Have you noticed how many anodynes there are laying around on the floor

 Have you noticed how many anodynes there are laying around on the floor


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Windows Phone 7 debuts: One phone won't rule them all

NEW YORK--If Apple CEO Steve Jobs has spent the past few years pitching the iPhone as the ultimate, universal mobile device, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's answer with his company's Windows Phone 7 OS, is the opposite.

There is, Ballmer subtly implied at today's formal unveiling of Windows Phone 7 here, no such thing as one phone for everyone--but there can be one operating system.

"Everybody should be able to take a look at a Windows Phone and say, 'I can represent me in this device,'" Ballmer explained.

To that end, there are nine Windows Phone 7 devices that will be available in the U.S., from manufacturers Dell, HTC, Samsung, and LG. "You see phones with keyboards," Ballmer said, gesturing to a row of all nine devices in front of him. "You see phones like the LG phones that can play to TV, you'll see super beautiful screens like the beautiful screen on this Samsung...very large screen as you see on this HTC device right here and of course rugged, for-the-hardest-use-type phones like this Dell device."

Five of the phones were previewed to some extent on Monday. For AT&T, there's the business-friendly LG Quantum, the media-heavy HTC Surround (an early fan favorite with its Dolby Surround Sound speakers), and Samsung Focus, all available November 8. For T-Mobile there's the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro, coming later in the season.

With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft aims to offer a middle ground with more flexibility than Apple's dominant iOS and more certainty than the open-ended nature of the Google-built Android open-source software. Or, as Twitter user @DerickP put it while watching live coverage of the event, a "happy medium" between "iDictatorship" and "Androidarchy."

Indeed, ultra-customization and personalization--while maintaining a level of practicality and simplicity--was central to the Windows Phone 7 launch pitch. Ballmer said that the two core key phrases to the development of the operating system were "always delightful and wonderfully mine," an unusual combination of buzzwords that Microsoft hopes will convey that it offers an environment that's highly customizable yet uncluttered and stitched together with a common feel.

Close ties to existing Microsoft products, from Bing search to Bing Maps to Xbox games (including an EA Mobile partnership to bring Xbox Live-enabled games to the phone) and Zune music, were played up too, as was a tight integration with Facebook (in which Microsoft invested three years ago) that pulls photo tags from the social network into the contacts file (or "people hub" as Windows Phone 7 calls it). Microsoft Office was a big item, too, with a slick PowerPoint demo E-mail was touted as functional for both business and personal use, with the audience getting a kick out of the "I'll be late" button attached to Outlook calendar items. Copy-paste is on the way in early 2011, much to the chagrin of some consumers who were hoping it would be available at launch.

"The user experience is consistent and delightful, and we think that's one of the things that we think people are really going to like," Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president in charge of the Windows Phone program, said as he explained that "hundreds of thousands" of developers were working on applications for the OS.

A few third-party applications were showed off, like eBay, IMDB, Netflix, and a smattering of music apps that tie directly into the Zune-powered music "hub," but apps took far more of a back burner than they would at, say, an Android event.

Firefox for Android beta: A good first effort

The first beta of Firefox 4 for Android arrived Thursday, offering users of Google's mobile operating system a browser interface with both smart new features and some weaknesses.


I tried the new beta on HTC's Google Nexus One, and I came away impressed overall--far more satisfied than with unstable and slower nightly builds for developers that I'd tried before. It's not going to be my default phone browser at this stage, but I'm not going to uninstall it, either.


Fennec background
Before we get to my impressions, though, here's the background. Mozilla is trying to reach the fast-growing and increasingly important mobile world with its "Fennec" version of Firefox. Android is the second operating system it supports after Maemo, which comes with Nokia's N900, which is as much a small computer as smartphone. Today, that market is dominated by browsers based on the open-source WebKit project, including those built into iOS, Android, WebOS, and Bada browsers and coming with BlackBerry OS.
Android is critical to Mozilla's mobile effort: with Apple blocking typical browsers for iOS devices, Google's operating system is the best remaining avenue to mainstream mobile relevance.


