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ActiveSync coming to Hotmail on Monday reports CNET

CNET is reporting that Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta has told them that on Monday, August 30, Exchange ActiveSync will be enabled for Hotmail users, allowing users to receive push emails on mobile devices.

This is apparently a long awaited feature for Hotmail users according to CNET, and one that Microsoft promised to roll out when it updated Hotmail recently.

According to CNET, the integration will work like this:

“While many phones support ActiveSync for connecting to an Exchange server, the feature will be most useful on a relatively small number of phones that support dual ActiveSync accounts, including the Palm Pre, the latest iPhone, and the forthcoming Windows Phone 7-based devices. Phone users who don’t connect to an Exchange Server but have a device with ActiveSync support will also be able to use the new Hotmail feature.”

Any Hotmail users out there reading this? Are you excited about this? Please let us know in the comments!

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Kapitall Brings the Fun and the Social to Investing

Investing and managing our finances carefully to ensure a secure future is something that everyone should be doing, but many people are intimidated by the idea as much as by the process. Kapitall is a free service that aims to change all of that by educating consumers in an interactive, graphically-pleasing way.

According to Kapitall's CEO, Gaspard de Dreuzy, the focus is on "generating a unique user experience that makes investing a more inviting and engaging activity." With a background as a producer in the videogame industry, the influence is clear. Kapitall users "level up" through missions and levels that gradually introduce them to more advanced tools and financial concepts.

A host of easy-to-use features are also provided, including companies color-coded by sector, comprehensive watch lists, and a search engine that works with familiar brand names, as well as company names. Perhaps the most useful is the Compar-o-matic, which pops up when multiple companies are dragged and dropped on the comparison tool.

The Kapitall experience is also a social one. Users can either create a new Kappitall account, or use their Facebook account, and can also share information with their Facebook contacts and other Kapitall users. There are also opportunities for users to "battle" with other users and set up competitions with their own time limits and goals, in order to see who can create the best portfolio of investments.

Users also have the choice to use Kapitall purely as a learning and research environment with practice portfolios. Thanks to a partnership with TD Ameritrade, users can make actual trades in their real-life portfolio. Users must log in to their TD Ameritrade account to trade, and will be responsible for the associated fees, but all of the other tools that Kapitall provide are free of charge.

http://www.appscout.com/2010/08/kapitall_brings_the_fun_and_th.php

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Cloudmark DesktopOne: The Perfect Spam Filter?

For anyone tired of have having their inboxes flooded unwanted spam, Cloudmark DesktopOne provides a virtually flawless antispam solution for free.

DesktopOne's community-based filtering technology does a phenomenal job of blocking spam without throwing away good mail. It can filter any kind of e-mail and works with any e-mail client. It can even pre-quarantine spam when you're not checking your e-mail.

The service is so impressive it was not only awarded the Editors' Choice for antispam software, but also earned an extremely rare score of 5 out of 5. Check out our full review of Cloudmark DesktopOne at PCMag.com.

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Jailbreak iOS 4 Guide [ Works For All iPhone's ]

When we think of getting an iPhone from US, then the only problem that keeps on poking us is the issue of getting it jailbreaked. We may end up with a very long procedure and then get irritated after paying a huge amount of money. In India people generally add upto Rs 2000/- in their budget for getting it jailbreaked but as usual I have a very nice solution to your problem, but before going further i would like to clear a misconception, which maximum iPhone users have.

There is a big difference between SIM unlocking and jailbreaking. SIM unlocking means that unlocking the service provider for which the iPhone was programmed, after this you can use any SIM of any service provider in your iPhone and in case of jailbreaking you will break the OS of your iPhone so that you can add any other ringtone, themes and other effects to your iPhone. The jailbreaking can be performed on any device of Apple product like iPad, iPhone, iPod etc.

Today i will be giving you an online solution to your jailbreaking problem, this solution can be performed only on the iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1, you can visit a site known as www.jailbreakme.com where you can know about the formalities which are to performed if you want to get jailbreak done.

This was a great effort made by Comex in predicting a nice solution for this problem and specially now when jailbreaking has been made legal by the hard work of EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

The first and the most basic thing which should be kept in mind is that you should visit this site from the product which you want to jailbreak. Then you should be aware that this site will not help you for SIM unlocking. It requires WiFi or 3G connectivity to jailbreak the device.

Now it requires few and basic steps to jailbreak your device, which are mentioned as follows:-

Logon to www.jailbreakme.com from your device.
Wait for the complete loading of this page and till you see an option which will be telling you to swipe your finger if you want to jailbreak your device. This will be very much similar to unlocking the device by swiping your finger (which we do daily).
Then wait for the downloading to complete as it will be downloading all the necessary data to jailbreak your device.
After the downloading is completed and the installation is also complete, a warning message will appear that Cydia icon has been added on the springboard.

