Archive for: April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Samsung’s Lee Kun-hee carefully considering his options: immediate or prolonged resignation

Filed under: Review - 11 Apr 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNot a lot of folks in the US know the name Lee Kun-hee, but he’s the chairman and son of the founder of the world’s largest gadget company: Samsung. And he’s plus at the epicenter of one of the craziest corruption scandals the industry has seen in years. Kun-hee and his cro…

Neo Geo Stick 2 for the Wii, it’s here, and it’s awesome

Filed under: Review - 11 Apr 2008

Filed under: Gaming
When you’re playing Samurai Shodown on your virtual Neo Geo, you need more than that rinky-dink controller to immerse you in a world of arcade magic. When you need to reach for a controller than can match up to your memories, you need the Neo Geo Stick 2. That’s right, that fully…

Virtual CloneDrive 5.3.0.1

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD DVD drive however it exists only virtually Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD DVD drive Probably the best virtual drive software Virtual CloneDrive allows you to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free
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Virtual CloneDrive 5 3 0 1 2008 04 10
New Supports playback of HD DVD amp Blu ray images in PowerDVD
New Increased performance if image files are accessed over
nbsp the network
New Better support for Windows Vista 32 bit only

Virtual CloneDrive 5.3.0.1 Final

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD DVD drive however it exists only virtually Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD DVD drive Probably the best virtual drive software Virtual CloneDrive allows you to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free
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Virtual CloneDrive 5 3 0 1 2008 04 10
New Supports playback of HD DVD amp Blu ray images in PowerDVD
New Increased performance if image files are accessed over
nbsp the network
New Better support for Windows Vista 32 bit only

CloneDVD 2.9.1.7

CloneDVD extracts transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD title with your selected audio and subtitle streams to one DVD Recordable A Video Preview plays an overview of all selectable DVD titles
nbsp Version 2 9 1 7 2008 04 09
New CloneDVD no longer uses the Windows filesystem when reading
nbsp from a Video DVD It has now its own UDF parser reader
nbsp Discs which cannot be read by Windows can now be copied with CloneDVD
New Workaround for bug in the firmware of some DVD writers which
nbsp caused CloneDVD not to detect DVD R DL media
Fix Small bugfix in quot repairing defective disc structure quot function

CloneDVD 2.9.1.7 Incl KeyGen

CloneDVD extracts transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD title with your selected audio and subtitle streams to one DVD Recordable A Video Preview plays an overview of all selectable DVD titles
nbsp Version 2 9 1 7 2008 04 09
New CloneDVD no longer uses the Windows filesystem when reading
nbsp from a Video DVD It has now its own UDF parser reader
nbsp Discs which cannot be read by Windows can now be copied with CloneDVD
New Workaround for bug in the firmware of some DVD writers which
nbsp caused CloneDVD not to detect DVD R DL media
Fix Small bugfix in quot repairing defective disc structure quot function

CloneDVD 2.9.1.7 Final + KeyGen

CloneDVD extracts transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD title with your selected audio and subtitle streams to one DVD Recordable A Video Preview plays an overview of all selectable DVD titles
nbsp Version 2 9 1 7 2008 04 09
New CloneDVD no longer uses the Windows filesystem when reading
nbsp from a Video DVD It has now its own UDF parser reader
nbsp Discs which cannot be read by Windows can now be copied with CloneDVD
New Workaround for bug in the firmware of some DVD writers which
nbsp caused CloneDVD not to detect DVD R DL media
Fix Small bugfix in quot repairing defective disc structure quot function

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v1.4.1

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer 39 s essential toolbox providing one easy application for managing adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs and more time actually shooting them Its clean elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career Because no two photographers work alike Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow not the other way around

Lightroom lets you view zoom in and compare photographs quickly and easily Precise photography specific adjustments allow you to fine tune your images while maintaining the highest level of image quality from capture through output And best of all it runs on most commonly used computers even notebook computers used on location

bull Perform nondestructive editing
Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats and experiment with confidence Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won 39 t alter the original data whether you 39 re working on a JPEG TIFF DNG or camera raw file

bull Enjoy an elegant uncluttered interface
Ease the learning curve and be productive quickly Task oriented modules whisk you through typical workflow tasks by putting just the tools you need at your fingertips

bull Professional editing tools
Fine tune your photographs with precise easy to use tools for globally correcting white balance exposure tone curves lens distortion and color casts

bull Photographer profiles
Get inspired by documentaries of well known photographers in ...

AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.4.1.1

AnyDVD is a driver which unprotects 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 With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs But AnyDVD does much more of course For example it is possible to control the rotational speed of your DVD drive so you can watch DVDs on your PC with far less noise
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6 4 1 1 2008 04 10
New Blu ray Added support for AACS MKBv7
nbsp Used on new titles to be released end of April
New Blu ray Complete region lock removal from Blu ray disc including
nbsp discs which contain signed Java code
New Blu ray Added dialog to ask for disc region on insertion
New Blu ray Automatic option remembers previous region settings per disc
New DVD Support for protection on quot Reservation Road quot US
New DVD Many improvements to AI scanner and AnyDVD ripper
Fix Blu ray BD removal did not work with some discs
Fix DVD Problems with some discs
Some minor fixes and improvements
Updated languages

Enjoy PBS programming on iTunes U

Filed under: Review - 11 Apr 2008

From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top children’s book authors and illustrators, WETA — Washington D.C.’s Public Broadcasting Station — delivers a rich assortment of ed…

Flickr caves in, agrees to free donut demands

Filed under: Review - 11 Apr 2008

Filed under: Internet, Social Software, web 2.0
A few days ago we reported that Flickr users were disgusting. Wait, no that came out wrong. What we reported was that a group of very appealing (or so we assume) Flickr users are unhappy about the addition of video to the site. So they did what any sel…

‘Vista’s UAC shield immediate Was Designed to bother You’

Filed under: Review - 11 Apr 2008

User history Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm that action or that action, just get in the way (and aren’t particularly zippy, given the screen redraw). Others don’t intellect UA…

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