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You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person?
Web search engines are obviously the most popular place for performing reverse email lookups but if the person you’re trying to research doesn’t have a website or has never interacted with his email address on public forums before, Google will probably be of little help.
No worries, here are few tips and online services that may still help you uncover the identity of that unknown email sender.
#1. Find the sender’s location

Open the header of the email message and look for lines that say “Received: from” followed by an IP address in square brackets. If there are multiple entries, use the IP address mentioned in the last entry.
Now paste the IP address in this trace route tool and you should get a fairly good idea about the location of the email sender.
#2. Reverse email search with Facebook

Facebook has 450 million users worldwide and there’s a high probability that the sender may also have a profile on Facebook.
Unlike LinkedIn and most other social networks, Facebook lets you search users by email address so that should make your job simpler. Just paste the email address of the sender into the Facebook search box and you’ll immediately know if a matching profile exists in the network.
If you are able to locate that person on Facebook, download his profile picture and then upload it to TinEye – it’s a reverse image search engine so you can locate his other social profiles where he may have used the same picture.
#3. Check all the other Social Networks

You can use a service like Knowem to quickly determine if a profile with a particular username exists in any of the social networks.
If the email address of the send is something like green_peas@hotmail.com, there’s a probably that he or she may have created accounts of some other social network using the same alias “green_peas” – put that in knowem.com to confirm.
#4. People Search

Finally, if nothing works, you should try a people search service like Pipl and Spokeo – both services let you perform reverse email lookups but Spokeo has a more comprehensive database than Pipl.
Other than regular web documents, Spoke also scans social networks and even the whois information of domain names to find any bit of information associated with an email address. However, some of the results returned by Spokeo are only available to subscribers.

As a part of the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s Laptop Innovation Milestone, the company unveiled a dual-screen laptop concept named the Libretto W100, a next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC.

The Adobe Flash platform saw significant improvements today with the launch of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.
According to a blog post from Adobe’s Flash team, the new Flash Player 10.1 features improved performance, power management and video features. The player has also been given new multi-touch and private browsing functionality. The overall viewing experience for Mac users has been fine-tuned as well.
The new Flash player should deliver an altogether smoother, higher-quality experience for web video, with better buffering, peer-to-peer video and online streaming video.
Adobe also says more details on Flash 10.1 for mobile devices will be announced later this month, but we’re not holding our breath for fantastic iPhone news.
As for AIR, this product was released two years ago and hasn’t seen a major update until now. AIR 2 improves overall performance and HTML support while reducing memory usage. AIR 2 also includes some new APIs for developers.

I spent much of last evening on a plane. My laptop, a Dell M11x, didn’t have an adapter that worked with the American Airlines cigarette lighter plug, so I had to use the laptop battery, which meant my screen was really dim as I tried to preserve my system’s precious juice. This is one of the reasons I’m flying Virgin America now: They not only have Wi-Fi (which American increasingly has as well) they have normal US AC pugs. Hey there’s an idea, let’s put power on planes that I can actually plug into! Those tricky Europeans…
At the same time, my phone battery is on life support, I have no idea how much power my headset or MiFi Verizon wireless router has left, and if I get one more battery-run device, they’ll likely put me on a no-fly list.
Fortunately, a range of innovative power charging devices already exist to address these problems, and even some amazing wireless charging solutions from Qualcomm and Intel that could be just around the corner.

