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Microsoft has released the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). You can download it for free HERE.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

If you have a beta version of MSE, this new version will easily install over it. For a comprehensive review of MSE, click HERE.

Find out more Microsoft Security Essentials on their website. You can also check out the system requirements for MSE.

Quickly shaping up to be one of the best sites on Earth to get free stuff, Lockerz is now in it’s beta phase, willing and able to give away a lot of high priced electronics to users, simply for logging in, referring people, and answering questions. It’s a bit like Rewards Central, and other websites that give away free things, except, it’s a lot easier and quicker to get points. Also, the website will remain free, although there will be parts of the site that feature premium content.

The website is funded through Liberty Media, assuredly, it’s quite reliable and legitimate. There is international support as well, which is also a bonus. Not many features are available right now, due to it’s beta status, and the only actions to gain points are outlined above, logging in, answering daily questions, and referring friends. When the full version is released this Fall, it’s expected to have many more features, as well as a dedicated market place, where Lockerz will make the bulk of it’s income from. Supposedly, a percentage of it’s income will be generated through products placed for sale, and possibly, ads within the video streaming service.

Unfortunately, Lockerz is still in it’s beta stage, and one can only be invited into the beta event. If you want an invite, simply just post a request to “FeedMyCloud@gmail.com” with the subject header being ‘Lockerz Invite’. Between the LiveCrunch staff in total, we have around 30 spare invites… So if you want to experience Lockerz today, be quick about it =)

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If you are owning T-Mobile G1 this double battery charger Cradle is going to be a blast for you. Just this past week by reading some comments on different forums it was noticeable that many people do buy an extra battery for G1. In most cases people have to buy car charger and probably an extra charger for work.

Now with this Cradle you can forget about being low on battery. Simply buy an extra battery on sites like Amazon or Ebay (Cost:$9-$15) and Cradle from WirelessGround( It’s on Sale Now!) and you are set to go. Both batteries are charged at the same time and on top of that you have this nice Office-Home Dock station for your G1.

Here are some pictures you might like to see how it all looks like:

Apple released iWork 09 Update 9.0.3. This update (about 60MB) addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, updates the help, and fixes a number of other minor issues in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. They include:

• Reducing file size of images that have Instant Alpha applied
• Managing file size when inserting some movies
• Working with dates and durations in the Chart Data Editor in Keynote and Pages
• Exporting to CSV from Numbers when using table categories

Apple has also made improvements to iWork.com (online collaborative document hosting service). The highlights of the changes are: (according to Apple)

1. Protect Your Shared Documents With Passwords

Safeguard your shared documents on iWork.com by using a password. To add a password to your document, select the ‘Privacy’ box in the Publish window. Enter a unique password for the document. You can even use the OS X Password Assistant to help create a strong password. Remember to send the password to the intended viewer.

2. Stay Up To Date With Your Viewer’s Comments

Viewers invited to an iWork.com document can provide feedback by leaving comments and document notes. Comments can be made on specific text in a Pages document, cells in a Numbers sheet, and on a Keynote slide.

iWork.com lets you know when a viewer has left feedback by sending you an email notification every time a new comment or note is added. You can adjust how often you receive these notifications by selecting from options on your Shared Documents page. Choose from Immediate, Hourly, Daily or Never.

3. Inviting Viewers Made Easy

The most recent update to iWork.com makes it easy for you to share your documents with your viewers. With the new server-based email, invitations are sent directly from Apple’s servers. You don’t need to depend on your desktop email application to send email invitations anymore.

Also, when you add new viewers online on iWork.com, the server sends them invitations directly without you needing to send a URL.

When you have to choose the debt settlement as your last resort to solve your financial problems; you will be left with two options. The first option is to hire a professional company to assist you during the difficult times of debt settlement and the second option is to do all the work yourself. If you are going to choose the later one, then you will have to work really hard to get the things done smoothly. You may have to spends hours on studying the things and you may have to face a real tough time while negotiation with the creditors. Alternatively, if you have chosen a debt settlement company for your debt settlement program, you may not have to all this hard work and you will only have to pay the company for the work that they will be doing on your behalf.

The debt settlement companies work for money like the all other businesses so it becomes your responsibility to find a debt settlement company which will suit you best. You should know the pros and the cons of each such company before paying them for the services. Normally these companies will have records which will clearly tell you their past works and performance. It will help you to choose the best company for your situation. You would also like to have a look at the cost and the company policies in order to know the things much better. When you have selected a few companies to find the best one for you, you should ideally look these things before making any decision.

• Fee: You should look at the amount of money that the company will be taking from you in the shape of fee for their services. Various companies charge different fee in different methods. You should have a closer look at this because it’s the money that has been causing you the trouble. You should not go for a company which asks for escrow payments.

• The promises that the company makes: Look for the promises that the company is making. If they are promising unrealistic things, like most of the cheaper companies do, you should become very careful. If the company is making unrealistic promises that mean that they are not going to offer you good quality of service in fact. So be careful and do not only go for the cheapest services, but make sure you have the quality services as well.

• Sale tactics: Do have a look at the company sale tactics. The companies must not use your bad financial position to sell you the unnecessary services. If they are trying to do that, you should not choose such a company.

Texas Instruments has released a new iPhone app called Plus Financial Calculator. The app isn’t cheap. It costs $14.99 USD or $17.99 AUD. It will work both on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Here’s the description of the app:

Click HERE for the apps store link.

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is now available to AT&T customers on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. To enable MMS, you need to update the carrier settings. This can be easily done by connecting your iPhone to iTunes and clicking on Check for Update for your device. You’ll get a message like this one below:

Click update settings. After, restart your iPhone and you should be done!

Google has released version 3.5 of their desktop photo organizer and viewer application, Picasa. The update adds facial recognition so when you add a name tag, it scans your entire photo library and applies that name to every match. If it’s unsure of a particular face, will will give you the option to apply the tag.

The facial recognition tagging feature is integrated with Google contacts. Picasa will auto-completes names from your Google contacts when you start typing. Also, you can geo-tag a photo by marking a photo on Google Maps. Other stuff that you can do or create are face collage, time-lapse movies and sync the tags with your Picasa Web albums.

Also, the Mac version is now out of beta.

Related external links:

CNet News – Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition to the desktop

ReadWriteWeb – Picasa 3.5: Ruining Your Good Name with Face Recognition Tagging

Have you ever wanted to extract the images from a pdf file? The most obvious way is to take a screenshot and then edit it in a image editor. But there are actually software out there that can do this automatically for you. One of them is called Some PDF Images Extract. The program is very easy to use and free.

Some PDF Images Extract is a nifty little freeware program that makes extracting images from PDF files a piece of cake! You can capture the images from the PDF and save them into many different formats, including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and lot more.

There are also a number of other programs that does the same thing. Just go a Google search for ‘Extract images from PDF’.

Apple has released the first update for iTunes version 9. Update 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
• Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive.
• Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.
• Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone.
• Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.
• Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.
• Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.
• Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes.