I find it interesting that these scientists say that the “aliens” don’t like us tampering with nature. So, taking people against their will and sexually assaulting them is not “tampering with nature”?

Work on deciphering a complex set of symbols sent to them is underway, scientists from the country’s Space Research Institute said.

They claim aliens are currently answering 30 questions posed to them.

Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research.

He said the centre’s researchers were analysing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the questions.

“Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time,” Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media.

“They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them.”

Mr Filipov said that even the seat of the Catholic church, the Vatican, had agreed that aliens existed.

He said humans were not going to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio waves but through the power of thought.

“The human race was certainly going to have direct contact with the aliens in the next 10 to 15 years,” he said.

“Extraterrestrials are critical of the people’s amoral behavior referring to the humans’ interference in nature’s processes.”

The publication of the BAS researchers report concerning communicating with aliens comes in the midst of a controversy over the role, feasibility, and reform of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Last week it lead to a heated debate between Bulgaria’s Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, and President Georgi Parvanov.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/6650677/Aliens-already-exist-on-earth-Bulgarian-scientists-claim.html

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/11/23/819575_bas-official-aliens-are-among-us

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/bulgarian_space_boffin_aliens/

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Home alarm system is kind off becoming a part of the home nowadays and specially those house which are located alone in deep woods cant survive with out these alarms.I had a home alarm for a year and it worked well but still it was not much hi-tech and equipped . So i decided to change to the latest one which has all kind of technologies integrated in it . So I did a small search and got some reference from my friends and found few good companies . In that i selected adt security systems as i felt it was best suited for the typical american houses.

SO i ordered it via online and every thing was set up by their technicians soon and my place is protected via adt now . The best part of this security service is that they have 24 hours customer support service and will be in the door step when we require them. This alarm will take care of the house even if there is no power as this is operated via battery too and can protect the place for a long time till we finish our vacation and return

Today in KAM we explored different ways to make toy cars go further. We quickly discovered that using a steep ramp made the car moves faster and further. Then we tried experimenting with different cars to find out which would move faster and further.

As you can see, all our cars were very different! Some had lots of wheels, some only had a few; some were long and some were short; some were heavy and some were light.

Mawi, Houda and Zain S's car

Iffah, Nusaibah, Kevin and Rachid's car

Jessie, Shafinul and Abida's car

Ali, Iffah, Ibby and Zain Sh's car

Ali, Iffah, Ibby and Zain Sh's car went the furthest!

To test which car could go faster and further we decided to use the same ramp and the same surface to make it fair. We put some tape with our names on it to show where our car went to. Here is a photo of our results.

We talked about which cars went furthest and what they had in common. We decided that from our results we could say that Ali, Iffah, Ibby and Zain Sh’s car went furthest because it had few wheels, was small/short, and light.

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CLIMATE BOMBSHELL: Hacker leaks thousands of emails showing conspiracy to “hide” the real data on manmade climate change

And everything since then:

Senator to demand probe of global warming fraud
BBC Climate Correspondent Was Forwarded CRU Emails Five Weeks Before They Were Made Public
Hacked climate emails include calls for ‘Earth Government’ as foundation of new world order, splitting of America
Climate Expert: “Compromised” UN Scientists should be excluded from IPCC, Peer-Review Process
Climate Alarmists Finally Admit The Debate Is Not Over
Climate Change Bombshell: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
Climate gate: Has all the hype finally come to an end?

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Nov 21, 2009 2:05 pm

Earlier this week, Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. The press event confirmed what was suspected when Google announced it was working on a netbook operating system four months ago — it wouldemphasize speed and simplicity. As the tech world tests versions of the operating system that were compiled from Google’s source code it is looking like the project’s priorities may be weaknesses.

Chromium OS is simple; so simple that most hands-on impressions are calling it the Chrome browser with a few add-ons. The OS adds features such as a battery life indicator and window management, but lacks a few standards — such as a way to shut down the OS.

A big advantage to Chrome is that the cloud-based model has the potential for extremely fast computing, including a boot time as short as three seconds. Right now, Chrome OS is getting mixed speed results, which is probably because it is running through virtual machines.

Vladislav Savov of Engadget reports his install booted to the login screen in fewer than ten seconds and was able to browse the Web in another five.

Sean Kalinich fromTweaktown had a far more underwhelming experience. His machine was booting about as fast as a laptop running Windows 7 off a SSD. Here’s what he had to say:

“Boot up - From pressing the start (power) link until we hit the log in screen was 14.8 seconds. After typing in our log in information (which HAS to be a Gmail account), it took a further 4.4 seconds to get to the “Desktop”, so total boot up time is about 20-25 . . . “

It seems that it is too early to tell if the Chrome OS will be a hit or a flop. To be fair, this is a very early version of the OS that wasn’t ever meant to be much more than a browser. As Harry McCracken of Technologizerpoints out, Google said the OS is subject to quite a bit of change before an official release next year, and critiquing the OS is premature until a close-to-final build is available.

Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of cloudy conditions.

One group of about 30 amateur Indian astronomers saw the meteors light up the sky at the Siriska wildlife sanctuary, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of New Delhi — counting 78 during a four-hour period.

“There was no moon in the sky, which is good for observation,” said Yogeshwar Kanu Aggarwal, a member of the Space Science Popularization Association of Communications and Educators. “We could see flashes of light for almost 10 seconds.”

Leonid meteors are bits of debris from the Comet Tempel-Tuttle and were named after the constellation Leo, from which they appear to originate. NASA scientists had projected there would be up to 300 raining down every hour, compared to a typical night when there are about eight an hour.

Night owls in Manila, however, were left staring at the lights of passing airplanes because of cloudy conditions. More than 1,000 Thais who camped out in a parking lot on the outskirts of Bangkok had better luck, spotting 52 over several hours.

“The sky was clear and there were many meteors around 4 a.m.,” said Suranand Supawannakij, director of the Science Center for Education in Rangsit, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Bangkok. “They came from many directions. I am always excited seeing a meteor shower.”

The Leonid meteors travel at 156,000 miles (251,000 kilometers) per hour. They consist mostly of dust and ice, and evaporate long before they reach the ground, so “you can go outside and watch the Leonid meteor shower without worrying about getting whacked on the head,” said scientist Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

When a Leonid meteor storm was first observed in 1833, Cooke said it must have seemed like something out of the apocalyptic saga “2012.” More than 30,000 meteors an hour rained down on an unsuspecting public, sparking panic and fears of the end of the world, he said.

“They were seeing 10 meteors per second all over the sky,” he said. “You read newspaper accounts and robbers were returning what they stole because they wanted to be right with God. People were praying in churches, in their yards.”

This time around, the meteor shower was greeted with the oohs and ahhs that one hears at fireworks displays rather than screeches of fear.

“I’ve seen meteors before but this was different,” said Akradech Lekkla, a 39-year-old taxi driver who joined several whiskey-drinking Thais in Ayutthaya, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Bangkok.

“It looked like it was raining meteors,” he said. “They came in so quick that if you didn’t pay attention you missed them.”

In India, a cloudy sky disappointed thousands of stargazers in Agra, home of the Taj Mahal. Pawan Sharma, a 36-year-old photographer, could only spot meteors, one of them big enough to be seen streaking across the sky in a window between the clouds.

“It was a momentary thing. It was so disappointing,” he said.

In Nepal, cloud and fog cover over much of the Himalayan nation blocked views of the meteors.

Jayanta Acharya, astronomy professor at Katmandu’s Tribhuwan University, said he woke up early to view the meteor shower from the rooftop of his house.

“It was a big event for us and we are all disappointed to have missed it,” Acharya said.

Digimarc Corporation has filed a complaint for patent infringement against Shazam Entertainment, Ltd. According to Shazam, it is the world’s leading mobile music discovery provider, used by more than 50 million people in over 150 countries. Digimarc asserts that Shazam’s music identification technology infringes three of Digimarc’s patents, including two patents dating back to 1995. Digimarc’s patents relate to technology that enables devices to identify audio and visual content and immediately link the consumer to associated internet services.

“We prefer negotiated business relations over litigation, but having not made progress in initiating such discussions, we are heading to court to enforce our patents,” stated Bruce Davis, chairman and CEO of Digimarc. “While we are comfortable seeking help from the courts to enforce our intellectual property rights where they are not properly respected, our general approach is to foster adoption of our technologies by establishing mutually profitable business relationships in which we receive fair consideration for our innovations while supporting continued progress toward the realization of a shared vision.” Digimarc has invented a range of technologies that employ cameras, microphones and other sensors to enable instant identification of all forms of media content. The contextual awareness of the phone combined with instant object identification enables new, more efficient and higher quality methods to search without text input. Applications like Shazam use Digimarc’s innovations to provide more intuitive means for users to search for and get delivery of rich Internet experiences.

Please leave a comment with your contact information if you’d like a copy of the full complaint.

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WOW! Watch what you say on Twitter!

From: CNN

(CNN) — In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.

The suit claims that after a disagreement over what Love should pay Dawn Simorangkir for the clothes she designed, Love posted allegedly derogatory and false comments about the designer — among them that she had a “history of dealing cocaine” — on her now-discontinued Twitter feed.

But as technology evolves faster than the laws that govern free speech online, it’s not just the famous who are finding trouble.

