The Objects Docker displays thumbnails of the image background and each object layer, making it easy to select the appropriate object you wish to work on. By default, Corel sets the thumbnail size to Small, which can make it difficult to differentiate between similar objects. Each object also has a name listed, however, PHOTO-PAINT simply identifies the objects as Object1, Object2, etc. By changing the size of the thumbnail and giving your objects a better naming convention, you will have a much easier time selecting the appropriate object on your project.

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Most popular “convert anything to DVD” (yes, it can convert your grandma to DVD too; joke) software came out in final third version (no more RCs/betas), released by well known cracking group F4CG. Enjoy!

NOTE: My Avast antivir warned me about some virus (Win32:Delf-ICC) inside of patch. I’ve scanned it on VirusTotal and 2 of 31 antivir engines marked it as trojan too. If NOD32, Kaspersky, AVG, BitDefenter didn’t mark it as trojan, then I belive it’s false positive.

Description:

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This award-winning divx to dvd video converter software supports most video and audio formats for video conversion (avi, mpg, mov, wmv, mkv, ogm and more) and even handles DVD to DVD copy!

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Original post by Christian

Through a variety of sources we’ve confirmed that Technorati is making plans for a major shift in it’s going forward strategy, and is also considering a number of corporate development transactions.

First, they’ve been pitching venture capitalists on another round of financing. That’s not surprising - their last round, $10.5 million, was in June 2006. The company has raised a total of just over $20 million, and given that they have 25 employees, it’s time for another round. But we’ve also heard that they’ve hired Montgomery & Co. to shop the company to buyers, simultaneous to their funding pitches.

What’s more interesting, though is what we’re hearing on the product front. Technorati, under new CEO Richard Jalichandra, recently changed it site to focus more on its core blogging audience.

That change foreshadows the upcoming shift - which places the Technorati site itself as an anchor in a new blog advertising network.

Advertising networks are popular right now - Glam recently raised $85 million after transitioning, seemingly overnight, from a small web property focused on women to selling advertising for a variety of similarly-focused publishers. And John Battelle’s FM Publishing, an advertising network focused on technology blogs, recently hired investment bank Savvian to help them raise money or sell after turning down a $100 million buyout offer.

Technorati will certainly be competing head to head with FM, although sources say they’ll focus on the long tail of the market as well (FM only takes larger sites). The network will be a self-serve exchange for bloggers (and other publishers) as well as advertisers. Ad units will include both display and text ads, and will allow units to be charged on both a CPM and CPC basis. This self-service model looks a lot more like Adbrite than Glam or FM.

Technorati tags, which are very often used to describe blog posts with keywords selected by the author, would also be a natural way for Technorati to target advertising more effectively.

Technorati has also considered other strategies recently, including a blog rollup. But our understanding is that they’ve gone with the ad network idea, and are currently focusing engineers on finalizing the product.

Will the strategy work? As we’ve argued many times, ad networks suffer from fickle customers. Glam offers partners revenue guarantees based on revenue (and lost $3.7 million last year on $21 million in revenue). FM has resisted guarantees to date, but lost high profile partner Digg last year to Microsoft. Others, including us, have simply sold advertising directly while continuing to work with FM. With Technorati entering the market, publishers will have yet more choices. That’s good for everyone except the ad networks competing for their business.

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Original post by Michael Arrington

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Well what do you know, a non-STV DVDRip from group PreVail. Nope, this one actually looks worthwhile. This documentary brings out all that’s fun in the genre. It presents you with a story that is unique and engaging, and is sure to raise some eyebrows. It also can’t hurt that it has gotten an amazing score over at RT.

Synopsis: A documentary about Marla Olmstead, a 4-year old girl who has sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She has been called “a budding Picasso” and had been featured on several American news programs. The situation was looking bright for the girl and her family until CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. With Marla’s family’s reputation in question, the filmmaker sheds further light on the situation where he is torn between his own responsibility as a journalist and the family’s desire to see their integrity restored.

Genre: Documentary
IMDB rating: 7.4 (255 votes)
RT rating: 93%
Directed by: Amir Bar-Lev
Starring: Amir Bar-Lev, Anthony Brunelli, Elizabeth Cohen

Release Name: My.Kid.Could.Paint.That.DOCU.DVDRip.XviD-PreVail
Size: 1 CD, 700 MB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 624×352, video 1027k, audio DD 2.0
Runtime: N/A
Filename: prv-mcpt.dvdrip.xvid

Links: IMDB, Trailer
NFO: Here
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Original post by Bleez

After Google’s stock took a hit based on reports that Google ads are not being clicked on as much as they use to be, comScore is reporting today that the market may have got it wrong

the evidence suggests that the softness in Google’s paid click metrics is primarily a result of Google’s own quality initiatives that result in a reduction in the number of paid listings and, therefore, the opportunity for paid clicks to occur.

In part this might be right, but what’s being ignored by most is a little decision in November that changed the way Google ads worked:

Google has made a small change to AdSense that may make a big difference in cutting out errant clicks and even your AdSense revenue. They’ve redefined the clickable region for Google AdSense from the entire boxed region, to just the text link.

