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Advanced SystemCare V.4. Free

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Google's and WebM now have agreed to share

These days, patent lawsuits have become the big guns that tech companies use to battle their competitors. But when it comes to Google's WebM video technology, the company is trying to establish a neutral zone of patent peace.

Today, Google is announcing a program called the WebM Community Cross License initiative designed to dispel patent-related threats looming over freely usable video technology for the Web.

Under the effort, members who join agree to license any WebM-related patents to each other, a move that offers mutual reassurance that the technology is royalty-free in practice as well as in Google's aspiration.

"Each grants to the other members a patent license for any patents that may be essential to WebM," said Mike Jazayeri, Google's director of product management for WebM.

So far Google has signed up 16 other organizations for the effort, some of them obvious allies such as browser makers Mozilla and Opera Software. But other allies, such as Samsung and LG Electronics, have video-related patents one could judge as commercially viable by virtue of their relevance to H.264, WebM's biggest video encoding technology rival.

The effort is an attempt to counter doubts raised about the patent purity of WebM by MPEG LA, which licenses the H.264 patent pool and is investigating the creation of a similar pool for VP8, the video encoding technology that along with the Vorbis audio codec is the core of WebM. MPEG LA has said it believes VP8 violates others patents, though it hasn't revealed any details.

Google hopes the WebM Community Cross License, combined with its own usage of WebM, will allay concerns.

"We felt comfortable in including it in our own products and services," Jazayeri said, mentioning its YouTube video site and Chrome browser. "We're hopeful the CCL will bring clarity and confidence" to those considering using WebM themselves.

If MPEG LA offered a VP8 patent pool, it might be convenient for some companies interested in using VP8 that are worried about potential lawsuits from patent holders. But it also would severely undermine Google's ambition to create a patent-free technology. For example, it would preclude it from inclusion in open-source software such as Mozilla's Firefox and in standards such as HTML5 that seek to sidestep patent encumbrances.

"We genuinely believe the Web is as ubiquitous today as it is because the early founders made the core technologies of the Web open and freely usable," Jazayeri said. "That's critical."

Many important video patent holders such as Microsoft, Panasonic, Philips Electronics, Sharp, and Sony aren't on the list, though--at least yet.

"This is just the beginning," Jazayeri said. "We are in active discussions [to] engage those who benefit from the Web ecosystem."

The full list of partners so far is:

• AMD
• Cisco Systems
• Google
• HiSilicon Technologies (for itself and on behalf of its parent, Huawei)
• LG Electronics
• Logitech
• Matroska
• MIPS Technologies
• Mozilla Corporation
• Opera Software
• Pantech
• Quanta Computer
• Samsung
• STMicroelectronics (for itself and its affiliate, ST-Ericsson)
• Texas Instruments
• Verisilicon Holdings
• Xiph.Org Foundation

Google has taken other measures to promote WebM. It's removed H.264 support from Chrome, putting its browser in the Mozilla and Opera camp rather than the Internet Explorer and Safari camp when it comes to HTML5 video built straight into Web pages. It's also begun transcoding all uploaded YouTube videos into WebM--a mammoth task from a computing standpoint--and already has transcoded the most popular videos such that 99 percent of what's seen on YouTube can be seen in WebM.

It remains to be seen how effectively Google can counter MPEG LA. Google is hoping to marshal allies under the banner of an unencumbered Internet.

"I think the comments they've made at this stage aren't helpful to innovation on the Web, and I think others share that concern," Jazayeri said.

To prevail, though, Google and its allies will have to convince others that the commercial value of a livelier Web outweighs the commercial value of any WebM-related patents they have. Today's explosion of patent suits suggests that tech giants with big patent portfolios might not be so eager to lay down their weapons.

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Wrap Firefox in a Cocoon of privacy

Web browsers are ground zero for Internet security threats, and the debate over responsibility for preventing those threats has resulted in a Gordian knot. The people behind the new add-on for Firefox called Cocoon (download) want to cut through debate by serving the entire Web to you via proxy. (Cocoon is also available at GetCocoon.com.)

Cocoon's Web site, with the Cocoon add-on installed. It adds a toolbar to the top of the Firefox interface, and adds buttons to the Add-On Bar at the bottom of the interface.

(Credit: Cocoon)

Made by Santa Barbara, Calif., start-up Virtual World Computing, Cocoon's goal is to put the Internet on a server to prevent individual users from having to touch it, Cocoon Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Jeff Bermant said in an interview today at San Francisco offices. The add-on, which has about 4,000 users since it entered into private beta 18 months ago, creates a safe state in which the user can browse the Internet by forcing all interactions between the computer in front of you and the Internet to occur over protected SSL connections to Cocoon's servers. Those servers, in turn, are guarded by Security-Enhanced Linux, which was developed by the United States' National Security Agency.

Cocoon opened its beta to the public in January of this year.

