8GadgetPack for Windows 8

8GadgetPack is an utility that installs the original Gadgets which is available on Windows 7 and Vista. Now you can enjoy these Gadgets again on Windows 8 / 8.1.

CHANGELOG

2013/08/22: Version 8.0 released.

Fixed a bug that prevented to start all gadgets at startup. The crash on startup should happen way less often now. Also fixed a bug that prevented the installation of 3rd party gadgets when the temp directory was not on the systemdrive. Added a few gadgets and updated the outdated ones.

2013/07/22: Version 7.0 released.

Added Windows 8.1 compatibility. All gadget settings will remain during the update to 8.1 if you install this version. The new Internet Explorer in 8.1 is really buggy in combination with gadgets. It was really a lot of work to workaround that, so I hope you appreciate this. If you have a high DPI setting the gadgets will look smaller on Windows 8.1.

2013/05/05: Version 6.0 released.

I hopefully fixed a bug that caused the gadgets to crash at startup or prevented gadgets to show up. Also made autostart more stable. Fixed a bug that prevented flash gadgets to work. Updated outdated gadgets and added a few. Added silent install support (see FAQ).

2013/01/20: Version 5.0 released.

Resolved a bug preventing the gadgets to start. Updated a lot of gadgets and added a few. Improved install time and installer compression. Changed the weather gadget that appears on first start-up to WeatherCenter

2012/11/13: Version 4.0 released.

Resolved an error message preventing to install when an uninstall previously went wrong. Added several gadgets and updated a few. New users will get a message now that the sidebar is closable and that gadgets still can be moved to the desktop.

2012/10/29: Version 3.0 released.

Resolved an error message appearing when opening event viewer. Fixed a bug preventing the installer to work when windows is not installed on C:.

2012/08/30: Version 2.0 released.

Added 30 languages. Basically every major language is supported now. The Microsoft gadgets support only 6 languages (Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Russian) though, but they will fall back to English, so you can still use them. Contact me if you want a specific language added.

2012/08/23: Version 1.0 released.

FAQ'S

Q: I want to upgrade / already upgraded to Windows 8.1. Will 8GadgetPack still work after the upgrade?

A: If you have Version 7 or later installed, yes. If not you should update 8Gadgetpack to the current version. Simply download the installer and run it. No need to uninstall first. You can also do this after you have upgraded to Windows 8.1. All gadget settings should remain.

You should note though that Windows 8.1 introduced a bug that prevents gadgets to work if you have a high dpi setting enabled. I enabled a workaround in 8Gadgetpack to disable DPI scaling for Gadgets in Windows 8.1. So the gadgets keep working, but depending on your DPI scaling they might look smaller than they did on Windows 8. Microsoft probably won't fix this, but I keep trying to make a better workaround.

Q: Is it free?

A: Yes, completely

Q: I didn't really use gadgets previously. Is it really worth installing these?

A: You should try it. The gadgets included are really useful when working with the PC. Unlike Metro-Apps gadgets can access useful system-information. The included Clipboard-Manager gadget for example will highly improve your productivity. With the Sidebar gadget, you can make the gadgets visible while working with maximized windows. Monitoring network traffic, setting the volume with one click and having an analog clock visible all the time are things you don't want to give up once you get used to it.

Q: What are the requirements?

A: This is supported on all versions of Windows 8, except Windows RT and the beta of Windows 8 (the beta still contains gadgets). Administrative rights are required to install.

Q: Why is there a sidebar? Windows 7 didn't have one.

A: This is actually just a gadget to help you keeping the gadgets organized and visible. You can right-click on it and select "close sidebar" to do so. The gadgets can still be moved onto the desktop as you like. Or you can even add more sidebars by adding the gadget "7 Sidebar". This is especially useful when working with multiple monitors. You can also make the sidebar appear automatically when touching the border and customize its design.

Q: Will 8GadgetPack install some crap on my PC?

