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(hx) 02:28 PM CEST - Jul,01 2004
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- Piracy arrest at "Spider-Man 2" opening night - A teenager was
arrested early Wednesday in a California theater showing "Spider-Man 2" after
a
projectionist using night vision goggles saw him using a camcorder to make
an illegal copy of the superhero sequel. The 16-year-old could be charged
under a law that went into effect January 1 and makes taking a recording
device into a movie theater a crime punishable by up to one year in jail and a
maximum fine of $2,500.
- Hungarian virus writer avoids jail - Hungarian virus writer
escaped prison yesterday after he was convicted of writing a virus that
infected tens of thousands of Windows PCs. The teenager - identified only as
Laszlo K - was given two years' probation for cybercrime offences by Veszprem
City Court. Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag reports, via AP, that Laszlo K was
initially sentenced to a year in juvenile prison but this sentence was
commuted to two years' on probation at a hearing yesterday. As part of his
punishment, the teenage must also pay 500,000 forints ($2,400) in court costs.
- UK police nab 11 in Net gun crackdown - UK police today launched a
crackdown on the sale of illegal weapons over the Internet. Raids began in
London, with searches of 18 addresses. More than 20 illegal weapons have been
seized in Operation Bembridge already, including 17 guns, a tear gas canister
and four air rifles. In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to
fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition.
So far, 11 men have been arrested.
- MPs call for stiffer hacking penalties - The jail sentence for
computer hackers
should be raised from six months to two years and the police should be
allowed to extradite criminals who hack into British computer systems from
overseas, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The all-party parliamentary
internet group (APIG) wants the government to toughen up the laws surrounding
computer crime and warned that the police are insufficiently resourced to deal
with the growing problem of cyber-crime.
- US-CERT warns against Internet Explorer use - The US Computer
Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is so concerned with Internet Explorer
vulnerabilities that
they're recommending that web users switch to an alternative browser.
- Six-year-old flaw resurfaces in IE - A security flaw that had been
fixed in older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer has
reappeared in the latest version of the browser software. Security company
Secunia issued a bulletin
warning of the flaw in versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 of Internet Explorer (IE).
The problem had been fixed six years ago, when it appeared in versions 3.0 and
4.0 of the IE browser.
- Five countries send 99% of spam -
Five countries are responsible for 99 per cent of spam email sent around
the world, according to a study by anti-spam company Commtouch. Commtouch
analysed hundreds of millions of unsolicited emails and said about 55 per cent
of spam messages originated in the US, while slightly more than 73 per cent of
them referred recipients to websites hosted in China. China, South Korea, the
US, Russia and Brazil host more than 99 per cent of all websites mentioned in
spam, according to Commtouch.
- Google declared 99 cents GMail invitations illegal -
Google has updated Gmail's Terms of Service on Monday, prohibiting users
from engaging in commercial activities with their Gmail invitations.
Apparently, Google is not very happy with all the Gmail invitations that were
being sold accross the Internet and has decided to put an end to this
officially, Notsnarc reports.
- Off-topic: Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit - After seven
years of hurtling through space to the outer solar system, the U.S.-European
Cassini spacecraft
squeezed through a gap in Saturn's shimmering rings, fired its brakes and
settled into a near-perfect orbit around the giant planet. Mission scientists
and engineers watched tensely at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory late
Wednesday as a signal indicated first that Cassini had safely passed through
the ring plane and then performed a crucial engine firing.
- Off-topic: Pornography site strips political references - The
Whitehouse.com pornography Web site, which poked fun at its government
namesake with parody sections about first ladies and interns,
has been stripped of all political references. Its owner, Dan Parisi of
New York, agreed to the changes to comply with a recent ruling by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office granting his Web site a potential trademark for
"Whitehouse" -- but only if he took steps to make sure visitors to his
pornography site don't believe it was associated with President Bush's site,
www.whitehouse.gov.
