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- Cool Websites and Tools [July 9th]
- The 5 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers]
- Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone
- 6 Humorous Ways To Annoy Friends On Facebook
- Hot Tech Deals [July 9th]
- Top 8 Great Alternatives To Mobile Safari [iPhone/iPod Touch]
- 10 Sites That Will Teach You How To Draw
- How To Save Your Complete Facebook Chat History
- Download Entire Sections Of The Internet To Read Offline With WinWSD
- Zinio – Read Your Favorite Magazines On Your iPad (or PC)
| Cool Websites and Tools [July 9th] Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| The 5 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 09 Jul 2010 06:30 PM PDT
This week’s Best Answer of the Week was provided by Sueska to this question: “Why won't chkdsk notify screen go away?” Congratulations! Without further ado, here are the best questions of the week:
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| Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:31 PM PDT
After all, we’re dependent on these devices. What if it was stolen? You don’t want your private information in the wrong hands, especially since these new phones are capable of making purchases online. In this article, I am going to cover a few of the tools you can use to locate your lost or stolen cell phone. So the next time you lose your phone, hopefully it won’t take all day to find it.
WhereisMyCellPhone
For a lot of you, this may be the only tool you need. If you don’t have a house phone (less and less people do every day), you can go to WhereisMyCellPhone and dial your number for free. We’ve covered this app in our directory before. Simply type in your number, click Find It!, and let it ring until your phone is found. There is no registration required to use this app. This app is US-only. BlueRetriever
If you think you’ve left your phone in a public place, you can try this directory app. BlueRetriever is pretty cool in that it allows you to create a wallpaper for your phone that has a site URL and an ID number on it.
When someone finds your phone, they can go to the website, type in the ID number, and they will be able to find out who the phone belongs to. You can even offer them a reward, which you set yourself, of up to $100 in gift cards (Amazon, Starbucks, Target) or donations with Kiva. Site registration is free and BlueRetriever supports the following devices:
[Note]: If your phone is not on the list, feel free to try the service anyway. You may however need to crop the image to fit on your phone’s screen. Lookout
This app supports Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones. Lookout provides security in the form of virus and malware protection, data backup of your contacts and photos, and device location. The site says that if you can’t find your phone you can make it “scream” (not quite sure what that means) or wipe it out. F-Secure Anti-Theft
If you’re really worried about your data being stolen, you can look into F-Secure Anti-Theft (directory). Supported by Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, and Android, this application provides the ability to track your lost phone, remotely lock it, and even remotely wipe out all the data. If your phone is stolen, you can text message a key to your phone to find its geo-location. Send the phone different keys to perform the activities mentioned above. We’ve covered similar software in WaveSecure and BuddyWay. iTag [Android]If you own an Android phone, you need an app like iTag. Once installed this app will allow you to view your cell phone’s location, make it ring from the website even if it is set to silent or vibrate, lock the keys, back up your contacts, delete the information on the phone, and more. There’s not much this app can’t do in the way of finding your cell phone. ConclusionDid you find your lost cell phone? I hope you did. Other articles you can check out relating to this matter include How To Trace & Deactivate A Stolen Cell Phone, How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude, and 6 Possible Signs Your Cell Phone May Be Tapped. Image Credit: boostmobile Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| 6 Humorous Ways To Annoy Friends On Facebook Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:31 PM PDT
Notice that I mentioned the word “fun” a few times in the previous paragraph. It is true that Facebook is a place to network and to keep up with people. However, it can also be a fun place to play around with your friends.
I can come up with a few. Try them out and see if you can pull them off in the spirit of fun without making enemies. Without further adieu, here’s how to go out of your way to annoy friends on Facebook. 1. Go Through Their Profile Pictures, Add Stupid Comments In Speech Balloons & Tag Them.A friend of mine did this to his sister and the result was hilarious! The idea is to choose a picture where you can see their faces. If they are doing something funny, it’s even better. Go to the page with the picture, right-click and click and save the image. Open it in your favorite image editing program, and add some mad cool text. Use a speech balloon if you’ve got the skills.
