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• Microsoft to replace FolderShare with Windows Live Sync
  

  Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Microsoft, Freeware

  
  
  About three years after acquiring FolderShare, a utility for synchronizing files across multiple computers, Microsoft is retiring the application and plans to replace it with a similar utility called Windows Live Sync. You could make the case that what's happening is Microsoft is renaming FolderShare rather than replacing it, as the new version will likely look a lot like FolderShare and have many of the same functions. But it will also have a few improvements including:
  
  • Ability to sync up to 20 folders with 20,000 files each
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  • Googleholic for November 21, 2008
    

    Filed under: Google, Googleholic, BlackBerry, iPhone, Mobile, Web

    

    Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google!
    

    In this edition:

    • Google SearchWiki lets you customize results
    • Google adds new features to BlackBerrys and iPhones
    • LIFE Magazine's photo archive comes online
    • GrandCentral App comes to Mac
    • Google plans to work with OEMs to pre-install Chrome
    • Access Google Docs within Gmail

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  • Keep your hard drive clean with Auto-Delete
    

    Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

    Earlier today we showed you how to keep your hard drive organized with tools to remove duplicate files and clean up your file and folder management system. But what if you want to just delete all the gunk you download and never use? That's what Auto Delete is for.
    
    This free Windows utility lets you automatically delete old files in a given folder. You can fine tune the settings to delete files that have been hanging out for a day, a year, or somewhere in between. Files can be moved to the recycle bin or permanently deleted. And...
    
  
  
  
  • Help! How do I tidy up a disorganized hard drive?
    

    Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware, Ask DLS, Search

    
    
    DS Reader Jamie wrote recently looking for some assistance, saying:
    
    I'm not the most disorganized of individuals: my music is in my music folder, etc. etc., but i have a fatal flaw. I put random stuff on my desktop, then it gets cluttered. My solution has been, in a word, poor. I put all the random stuff into a folder that usually goes by the name of misc or sort this out later. I was wondering what kind of advice you'd give for someone in this situation other than, "Get off...
    
  
  
  
  • Brightkite's new killer feature is ... a wall?
    

    Filed under: Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

    If you've been to a tech event since SXSW in 2006, you've probably seen some kind of large monitor displaying info from the conference-goers. Often, this means Twitter tweets by attendees. Brightkite has just taken this a step further, with their own "Wall" feature. Because Brightkite is a location-based service to begin with, the wall has a built-in way to gather data. This means the usefulness of the wall isn't limited to events: you can just display it in any place (like a coffee shop, for example) and show all the people who are posting messages nearby.
    
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  • iPhone 2.2 firmware is out, with Street View and podcasts
    

    Filed under: OS Updates, Apple, iPhone

    iPhone and iPod Touch users can upgrade their software to version 2.2 today. The update, which weighs in at around 250 megs, adds some highly-anticipated features. The two biggest for me are Street View in the Maps app and the ability to download podcasts from the iTunes Store. There are some smaller tweaks that you might appreciate, as well: that bug that sometimes kept messages from downloading in Mail is fixed, and you can click the home button when you're on any page of the home screen to go back to the first page.
    
    Street View on the iPhone is every bit...
    
  
  
  
  • GoogAzon Firefox Add-on ads Amazon listings to web search results
    

    Filed under: Internet, Search

    
    
    If you do a lot of shopping at Amazon and a lot of comparison shopping or product research on Google, you might want to check out the GoogAzon add-on for Firefox. Once installed, any time you search for an item on Google, you'll also see the top search result for your query from Amazon.
    
    If a single product listing isn't good enough, just click the "see top 10 items" button and a list of 10 items from Amazon will drop down. Hovering over a link brings up an image of the product. You can also click the Share button to...
    
  
  
  
  • Online movie site CinemaNow sold for $3 million
    

    Filed under: Video, Web

    
    
    Long before Hulu, or even YouTube were offering online video, and long before Apple or Amazon were selling digital downloads of TV shows and feature lenght films, there was CinemaNow and MovieLink. The two sites may have been well ahead of their time, but they also never managed to get the kind of attention that newer online video sites have garnered. Last year Blockbuster purchased MovieLink for about $7 million. And this week, software firm Sonic Solutions picked up CinemaNow for just $3 million.
    
    CinemaNow has a library of about 6,000 movies and TV shows. Sonic Solutions hopes...
    
  
  
  
  • Should you be paid for the time it takes to boot your computer?
    

    Filed under: News, Windows

    There's no question that we all want computers that boot up and shut down more quickly. While a fresh install of Windows XP might boot as quickly as 30 seconds on some computers, the more applications you load onto your computer, the slower it will boot. Things get even worse with Windows Vista which loads about as quickly as paint dries. While Microsoft and other OS makers are working to cut boot times, if you're using a current generation operating system, odds are you spend at least a few minutes every day waiting for your computer to startup and shut down.
    
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  • YouTube experimenting with 720p HD video
    

    Filed under: Audio, Internet, Video, Google, Web

    
    
    Online video site YouTube has been offering a "watch in higher quality" option since earlier this year. But higher quality doesn't mean high definition. It simply means that the videos are encoded in a higher bit rate and if you have a fast enough internet connection to keep up, the videos look a little better.
    
    But now it looks like YouTube is starting to add some honest to goodness high definition, 720p videos to the site. Members of the Video Help forums have spotted some videos available in HD, including...