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  • Cambiar idioma de Windows 7 Home Premium y Professional a español

    Esta mini guía sirve solamente para Windows 7 Home Premium y Professional, no para las versiones Enterprise y Ultimate.

    Para pasar nuestro windows al español utilizaremos Vistalizator, un sencillo programa que nos permite agregar cualquier lenguaje a nuestro windows 7.

    El funcionamiento de vistalizator es muy sencillo, descargamos el pack de idioma para nuestra versión de windows 7 (32 o 64bits), luego ejecutamos visualizator, añadimos el idioma y el programa se encargara de desempaquetar e instalarlo.-

    Una vez instalado el idioma reiniciamos y ya tenemos nuestro windows 7 en español.-

    Descargas:

    Vistalizator

    Pack Español 32bits

    Pack Español 64bits

    Notas:

    Utilizar solo para la versión final de Windows 7.-

    Puede ser que el primer inicio con el nuevo idioma tarde un poco en cargar el escritorio y menú correctamente.-

    Hardsoft Geek no se hace responsable del mal uso o problemas con Vistalizator.-

    Aquí puedes ver una captura de mi windows 7 con el nuevo idioma.-

    Por precaución, NO eliminen el idioma ingles, por si es que tienen problemas futuros con actualizaciones de Service Pack o similares.-

  • Fabless Chipmaker MaxLinear Prepares for Next Week’s Modest IPO

    MaxLinear logo
    Bruce V. Bigelow wrote:

    Little did I know when I canceled an interview in September with MaxLinear CEO Kishore Seendripu that my journalistic window of opportunity would irrevocably close—and it probably won’t crack open again until some Grizzly Adams wins the jackpot in this year’s Nenana River Ice Classic.

    Needless to say, MaxLinear deflected my subsequent attempts to reschedule the interview. MaxLinear’s quiet period deep freeze officially began two months later, when the Carlsbad, CA-based wireless chip design company filed its registration statement for an initial public offering. Now, if the IPO experts at Renaissance Capital are right, we can look forward to MaxLinear’s public offering sometime next week.

    MaxLinear, founded by eight semiconductor industry veterans in 2003, has planned a relatively modest offering of more than 5.4 million shares (6.25 million if the underwriters exercise their full over-allotments). At a price of $12 a share, the company expects to raise $42.7 million (or nearly $50 million if all over-allotments are sold) by selling its part of the offering—almost 77 percent. The remaining 1.27 million shares are being sold by inside stockholders. MaxLinear plans to use the capital for general corporate purposes and acquisitions. The company’s shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MXL.

    MaxLinear chipsThe timing seems ideal for a newcomer that specializes in computer chips that enable people to watch TV on a handheld wireless device. MaxLinear designs high-performance radio frequency (RF) systems-on-a-chip for receiving and processing digital TV broadcasts, digital videos, and broadband data downloads. Television nowadays is increasingly being incorporated in consumer electronic devices that previously did not include TV functionality, such as mobile handsets, PCs, and netbooks. As the company says in its registration document, “Recent technological advances in the display and broadcast TV markets are driving dramatic changes in the way consumers access and experience multimedia content.”

    Of MaxLinear’s 177 employees, more than 77 percent are in R&D, designing RF and mixed-signal chips used …Next Page »

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  • Windows Phone 7 emulator apps walkthrough

    Pocketnow have published this video showing the messaging, email, and calendar applications. Do you find their vision appealing?  Let us know below.

    Via Pocketnow.com


  • How Apple Keeps iPad Developers on Extreme Lockdown [Apple]

    If you’re a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its release, you’d better be ready to submit to some of the toughest security measures this side of Super Max. More »







  • RunKeeper Live: Broadcast Your Exercise, Race Info in Real-Time

    As an avid runner, I’ve often wanted to share my data in real time. In fact, some of the bigger races I run actually do transmit limited personal data by using a radio chip with sensors around the course. Typically, these chips attach to a shoe and the sensors are at specific points like the start, finish and key split distances. As the race timing system collects data, it’s transmitted over the web so friends and family can see how I’m doing. The problem with this solution is that it only provides the split data where the sensors are on the course, so the information is fairly limited. RunKeeper is making strides to change that — this week, the company began offering its RunKeeper Live service for the iPhone.