Don’t forget to tag them or else what would be the fun? 2. Make Annoying Comments On Their Updates.Try to be creative in your annoyance here. You could try repeating everything they say (ever done the “copying” game as a kid… or coworker?). This game becomes easier with a tool like Facebook because you can always copy and paste. Indubitably they’ll respond with “Stop copying me!” and that conversation could become endless. You could also respond to every update with something like “That’s stupid.” You may get lucky and have them respond with “Why?”
3. Create A Fanpage For A Friend & See How Long It Takes Him To Notice.Fan pages are fun, but not as much fun as making one for a friend! Make sure you make up lots of goofy stuff that people will know is not true. Share with the world all of their super powers and the type of stuff they like to eat. Just make it totally annoying and you’ll have succeeded. When the fan page is done, start inviting mutual friends and see how long it takes for the friend to notice. I suppose you could either communicate on his behalf in an annoying manner or just speak about him in the third person. 4. Tell The World Every Single Thing You Are Doing Throughout The Whole Day.OK, I know this one hits too close to home for a few of you but for the sake of being annoying, take it to a whole new extreme. Don’t just say that you brushed your teeth, but describe it for us. Find every detail of your life that day and describe it. If you want to make life easier, guess as close as possible how your day is going to be, and what you are going to be doing, and use a tool like HootSuite to schedule posts ahead of time. Schedule them every couple of minutes or even once an hour. Just enough to really get under your friends’ skin.
5. Paste Random Bits Of Code Into Your Status Updates.Not sure why you’d want to do this, but random bits of code will be sure to annoy your friends. It could also show your techier side at the same time. You could either use it in conjunction with actually saying something.
or just by itself.
6. Become Infatuated With CAPS Lock.Ever since the internet began to be popular, the CAPS lock has always meant you are yelling. Start updating using all caps. It’ll really get people’s attention. You may get annoying responses telling you to keep it down as if their ears are actually hurting.
Be careful as you do some of these. You don’t want to bombard your friends with so much annoying garbage that you start losing them. Oh and these are just a few ways to get on the nerves of your lovely friends on Facebook. I know for sure that there are more so share your favorites in the comments, would you? Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Top 8 Great Alternatives To Mobile Safari [iPhone/iPod Touch] Posted: 09 Jul 2010 12:30 PM PDT
There is no in-page text search (though there’s a bookmarklet); no fullscreen mode, no real tabs (though there’s Tabulate, a bookmarklet that aims to provide a way for you to flag links to read later in new tabs); no orientation lock: it becomes inconvenient when you’re leaning back on your comfy chair and can’t surf without being annoyed by the constant orientation changes in mobile Safari; can’t cache pages for offline reading; no download manager; and no incognito mode (one must clear history/cookies manually).
Kidding aside, let’s get started with these browsers for the iPhone and iPod Touch (in this article, “iPhod” for short). A. Everyday-Use Browsers1. Opera Mini (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
We talked about Opera Mini before so please don’t hesitate to read it for full feature details. In short, the best features Opera Mini for iPhod offers include:
What it doesn’t have:
2. VanillaSurf (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
What it doesn’t currently have:
3. Atomic Web Browser Lite (for iPhod and iPad)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
What it doesn’t currently have (but its full $0.99 version does):
Honorable mention goes out to Mercury (for iPhod), which has gotten 3.5/5.0 stars, but kept crashing on my iPod Touch with iOS 4 though I was able to get this screenshot.
