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Wefi is a service from an Israeli company that tracks free wifi and it shows up on their app. Sightings are posted by users and TOP submitters will be having their IDs shown on the main software. Its a cool way to look for unlocked wifi services and lets hope more people outside US use this to promote internet. Kudos to wefi – its a cool way to network via free wifi.

Wefi

Im not sure if it works outside USA but I am currently download the app from Wefi.com

WeFi, makes your life easier because it’s smart. It talks to a centralized server and uses the power of the collective for the benefit of the individual. My co-founder, Shimon likes to say that he came upon the idea watching the Borg on Star Trek. You do remember the cube that floated in space terrorizing entire planets. Why was the Borg so strong? Because they utilized the power of the collective. We do the same by combining every single Wi-Fi sighting and experience, thereby creating a virtual network out of individual users and managed access points.

But there’s more. WeFi allows you to see where other users are located. Is your friend 2 miles away? Has he visited this hotspot in the past? Is there someone else cool nearby? You’ll know all that with WeFi. We have also added a Flickr mash-up, so you can see and upload geo-tagged photos related to a spot. Obviously we will rely on everyone’s feedback to decide what else to add and mash-up: restaurant reviews, twitter or anything else.

PayPerPost gets extra USD 7 Million Funding from their partners. Pretty good news as its a cool way for bloggers to monetize their sites, provided they can accept paypal.

A couple years back there was a wave of investments in adware companies. Several startups here were making money hand over fist so VCs felt smart about it. It ended up badly for most investors as Net users shrank the adware business with scanning aps. We understand that PayPerPost gives great presentations and are smart, driven folks, but they are forever the bad guys on the scene.

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Active File Recovery
If you’ve experienced a sudden hardware failure or even accidentally deleted an important computer file, then you’ll wished you had the data recovery software from File-Recovery.Net earlier. This software release by LSoft Technologies Inc allows you to recover data from all popular file systems in situations from accidental file deletion, formatted hard drives, damaged or deleted partitions, to total erasure by a virus.

They’ve just released a new version of their Active@ File Recovery software its pretty amazing. Firstly, here are some of the features on the software from File-Recovery.Net :

1 File Recovery – Recovers deleted files and folders from an emptied recycle bin, as a result of bypassing the Recycle Bin (for example when using [Shift]+[Delete]), files that have been lost by formatting, damaged by virus attack, a malicious program, or a power failure.

2 Partition Recovery – Data recovery after disk partitions loss / format / damage (Active@ File Recovery Professional).

3 Photos Recovery – Recovers photos, pictures deleted from flash media, or lost due to formatting a memory card.

4 Unbootable System Recovery – Active@ File Recovery Enterprise installation package contains a CD/DVD ISO image that you can burn to get a bootable CD or DVD with a lightweight version of Windows Vista (c) running in RAM (WinPE 2.0).

This data recovery program supports the FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file systems and most types of removable drives and media including CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard, Sony memory sticks, Iomega ZIP and JAZ backups. Version 7.0 supports damaged RAID reconstruction. Active@File Recovery comes in 4 different download format – The demo, standard, professional and enterprise version. Demo version is free but of course comes with limitations. The Active@ File Recovery DEMO (2.49 MB) to recover deleted files but it can’t be larger than 64 KB. To enjoy full version of your needs, a license copy of Active@File Recovery is required.

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Microsoft Surface TableTop

This Microsoft Surface TableTop is so cool. It’s like having a touchscreen computer right on your coffee table. The 30 inch display is also a killer spec. But I guess you’l have to be careful not to spill your hot coffee on it. It may take more than your month’s salary to cover the cost.

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a coffee-table-shaped “surface computer” in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates’s view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch. Microsoft Surface, which has a 30-inch display under a hard-plastic tabletop, allows people to touch and move objects on screen for everything from digital finger painting and jigsaw puzzles to ordering off a virtual menu in a restaurant.

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Apple’s iTunes store (in partnership with EMI) is now hawking DRM-free music at twice the bit rate of its standard fare (256Kb/s vs. 128Kb/s) and charging a $0.30-per-track premium for it. We’re all for DRM-free music, but 256Kb/s still seems like a pretty low bit rate­especially when you’re using a lossy codec.

Maximum PC decided to test a random sample of their colleagues to see if they could detect any audible difference between a song ripped from a CD and encoded in Apple’s lossy AAC format at 128K/s, and the same song ripped and encoded in lossy AAC at 256Kb/s.

Check out Maximum PC’s Web site at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ itunes_256_vs_128_bit for the results!

Why on earth is Toshiba launching Pocket PC’s under the same name as their notebook range. It will be pretty confusing for consumers. They really should have found another name. Laziness might be the reason.

The new Pocket PC will run Windows Mobile 6 and will feature a 480×800 high resolution 3″ screen. The Satellite will also include 128 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM, a webcam, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, Triband, HSDPA, 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0, a miniSD slot and a mini USB interface. An integrated fingerprint reader is also expected to be included.

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