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We love our Dropbox here at SvenOnTech which allows us all to communicate and share files and ideas easily no matter where we are in the world. But one thing we’ve never been a fan of is the lack of security on Dropbox due to the absence of encryption. Well, there’ a new kid in town and he’s got “Military-grade encryption” so says the Zen. ZenOK puts money where its talk is with a $100,000 USD data protection guarantee, too. Nice!
Currently available for Windows – Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry support forthcoming – you can start backing up, syncing, sharing, publishing, and if needed, restoring today. Zen Master Diego Gutierrez, Link Manager of ZenOK, tells SvenOnTech, “We are launching 21GB free online storage for users upon invitation for home-users.” To get that invite, travel to free.zenok.com for that invite and tell them SvenOnTech sent ya!
Password protection is a crafty and difficult task. One easy password used across many web sites can lead to a bad nightmare for you. So how does one avoid such a horror? One password for many. That is, create difficult passwords for all your various sites and protect that database with one easy to remember password. mSecure 3.0 lets you do this over various platforms to help with this task. Give the video a play and read the details below from its pre-release.
mSeven Software is announcing the launch of mSecure 3.0, offering additional security, accessibility and ease-of-use features for iOS, Android, Mac OS and Windows. mSecure 3.0 now supports groups for categorizing records, the ability to mark favorite records for fast access and a new Security Everywhere™ architecture for improved data security when syncing with cloud services such as Dropbox and iCloud (Q4).
mSecure 3.0 introduces the Security Everywhere sync architecture to accomplish three main goals:
Sync securely without concern about the security of the cloud system.
Sync anywhere using a general Internet connection without the hassle of firewall and router settings.
Sync anytime keeping all mobile and computing devices in sync without a sync server.
mSecure’s Security Everywhere architecture adds additional encryption and compression to its proven 256-bit Blowfish encryption such that a brute-force attack by supercomputers would take 200 years to extract the data.
Another key feature in the 3.0 release is the support for Groups (a.k.a “Categories”). The group feature enables users to assign records to personal, business or custom-defined groups. The user can also also mark any record as a favorite from multiple groups making it simple to access the most-used records quickly and easily.
Other new mSecure features include:
· Sharing of records via email, SMS or clipboard
· Sync button on main toolbar to make it easy to keep records in sync with other platforms.
· Record counts by group, type and record name
· Sync reports to track changes in synced data.
· Email backup/restore for iOS and Android for quick backups.
· New convenience menus and toolbars to access most-used functions.
mSecure for iOS is available via the iTunes App Store as a Universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. mSecure for Android is available in the Google Marketplace, Amazon App Store and Verizon Media Store. The price of mSecure for iOS and Android is on sale for $6.99 during an introductory period after which the price will be $9.99.
mSecure for Mac OS is available in the Mac App Store for $14.99 and mSevenSoftware.com, where the Windows version is also available, both for $19.99 each. A $5 off coupon for mSecure MacOS/Windows is available to mSeven Software Facebook fans (not applicable on Mac App store). Details on this special offer can be found on the company’s Facebook page at http://facebook.com/mSevenSoftware.
PlayHaven announces today the launch of their real-time marketing platform, built specifically to help developers maximize the success of their mobile games. In an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving landscape, PlayHaven’s new platform enables mobile game developers to effectively market their apps, engage their users, and boost their average revenue per user in real-time. By providing tools that bring the speed and flexibility of the web to mobile game development, PlayHaven empowers developers to build gaming experiences capable of reacting to the lightning-fast pace of the industry.
Much like the way Content Management Systems (CMS) revolutionized website optimization by allowing non-technical business owners to change content on the fly, PlayHaven’s platform gives game developers the ultimate flexibility and control in creating and deploying business ideas in real-time, without the need to submit an update to the App Store.
