The concept for voice input for search on the iPhone is a relatively simple one. Users simply push a button and tell Google what to search for. Then a window opens up to display the search results and everyone cheers.

Many people would be surprised to learn that this isn’t a new feature for Google at all. In fact, Google engineers have been toiling away on voice-input on a search engine for at least six years now. The company has released a few other products with voice input with little success.

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The origins of this concept lie within a 2002 Google Labs release called simple Google Voice Search. You could call a number with a 650 area code to reach a voice-bot that asks you to, “Say your search keywords.” Then you would click on a link on the page to see your results.

This was a Google Labs product that never quite graduated. You would actually have to already be on a Google web page to use the product, which then took about three seconds to display your results. Compare that with the fraction of seconds that most queries on Google take and the Voice Search product starts to sound completely unusable.

At last, Google launched a new version of its application for the iPhone, as a striking feature that brings search by voice.

It works like this:

• Open the Google Mobile App in your iphone and turn your iphone towards your face as if you are going talk,then Google Mobile App recognizes the movement and turns listener mode.
• For example just say “something like 45 to Celius º Fahrenheit,” or a typical search. Immediately, the voice command is uploaded to Google, and the application refreshes with results.

It works quite well, for most search terms.With the Google voice enabled search (Google Mobile App) you can speak your queries without even pushing a single button.

Additionally the new iPhone Google Search App version also brings Search with My Location. With that feature you can just search for business, weather, and movie information without specifying where you area(city).

It is available for download now on the iTunes App store. Simply click the “Get App” button on this page (within iTunes) and you’ll be able to get it (even if you have the previous version installed)

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You can also develop your own computer-controlled driver (also called a robot) in C or C++.

TORCS is designed to enable pre-programmed AI drivers to race against one another, while allowing the user to control a vehicle using either a keyboard, mouse, or wheel input. The concept is derived from RARS (the Robot Auto Racing Simulator).

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The game offers a wide variety of real-life high-performance vehicles as well as Formula 1 racers and off-road rally racers.

Screenshots:

Features:

• 50 different cars
• More than 20 tracks
• 50 opponents to race against
• Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks
• Simulation offers:
  • Simple damage model
  • Collisions
  • Tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, …),
  • Aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, …)

Homepage: TORCS
Download /Installation link : TORCS 1.3.0 Download
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IRateMyDay.com is a social online community, similar to blogs, but unique in its concept. The site focuses on short entries of a few words about the user’s current feelings. The concept is best described as “Instant Blogging” where each rating resembles a short sentence of instant messaging.
The service is a complement to existing blogging sites and can even be integrated through the use of widgets.

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I Rate My Day is aFun website that can give you an idea about how Happy you are. Find out how many days in a month you feel great, awful, indifferent and so on, and what are the reasons behind it. Basically, iRateMyDay asks you to rate each day of your daily life on a 1 to 10 scale, and additionally comment on your rating when necessary.

Although the name of the application suggests that we can only enter one entry per day, it is possible to update our assessment of the day every 30 minutes. As we participate in the community level going up and it will open up new tools and opportunities to customize our profile.

Visit iRateMyDay| Track: Listio

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Just upload your photos and edit with stickers, texts ,thought bubbles and effects. After you edit your photos, you can save and share your collection.

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Save and share creations on various social networking and blogging tools, or put them on physical objects like T-shirts and mugs.If you are interested in photo editing, you should click on the web site. Have fun!!!

Link: piZap

Source: go2web20

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If it comes in P2P networks, Ares is the program that takes all the excellence awards. In the same way LimeWire has done its space because, being a payment program, their service is guaranteed optimal and functional.
But for all those who say that Ares is a spirited program to download viruses, then you’ll love FrostWire. FrostWire is a fork of the LimeWire source code, and as such, it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using FrostWire, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.
FrostWire is in short, a cut-back version of LimeWire. LimeWire is full of ads, spam, and is a resource hog. Although FrostWire still requires the Java runtime environment, it’s a lot less bulky, and takes half the resources of LimeWire. Also, it automatically enables Turbo Charged Downloads, a service in LimeWire that you must pay for.

I noticed in LimeWire the Java applet would always run, sometimes close to 100megs of RAM. That’s just not accetable.

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Features:
- Instant access!
- 250 times faster!
- Unlimited Free Music Downloads
- Find any Song or Movie Fast
- Download and play all your favorites
- Free 24 hour Technical Support
- No Per Song Download Fees!
- No Spyware or Adware!
- Highest Quality MP3 Format
- Largest Music and Movie Selection
- No Download or Monthly Fees ever. The license of this internet software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Internet software.