    I’ve covered this software in detail before — see my video review here — and the new Live service is the next logical step. The software already uses the GPS radio of an iPhone to track running, cycling, hiking and any other exercise that gets you moving around. And that data is used on the RunKeeper website to map your route, log your speed, elevation and more — up to now that data would be stored on the phone until after the completion of your exercise. After you’re done working up a sweat, the app sends the data to RunKeeper for viewing and logging. The new Live service does this in real-time. Here’s a walkthrough of the new service:

    Again, as a runner, I see huge benefits. For starters, I can “broadcast” any races and not be limited to the occasional sensors on course. But more importantly, my family can see where I’m at on training runs if they ever need to reach me. And if — heaven forbid — I’m injured or unable to continue what I’m doing, I can easily be found. I’ve lost track of how many times my wife was worried simply because I decided to add more miles to a training run while out on the roads. What I told her would be a 45 minute jog has become a two hour jaunt simply because I felt good.

    From a privacy standpoint, the Live service is turned off by default, which is good. As I understand it, you can only turn it via the RunKeeper website in your profile — not in the app. That’s not a huge limitation though because I’ve used the RunKeeper site on my iPhone without any problems. I’d like to see that tweaked as well as see some further customization options, but for now, this is a good start provided users understand that they’re broadcasting their actual location.

    The other concern is that anyone viewing your RunKeeper public profile can see your location when you use the Live service. Here’s my public profile, which has some activities mapped and logged, but I’ve kept the locations private. You can’t see where I’ve been, but you can see what I’ve done — you can also see the impact of illness and injury have had on my training activities this year so far. I’d like an option for the Live info be tagged to a unique, private URL — like a single use web page.

    For now, RunKeeper Live is only available to subscribers of the FitnessReports service, which is $4.99 monthly or $19.99 a year. There’s both free version of the RunKeeper app and a Pro version for $9.99 in the iTunes App Store — the RunKeeper folks are working on a version for Android.

    Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):

    Location-Based Services: From Mobile to Mobility

  • Avvo, New $10M in Hand, Tears a Page from Expedia, Amazon Playbooks

    Avvo
    Gregory T. Huang wrote:

    Anytime a consumer Internet startup raises $10 million, it’s big news, especially around Seattle these days. So you’d think Avvo would want to tell the world about what it’s doing with all that money, which it just raised in a Series C investment round from DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Ignition Partners.

    But founder and CEO Mark Britton is staying mum about how the $10 million will be used, other than to say it will “expand and enhance” the company’s products. I tried to get him to say what that means. Maybe Avvo will buy each of its two million unique monthly visitors a drink (joking)? Or pick up Cliff Lee’s 2010 pitching contract for the Mariners? No dice. OK, so Avvo, which runs a free legal services website with lawyer ratings, profiles, and a legal advice forum, is trying to maintain a low profile to keep its competitors in the dark.

    Is this one of the best funded, but most boring startups in Seattle? No way. Just when I’m about to give up on learning anything revealing about the company and just ask him for a good lawyer joke, Britton launches into a very interesting historical narrative about where Avvo really comes from; the challenges of making consumer ratings work; and his lessons learned from working at Bellevue, WA-based travel site Expedia and observing Seattle-based Amazon from across town.

    First, an update on how Avvo is doing, and why it chose to raise money now. Britton says the company is “approaching cash-flow positive quite quickly,” and that he and the company’s board discussed whether to use sales to fund its new initiatives (which shall remain a secret). “We think we have some really big ideas about how we can continue to expand on our success. One of our big initiatives has been sitting on the shelf for a year. We could not help but feel now is the time to pursue these initiatives. We could have financed them with excess cash flow, but as the Web proliferates, there is tremendous opportunity cost” in not expanding with a large new investment, he says. “We’ll meet in the next week, and we’ll put a stake in the ground for when we roll out these different elements.”

