Any.Do Moment

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In the older version of Any.Do you had to schedule each task on your list individually. While this was effective in the sense that it set off notifications, it wasn't efficient. Luckily, the new Any.Do Moment feature creates a path between listing your tasks and getting things done by helping you plan out your day.

Before you get started, make sure you have the latest version of Any.Do installed on your device. You'll probably see an update, but if not, head to Google Play and grab the latest version.

Once you open Any.Do on your device, you may be prompted to check out Any.Do Moment. Never used Any.Do before? You'll be prompted to set up an account (or sign in with Facebook) for syncing purposes. If you don't see a mention of Any.Do Moment, just open the menu and tap on Plan.

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Mozilla, which bowed to the market power of the H.264 video compression technology last year, now has built support for the patent-encumbered standard into the Nightly version of Firefox on Windows 7.

Mozilla can't actually ship H.264 in its open-source product because of the patent licensing requirements, so it decided instead to adapt Firefox to draw on H.264 support built into newer operating systems. The first step is done -- if not fully tested and debugged -- on Windows 7, according to a Mozilla blog post today.

Mozilla had thrown its weight behind VP8, a royalty-free codec from Google, but it hasn't caught on nearly as widely as H.264, and Google scrapped a promise to drop H.264 from Chrome. Two years ago, Google said it would drop the support "in the next couple of months."

Part of H.264's clout stems from power-efficient decoding enabled by chips in just about every smartphone on the market today. On personal computers, Adobe Systems' Flash Player often handles video decoding, but it's barred from iOS.

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Following recent security breaches that led to computers at Apple and other companies being compromised, Apple has issued an update for Java on OS X to close the hole.

The update went live this afternoon through Apple's Software Update service, which can be accessed from the Apple menu, and also available as a standalone update for OS X Snow Leopard or later from the following locations:

• Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 13
• Java for OS X 2013-001

According to the update's release notes, it will disable all versions of Java that are supplied by Apple and will encourage users who need Java to download the latest version from Oracle.

Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or document.write('e-mail us'); ! Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums.

Are you still using the iPhone's default weather app? If so, may I suggest a 99-cent weather app released last week that provides more weather information than the default app, along with a sense of zen-like calm? Haze was released last week and is currently being offered for 99 cents. (When this introductory offer expires, Haze will cost $2.99.)

After launching Haze and allowing it to know your location, the app will offer you a new theme called Purple Haze. After these two steps, you'll be greeted with Haze's simple, subtly animated interface. In the middle of the screen is a button with the current temp. Tap on this button and five smaller circles emerge, showing you the high and low temps for the day, the temp it actually feels like (taking into account wind chill or heat index), and wind speed and direction.

Swipe to the right to see how many hours of daylight remain. Tap on the big circle on the sunlight screen to see five smaller circles with sunrise and sunset times, UV level, and cloud coverage. (Two buttons seem to pertain to cloud coverage, one with a graphic and one with a percentage.)

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