The download is completely free from their own servers, you can find on the official website.

Download | FrostWire 4.17.1
FrostWire Official Site | FrostWire
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Currently, there are about 240 separate files that get modified by this pack. The pack comes with some nice extra´s, like 32bit icon support on Windows 2000! Vista sound and cursor schemes, custom boot screen, and its own wallpaper.

The pack uses ResHacker (best for scripting resource tasks) to change icons, bitmaps and some dialogs, to make it look like the new Microsoft Windows Vista.

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The installer takes a sample of the file that has to be modified, and backs it up. Then it changes all the resources in the original file, those that are needed for the Vista look. When that´s done, it places it back into the system, and will reboot for the changes to take effect.

Vistapack has some other advantages like the Reloader. This little sub-program, runs on Windows start and checks if any files are changed. This can happen if you got a update from Microsoft, or have visited the Windows Update site. When it spots a changed file, it will “Reload” that file with the Vista resources again. So on your next reboot, that file is Vista style again. Good way of keeping your system in the Vista look and feel.

Homepage: http://www.vistapack.org
Download:  download.Vistapack-XP.zip
File Size: 19.46MB
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FreeRinger which basically hijacks into Talkster’s Free international calling platform.The only difference difference between FreeRinger and Talkster is the caller now is not tied to the Phone.

Talkster needs you to use their service via Phone but now FreeRinger allows you to bypass the Talkster gateway and connect directly to your party. However the rest of the communication is still carried on the Talkster platform that means the other party still needs to call into talkster to be connected to your call.

Free Ringer as a good altenative if you are already using Talkster and confortable with their platform and the way they work. FreeRinger is powered by Gtalk2VOIP and Talkster.

Technical side, everything happens via a small Flash interface that will interact with your microphone, FreeRinger is also available as a widget that so bloggers and web designers can offer the FreeRinger long distance and international calling service to their sites’ readers and customers. A special hyperlink makes placing calls from FreeRinger as simple as a click from a webpage.

Link to site => http://www.freeringer.biz/
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If you’re a Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger) user who had been waiting for an update, then you can download the newest version that Apple has released iLife which provides system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications..
The latest update is the iLife Support 8.3.1 update that contains very simple without anything of great importance to the user, but have added some security fixes, but nothing critical.

The last update for iLife was in July, so this new update has a higher stability and fixes some bugs in the software, in particular, the update includes three fixes for the ImageIO framework, all of which are related to code execution or application termination security holes related to malicious image files. In all three cases, a memory corruption or access hole can be exploited by a malicious TIFF or JPEG file, but this update should take care of all of that. The issues have already been fixed in Leopard.

iLife Support 8.3.1 is for users with Tiger version 10.4.11 and is only 11.7MB in size. As usual, the update can be accessed via Software Update or the individual support page . As usual, the update can be accessed via Software Update page.

Link: Mac os x Update

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.4, the fourth update to Firefox 3, released last June.

As usual, this release brings several stability and performance bug fixes.According to the release notes, there’s nothing to get excited about with this new update. It’s mostly patching up security and stability issues. But they have also now brought out Firefox in some new languages including Icelandic, Thai, Esperanto, Occitan, and Welsh!

To update  go to ‘Help -> Check for Updates’. > If you want to download and install it manually, you can do so from the link provided below.

Firefox 3.0.4

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Nokia Multiscanner offers both Business card reader and text reader bundled in a single package and in the near future it will extend its capabilities to be a translator in your pocket.Unveiling Nokias future prospects this text reading application brings more hopes of a device which will act as a All-In-One replacement gadget that sits in your pocket serving you as a personal assistant.

Though it is currently available only in E66 and E71 by default,I managed to get hold of an extracted version that works well on my N95 8GB.But it needs to be signed or you need to hack your device in order to try it.

Download : Nokia MultiScanner[Unsigned] .sisx file (For Mobile Browsing)

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Here is an example of Converted texts

Language libraries are stored in the device, language library for an alphabet language, for example English, French, or Greek, requires approximately 600 kilobytes; and for a character-based language, for example Chinese or Japanese, 3 megabytes is required.

It’s all pretty nifty stuff and means that you can make quick notes of text based items and then use the text later on either in an email or SMS without having to either type it out or send an image.

The business card function alone saves time having to manually adding new contacts to your address book, which may make the difference between adding a new person’s details or not.

Link: Nokia MultiScanner

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For more info on Multiscanner, head on over to Nokia apps