A: No, the installer will only install the original Microsoft files and set the neccessary registry entries to make the gadgets work again. The only addition is a small tool which allows you to uninstall all Non-Microsoft gadgets and delete all gadget settings. There is also an uninstaller included which removes everything the installer added. I could make quite some money by adding adware to the installer, but I'm sure you appreciate it that this installer is clean.

Q: Aren't gadgets unsafe? Afterall, Microsoft removed them for a reason?

A: Gadgets can contain viruses like any other software. Despite the warning when installing a gadget people seemed to think that it is safe to run any gadget. As long as you trust the source of the gadgets you install and you use anti-virus software you should be safe.

Q: Will I be able to install gadgets other than the ones included?

A: Yes, the installer will make it possible to open and install .gadget files made for Windows Vista or Windows 7. But be careful, gadgets can contain, just like other programs, viruses or trojans.

Q: When I try to install, there appears some error message.

A: First, try to download the installer again and check if the error still appears. If that's not helping contact me and don't forget to mention the error message.

Q: I already installed an older version of 8GadgetPack. What do I have to do to upgrade?

A: Simply download the installer again and open it. It will update your installation and even update outdated gadgets automatically. You don't have to uninstall first. All gadget settings will remain.

Q: A gadget seems not to be working. What can I do?

A: The best choice is to contact the author of the gadget. I cannot do much about it (unless I made the gadget), I just ship the original gadgets files to make gadgets working under Windows 8. If it is a Microsoft gadget that does not work you are out of luck. They didn't just discontinue gadgets but also seem to shut down the servers required by the weather, currency and stocks gadget. There are a bunch of alternative weather gadgets included in the pack and dozens of such gadgets can be found on the internet.

Q: Is there a way to do a silent install?

A: Yes. First download the installer and save it unter C:. Open a Command Promt as Admin (Right-click in bottom left corner and select it). Then type the following:

msiexec.exe /i "C:\8GadgetPackSetup.msi" /qn /norestart

You can close the Command Promt then. After a while the gadgets option will appear in the desktop right-click menu.

If you want to get notified when the installer finishes replace /qn with /qb. The installer will enable gadgets for every user on the computer, but they won't appear until the user selects Gadgets in the desktop right-click menu or in the Startmenu.

Q: I have a gadget that requires the 32-bit version of the sidebar. What do I do?

A: The installer does install both the 32 and 64-bit version of sidebar.exe on 64-bit Windows. You simply need to run C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe to run the 32-bit version.

Q: Sometimes on startup, there appears the error "sidebar.exe has stopped working". What to do?

A: This is a bug that has been reported to me by many users, but that I sadly cannot reproduce. So I'm afraid you just have to live with it.

Q: Is it possible to put the sidebar on top or bottom?

A: No, sorry. It is often requested, but an implementation would have many problems.

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Bump, a Mobile Contact Sharing App, is now Acquired by Google

After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but failing to find real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets you physically tap phones together to share contact info and more, and it will stay open for download. Congratulations might not be the right word, but Bump could have a bright future at the Googleplex.

Bump’s David Lieb writes “We strive to create experiences that feel like magic, enabled behind the scene with innovations in math, data processing, and algorithms. So we couldn’t be more thrilled to join Google.” It appears that the whole 25-person team including Lieb and fellow co-founder Andy Huibers will be coming aboard at the search giant.

Bump and the collaborative photo sharing app called Flock it released last year “will continue to work as they always have for now; stay tuned for future updates.” The blog post doesn’t mention what will happen to the Bump Pay app the startup built on top of PayPal that lets users make peer-to-peer mobile payments by knocking fists.

Terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed, so it’s hard to tell exactly how strong of an exit this was for Bump and its investors, which include Y Combinator, Sequoia Captial, Felicis Ventures, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, and many angels.

[Update: Sources familiar with the deal say the acquisition was definitely not a home run for Bump, but that it was no acquihire either as we suspected. They didn't specify an exact sale price but pegged the deal in the ballpark of $35 million. That would be modest premium on Bump's $19.9 million in funding but not a glowing multiple VC would want to brag to their LPs about.]

