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FileAid is currently free but not for long so consider picking it up today.

FileAid is a file manager and viewer for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Easily copy files on your device for a quick look on the road. Powerful and yet still very user friendly, FileAid will let you find the document you’re looking for within seconds.
Copying files over to your iPhone or iPod Touch takes place wirelessly (by FTP) or via USB using DiskAid.

FileAid Features

Quickly display or play files :
* Images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others)
* PDF
* MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
* iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynotes, iWork 09 not yet supported)
* OpenDocument (OpenOffice) (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation)
* Plain Text and RTF (Rich Text Format)
* Audio (MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF)
* Video (standard iPhone formats : H.264, MPEG-4)
* Web Archives
* HTML files
* ZIP Archives

Our customized help view will guide you through setting the connection with your device effortlessly.
We have taken great care in offering an application that gives your more because of its simplicity. We’re convinced you will notice the difference.

Compatible file formats will gradually be added and additional features also, so stay tuned and enjoy FileAid!

File Browsing :
* Files are sorted alphabetically, by date, by file type and by folder
* Settings lets you view file size and extension
* Delete files from within the application
* Last folder level is saved
* Rotation portrait/landscape

File Transfer :
* Robust wireless file transfer via Wi-Fi (FTP)
* USB file transfer using DiskAid
* Customized connection help lets you view screenshots with your personalized settings embedded

Documents & Files :
* MS Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), all formats supported
* Scroll to page feature for all long documents (PDF)
* RTF and Plain Text (UTF-8 encoding)
* iWork documents (Pages, Numbers and Keynotes, iWork 09 not yet supported)
* OpenDocument (OpenOffice) (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation)
* HTML files
* Safari Web Archives
* Uncompress ZIP archives
* Last scroll position memory for all long documents
* Zoom in/out with two fingers
* Rotation portrait/landscape

Images :
* Compatible with large images
* Slideshow (with slideshow timer settings)
* Button next & previous to browse images
* Rotation portrait/landscape

Music & Videos :
* Audio (MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF)
* Video (standard iPhone formats : H.264, MPEG-4)

Security :
* Passcode to protect FileAid at startup
* Wireless transfer Password if needed

Compatibility :
* Microsoft Windows XP & Vista
* Mac OS X (Tiger & Leopard)
* Linux (GNOME & KDE) (WiFi only)

Don’t forget to also download DiskAid. DiskAid is a tool for PC and Mac which enables to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as external Disk. With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders via USB between your device and your Computer.

For a limited period of 1 month (ending 17th of july), if you already bought FileAid, you can obtain a free license for DiskAid. Just forward to diskaid@digidna.net your FileAid Apple Store Receipt received by email and we will send you a free activation key. Free licenses are only given to those who have paid for FileAid, so make sure you forward us the receipt which shows you have done so. People who downloaded FileAid for free while it was under promotion are not entitled to a free license.

* USB file transfer
* PC Windows & Mac OSX compatibility
* Supports iPhone V1, 3G, 3G S & iPod Touch V1 and V2
* Auto detection feature, just plugin it in !
* Copy Files & Folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer
* Files and Folders Browser
* Drag & Drop files and folders
* Device’s free memory displayed
* Bookmark files and folders
* Feature rich file organization including folder creation, renaming… etc.
* File & Folder information window.
* No jailbreak needed
* Supported firmware versions : 1.1.1 to 3.0

This week brought a major update to Microsoft Office 2007 — Service Pack 2, a free download that fixes bugs, improves performance and adds a few new features in the company’s bundle of productivity applications (see my review).

This update should arrive automatically if you use Windows’ Microsoft Update option, or you can download the 290-megabyte file yourself.

The headline attraction of Office 2007 SP2 is the support it adds for some important, non-Microsoft file formats. It can read and write Open Document Format files, which may help Office users share files with people running the sometimes-unimpressive, but always free and open-source OpenOffice.org suite. Office 2007 SP2 also lets users save a copy of their work as a Portable Document Format file — a helpful feature that Microsoft had unwisely required people to install an optional add-on to use before.

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Microsoft has announced that the Release Candidate version of Windows 7 will be available to the public as a free download on May 5. And since the RC version seems to be pretty much finished (I have not tried it), then it’s essentially giving it away for more than a year: as mentioned earlier, it won’t expire until 1 June next year.