Unlike most Android applications, Firefox is native software that runs on the underlying Linux operating system and ARM processor rather than Android's higher-level Java-like foundation (now the subject of Oracle's lawsuit against Google). That native nature means Firefox compatibility is a more finicky issue: you'll have to check the supported devices list, which so far includes four tested phones and five untested.


Firefox, which needs Android 2.0 or later, is feature-packed. It uses the same browser engine as regular Firefox and therefore supports cutting-edge Web technologies such as Canvas and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for 2D graphics, Web workers for background processing, and HTML5's built-in audio and video. It can run many add-ons, a differentiator in the mobile-browsing world. And it's got the new JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine, which was powerful enough to run the full desktop version of Gmail in my tests.

hree advantages over Android
Three things jumped out at me as superior to Android's built-in browser, which by the way I'm using on a phone with Android 2.2, aka Froyo.

A look at Firefox beta 1 for Android

First, there's Firefox Sync. This lets you keep open tabs, browsing history, passwords, and bookmarks synchronized between whatever computers and mobile devices you have running Firefox. In practice, I'm not sure I want to inflict on my mobile phone the dozens of tabs I have openon my personal computers, but passwords sync in particular is a wonderful way to bypass the mobile-phone difficulties of Web page login pages.


Second, there's the superior window management. The native browser lets you move among windows by clicking Android's menu button and going to a window-selection screen.


I much prefer Firefox's approach. The tabs are in a vertically stacked list that's tucked away to the left of the browser window. You can reach it by sliding the main window off to the right with an easy drag gesture. It's set up nicely so you don't do this inadvertently.

A button on the bottom of the list lets you fire up a new tab. When there are more than seven, on my phone, a second vertical column of tabs forms to the right. Each tab has a thumbnail of the page, which can be a little hard to see given that each browser thumbnail is about two-thirds the size of my actual thumbnail. But I still find it a faster way to switch among tabs, something I didn't realize until Firefox I'd been subconsciously avoiding somewhat on the Android browser.


However, I did have one problem: each tab also has a big "X" to close it, and if you're not careful or have big thumbs, it's easy to close a tab instead of select it.


If you slide the main browser window the other way, you get a nice interface for adding a bookmark, going forward or backward through your browsing history, and configuring Firefox. This is the kind of thing that you might expect to see available through the Android menu, which in my testing led only to a blank screen.




Third, I liked the welcome screen. It shows a nicely formatted list of recently visited Windows that I find far more useful than a blank search box in the Android browser. Sure, I like searching, but I do a lot more.

Imperfections
Now onto the gripe list. It's longer, but bear in mind that this is not just beta software, but the first beta Mozilla has ever produced for Android.


First, Firefox isn't fast, even though performance is a focus of this release. Even if you have a Wi-Fi connection, all mobile browsers in my experience are frustrating compared to those running on desktops and laptop. But I found Firefox just wasn't peppy.


Part of this, I suspect, is that Firefox seems aimed to intercept higher-performance hardware coming after today's phones; Mozilla seems to have aimed for features and utility rather than bare-bones practicality. But some performance attributes are quite nice, notably scrolling and panning, which respond quickly and bring "inertia" so you can flick your view around.


And historically, beta software is usually slower than better-tuned production releases, so don't read too much into this.
I had two crashes, once apparently some user-interface interaction that went haywire and once when I tried to load Gmail with eight other windows already loaded. Firefox ground to a halt and crashed. Other times, though, I was able to use Gmail, even with its new priority in-box, an impressive feat.


Another problem I had was with zooming to read text. Firefox, like the iPhone and Android browsers, will zoom into a column of text on a larger page when you double-tap on it. However, unlike those alternatives, it didn't automatically scale the font size to something readable. I ended up rotating the screen to a horizontal orientation to try to squeeze in a few more pixels per letter, and even then I did a lot of squinting.


The good news is this problem is a known shortcoming. And it's not so much an issue with mobile-optimized sites I tried, such as Flickr and Facebook.

