Download here from cnet.-JOCR

-side note, You will need Microsoft Document Imaging installed on your system. If you have Office 2003 or higher, chances are that you have it installed. In case it is not, you can do so from within “Add and Remove Programs” and then choosing to install “Document Imaging”.

Once this is installed, JOCR can be used to recognize any language that is installed within Microsoft Document Imaging.

JOCR

JOCR essentially allows you to take screenshots and then detect the text within the image, excellent for situations where you are copying from an image but you don’t want to type the text.

You can capture a region, a window or the entire desktop and then perform character recognition. Once you have captured the image just hit recognize and JOCR will attempt to give you the text from within the image.

It is pretty fast and the actual recognition time will depend upon the type of image you are trying to perform OCR on. The recognized text is placed on the clipboard and JOCR will open up a notepad file where you can paste the text and see how well JOCR fared.

Although JOCR is officially limited to reading screen grabs, however there is nothing stopping you from scanning a document, save it, open it up at 100 % and summon JOCR. It actually did a pretty good job when I opened this image and then took a screenshot of the window to read it.

I’ve been using INTERNET EXPLORER 8 for awhile now. I’ve found a very annoying feature MICROSOFT has decided to embedded into its Internet Explorer browser. The uses of accelerators as they call it. Everything I highlighted, I received this stupid blue arrow icon. I went to the Internet Explorer tools and disabled all the “accelerators ”, but still have this stupid blue arrow. I’ve found the fix… 

Open the Control Panel -> Click on the Internet Options icon -> Click on the Advanced tab. (See screenshot below)

To Turn Off Display Accelerator Button on Selection -Uncheck the Display Accelerator button on selection box, then click on OK. (See screenshot below step 3)

*****Update***** It appears I may have a slight mis-step on this…..

its not control panel.. its.. tools (at the top of the internet explorer page)then internet options then advanced–then uncheck display Accelerator. (thank you for the fix)…. I hope this helps.

Sales of Windows 7, the newest offering in the Microsoft line, are 234% higher in the same period in their release than Windows Vista was. Profitability for the product, however, is only 82 percent higher.    

Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 Home, with its lowest price point, as the successor to Vista, considered by many to be less than successful. Microsoft’s goal is to have Windows 7 do what Vista failed to do: replace its aging Windows XP.

You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch. For more on this, be sure to read through our coverage of the Windows 7 beta if you haven’t already.

The above screenshot is the Windows 7 taskbar after changing back to XP/Vista mode, and adding the quick launch bar back. Looks just like Vista doesn’t it?

Adding the Quick Launch Bar Back to Windows 7

To add the toolbar back, you’ll want to right-click on an open area of the taskbar, and choose Toolbars \ New Toolbar from the menu. You should probably also unlock the taskbar at this point.

Now’s the slightly tricky part… you’ll want to paste the following path into the location bar:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Make sure that the location bar shows the full path, like the next screenshot, before you choose the “Select Folder” button.

You’ll immediately notice the Quick Launch toolbar on the taskbar, but it’s all the way over on the right, so you’ll want to click on the dotted lines and then drag the toolbar all the way to the left (which is slightly tricky sometimes). Note that you’ll need to right-click and unlock the taskbar before you can move the toolbar.

There we go, it’s over on the left… but now you’ll want to adjust the regular taskbar toolbar to be closer to the left, so use the dotted lines to drag it over as well.

The normal Quick Launch that we’re used to doesn’t have text, so right-click on the dotted lines and uncheck “Show Text” as well as “Show Title” from the menu.

Once you’re sure it’s the way you want it, you should check the “Lock the taskbar” again.

And there you are, the quick launch bar has returned and there’s virtually no way anybody would know this is Windows 7.

Microsoft detailed the minimum system requirements for Windows 7. According to PC World, the requirements are:

• 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit) 
• 1GB of main memory 
• 16GB of available disk space
• Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
• A DVD-R/W drive

It is funny, these are basically the same specs for Vista.

Windows 7 Ultimate has been cracked, even before it hits the general population. From what I understand, it uses the OEM instant offline activation that passes Windows Genuine Advantage validation and keeps the operating system permanently activated. It was done because Windows 7 Ultimate OEM DVD ISO was leaked from Lenovo in a Chinese forum. The boot.wim file was then used to retrieve the OEM-SLP product key and OEM certificate for Windows 7 Ultimate. The SLP is a procedure used by Microsoft to preactivate the Windows operating system for mass distribution by major OEMs.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) –

***UPDATE***  The vulnerability that sent Microsoft scrambling yesterday and is being used by hackers now to attack Internet Explorer (IE) users may have been reported 18 months ago or more.

In the security advisory it issued yesterday, Microsoft credited a pair of researchers — Ryan Smith and Alex Wheeler — with reporting the bug. Smith and Wheeler once worked together at IBM’s ISS X-Force, although Wheeler now is at Texas-based 3Com’s TippingPoint DVLabs.

Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn’t fixed yet.

The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computer s run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.

It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims don’t need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that’s been hacked.

Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.

The so-called "zero day" vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.

Microsoft urged vulnerable users to disable the problematic part of its software, which can be done from Microsoft’s Web site, while the company works on a "patch" – or software fix – for the problem.

Microsoft rarely departs from its practice of issuing security updates the second Tuesday of each month. When the Redmond, Wash.-based company does issue security reminders at other times, it’s because the vulnerabilities are very serious.

A recent example was the emergency patch Microsoft issued in October for a vulnerability that criminals exploited to infect millions of PCs with the Conficker worm. While initially feared as an all-powerful doomsday device, that network of infected machines was eventually used for mundane moneymaking schemes like sending spam and pushing fake antivirus software.

Credit: JORDAN ROBERTSON (AP)

Once again, this is why you use Firefox and not IE, ever….

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It is funny because I am not normally a big supporter of anything that Microsoft has pushed out into the world, but this little gem of a software was  mentioned in passing one day and I decided to try it out. (Thank you Larry Henry). What makes it even funnier is that this is rumored to blow away most of the competition this area is concerned. If blogging is your bag baby, then try this out…http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/. I am actually using it right now to write this blog article out. This little baby has many plug-ins for the most popular blog platforms out there such as WordPress and Blogger. It so helps helps the blogging process with its build in tools such as spell checker (we all know I need that), image editing tools, and allows you to preview your post before you well post it. It has plug-in support for Flickr accounts, Twitter, as well as well Digg baby. 

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