The above message confirms that you device has been jailbreaked. Thats It!!!! enjoy now…

Jailbreak iOS 4 Guide [ Works For All iPhone's ] is a post from Technix Update

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Geo Walk Helps You and Your Kids Learn About Our Fascinating Planet

Vito Technology, developers of the Solar Walk 3D solar system map and the Star Walk astronomy app, have introduced a new program to the Apple App Store. The Geo Walk 3D World Factbook includes descriptions of 300 of the most interesting places, fascinating people, amazing animal,s and unusual plants found on Earth. Geo Walk is perfect for kids of all ages, and offers both education and entertainment, which makes it ideal for use during those times when the kids need a little distraction to liven up a boring afternoon.

Kids can choose from a cover flow-style list or simply spin the globe to explore the map and tap the icons to bring up individual entries. The integrated category filter allows the user to focus on favorite topics. The app includes scrollable photos for illustration, so the facts and descriptions come to life on the screen.

Geo Walk for iPhone requires iOS 3.1 or later and is available now for $0.99 in the Apple App Store.

http://www.appscout.com/2010/06/geo_walk_helps_you_and_your_ki.php

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Free Up, Clean Disk Space On Mac OS X - Delete Useless Junk Files

No matter how organized a person you are (I like to believe that I’m an organization nazi and don’t sleep well if my stuff isn’t arranged as its supposed to be), your stuff tends to get misplaced and clogged up. It happens with your files too. Most of us don’t even realize what is taking up all of that hard disk space because we feel there is nothing on our hard disk.

Once you make up your mind and sit down to actually clean your computer and delete stuff that is not needed, you realize what a tedious and boring task it is. It can take hours, and you may end up freeing a significantly small amount of space even after a lot of work.

The problem here is the way that we look at things. If you are a Mac user, then quickly finding which folders are clogging up most of your space isn’t an easy task. You have to select each folder individually, and then press Cmd + I or right click and select ‘Get Info’. This trivial activity itself is very tiring and irritating, if you have to do it repeatedly.

DiskWave is a freeware utility for Mac OS X that lets you browse your files and clean them up and organize them (and of course remove the ones you don’t need) by presenting them to you in way that is convenient for such activities. Here’s how it does it -

This sample screenshot shows you how you can browse into any number of directories and subdirectories easily with DiskWave, while retaining the tree structure (as a horizontal scroll bar) which is similar to the column view in Finder, with a significant difference – the size of each file or directory is displayed to its left, is neatly aligned with all other sizes and names, and is color coded so you can easily tell from the color if its a directory or a file.

A few directories are listed already on the left side pane, but you can easily add your own directories there for quick reference.

DiskWave does not provide a lot of customizability, which is a weak point. You can configure the unit of size (GBs, MBs, KBs) or choose the sorting criteria (Name or Size). You may also choose to display invisible files (the ones that start with a . which are usually system files such as .DS_Store), but this is where the preferences end. I expected a lot more options, but I guess these were the important ones.

Download DiskWave

Free Up, Clean Disk Space On Mac OS X – Delete Useless Junk Files is a post from Technix Update

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eMachines Mini-e ER1402-05

Great for home and Internet watching. Should work fine with a Windows Home Server Setup.

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Comments: Very interesting indeed, special now that Jail Breaking is legal in the US.

iPhone devteam releases browser-based 4.x jailbreak

08-01-2010

Have you been waiting for an easy-to-use jailbreak for your iOS 4.x device? Well, you may have to wait a little longer. La st we checked, the just-announced browser-based jailbreak (a return of jailbreakme.com) was so swamped that the server stopped responding. Jailbreak expert Comex tweets that he is working to restore the site from heavy loads.

Once that happens, you should be able to jailbreak your iDevice by browsing to jailbreakme.com in your mobile Safari application. There you'll be presented with a simple slide-to-jailbreak screen. So far, TUAW has been unable to reach the jailbreakme site to test out the new jailbreak but is looking forward to trying it out when the server gets back in business.

As always, be aware that you jailbreak at your own risk. It's often best to wait a few days for any first generation bug fixes to propagate out, if needed.

Update: You'll know if the jailbreak has worked by the downloading and jailbreaking screens. The jailbreak ends with a message that Cydia has been added to your home screen. Click OK and you're good to go. If you do not see these messages post-swipe, you have not jailbroken yet. Early reports indicate some issues with broken FaceTime, mms, wireless data.

Thanks to Brad/Tommy/Kyle for sending in the heads-up.

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