Firefox is big--more than 30MB including the application and data, which is much larger than any other application I have on my phone. The closest is Google Earth at half the size, which I had to delete to make room. Mozilla has said it hopes to pare the size down, though.
Another complaint is with the fonts. I found blocks of text less readable in general than with other mobile browsers.
Last, I had some difficulties with the user interface. For example, while setting up Sync, I couldn't move from the username field to the password field by scrolling the scroll wheel, as is customary on Android. Instead, I had to use the back button to hide the keyboard, manually scroll the page with my finger, then tap the next text input field.
Overall, though, Firefox for Android is a reasonable first effort. That's good, given how important mobile computing has become and Android's ascendance within that domain.

Bing Maps gets public transit directions

Microsoft has begun adding public-transportation directions to its Bing Maps service, with directions available initially in 11 metropolitan areas in North America.

"Transit options are available for bus, subway, light rail, and local rail," Brian Hendricks, an associate product manager for Bing Maps, said in a blog post yesterday.

The areas covered in the initial release are Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Vancouver.

The addition helps the service match a feature available already in Google Maps, Bing Maps' primary rival. Online mapping is increasing in importance, not just as a way for people to figure out how to get from one place to another, but also as a way for online mapping companies to profit through locally relevant advertising.
And with mobile devices increasing in importance and capability, online maps are becoming useful for navigating while en route, not just in advance.

Android Market expanding around the world

Google's answer to Apple's App Store, the Android Market, is about to open in many more countries around the world.

According to Google, the Android Market is on its way to 18 more countries--including Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, and Sweden--bringing the total to 32 countries. Google said that developers who have already made their applications available to "All Locations" will not need to change that status for their programs to be available to the new customers.

Android Market users will likely also find more apps in the store, thanks to Google's decision to allow developers in 20 more countries to sell paid apps in the marketplace, raising the figure to 29 nations altogether. The company said developers in Canada, Switzerland, and Taiwan are among those who can now sell apps.

Developers can start selling apps on the Android Market immediately. Customers looking to buy apps in the new countries can start doing so "over the next two weeks," Google said.

Google said that it plans to bring the Android Market to additional countries in the coming months.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Google's 'goo.gl' URL shortener open to the public

 

Goo.gl is now open to all Web users looking for a way to make a Web link shorter.

 Google's URL shortening service is now open to the world through a new Web site.

In an age of 140-character communication and mobile devices, URL shorteners are a godsend. However, the most popular third-party ones, such as Bit.ly and TinyURL, are run by smaller companies that aren't guaranteed to stick around for the long run: Google's Matt Cutts said today the company needed to develop its own "goo.gl" URL shortener "for its own products where we knew the shortener wouldn't go away."

So last December, Google started making goo.gl URLs available through the Google Toolbar, and it's now making the service available to anyone with a Web browser at goo.gl, Google announced in a blog post. "We don't intend to overload goo.gl with features, but we do want it to be the stablest, most secure, and fastest URL shortener on the Web," Googler's Muthu Muthusrinivasan said in the post.

The other Googly thing about URL shorteners is the data they generate, showing where, when, how often, and from which computers people are clicking on those URLs. Web-based analytics charts will be available to those who shorten URLs through goo.gl, and Google will also be able to track that data to help determine which Web links are popular, authoritative, or unsafe.

Twitter, where shortened URLs are an absolute necessity, also has its own URL shortener using the t.co domain.

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Google cleared in YouTube copyright case in Spain

 

News.cnet.com. Google has been cleared in a YouTube copyright-infringement case filed by a Spanish broadcaster.

In its lawsuit against the search giant, Spanish broadcaster Telecinco claimed that YouTube should be held responsible for people who upload videos that infringe on Telecinco's copyrights.

But a federal court in Madrid rejected those claims today, ruling that it is the responsibility of copyright holders to identify such content and inform YouTube if it infringes on their copyrights.

In reaching its decision, the court also noted that YouTube offers content owners tools to remove any material that infringes on their copyrights, further putting the onus on them, rather than on YouTube, to take action against copyright-infringing content.
 
In a blog post today, Google hailed the ruling and called it a "clear victory for the Internet and the rules that govern it." The company said the decision reaffirms European law, which finds that content owners are the ones best suited to determine whether something infringes on a copyright and that YouTube has a responsibility to remove such content only when notified by the owner.