Consider the case of Amanda Bonnen and her former landlord. Bonnen, an Illinois resident, is accused of using Twitter to tell another user: “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon Realty thinks it’s okay.”

Horizon Group Management LLC, the company that owned the apartment in question, sued Bonnen for libel over the alleged tweet. Horizon is seeking $50,000 in damages.

Legal experts say such Internet-related cases are being watched closely because they confront new and unaddressed areas of American law.

For example, how should a libel case be handled when it comes to social media? How can society balance accountability with free speech? And if information — from private thoughts to public data — is so readily available, how do we define what constitutes privacy?

WASHINGTON: There is indeed water on the moon – as first indicated by India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan – and plenty of it, US space
scientists said on the basis of impacts made by a new satellite.

“Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for US space agency NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference on Friday.

The satellite, known as Lcross, slammed into a crater near the Moon’s south pole a month ago. The impact carved out a hole 60 to 100-feet wide and kicked up at least 24 gallons of water.

“We got more than just whiff,” said Peter H Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator of the mission. “We practically tasted it with the impact.”

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had announced the path-breaking discovery of water on the moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 on September 24 after data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument indicated the presence of water molecules on the lunar surface.

M3 was one of the 11 scientific instruments onboard Chandrayaan that ISRO launched October 22, 2008, but the moon mission had to be aborted on August 30 after Chandrayaan lost radio contact with the earth.

The new US Lcross mission consisted of two pieces – an empty rocket stage to carve into the lunar surface and a small spacecraft to measure what was kicked up, but it too slammed into the surface.

The twin impacts in the Cabeus crater October 9 created a plume of material from the bottom of a crater that has not seen sunlight in billions of years, NASA said.

The plume travelled at a high angle beyond the rim of Cabeus and into sunlight, while an additional curtain of debris was ejected more laterally.

“We’re unlocking the mysteries of our nearest neighbour and, by extension, the solar system,” said Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The moon harbours many secrets, and LCROSS has added a new layer to our understanding.”

“We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

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CELL PHONES / VOIP November 13, 2009 7:37 AM

The purchase of Gizmo5 enables Google Voice to compete directly with Skype. The bigger picture though is what Gizmo5 can add to Google Wave. Tony Bradley

Social bookmarking has become a web phenomenon over the past few years. It seems as though everyone and their mom is doing it. Celebrities are doing it and they’re getting a lot of attention from it. They are sharing the news of their newest movie or simply attracting attention to themselves simply because their career needs a bit of a boost. Whatever the reason, the are not the only web savvy people noticing the amount of coverage they can get by using social bookmarking. Thousands of online businesses are doing it. So what is it?

Well, let me explain social bookmarking so that it’s easily comprehensible for those of you that don’t know exactly what it is. I’ll then explain exactly how it can help gain more exposure for your website. Now, just imagine, you go to a website and you want to bookmark it on your computer. So, you want to basically save it to your favorites. On your browser, a lot of times it’ll have a thing called Bookmarks or Favorites, which will allow you to save your favorite websites so that you can reference them again at a later date. However, when you do that, only you or whoever is using your computer will be able to see what websites you’ve saved inside of your favorites.

Well, just imagine having a page on the internet where you can go and save your favorite sites so that you can always easily go back and refer to them. Wouldn’t that be convenient? You’d be able to access this site from anywhere in the world! Basically, that’s kind of how social bookmarking works. So, instead of saving it on your browser – on Internet Explorer or Firefox Mozilla, you’re saving it to the internet. This will allow anyone to be able to see what websites you have saved and that are of interest to you. This is a bonus as it allows like-minded people to meet and network who share the same interests.

So, the question remains, how does it help your website? Well, basically how it can help you is that it allows you to rank higher in the search engines. And as you may or may not know, one of the best ways to get high up in the search engines is to basically have links pointing to your site. However, you don’t want to have just any link; you want to have links from authority sites or from sites that Google is searching all the time. Most social bookmarking sites are very well-trafficked, therefore when you do that, you’re getting a link back to your website and it’s helping pull it up higher in the search engines. So really in a nutshell, that’s how it can help you.

If you’re not already using social bookmarking you should really consider it. It’s a great way to stay organized but also leverage those efforts to make your existing website gain more exposure

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Evidence still fuzzy on cell phones, cancer.

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

(CNN) — In the year since a U.S. cancer researcher’s warning drew wide attention, more evidence is emerging that long-term cell phone use is associated with cancer, but there’s still not a definitive explanation or proof of cause and effect.

Last summer, Dr. Ronald Herberman, then director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, issued a warning to about 3,000 faculty and staff, listing steps to avoid harmful electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. This included keeping the phone away from the body as much as possible and not allowing children to use cell phones except in emergencies.