Charging Solutions

The trick with a charging solution is not to add any more complexity, which is why I kind of fell in love with the iDapt product I saw at EFA in Germany, and paid a ton to have several shipped to my home; They are now sold, much more affordably, on Amazon (figures). The iDapt uses the normal connector built into your device, and just organizes them in a way so you can charge three devices close together. At around $50 it isn’t that expensive and you don’t have to rebuild your phone.
The PowerMat has also been very popular. In concept, it’s easier to use than the iDapt because you can just set the things you want to charge on a mat, but to me it’s not easy enough and it appears a lot of folks that bought it have regretted their purchase. At nearly $90 for the device and around $40 for each thing you want to charge, it is also very pricy. PowerMat does make a portable product, which the iDapt doesn’t (you’d just carry your charger), but that is another $90 which means, in total, this solution likely costs more than most of what you are charging.
WildCharge and TouchCharge are devices that seem to pull much better reviews than the PowerMat, with the only negatives focused on the design of the charging sleeves that you need for every device you want to charge. Both are more attractive than the PowerMat, and more affordable at $50 to $80, depending on what you want to charge. They also have pucks you can use for things that don’t have sleeves, but they just seem like an alternative to the wall wart chargers you are trying to get rid of.

Qualcomm’s Better Idea

Qualcomm is bringing to market something that on paper looks better than all of these, but we likely won’t see it this year. The eZone charging system would use near-field magnetic resonance to charge devices wirelessly without the electrical contacts of current products. The company plans to design the device side of the charger into extended batteries you would use with your device, eliminating the adapters that make the PowerMat, WildCharge and TouchCharge somewhat painful to use. In effect, if the plan works, you’ll buy an extended battery and the eZone charging capability will be built-in for a nominal upcharge. To charge the batteries, you’ll merely have a place in your car or an area on your desk or counter with a charging field.
This is, on paper, a better solution than what is in the market now, and Qualcomm has the connections to drive it into phones, tablets, and music players (PCs are out of luck for any of this) which gives it a lot of potential. But, until it ships, that’s all it’s got.

Intel and Broadcast Power

Unlike Qualcomm’s relatively small charging fields, Intel has been showcasing broadcast power that would shoot a power stream several feet or across a table to the device being charged. The goal is to fill a room with power so that your devices either charge when you are in the room, or only need batteries over the short time you are moving between charging fields, like outdoors. Eventually it is hoped that entire cities could be a charging field, eliminating the need for batteries for most of us. Unfortunately, while we’ve made progress since Tesla came up with this concept decades ago (and some think Tesla’s stuff could actually work), we haven’t made enough progress yet. This approach remains at least ten years out, and I could have likely said the same thing in 1940. In other words, don’t hold your breath.

Wrapping Up

Power remains one of our biggest problems to solve. As we look at devices like the iPad, iPhone and the new particularly thirsty Sprint EVO 4G, the need for a better charging solution (and a better power solution eventually) has never been more pronounced. This is really the elephant in the room that we don’t really seem to be talking about as much as we should. We need a better power solution, and we needed it a decade ago. To quote a blue collar comedian I enjoy listening to, let’s git r done.

Ever since Apple launched the iPhone app store, the company has been pushing its apps to get all of the attention. But when was the last time you read a review about a new mobile website? Thousands of apps and billions of downloads consistently steal the headlines, while the mobile web is largely ignored by everyone but the consumer. Yet, despite what the marketing would lead you to believe, consumers use the mobile web just as much as apps.
At my company, we raced down the same road, putting pedal to the metal on our apps while leaving our mobile website on cruise control. Our iPhone app has been a Top 10 iPhone reference application for almost two years with almost six million downloads, and even with all of the great chart positions and visibility – just as many iPhone consumers use our mobile website as the application. We are not alone; Comscore reported in April that 72 million mobile users accessed a website compared to 69 million users who used an application. Both are showing more than 25% year-to-year growth.

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Mobile Web Gets Better

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When the app store first launched, only apps could use and access the device’s location. Last July, Apple launched OS 3.0 which provided Safari with GPS/location functionality. Apple’s HTML5 agenda continues to advance the mobile web browsing experience with video, audio, and a limited amount of caching or offline storage of data. The lines between apps and mobile web are blurring and converging.
Here’s a quick comparison of capabilities offered by applications and the mobile web:

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But Apps Make Money

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Apps make more money because iTunes makes it easier for consumers to pay. Similar to Amazon’s one-click check-out, iTunes is a virtual wallet used by 125 million consumers. But a mobile website can’t integrate with iTunes billing — you need an app for that: We tested a premium offer via our iPhone app which achieved a 50% higher conversion rate than the same offer on the mobile web.