Specifically, Google pointed to its Content ID technology, which gives content owners the ability to notify YouTube of any material that infringes on a copyright. The owner can then tell YouTube whether to block the content, put an ad next to it in order generate revenue, or simply keep track of the number of views. The company said that Content ID is being used by more than 1,000 media providers across Europe.
Google also noted the challenges that it and other online companies would face if they were held responsible for identifying copyrighted content.

"More than 24 hours of video are loaded onto YouTube every minute," according to the blog. "If Internet sites had to screen all videos, photos, and text before allowing them on a website, many popular sites--not just YouTube, but Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others--would grind to a halt."
Google has squared off against other media outlets over the question of who should be held accountable for copyrighted material uploaded to YouTube.

Earlier this month, a German court ruled against the search giant, finding that YouTube was liable after users uploaded several copyrighted videos of singer Sarah Brightman.

But in June, the company won a decision in a longstanding, $1 billion lawsuit filed by Viacom, which accused Google of encouraging its users to violate copyright. Like the court in Madrid, the judge in that case found that the burden is on the content owners to identify copyrighted material and that only then does YouTube have a responsibility to remove that content.

Is your PC a sitting duck for hackers?

How confident are you that your computer is safe from an online attack?
Chances are you rely on vendors like Microsoft and Apple to let you know when a security update is ready to be installed. (Google updates systems automatically.)


But until a patch is released, that hole--known as a zero-day vulnerability--in effect makes your computer a sitting duck for anyone who writes an exploit for it and bothers to distribute it via e-mails and drive-by downloads on Web sites.

EEye Digital Security launched a Web site yesterday that lists current zero-day vulnerabilities and offers an archive on ones that have been patched. The Zero Day Tracker compiles information on publicly disclosed security holes and provides details on them including what software they affect, how severe they are, the potential impact and suggestions for workarounds and other protection techniques.


Marc Maiffret, co-founder and chief technology officer of eEye, describes the free site as a "one-stop shop" for zero-day information.
"For the longest time the only company that would notify you about zero-days was Microsoft, and recently Adobe has started doing that," he said. "But there are still many other companies that have zero-day vulnerabilities that go unreported."

The most widely used database of software vulnerabilities is the National Vulnerability Database sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division/US-CERT and run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. There is also the Open Source Vulnerability Database, the US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Database and one run by SecurityFocus. But you have to do some digging on the sites to find the vulnerabilities that are unpatched.

Zero Day Tracker lists the outstanding unpatched holes with the most recent at the top. There are 21 current zero-days, all of them from 2010 except for one from 2006 and one from 2005. The oldest extant unpatched hole was first disclosed in November 2005 and affects Windows 2000. Patched zero-days are archived by year and date back to 2005.

"Microsoft, as some might expect, has the largest amount of unpatched zero day vulnerabilities in 2010," Maiffret said. Microsoft also dominates previous years too, not surprisingly, with increasing numbers for Adobe Systems as the years progress and only a few for Apple among them.

Those statistics are cursory and likely to change as eEye works to populate the archives.
Meanwhile, asked to comment on the dearth of Apple listings, Maiffret said that reflects on Apple's market being much smaller than Windows and does not mean that Macintosh software is more secure.

"There are significantly fewer zero-day vulnerabilities for Apple compared to Microsoft and Microsoft-related applications, but it's definitely not about Mac not having vulnerabilities," he said. Attackers prefer to spend their time and energy targeting the 90 or so percent of computers on the Internet running Windows, he added. (For more on the Mac-PC comparison, see "In their words: Experts weigh in on Mac vs. PC security.")

Recently, Adobe rushed out a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, and Microsoft released an emergency patch for one that exploited a Windows hole to spread the Stuxnet worm, which targets industrial control and critical infrastructure systems. Stuxnet exploited three other Windows vulnerabilities, one of which Microsoft patched last week and two others that are pending.

The Zero Day Tracker site also will include information on unpatched mobile software, which is a growing field. "One of the last iPhone jailbreak hacks out there was actually leveraging a vulnerability within PDF (portable document format) processing on the iPhone," Maiffret said. "That's an example of a zero-day vulnerability on the mobile platform."