    Britton has some unique perspective on how the Web has affected the legal industry and consumer behavior. Before founding Avvo, he was senior vice president and general counsel with Expedia—he was there from the early days—and prior to that, he was an attorney with Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) when he first moved to Seattle from Washington DC in 1997 (he’s from Montana). Back then, lawyers didn’t even e-mail documents to clients or to each other; today they use document sharing sites on the Web. Due diligence used to be done by calling people on the phone; now it’s done using search engines and Web documents. “While I think the legal profession still has long way to go, the Web has fundamentally changed how lawyers practice law,” Britton says.

    The genesis of Avvo came in early 2006. “I saw a very big need for the legal industry to take a significant step into Web 2.0,” he says. “Public records were being digitized, and with that comes lots of transparency. There is an increasing appetite for people to see advertising [online] backed up by objective information. Lawyers are about full disclosure, it’s part of the culture.”

    Britton hadn’t really practiced law since 2003, yet he found himself still helping friends and family with their legal issues—in particular, evaluating lawyers. So he had the idea to create an …Next Page »

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  • Windows Phone 7 to have business features after all

    wp7office In a blog post Charlie Kindel admitted their message on the consumer focus of Windows Phone 7 may have been misleading regarding the suitability to business of the OS

    We are building a phone that will be GREAT for helping end-users deal with BOTH their personal & business lives.

    Windows Phone 7 Series will be a great business phone. We applied the same end user focus to designing the phone’s business capabilities that we did with every other element of the phone. We asked people and even IT administrators what they need from a phone. The answer was consistent. They want a single device that excels at core business functions like email, reading and editing Office documents and collaboration, while also offering rich features and capabilities that help people stay on top of the different parts of their lives, at home and at work.

    We expect Windows Phone 7 Series to appeal to people who are active, connected and working, so Exchange & SharePoint integration and the features within the new Office hub are core to the phone’s value. Similarly, we know that people add these phones to corporate networks and that we need to make that process easy for administrators. Interestingly, when we talk to corporate IT staff and business decision makers they ask us to give them a compelling phone that will not only improve productivity,  but also appeal to the end user’s “whole life,” as people wish to carry only one Smartphone to meet both business and personal needs. We think Windows Phone 7 Series will do this better than any other phone on the market today.

    While the post of course remains vague, it does hint strongly at business management features as already common with Windows Mobile, and we of course already know business handsets will be exempt from the Marketplace-only rule that applies to everyone else when it comes to apps.

    It is however clear that, unless Microsoft transplants bits of code wholesale from Windows Mobile 6.5, the handsets are unlikely to have as many business-targeted features as its older existing sibling has. They clearly have a lot of work to do to make the OS suitable for work, not least cut and paste functionality.

    Read the full post here.

  • Windows Phone 7 emulator hacked to give full access to OS, reveals voice search, file explorer

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    Long Zheng  from the istartedsomething blog reports that the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator ROM has been completely unlocked, allowing users to access the full OS, rather that just the settings and web browser as previously.

    Dan Ardelean  has published a modified version of the “BIN” file , allowing one to interact with the live tiles,hubs, use the  elusive voice search feature, and even the basic apps that are preloaded.

    Read more about getting the emulator up and running at XDA-Developers here. Hopefully the real OS will fall as fast as the emulator version has ;)

    More  screen shots after the break.

    wp74Via Pocketnow.com

  • Amazon Rents More Space from Vulcan

    Gregory T. Huang wrote:

    Seattle-based Amazon.com has leased 180,000 square feet of office space at Vulcan Real Estate’s 2201 Westlake building in the South Lake Union neighborhood, as first reported by the Seattle Times. That space is in addition to the 1.7 million square feet that Vulcan is constructing for Amazon’s new headquarters a few blocks north. Amazon employees are slated to begin moving into those offices next month, while 2201 Westlake will be occupied by Amazon by mid-year, the Times reported. The company’s current headquarters is on Beacon Hill.

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  • Hitler discovers HTC HD2 will not get a Windows Phone 7 update

    Do your readers concur? Let us know below.

    Via Pocketnow.com

  • Another look at Harvest Windows Phone 7 game

    Engadget has managed to grab another video of the Windows phone 7 game Harvest in action.  The WVGA game is running at 30 frames per second in full 3D, in a fully destructible environment.