Dynamic Overlays: PlayHaven’s platform allows for the fast and simple creation of Dynamic Overlays, customizable HTML5 windows that appear above the game, that are a key way for developers to push content and announcements to their users without requiring any change to the underlying game code. Dynamic Overlays can be used for:
Cross-promotion of other games
Announcements of updates and new features
Email capture
Virtual currency/item rewards to increase engagement
Monetization
Analytics and Publishing Dashboard: As retention and monetization are often conflicting goals, PlayHaven’s robust and intuitive web-based dashboard provides mobile game developers with the in-depth analytic and optimization tools to strike the right balance. Developers can create, reprioritize, and swap different Dynamic Overlays with real-time control and tracking.
“As the mobile game industry shifts to the ‘games-as-a-service’ model, the PlayHaven Platform enables developers to break free from the constraints of the traditional software development cycle by enabling real-time business optimization,” says Andy Yang, CEO of PlayHaven. “We’ve torn down the wall between game developer and gamer and will continue to aggressively provide new ways to help our customers better engage and monetize their players.”
The PlayHaven platform is initially available to iOS game developers. More information, including details and pricing can be found at http://www.playhaven.com/.
CyberLink is now bringing the awesomeness of PowerDVD to your Android powered tablet with PowerDVD Mobile. What ever sits on your hard drive on the PC now can be streamed, downloaded, and even edited (pictures) right there on your mobile! No more worries about syncing or if you have enough room on your Android to view and watch whatever. If you have a DLNA TV, then you can push content from your Android tablet to it. Go to a friends and stream your favorite movie from your home while at theirs. Nice!
Press Release
CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW) today launched PowerDVD Mobile, a brand new all-in-one media player for Android devices based on the award-winning PowerDVD media player for PCs. Users can now effortlessly play, share and wirelessly stream their local videos, music and photos between their PCs and Android-powered tablets.
The announcement comes as CyberLink also today announces major updates to its flagship PowerDVD11 universal media player.
Key features include:
Wirelessly download and share media from PowerDVD on the PC to Android tablets with Save To and Share On features.
Play media from your Android device to DLNA TVs with Play To features. PowerDVD Mobile will stream media to your DLNA TV so you can enjoy the videos and photos from your Android tablet on the comforts of the big screen.
All-in-one media player for videos, photos, and music on Android tablets so digital media can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.
Apply one-click photo enhancements to touch up photos and create and watch cool slideshows of the best images.
“CyberLink has always been synonymous with creating innovative digital media solutions,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp. “With the release of PowerDVD Mobile, we are proud to add a new solution that takes advantage of the momentum from Android device adoption and brings the premium entertainment experience of PowerDVD beyond the PC. Users can now conveniently enjoy their movies, videos and photos on the PC, in the living room or on the go.”
Product Availability
PowerDVD Mobile is available on the Android Market in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Russian and Portuguese. CyberLink also offers PowerDVD Mobile to OEM partners.
CyberLink PowerDVD Mobile Versions
PowerDVD Mobile: US $19.99
PowerDVD Mobile for Ultra: BONUS license with Purchase of PowerDVD 11 Ultra
Every Mac user for years has known (well maybe not every) they can turn any printable document into a PDF by using the Save as PDF in the print dialog box. Oddly, Apple didn’t carry that very useful feature to the iPhone or iPad. No worries, you can do it with Adobe’s CreatePDF for a mere $9.99. Early reviews indicate this a one-trick-pony and it doesn’t even work very well. For $10, it’s a chance I don’t feel like taking but maybe you will. For me, I went with eCamm’s Printopia which does the same thing as well as print to any printer on my network and create PDFs (or JPEGs) on my Dropbox folder. Sure, it’s twice the cost, but it works and does way more. 
Any self-employed laborer, lawyer, business person, or any anyone else that must track their time on the job is always looking for simple, fast, and effective in tracking their time. OfficeTime, well received for its Mac and PC software, has now shrunk its screen but certainly not its powerful tracking tool into an iPhone and iPad application. User rejoice, tracking just got simple, fast, and effective.
Press Release
OfficeTime is today unveiling the iPhone and iPad versions of its highly successful time and expense tracking app which has developed a loyal following among PC and Mac users. To celebrate the launch, the company is giving away a free iPad 2.
