Archive for: August 10, 2007

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2c has released to manufacturing and will be available to system builders in September 2007
Critical Action Item
System builders who use imaging must create new Windows XP Professional images with Service Pack 2c when shipping Service Pack 2c product keys otherwise end users will not be able to complete installation
SP2c to Resolve Shortage of Windows XP Product Keys
Due to the longevity of Windows XP Professional it has become necessary to produce more product keys for system builders in order to support the continued availability of Windows XP Professional through the scheduled system builder channel end of life EOL date of January 31 2009
See Windows Life Cycle Web site for more information on Microsoft rsquo s support policy
Timeline and Versions for SP2c Release
SP2c will be released into the System Builder channel in September to provide system builders with a new extended range of product keys that will ship with
Windows XP Professional except for Simplified Chinese Russian and Korean languages
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This release does not impact the following versions
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64 bit Edition
SP2c Features and Requirements
There are no other features or fixes included in this service pack it will only allow for the inclusion of additional product keys When using SP2c product keys system builders must
Use the product keys with SP2c media
Create new images from SP2c to accommodate the new product keys A hotfix will not be provided
Reminder to Update Images
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I got the strangest e-mail from Google Video just now. Seems they're doing away with their download-to-own/download-to-rent programs, so everything I've purchased will from now on be inaccessible. It's a DRM nightmare come true!

See, when Google Video first launched, in the course of writing a review of it for PC Magazine I purchased and downloaded a Kelly Clarkson video for $1.99. I "bought" it with the understanding that I "owned" it; as in, "this video file now belongs to me because I purchased it." Guess I should've expensed it after all!

As a consolation for taking away something that I owned (what we call "stealing," in common parlance), Google's giving me $2 to use in my next Google Checkout purchase. Is Google exercising eminent domain on my purchased media files?

Luckily, I only had the one video, and it's not something I've watched since I did the review a year and a half ago. So Google's decision doesn't really affect me at all, but it's the principle of the thing: if Google Video can do this, what other online music/video store purchases are susceptible to being "turned off"?

Photoholics take notice: If you haven't downloaded and installed the Uploadr desktop software to facilitate getting pictures into the number-one photo sharing site--or don't want to--improvements to Flickr's Web uploader now make it a lot easier to get a slew of photos online.

The six-file limit has gone away; now you can just select all the files you want from a file-browsing dialog and start a bulk upload. The upload progress is indicated by both a bar below the image list and a pink vertical line that moves across each image entry. Trust me, it's a nice little redesign.

And now once you've finished uploading, you can tag multiple image files in batch mode and add them to one of your preexisting sets (or you can even create a set from the same page). You can also add titles and descriptions for all of them on a the single convenient page that appears after the upload. The whole thing is hard to beat for usability.

Post by Michael Muchmore

When the team here at PC Magazine first got wind of iPhotoMeasure, software that promises to let you take accurate measurements of objects in digital photos, a flurry of e-mails flew back and forth about how it might work and how accurate it might be. So to satisfy our curiosity (and yours), I tested the software out, and found that it performs pretty well. There are some limitations, though a much expanded new version of the software due out in a month or so looks to make the software much more robust.

For anyone doing a decent amount of remodeling or redecorating, and especially for larger-scale construction and contracting work, iPhotoMeasure could save a lot of time and effort. Forget having to climb a ladder to measure a window, or having to move that ladder all over your house to calculate how much paint you need to buy. With iPhotoMeasure, you can just snap a few pics from your digicam and let the software do most of the work for you, whether you've got a PC or a Mac.

First off, you'll have to stick up a DigiTarget (a black-and-white square of predetermined size) somewhere in the frame of where you're going to take the photo, on the same plane (like a wall) where you're going to be measuring. Once that's up, just take your snap, load the image in iPhotoMeasure, and commence measuring.

The Flash-based software looks simple but good. And since all the tools are laid out on the screen instead of buried in menus, iPhotoMeasure couldn't be much easier to use. Click the camera icon ...

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users based on the award winning EVEREST Technology During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings CPU FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems Furthermore complete software operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC

Mister Wong, a popular social networking site, is having a logo contest and offering a load of cash to the winner.  $12,000 in cash prizes are available to the winners of the logo design contest.  So head on over to Mister Wong’s upload page and show off your stuff.

Registered users will be allowed to vote on their favorite logos submitted for the contest.  The huge list will be narrowed down to 12 from the members votes.  Those twelve will then be sent to the final three judges and a winner will be chosen.

As far as I know, logo designs are only limited by one aspect… no human images.  You can design just about anything under the sun, submit as many logos as you would like and hopefully find the time to spend all that first place cash.

To find the full details of the logo design contest, visit Mister Wong’s site.  And good luck!

IE7Pro is a must have add on for Internet Explorer which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier more useful secure and customizable With IE7pro you may switch proxy set agent identification block ads and flash apply super drag drop refresh tab automatically recover session crash manage tab history view page information save image files quickly and more
IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management Spell Check Inline Search Super Drag Drop Crash Recovery Proxy Switcher Mouse Gesture Tab History Browser Web Accelerator User Agent Switcher Webpage Capturer AD Blocker Flash Block Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform User Plug ins and many more power packed features You can customize not just Internet Explorer but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro Changes in version 1 0 RC4
Easy Homepage improved
Minor Bug Fixes nbsp

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BOClean is designed to run quietly without intrusion if no malware quot attack quot exists and will scan through any suspicious files with signature analysis to preclude false alarms or possible damage to valid configurations
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