    Interestingly while this 3 week old title is clearly a success Microsoft does not imagine that the majority of games on Windows Phone 7 will be like this, envisioning Farmville-like turn based games to be more popular.

    Read more at Engadget here.

  • How the Gist Acquisition of Learn That Name Came About—Old-Fashioned Networking

    Gist
    Gregory T. Huang wrote:

    Between social media, company blogs, and TechCrunch, there is less room for traditional journalism these days. By the time you hear a company’s announcement and actually think about it, talk to the people involved, and have time to write something with any depth, it’s on to the next thing. But I want to take a minute to discuss a local deal from yesterday.

    Gist, a Seattle company backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital and Foundry Group in Colorado, has acquired Learn That Name, a locally-created mobile application that helps you associate names with photos in your LinkedIn contacts. It uses a fast-paced, quiz-style game to test your recognition of your contacts’ faces. The idea is to help people network more effectively face-to-face (how refreshing). Meanwhile, Gist makes online software to help business people keep up with news and information about their contacts, to make their professional networking more efficient. The company is led by CEO and founder T.A. McCann.

    Learn That Name was created by a team of 14 entrepreneurs at Startup Weekend in Seattle last August. (There’s another Startup Weekend happening in Seattle this weekend, hosted by Adobe.) Shortly thereafter, the team was selling its software in the iPhone app store and working to get it on other mobile devices. They all had day jobs, and although the acquisition price hasn’t been leaked, it’s safe to say each member of the team got a nice payout but won’t be retiring anytime soon.

    Eric Koester, an attorney at Cooley Godward Kronish who helped lead Learn That Name, related some thoughts about the deal via e-mail: “When we were picking the LTN tagline while at Startup Weekend (our tagline was ‘Know the People You Know’) someone said that we should pick another tag line because Gist’s tag line is ‘Know More About Who You Know.’ We ultimately decided not to change our name and then as luck would have it, six months later that company we were worried about asking us to change our tag line acquires us. I guess in hindsight it makes sense, but was the farthest thing from our minds.”

    It sounds like Gist saw some real value in integrating Learn That Name’s software into its own iPhone app. “I give T.A. [McCann] and Steve Newman [Gist’s chief technology officer] all the credit for making this happen,” Koester says. “They really went out on a limb to work with us. Initially the goal was just to try and build an app that used Gist contacts rather than LinkedIn contacts. As we started that process, they figured that we actually were a good fit for their broader purpose and realized it was better to maintain the technology in-house rather than have us try and do it. So they really deserve the credit for working with a small startup (if you can even call it that).”

    And, as with most deals in Seattle, there was some fortuitous face-to-face networking done over a cup of coffee. “As far as how this all transpired, it was actually totally by accident,” Koester says. “T.A. and I had coffee to talk about a panel presentation I wanted to run by him. So we met to talk about that. At the end of the conversation, T.A. asked me how sales were going or how our app was doing, then he said that we should really try and find a way to work together. From that suggestion, the idea was born to build a Gist version.”

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  • TrueCaller 1.30 released

    Version 1.30 of TrueCaller for Windows Mobile has been released, which brings the following features:

    • Display name/address of caller on incoming call
    • Display name/address of caller on outgoing calls (new)
    • Update your phonebook with missing address information such as street, city and zip code (improved)
    • If a result is not found, display region/operator from which the call is from (improved)
    • Tweet your calls to Twitter and let your friends know who you are on the phone with SMS Popup which displays a popup of received text messages (new)
    • Display address of caller on a map (improved)
    • Save caller to phonebook with one click (improved)
    • Block incoming calls from unwanted callers (new)
    • Report and be notified of calls from spam callers (new)
    • Possibility to edit the numbers to search for i.e. remove *001 from every number before searching

    TrueCaller is a one-time fee of $6.99.

    Read more about the app at TrueCaller.com here.

    A video of the twitter integration can be seen after the break.

     

  • Windows Phone 7 makes a pretty good coffee table computer

    Tablet Concept – running Windows Phone 7 Series from umang on Vimeo.