Bump gained huge popularity by being an early App Store hit. Instead of having to clumsily type out a new friend or professional colleague’s contact information, you and someone else could both open Bump, bump fists together while holding your phones, and the contact info, photos, audio, video, or other selected files would be shared between you instantly. As of March it had hit 1 billion photos shared and 125 million downloads, up from 100 million in August.

With time, though, other ways to quickly share contact information emerged. Meanwhile, Bump remained free and wasn’t earning any meaningful revenue so paying its strong mobile engineering team may have burned through the $16.5 million round led by Andreessen that the startup raised in November 2011.

Then Apple dropped a bomb on Bump. It announced a new feature called AirDrop for iOS 7 that would make sharing files between nearby phone a native feature. That could have curtailed Bump’s steady growth. It was time for Bump to throw in the towel.

Based on these factors, the acquisition may have been more lucrative than a basic acquihire, but not big enough to be considered a home run.

From one perspective, the sale might be considered a failure. Bump could have minted if it found a way to monetize its huge user base, but couldn’t find a way to go it alone and so instead folded into a tech giant. From a different perspective, Bump’s soft landing could be said to have kept investors from losing money while giving its team an opportunity for greater impact thanks to Google’s resources.

What may have interested Google actually isn’t Bump itself, but Flock. The app uses geolocation to determine which of your Facebook friends you’re nearby, and then offers to create a collaborative photo album with them that includes all the shots any of you took at that party, concert, or day in the park. The idea is that your friends might not broadcast all those photos to social media, but you’d still want to see them as you all shared the experience together. The Flock design philosophy was to strip as much out of the photo sharing process as possible to make it seem almost automatic.

Google might look to turn Flock into a part of Google+ as a way to simultaneously compete with Facebook’s photo sharing and Dropbox’s photo saving services. Google+’s Party Mode was a pioneer in collaborative photo sharing centered around events, but the late-comer social network has still failed to gain serious engagement. Facebook recently launched shared albums, making it more dire for Google to get deeper into the space.

The acquisition also scores Google a trove of mobile communication patents that it could use to help nearby devices sync up. These include an app noticing that sensors on two devices share similar readings to determine that they’re in proximity. Google could use these patents to improve Android and create richer alternatives to near-field communication (NFC).

With Bump and Flock’s features combined with Google’s built in-audience, the ideals of “irreducible” design the startup embodied could make a bigger impact without having to generate revenue directly.

SOURCE: TechCrunch.com

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Diskeeper 16.0.1017 PRO

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	Windows® Built-In Defrag Tool	Professional $64.95 Buy Now	Server $374.95 Buy Now
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HyperBoot® technology
IntelliWrite® fragmentation prevention technology
InvisiTasking® technology
Instant Defrag™ Engine
Efficient Mode
Free space consolidation engine
Intelligent Defragmentation
Titan Defrag Engine™ technology
Terabyte Volume Engine® technology
HyperFast® Solid State Drive Optimizer
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Command Line User Interface
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INSTALLATION
1. Run Diskeeper.exe and it'll extracting (If there's a prompt, click Yes or Run Anyway)

2. Click Next > I accept the terms ... > Next

3. Tick I Purchased the software but...

4. Tick Additional Options if License file cannot be found and click Next

5. Tick I cannot find the License File ... and click Next

6. Tick Enable Automatic Defragmentation for background auto-defrag. Untick for disabled. Click Next

7. Tick Disable System Monitoring and I confirm my setting for System Monitoring. Click Next

8. Choose the location for the installation. If you want the desktop shortcut, tick Create Desktop Shortcut for Diskeeper. Click Next

9. Install. (Any prompt, click Yes)

10. Untick Launch Diskeeper and click Finish

11. Copy Diskeeper12 from Crack folder (x86 for 32 Bit or x64 for 64 Bit) to your Diskeeper install location. Replace it.

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