However, for advertising revenue, the rates we receive on the mobile web are similar to in-app advertising. In terms of performance, a study on the mobile web versus app for a major travel advertiser showed the mobile web out-performing advertising on the application. Apple does place restrictions on in-app advertising and has the right to block out ad networks they deem competitive. There are no such restrictions on the mobile web.

So which should you choose for your business: A mobile web site, or a mobile application?

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Why the Mobile Web Makes Sense

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Even if an app is still the right choice for you, consider building a mobile website first since it will allow you to build and refine a great consumer experience, optimizing touch screen navigation. Mobile search provider Taptu has highlighted the importance of this through its listings of “touch-friendly” mobile sites.

Another benefit of the mobile web is that you can write once to be read everywhere. With the mobile web, you can reach more devices with a single development effort. Unfortunately, mobile app platforms are fragmented, meaning you have to build specific apps for iPhone, Android, RIM, and Palm Pre. A mobile website can be built to standards that works on all these devices. There are also some fairly easy implementations that allow you to manage device profiles and optimize for different screen sizes.

One of the most satisfying benefits of the mobile web is the freedom to rapidly innovate and refine without approval or requiring the user to update and download. When Google could not get its voice application approved, for example, it responded by building a web version that required no approval process and used HTML5 for audio playback and SMS/Email for alerting.

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When To Create An App

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Once you’ve optimized the experience, you can use your mobile website to graduate users to a more robust native app.

One of the most important differences between a popular app and the thousands you’ve never heard of is the merchandising from the iTunes App chart. Hitting the Top 4 on the Free App chart drove over 250,000 downloads for the WhitePages Mobile App. Download volume and positive ratings are important factors needed to get onto the chart. We achieved first week download velocity by promoting the app on our mobile website, which we had steadily built an audience for. Learning and optimizing our mobile website helped us create a better app that led to better reviews and ratings. It helps to think of the mobile web as a beta, and the app as gold.

On-device placement is also important, and a bookmarked site gets the same favicon placement on your iPhone as a downloaded app. Social media will continue to be an important distribution engine, and sharing the URL for a mobile website provides one-click gratification.

Whether you are just starting to put your mobile strategy together or have been at it for some time, don’t just chase the shiny lure of an app before catching the mobile users that are already surfing your site. Let me know about your experience and best practices for building a mobile website in the comment section below.

Last week, Google enabled an interesting feature: custom backgrounds for its search page. Now the feature is available internationally, and to highlight it, Google collaborated with several well-known artists who’ve created a gallery of background images that will be featured on the Google homepage over the next 24 hours.


Unfortunately, the feature comes with a somewhat bizarre catch: You cannot turn the background images off — at least on certain Google search pages. For example, when I open my localized Google search page — http://www.google.hr/ — I’m greeted by a colorful field of flowers. I can change the image by clicking on the link in the lower-left corner, but there’s no option to completely turn it off.
For many users, this is quite annoying; as you can see from this Twitter searchtweetzi Twitter Search , hundreds of users are trying to find a way to get rid of the feature and restore Google’s traditional white background.
There are a couple of tricks to get rid of the image; for example, you can try clicking on this link or you can use Google SSL (currently in beta), which works pretty much the same as regular Google. You can also choose the color white as the background, available from Google’s editorial choice of images. Most importantly, Google’s backgrounds will be rotated only today, after which (we hope) all will be restored to normal, and users will be able to set a custom homepage only if they choose to.

Bing vs Google Face-Off Still On: Bing Announces Search Index Boost, Social Results & More

Did you notice the competition going on between Bing and Google? The game is still on and after Google announced its new Caffeine search index, it is Bing's turn to tout the future release of its enhanced 'Bing Webmaster Tools' this summer.