OfficeTime has been designed to balance features and ease-of-use, allowing users to easily track exactly what they do each day and how much they spend. Ideal for anyone who bills by the hour, OfficeTime makes recording and tracking time and expenses simple with a clean, elegant interface.
The new versions for iPhone and iPad focus on ease-of-use, recognizing that if time tracking is simple to do, users will be more likely to take the time to do it. OfficeTime takes great care to minimize how many finger taps it takes to do something. For example, it can preselect the most common task for a project, allow one tap entry of common notes, and let users edit anything they can see, even in a report, with a tap.
“The greatest advantage of OfficeTime is that by being simple to use, people catch more billable hours and it pays for itself in the first day of use,” said Stephen Dodd, president of OfficeTime. “We’re so confident in OfficeTime’s value to our customers that we’re willing to extend to them a full money back guarantee, even for the iPhone/iPad version, if they don’t experience increased productivity through accurate time tracking.”
The iOS version of OfficeTime includes most of the features available in the desktop versions, including:
· One-touch Reports – with a simple tap, users get instant access to information on time and expenses for each project, and compare the activities of the current month to previous ones.
· Tools for freelancers and contract employees – freelancers can quickly track their billable hours and spot-check to see how they stack-up against a fixed cost estimate and employees can easily track and report their productivity.
· Team Reporting – Employees’ recorded time and expenses can be synced from their iPhones or iPads to their Macs or PCs and combined with the entire team’s data to produce cross-team reports on who did what and which projects are under or over budget.
· Wireless Sync – Time and expenses can be entered in the desktop or mobile version, and OfficeTime will automatically synchronize the data.
· Export to Excel or Numbers – Any report, any screen can be easily exported by e-mail
OfficeTime’s loyal following was built on its simple-to-use interface and rich, visual reporting at the touch of a button. The app makes it easy to pause, resume and track multiple projects simultaneously along with recording expenses and detailed notes.
As part of the OfficeTime launch celebration, the company will give away an iPad 2. Anyone who blogs about OfficeTime, retweets the news of OfficeTime’s iOS version, follows @OfficeTime on Twitter, or likes OfficeTime on Facebook will be entered for a chance to win.
OfficeTime for iPhone and iPad will retail in the App Store for US$7.99, while the PC and Mac versions can be purchased at OfficeTime.net for US$47. Unlike web-based time-tracking applications, OfficeTime does not require a monthly subscription fee.
Look closely at this image of the Oxygen Audio O CAR head unit. See the screen? Anything odd about it? Look closer. See the “slit” on the left side? It’s an earpiece as in where you listen to your phone calls on your iPhone. Yup, that screen is nothing more than docked iPhone! Pretty sweet, huh?
Oxygen showed this off earlier this year at CES and now is finally making it so you can install it into your own car. For $300, you get a Bluetooth equipped stereo that is fully controlled by your docked iPhone stuffed into a Single DIN slot. Radio tuning, volume adjustment, and iTunes browsing is all centralized right on your iPhones screen. Use any of the iPhone GPS applications while docked. You can pull out the dock and place the phone into portrait mode and the O CAR application automatically adjusts.
Oxygen has been business for about 15 years and is well known in France from which it breathes. With innovative products like the O CAR, I can see Oxygen making a name for itself here in the States.
Press Release
Like the idea of listening to your iPhone® in your car, but looking for something better than a Bluetooth™ adapter, FM transmitter or audio AUX cable? Look no further than the O CAR – a radio deck by Oxygen Audio that turns your iPhone itself into your car stereo. Originally introduced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, the O CAR allows you to control standard car stereo functions like volume and tuning, as well as browse and play your iTunes® library and internet radio station apps. Additionally, the O CAR lets you view and interface GPS navigation, maps and just about any other communication or navigation feature your iPhone has. Even better, the O CAR also offers hands-free calling and battery charging while on the go.
As of late July, the Oxygen Audio O CAR will be available at car audio specialty stores and retailers in the US. MSRP is $299.95.
Using the O CAR is as simple as using the iPhone itself. Simply click your device into the O CAR dock/charger and adjust the cradle for landscape or portrait use. At this point, your device becomes the faceplace of your car stereo and is ready for use. A self-launching app allows you to tune-in radio stations or control your stereo volume via the iPhone screen, and you can easily access all tracks, playlists, and apps with a touch of the screen.