“Since I put out that precautionary advisory in July of last year, I believe there is more indication for concern, particularly among children,” he recently said.

A much-anticipated but unreleased report from the World Health Organization on a decade-long investigation called Interphone will show a “significantly increased risk” of some brain tumors “related to use of mobile phones for a period of 10 years or more,” the London Daily Telegraph reported in late October. The study will be published before the end of the year, the newspaper said.

Supporting that conclusion, a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that looked at 23 case-control studies found that the research with the more scientifically rigorous methodologies suggested cell phones and tumors are linked. The eight strongest studies made sure the investigators did not know which participants had tumors when they conducted the interviews about cell phone use, and they did not receive funding from industry groups.

Studies that looked at people who had used cell phones 10 years or longer tended to find the strongest risk of tumors. Researchers found that cell phone users had a 10 percent to 30 percent higher risk than people who barely, if ever, used this technology.

A telling feature of the findings in the stronger studies was that the side of the head against which people held their cell phones was highly correlated with the location of tumors, said Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Skeptics criticize this as “recall bias.” People may be more likely to think about using a cell phone on the same side of the head as the tumor because they’re asked about it in that context.

Moskowitz said he was surprised to see that a subgroup of studies found this increased risk of tumors.

The poorer-quality studies actually found that cell phones had a protective quality — that the phones helped stave off tumors — but could not offer an explanation for why, he said. Many of these weaker studies were also funded by telecommunications industry groups, he said.

Interphone, for example, receives some funding from the GSM Association, which represents the worldwide mobile communications industry, and the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, an international association of telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

Research that has been released by Interphone has major flaws, Moskowitz said. Some shortcomings include poor participation in the control group and a definition of “regular cell phone use” that included people who use their phones once a week for six months.

But the scope of the project is significant: Nearly 13,000 people were questioned between 2000 and 2004 in 13 countries about their cellular phone use, looking for a link to brain cancers and salivary gland tumors.

A major problem with the existing research on the possible link between cell phones and cancer is that the studies are retrospective. That means researchers compare the cell phone use of people who have cancer against that of people who don’t have the condition. People who have tumors may be more inclined to exaggerate or misremember information about their cell phone usage.

A stronger approach would be to follow young people who are just starting out with cell phones for a generation, asking them about their cell phone use over time and seeing what portion gets cancer, said Dr. William Curry, neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Moreover, seven of the eight “strongest” studies in Moskowitz’s group’s analysis came from the same researcher: oncologist Dr. Lennart Hardell in Sweden. Critics say there could be other factors that make Sweden different in terms of cancer susceptibility and cell phone use. The causal link has not been proved.

Although the study is a thorough meta-analysis, it’s not the final word on the issue, Curry said.

“I don’t think this study would change how I counsel my patients,” he said. “There’s not enough data to say that you should be worried.”

Dr. Marc Chamberlain, neuro-oncologist at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, isn’t worried either. He said the evidence doesn’t support changing cell phone habits and tells patients who ask about the subject that there’s no credible link.

Oncologists who are skeptical of the cancer connection argue that no one can explain the mechanism by which cell phones would induce tumors.

But Moskowitz counters that the tobacco industry used this reasoning for many years as evidence built that cigarettes had a link to lung cancer.

Still, even Herberman agrees with skeptics that the electromagnetic radiation given off by cell phones is too weak to cause direct DNA damage. There are, however, other factors that can contribute to the development of cancer that don’t cause direct DNA damage and mutation, he said.

Moskowitz recommends getting a corded headset and keeping the phone away from your body. Even holding the phone a few inches from your ear makes a big difference in terms of exposure, he said.

Bluetooth devices, which produce much less energy than cell phones, may still be problematic if people keep them on next to their heads all day, as the length of exposure is also relevant, he said.

Moskowitz called for cancer organizations and government agencies to assess ways to reduce potential harms from cell phones. One expert has even suggested issuing cell phones that cannot be used without a corded headset, Moskowitz said.

Another positive measure to take is to get a cell phone with a low specific absorption rate, or SAR, which has to do with how much radio frequency energy gets absorbed by your body. Look up your phone on this list of the SAR levels from CNET.

“There may be some easy, fairly inexpensive ways to change the way people use them,” he said.

Launched in India recently, Creative Zen X-FI 2 media player has a 3-inch touchscreen which can be used to access the player’s functions, play DivX and MPEG4 movies, and view pictures.