Box.net — one of the elder statesmen of the cloud file storage game — today released Box Sync, a desktop client promises to offer a seamless bridge between the desktop and cloud and should make it easier to share files and collaborate with your team.



Once the client is installed, any files placed in the Box Sync folder on the computer will automatically be uploaded to Box.net and then kept in sync with the cloud. To help users share and collaborate with colleagues, every time a file in the folder is edited, team members in shared workspaces have immediate access to the updated version and receive notifications whenever there’s a change, and conflict resolution tools are provided if two people edit a file simultaneously.

It’s worth pointing out that many other cloud storage providers (Nomadesk and Dropbox, for example) provide similar desktop clients, so technically, Box Sync is late to the party. But its software does look to be pretty slick, especially with regards to collaboration. Here’s a promo video showing how it works:



Box Sync is currently only available for Windows, with Mac and Linux versions of the client on the way.

The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone?
The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a portable hard drive and carry it around but this is obviously a bit cumbersome approach as it requires you to manually sync the home computer and your portable disk.

Access Files on your Computer over the Internet

There are couple of ways by which you can retrieve files stored on your home computer from anywhere else using a regular Internet connection.
Option 1: Using Online Backup
You can use an online backup service like SugarSync, Carbonite, SkyDrive or even Dropbox – they provide desktop utilities that will automatically upload files on your home computer to the Internet and you can then access these files through the web browser of any other Internet connected computer.
The upside is that your files will always be available to you even if the home computer is not running. SugarSync and Carbonite have a mobile optimized website so you can access files from any mobile phone as well.
The downside is that if you are using any of these services for the first time, you’ll to wait until they upload all your data to the cloud and this process may take long if you have too many files on the home computer.
Option 2: Using Desktop Sharing Software
There are free desktop sharing software like TeamViewer and UltraVNC that also let you remotely access your computer files from anywhere else. LogMeIn Pro and CrossLoop Home are some other good options for transferring files from a remote computer but these are paid services.
If all your computers are running Windows, you can use the built-in remote desktop connection feature of Windows (available in XP and later) to access your home computer from another Window computer over the Internet.
With Desktop Sharing software, you’ll always have access to all your files but one big limitation is that it requires that the remote computer stays on. Also, none of these options will help you access files on a mobile phone except LogMeIn which has an iPhone app.
Option 3: Access Files Directly through the Browser
Online backup services, discussed above, will copy files to their own servers before you can access them for anywhere else. Screen sharing services are often slow and they won’t work on most mobile devices. Let’s now explore another set of services that allow you download files directly from the home computer.
Copernic, like Google Desktop, is a popular desktop search software that you may use to find emails, documents and other files on your Windows computer. They have a paid component called myCopernic on the Go that lets you remotely search for content stored on the home or office computer. You can preview the search results and then download them to your mobile phone or remote PC.
With Opera Unite, you can easily turn your computer into a web server and instantly access files and folders on that computer from any other web browser (including that of mobile phones). Opera Unite is a standard web server and therefore you’ll be downloading files directly from the computer – they’re not uploaded anywhere else.
Another option is GBridge that lets you setup a virtual private network using your existing Google Account. Companies use VPNs to let employees access corporate data over a public network (Internet) and with GBridge, even home users can build their own VPNs to access remote files more securely.
Windows Live Sync at sync.live.com is another great choice for remotely accessing files over the Internet. Just install the Live Sync client on your computer and you can then access the entire hard drive of that computer simply through the Windows Live Sync website.
Live Sync is available for both Mac and Windows. The new version of Live Sync is even better and it has integrated online storage (Live Mesh) so you’ll be able to access your important file even if the remote computer is off.
Finally, you may also want to check out HomePipe – this is an extremely easy and free service that lets you access your home files and media from any other computer or mobile phone. Install the HomePipe Agent and all files on that computer will instantly become available through the web. They also have apps for iPhone and Android phones.

