FoodScanner

 FoodScanner currently only available on the iPhone (no cameras on the iPod touch and all) and has a semi-high price of $ 3.

The problem with this application is that really can not recognize unprocessed food, you know, the trick generally healthy as fruits and vegetables, although you can manually add these elements. However, if you need a little help keep your eyes on your daily intake if you eat mostly processed foods or not, DailyBurn and FoodScanner is a powerful tool for the job.
 

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The new Picasa 3.5

Free photo organizer from Google Desktop, have decided to feature in iPhoto murderer adds facial recognition and synchronization with Picasa Web Albums, making it easy to send all the pictures of Uncle Bob all you have to Aunt Marla.
 
 The new Picasa 3.5 contains a facial recognition feature similar to that already present in Picasa Web Albums, but leaving it running in his extensive collection of photographs Assorted likely saved on the hard disk is much more convenient. Picasa creates a new bar list of "People", and asked to name the people he encountered on his main "navigation menu. If you are connected to web albums with a Google account contacts fillings is quite easy, in fact, start typing a name, then select the contact that appears when you type.

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Klok

Built with Adobe AIR, Klok is a lightweight monitoring solution and cross platform. You can create a hierarchy of projects and subprojects in the management tasks of the box and then track the time spent on each of the drag on the flow of work for the day. While you can dive into the details of each block of time, simple adjustments, such as expanding the number of times you have worked on a project that is also easy to catch the edge of the block with the mouse and drawing to down.

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Do not panic

Don't Panic! can simply hide the windows that you specify, even hiding the application from the Task Manager, or you can close the application, whether to end the process or close properly. You may also have Don't Panic! delete all the shortcuts in the Recent Files folder, dump Internet Explorer history and temporary files, and purge the Trash.

One thing to keep in mind when using an application such asDon't Panic! is that all its powers are limited to change things on the workstation where you sit. If your business, for example, policies on use of Internet traffic monitoring of their administration, do not worry! do nothing to stop the man to curb their shower party.

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Kijubi

Kijubi authorized to investigate, plan and book a myriad of outdoor activities in a variety of locations throughout the United States, including California, Nevada, Maryland and Florida. Kijubi co-founder and CEO Billy Fried started the company after finding it difficult for consumers to book niche outdoor activities such as skydiving or surfing lessons at home, on the Internet because many of these operations are independent mom and pop type businesses that don not have an online presence.

This is where comes in. Start aggregates Kijubi all operators of the activity and facilitate the booking of these activities to you. And you can book your trips, including flights, cars, and accommodation on the site.

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Facebook Notification

Facebook notifications also integrates with Growl, and each time it receives a new update on the site, you also receive a Growl notification again particularly useful if you have created with harassment for Growl notification push on your iPhone for any Growl notification (something Facebook on the iPhone does not yet support).

We could debate the merits of Facebook as a productivity tool, but given how many people use Facebook as their main communications center these days, I think it is a conclusion at this point. An application such as Facebook notifications is a great tool to stay on top of what's happening with your Facebook friends.

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Silentale

An estimate of the total storage capacity of data produced by humans each year should exceed 1 Yottabyte in 2013. The demand for storage doubling every 18 to 24 months. And the mountains of content produced by ordinary people like lifestreaming is becoming increasingly popular only adds to this growth.

So how can we face - from the store? This is the problem Silentale plans to cope, and the launch is just opened a private beta to start testing the platform. In short, Silentale is the purpose of storing all digital conversations - Twitter, email, SMS - in one place and allows you to access and search them from anywhere. We have 200 invites to TechCrunch readers for free private beta. Just leave a comment to enter the list.

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MP3 Voice Recorder

The Windows have a voice recorder which is limited and may not, except the voices recorded in WAV format. This is why most Windows users are looking for a voice recording software that offers better functionality. MP3 Voice Recorder is a software program. The software is a digital voice recorder, which can save the output of the votes recorded in several formats, including MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, FLAC, M4A and AC3.

The basic interface of the voice recorder shows the most relevant options right on the screen with the opportunity to delve into the settings to customize the output further. Just basically, is to check if the audio source is correct. Other options on the screen are to change the output directory, the file name and quality.

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Merge MP3

Merge MP3 is free software and laptop operating system for Windows that can do exactly that. MP3 files can be dragged and dropped into the application interface or selected through the file browser. You can also specify folders or playlists to add and combine your MP3.