The Zen X-Fi 2 supports MP3, WMA, AAC and FLAC audio formats, and supports Creative’s proprietary X-Fi Crystalizer and X-Fi Expand technologies to enhance sound quality. The player bundles EP-630 in-ear earphones with ear tips in three different sizes for comfort. The player also comes with a microSD slot for adding more data, and an AV-Out port (the A/V cable is sold separately) which can be used to display videos and pictures on the TV. The X-Fi 2 also features a built-in speaker and microphone, and supports clock, alarm, calendar, task, and contacts functions. Creative Zen X-Fi 2 is priced at Rs 7,000, 9,500 and 12,000 for 8, 16, and 32GB versions.

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Paying by credit card sure is convenient , let me explain you

Just hand the card to a merchant, sign the receipt, and walk away with your newly purchased item. A couple of days later, the charge shows up on your credit card bill and you pay the bill when it’s due.

And that’s that. Or is it?

There are a whole lot of fast and furious electronic dealings happening behind the scenes of every single credit card transaction. This article gives you a closer look at what happens from the time you hand your credit card to a store clerk and the new charge that turns up on your card bill.

Let’s say you’re buying an $800 sofa from Joe’s Furniture. And you’re paying for the sofa with a Visa credit card issued by XYZ Bank.

The first step is getting the purchase approved from your card issuer, XYZ Bank. The sofa that you love won’t budge until your bank authorizes the purchase.

A credit report is a record of your financial behavior that is kept by credit bureaus and provided to businesses when they want to evaluate potential borrowers. There are three national credit bureaus that maintain credit reports on consumers.

All kind of credit repairs are taken care by ovation program , its kind off fast and easy to work with . after all credit card is now our part of life and its inevitable to live with out the credit cards nowadays.

Many of you did not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, but are planning to upgrade to Windows 7. How dare you leave the Microsoft upgrade path? As a punishment, you can’t upgrade directly from XP to 7; you have to do what’s called a clean install, which means you have to jump through some hoops to keep your old data and programs.

Not to worry, we’ll show you a couple ways to deal with the pain of installing Windows 7 on your XP machine. And afterward, Microsoft will forgive you your trespasses. Maybe.

Before you start, do these three things.

1. Run the Windows 7 upgrade adviser. It will let you know if your computer can handle any version of Windows 7.

2. Check the Windows 7 compatibility center. This is different than the upgrade adviser. It will tell you if you need to update your drivers or apps to make them work in 7.

3. Make a copy of your hard drive, just in case things go horribly wrong. I recommend using Macrium Reflect; it’s a free download available from Download.com.

OK, now you’re ready to upgrade.

Start by gathering all the installation files for all your applications. Windows 7 will put your data in a Windows.old file for you, but it won’t reinstall your apps. Make sure you have all the CDs or if you downloaded programs, back up any install files you have on an external drive. Also don’t forget to gather all the license keys either off product boxes or from e-mails. You’ll want them all handy in a place outside the computer you’re upgrading.

The last thing before we get to the actual Windows 7 disc is to download and run the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard. This will allow you to back up all your files and settings to an external hard drive. A different one than the one you imaged earlier.

Launch the wizard and make sure your external drive is plugged in. You can send your data to a network location; in this example we’re choosing an external drive. The program will check for what can be transferred then give you an opportunity to password-protect the data. Finally, choose your external drive and begin the backup. You shouldn’t use your computer while this process is running. It will take a while to move all your data over. Once it’s done, you can set that drive aside–you won’t need it until after Windows 7 completes updating.

Finally, you’re ready to insert the Windows 7 disc. When doing a clean install, it doesn’t matter if you restart and boot off the disc or just run it from within Windows. It will give you one last chance to check compatibility. If you’re sure you don’t need that, go ahead and click “Install now.”

It will ask if you want to go online and get updates. I say yes. It could save you some time later.

Agree to the EULA.

Choose Custom install. With XP, if you choose upgrade, the installation will fail.

Next, pick the partition or drive you’re installing Windows 7 on.

A warning box will alert you that you’re going to lose your old version of Windows and your old files will be saved in C:/Windows.old And Windows will commence installing.

Your computer will reboot a few times and eventually the Wizard will return, this time running in Windows 7. At this point, you’ll be able to do things like set up a password, set security preferences, set time and date, etc.

Finally, you’re running Windows 7! And you have device driver issues. Let’s take care of that. Launch the device manager by pressing Start and typing Device Manager in the search box. If you see yellow exclamation points, those devices have driver issues. The easiest way to fix them is to double-click the item, then click the update driver button. Select Search automatically for updated driver software.

If you’re lucky, that will fix your issues. If you’re human and you still have a few devices with issues, try looking at the Windows 7 Upgrade Adviser to see if the device and its new driver are listed. If that doesn’t work, check the manufacturer’s Web site.

