SmartPower, creates rules to reduce power consumption automatically

The benefits of save energy are perhaps most evident in mobile devices as this will allow the battery is longer, but also the users of desktop computers may also have their reasons for this, because electricity costs are always high.

SmartPower is an application that offers several features to help reduce energy consumption and installed in Windows like a service. From multiple tabs offers few options to customize fairly completely the behavior of your computer.

For example, we can start with basic configurations as turning on or off your computer at a certain time, to specify more complex options: staying on if certain devices are connected to it (for example indicating a particular IP address or host name), or whether certain processes are running. Also, if the download speed of a given network interface is superior to X Kbps or if CPU usage exceeds a certain percentage.

SmartPower is a freeware utility compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

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UberTwitter comes to iPhone

For quite some time UberTwitter has offered, along with TwitterBerry and TweetCaster- Good Twitter Client for BlackBerry, And has enjoyed unusual success accounting for more than 10 million daily tweets.

But did not want to be alone on the platform by RIM and today has reached beta UberTwitter for iPhone, And although has limited functionality and shows interesting aspects.

As UberView, a feature that lets you explore the links contained in tweets, all without leaving the application. To take advantage simply turn the iPhone and turn it to horizontal or landscape, or to tap into a tweet.

Other possibilities are to add an image or our location in tweets, whatever our lists and change our avatar from this application.

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7-Zip 9.20 available

7-Zip is a compressor / decompressor popular file and kept alive over many years. A few days ago launched the Version 9.20 of 7-Zip, Which has been in development for several months and brings a significant speed boost, plus support for new formats.

For example, PPMd compression adds support for ZIP files, and now you can unzip files NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, MSLZ, SquashFS and CramFS. You can also decompress GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR with bad headers, a common problem and is often an impediment to extract.

7-Zip is available in both 32 and 64 bits, and occupies just download 1.3 MB of disk space.

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JPdBookmarks, create or edit bookmarks in your PDF

If ever we had to present a quite extensive work we will certainly proven it can be useful markers to lead quickly to any section or chapter of it. These Bookmarks are usually located in the rate of work, but is also good to use internal links in the main text.

If the document in question is a PDF There is a very good application for this task, called JPdBookmarks. Based on Java, will allow us create and edit bookmarks Addition to changing the appearance (font and spacing) the structure and hierarchy of these. You can even add links to web sites with internal links, so that when you click on a link that will lead simultaneously to a website and a section of the document.

JPdBookmarks can be used both from GUI or from the command line, although we must bear in mind that to do so in the latter way will not have access to more advanced features.

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StreamRecorder.NET, a frontend to simplify the recording of audio and video with VLC or Windows Media Player

Record audio and video streams with VLC or Windows Media Player is possible for quite some time, but the task requires many steps, some quite specific, and as we can imagine that ends up scaring away users with less knowledge.

StreamRecorder.NET is an application that can help, by acting as a frontend for both applications and thereby convert a rather complicated task into one that almost anyone can perform. And that is an initial step to establish the path to VLC and / or Windows Media Player (Options menu) so you can use one or both to record.

Then we can specify various options, such as the output format of the streams and even the duration of the recording, which is useful if you want to stop recording without having to face the computer for it. In addition, StreamRecorder.NET allows us to combine two or more files, and for audio MP3, Edit tags and headers.

When we have all defined only will need to enter in the URL field (below the red button "Record") the URL of the stream, and we'll be ready.

StreamRecorder.NET is freeware and compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP (32 and 64 bits), and only requires installation. NET framework 3.5 SP1 or higher.

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Skyfire for iPhone 2.1 adds Quickview for Twitter and more ways to share

Skyfire is probably the most comprehensive mobile browser, and the fact that Flash is too tempting offer for many. Especially for iPhone users, as became clear at the time of the arrival of the App Store browser.

Now Skyfire 2.1 has arrived With new features that do nothing but increase the social profile of this excellent browser, with sharing on Twitter, Instapaper, Read it Later, Google Reader, Tumblr and Pinboard.

It is also very good Quickview support on Twitter (Which was already available in the case of Facebook), which allows us to take a quick look at your timeline while sailing without leaving what we were doing. Or the ability to open links in new tab quickly, by tapping and holding on for a couple of seconds.

But it has also improved support for HTML5, The manager of favorites and minimize / maximize, which recharges the browser much faster than before and without re-entering the URL.

Skyfire 2.1 is now available in App Store, plus the U.S. and can also download it from England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, but warning that we will soon be available in more countries. Ah, for the iPad users may be interesting to know that although this release is compatible with the tablet, and is working on a specific version.

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ZSoft Uninstaller 2.5 adds options to keep our system clean when uninstalling applications

It seems incredible that the removal tool for Windows program has hardly changed in many years, and unfortunately that makes us look for efficient alternatives. As Revo Uninstaller or ZSoft Uninstaller, A freeware application that show and quite, and recently launched a new version.

It offers a tool that allows us to clean and optimize the Windows startup, And delete empty folders, such that both are being left by our system as we increase its use and therefore, installing and uninstalling applications that we tested and do not end up liking.

Also added information in the sidebar, and has optimized its startup time and memory consumption. But the strength of this program remains its application analysis tool, called Post Uninstall Scanner, which determines always very precise way all the leftovers that programs leave behind on the road.

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