Archive for: September 24, 2007

Media Player Classic is an extremely light weight media player for Windows It looks just like Windows Media Player v6 4 but has many additional features It has a built in DVD player with real time zoom support for AVI subtitles QuickTime and RealVideo support requires QuickTime and or Real Player and lots more

Visopsys is an alternative operating system for PC compatible computers nbsp Under development since late 1997 this system is small fast and open source nbsp It features a simple but functional graphical interface real preemptive multitasking and virtual memory nbsp Though it attempts to be compatible in a number of ways Visopsys is not a clone of any other operating system nbsp You can demo the distribution from a quot live quot CD or floppy disk
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VERSION 0 69
24 09 2007
Overview Four months in the making this is a maintenance release comprising the final round of tweaks and bug fixes to the 0 6x series of Visopsys featuring lots of work on the USB subsystem including support for USB mice keyboards and hubs tuning of the FAT filesystem driver usability fixes for various user programs and loads of OS kernel and C library improvements and bug fixes
nbsp nbsp nbsp Lots of improvements to the USB subsystem the UHCI controller driver and the USB SCSI disk driver
nbsp nbsp nbsp Added support for USB mice and keyboards
nbsp nbsp nbsp Implemented a driver for USB hubs
nbsp nbsp nbsp Extensive tuning of the FAT filesystem driver and the scanning of the FAT at mount time is much faster Also fixed a small fragmentation bug and turned a bunch of extraneous error messages into debug messages
nbsp nbsp nbsp The FAT filesystem driver no longer stores the entire FAT in memory
nbsp nbsp nbsp Added basic hardware detection for OpenHCI OHCI USB controllers so that they 39 re at least indicated correctly at boot time
nbsp nbsp nbsp Improved checks for removable CD floppy flash etc media changes invalidating the disk cache ...

Spyware Doctor provides three way spyware protection for your PC through real time threat blocking advanced system scanning and immunization against known browser infections This is one of the many reasons why the award winning Spyware Doctor has been chosen by millions of users to protect their PCs against spyware adware trojans keyloggers spybots and other tracking threats

You could spend hundreds or thousands of dollars decorating your home with original artwork and support local and independent artists, or you could spend no money at all on what I call "hotel art," the kind that's cheap, but only good enough for hotel rooms and restaurant bathrooms. Or you could head over to RedBubble.com, and browse out original art, clothing, and photography from original artists. Some of it is on display and is available for purchase, but all of it is affordable.

RedBubble is a brand new site dedicated to providing independent and individiual artists a place to collect, show off their artwork, photography, and writing, and interact with one another. Artists can easily sign up for an account to sell t-shirts and other clothing items with their designs on them, or wall art and postcards featuring their original work. They can also connect with an entire community of other artists who are looking to show their pieces or sell their merchandise. Those who want to support those artists and encourage their work can buy their wall art and photography and purchase clothing that you won't see anyone else wearing.

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There's no shortage of Web apps designed to help you manage your money and track your spending. Some of them just help you stay on top of your spending habits and keep an eye on where your money is going. Others help you work towards a specific saving goal, whether it's a new home, a down payment on a car, or a retirement fund. Mint is a new free Web service that promises to do all of these things. It also promises easy setup, instant communications with most popular banks, and savings tips that will help you go from living paycheck to paycheck to planning for your future within moments.

We've discussed other Web-based money management tools before, like MVelopes, which uses virtual envelopes to help you keep track of your spending. Mint on the other hand, integrates directly with your checking and credit accounts, downloads your transaction information, and updates itself nightly with your new purchases, deposits, and more.

Mint prides itself on being easy to use, easy to set up, and easy to maintain. In five minutes, the service claims, you'll be up and running. You'll be monitoring your transactions and setting up personal savings goals within moments. Where services like MVelopes offer you a suite of tools designed to keep track of your money and help you save it, Mint claims to get all of that out of the way in the first five minutes, to give you more time to spend finding ways to save your hard earned ...

A new VOIP service being announced today, Pudding Media, will trade free VOIP calls for the privilege of listening in via voice-recognition software and throwing ads to your screen, reports the New York Times.

Disgraced Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget concludes that Pudding is a terrible idea, and I think his last point is the one I'd begin with: PC-based calling is a niche market to begin with. However, I think that this could be a stealth hit with immigrants or students studying here.

Why? Because if there's anything that's going to turn people off of this, it's the possibility that some AI is listening in on their conversations. Yes, this is the same exact technique that Google Mail (GMail) uses, and it will probably turn the same people off.

I suspect, however, that the speech-recognition software is for right now English-only. And that means a student talking to a friend in Taiwan may do quite well in avoiding any ads altogether. And, of course, there's the mumble factor.

