What is TeamViewer ?

TeamViewer is solution for easy and friendly desktop sharing. You can remote control a partner’s desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer – all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT.
One solution for everything
While most competitors offer different packages for remote support, remote administration, training and sales (and also charge for them…) TeamViewer is the one-stop solution for everything you need: TeamViewer includes all modules in one simple and very affordable package.
Remote administration of unattended servers
TeamViewer can also be used to control unattended computers and servers. System service installations even allow remote reboot and reconnect.
File transfer
TeamViewer comes with integrated file transfer that allows you to copy files and folders to and from a remote partner – which also works behind firewalls
Highest security standard
TeamViewer is a very secure solution. All versions feature completely secure data channels with key exchange and AES (256 Bit) session encoding, the same security standard used by https/SSL.
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Online status display
Are your team members in many different locations? Need to present your desktop or collaborate on a document? In the TeamViewer partner list you can see who is available and connect with them in one mouse click.
Remote support without installation
With TeamViewer you can remotely control any PC anywhere on the Internet. No installation is required, just run the application on both sides and connect – even through tight firewalls.
Remote presentation of products, solutions and services
TeamViewer allows you to present your desktop to a partner. Share live demos, products, and presentations over the Internet within seconds.
Works behind firewalls
The major difficulties in using remote control software are firewalls and blocked ports, as well as NAT routing for local IP addresses.
If you use TeamViewer you don’t have to worry about firewalls: TeamViewer will find a route to your partner.
Browser based access
On the road and need to control a remote computer? Why don’t you use TeamViewer Web Connector? The purely html and flash based solution can be used from nearly any browser and operating system.
Very competitively priced, free versions available
TeamViewer offers great value for low prices. TeamViewer even offers a free version for non-commercial use.
Optimized performance
Whether you have a LAN or dial-up connection, TeamViewer optimizes display quality and speed depending on your network connection.
In short TeamViewer is perfect thing for all online desktop sharers !

Lawmakers Ask Apple App Makers About Privacy

Two members of Congress are pushing ahead with an investigation into privacy issues in Apple’s App Store. After contacting Apple earlier this month with questions about app privacy, the lawmakers have now sent letters to 34 app developers requesting information about their data-collection techniques.
Representatives Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and G.K. Butterfield, Democrat of North Carolina, sent joint letters on Thursday to makers of social networking apps, including Foodspotting, Twitter, Turntable.fm and Path, among others.
They said they chose the list of apps from the “Social Networking” subcategory within the iPhone Essentials area of Apple’s iTunes App Store.
On the Energy and Commerce Committee Web site, the two representatives wrote: “Following recent reports that apps could collect address book information and photos without notice and consent from users of Apple’s mobile devices, the members are seeking to better understand what, if any, information these particular apps gather, what they do with it, and what notice they provide to app users.”
The letters also state that the information will be used to “to begin building a fact-based understanding of the privacy and security practices in the app marketplace.”
Apple did not respond to a request for comment about the letters.
In the letters, the representatives cite reports from The New York Times revealing that apps can access users’ photographs and address books.
Mr. Waxman and Mr. Butterfield ask the app makers whether they have privacy policies in place, and if they have ever collected a user’s address book, photo gallery or phone number, among other questions.
The letters request written responses from the app makers by April 12.
Google, too, is facing some scrutiny about app privacy. After a report in The Times earlier this month that Android apps can also secretly access photo libraries, Senator Charles E. Schumer called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate both Apple and Google regarding app privacy issues.

Firefox 11 Review

• Pros
  Fast JavaScript performance. Excellent standards support. Cool bookmark organization with Panorama. Lots of customization through extensions. Pinned sites for all-the-time access. Syncing for tabs, history, passwords and now Extensions. Graphics hardware acceleration. Cross-platform.
• Cons Lacks client-side tracking protection like that found in IE9. Lacks Chrome's built in Flash, PDF reader, and Instant page view. Trails Chrome in HTML5 support. No new-tab page helpers.
  
• Bottom Line
  Firefox remains a lean, fast, compatible, customizable browser that can hold its own against any competitor. It's notable for its independence from any large corporation and constant creative innovation.
  
  
  
  
  With Firefox 11, the latest in Mozilla's rapid releases of the independent, open-source browser, users get the fewest features we've seen to date in any new version of Firefox, but developers get a couple of very cool new tools. The only new feature that end-users will notice is that now they can sync Add-ons (including the ever-popular Extensions that customize the browser in myriad ways) between different installations of Firefox on different computers and devices. Previously, you could only sync bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, and tabs.
  Version 10 also benefitted extensions, allowing them to update silently, without requiring a browser restart. It also marked the start of the Extended Support Release, which will allow businesses to deploy the new browser to their enterprises with the comfort that Mozilla will support it with security updates for at least a year. Earlier releases have brought bigger changes that will be welcomed by many users. In version 9, performance was improved with Type Inference (a technique that vastly improves JavaScript speed), we got better Mac OS X Lion operation and appearance, better "Do Not Track" support, and improved HTML5 standard support. With Firefox 8, we got a Twitter search option, more WebGL support, and protection from drive-by add-on installations. Firefox 7 added better use of memory, addressing one of the most common complaints I've heard about Firefox over the past few years. It also sped up startup times, in which Firefox has long trialed competing browsers.
  