RC includes a couple of new features, mainly Remote Media Streaming (so you can stream stuff from your home PC to your work PC, for example), and in pro versions, Windows XP Mode (below).

The slight drawback is that if or when you want to buy the final version, it’s not designed to install over the beta RC. Microsoft is only testing the normal use case, which is an upgrade from a previous version of Windows.

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I would not recommend using it as a main OS if reinstalling Windows 7 from scratch later is something you’d like to avoid. However, installing Windows 7 on a test computer, or one you don’t mind reinstalling later, for the purpose of kicking the tires sounds great.

Redmond suffered yet another butter fingers incident over the weekend when the company let slip that the near-ready version of Windows 7 will be made available on 5 May.

The company’s partner program website revealed the date for the release candidate of its forthcoming operating system on Saturday.

Neowin picked up on the apparent gaffe and has a screen grab of the website here. Microsoft has since amended it, by removing the date from its site.

It had been carrying the message that paying subscribers to MDSN and TechNet could get their hands on the RC ahead of the 5 May release, when partners will be able to download it too.

Trend Micro’s bread-and-butter security package provides protection from both viruses and spyware. AntiVirus+AntiSpyware is designed for home users and comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. Trend Micro says their software is quick to install and easy to use; read on for our take.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Trend Micro AntiVirus+AntiSpyware provides no-frills protection for the home user. The software is advertised to block unwanted changes to your computer and prevent computers from becoming infected with viruses. AntiVirus+AntiSpyware provides real-time protection by scanning files that are transferred, downloaded, or attached to email. The software updates itself automatically.

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Office 2010 is scheduled for the first half of next year … [The] beta … will become available in the third quarter.
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Microsoft is investing $7.7 billion in research and development for Office — double its investment in Windows — to broaden the Office 2010 menu and create an unprecedented number of choices so that companies have no financial excuse to switch from Office to a cheaper rival … Office 2010 will run on Windows 7, Vista and XP … will come in both 64-bit and 32-bit flavors … will come in a Google Docs-like Web version.

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Piriform, the company that brought you CCleaner and Recuva… now bring you a file defragmentation tool… Defraggler!

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!

And remember like all Piriform products, Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use.

Download Defraggler 1.06.118

Defraggler Features:

Defrag Individual Files
Most defragmentation tools only let you defrag the whole drive. Defraggler gives you the power to select individual files and folders to defrag. So you can get the job done in seconds, rather than waiting for the whole drive to complete. Of course if you want to defrag the whole drive Defraggler will let you do that too.

Compact and Portable
Defraggler was written in the same compact architecture as other Piriform products (CCleaner and Recuva). This results in a compact single EXE application, which can be copied to a thumbdrive and then used whenever you need it, without a complex installation process. The EXE itself is less than 1MB!

Vista Support
Defraggler supports all OSs released since Windows 2000, this includes Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. 64-bit support has also just been added! Additionally Defraggler supports both NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Locate Files on the Drive
After analysis Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or many will highlight their location on the disk. Allowing you to visually see the location of files on the disk.

Freeware
Why pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial defragmentation tool, when you can use Defraggler for free! This includes corporate use as well!

Defraggler 1.09.138 Changes:
- New search feature.
- Various tweaks to the drive list.
- Improvements to freespace calculation when moving large files.
- Improved handling of of sparse files.
- Lots of minor UI tweaks.

This blog post talks about a few of the improvements that will be in our Release Candidate (RC) based upon customer feedback. There are many under the hood changes (bug fixes, compatibility fixes, performance improvements, and improvements) across the entire dev team that we just don’t have room to discuss here, but we thought you’d enjoy a taste of some changes made by three of our feature teams: Core User Experience, Find & Organize and Devices & Media. The comments in this article come from a variety of verbatim sources, with identifying information withheld.

Desktop Experience

1. Windows Flip (ALT + TAB) with Aero Peek

We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback about Aero Peek and how it helps customers switch windows with increased confidence. Daniel wrote to tell us “I’m wondering why Peek was never implemented for the ALT + TAB window. The thumbnails look/behave the same way as the taskbar thumbnails when you hover the mouse over them. It seems logical that they would exhibit the peek behavior, too”. We decided to make this change since we heard many requests for it. One can still quickly flip between and cycle through running windows using the ALT+TAB keys, but when more window information is needed Aero Peek will appear. This is triggered by a time delay as you pause while keyboarding through running windows.

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