In addition to offering a handy resource for people looking for zero-day information, Maiffret hopes that publicizing vulnerabilities on the Zero Day Tracker site will motivate vendors to patch them more quickly. "We want to put pressure on software vendors," he said.

The company is gathering its information from vendors, security e-mail lists, and by monitoring underground and overseas forums where malicious hackers brag about finding or exploiting holes in popular programs. "One (tip) we got was based on conversations on a Chinese message board," Maiffret said.

Often, when announcing a security hole vendors will attempt to assuage customer fears by announcing that attacks targeting the vulnerability have not yet been seen in the wild. But it's usually only a matter of time before an exploit surfaces, particularly if the software is something popular like Windows, Adobe Reader or Internet Explorer, according to Maiffret. "Often it's within the same day," he said.

For instance, Microsoft on Friday warned of a serious hole in its ASP.NET framework used to create Web sites and said it was not aware of any attacks using it. On Monday, the company updated its security advisory on the vulnerability to say that it was aware of "limited, active attacks" using the hole.

Exploits can go undetected for months, or even longer. For example, it's unclear how long the Operation Aurora attack that targeted Google and dozens of other companies via an unknown hole in Internet Explorer was going on. Google disclosed it in January 2010 and said it uncovered it the previous month. But one analysis said it was first tested in the wild five months before then, although it might not have been targeting the same companies at that time. Several days after Google announced the attacks, Microsoft confirmed the IE hole and a week later patched it.
"The vulnerability was being used before the industry knew about it," Maiffret said. "There are a huge number of attacks we don't know about and we typically learn about accidentally."


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/security/?tag=hdr;snav#ixzz10g3UShml

Going corporate: Chrome getting admin-friendly

Chrome, like Android, got its start as a technology geared for individuals, not companies. And just as Google updated Android with features such as Microsoft Exchange support, Chrome is being refashioned for a broader world of corporate use.
 

News.cnet.com. The results of the work can be seen at Google's Chrome administrative information site. The site includes quick-start guides for administrators, policy templates for setting group permissions, and a list of tweakable settings that can be enforced through policies.

For example, administrators can use the settings to prohibit use of particular plug-ins, set the home page, disable synchronization services, and set the interval for checking Chrome's automated update service. That includes halting automatic updates altogether.

Chrome has caught on among early adopters and has tens of millions of users. Getting corporate buy-in could help the browser's prospects, and with it Google's ambition to make the Web a more powerful foundation for applications rather than just Web pages to visit.

It took years for Firefox to attain some legitimacy among corporations, but Chrome in some ways could have an easier time. With Firefox, Mozilla helped fight for the idea that Web pages should be built to conform to various Web standards rather than to just work on the dominant browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

That message caught on, with the upcoming IE9 aggressively embracing many of those standards. For Google, it means it's easier for a new browser to catch on since compatibility issues are less troublesome.
Even with easier compatibility, though, corporate IT personnel are not known for their enthusiasm for embracing new software. They're often naturally conservative, since change can break internal applications, confuse users, and bring other complications. Letting administrators set Chrome behavior will, though, make it more palatable.

originally posted by : Deep Tech

Is the future PC a smartphone? .. (Nvdia Tegra)

Will small, powerful, connected-to-everything devices running on non-Intel silicon become the personal computer? The CEO of graphics-chip supplier Nvidia thinks so.

News.Cnet. The sentiment, voiced at the company's annual conference this week by chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, has been expressed before. And like any strong strategy statement from a Silicon Valley CEO, it's self-serving. Nvidia is staking a good chunk of its future--as much as half of its business--on chips based on the ARM design.

But that doesn't mean Huang has got it all wrong, either. Indeed, ARM-based devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPad, Motorola's Droid, RIM's Blackberry, and countless future smartphones and tablets from Motorola, RIM, Apple, and others will use the ARM chip design. "ARM is the fastest-growing CPU (processor) in the world today. It's the instruction set architecture of choice of mobile computing," Huang said. "It is very clear now that mobile computing will be a completely disruptive force to all of computing."
Huang continued. "This (smartphone) is the first computer that is equipped with all kinds of sensors, cameras, microphones, GPSs, and accelerometers. This is the first computer that's context aware. Situation aware. Who knows, someday it may be self-aware," he said.


