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Few days back, I’d mentioned about Defensio, a spam filter solution which was welcomed by Automattic and even though they are the competition. However, I’ll say that I’ve fallen for Defensio and the reason is simple, I get better result from Defensio.

Although, the details of the stopped spam is provided by Akismet but it’s not as detailed as Defensio, so I can’t say the difference between the two but certainly I’m getting less automated emails as far as undetected spam is concerned.

On this blog, I used to get 2-3 emails everyday, which wanted me to take some step against some comment and that was when I was using Akismet but when I used Defensio, I was fairly impressed as the number of email which I received got down to 1 in 2-3 days.

What I loved about Defensio is that it lets you sort the caught messages by Spaminess and thus it becomes pretty easy to find out a false positive!

Anyway, here is the current stats of the blog :

• • Recent accuracy: 99.61%
  • 5567 spam
  • 25 legitimate comments
  • 17 false negatives (undetected spam)
  • 7 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)

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Flickr has recently released the updated version of Uploadr and now this excellent utility stands at version 3 but still in beta. The first impression of Flickr Uploadr version 3 (beta) was Yahoo! Finally it makes sense as an uploader!.

Updated version allows you specify sets (as in the last versions), tags and lets you change the name of the images and add description to them. It makes more sense as an image uploader now and to be honest has made me one of the Flickr fan too!

The interface is quite sleek and clean. It lets you manage everything on the screen itself and doesn’t confuse you at all. If you are a Flickr user then it’s a must have for you!

Windows users : Download Flickr Uploadr 3 beta 2
Mac users : Download Flickr Uploadr 3 beta 2

Image Courtesy : PhilenTropist

I’m sure you must have seen all sorts of blog posts which say that Piracy isn’t good and that one should not indulge themselves into piracy at all. But I’ll say do it! It helps a lot of people! Look around and you’ll see that how piracy has helped many companies. Can’t think of any ? well, the answer is (most likely) the company behind your operating system, yes I.e. Microsoft! There are numerous examples : Adobe, Symantec etc.

Piracy has helped them become the no. 1 software company and the most used operating system ever built and who knows if this idea came from the redmond based company itself.

Well, another example was seen recently when Eric D. Wilkinson (producer of a small independent film called Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth) thanked one of the Piracy loving blog ReleaseLog, for posting the movies’ Torrent link!

So, don’t feel guilty of using that pirated software ! However, as a gentleman I’ll say don’t use it, at least pay for the software which gets you bread and butter as that software is the bread and butter of those people who made it!

Search has become important for us, as we’ve got loads of amount of data stored on our computers, on the internet and we really can’t imagine our lives without having a search engine. Anyway, We’ve got Google when it comes to web search but what about our computer, we have to depend on Windows Default search facility and unfortunately that doesn’t impress me much as it takes lot of time for searching anything. Anyway, that lead me to search for a desktop search software which is fast and doesn’t take much memory like Google desktop search and I came across Copernic Desktop Search. Let’s check out the software review of Copernic Desktop Search :

PROS of Copernic Desktop Search :

1. Instant Search : Copernic Desktop Search displays the results so fast that you won’t even get a chance to blink your eye! I know I know, I’ve exaggerated that but trust me, it way too fast. It categorizes the results and so, if you are looking for an image then simply go the Photos section and you’ll see the photos, if you want videos, then go the videos section and like this there are other options.

2. Preview of the files : It shows you the preview of the files and thus you know if you want that particular file or were you interested in some other file. Thus it becomes really handy for you.

3. Quick search through the DeskBar : It displays a small deskbar on the task bar and that allows you to use the shortcut I.e. Windows Key + S and you can find the file you wanted.

4. Scans web history, emails and contacts too : CDS (Copernic Desktop Search) not only scans the basic files but it also indexes the emails , web history and the contacts and that can also save you some time.

5. Light on memory : Even though, it constantly run in the background to index all the new files which are created in the system but still it uses pretty much less memory and hovers around 3-4 MB only. I’m sure no one would mind that!

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From long time, I’ve been searching for a desktop based RSS reader and to some extent I was satisfied with FeedDemon however, the simplicity of Google Reader again drew me towards it, but the feel of a desktop based RSS reader is simply much more than an online based RSS reader. But, now it seems that my hunt of that RSS reader, which gives me the ease of Google Reader and that which has got decent options seems to be over! RSS Bandit impressed me to a great degree and here are some of its features which impressed me the most :

Let’s read the review of this software and here are the PROS of RSS Bandit

1. The Interface : The default interface of RSS Bandit is more like an e-mail client. It’s got 3 panes and on the left, it shows you the list of RSS feeds in the middle pane it shows you all the RSS feeds which are unread and on the right pane, it shows you the content of the feeds. However, you can hide the middle pane to have more space for content.

The good thing is that it lets you change the interface and you can set it according to your needs and you can make it look like Outlook Express and other options where you can place the middle pane, anywhere, where ever you like.

2. Mark as read as you scroll : This is one thing which I wanted in every desktop RSS reader. The items automatically gets marked as read, as I scroll through the list and that’s where I loved Google Reader. If you want an item to stay as unread, then simply mark it as unread and it will remain unread.

3. Integrated Web Search : RSS bandit allows you to search the web and shows you the search result from 4 search engines in different tabs. I do think that it’s nice to have a reader which allows you to browser the web as well. It uses the IE’s rendering engine so you shouldn’t have problem in browsing the web too.

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