Once you get your devices running to your satisfaction, time to install your old programs. Gather your CDs and external drives or whatever you used to store the programs earlier and get to installing. For some programs, you might want to download the latest versions.

Finally, you can restore your data. It’s all there in a folder called Windows.old, where you can manually move everything back into the proper directories under Windows 7. But we don’t have to mess with that, since we did the Easy Transfer Wizard earlier.

Make sure your external drive is connected. Then click Start, choose computer, and under hard disk drives, choose the external drive where you stored your transfer data. Find the file you should have named “Windows Easy Transfer–Items from old computer” and double click.

You can choose which accounts to move, and the transfer wizard will figure out the rest. If it fails, your data is still in Windows.old. You’ll just have to move it manually.

And there you have it. You’ve upgraded, slowly and slightly painfully, from Windows XP to Windows 7.

If you want to save a lot of this hassle, you can get a program that will move all your data and your installed applications for you. The PCMover Windows 7 upgrade assistant from Laplink costs around $30. It will restore all your data and programs again without you needing to do any dragging and dropping or gathering of discs and license keys.

Whichever way you decide to go, once you’re done, do one last thing. Image your drive again with Macrium Reflect so you have a backup of your new Windows 7 machine.

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By: Tony Bradley

Microsoft says Windows 7 is the most secure version of the Windows operating system ever developed. Big deal, right? I am pretty sure that Microsoft has made that claim for every new version of Microsoft Windows in the past 15 years, and that it is a valid claim.

What else would you expect? Is Microsoft going to come out with a new operating system and make it less secure than its predecessor? I think not. Still, while the marketing around Windows 7 security may be part hyperbole, there are actually a number of significant security improvements to be aware of, especially for Windows XP users making (or considering) the transition to Windows 7. Many of these security updates existed in Windows Vista as well, so Vista users should already be familiar with them.

1. Protecting the Core

The kernel is the heart of the operating system, which also makes it a prime target for malware and other attacks. Basically, if an attacker can access or manipulate the operating system kernel they can execute malicious code at a level that is undetectable by other applications or even by the operating system itself. Microsoft developed kernel-mode protection to protect the kernel and ensure there is no unauthorized access.

In addition to protecting the kernel, Microsoft has made some other fundamental improvements since Windows XP to protect the operating system. Many attacks rely on the attacker being able to know where a specific function or command resides within memory, or the ability to perform attacks on files that are supposed to contain only data.

Address Space Layer Randomization (ASLR) keeps attackers guessing about where to attack by randomizing the memory locations of key operating system functions. Microsoft also developed Data Execution Prevention (DEP) to prevent files that are supposed to contain data or that are stored in an area reserved for data from executing code of any type.

2. Safer Web Browsing

Windows 7 comes with the latest and greatest version of Internet Explorer, IE8. You can download and use IE8 with other versions of Windows, so its not specific to Windows 7, but it does contain some security enhancements worth nothing.

First, InPrivate Browsing provides the ability to surf the Web…in private as the name implies. When you launch an InPrivate Browsing window Internet Explorer does not save any information related to your Web surfing. That means that there is no cache containing information you typed, and no history of the sites you visited. This is especially useful if you are using IE8 on a shared or public computer, like at a library.

The other IE8 security improvement is Protected Mode. Protected Mode relies on security components in Windows 7 to ensure that malicious or unauthorized code is not allowed to run within the browser. Protected Mode prevents things like drive-by downloads that install malicious software on your system just by visiting a compromised web site.

3. Protection We Love to Hate

User Account Control (UAC) is the poster child for everything we love to hate about Windows Vista. With Windows 7, UAC is still there, but Microsoft has added a slider that enables you to control the level of protection–and therefore the amount of pop-ups asking for permission to access or execute files–UAC provides.

The pop-ups are just a small, but visible, aspect of what UAC does. Many users simply disabled UAC altogether in Windows Vista, but that also turns off Protected Mode IE and some other operating system protection. The slider in Windows 7 is set to the same protection as Windows Vista by default, but you can customize the setting in the Control Panel.

4. Security Tools and Apps

Because of the kernel-mode protection and the changes Microsoft made regarding how, or if, applications are allowed to interact with the core functionality of the operating system, older antivirus and other security software is not compatible with Windows 7.

Vendors like McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, and others offer Windows7 compatible versions of their security software products, but Microsoft also provides free security tools to protect you if you don’t want to invest the additional money.

The Windows Firewall and Windows Defender antispyware tools are included with the base installation of Windows 7. You can also download and install Microsoft Security Essentials, a free antivirus product released recently by Microsoft.

5. Monitor the Action Center

The Security Center that Windows XP users are familiar with has been replaced by the Windows Action Center. The Action Center is a more comprehensive console for monitoring the Windows 7 system, including security.

