Archive for: October 27, 2007

October 27, 2007

Linux Doesn’t Lack Drivers, It Lacks total Drivers

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

“I recently read that write-up about how the Linux device driver project needs increasingly work to do. I pondered that for awhile, and came to a realization. While Linux still does indeed lack drivers for some hardware, I believe that the lack of drivers is no longer the largest technological obsta…

AnyDVD 6.1.9.0 Beta

AnyDVD is a driver which descrambles DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies You can remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like
AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc or prevent 39 PC friendly 39 software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs
Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays

AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD but with additional features for full HD DVD High Definition DVD support including decryption of HD DVD movie discs
Allows you to watch movies over a digital display connection without HDCP compliant graphics card and HDCP compliant display No need to buy an expensive monitor Sweet
Playback your discs on your PC with PowerDVD Ultra which otherwise do not run titles released by Studio Canal The Weinstein Company Kinowelt Optimum Releasing
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RealPlayer 11.0.0.183 Beta for Windows

The RealPlayer is the first product that integrates Real 39 s revolutionary new Harmony technology RealPlayer enables consumers to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices including the Apple iPod RealPlayer is the only digital media player you need for finding and downloading new music playing and managing audio and video clips and taking your digital entertainment with you RealPlayer offers a streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand Keep all your digital media clips organized in one place save CD tracks with one click pause and rewind live streams transfer music to CDs and portable devices effortlessly and enjoy clear smooth video playback and multichannel surround sound support

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack v3.5.3

K Lite Mega Codec Pack combines the contents of three codec packs K Lite Codec Pack Full QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative It also includes some extra features BSplayer and ffdshow
nbsp Changelog 3 5 0 gt 3 5 3 2007 10 25
Updated ffdshow to revision 1576
Updated CoreWavPack to version 1 1 1
Updated RealMedia components to version 6 0 12 1662
Workaround for a bug in the quot Open File quot dialog of WMP
Some fixes for 64 bit versions of Windows
Minor changes
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 7.0.1.254 Beta

Kaspersky provides you with traditional anti virus protection based on the latest protection technologies You can work communicate surf the internet and play online games on your computer safely and easily Product Highlights Three protection technologies against new and unknown threats Hourly automated database updates Preliminary behavior analysis On going behavior analysis Protection from viruses Trojans and worms Protection from spyware and adware Real time scanning for email Internet traffic and files Protection from viruses when using ICQ and other IM clients Protection from all types of keyloggers

Leopard hacked for Intel PC consumption

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

We’ve come to expect our Apple-related hacks early and user friendly these days, but we’ve still got mad respect for the folks at OSx86 Scene who’ve managed to get Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard up and running on Intel PCs on launch day — the day before whether you felt like being a bit less upright abo…

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K-Lite Codec Pack 3.5.3 Full/ Standard/ Basic

Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools Codecs are required to encode and or decode play audio and video The K Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user friendly solution for playing all your movie files With the K Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99 of all the movies that you download from the internet The K Lite Codec Pack works on Windows 2000 XP 2003 XP64 Vista
There are three versions of the K Lite Codec Pack Basic Standard and Full
bull K Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats It is small enough to fit on a single floppy Also great for including on your movie CDs
bull K Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats This package should be enough for the average user
bull K Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs It also has encoding support for the various formats This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings
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Changes in K Lite Codec Pack 3 5 3 2007 10 25
Updated ffdshow to revision 1576
Updated CoreWavPack to version 1 1 1
Workaround for a bug in the quot Open File quot dialog of WMP
Some fixes for 64 bit versions of Windows
Minor changes

FlashFXP v3.6 RC2 - (3.5.2 build 1213)

FlashFXP is the premier FTP FXP file transfer program used to transfer files in an intuitive interface FlashFXP provides an easy to use interface for common file transfer tasks and an optional tree view for easy directory navigation
New Features
Added 39 Activate Synchronize Browsing on Connect 39 per site option
Added approvessl command line param this is used for automation to always accept the SSL certifcate Use with care
Added support for MLSD machine formatted directory lists
Added support for UTF8 iso 8859 1 Latin 1
Added parsing of host port when pasting into the host field of the proxy dialog
Added drag drop support between the local browser and external applications
Added support for custom commands in the right click menu in the FTP File Search Dialog
Added move to the right click menu in the FTP File Search Dialog nbsp
Changes
Upgraded Zlib component to 1 23
Upgraded the folder browse dialog to use the BIF_USENEWUI flag which gives the dialog a Make Folder button and makes it resizable
Optimized the status window text scrolling It scrolled slower and slower as more text was put into it This is no longer the case
Optimized the FlashFXP load up time It 39 s about 30 faster now
FlashFXP now uses FastMM4 memory manager
Optimized the local file browser list speed by about 237
Once the connection retry limit is reached all files for that site are marked as failed or deleted based on your settings and then continues with the next site in queue
Improved find feature
The user pass field of a ftp url is now url decoded as per RFC 1738
Upgraded OpenSSL Dll 39 s to 0 9 ...

Mercedes musuem hosts most effective artificial tornado

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

How better to get visitors to your museum than to create a massive man-made tornado in the middle of the building? Clearly, our cynical suggestion is not the motivation behind the creation of Mercedes-Benz’s artificial tornado in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart: their excuse was that t…

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Mother Goes Against Universal Music

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

When her 0.29″ family video was taken down by YouTube on the ask of Universal MPG, the affected mother of two stroke back with a lawsuit against Universal with the help of the EFF. While technically her family video was a copyright infringement as she had no license to include Prince’s song as a bac…

Create Lisp Apps with Cusp Eclipse Plug-In

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

Lisp is an excellent programming language that allows you to expand your knowledge of programming languages due to its largely typeless nature. Find out how to develop Lisp applications using the Cusp Eclipse plug-in. It can additionally help those seasoned in the Java language, PHP, or C/C++ think …

8-year-old potential Mac tries to run Leopard and worked, somehow

Filed under: Review - 27 Oct 2007

One of the selling points of Apple’s new Leopard is that it can work on older machines, and that Mac fans who are holding on to their legacy capability Macs can have a reason to rejoice once the Leopard OS gets released into the market. However, can Leopard really habitable up to its promise and run…

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