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Pois é, o inverno se aproxima e os dias de calor e praia estão ficando para trás. O consolo é que nunca houveram tantas máquinas fotográficas na praia (caiu a beça o preço, todo moleque tem um no celular, etc), e belíssimos momentos foram imortalizados. Vale a pena dar uma olhada:

Microsoft Silverlight é a mais nova tecnologia para navegadores e plugins da nova geração. Desenvolvido para competir com o todo-poderoso Flash, da Adobe, Silverlight oferece uma nova experiência para aplicativos ricos e interativos na internet.

Através
deste plugin é possível visualizar animações, vídeos e aplicativos
produzidos nesta plataforma, a qual tem como proposta arrebatar grande
percentual de usuários da internet, tornando-se indispensável para
visualização de vídeos e websites, assim como é o Flash atualmente.

Esteja preparado para o futuro

As
notícias também são boas para os desenvolvedores, visto que a inovação
suporta diversas linguagens de programação, incluindo AJAX, C#, Python,
Ruby e Visual Basic. Além disso, o Silverlight se integra a outras
aplicações web. Portanto, é de se esperar que existam utilidades
interessantes no futuro.

Se você ainda não acessou nenhum site
que exija tal tecnologia, não se surpreenda, pois Silverlight é novo e
ainda está em fase de testes. Porém, gigantes do entretenimento como a
Twentieth Century Fox já estão testando trailers de filmes nesta
tecnologia.

O maior destaque fica por conta da transmissão de
vídeos, que utiliza o codec VC-1 para fornecer uma transferência de
dados com maior qualidade e ainda a possibilidade de trabalhar com
resoluções em Full HD (1080p). Vale ressaltar o uso da aceleração de
hardware 3D, também presente para acirrar a corrida pela tecnologia que
dominará o mercado.

Veja agora algumas das características de Silverlight:

http://tinyurl.com/4hmmgf

fonte: download.com

Hopefully, there aren’t too many Windows users left who don’t have
Auslogics Disk Defrag. In case you don’t, though, this is an excellent
time to stop using the slow, native Microsoft defragger and
upgrade–for free!–to an app that works better and faster: Auslogics Disk Defrag.

Even on older Windows XP systems, the program runs reasonably fast.
Chose a hard drive from the drop-down menu to get a read on its stats
such as free and used space and get a visual comparison in a pie chart.
One click starts the defragging, and along with a visual table
representing the various bits and bytes that are being shunted around,
you also get a running ticker of the file currently being defragged.
Disk Defragger spits out a bar graph and an HTML report at the end,
lacking only a final sector map.

fonte lifehacker via twitter
Splice together YouTube clips without downloading a single one using Omnisio, a free video compilation website with all the standard share/embed/reply features of modern web apps. The editing interface is decidedly simple—move the sliders to the start and ending parts of the clip you want, then choose the next video and do the same. For presentations with online access and web projects, it’s a pretty handy tool, but having the entirety of YouTube, Google Video and Blip.TV as your stock material might inspire more than a few would-be film splicers. Omnisio is free to use, and a sign-up lets you save and embed videos.

fonte: Lifehacker

by Gina Trapani

I receive hundreds of email messages a day, but only a couple dozen actually make it into my inbox. Thanks to the automated power of full-strength email filters, just the messages that are important enough to deal with catch my attention when I’m busy.

It’s not that I don’t read every message I receive eventually, it’s that I want to do it on my own terms and in my own time. Low-priority, unsolicited email shouldn’t suck up brain cycles when I’m under deadline. Only the “important” messages should be let through the gate. Here’s where email filters save the day.

It’s taken me years to polish and perfect this set of tried and true armed guards who protect my inbox from undesirables. Today I’ll share some of my favorites - and then I want to hear about yours.

The examples here use Gmail’s format because of its superior searching capabilities that allow for complex, specific filters. Many can be applied to most modern email clients.

NOW messages

Receive these right away.

• Notify

LATER messages

Let these gather quietly out of sight till you’re ready to deal.

• Cold Callers
• Mailing Lists
• Not to Me
• Fwd’s
• Automated
• Email backup / File storage

NEVER messages

Messages you don’t ever want to see. (MWAHAHAHA!)

• Bozo filter

Notify

For: Anyone with a spouse, boss, co-worker or receiving messages about an urgent issue.