Mercury is a fullscreen browser that saves pages for offline viewing, displays real tabs, has a private browsing mode, as well as customizable startup screens showing a Speed Dial-esque bookmark springboard, homepage, or tabs from the last session. It also seems to have a built-in download manager. If you manage to give it a try, feel free to share your experience in the comments! B. Private/Secure BrowsersYou can manually clear history and cookies in mobile Safari, use VanillaSurf and Atomic Lite from above in their private surfing modes or you could use the following ad-free browsers as they automatically discard your list of visited webpages and cookies. Although your network provider or employer (if you’re on a company network) can still monitor your internet activity, these apps may come in handy if, say, you are worried that your personal information might be disclosed should your iPhod ever get lost or stolen. Therefore, these browsers will have limited functions as your user settings will be cleared every time you exit out of the app (e.g. you won’t be able to import bookmarks, customize the homepage, etc.) 1. Aquari (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
When you exit the app, your cookies, search/browsing history and any login information will be instantly cleared. 2. Private (for iPhod and iPad)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
This browser is for people looking to just surf without additional features (e.g. bookmarks, tabs, and additional search engines other than Google) and without leaving traces of visited websites. 3. inBrowser (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
Like Private, the inBrowser app doesn’t have support for bookmarks, tabs, and other search engines, but it does give you a one-shake offering to go into a safe page while it also clears your history on exit. C. Download Manager + BrowserVanillaSurf comes with a built-in web server that lets you transfer bookmarks and other files between your desktop browser and your iPhod, but it’s not very intuitive. If you’re looking to transfer a quick file to your iPhod in Linux, for example, which iTunes doesn’t support, these apps might come in handy. 1. Download Manager Lite (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
Only 10 files can be downloaded at maximum for this version. If you want simpler download managers with built-in browsers, be sure to check out Downloads Lite (lets you download up to 7 files) or the very similar MyMedia (has no maximum and no computer-iPhod file sharing). 2. Downloader Lite (for iPhod)iTunes customer rating:
Best features:
Like Download Manager Lite, Downloader Lite (I know, confusing, right?), has a limit of 10 downloaded files. If you have an iPad, you could also try iSaveWeb Lite, which has gotten 3.5/5.0 ratings, though on my iPod with iOS4, it kept crashing. Personally, my favorite browsers are Atomic Lite and Download Manager Lite. Which browsers, mentioned here or not, do you prefer? Image credit: MDGraphs Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| 10 Sites That Will Teach You How To Draw Posted: 09 Jul 2010 11:31 AM PDT
I could never hold a tune, but to a moderate degree I succeeded in holding a brush and palette. I never reached the artistic heights of a Picasso or anywhere remotely close, but I did well enough to breeze through Biology's vertical sections and sundry anatomical illustrations. The art classes that I took certainly helped to shore up my understanding of symmetry and perspective.
How to Draw It
How to Draw it is a simple site but with lots of lessons. From the kid who is just beginning to take up the art to the guy who needs to go back to the basics, the lessons cover all. The beginner lessons are composed of 10 exercises from shading to use of watercolors. The fundamental concepts will require a lot of reading, but it's worth that for understanding how creative art comes together. For instance: the laws behind good composition. The specialty of the site seems to be the lessons that show how to draw different kinds of animals easily. Drawspace
Drawspace is definitely one of the best sites you could go to for learning how to draw and sketch. The person behind the site is Brenda Hoddinott. It's not only the variety of things you can learn to draw or the well supported discussion board on the site. It's also the layout of the site where you can jump straight to your skill level (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) or choose a particular skill from the dropdown. Then there is the Gallery of finished art to seek inspiration from. You might especially like the high quality downloadable PDF tutorials that are detailed with illustrations and steps. You can also view them online. If you doubt your caliber as an artist, download and read the lesson titled – Understanding Talent. To access the lessons in full, you need to register (free). Rate My Drawings
