Auto Delete (via Shell City) by Dario Volaric is a similar tool for Windows. The main difference is that it will run at system startup or when the user executes it manually. Another difference is that it will only delete files in the directory if they are older than the age specified by the user. The time frame ranges from 1 day to 1 year.

The user can include subfolders automatically, select if the files should be moved into the recycle or if a status window should be shown during the deletion.

The software program will automatically close after the job has ended. The main limitation of it is that it can only process one target folder. It is also unlikely that the software developer will update the program anytime soon because the last update dates back to 2005.

Do you know of a similar application that can delete files if they are older than x? Let us know in the comments.

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In a tragic story from NewTeeVee, we learn that a 19-year-old user of the online live-streaming video service Justin.TV has apparently commit suicide in front of an audience of fellow forum dwellers egging him on during the process. The death has been confirmed with the Broward County medical examiner and the timeline has been pieced together from several different forums that have chronicled the unfortunate series of events.

Most of the participants, as well as the deceased Abraham K. Biggs, were denizens of steroid information forum bodybuilding.com. Biggs, also known as CandyJunkie on the forum and Feels Like Ecstasy on Justin.TV, is alleged to have been a “well known troll” on the forum. He created a thread in the “misc” category yesterday afternoon detailing the amount of drugs he’s going to take with the intention to kill himself.

The moderators of the forum didn’t take his threats seriously “on account of his past trolling,” and other forum members continue to egg him on. At that point, Biggs posted his suicide note, which conveyed a general sense of depression and disappointment with life, not necessarily motivated by any hardship or cyber-bullying he may have received online.

At that point, Biggs turned on his Justin.TV channel, took the pills and laid down to go to sleep on his bed. After an unspecified amount of time, one forum member in particular from India became concerned by Biggs’ lack of movement and hunted down the actual name and location. He then pleaded with the forum to call the Miami-Dade police department, but was met with cynical replies declining to intervene on account of his “troll status.”

After several unsuccessful emails by the forum member to Miami-Dade police, he borrowed his father’s mobile and spoke to a number of policemen who didn’t take the call seriously, but directed him to the Broward County Sheriff’s Department.

Approximately an hour later, Biggs’ door was busted down and BSO and paramedics arrived on the scene. After quickly confirming his status, covered the camera.

This Isn’t a Result of Cyber Bullying, but the Behavior is No Less Atrocious.

We’re no stranger to covering suicides that take place with a large social component, and as chilling as it may be, this sort of thing will cease to be headline news in the future and actually be regarded as commonplace.

In 2004, students of Japanese culture were shocked to learn of online suicide clubs amongst the youth there. Over the the summer, I covered here at Mashable a series of suicides that were highly documented by virtue of their Bebo pages.

Children and young people committing suicide is not new.  Doing it in full view of the public by virtue of their social networking profiles or even live on camera as with Biggs is. This is simply a side-effect of our always on culture.

It’s easy to look for bad people or the misbehaved as scapegoats, and in this particular instance, there is plenty of blame to go around.  A screen capture of the chat room next to Biggs’ camera shows a shocking disregard for his feelings and of human life in general. Those of us who’ve been denizens of the Internet for any length of time know this is nothing new.

Events such as this are bait for politicians and empathetic impetus for well-meaning citizens alike to come together with righteous fury for social change and try to either pass a law or convict a suspect to “right the wrong,” “find justice,” and “prevent it from occurring again.”

I won’t pretend to know the pain of Biggs’ family, or any other family of a suicide victim, but as I said in the aftermath of the Bebo Suicide Cult, technology isn’t the demon here, only a conduit for the symptoms. It is the portal that can allow us assist our loved ones and perhaps spot a tragedy like this some distance off. Social media and social networking is meant to facilitate real live human interaction, which in the case of the depressed and suicidal can be what the doctor ordered.

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Apple appears to have taken a page out of Mozilla’s playbook, since iPhone Your Life presents select iPhone apps in a way very similar to Fashion Your Firefox’s organization of add-ons for their popular internet browser. As on the Mozilla site, items are organized into broad categories that attempt to group apps by use and/or context for use. Apple provides five categories:

• Around Town: Location-aware apps and directories for finding things to do, eat, etc.
• World Travel: Map, language, and conversion apps for smooth globe-trotting.
• At Home: Past-times and fun for the family, plus apps that interact with your Mac.
• Getting Things Done: A lot of (surprise!) GTD apps.
• Fun and Games: Many of the higher profile games available for the iPhone, and some silliness.

Each category’s page presents a brief description of around ten apps that are somehow connected with the overall theme. Submenus containing lists of Top Apps or Staff Picks in the category are also included. Pages can be sent to a friend using convenient links following the App descriptions.

The site seems to be aimed at relatively novice users, and is probably designed more as a supplement to the ongoing iPhone “Dilemmas” campaign than as a functional, thematic app browser. Still, iPhone Your Life is well presented, and might reveal a hidden gem or two that you’ve somehow neglected to pick up on in your obsessive refreshing of AppShopper.com. Or maybe I’m just projecting.

This is a very important test case for the internet industry in Australia. It will test the effect of the safe harbor provisions that were introduced with the US free trade agreement, which provides immunity for ISPs in certain circumstances such as transmission, hosting, caching and referencing activities.

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I remember thinking then, my TV-poisoned child mind in rapture, “Now that is the future.” This is the point: It’s almost 2009. I’m getting really tired of the same old search engines, just giving you a list of links like that’s the only thing you can handle. This is the future. It’s here. We’re only 6 years away from where McFly junior fictionally watched his multiTV (2015), and we’re still looking at a list of blue-texted links in a list with a white background? Come on! What year is this? Stop it already! Look what’s out there! Read this blog! Check out Viewzi!

When I first saw this, I felt I was McFly Jr., finally fulfilling my childhood fantasy of watching all those TV channels at once. That’s what it was.

Viewzi takes your search query, tries to figure out what it is, content wise, and what you’re looking for, and gives you a whole bunch of different possible views that can help you see what you want clearly, and by golly futuristically. You can check out the video for all the different views there are and you can pick your favorites and personalize of course, but the point is this. If you’re searching for a video, there’s a video view. If you’re searching for music, there’s an album view. If you’re searching for weather, there’s a weather view. If you’re searching for screenshots, there’s that. Not just a list of links.

For my very first search, I typed in my favorite band. It is They Might Be Giants. I go to the album view, and I see a list of albums, laid out on a screen, with pictures of all the albums, like so.

I noticed there’s an album I do not have. I click on it, to see what songs there are. Some new ones!

Maybe I should listen to them and see if I want this thing? I click listen. Viewzi leads me to a music site that allows me to play the song I clicked on.

This is not an attempt to break Google or Yahoo. It is an attempt to wake the world up to the possibilities of organized visual search. The potential is so huge, and it’s beginning to be actualized. But in order for it to be fully realized, these new guys need our help. Go to Viewzi. Understand the possibilities. No lists of links. Links are just text. They don’t let you see anything. Live free. Vision. Pick your view. Watch your channels. See it all at once. Become…Marty McFly.