- Off-topic: Bullet-proofing cars with water - Scientist
working for the Norwegian Defence have come up with
a solution which makes the car bullet proof as well as cheaper to run,
according to the New Scientist. The solution is to install thin tanks made of
plastic or light weight metal in doors and fenders. Inside the tanks are
placed several layers of plates made of energy-absorbing carbon fibre. When
the tanks are empty the car is not bulletproof, but it does not weigh much
more than an oridinary car, and is therefore cheaper to run. When needed, the
tanks are filled with water, thereby making the car bulletpfoof. The tanks
have been tested using high velocity bullets, according to the New Scientist,
which also writes that the new armour has been patented.
- Nokia, Sun make multiplayer mobile game play -
Multiple player reversi doesn't sound like much of an accomplishment--but
a Java-based cell phone version of the game could be the beginning of a new
mobile software strategy for Nokia and Sun Microsystems. The game, developed
by Sega Mobile and based on Nokia's Snap technology, is one of the first-ever
cell phone programs to use both XML-based Web services, which allows software
from different providers to work together, and "middleware," applications that
sit between layers of other software and act as a translator. The game will
make its debut this week at the JavaOne trade show here
- Microsoft confirms Windows XP64 will be OEM only -
Micosoft
has confirmed that Windows XP64 will be sold through system builders and
distributors and people will be able to buy it pre-installed on a system
builder PC "or just purchase the OS with some piece of hardware.
- Microsoft Rolls Out Revamped Web Search Service - Microsoft Corp.
late on Wednesday rolled out
a revamped version of its MSN Web search service with partner Yahoo Inc.
and made an early test version of its homegrown search engine available to
Webmasters and search enthusiasts.
- How Much PC Does $300 Buy? - If surfing the Web and working
on the occasional office document is 99 percent of your computing, then
the $300 Linux-based Microtel SYSWM8001 is a budget alternative to a
Windows PC.
- Sony Debuts 20 Gigabyte Walkman to Silence IPod - The
Japanese consumer electronics maker said
the 20-gigabyte device, which is its second hard-disk drive gadget aimed at
unseating Apple and can store 13,000 songs, will be launched on July 10 in
Japan, by mid-August in the United States and in September in Europe. Dubbed
the Network Walkman NW-HD1, it marks a major upgrade to the legendary Walkman
brand and the announcement comes on the 25th anniversary of the introduction
of Sony's groundbreaking portable music player -- July 1, 1979. It is expected
to sell for around 53,000 yen ($487) in Japan and less than $400 in the United
States, Sony said, undercutting Apple's 40-gigabyte device, which sells for
$499 and can hold up to 10,000 songs.
- Commodore and CBM are back - but now with MP3 players - Anyone
remember the Commodore 64? Yes, the company is back again,
but with a 20GB
MP3 player titled the e-Vic; named after the old Vic-20 computer. CBM
business machines is also back with two series of MP3 players - m-Pet
flash-based and f-Pet USB-Flash based players. The e-Vic features MP3, WMA and
uncompressed Wav support, 128 x 64 pixel blue-backlit display, up to 28
minutes anti-shock memory, user definable EQ with 5 presets, voice recording
and line-in recording. Its rechargeable battery runs for 10 to 15 hours.
- Matsushita DVD recorder - Matsushita will start selling its Blu-ray
DVD recorders, which can record as much as 10 times the information contained
on current DVDs. Recordable DVD discs compatible with
Matsushita's
new recorder have a capacity of 25 or 50 gigabytes, compared with 4.7
gigabytes for current DVDs. A 50-gigabyte disc can hold 4.5 hours of digital
programming at the highest quality or 63 hours of analog programming. The
DMR-E700BD recorders will go on sale in Japan on July 31 for about Y300,000,
or $2,768, Hirosi Ryu, a spokesman, said.