I’ve been hearing first hand reports since then from publishers who have experienced a big downturn in CTR and Adsense revenue since that change was implemented. Well regarded online marketer Jeremy Schoemaker even recently told me in a podcast that Adsense was dead as a monetization strategy. It’s happening to big sites and small sites. Markus Friend from Plenty of Fish, one of the more famed and bigger free-making money from Adsense sites (January):

The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months with googles changes, Image ads on the other hand stayed the same. If you take a screen shot of a text ad and then run it as an image ad it will get 2 times the click thru rate.

You read that right, image ads with double the CTR of Google ads when showing the exact same thing.

SEO BlackHat gets it right February 27:

4 months later, that little back and forth in the Google Rec Room shaved about $85 Billion (with a B) in market capitalization.

But it wasn’t as stupid an idea as it might seem. You see, Adsense works in a Quasi-market place environment. The market will bid up the cost per click once the adjustment for accidental clicks is readjusted. Right now, marketers should be getting a better value per click as a higher percentage of the clicks are “real” or intentional. That will lead to higher bids per click and ultimately should be close to a break even for GOOGs bottom line.

The short story: the changes to the clickable area in Google ads has resulted in a decline in accidental clicks, resulting in the overall click rate to decline. If Google is seeing a decline in CTR it’s at least in part due to its November decision.

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Original post by Duncan Riley

Looking for a job? We’re here to help.

Over 40 positions in technology have been posted to CrunchBoard since we wrote about it last week. Your dream job could be in there somewhere.

Here’s a sample of those posted:

• Business Development Manager
  MySpace, Beverly Hills CA
• Software Engineer
  Sugar Inc., San Francisco CA
• Director of Business Development
  Howcast Media, New York City
• Web Developer for Social Platforms
  RockYou, San Mateo CA
• Java Engineers
  CBS Interactive, Berkeley CA
• Front End UI Designer
  TripAdvisor, Needham MA
• Code Ninja/Pirate
  Reble.FM, San Francisco CA
• Senior Software Engineer
  Stealth Startup, San Francisco CA
• Interactive Product Manager
  nFusion Group, Austin TX
• Flash Developer
  UVLayer, New York City and San Francisco

Also, we’re still soliciting candidates for two positions here at TechCrunch:

• Events Expert
• CrunchBase Analyst

Employers: we’re extending discounts for bulk listing purchases another month. Please email jobboard@techcrunch.com for additional details.

In other news, I had the distinct opportunity to check out Box.net’s TechCrunch reading room in person, and it is indeed glorious.

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Original post by Mark Hendrickson

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DiAMOND’s newest release features Oscar winner Javier Bardem in the main role and that should be a good enough reason to try it. Frankly, it’s only an averagely rated romantic drama, and with a 139 minutes runtime, will mostly attract fans of the genre. Quality of this 2 CD release is very good.

Synopsis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA straddles the line between pop and art, and manages to be both a bestseller and a literary masterpiece. With an excellent cast and a timeless story, Mike Newell’s cinematic adaptation strives for that same balance. As a young man in 19th-century Colombia, Florentino Ariza (played primarily by Javier Bardem) falls in love with a beautiful woman named Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). But an overprotective father (John Leguizamo) and too much reality intrude on their romance, and Fermina marries a successful doctor, Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt). But a wedding ring–and the passing decades–aren’t enough to dissuade Florentino from his love, even as he beds hundreds of women as he tries to get over his undying passion.

Genre: Drama/Romance
IMDB rating: 6.3 (1,598 votes)
RT rating: 27%
Directed by: Mike Newell
Starring: Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Release Name: Love.in.the.Time.of.Cholera.DVDRip.XviD-DiAMOND
Size: 2 CD, 1.4 GB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 640×272, video 959k, audio 448k @ 5.1 AC3
Runtime: 139 minutes
Filename: dmd-lovecholera-cd1, dmd-lovecholera-cd2

Links: IMDB, Homepage, Trailer
NFO: Here
Torrent: NewTorrents

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Original post by Bleez

Ask is rumored to be considering switching to Google for search and subsequently downsizing its engineering team.

According to Silicon Alley Insider, Ask may abandon or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of using Google for its search results. Teoma has powered Ask since it was acquired in September 2001. The decision will result in “bad news for Ask Engineers.”

Paid Content puts the downsizing figure at 100 in April, although they note that the final decision on the switch to Google hasn’t been signed off on yet.

The decision to abandon Ask’s in-house search engine comes following a $100 million advertising campaign in 2007 that succeeded in growing Ask’s market share, but not to a significant level in the overall market.

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Original post by Duncan Riley

Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that significantly improves the desktop email experience (particularly search).

Microsoft may have first approached the company months ago and floated an offer of sub $20 million, which was apparently rejected. But the company, which recently hired notable Yahoo’er Jeff Bonforte as CEO, is now back at the table with Microsoft corporate development.

Xobni currently only works with Outlook, although the company has said they will extend to integrate with other email clients, instant messaging applications, and social networks in the future. The current product creates an information profile for each person you interact with, and surfaces historical information that is relevant to what you are working on. Xobni displays contact information, threaded conversations, attachments, related people, email usage statistics, and information from the web. See our post from January with a more detailed overview of the service.

The company was founded in 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina, with early funding from Y Combinator. Other investors include Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Ron Conway and Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, Paul Buchheit, Ariel Poler, Saar Gur, and Tom Pinckney.

Xobni has not yet responded to our request for comment.

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Original post by Michael Arrington