    It appears Microsoft may regret sticking phone in the Windows phone 7 name, as it turns out the OS makes a pretty nice tablet also.

    Umang Dokey has created this concept of an 8 inch tablet that features 3D video calling, twin joysticks behind the screen and a built-in stand that also doubles as a full QWERTY keyboard.

    Pity Microsoft is so rigid about the Windows Phone specs, meaning the device will remain unfortunately vaporous forever.

    Via Gizmodo.com

  • House Hunting on Handsets — Zillow Now Occupies Android

    While this might not be the best housing market for buyers or sellers in the U.S., Zillow just made it easier to shop around. The company today launched a free mobile client for Android devices, which joins the existing app for iPhone handsets. I used the app while driving around neighborhoods in my area yesterday and the experience was outstanding. Like most apps that leverage GPS, the Zillow software quickly zoomed into my location and then offered all the data I could handle on the homes in that actual location. I almost felt like a “peeping-house-Tom” — I was literally parked on a street and saw the home value estimates, detailed tax info, square footage and more of nearly every home around me. All of the information normally found on Zillow’s website appears to be in the Android app — even the interior pictures of homes for sale. And the data is updated in real-time, so you’re not looking at information that weeks or months old.

    For the less voyeuristic Android phone owner, there’s no need to repeat my experiment and drive around neighborhoods with the app. Zillow clearly built the software heavily on Google Map technology, so even Street View is available in mapped areas that support it. That means you can be anywhere and see homes virtually, as if you were there. Since I got some dirty looks with my testing, that may be the way to go. Other native Android and Google Maps features are tied in as well: voice search, map view, satellite view, phone call links to real estate agents and more. The software feels more like Google — and I mean that in a good way because the Android integration is outstanding. If Google were ever to make a map layer for home data, this is exactly what I’d picture it to look like.

    Can you accomplish the same goals with Zillow’s web client and notebook? Sure you can, if you have connectivity. Since Android phones have a built in data connection, you’re always ready to go house hunting with a handheld. I’d probably opt for the larger display of a netbook or notebook when I could, but the new Zillow app for Android is extremely handy for use anytime. It’s the convenience factor and the ability to see all of the same data as the full web client that make this software a must-have for buyers, sellers, renters and even real estate agents.

    Images courtesy of Zillow

    Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):

    Report: Mobile Augmented Reality Today and Tomorrow

  • How to Reconnect at the the Right Time: Entrepreneur’s Personal Project Evolves into an E-mail Reminder Service

    followup-logo
    Erin Kutz wrote:

    When Chris Keller was working full-time at his startup, the online celebrity fantasy league site Fafarazzi.com, he had plenty of e-mails that needed following up on, as most entrepreneurs do.

    He’d set reminders for himself on his calendar, but found this mechanism wasn’t ideal, since it was tedious to modify every calendar entry to reflect communications with the contacts he had already heard back from.

    “I wished there was a way my calendar knew that he or she responded,” he says.

    So in July 2007 Keller built himself a Web-based software tool that bypassed his calendar entirely, instead sending e-mail reminders about people he needed to communicate with, and automatically deleting those reminders once they were knocked off the to-do list. Last spring, he started mentioning the tool to a few friends who have similar “e-mail woes,” and what started out as a personal project has since evolved into a part-time business endeavor with more than 1,000 users.

    Keller’s creation, FollowUp.cc, is built around a set of e-mail addresses that function as reminders. Users can add a FollowUp e-mail address in the CC or BCC line of an e-mail when they want to remind themselves to reconnect with the recipient at a later date.

    So far, the development of the tool has “all been organic,” says Keller, who also works full-time at the Cambridge, MA-based Web marketing startup, HubSpot, as a “labs product owner,” working on experimental projects to help launch client companies’ websites. “I’m never thinking it’s done or polished enough. As we’ve learned in startups, you just need to get it out there and deal with it.”

    Keller had a few brief months to focus on FollowUp between the time he left Fafarazzi in July 2009 and his hiring at HubSpot in late September 2009, but the system is now back to side-project status. He investigated potential business models (more on that in a minute) for FollowUp, but intends to remain full-time at his HubSpot job.

    FollowUp frames reminders using four different time references. Users can remind themselves to follow up at a specific length of time into the future, such as three hours from now. In other words, to send a note that will automatically show up in your e-mail inbox two days from now, you’d send a copy to [email protected]. Users can also select an upcoming day of the week and a time on that day—same thing with a date in the future ([email protected], for example). Lastly, for the more immediate tasks, users can set a reminder for a certain time in the next 24 hours (i.e. [email protected]).

    FollowUpReminderSince its inception, Keller has adapted FollowUp to …Next Page »

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  • Amazon Kindle for Mac Client Finally Arrives

    Just over two weeks before the first iPads with an e-book store arrive, Amazon delivers its Kindle for Mac client. The software was listed as “coming soon” for longer than I define the word soon, but it’s a moot point now. It’s here and it’s free for Mac OS X 10.5+, making it another way to buy and read Kindle content without purchasing a Kindle device. I downloaded the client this morning and once signed in, saw my entire Kindle library, as expected.

    Like the Windows version, this is a pretty bare-bones bit of software. You can see your library in color, but I don’t see a way to change the color of the actual pages. Text size and words per line are configurable, and you can show notes and bookmarks, but you can only make bookmarks — there’s no way to make notes, but that too is “coming soon.” That’s a shame since I’m reading a book with a nice, easy-to-use keyboard in front of me.

    Control of pages is done through either a keyboard or a mouse, but one caveat — with my Apple Magic Mouse, I swiped from right to left for a page turn and immediately became dizzy. The kinetic action that’s useful when surfing the web isn’t so useful when reading a book. Pages whizzed by at an arming rate, making it look to observers that I was a champion speed reader. I’m not, although I’m clearly a champion mouse scroller.

    What I least understand in all of this is: why did it take so long? And since the wait was so long, why such a limited client that’s essentially just showing text in a window? I’m happy to see the software, of course. In fact, I just bought a beginner’s guide to Java last weekend and I had my Kindle propped up next to my Mac — I was reading code snippets on the small eInk display and coding on the larger Mac screen. Now I can do both activities on the same screen. But for all of the waiting, I wonder if some will say, “This is it?”

    Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):

    The Price of E-Book Progress

  • New Windows Phone 7 ad shows Life Maximisers in at work and play

    Windows Phone 7 was designed to serve the needs of two prototypical users, Miles and Anna, so-called life maximisers that want to use their phone to work and play, and enhance their family life.

    The above video shows how their Windows Phone 7 fits in their lives. While the scenarios do appear rather idyllic, at least in this case Microsoft did not have to mock up attractive user interfaces to go along with the pretty visuals.

    Do you see a Windows Phone 7 device slotting neatly in your life?  Let us know below.

    Source: istartedsomething.com via bestwindowsmobileapps.com

  • Throttle Launcher Released and WP7S Theme

    The new Metro UI is the newest part of the Windows Mobile UI family, and with the new Throttle Launcher being released. The theme gives Metro a chance to shine in our WM6.X devices. The new version of throttle launcher that was just recently released already has a WP7S phone theme going for it. The theme was done by an XDA member that is yet to be released.

    I am currently standing by to play with the theme on my Touch Pro2, because I am getting bored of the same old. I am ready for a new look on my phone, and since I am going to still buy WP7S, I will have a lot of the same for a long time.

    The theme looks very nice, and if you have been itching for the new Metro UI, this might be something you can give a try.

    Play with Throttle Launcher, and get progress on the new theme.

  • Toshiba TG01 Gets Officially Update

    image It seems Toshiba has finally received the memo. After much complains, they have finally taken it upon themselves to release an update before we get to it.

     

    The update was released earlier today and already we are getting reports that it fixes a lot of issues. The files were created mid January, and it doesn’t seem like the update brings much software changes.

    The new software is the basic 6.5, so nothing really new except some issues were fixed. The most notable issue that we hope was fixed in this release.

    I for one hope this update brings true bug fixes, and thanks to this, I am sure it will stimulate the ROM we are making.

    Comment below on your experience.

    Download the update

    Thanks rakesh for the tip