Google Is Searching For A Fine In Europe?

Google is being accused of failing to satisfy its competitors when searches are being concerned, according to the EU. Unfair behavior when regarding searches of various things that have Google related sites appearing always at the top. A proposed fine of around $5.5 billion US could be heading its way to Google’s front door if they cannot correct it.
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Whether You’re iPhone Or Android, VLC Is Here For Both

VLC was once described by a friend of mine in university, “If you put a slice of bread into your computer then VLC will play it”. VLC is, in my opinions and others as the best media playing system. Now iPhone users and Android-a-holics can now download VLC and probably never have to worry playing any videos in the future. VLC was removed from the Google Play store but now it is back with certain features.
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How to Get a Free and Legal Version of Photoshop

Photoshop has been around for over 10 years now and is acclaimed as one of the champions in the image editing software world. Allowing users to carry out simple functions such as cropping and resizing while also offering a hefty selection of more advanced features, Photoshop has been installed on millions of PCs, and not always in a legal way.
But since Adobe shut down its activation servers for CS2 in January, Photoshop CS2 is now essentially available for free and legitimate download to everyone. All you’ll need is an Adobe account and a stable internet connection. CS2 may be ancient by today’s standards but you’ll still be able to do some editing without paying a dime.
Digitaltrends put together a guide on how to set up an Adobe account (in case you don’t have one) and how to download the CS2 version of Photoshop. Click HERE to hop to the guide!

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Too long didn’t read? Let TLDR shorten it.

TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read) Plugin is a free extension for Chrome that creates a summary of any web article without leaving the original page. This plugin provides a streamlined way to get a condensed synopsis view of news, blog posts, and other articles online for quick and easy reading.

Powered by Liquid Helium, the plugin analyzes the content and creates summarized versions in four different lengths on any web page, including web applications such as web mail, ZenDesk, SalesForce, SugarCRM, and many more. Highlight text to be TLDR’ed for use with comments and FaceBook statuses. By reading articles faster you will have more time for playing Angry Birds, and planning for the post 2012 apocalypse.

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Windows OS: Install a Unix-Style Menu Bar

Nucleus is a desktop application that brings a Unix-style menu bar to the Windows operating system. The product is provided as an alpha version right now which is feature limited. It is however interesting enough to take a closer look regardless of that, to find out what it has to offer right now, and for comparison once the final version gets released in the future.

Once you have installed Nucleus on your Windows system and started it up for the first time, you will notice that it has added a small menu bar to the top of the screen. It is about 2/3 of the size of the Windows Taskbar and empty for the most part.
It displays four menus to you:

• Main menu that links to the settings, shut down options, options to reset the layout and to exit Nucleus.
• The user name of the user who is logged in and the title of the active window, with options to close that program.
• Links to system libraries.
• A terminal window.

There is not a lot that you can do right now, but some functionality is already here. Two main features that Nucleaus supports right now are notifications and the terminal. The Settings window of Nucleus doesn’t carry a lot of options, other than allowing you to select the language, specify the app’s startup behavior, and configure your Gmail account. You just need to provide your email address and password, and save the preferences.
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eBay Exact for iOS Lets You Buy 3D-printed Products

eBay has announced a new iOS app called eBay Exact that lets you buy customizable 3D-printed merchandise on the go. You can download the new addition now directly from Apple’s App Store.

The products in question are available from three leading 3D printing companies, according to eBay: Brooklyn-based MakerBot, France-basedSculpteo, and Toronto, Canada-based Hot Pop Factory. Currently, customers can choose from only about 20 items, ranging from technology accessories to jewelry, but that number is likely to grow fairly quickly. eBay Exact allows users to order products directly from its partners, pay with PayPal (items cost anywhere from $9 for a plastic iPhone case to $350 for a metal ring), and receive the item within seven to 14 business days. Each and every product is shipped directly from the 3D printer’s facilities.
In its announcement, eBay calls Exact an iPhone app, but the App Store clearly states it works on the iPod touch and iPad as well. Using the app is fairly straightforward: select a product, choose a design, and add your own personal customizations.
The app’s feature list is as follows:

• Bring your style to life. Choose from a variety of materials, including plastics, wood and metals. Use the engraving feature to further customize your product.
• Be the first to use new technology to create one-of-a-kind iPhone cases, jewelry, and figurines based on self-portraits.
• Build your collection. Whether you love jewelry or figurines, eBay Exact allows you to create as many unique products, exactly as you like, based on your personal desires and preferences.

