Customize Windows 7 Power Button Action

The “Shut Down” button in Windows 7 can be customized with another action, if you use shut down action very rarely, but you more often restart it or put it on hibernate.

To change the action of shutdown button, Right click the Start Button, go to Properties and choose the „Power Boot Action” to do whatever you want, from the given options. It will give you a drop down list amongst following option to select from.

• Switch user
• Log off
• Lock
• Restart
• Sleep
• Hibernate
• Shutdown

Now the button at Start Menu would change and perform the action as selected.

Free E-Reader Blio Announces September 28th Launch Date

The battle of the e-readers is about to get a new contestant. K-NFB just announced that their anticipated Blio e-reading program will launch on September 28th for Windows. Android and iOS systems (iPhone, iPad, etc) will follow soon thereafter. Blio has several key selling points. Downloading the reader itself is free, and K-NFB has promised that there will be a million free titles available at the time of launch. Blio is a full color reader and can fully preserve a book’s layout and format, allowing you to read it the same way it was printed or to restructure it for easier access on mobile devices. The e-reader supports note-taking, embedded multimedia, and allows you to freely move your titles from one device to another via a virtual library. It will feature text to speech technology from Nuance, the makers of the Dragon Dictation App we loved. Ray Kurzweil, founder of K-NFB, is wagering that Blio’s advantages will propel it into a fiercely competitive market that is already packed with e-readers.

As we’ve seen in our previous reviews of the technology (here and here), Blio certainly has enough bells and whistles to make it a success. Full color pages that turn in 3D and textbooks with embedded videos are both pretty impressive. However, in the battle of digital reading Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iBooks, and the Sony Reader have all been successful and are all (generally) based on their own hardware. Blio doesn’t have a dedicated hardware platform, and it’s unclear whether that will ultimately help or hinder it.

K-NFB has worked hard to secure support on the publishing side of their enterprise. They are partnered with Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest book distributor, and have secured more than 100 publishers to add titles to their library. Publishers include all the biggest names: Hachette, Harper Collins, Penguin, MacMillan, Random House, and Simon & Schuster. Yet the same names regularly make their titles available through the other e-readers as well. It will be interesting to see if publishers prefer the Blio platform because it can preserve their original formatting. No word yet on pricing agreements, which would be the other, and larger, consideration for securing publisher support.

Singularity Hub could be seen as biased towards Ray Kurzweil and his work, so I’m trying hard to come up with some fair and balanced criticisms for Blio. Certainly its late arrival to the e-reader race could be a negative, as could its lack of dedicated hardware. Textbooks won’t be available at first, and there is already strong competition there too, as we’ve recently seen.

But all of these are business considerations. When it comes to the platform itself I’m mostly positive. Blio is free, there will be a large library of free titles (Baker & Taylor have promised another 10,000 sometime after launch), and you can move your titles from device to device without paying. To me that means investing in the new reader when it comes out will be very low-risk. I still have questions about loading speeds, pricing & availability for pay-to-read titles, and usability. There’s no guarantee that Blio will be the next big e-reader…but I am very likely to try it out, especially once they make it available for iPhones.

[image credits: K-NFB]

[source: Blio Press Release via BusinessWire, Blio Twitter Feed]

Wortmann announces Windows 7-powered 10-inch tablet PC

Wortmann is jumping onto the tablet train too and will later this month be releasing the Terra Pad 1050, a 850 grams tablet PC based on Intel's Pine Trail platform which runs Windows 7 Home Premium.

The mobile device has a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) multi-touch screen, a 1.66 GHz Atom N455 processor, GMA 3150 integrated graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 32GB solid state drive, a webcam, WiFi (3G is optional), and two USB ports.

The Terra Pad 1050 has a base price tag of €529 and will be backed by a two-year warranty.

PhotoJoy – An Amazing Tool to Customize Your Desktop

PhotoJoy offers you brand-new ways to display and enjoy your personal photos on your computer desktop. PhotoJoy displays your photos within PhotoToy Widgets, animated 3D Photo Screensavers, and Wallpaper Collages, all made up of 3D graphics, modern images and designs, and beautiful scenery.

PhotoJoy makes viewing all of your personal photos a real pleasure. We all have many digital photos stored on our computer that are easily forgotten with time. The best part about PhotoJoy is that it brings your photos back to life by displaying them on your desktop in unique ways, so you can enjoy them every day. You may also select professional photos from flickr.com and see them within the PhotoJoy features that are on your desktop. This capability will be available with additional photo-hosting sites in the future.

PhotoJoy does all the work for you – just sit back and relax, and see your favorite photos in a whole new light. Give PhotoJoy a try to see what it’s really capable of! 

Visit PhotoJoy to download.

Clickfree Wireless backup drive up for grabs in the US

Clickfree's latest backup solution, which is claimed to be the "world's first backup product that backs up every PC and Mac without having to be plugged into the computers," has become available in the US and can be purchased from its maker's site for $180.

The Clickfree Wireless packs a 500GB hard drive, has a USB 2.0 interface and utilizes the BackupLink technology to automatically backup data from multiple systems (Windows or Mac OS-based) that are connected to a specific router. This device does not require any software installation on the backed-up PCs so even less technical users can have it set up quickly and easily. 

Those interested can get the Clickfree Wireless via this page .

Get ShineSoft DVD Ripper Free License Now!

DVD Ripper is an easy and powerful tool with high speed for ripping which normally cost around 29.95$.Now you can get the software for free as part of Thanksgiving Day Giveaway by ShineSoft. It converts DVD to many other formats (such as HD video, AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, DIVX, Xvid, FLV, 3GP) and supports DVD – 9, DVD – 5, DVD folder, IFO file and ISO file. It also extracts audio from the DVD movie to convert it to MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AC3, OGG, AIFF, M4A, etc. Besides, it is a excellent editing tool. You can cut the segments from the movie to merge them into a complete video, and it will help you to capture pictures from the movie, set the language of subtitle and audio track, customize parameters for video and audio, etc. And it rip the DVD with nice quality and high speed, so you will enjoy much more from the software.

Key Features:

• Shinesoft DVD Ripper Support DVD-9, DVD-5, DVD folder, IFO file, ISO file.
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• Extract audio from DVD to MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AC3, OGG, AIFF, M4A, MP2, RA, AU.
• Preview movies before conversion.
• Merge two or more chapters into one file.
• Split one chapter into several pieces.
• Clip segments from movies.
• Snapshot images when preview.
• Rip DVD to several formats at one time.
• Shinesoft DVD Ripper Customize video size, video quality, video bit rate, audio channel, audio quality, audio frequency, audio bit rate, etc.

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Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta Now Available for Android Users

Opera Mobile 10.1 is now available for Android users in beta format via Android Market, the official applications storefront for Android users. While Opera Mini has been available for Android for quite some time now, Opera Mobile offers a more complete browsing environment with text and graphics that are natively rendered on Android devices rather than on a server like on Opera Mini. Opera Mobile supports pinch to zoom, a feature that was lacking in the Mini edition, and YouTube playback.

The browser doesn’t quite support full hardware acceleration yet according to an early review on Android Police. According to the Android-centric blog, because Opera doesn’t make use of the Webkit engine, some content may not display as intended on Opera Mobile. Another issue is rendering speed, which is on-par with the newly unveiled Firefox beta edition for Android, but is slower than the native Android browser.

The conclusion that Android Police came away with isn’t entirely positive, but isn’t entirely negative either.