Rate My Drawings is a leading online art community with 50,000 plus members. The site is a platform for drawing tutorials and community discussion forums to learn and share. The site has a Flash based interface that's like an online canvas. Users draw using the Flash based (or the more advanced Java based) drawing software tool, and people rate drawings with a score that's anything between a masterpiece and a disaster. The online drawing tool is also the canvas for multi-user collaborative art. You can draw and chat. For instance, an interactive tutoring session can be easily set up by two or more users. About.com (DrawSketch)
About.com is usually a bouquet of guides written by guides who know their stuff. The DrawSketch section focuses on drawing and art. You can stat from Learn to Draw and go on to the various Projects and Techniques that cover everything from landscapes to anime and manga (Japanese cartoons). There are also a few video tutorials mentioned on the side. One thing you can definitely do is sign up for the newsletter. Drawing Now
Drawing Now is a user driven site that's simple and not overwhelming for the beginner or the intermediate user. With a free membership you can enjoy interactive features like live chat and IM. The tutorials are step by step and easy to follow. What makes them easier to follow are the screencasts along with the step by step instructions. You can also create your own tutorials, thus teaching others how to draw. Drawing Coach
Drawing Coach leans more towards caricatures and cartoons. Though the number of lessons isn't that many, it has a lot of variety. The lessons are rated according to their difficulty level, so you can jump straight in. Want to learn how to do tattoos? Check out the lessons that cover tattoo art. Drago Art
Drago Art is not only about learning to draw dragons. That's just reserved for 80 odd of the 3,000+ tutorials the site offers. If you have drawing tutorials on mythical beasts, then you get ones on sci-fi too. Then there are categories that cover fantasy themes and manga too. Check out all the drawing categories on the left sidebar. Right at the bottom, you will find a few that cover the basics of drawing techniques. Drago Art takes you through the paces with both step by step illustrations as well as video tutorials. How To Draw Cartoons Online
If you want to learn how to draw Spock or do a drawing impersonation of Darth Vader, check out this site. Though, very basic in looks, the site covers a lot of categories like 80's styled cartoons to video game characters like Pacman. And of course, Mr. Spock and Darth Vader. Deviant Art
If you have just taken up the paintbrush or the pencil, it will take you a while to reach Deviant Art. Deviant Art is probably the largest art community on the net. The site says it has 13 million registered members. As a beginner, the sole purpose of frequent visits to this online 'art gallery' is inspiration. Though, there is a large enough tutorial resource. The site showcases what you too can create with a bit of work on your artistic skills. YouTube
YouTube hosts a lot of video tutorials on drawing and illustration. Some of them belong to the sites we have mentioned above. Search YouTube with something like 'drawing' and the search box drops down a few auto-suggestions for you. For instance, with a keyword like 'drawing lessons' you get about 3,300 results. A simpler search with 'drawing' gives 126,000+ videos. The search throws up a few drawing playlists which are series of videos arranged on the topic. Of course, you can be more specific with the keywords too. You can go into the search options and use filters like Channel and Duration to better organize your search results. Well, do these sites somehow inspire you to take up the brush (or the digital pen)? Or would you rather pick up the saxophone? Let us know. Image Credit: Gambarrotti Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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| How To Save Your Complete Facebook Chat History Posted: 09 Jul 2010 10:31 AM PDT
Taking note of conversations may sound unnecessary, or even plain paranoid, but often proves to be extremely useful. Recalling those conversations word by word is one heck of a superpower.
Below is an alternative method to permanently save your Facebook chat history, using browser extensions. Using A Firefox Add-On Or Google Chrome ExtensionBefore we head off, let’s dispel a common misconception that has already earned these extensions some bad ratings. This technique does not allow you to delve into long lost conversations, prior to the usage of these extensions. Why not? Simple; because Facebook does not keep those around. So unless you can find yourself a time machine, there’s no way to recover those. From the moment you’re set up however, these extensions will remember every single word said. And those can be retrieved later on. Start out by downloading and installing Facebook Chat History Manager as a Firefox add-on or Google Chrome extension. There’s still a little work ahead before they’re running smoothly, though.