The security section of the Action Center provides at-a-glance status regarding the security of your Windows 7 system. It includes information about firewall, spyware, and virus protection, as well as the state of Windows Updates, Internet security settings, and UAC.

There are plenty of good reasons to make the switch to Windows 7. If you are still running Windows XP, security is arguably the best reason to embrace the new operating system. It may or may not be the greatest operating system ever, but it is definitely the most secure Windows operating system ever.

Tony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as @PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.com.

Listen up, publishers, librarians and scientists. Here is something really important in Web content and scholarly publishing. In a really innovative and fascinating move in the world of scholarly and sci/tech publishing, the search engine firm DeepDyve is today announcing an initiative to introduce a sort of iTunes/Amazon Kindle model for scholarly content delivery the difference being that the articles are “rented” rather than purchased (although customers can work their way up the content consumption food chain to purchase if an item looks enticing enough).

Okay, who will want to read the rest of this post on this intriguing development on the scitech/academic publishing front? Well, scads of people actually.

Anyone interested in the economics of publishing generally (let’s say anyone who consumes content on the Internet, which includes just about anyone who can read and access the Internet) should familiarize themselves with the outlines of what I will dub, for the sake of convenience, the DeepDyve Initiative. (Doesn’t that sound cool—like a Robert Ludlum title).

And academic and medical librarians would be affected by a shift in how sci/tech publishers market and offer their wares and so would independent researchers. And so would those affiliated with major institutions that might, though resource-rich, lack a subscription to a particular journal. Faculty members in such settings might want to get a snapshot view of a key article and not have to pay the full price at all or at least not without a stronger sense of what might be in the full article. It is too early to tell if this “peek and maybe purchase the whole kit and caboodle” model will play in the Peoria of the highly conservative sci/tech publishing industry. But you sure do have to tip your hat to DeepDyve CEO William Park for some brilliant, innovative thinking that might actually help sci/tech publishers make at least a little money on articles that might otherwise render them none at all and that might actually lead to downloads of the whole enchilada of articles in many instances.

Medical societies and professional membership organizations in the sciences, social sciences (which often produce academic journals and depend on the revenue produced thereby and leverage such publications for member recruitment and retentions purposes) and even in the liberal arts might be persuaded to look at this model as a way of getting more of their material out on the Web for viewing and possible purchase by nonmembers, thereby bolstering their bottom lines and garnering eyeballs and attention for content from new audiences. And some fairly significant players on the scientific society/sci-tech publishing scene have signed to the DeepDyve Initiative.

For instance, here is a quote from DeepDyve’s press release (hey, I am not above cribbing from press releases—info is info):

“DeepDyve Unveils Online Rental Service for Research… The web is transforming the publishing industry and creating opportunities for new users to access our content,” said Martin Frank, Ph. D., executive director of the American Physiological Society. “The rental model that DeepDyve has pioneered enables us to serve these new users without compromising the products we offer to our traditional subscription customers.”

Now, the fact the leader of a leading scientific society has brought it on board with the DeepDyve Initiative is pretty convincing evidence that the initiative has legs. New publishing models are not something that are adopted willy-nilly in the world of sci/tech publishing and I find the fact that someone with the gravitas of Mr. Frank, who oversees a society with a quite broad, respected and influential publishing operation has given the DeepDyve Initiative his imprimatur persuasive evidence that Mr. Park and DeepDyve may be on to something.

I have talked on the phone to Mr. Park and I am of two minds about the DeepDyve Initiative.

On the one hand, he makes a persuasive case that there is an untapped market of knowledge workers and researchers unaffiliated with research institutions that publishers are currently not reaching, thereby missing out on the chance to leverage and milk to the fullest extent possible the content that they have at great expense produced. Park maintains that by offering such knowledge workers sneak peeks at articles publishers would get at least some revenue and that some is better than none and that many peekers will plunk down the dough for the whole shebang.

On the other hand, will the publishers (think Elsevier, Springer, Wiley et al) agree with Mr. Frank here, “…enables us to serve these new users without compromising the products we offer to our traditional subscription customers” or will they just regard the DeepDyve Initiative as cutting into the lucrative library institutional subscription market? And, indeed, how will librarians react? What is to stop, say, a medical librarian in a cash-strapped hospital library from taking advantage of this feature of the DeepDyve Initiative (I am quoting here from the DeepDyve Press release):

Affordability: Users can rent the full text of an article for as little as $0.99, or join a monthly plan and enjoy greater discounts and increased flexibility.

Ease of use: With DeepDyve, users can click, rent and read without any hassles.