The O CAR features a built-in RDS-enabled AM/FM tuner, Bluetooth connectivity and a 4-channel, 55-watt amp that links to a vehicle’s factory or aftermarket speakers for outstanding sound quality and bass response.
The Oxygen Audio O CAR is imported and distributed exclusively by AAMP of America in the USA. For more information, please visit http://www.ocarusa.com.
Press Release
Zinio, the world’s largest and most popular global magazine newsstand, today announced it has secured a spot in the top 3 grossing iPad Apps, bested only by box office smashing blue forest dwellers, and a productivity suite. As the number one iTunes News app in 52 countries, Zinio’s popularity showcases the incredible global demand for digital enjoyment of magazines today.
Since its Apple iOS 2.0 release in July, Zinio has ranked as the number one top grossing News app in most countries, including the top free app in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan and UK.
In addition to its iTunes success, Zinio’s Android app has exceeded 300,000 installs in less than 60 days since its launch.
“The global interest in reading on mobile devices has propelled Zinio to be the magazine newsstand of choice for readers,” said Rich Maggiotto, Zinio president and CEO. “It’s nice to know that an app built to drive magazine reading can be just as addictive, if not more, than some of the top grossing entertainment apps on the market.”
The easy reading and exploration of magazines, and incredible portability, with Zinio is simply unmatched. With a laser focus in early 2011 on developing market-leading features and functionality to deliver the most compelling and interactive reading experience available, paid orders through Zinio are up 253 percent in Q2 year-to-date over last year. More than 175 million magazine issues have been delivered to Zinio readers to date.
Offering the largest selection of magazine titles today, in the most languages, is another strong focus of Zinio. In Q2 2011 alone, Zinio added 400 magazine titles from 28 countries to its 4,500+ titles. Zinio has become the largest magazine newsstand in the world, online or offline, and offers unmatched discoverability of stories and magazines through its free “Explore” section, which features top articles across a multitude of genres.
Zinio plans in 2011 to offer its newsstand on every emerging platform and device that consumers today desire – and unlike other newsstands, allow its users to access their entire library across all of their devices. Through its UNITY™ platform, readers can now access their Zinio cloud library on their Mac, PC, laptop, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows 7 devices, with others to follow. Zinio is preloaded on a growing number of Android devices coming into market through a number of partnerships.
Zinio for Android is available for free in Android Market.
Zinio for iOS is available for free in the iTunes Store.
In another life, I use to install hotspots for the Northern California Starbucks when ran by T-Mobile. Post-install required mapping out the signal strength of each stores interior as well as exterior. T-Mobile had a threshold it required that installers had to adhere to which sometimes could be difficult to convey on our network maps.
Boy, do I wish I would have NetSpot back then. This application sucks in a map and after just indicating two points of references distance, it scales it for you and your off to your network map. Save the results and you’re done. This thing would have saved me so much time.
Now anyone can map signal strength in there home or business and during the beta, they can do it for free!
From NetSpot
NetSpot (is currently in beta) is a handy utility which allows you visually analyze how exactly your wireless network operates in your office, house, campus, cafe, airport, or actually any building or area.
All you need to do is to load a map of your premise, specify real-life scale, and denote the borders of the survey area. Then you walk or drive the survey area pointing your position on the map and waiting a bit while NetSpot scans radio signals in that place. The more data you collect the more accurate the resulting report will be. Then within a single click you can export the report of your interest into PDF.
Thanks to NetSpot you can easily analyze any existing wireless network: map current Wi-Fi coverage, reveal coverage voids and channel usage, visualize overlapping APs, etc. You can also use NetSpot for Wi-Fi planning, network expansion, signal leakage detection and much more!
NetSpot is completely free while being a beta and we would appreciate an opportunity for it to be covered at your website (you can test NetSpot in your own office:) ). You are welcome to download NetSpot beta from here http://netspotapp.com/download/NetSpot.dmg
NetSpot is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 and higher.