Cocoon installs as a toolbar just below the location bar in Firefox 4, although the add-on supports the browser back to Firefox 3.6. You can turn it on or off using the universal power button icon on the left of the toolbar, or "pause" Cocoon lock/unlock button that's next to it. Settings are available from a hard-to-see drop-down arrow just next to the lock button.

On the right are buttons for your Cocoon history, mailslots, and help. Next to those are real-time site-function buttons, so you can bookmark sites on the fly with the thumbtack--similar to the bookmark star in other browsers--or jot down a note attached to the site that only you can see using the notepad icon.

When running Cocoon, the browser will open into Private Browsing mode, although you can switch back to normal mode while still using Cocoon. It will also redirect your Home button to the cocoon:home site, and it installs a Cocoon toolbar as well as Cocoon-specific buttons on the Firefox add-on bar. Note that Cocoon doesn't work with the Google toolbar because of the competing interests of Google search and Cocoon's emphasis on privacy.

Cocoon's features are laudable, the most important being the subtlest: whatever you're looking at in Firefox with Cocoon is being shown to you remotely. You can test this after installing Cocoon by checking your IP address with Cocoon on, and then again with it off: you will see two different addresses, which means that your Internet connection is being routed through Cocoon's servers.

One of the side benefits of this, said Bermant, is that Netflix users will be able to watch streaming content from outside the United States since Cocoon's servers are in the U.S., and Netflix blocks streaming content to IP addresses that indicate a non-U.S. server.

All your personal browsing data is stored in the cloud and encrypted, so only the user can access it, and you can view it only over a secure connection. This is similar to how LastPass functions. All your interactions with the Web are opt-in, not opt-out, so that your privacy gets elevated above all other concerns.

Another excellent feature in Cocoon is that it comes with an unlimited number of on-demand e-mail "mailslots" are provided to help you keep your primary e-mail address private. If you've installed Cocoon, you can see how it works by navigating to any site that requires an e-mail address to log in, such as Twitter, Facebook, or Gmail. If Cocoon has been activated, the mailslots feature will ask you if you want to create a new e-mail address to register a new account for that site.

Cocoon Chief Technical Officer and co-founder Brian Fox added that the mailslots function like traditional brick-and-mortar mail drops. "You can not send e-mail from a Cocoon e-mail, but you can forward it to a Gmail account, for example," he said.

Cocoon offers a visual history, not unlike Opera's Speed Dial, of sites you've visited when logged in to the service. It stores the data remotely, so you can access it from any browser.

(Credit: Cocoon)

There's anti-cookie tracking that prevents advertisers from stalking you as you jump from one Web site to the next, much like Internet Explorer's tracking protection. Cocoon also incorporates support for Mozilla's new "Do Not Track", although Bermant remains skeptical of its effectiveness because, he said, "It requires advertisers to play nice, and they've never done that." Fox said that Cocoon uses ClamAV for its core antivirus engine, which it uses as part of its protection mechanisms.

Since you're browsing remotely, threats like cross-site scripting attacks and drive-by downloads are blocked. You are still vulnerable to social engineering, however, and short of full-frontal lobotomies, there's little to be done about that besides education and awareness.

Cocoon also comes with a note-taking feature that allows you to type up notes on Web sites as you visit them.

Bermant and Fox have big plans for Cocoon. They want to include features such as browser history and settings importation; implement granular controls for better whitelisting and blacklisting; and provide some level of parental controls. A version of Cocoon for Internet Explorer 9 is in the works. They're also looking at small businesses, anticipating interest from companies that want to strike a better balance between privacy and Web access. Fox noted that mobility is likely to play a major role in Cocoon's future, too. "Security and privacy are two important aspects of mobile browising," he said, "And they are sorely lacking."

Cocoon looks like a serious contender for one of the best add-ons of the year. It's a smart and effective tool, easy to toggle on or off, and plugs nearly all of the security holes the average user will encounter. The big hang-up, however, is price, and that many users simply do not pay for add-ons.

Right now, Cocoon is available as a free trial for the first 30 days of use. After that, it costs $6.95 per month, or $55.00 for a one-year subscription, a 35 percent discount. Bermant and Fox say that "a freemium option is not off the table". As important as security is, and as affordable as $55 per year sounds, it's hard to imagine widespread adoption of Cocoon's safety wrapping until it's made more accessible.

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Adobe Photoshop in the IPad

Adobe Systems, with a Photoshop-like demo on an iPad yesterday, is beginning to show more of the fruits of its tablet-computing labor. And it's a good thing, too, because there's no guarantee the company's power in desktop software will extend to tablets.

It's no secret Adobe Systems is working on graphics programs for tablets--indeed, John Nack, the leader of Adobe's tablet work, has been soliciting advice about exactly what to do since last year and Adobe has demonstrated other Photoshop features on Android and iPad tablets. But the fact that the company is shedding more of its reticence now about the projects could indicate Adobe is more willing to raise expectations in anticipation of an actual project.

