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Google has announced public release of their web traffic analysis software Urchin Beta for download as a 90 day evaluation version, the software provides functions similar to the free Google Analytics service but Urchin can be installed and managed on your own servers, Google warned that the beta software "should only be used for evaluation purposes," and is not recommended for production environment.

Urchin can be used on servers having content behind a security firewall or having restrictions which does not allow use of Google Analytics.

Urchin Software from Google features the following upgrades from Urchin 5, among many others:

• More accurate geo-identification of visitors
• Cross-segmentation options similar to Google Analytics
• E-commerce and campaign tracking included (no longer requiring additional modules)
• Vastly improved embedded scheduler to more easily manage processing and re-processing jobs
• Improved user interface
• More robust log processing engine

We have blogged about "Free Live TV" using "Satellite TV For PC 2008 ELITE EDITION" earlier, there exist several similar services both paid and free providing live streaming video feeds, one such free service is SopCast - A free P2P based internet TV system, being a cricket fan myself I had hunted down few working free live cricket streaming channels to watch the ongoing India Vs Australia

PictoMio is a exciting new 3D image management software, the free software is currently in its early ALPHA version stage but is still quite stable and feature rich, there is a lot of eye-candy in the software which requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.

Pictomio categorize, manage, search, and archive images and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. The Pictomio software is composed of three parts - photo browser and slideshow editor, a slideshow viewer, and a slideshow screensaver.

"Stop AutoPlay" is a free firefox extension to block annoying autoplay media on webpages like background sounds and auto-start movies, Stop Autoplay will stop the auto-loading media and allow you to control whether to play it or not.

To block the autoplay of the embedded media, you have two modes to choose:

• Disable only the autoplay of the embedded media. In this case, the media file will still be loaded and embedded when page is loading. Press the Play button of the controller when you want.
• Block the media when loading a page. It will be replaced by a red frame with a play button in the center. Click in the red frame to load and then play it.

It is advised not to use this extension with Flashblock extension for Firefox.