The order of the MP3 can be changed in the interface if necessary. Basic controls for playing mp3 files added are available. As are options to add ID3 tags for MP3 combination. The greatest benefit of the combination of MP3 is its simplicity. It takes less than a minute to select a MP3 and join them. There are additional options for mp3 merger might make sense. This includes the merging of all chapters in an audiobook or ripped tracks from CDs.

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Firefox extensions: Greasemonkey

Firefox users love their extensions and Greasemonkey is one of the best. The ability to run Userscripts to change the appearance of the site is virtually any number of powerful things.

But what if you want to install all Userscripts as separate supplements? Well, a-xpi UserScript converter that - Wait a minute.

Why the hell you want to install your Userscripts like that? Greasemonkey is loaded faster than the conversion scripts individually, and also provides access to preferences that may come with them. Turning to the extensions seem bogged down your list of supplements, in addition to being a royal pain in the ass.

If you still want to proceed with it, for whatever reason, the converter is a simple Web form and seems to work pretty well.

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COOLERBOOKS.com hosts 19 document formats

Google moves quickly identify partnerships with manufacturers of electronic book reader and store operators to give some weight to its threats to the Amazon and the online product, Kindle.

First, the company partnered with Sony, adding about 1 million public domain books for the technology giant eBook Store.

Mountain View is now sealed a deal with the British interest, so the same amount of electronic books online to a store outside the United States for the first time (where nearly half a million of them are available free ).

Based on interest in reading is the company behind the eBook Store COOLERBOOKS. The company also manufactures eReaders COOL-ER, a small, elegant e-book readers are a bit like a giant iPod costs $ 249 U.S..

COOLERBOOKS.com hosts 19 document formats, including EPUB, PDF, MP3 and audio book, which gives the widest range of formats ebookstore on the web.

Sufficient to represent a threat to the Amazon, the first or business pay? Time will tell, but it is always good to have alternatives Free eBook stores, even if you do not find that there Bestsellers

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FireMaster - retrieve your master password in Firefox

If you use Firefox integrated management of password should be the role of master password to protect your passwords safe from prying eyes. But what happens if you lose your master password?

Since the password prevents anybody can access your passwords saved, you're lucky if you lose your master password, ie can not access your stored credentials without she.

This is where the free, open source tool FireMaster. FireMaster enters a tool command line specifically designed to retrieve your master password in Firefox.

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TabNavigator in Firefox

Looking for a visual way to quickly navigate between tabs in Firefox? Style TabNavigator with Windows Alt + Tab for Firefox.

After the default installation allows TabNavigator Alt + Alt + R and W for forward and backward through its tabbed browsing. You can change the navigation keys for Ctrl, Alt or Shift + another key.

The first preview is only the favicons of sites on the text of the title bar at the bottom of a gray box. You can increase the size of icons or switch between the icon to display a complete image. Instead of favicons to see a thumbnail of the actual page. The default size is 500px preview, which is not bad for a preview size, but often among the chips that are very similar, you may want to increase the size of the preview for clarity.

TabNavigator is free and works wherever Firefox does.

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PerfectDisk

A commercial PerfectDisk two entries this week's Hive Five. One of the most important claims to fame PerfectDisk is what they call "the restoration of space technology. In addition to optimizing their albums during defragmentation real hard PerfectDisk writing instructors to ensure that future cases are written in the most effective way possible to reduce the risk of fragmentation. PerfectDisk also use data analysis and optimization of the model fits your style and use of work files. Can be programmed or made to run when the computer is idle for continuous defragmentation.

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Microsoft launched Cashback

Microsoft has launched Cashback on your old search engine, Live Search, in May 2008 when we move called "desperate and brilliant" for trading revenues search market. It turned out that Cashback can not do much to improve market share last year, Live Search, but results in a significant increase in advertising revenue. Now that Bing is at full steam, CashBack May to run in the Pilot Microsoft originally planned traffic.

To foster more interest in Cashback, Microsoft has launched a promotion called Limited 10 August Double Cashback, which Microsoft could match the level of discounts offered by retailers (for example, if Nike is typically offered a discount of $ 10 discount, promotion would give $ 20). Special proved too successful - that drives sales in liquidation Microsoft ended three days earlier, after the distribution of the maximum amount of money Bing had allocated for the promotion.

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