Then again, I'd probably ask any employees I had working for me not to use said service, to avoid the legal uncertainties from a "third party" listening in.

Finally, the Times mentions that Pudding is attempting to convince cell-phone carriers to adopt this. How, exactly, will a user view ads on a cell phone if he's holding it to his ear? (Yes, I know there's Bluetooth, but...)

When AOL chose Netscape.com as the URL for its new social news site, the masses who fondly remembered the Netscape browser cried foul. When the site was finally unveiled by Jason Calacanis, not only did it look like Digg, he had also actually attempted to pilfer some of Digg's top posters, making people all the more upset. Calacanis eventually left AOL the company opted to kill the new Netscape and start over. Earlier this week, they unveiled its replacement, Propeller, which aside from the new name looks pretty much identical.

AOL's new Propeller sports a shiny new logo, but otherwise is pretty much the same site, featuring social news with user-generated stories and content on the front page that the members can vote on. Users can also comment on individual stories, argue with each other in nested comments, and rate one another's comments highly or vote each other down. In almost every way, Propeller is just another social news site.

The Netscape developer's blog is noting the changes as big news, and the result of a lot of user and community feedback. That makes some sense, a lot of the requests that the community made did wind up in the new incarnation. Unfortunately, aside from some minor changes and items like nested comments, I don't see terribly many feature additions. Propeller looks essentially just like Netscape with a new name and some new gloss. The site even has the same color scheme.

Propeller developers claim there are more changes coming. In reality, I think that the name ...

Buck up, Xbox 360 owners, tonight is your night. At 12:01 tonight--okay, tomorrow morning, early birds--the Halo 3 juggernaut will descend upon department stores and strip mall specialty stores like the fallout from a recently fired missile pod.

Will this single game be Xbox's savior from its recent distinction as the second most popular next-gen console? Time will tell, of course, but pre-sales are certainly reflecting well on the game, as are the freshly issued reviews of the game. Take, for example, the 10 out of 10 awarded to the game by our sister site, 1Up.com, which reads, in part, "It's hard to imagine a feature of this game that someone won't love...Halo 3 has enough content to keep you stuck to your controller for weeks, if not months or even years."

It's almost enough to leave Mario quaking in his overalls.

What if you could nuke your favorite Websites, or watch dinosaurs stomp all over them? What if you could send aliens to attack that message board where you got into a flame war? Perhaps you want to watch flowers spout all over that blog whose author irritates you. All of those dreams can come true at Netdisaster. Simply type in the address of the site you want to destroy, specify the disaster you want to inflict on the unsuspecting site, and sit back and watch the destruction unfold.

Netdisaster really is that simple. After you type in the address of the site you want to destroy, you can select any number of disasters from the drop-down menu. The rest of the fields, like whether you can control the destruction or whether the destruction is self-repairing, depends on the type of disaster you want to see. Some disasters even have sounds. When you load the disaster, you're taken to the site you submitted and a toolbar is added to the top of the screen. From the toolbar, you can reload the site, to change the disaster,

I was a fan of the "Mars Attacks" and "Meteors" disasters, and I happily watched the sites I gave up reading long ago (mostly due to comment wars) get pummeled by celestial rocks and zapped by flying saucers. Give the "Screenshaver" a try as well. The disasters are broken up into categories, like Nature (where you can watch flowers sprout all over the site of your choice), Home Office (where you can select fried eggs and spilled coffee), ...

How many times have you seen someone shoot video from their mobile phone or digital camera, and how many times have you laughed at them, knowing that the quality was going to suck? Make fun no more, because MotionDPS announced its video-enhancement web app, Fixmymovie.com. The company claims that users can take any video file from a mobile phone or digital camera and make it better with one-button.

According to the company, "FixMyMovie's suite of automatic enhancements improves overall resolution, corrects for poor lighting conditions and removes the blockiness and other artifacts that ruin most mobile phone and low-end digital camera videos." Just click and your video will be uploaded, enhanced, and displayed so that you can share it with friends or post it to your blog or MySpace page.

The web app utilizes Adobe's newest version of Flash for video encoding, with support for H.264 video (a standard video compression). Fixmymovie.com is currently in public beta, and users can go to the site and enhance their video clips that are less than 20 MB and a 352 by 288 pixel resolution.

KMPlayer is a korean movie and audio player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats It has full VCD DVD playback functionality

Famous Outpost firewall software Developers also started nbsp free license applications and like other products before but also with some of the PC Magazine joint launched a free service application number printing in the journal we can use this number to the registration website can get the License Key Immediately