“Shoppers today not only want to buy items anytime, anywhere through mobile devices, but they also want to be able to personalize their purchases,” Steve Yankovich, Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures for eBay, said in a statement. “eBay Exact brings these two desires into one shopping experience.”
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Do You Really Need a Registry Cleaner?

Advertisements for registry cleaners are all over the Web. There’s an entire industry out there bent on convincing inexperienced computer users that their registry needs fixing, and that, for ten easy payments of $29.95, their computers will be much faster. That isn’t true. The Windows registry is a massive database containing hundreds of thousands of entries, and a registry cleaner might remove a few hundred at most. This is great if you’re obsessively compulsive about removing useless database entries, but you won’t see any difference in performance. What you might see is a new problem because the registry cleaner swept away something important.

What’s the Registry?

The Windows registry is a database that Windows and its applications store their settings in. It contains hundreds of thousands of entries. Some of the entries may be slightly outdated — maybe you’ve uninstalled a program and it left a key or two behind, or maybe a there’s a file extension with no associated application.

What Registry Cleaners Do

Registry cleaners scan your registry for these outdated entries and offer to remove them. Because there are so many registry entries to go through, they’ll sometimes also remove useful registry entries, causing you problems. The Web is full of stories from people who have run a registry cleaner and encountered problems.
In a best case scenario, a registry cleaner will remove a few hundred unnecessary entries and reduce the size of your registry by a few kilobytes. This makes no different in perceptible performance. But you’ll still see shady advertisements like this one all over the Web:

A registry cleaner that claims to improve performance by removing a few hundred registry entries is like a file system cleaner that offers to improve performance by removing a handful of small configuration files.

Using a Registry Cleaner

If you must use a registry cleaner, you don’t have to pay anything. Using a free registry cleaner, such as the registry cleaner included with the respected CCleaner utility (which we’ve covered in the past), is good enough. In fact, you’ll probably have better results with CCleaner than many of these fly-by-night companies. And by “have better results,” I mean that CCleaner is less likely to break things. Any performance increases will still be unnoticeable.

“Optimizing” the Registry

Registry cleaners also claim to optimize your registry, defragmenting it for faster file access. At first, this sounds great — your registry is constantly being used, so surely defragmenting it will offer improvements in speed, right?
Wrong. Or, at least, not really. The registry is loaded into your computer’s RAM when it starts, so you won’t see faster registry performance as a result of this.
If you really want to defragment your registry, you don’t need a registry cleaner. Microsoft offers an official PageDefrag utility for Windows XP. Windows 7 or Vista users will need an unofficial utility like Auslogics Registry Defrag. Auslogics Registry Defrag dramatically overpromises the imperceptible performance boosts you’ll get from running it, but at least it doesn’t tamper with your registry. And at least it’s free.
Use one of these utilities if you want. But I’ll warn you now: You won’t see a difference in performance.

Where Are the Performance Tests?

Here’s the thing: We computer geeks love squeezing every drop of performance out of our systems. People benchmark all sorts of software tweaks and hardware overclocks and create performance graphs that show adjusting one setting makes a certain game 1% faster.
If registry cleaners really worked, there would be serious, independent performance tests that showed the performance increase after running a registry cleaner. But there aren’t. If you find a test, it was likely produced by a registry cleaner company or an affiliate site that gets paid when you buy a registry cleaner. If you disagree with this post, let’s see some reputable performance benchmarks.

Above: Not an actual scientific test. But I bet you can’t find a better chart.

The Verdict

Here’s what it comes down to:

• Registry cleaners offer no perceptible increase in performance.
• Registry cleaners can break things.
• Even if registry cleaners don’t break anything, using one wastes your valuable time and (perhaps) money.

If you’re looking to increase your PC’s performance, there are real steps you can take instead of buying the snake oil on offer. In fact, we’ve got an entire free guide to speeding up your computer, and registry cleaning isn’t involved.

Source: makeuseof.com

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