Introduction

This is a list in progress of color laser printer models that do or do
not print yellow tracking dots on their output.

Limitations of this information

A "no" simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; it
does not prove that there is no forensic watermarking
present. (For example, the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series does
not include any yellow tracking dots that we can see, but it may still
include some kind of forensic marking, since the majority of other
Color LaserJET models do. Other forensic marking
techniques have been invented, and we do not yet know how to
determine whether these techniques are used by a particular
printer.)

A "yes" simply means that we (or another source, as noted)
saw yellow dots that appeared anomalous to us. Until
we decipher the marking schemes or receive other confirmation, this
does not constitute proof that any particular kind of information is
represented by these dots. In a very few cases, for example, they
might be the result of a dithering
technique, rather than a forensic mark, or they could be the
result of a poorly calibrated printer. In most cases, we are
confident that the arrangement of dots is intentional and is intended
to track users.

Sources of information

We have employed three sources of information. We looked at
printer output under a blue light and/or a computer microscope; we
consulted press reports about printers (e.g. at Druckerchannel); we relied on
printer manuals and other manufacturer statements. We welcome
additional statements by manufacturers, resellers, or technicians.

Thanks to our friends at software firms and symphonies, public schools
and physics labs, semiconductor fabs and ice cream parlors, in about a
dozen countries around the world.