I mean, couldn’t librarians budget for a monthly plan, read a rented version of an article, absorb that info and paraphrase it for the clinician who has requested a literature search and so not bother ordering the actual article via Docline and other interlibrary loan systems?

After all, the publishers might be leery of helping small libraries and independent researchers read online something that they might then have little need to read again in a full PDF procured at great expense from a richer library (in the case of the small library) or via personal download (in the case of the independent researcher). If the DeepDyve model caught on would big research libraries have the incentive to purchase the expensive institutional subscriptions that they monetize by charging smaller libraries interlibrary loans fees for and which faculty might not need as much if they could plunk 99 cents for a peek at an article, thereby saving their institutions thousands of dollars per year in unread journal issues? And those institutional subscriptions are the lifeblood and cash cows (hey—metaphors are handy things so cut me some slack on my prose style here, okay?) of the sci/tech publishers. But Mr. Frank, the leader of a quintessential, respected mainstream scientific society seems unfazed by the notion that the DeepDyve Initiative would somehow damage revenue models and seems to think it would simply enhance the position of sci-tech publishers. I am not so sanguine, but I am not as smart a cookie as Mr. Frank and Mr. Park.

Also, I am not sure if the subscription model will gain traction. Getting anyone to buy anything these days is not easy. And getting people to pay for content on the Web is particularly hard. But if you make your living by research, you might go for the DeepDyve Initiative. Here is more from the press release,

“Start Researching with DeepDyve Today
DeepDyve is currently offering a risk-free, 14-day trial that allows users unlimited access to thousands of authoritative journals at no cost. Users enjoy continuous access to any article until their Free Trial expires, after which they may join one of three plans: Basic Rental Plan: For just $0.99 per article, users of this “pay-as-you-go” plan can rent and read a premium article from one of the many prestigious journals available through DeepDyve. Articles can be read multiple times for up to 24 hours. Silver Monthly Plan: For $9.99 per month, users can rent and read up to 20 premium articles per month. Each article can be read multiple times for up to seven days. Gold Monthly Plan: For $19.99 per month, users can rent and read an unlimited number of articles for an unlimited amount of time. There is no expiration date.”

Seems like a good idea to try it out. That way, knowledge workers (and clever librarians in resource-poor settings) could determine how much they can they can absorb of an article online only (and that would be enough in many cases, given that often one needs only the gist of an article and skims or skips the methods, etc. sections anyway) and if they would indeed like the pluses of such things as:

Personalized suggestions: DeepDyve will automatically display suggested articles based on a user’s profile.

Email and RSS alerts: Users can receive regular updates of new articles and search results delivered directly to their email inbox or RSS reader.

More Like This: DeepDyve offers links to related content with every search result and article page.

Now those are features that readers will like and that publishers should take note of.

For instance, I am quite interested in the subject of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In the course of examining the workings of search engines, I use “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” as my test search term. I have actually purchased some quite expensive items in journals–and indeed in one case an entire issue of Elsevier’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America on the subject as a result of just such tools as DeepDyve’s More Like This tool (which in itself is a neat thing and displays DeepDyve’s prowess as a search engine).

Thus, I would really encourage sci/tech publishers to take a serious look at the DeepDyve Initiative. After all, if I don’t know about your content, I can’t purchase it and even though publishers might be leery of this model (again from the DeepDyve press release, “Free search & preview: Researchers can be certain of an article’s relevance before renting”) it makes sense to try to entice readers with a glance at content.

Take a chance, publishers. Yes, as a reader I may just go with getting the gist of an article from the peek and you might, therefore, make only 99 cents off me (minus DeepDyve’s cut) that time. But 99 cents from thousands of people like me adds up and I can’t imprint onto my brain the graphs and charts in your content—to get those, I would indeed have to order the full article. And I would be more likely to do that if I could see them via a preview.

At the very least, DeepDyve is, as Mr. Frank (who cares both about science and his society and is thus not likely to do anything to harm the interests of either and that is good enough for me) says, pioneering in the content delivery and scholarly publishing world. That is news and exciting and intriguing. Won’t it be fascinating to see what happens?

Copied directly from: Washington post

By Rob Pegoraro

In that light, the rather pricey newdesktop and laptop computers Apple introduced Tuesday morning should flop in the market.

Apple’s updated $999 MacBook,$1,199-and-up iMac and $599 Mac Mini models may look sharp, and some add such thoughtful features as a wireless mouse that includes the “multi-touch” technology first seen on the iPhone. But Windows-based computers can cost half as much — even before you factor in Apple’s inflated charges for memory and storage upgrades. Since there’s a recession going on and we’re all smart capitalists, buyers will undoubtedly switch to more affordable alternatives. Clearly, Apple is doomed.

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