Huang raises interesting questions about the future. Will a future PC be a powerful, multi-CPU handheld device that wirelessly connects to large displays and a host of other devices--so the PC is carried around in your pocket or small satchel and then connects on the fly to larger devices and/or peripherals?


But the ARM-based vision also presumes that the largest chipmaker in the world, Intel, is standing still. Which it isn't. When asked at last week's Intel Developer Forum conference if Intel was de-emphasizing smartphones, Chief Executive Paul Otellini responded quickly. "Absolutely not. It's still a major focus of our investment. We're moving toward the launch window of a couple of major phones in 2011. And you've got to lock down before that and go through the interoperability testing with networks. And that's where we are. So, there's nothing really to say until those devices launch on the networks next year."

And Intel recently announced that it was acquiring Infineon's wireless unit, which currently supplies key 3G silicon for the iPhone and other smartphones. The company is also putting considerable resources into the MeeGo operating system, which is well suited for small devices. Broadly speaking, Intel's smartphone strategy is to match the next generation of Atom chips with Infineon baseband silicon and 4G technology to eventually offer a full smartphone chip solution. (And Intel isn't doing a bad job with its current Atom design either, which powers over 70 million tiny Netbooks, with many 3G-capable models sold through Verizon and AT&T.)
That said, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, Nvidia, and other ARM players will build the brains for many of these devices. But Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will too. And, to be sure, Nvidia's future in this market, considering all of the entrenched ARM competition, is probably less certain than Intel's.

Delphi 7 Personal Edition Portable dan VB 6.0 Portable

Currently, portable applications has become a trend, because mobility of use and simplicity. Only from devices like USB Flash Dis, We can use a variety of portable applications with a single click.

This time, I found two  Portable Application . Namely Delphi 7 and Visual Basic 6 Portable. although some of its features can not be used, but these applications can still be used with the current for certain features

To make Delphi 7 PE Portable, Delphi program must be installed on the computer and with this tool will be produced by Delphi 7 PE Portable version, which we can carry around in a flash disk with ease. So this download is not his own Delphi applications, because only about 418 KB in size.

Delphi 7 compiler PE itself is released as freeware by Borland when it, and freely used for personal rather than commercial origin, because it limited the included components. But now download the Delphi 7 PE was not provided by CodeGear, even then, there's still a download link at another address.

VB 6.0 Portable own size of approximately 16 MB. VB version of this portable package complete with deployment wizard and VB6 runtime files, but no icons, help files or additional components. If you are familiar with VB programming, this version seems to be adequate. Information: When installing this program, just click "ignore" when it comes up error messages, because some programs written in VB 4, so that might bring the message. According to the author it does not matter, because the program runs fine in windows Xp. But unfortunately we can not generate an exe file with this portable version.

DOWNLOAD

• Visual Basic 6.0 Portable (16Mb)
• Delphi 7 Personal Edition Portable Maker (418 KB). if you need the Source Code -->  Source Code

If You not have yet a Dephi 7 Personal Edition, you can download it here -->  http://kobol.org/Delphi/Delphi7_Personal.zip (53.7 MB).

Memasang TV online di Blog atau Website Pribadi

Ada berbagai cara untuk memasang TV Online di website atau Blog kita khususnya untuk di Blogger.com (blogspot) atau di wordpress.org. Kebanyakan sekarang sudah di blok, sebagian katanya "karena alasan lisensi".

Langsung saja, untuk memasang Online TV di Blogspot/Blogger kita bisa memasang script di bawah ini di sidebar atau di Postingan kita. Silahkan Copy Paste Script dibawah ini :

Untuk di Wordpress.org (Wordpress.com saya belum mencoba -perbedaan wordpress.com adalah free dan wordpress.org berbayar/ self hosting). Saya menggunakan Plugin Insere Iframes Untuk wordpress. Aktifkan Plugin nya dan copy paste script dibawah ini di Page/halaman, widget atau di postingan kita.

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