Table of printers

Manufacturer	Model	Dots?	Comments
Brother
	HL-2700CN	yes	volunteer test
	HL-4200CN	yes	EFF test
Canon
	CLC 1000	yes	EFF test
	CLC 2400	yes	EFF test
	CLC 3002	yes	EFF test
	CLC 4000	yes	EFF test
	CLC 5000+	yes	EFF test
	CLC-iR 3200-C1	yes	EFF test
	Color imageRUNNER C2570	yes	EFF test
	Color imageRUNNER C3100CN	yes	EFF test
	Color imageRUNNER C3200	yes	EFF test
	Color imageRUNNER C3200N	yes	EFF test
	Color imageRUNNER C3220	yes	EFF test
	Color Laser Copier 1150	yes	EFF test
	Imageclass MF8170C	yes	EFF test
	LBP 2410	unclear	faint dots; could be artifacts
Dell
	3000CN	yes	EFF test
	3100CN	yes	EFF test
	5100CN	yes	EFF test
Epson
	AcuLaser C900	yes	EFF test
	AcuLaser C1100	yes	EFF test
	AcuLaser C1500	yes	EFF test
	AcuLaser C1900	yes	EFF test
	AcuLaser C3000	yes	EFF test
	AcuLaser C4000	yes	EFF test
Fuji: see Xerox
Hewlett-Packard
	Color LaserJET 1550L	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 1600	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2250LN	no (??)	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2500	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2500L	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2500N	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2550	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2550L	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2550N	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2600N	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2680	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 2700N	yes	volunteer test
	Color LaserJET 2840	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3500	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3550	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3600DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3700	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3700DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 3700N	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4500	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4500DN	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4500N	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4550	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4550N	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4600	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4600DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4600HDN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4600N	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4650	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4650DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4650DTN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 4700	yes	volunteer test
	Color LaserJET 4700DN	yes	volunteer test
	Color LaserJET 4700DTN	yes	volunteer test
	Color LaserJET 5M	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5100CN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5500	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5500ATN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5500DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5500HDN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5550	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5550DN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 5550DTN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 8500	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 8500DN	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 8550	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 8550DN	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 8550GN	no	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 9500	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 9500HDN	yes	EFF test
	Color LaserJET 9500MFP	yes	EFF test
IBM
	Infoprint Color 1454	unclear	dithering?
	Infoprint Color 1464 PS3	yes	dithering?
Konica    (Konica/Minolta)
	Bizhub C252	yes	EFF test
	Bizhub C350	yes	EFF test
	Colorforce 1501	yes	EFF test
	Colorforce 8050	yes	EFF test
	DialtaColor CF 2001	unclear	dithering?
	DialtaColor CF 2002	unclear	dithering?
	Ikon CPP500E	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2 Desklaser	no	EFF test
	Magicolor 2200 DL	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2210	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2300 DL	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2300 W	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2350	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2350 EN	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2400 W	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2430 DL	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 2450	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 3100	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 3300	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 5450	yes	EFF test
	Magicolor 7300	yes	EFF test
Kyocera
	C2630D	yes	EFF test
	FS-C5016N	yes	EFF test
	FS-C5020N	yes	EFF test
	FS-C5030N	yes	EFF test
	FS-C8008	yes	EFF test
	Mita KM-C2230	yes	EFF test
Lanier
	LD238C	yes	EFF test
	LP125CX/LP126CN	yes	EFF test
Lexmark
	C510	yes	EFF test
	C720	unclear	retest
	C752	yes	EFF test
	C752N	yes	EFF test
	C760	yes	EFF test
	C910	yes	EFF test
	C912	yes	EFF test
Minolta: see Konica
NRG
	DSc38	yes	EFF test
OkiDATA     (Oki)
	C5100	no	EFF test
	C5150	no	EFF test
	C5150N	no	EFF test
	C5200	no	EFF test
	C5300	no	EFF test
	C7200	no	EFF test
	C7350	no	EFF test
	C7400	no	EFF test
	C7400N	no	EFF test
	C9200	no	EFF test
	C9300	no	EFF test
	C9400	no	EFF test
	MIP C5540	no	EFF test
	OkiLAN 8100E	no	EFF test
Panasonic
	Workio KXCL-500	yes	EFF test
Ricoh     (see also Savin)
	Aficio 1224C	yes	EFF test
	Aficio 1232C	yes	EFF test
	Aficio CL 2000	yes	press report
	Aficio CL 3000	yes	EFF test
	Aficio CL 3000E	yes	EFF test
	Aficio CL 6010	yes	EFF test
	Aficio CL 7000	yes	EFF test
	AP 206	yes	EFF test
	Infotec/Danka ISC 2838	yes	EFF test
Samsung
	CLP-500	no	EFF test
	CLP-510	no	EFF test
	CLP-550	no	EFF test
	CLP-550N	no	EFF test
Savin
	C3210	yes	EFF test
	CLP35	yes	EFF test
Tektronix: see Xerox
Toshiba
	eStudio 210c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 211c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 310c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 311c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 2100c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 3100c	yes	mfr. statement
	eStudio 3511	yes	EFF test
	FC15	yes	mfr. statement
	FC15i	yes	mfr. statement
	FC22	yes	mfr. statement
	FC22i	yes	mfr. statement
	FC25P	yes	mfr. statement
	FC25Pi	yes	mfr. statement
	FC70	yes	mfr. statement
Xerox   (Tektronix)
	DocuColor 12	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 40	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 1521	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 1632	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 2000	yes	mfr. statement
	DocuColor 2045	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 2240	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 3535	yes	EFF test
	DocuColor 5252	yes	EFF test/mfr. statement
	DocuColor 6060	yes	EFF test/mfr. statement
	Phaser 560	no	EFF test
	Phaser 740	no	EFF test
	Phaser 750 (Z750V)	no	EFF test
	Phaser 750P	no	EFF test
	Phaser 790	yes	EFF test
	Phaser 850DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 860DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 1235	no	EFF test
	Phaser 6100	no	EFF test
	Phaser 6200	no	EFF test
	Phaser 6200DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 6250DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 6350DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 7300DN	no	EFF test
	Phaser 7300DT	no	EFF test
	Phaser 7700	no	EFF test
	Phaser 7750DN	no	EFF test
	Phaser 8200DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 8200DX	no	EFF test
	Phaser 8400	no	dithering?
	Phaser 8400B	unclear	dithering?
	Phaser 8400DP	unclear	dithering?
	Phaser 8400DX	unclear	dithering?
	Phaser 8400N	unclear	dithering?
	Phaser 8440DP	unclear	dithering?
	Phaser 8550	no	EFF test
	Phaser 8550DP	no	EFF test
	Phaser 8560MFP/D	no	EFF test
	WorkCentre M24	yes	EFF test
	WorkCentre Pro (all models)	yes	mfr. statement

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All the ebooks within this site are legal downloadable free ebooks.