At the Photoshop World conference, John Loiacono, leader of Adobe's Photoshop and other Creative Suite software, showed some of what his company has in mind. Specifically, he demonstrated an iPad-flavored incarnation of a flagship Photoshop feature, layers, that arrived on personal computers with Photoshop 3.0 in 1994.

Loiacono was quick to call it just "technology we're looking at," and to not commit to shipping anything, but it's clear Adobe is getting closer to offering something besides the somewhat stripped-down Photoshop Express application for phones and tablets. Photography Bay caught video of Loiacono's demo.

Clearly Adobe is moving from concept toward reality. What's also clear is that a huge number of upstarts also are staking claims in the new tablet realm, where new arrivals have a chance to unseat entrenched players from the PC era.

At the casual end of the spectrum, programs such as Hipstamatic, FX Photo Studio, Instagram, and Picplz let people play with their photos and share them, becoming embedded into people's online lives. For those with a more serious creative bent, Zen Brush, Brushes, Inspire Pro, and Inkpad provide a wealth of imaging options. And for the even more serious, applications like LRpad and Photosmith have the potential to step into serious photographers' lives.

Photosmith is designed to let photographers sort, label, check focus, and add keywords before importing images to Lightroom.

It's not clear yet how far tablets will encroach onto the turf of personal computers, especially when it comes to heavy-duty computing jobs, but it is clear that tablets are finding a prominent place in many people's electronic lives and that their hardware is becoming less feeble.

Layers, which require a lot more memory and processing power, are a staple of photo editing.

They can be used to merge elements of different photos or to adjust the degree to which effects are applied across an image. Parts of one layer can be made selectively transparent, revealing the contents of the layer below, an approach that enables sophisticated and adjustable compositing.

Loiacono showed just that in his demonstration, using, of course, a touch interface. He also showed an image being rotated and scaled quickly with multitouch, though it wasn't clear how large the original image was.

"This is just a concept about how do we take technologies we found in Lightroom and Photoshop and actually extend those to these devices as they become more important to your workflows," he said.

It's good to see Adobe producing something that could bring some of the company's image-editing clout to a mobile-device world world more characterized by quick-effect apps such as Hipstamatic and Picplz. Full-fledged Photoshop or Lightroom is an impossibility today, given the constraints on the processing, memory, and storage of current tablets and phones.

But these devices are growing up, and a host of software companies are finding something useful to do with them even if they're not an eight-core workstation with a dozen gigs of RAM.

One example is LRpad, a $10 app that essentially offloads some Lightroom controls to an iPad's touch controls. It connects over Wi-Fi to a PC that's the brains of the operation.

LRpad, connected to a PC running by Wi-Fi, acts as an auxiliary control panel for Adobe Lightroom.

(Credit: LRpad)

Another example of innovation around Adobe is Photosmith, in beta testing now. With it, photographers can do some of the Lightroom photo management chores before they bring photos into a PC.

"Photographers can take their pictures in the field, download them to the iPad, and use Photosmith to review their images, add to custom collections, filter by certain criteria, assign metadata, and filter by that data. Photosmith also fills a critical gap in the photographer's current mobile workflow, allowing full 1:1 zoom of even 21-megapixel raw images," the developers say of the application.

Taking photos an extra round trip through a tablet sounds a bit like extra work to me, even with Apple's Camera Connection Kit and the arrival of CompactFlash and SD memory card readers for the iPad, but perhaps it need not be such a hassle. Tethering--in which photos are sent directly to a computer rather than to a memory card--is getting more sophis

ticated as computers get integrated into photography work patterns. And Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are becoming more common in devices, as well. With this sort of technology, a tablet could perhaps become an automatic way station rather than a side trip.

One profound change, of course, is that tablets use a touch screen. That can provide artists a more direct connection to their work, but it also misses the precision of something like a relatively expensive screen-enabled Wacom Cintiq tablet that uses a pen. Even there, though, options exist, such as Ten One Design's Pogo Sketch stylus to improve tablet precision beyond the finger-painting level.

In addition, for travelers for whom weight is a problem, a tablet could be a lighter but still capable alternative to a laptop for screening photos--not to mention the fact that it's more useful for e-mail, apps, and Web use than a portable hard drive that merely stores your photos until you get to a computer.

I'm expecting Adobe to bring more than one product to this market--not a more grown-up alternative to Photoshop Express, but more. What exactly the company will come up with remains to be seen, but Nack has hinted there's work afoot.

One person earlier this year remarked of Photosmith, "It's tough not to ask why this wasn't something Adobe created."

Nack responded, "Indeed, but the time is not yet right to answer." With all the challengers to Adobe's stronghold, it looks to me like now would be a good time to supply that answer.

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