- Corsair Memory Announces 667 Megahertz XMS2 Modules -
Corsair introduced
four new products in this family of ultra-fast modules. These memory
modules offer the incredibly fast speeds of DDR2 5300 and the low latencies of
4-4-4-12. The DDR2 5300 product line currently includes the following
products: TWIN2X1024-5300C4: matched pair of two 512MB 5300C4 modules,
TWIN2X512-5300C4: matched pair of two 256MB 5300C4 modules, CM2X512-5300C4:
512MB 5300C4 module, CM2X256-5300C4: 256MB 5300C4 module
- Tapwave Zodiac 1 preview - If you like to play games and need to
get yourself organized, the
Tapwave Zodiac may be a perfect fit: This portable gaming console also
doubles as a very capable PDA. Or else it's a PDA that doubles as a very
capable portable gaming console. Either way you look at it, you may never look
at your work-a-day PDA the same. The Zodiac comes in two memory
configurations: the Zodiac 1 (which we tested) with 32MB of memory ($299
direct) and the Zodiac 2 with 128MB ($399.
- 1GB Corsair XLPRO Ultra-Low Latency TwinX Memory Kit Review -
Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted
1GB Corsair XLPRO Ultra-Low Latency TwinX Memory Kit review.
- AOpen XCCube EZ18 nForce2 SFF System review - Bjorn3D takes a look
at another small form factor PC, this time
the AOpen
XCCube EZ18 nForce2 SFF System.
- SFF Round Up - Neoseeker has taken a look at
a few SFF systems including Gigabyte's G-Max CA2, Soltek's Qbic 3401a and
FIC's Condor.
- Hands Across Four Water Cooling Systems -
The Hydrocool 200 ex from Corsair is good for overclockers looking to get
the maximum out of their system and who don't care much about noise levels.
The easy hose removal and carry handle make it interesting for LAN partygoers
as well. At a price of $199 (€249) for the entire system it is relatively
inexpensive. TGH also has tested watercooling solutions from
Koolance Exos-AI,
Innovatek and
Zalman.
- HIS 9550 VIVO review - Overclockers Online let us know they have
posted
a review of HIS 9550 VIVO.
- Point of View NVTV review - If the NVIDIA Personal Cinema is a
match for ATI's All-In-Wonder, combining graphics card, media tuners and
software,
the NVTV is analogous to ATI's TV Wonder, ATI's standalone media tuner and
software. Basically it's the TV tuner decoupled from a Personal Cinema
product, bundled with controlling software. You're then free to augment your
own (supported) graphics card to the NVTV in order make use of it.
- Asus AX800 Pro/TD review - HotHardware.Com has posted
a review of Asus' Radeon X800 Pro powered AX800 Pro/TD. This card ships
with a very comprehensive software and accessory bundle, which even includes a
webcam, and it sports a uniquely colored PCB. We evaluated its image quality,
and compared its performance to 5 other video cards, including a 12-pipe
GeForce 6800 and a 16-pipe GeForce 6800 GT.
- XFX GeForceFX 5700 Ultra GDDR3 -
The XFX card is notable for featuring two DVI connectors, rather than the
usual single DVI and D-SUB. This means, obviously, you can hook up two DVI
panels directly to the card without needing a converter, enabling you to get
the best quality from your dual displays.
- Creative Audigy 2 ZS review - TechSpot has posted
a review on the Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card.
- Edge DiskGo! USB Watch Drive and USB Pen Drive - Flash memory seems
to be everywhere, and Edge is trying to increase that ubiquity by
unveiling a line of classy, multifunction flash memory products that
conceal their utility within polished exteriors. Well, mostly polished: The
Edge DiskGo! USB Watch Drive—Steel Dress Style is a hit, but the Edge DiskGo!
Flash Drive + Ink Pen could use further refinement.
- ViewSonic VP2290b review - At first glance you might be mistaken in
thinking that the VP2290b is just a chunky widescreen 22.2in TFT display but
at the centre of the dark grey chassis is a 9.2 megapixel LCD manufactured by
IDTech. Yes, I did say 9.2 megapixel, which almost gives you four times the
pixel density that you'd expect from a 1,920 x 1,200 display. In other words,
the VP2290b is capable of running a maximum resolution of 3,840 x 2,400
otherwise known as QUXGA-Wide.