3.http://www.ebooklobby.com/


Ebooklobby got library of free ebooks which contains lots of different categorys from art, computing, business and education.

Giveaway Of the day is a cool website.This project is mutually beneficial for both the users and the software developers.With Giveaway of the day,users are able to use full functionality of the 'paid' softwares for unlimited amount of time without paying a penny.Its completely legal.The giveaway softwares are also virus/spyware/adware free.They also do not allow crippleware/demo/trial versions in their giveaway.

How To Get Free  Licensed Software ?
Every day,a paid software is given for the users to test,and they have 24 hours to download and install it.Once installed within the 24 hour period,the user is allowed to use the software for free with full functionalities for unlimited amount of time.

There is no membership fee.You can think this project as something between a freeware and a paid software.

Limitations/conditions for "Giveaway of the Day":

• No free technical support
• No free upgrades to future versions
• Strictly personal usage

How does the software developer gets benefited?
Giveaway Of the day project team pays for the giveaway license,and makes it free for that particular day alone.The software developer also gets valuable feedback from the users.The software developer also has the option of providing discounts for his other softwares.Many users also have said that they had bought softwares after trying the giveaway software,for professional use.

Apple iPad is an awesome device for reading PDF documents and ebooks – the screen is brilliant, the text and graphics are perfectly legible and it almost feels like you reading a real book.

Favorite PDF Reading Apps for the iPad

The iPad has built-in support for the PDF format. For instance, if you get a PDF document as an email attachment or if you happen to click a PDF link inside the Safari browser, you can read the contents of that file inside the iPad without requiring an external PDF reader app.
However, if you have more than a couple of PDF documents to read on your iPad, it makes sense to have a dedicated app. Now there are a few dozen PDF reading apps, both free and paid, in the iTunes store so let’s see which of them are worthy enough to deserve a place on your iPad.
One of the most versatile document viewer app for the iPad is the 99¢ GoodReader that can handle PDFs and a large variety of other formats including Office documents, web pages, audio and video files.
Page turns are a bit slow on Good Reader



You can transfer PDF files from the computer to Good Reader on the iPad via iTunes or using your local Wi-Fi network if you have one. The software can also connect to your online accounts at Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. so you can download PDF files from these locations directly on to the iPad and read them even while you are offline.
GoodReader is a fantastic app for reading PDFs but there’s only one downside. When you turn a page, the next page is not rendered instantly and this lag become slightly more evident when you are flipping heavy pages (that contain graphics).

The next good choice for reading PDFs on your iPad is the Cloud Readers app – it’s both free and simple. You can either use a USB cable or your wireless network to copy PDFs from the computer to Cloud Readers.
There are two things that I really like about Cloud Readers – one, it renders documents really fast and second, there’s a unique “Two Up” view so can you display two pages of a PDF side-by-side (see screenshot).
Another PDF reading app that you should seriously try on your iPad is Stanza from Amazon, yes that same company that also develops the Kindle e-book reader. Like Cloud Readers, Stanza renders PDF pages extremely fast but there’s more.
Stanza has an integrated dictionary so you don’t have to quit the app to find a word meaning, you can easily arrange books in categories* and it also display thumbnails of books and magazines. If you don’t like the default cover image, grab a new one from the web.

[*] Good Reader has folders while Stanza has categories or subjects which are more like labels in Gmail – you can associate one or more categories with a single PDF document.
[**] You can find a mobile version of Adobe Reader for Android and Symbian phones but surprisingly, they have nothing to offer for the iPhone OS that powers the iPhones and the iPads.