This past January, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new shared office space based in the SoMa district of San Francisco. The idea was to create a private clubhouse where invited entrepreneurs (including California’s Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom) could come to hang out and small, referred startups could rent space. Today, the don’t-call-it-an-incubator incubator had its first demo day.

Overall, the quality of the 12 startups that gave presentations seem very solid. A number of them already have funding in place. And some even come by way of other incubators, like Y Combinator. We’ve covered a few of them already, but here’s a rundown of all 12 startups that gave presentations today. Well, actually 11 of them. 1 is still in stealth mode and made me double pinky swear that I wouldn’t reveal what I saw.

Cake Health — The idea behind this startup is more or less to be the Mint for health insurance, as we wrote when we first covered them last month. They aim to be the best free way to manage your health care expenses — something which I think everyone will agree is a huge pain right now. Cake Health provides a simple way for you to input your current healthcare information and gives you easy-to-understand data to show you where your money is going and more importantly, where you can save money. One of the co-founders is an ex-TechCrunch developer.

Chart.io — This is one of the Y Combinator alums focusing on the business intelligence space — which they call “massively broken”. Essentially, they’re Google Analytics for databases. And they already have some big time clients such as Airbnb and Aviary. From the get go, they give you fully customized database information access that can be mixed and matched in a ton of different ways. We’ve also covered them previous here.

DotCloud — This another Y Combinator alum that a couple months ago raised a large $10 million round from Benchmark and others. They aim to solve the choice and management problem that developers have today given how many tools are now at their disposal. Developers go to DotCloud, pick the tools they wish to use to build their applications, and in 30 seconds they can be up and running thanks to the DotCloud infrastructure which sets up and manages everything on their end. This is for consumer apps, web apps, enterprise apps, etc.

EpicRebates — Each year, 1.5 billion mail-in rebates don’t get redeemed. That’s $20 billion consumers are missing out on. That’s the market for EpicRebates. Just as Netflix arose out of late fees, these guys are springing up to cap this waste of money. The aim is to dramatically improve the mail-in rebate experience by making it a fully digital one. Consumers will be able to track rebates with their apps, as well as see which ones are actually worth it.

Formative Labs — Another company we previously covered, Formative Labs is using social experiences to get consumers to lower their energy consumption habits. In the next few weeks, they will launch a new platform called Double Impact (like the Van Dammemovie) which aims match brands (who are already spending billions of dollars each year on charity) with consumers who want to help the environment but need motivation. The platform will use Facebook to motivate through social means and to promote brands that want to be associated with good causes.

Groupiter — These guys aim to be a sort of Yammer for creative product teams. In other words, they’re a communication tool to help creative people and teams more easily get stuff done. So why not just use Yammer? Because often creative professionals need outside collaboration. And they need ways to talk to clients from the organizational tools they use. The main thought is to be able to bounce ideas off of your own braintrust at will, rather than just in creative meetings once a week.

OpenAppMkt — This team has built an HTML5 app store. Essentially, they want to be what Apple’s App Store is, but for the open web. Why? Because a major pain point for developers right now is having to code apps for multiple platforms. And that problem will not go away unless someone creates a centralized store for HTML5 mobile applications that works. OpenAppMkt believe their solution does because they practice what they preach: their own app is an HTML5 one. It looks similar to Apple’s App Store, but it’s much easier to get into and just as easy to use.

ProximityWare — They put WiFi “to work” by transforming WiFi hotspots into marketing hubs. If you’ve ever been to Union Square in San Francisco and hoped on the WiFi, these guys handle the marketing served up to you there. They offer customers the benefit of having zero installation because they work with existing networks. And they work with networks of any size. Maybe you want to serve an ad over the WiFi in a stadium, or maybe you just want to push a survey over the WiFi in an office. They can do both. And they get a lot of data from these partnerships. And as WiFi continues to expand everywhere, they’ll get even more.

RethinkBooks — They are a white label social reading platform focusing right now on the Christian market. Very targeted, but also very big — with no competition. While it’s considered to be the “wild west” right now in digital publishing, it’s even crazier in the Christian market because it’s behind in the digital revolution. RethinkBooks gives the Christian publisher the tools they need to make their books social and put them out there on today’s latest devices. It’s a $2.3 billion market. We previously covered them last November.

Revel Systems — The aim here is to completely disrupt the point of sale idea for restaurants and retail. Originally, they set out to create an iPhone app to help with the out-of-date POS services being used by most retailers today, but when they saw the iPad, they knew that was the future. Now they provide everything a retailer needs — the software, the iPad, even the cash drawer — to run their own POS system. They key selling point is price — Revel Systems model is much cheaper than traditional ones. But also data and ease of use. Of course, there is now competition here, but it’s a massive potential market.