How it works: Set any message from a set of Very Important People or containing keywords to forward to your phone or pager.

Example: Forward messages from your boss or your wife or with the words “Your check” to your phone.

Matches: from:(boss@1ifehacker.com OR wife@home.com) OR subject:”Your check”
Do this: Forward to 7185551212@teleflip.com

[back to top]

Cold Callers

For: Anyone with a published email address (like on a web site) that anyone in the whole world might Google up and use to contact you.

How it works: Send any email to your “public-facing” email address into a “cold callers” folder or label.

Example: Any email that comes to the tips at lifehacker.com address go into the “tips” label (or folder.)

Matches: to:(tips@lifehacker.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “tips”

Exclude VIP’s from this filter like this:

Matches: to:(tips@lifehacker.com) from:(-wendy@lifehacker.com AND -adam@lifehacker.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “tips”

[back to top]

Mailing Lists

For: Anyone subscribed to mailing list(s).

How it works: Set any messages to the mailing list addresses to skip the Inbox. (Note: The “Not to Me” filter below works for mailing lists as well.)

Example: Send messages to (not from!) list1@example.com or list2@example.com to “mailing list” folder/label.

Matches: to:(list1@example.com OR list2@example.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “mailing list”

[back to top]

Not to Me

For: Anyone with CC-happy co-workers, or correspondents who like to send out mass BCC’ed email messages to a group of people.

How it works: If none of your legitimate email addresses are in the To: field, file away in “Not to me” folder/label. See also how to color-code messages only to you.

Example: If none of my email addresses are in the To: line, it skips the Inbox.

Matches: to:(-(ginatrapani@myfirstaddress.com OR gina@mysecondaddress.com OR gtrapani@mythirdaddress.com))
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “not to me”

[back to top]

Fwd’s

For: Anyone whose Aunt Bertha insists on forwarding poems and kitten pictures.

How it works: Send any message with “Fwd” in the subject line to a “later” folder/label.

Example: Shuttle messages from Aunt Bertha and Uncle Hal with “fwd” in the subject line to a “later” folder/label.

Matches: from:(auntbertha@aol.com OR unclehal@aol.com) subject:Fwd
Do this: Apply label “later”

[back to top]

Automated

For: Anyone who automates (crons) jobs that email them every night with the results.

How it works: Send any automated messages to the “Automated” folder.

Example: If the from field contains “Cron Daemon,” move it to Automated.

Matches: from:(”Cron Daemon”)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “automated”

Note: You can filter out the messages that indicate a problem. For example, if my nightly backup fails, I want to know about that. So you can add exceptions to the filter, like this:

Matches: from:(”Cron Daemon”) AND -subject:”SyncBack Status - PROBLEM”
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “automated”

[back to top]

File storage

For: Anyone who uses their email as a backup solution, like GSpace or Gmail Drive users.

How it works: Shuttle any messages with the file storage subject line into a “backup” folder.

Example: Send messages with “GSPACE” in the subject line to backup folder.

Matches: subject:(”GSPACE” OR “EMAILBACKUP”)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label “backup”

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Bozo Filter

For: Anyone who’s had the misfortune of being added to an email list from which they can’t seem to unsubscribe, or who get badgered by *cough* PUBLIC RELATIONS BULLDOGS *cough* who spam you with messages every day.

How it works: Messages from anyone who you never want to hear from again under any circumstances get deleted.

Example: Messages from folks on my blacklist get automatically deleted.

Matches: from:(annoyingperson1@example.com OR annoyingperson2@example.com) Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it

[back to top]

What are your most effective email filters? Tell us all about ‘em in the comments or to tips at lifehacker.com.

Gina Trapani, the editor of Lifehacker, loves a good strong filter. Her semi-weekly feature, Geek to Live, appears every Wednesday and Friday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Geek to Live feed to get new installments in your newsreader.

from Lifehacker

If your everyday activities are not providing you with any value, skip them, says 43Folders blogger Merlin Mann. How do you determine what time is wasted and what time is valuable? Use tricks (life hacks) to take shortcuts through time consuming processes. When it comes to your online communications, disable email so that you can stay focused on the tasks at hand. Use email filters that enable you to promote only the most important messages to the top of your Inbox. Don’t let people boss you around. What tips have you integrated into your routine to take back that precious time? Share your secrets in the comments.

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