On Google Chrome, go to Window -> Extensions -> [FbCHM] Options, as can be seen in the screenshot above. You’re now in the extension’s Options pane. On the left, select ‘Get Facebook ID‘. On Firefox, go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager -> Get Facebook ID. After logging into your account and authorizing the Facebook application, you’ll be able to view your Facebook ID. This is a number unique to your Facebook account. Copy it to your clipboard; you’ll need it in the next step.
On Google Chrome, go to Window -> Extensions -> [FbCHM] Options -> Create Account. On Firefox, go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager -> Create Account. Use the previously obtained Facebook ID to create your account. The passwords here do not have to match your Facebook log-in password. It’s solely to keep your chat logs safe. Because you’ll have to log in later on, and again whenever you want to browse your chat history, an easy to remember login name can speed this up. This is optional though.
After creating your account, the set-up process is complete. The browser extensions will quietly keep track of your Facebook chat history, and allow to access it later on.
The Google Chrome extension will place an icon on your address bar, as can be seen in the screenshot above. Clicking it will prompt you for your username and password, before sending you off to your chat logs. On Firefox, simply go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager ->View History. Here too, you’ll need to enter your account details.
The Facebook chat history viewer isn’t very pretty, but does what it’s meant to do. On the top bar, you can select a period; on the left, a friend. To view older conversations, select ‘previous‘, or use an input field to jump to a specific page. If you’ve got anything to add – whether tips or alternatives – feel free to make use of the comments section below! NEW: Download MakeUseOf iPhone App. FREE! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Download Entire Sections Of The Internet To Read Offline With WinWSD Posted: 09 Jul 2010 09:31 AM PDT
In this article I’m going to introduce you to a cool freeware app called WinWSD, written by Attila Keszi of Hungary.
Downloading An Entire WebsiteThe most common use for applications like WinWSD is to download a “mirror” of an entire website. This will basically let you browse every single page on an entire website even though you’re offline. Obviously many external links or images won’t work properly, but all of the local files, scripts, images and videos will all work without an Internet connection. Initiating a download is easy. Once you’ve installed WinWSD, just go to “New Project“, create a new folder for your local copy, and then the Project Settings window will open.
The Project Directory will be the directory you’ve just created before this window. The project name can be whatever you like, but most important is the “Starting URLs” field. To download an entire website, insert the root domain of that site in this box. You can click or unclick any of the boxes to define how the program will crawl through the site, but default settings are usually fine. Once you’re done and back on the main page, just go into the “project” menu option and click “Start/Restart.”
This initiates the crawling script, which will go through all links, starting from the “starting URL” and it will download each entire page including all images, videos and more. As the process goes on, you’ll see 5 threads (downloads) running at once at the bottom of the screen. You can increase or decrease the number of threads depending on your processor power.
The window to the left shows the download and website statistics – things like the download speed, the hard drive space consumed by the mirrored site on your drive, and any errors.
The large center pane of the application is basically a web browser. Once you have an entire website backed up to your hard drive, you can use this application to browse through the website while offline. You can also browse the site using any Internet browser of your choice by opening the index.html file in your project folder with that browser.
You can see the location of the file that you’re viewing at the lower part of the browser window. You know you’re browsing offline when you see that the location starts in “file:///” and the url is the project location you defined in the settings.
The file structure for a site mirror is basically a directory for every web page, which includes all files like html pages, images, videos and whatever else makes the page load correctly. Local links on the page go to the directory for that new page. External links remain the same, so obviously those won’t work while you’re browsing offline.
Download Entire Websites From Several Start PagesNow, this application really stands out when you want to conduct offline research using articles from multiple websites. Let’s say that you’re working on a research paper and you’re conducting Google searches for good reference material. You’ve got a trip coming up, so you don’t have time to read through those websites, but you jot down the URLs in Notepad. One option you could use if you want to read through those entire web pages offline is to take a mirror of those pages using the article URLs you found as the “Starting URLs” in the Project Settings.