TheIceBreak — We now have social apps and games for just about everything. But one thing that has remained relatively untouched are relationships. Not new ones, but existing relationships — romantic ones. 60 percent of Facebook users in the U.S. are supposedly in a realtionship currently, and while there are services that help you find love, what about ones that help you keep it? That’s what TheIceBreak does via three key things: communication, affection, excitement. The private network allows you to do questions and answers with your significant other to get your true feelings out there. And this data is shared with other couples (after it is anonymized completely). They also track key moments in your relationship and give you statistics to see things like: if we argue, do we have better sex after? Yep, that’s something they track.

Virsto Software, a virtual machines storage company, has raised $12 million in Series B venture capital funding led by InterWest Partners with August Capital and Canaan Partners also participating in the round. This investment brings Virsto’s total funding to $19 million.

Virsto develops an hypervisor-based storage solution that can anticipate the evolving demands, barriers and opportunities native to server virtualization. Virsto One is architected to be storage- and hypervisor-agnostic and allows users to virtualize storage-intensive workloads, maximize consolidation of server and storage hardware, reduce storage management complexity and eventually reduce overall storage costs.

Virsto says that its software helps enterprise, private and public cloud customers reap the benefits of server and desktop virtualization, increasing performance while lowering storage costs.

In addition, Virsto is also announcing its acquisition of EvoStor, a company that specializes in storage virtualization technology for VMware environments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The funding will be used to drive new growth, product development and expand partnerships.

This really is the stuff of Sci-Fi movies: Build a computer program that can see as the human eye does. Based on the principles of the human visual cortex, Cortexica Vision Systems claims to have done just that.

The London startup, which was spun out of Imperial College London in February 2009 after six and a half years of research to understand how humans see and two years building algorithms to accurately mimic human visual recognition, today releases its VisualSearch API, which has been in private Beta for a while. It’s aimed at brands who want to “directly engage with consumers” via their mobile device while bypassing the need to use QR codes or other barcodes or more traditional text search.

Along with being able to “see and process images in the same way as a human brain would”, Cortexica says that the software “can even follow the brush strokes of an oil painting”, which certainly sounds quite impressive, although admittedly I don’t have an oil painting to hand. It’s also said to be able to compensate for poor lighting conditions and “can identify an object of interest even when occupying only a small part of an image.”

It’s also the same technology that powers Cortexica’s existing two proof-of-concept iPhone apps. WINEfindr, which enables price comparison of wine using Visual Search, andBrandTrak, which offers a way to measure the impact of brands across broadcast, online and print media. With today’s announcement, the company is making this technology more broadly available to others.

En algunas ocasiones al insertar un dispositivo USB, tarjeta MicroSD, reproductor MP3, o lo que sea, aparece un molesto mensaje que dice: “¿Desea analizar y reparar disco extraíble?”.

Algunos lectores nos pedían una ayuda de como eliminar este molesto mensaje, así que a continuación les decimos como:

01. Inicio >> Ejecutar
02. Escribir services.msc
03. Buscar Detección de hardware shell
04. Doble clic ahí, en estado de servicio le damos clic en Detener y en tipo de inicio seleccionamos Deshabilitado.
05. Reiniciar Windows.

Muy sencillo por cierto, y con eso nunca más verán el aviso de “¿Desea analizar y reparar disco extraíble?”.

Adobe Acrobat X Standard

Adobe Acrobat X Standard te permite crear y compartir con documentos PDF.

De las mima forma podrás convertir documentos en papel. Dentro de los archivos en formato PDF se pueden realizar búsquedas crear formularios rellenables y hasta combinar varios tipos de archivo en un único PDF.

Una de sus funciones más usadas en Adobe Acrobat X Standard es la crear documentos PDF desde cualquier aplicación que imprima. También se podrá usar la conversión a PDF mediante un solo botón de formatos de otras aplicaicones como Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher y Access, así como de Firefox y Lotus Notes.

Adobe Acrobat X Standard requiere para funcionar correctamente un equipo con un procesador a 1,3 GHz o más rápido, así como Microsoft Windows XP con Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 con Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista con Service Pack 2 o Windows 7; 256 MB de RAM y 985 MB de espacio disponible en el disco duro.

Adobe InDesign CS5.5

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 es un software que te permite crear diseños de páginas para impresión o distribución digital.

Esta poderosa herramienta con herramientas creativas integradas y un excelente control preciso sobre la tipografía. Algunas de las creaciones que se ven beneficiadas son los libros electrónicos y otras publicaciones a alas que se puede añadir interactivo, audio y vídeo.

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 cuenta con una serie de herramientas denominadas “Folio ProducerCree”, las cuales te permiten previsualizar y agrupar atractivos documentos digitales para dispositivos como el Apple iPad y una gran variedad de tablets equipados con Android.

Algunos de los requisitos para poder utilizar Adobe InDesign CS5.5 son las siguientes: un procesador Intel Pentium 4 o superior, Microsoft Windows XP con Service Pack 2, Windows Vista con Service Pack 1, o Windows 7; 1 GB de RAM y 1,6 GB de espacio disponible en el disco duro para la instalación; una resolución de 1.024 x 768 con tarjeta de vídeo de 16 bits.