If you have a mobile phone with extended memory and a good battery backup then that’s for sure you are not going to use it just like any other cell phone. It will be used as a music player and if you are a movie freak like me you can even watch movie on your mobile phone anytime when you’re free. Almost all mobile phones support video files of 3gp format and if you have DVDs of many good movies, you can easily convert them to 3gp format. Continue reading ‘Convert DVD Files to 3gp Format for FREE’

SnagIt Screen Capture Plugin for Windows Live Writer

SnagIt Screen Capture for Windows Live Writer comes to your rescue. It just adds more functionality to Writer by integrating SnagIt directly into your blogging client. Now don’t tell me you don’t know about SnagIt?

After installation a link will appear under the” Insert” section of your Writer by the name “Insert SnagIt Screen Capture…”. Clicking on that link will popup a windows wherein you can configure various SnagIt Capture options. Once you click on Capture button, it can optionally open SnagIt Preview Window where you can edit the captured image just like you do in normal SnagIt utility.

The best part about this plugin is that you need not to safe the captured image to your disk. Windows Live Writer will pick up the image and then it will be deleted automatically.

So if you like to blog frequently and love to combine articles with images, SnagIt Screen Capture plugin will come in very handy that’s for sure.

EC takes UK and Phorm to task over privacy

The European Commission has sent an infringement notice to the United Kingdom Government over privacy oversights related to the use of Internet snooping technology from UK-based Phorm.

Phorm runs a behavioural marketing service used by several UK ISP's to serve contextual advertisements to ISP subscribers based on their surfing habits.

The service has been the subject of several complaints from privacy groups which claim Phorm's interception of user web surfing traffic is unlawful.

The European Commission says it has been in "extensive" consultations with the UK authorities over the complaints. Concerns remain, its said, around "structural problems in the way the UK has implemented EU rules ensuring the confidentiality of communications."

European Union privacy rules insist its member countries ensure "the confidentiality of communications by prohibiting interception and surveillance without the user's consent."

The Commission wishes the UK to establish an 'independent national supervisory authority' to deal with communications interceptions.

"Technologies like internet behavioural advertising can be useful for businesses and consumers but they must be used in a way that complies with EU rules," said EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding in a statement.

"These rules are there to protect the privacy of citizens and must be rigorously enforced by all Member States.

"We have been following the Phorm case for some time and have concluded that there are problems in the way the UK has implemented parts of EU rules on the confidentiality of communications.

"I call on the UK authorities to change their national laws and ensure that national authorities are duly empowered and have proper sanctions at their disposal to enforce EU legislation on the confidentiality of communications."

Controversy over Phorm erupted in April 2008 after BT revealed it had tested the service in 2006 and 2007 without informing its users. UK authorities also recieved a significant number of complaints after the ISP launched an invitation-based trial late last year.

The EC says it has the right to commence infringement proceedings against member states under the EC Treaty, and if unresolved can refer cases to the European Union's Court of Justice.

The UK Government has two months to respond to the infringement notice.