- Epson PhotoPC P-1000 Photo Viewer review - The first thing that
struck me when I unpacked the Epson unit from its box was how compact it is,
particularly considering
its better than average screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Measuring
in at 142 x 91.5 x 23mm (WxDxH), the relatively modest dimensions of the
P-1000 mean that it’s (just about) small enough to fit into the palm of your
hand. Its diminutive size is no doubt due, at least partly, to the fact that
Epson has crammed 212 pixels per inch into the P-1000's 3.8in LCD display.
- Flashing A Motherboard BIOS Guide - PC Stats has published
a new beginners guide about flashing a motherboard BIOS.
- Removing Spyware Guide - ASE Labs has posted
a guide
about removing Spyware from your PC.
- NetCaptor 7.5.2 - For the first time in over 2 years a free version
of NetCaptor (powerful
web browser) is available. We call it NetCaptor Personal Edition (PE), and as
of NetCaptor 7.5, its free for personal, home use. NetCaptor PE downloads and
displays small text ads called sponsored links - that's why its free.
- Pegasus Mail 4.21c -
Pegasus Mail
is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single
or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks.
- SecureCRT 4.1.7 (shw) -
SecureCRT
(download)
gives you an encrypted SSH session with both SSH1 and SSH2 servers. SSH
security goes far beyond the basic secure logon, rerouting data or local
applications using TCP/IP ports through an encrypted channel.
- SecureFX 2.2.6 (shw) -
The SecureFX (download)
client application lets you choose between SFTP or FTP over an encrypted SSH2™
connection for secure transfers, or standard FTP for non-secure transfers.
- PowerArchiver 2004 9.0 Beta 2 (shw) -
PowerArchiver (download)
is an award-winning archive utility for the Windows family of products that
provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to
many powerful features and tools though an easy to use interface that
seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer. This new version added support
for 7zip and extended Tar.
- CleanCache 2.14 -
CleanCache (download)
is a free (for 1 - 2 systems), very powerful Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows
XP cleaner.
- CleanMOCache 1.04 -
CleanMOCache (download)
is a free (for 1 - 2 systems), very powerful Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox/Opera
and Windows XP cleaner. It will delete all browser tracks, AutoComplete, WinXP
tracks and the deletion of user created additives.
- Fraps 2.2.3 - Fraps
(download) is designed as a
generic tool for DirectX and OpenGL games. In its current form Fraps performs
many tasks and can best be described as: Benchmarking Software, Screen Capture
Software and Realtime Video Capture Software. This new version brings a bit
faster video capture in the latest DX9 titles.
- K-Lite Codec Pack 2.27 -
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec
is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and
decoding (playing) audio and video. The very user-friendly installation is
fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components
that you want. What's New in the K-Lite Codec Pack 2.27: Updated XviD Decoding
to 1.01 Final 2004-06-05, Updated XviD Encoding to 1.01 Final 2004-06-05,
Updated Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder to 1.00.
- K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.03 -
The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is a software bundle which includes the K-Lite
Codec Pack Full, QuickTime Alternative, Real Alternative and BSplayer.
Features: K-Lite Codec Pack 2.27 Full, QuickTime Alternative 1.33, Real
Alternative 1.23,- BSplayer 1.00.809.
- GSpot v2.5 Beta 1 Build 040701 -
GSpot (download)
determine what codec a video/audio file uses and what codec your system will
use to play it. Identifies MPEG (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov), RealMedia (.rm),
Windows Media (.wma / .asf), Flash (.swf) and others; will attempt a
DirectShow render those (and any other) file, and report either the error or
detailed results.
- Avast! Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.196 -
Avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected
worm infections from your computer.
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