New iPhone app delivers augmented reality in Safari browser itself

We’ve spoken quite abit about augmented reality (AR) apps lately, but until now all of which have been based within applications. However, if you have the iPhone 4 or the latest iPod Touch, Occipital, a company that has developed a panoramic photo iPhone app that you might fancy trying out.
The new app makes use of your device’s gyroscope.

You can try a live demo for yourself. It looks very impressive, and by using the gryoscope and a panorama image, you can deliver an augmented reality experience within the Safari web browser itself without the need to download any application from the App Store. If you’re on your iPhone now, try this link http://occip.it/pt3dmqna on your iOS browser directly to check out the dem

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Schedule Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate, Stand by with Hotkeys

Working with shortcuts is always fun and time saving. In Windows there are many inbuilt shortcuts in the form of hotkey combinations that helps in pulling up various windows and applications tasks easily. There are many functions provided by default except for the functionality to schedule Windows power options.

This functionality is very useful and is required whenever you plan to leave some tasks on your system and desire to shut it down after certain time. ShutDown After is a small utility to perform this task, its a freeware windows utility that allows you to predefine schedule timings with windows power options.

It is easy to use and has a simple interface to set up things. You can also setup hotkey combinations for the power options you desire.
Features of ShutDown After:

* Perform and Manage shutdown operations
* Simple and Easy to use  interface allows schedule shutdown, hibernation, restart, log off, stand by.
* Hotkeys support
* System tray support for easy operation

Safely Run Infected and Suspicious Applications on Your PC

There are times when we may want to access files and applications that we do not trust. In situations like this having a good Anti-Virus gives a lot of relief in identifying and removing those viruses and malware from our system.

But what if knowingly we have to open a file but our antivirus stops the process and removes the file? Well, the best answer could be to stop the antivirus application momentarily. This again leads to system security threats. The best way to deal this issue is to use a sandbox to run infected/suspicious files.

People who are using anti-virus software like Kaspersky and Avast online security must be well aware of the sandbox mode provided with these applications. Sandbox is a isolated environment that allows you to run applications within it, hence eliminating the threat of system infection.

Sandboxie is a free application that allows you to do the same. It has a paid as well as free version. The only restriction of free version is that you can run one application in sandbox at a time.

Speedup Windows Default Copy Operation with Pause/Resume Support

With every new release of windows we come across bunch of new and useful features. The interface has become great in Windows 7 but still it lacks some basic features like the pause/resume feature in Windows copy operation.

To fill this gap many third party developers have released applications that makes copy operations much faster with several other small facilities to enhance the task. The best known application for this task is TeraCopy but this application is not free. So the next thing that we can do is find a free alternative application to perform this task. UltraCopier is just the tool you may be looking for.

UltraCopier allows you co configure many options related to copy operation like controlling copy speeds, drag and drop files to move to a specified destination, skipping files on errors etc.

This is a very useful tool and helps you perform other tasks smoothly on slower systems with copy operation going on. You can pause copy tasks also to perform small tasks in between.

How to Batch Convert and Upload Images to FTP Servers

Converting images is a necessary task in certain situations. This task becomes tedious specially when we have dozens of images which needs to be resized and converted. Photo Magician is a freeware windows application which helps us to convert images in bulk to predefined resolutions quickly.

Using this application is extremely simple and things can be setup easily. It requires an input folder for images, you can put all images you need to convert in this folder. The output folder will consist of all the converted images.

You can either convert images to other formats or you can perform both resize and conversion. Photo Magician also supports a quick conversion tool where you can drag and drop images to convert an resize them to specific folders. After conversion you can also upload these images to FTP servers.

Features of Photo Magician:

•  Create customized profiles
•  You can Resize images by pixel size or by percentage
•  Image conversion using pre-defined profiles
•  Overwrite the original images
•  Exclusion of  images under certain file size or pixel size
•  Convert all images to single image format
•  Quick Convert Mode Allows you to drag images onto the hat to convert them quickly
•  Support for popular images formats and others including DDS, TARGA, RAW, PCX
•  Command line support
•  Uploading of converted images to FTP or social sites