Here, I’ve pasted three URLs I found for some research on a speech that President Obama gave in Michigan. I set the three references that I found as the Starting URLs for a new project, and then clicked on Start/Restart under “Project.”
As you can see above, such a search takes a lot of space (1,483 files in this example), but if you have a portable hard disk, it shouldn’t be a problem. Basically you’re downloading the entire page with images and other files, as well as downloading the entire page of any internal sites that page links to. This way, while you’re reading those articles offline, you can click to any other internal pages and those links will still work. Here is what offline viewing looks like, and you can see the offline location as well as the subdirectory for this particular “Project.”
You can create a new project for every research topic you want to work on offline, which helps keep all of your work organized. If you travel a lot, WinWSD can really help optimize your research work even though you have no access to the Internet. Have you ever used WinWSD? What do you think about the software? Do you know of any other offline browsing alternatives? Share your insight in the comments section below. Image Credit: Internet and Future by CJLUC Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Zinio – Read Your Favorite Magazines On Your iPad (or PC) Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:31 AM PDT
It's great that so much expensive paper is recycled, but in the age of the iPad I long to see a lot less paper magazines on magazine stands and a lot more available to subscribers using the iPad and other forthcoming tablet devices.
As it stands now, Zinio Magazine & Reader (iTunes Store link) is the most useful digital magazine publication app for the iPad. Zinio has been around for a while as a computer magazine reader. It distributes thousands of full-color magazines, from Rolling Stone, Car and Driver, to Time Magazine. Many of the most popular magazines that you see on newsstands can be downloaded from Zinio. Most of the publications are not free, but the Zinio apps, both the mobile and desktop versions, are very much free. In my experience as a Zinio user, its iPad app has opened a new experience with magazine subscriptions for iPad. As I have said many times, the iPad lends itself to great reading experience of nearly all publication formats, e.g. PDFs, e-books, magazines, and webpages.
With the Zinio magazine reader on my iPad, I'm starting to reduce the amount of paper magazines on my book shelves and in my office closet. I look forward to reading all my magazines using apps like Zinio. When you subscribe to a magazine for iPad, you don't have to wait several months for that subscription to begin, and when new issues are released they are available to your Zinio account much sooner than the paper versions in the mail. Zinio for the iPad is a pretty straightforward application that downloads your magazine subscriptions to your device. Similar to e-readers like iBooks and Amazon Kindle for the iPad, it has the familiar vertical turning pages feature, a quick linear and thumbnail access to the table of contents of selected publications, and – for us readers with poor eyesight – a very useful zoom feature for enlarging pages.
While the “page turning” in the app is smooth, it takes a second or two for the pages to fully load. Other than that, however, the resolution quality of the digital pages is very good for both words and images. There's also a text-only features for magazine articles.
Some magazines come with interactive extras, e.g. audio and video. With your Zinio account, you can also sync subscriptions between your mobile devices and your computer – Mac, Linux or PC. Zinio ReaderZinio has just released an updated Adobe Air version of its computer reader, Zinio Reader 4. The experience of reading magazines on your computer, or even the iPhone, is not, in my view, as friendly as reading on the iPad. However, the desktop reader has many more features than the iPad version.
With Zinio Reader you can share via email and other social networking sites links to selected pages of your subscribed magazines, as well as bookmark pages and clip content with comments. This is a very useful tool that is completely missing for some reason from the iPad app. Also missing from the mobile version is the ability to search keywords in publications.
Missing annotation features from the iPad version are a big impediment to this app; I look forward to these features in forthcoming updates. These shortcomings, however, don't prevent this e-reader magazine reader from being a very useful application for the iPad. Perhaps Apple will eventually include magazine and newspapers as part of its iBooks download, but until then Zinio is the best solution. Let us know about your reading experiences on your iPad or iPhone. Do you get most of your reading done on these devices? Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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