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  It still holds true that the big interface changes all came along in version 4. Mozilla started emulating Google's Chrome (free, 4.5 stars) Web browser in JavaScript speed and minimalist interface, as competitors Internet Explorer 9 (free, 4 stars) and Opera 11.50 (free, 4 stars) have.
  Firefox 11 can nearly match Chrome on JavaScript speed, and holds its own when it comes to HTML5 support and a trimmed down interface that gives the Web page center stage. But when compared side-by-side with Chrome, Firefox falls just a bit short in terms of HTML5 support and whiz-bang features like Chrome Instant, which loads pages from your history before you even finish typing their addresses or search terms in the address bar.
  Install
  A simple 15MB download gets you the Firefox 11 Windows installer. When you run it you'll lose your old version of Firefox. The latest Firefox is available for Mac (31MB) and Linux (17MB) as well as for Windows 7, Vista, and XP—the last of which even Internet Explorer 9 (Free, 4 stars) can't claim. You can import bookmarks from any other installed browsers on first run, but setup is nearly as uncomplicated as it is for Chrome. Firefox also now makes it easy to choose a search provider other than Google, but surprisingly, not as easy as Chrome does. Recently, though, Mozilla started offering a Firefox for Bing version, which uses Microsoft's Web search built in.
  It's more likely that you'll be updated to Firefox 11 automatically, though, since, starting with version 4, Firefox followed Google Chrome in yet another way: by automatically checking for and downloading each new version, and installing it the next time the browser starts. This has the benefit of keeping the majority of users on the latest version. To give the automatic updater a nudge, choose Help>About from the main Firefox menu dropdown.
  The first time you run Firefox, you'll see the "Select Your Add-ons" dialog. This is so that you can see any add-ons that may have been installed unbeknownst to you by another app you installed. After this first extension approval, the browser will no longer allow third-party app installations to install Firefox extensions without your approval.
  Interface
  There hasn't been much news on the interface front since Firefox 4, but Firefox 10 brought one small new interface detail: No longer does the Forward button appear to the left of the site favicon unless you've already navigated Back. It's a detail, but it's nevertheless a sign that Mozilla designers are continually thinking about the most logical and efficient appearance a browser can present. Even Chrome, noted for its minimalist interface, still displays that useless forward button when there's no chance of its functioning.
  Firefox's interface is in line with the trend of "less is more"—less space taken up by the browser frame and controls and more space for Web pages. The page tabs have moved above the address bar, and, as with Opera 11.60, there's just a single menu option in the form of the orange Firefox button at top left. You can re-enable the standard menus by hitting the Alt key.
  The Mac version of Firefox integrates well with Apple's latest desktop operating system, Mac OS X Lion. Mozilla's browser supports the OS's two- and three-finger swiping gestures for moving between apps and pages in full screen, and the theme design matches Lion's toolbar and icon stylings.
  The Home button has moved to the right of the search bar, and a bookmark button appears to the right of that. That bookmark button only appears when you don't want the bookmark toolbar taking up browser window space. This gives you one-click access to frequently needed Web addresses. But I wish that, like IE's star button, Firefox also let you see recent page history. You can still call up the full bookmark manager, which lets you do things like importing bookmarks from other browsers, search, and organize.
  Firefox is one of the last remaining browsers to still use separate address and search boxes, which is good for those who like to keep those two activities separate. That doesn't mean, however, that a search won't work in the address bar, aka the "awesome bar." That tool, which drops down suggestions from your history and favorites whenever you start typing, was pioneered by Firefox and copied by all other browsers. Another tweak is that when one of its suggested sites is already open in a tab, you can click on a "Switch to tab" link, preventing you from opening more tabs unnecessarily—a useful tweak.
  As part of its leading extensibility, Firefox has always been the browser most open to allowing different search providers, including specialized search like shopping, reference, or social. It was one of the first to support the OpenSearch format. The other popular browsers now do so, too, but Firefox can automatically detect search services on a page and let you add them from the search bar. With version 8, the social search category was bolstered by the built in addition of a Twitter search, making it easy to follow trending topics or to find Twitter personalities worth following.
  
  

How to Reset Your Zoom Function in Microsoft Office

There are many people that have wondered how to reset their zoom function in Microsoft Office. This comes as no surprise. Managing your email account through Microsoft Office can be a hassle. Not all email programs come with tools to make it easy for you to read, and access your email in a streamlined manner. And not all email programs work well with Microsoft Office. But for those that do, keeping your email organized is very easy - unless you mess up the email viewing settings.
When you first use Microsoft Office, the default settings will already be in place. Unfortunately, the settings for this popular email viewing program can sometimes be accidentally set to settings that are not helpful, particularly the zoom feature. One of the easiest ways to know that something is wrong with the zoom feature is If your email fonts in Microsoft Outlook look too big when you read or compose an email. If this has occurred, chances are you might have accidentally changed the "Zoom" settings of this program. Here are a few tips on how to get your zoom function in Microsoft Outlook back to normal.

• First, check the "Zoom" setting under "Format Text" in the Microsoft Outlook menu, and see if it is set to more than 100%.
• Once selected, hold down the Control key while using your scroll wheel on your mouse to change your level of zoom.

Sometimes the zoom function gets changed when you needed to change the font size of something you are writing, and you accidentally changed just the zoom feature instead. At other times, it was just a matter of pressing the wrong button when changing something else. Regardless of the reason, resetting your zoom function can be a very easy, and straightforward process. Also, once you know how to change your zoom function, you can change it again in the future, if need be, and then be able to change it back to normal at a later time. If you are still having problems with the size of the font, you may have accidentally changed the font size on your computer. How you change the font size will vary from computer to computer. If you need help with changing the default font size on your computer, then you may wish to consult the owner's manual for your computer. You may even wish to visit the customer service website for your particular brand of computer.