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- Microsoft told to drop 'misleading' ad - Microsoft claimed in
an advertisement that
its software is so secure, it will make hackers extinct. As it turned out,
it was the ad which bit the dust. This controversial advertisement,
which was published in the November issue of Time magazine and tech digest
ITWeb Brainstorm, featured three extinct animals--a dodo, a woolly mammoth and
a saber-tooth tiger--as well as a caricature of a hacker.
- Dell, IBM Ship Competing Laser Printers - Dell this week makes its
first venture into the printer market,
releasing a line of printers developed with Lexmark and going up against
some established players. Among the new business printers, its new S2500n
workgroup laser runs smack up against IBM's very similar Infoprint 1222dn.
Both are based on Lexmark's T420d and have identical control panels and
produce 600-dpi resolution. Their paper-handling capabilities are similar, and
both use some Lexmark software.
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Personal Video Recorder - Sudhian Media has
published
a review
on the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Personal Video Recorder.
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80G SATA Drive - Hardware has posted
a review on the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80G SATA Drive. This drive is the
fastest Desktop/Workstation class product they've seen in a long time.
- AOpen HP-590 Music & Gaming Headphones with Vibration Bass Review -
"Once I understood what I was looking for in these speakers I went back and
listened to more music and played a few other games, constantly cranking the
volume higher and higher and
the AOpen HP-590's started really rocking. It was like having a subwoofer
inside the headphones and I began to realize while this wasn't a ground
breaking technology it was a cool effect."
- Building a Media PC -
Ever wanted a PC to sit underneath your TV, that works as a TIVO, Divx
Player, Web Surfer, Mp3 Player, DVD Player? Well our latest project shows you
just what you need to build one of these little wonders for under $500.
- BIOS Optimization Guide Revision 7.5 - Adrian's Rojak Pot posted
the new REVISION
7.5 BIOS OPTIMIZATION GUIDE with 12 new or updated BIOS options.
- How to Choose the Best AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred for Overclocking -
Make sure you have AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred processor with B0 core
stepping. To determine it, check the CPU ID of your chip with appropriate
software, such as WCPUID by H. Oda. If the CPU ID is 681, then you have the
Athlon XP processor based on the Thoroughbred B0 core. If it is not, it means
you have something else. The information below seems to be correct only for
AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred processors with B0 core stepping. Note that
microprocessors based on Palomino core or Thoroughbred A0 core are rather poor
for overclocking.
- Windows XP Home/Pro Post Service Pack 1 Updates Chart - This
article will list all downloadable software packages, due to the fact that
WindowsUpdate does not include many of the hotfixes that are available
separately.
- DivX Schizo Beta 1 - This version fixes lots of bugs found in
DivX Pro
5.0.3 (download),
and it adds a new tool, EKG , that helps manually change the bitrate
distribution for multi-pass encoding. The Beta program is free and open to
everyone. The beta is limited to 30 days beginning on the day of installation.
- XviD Codec Build 22.03.2003.1420 (unstable) - XviD (download
~
changelog) is a video codec just like DivX, most new movies and videos are
being encoded with XviD.
- K-Lite Codec Pack 2.01 Final - The Final Builds of the
K-Lite Codec Pack 2.01 (mirror)
are available. These are the public versions. Uninstall the old version first.
- cladDVD XP 2.97 Beta -
CladDVD XP is a "DVD
Ripper", meaning it decrypts the encrypted VOB files off the DVD and saves
them to your hard drive. The files can be ripped in a standard way preserving
the original content along with the IFO, useful when you use or need to use a
3rd party application to process the VOB files.
- WinAmp 2.9 beta 2 -
Nullsoft WinAmp
is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. WinAmp supports
MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom
appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.
- WinAmp Plug-In File Writer 1.15 -
Version 1.15 of
the File Writer Plug-In for Nullsoft's WinAmp is released. At this moment
it will let you specify a directory to write files in, it will let you choose
between the raw, ape, mp3, ogg and wave file formats and it supports three
different modes for creating a filename, just title simply uses the title as a
filename, expanded title uses the title but expands some variables just like
with the title option of the LineIn plugin, the expandable string option
enables you to specify an expandable string which is used to create the
filename (usefull with a setting like: %ut - on %dl), you have to use at least
%ut (unexpanded title), %et (expanded title) or %p# with that option, %p#
expands to the playlist position (padded with zeroes upto # digits).
- NFR v0.6 - NFR
v0.6 has been released, featuring bug-fixes, enhancements and more. NFR
now has new name NVIDIA File Remover > Nasty File Remover (for copyright
reasons etc). NFR can remove NVIDIA driver files from users system folder
(non-recursive), it supports all known windows versions and detonator
versions.
- Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.00.1012 -
The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target
system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the
chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper
functioning of the following features:Core PCI and ISAPNP Services, AGP
Support, IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 Storage Support, USB Support, Identification
of Intel Chipset Components in the Device Manager, etc.
- CPUCooL 7.20 Final -
CPUCooL (download)
has been updated. What is CPUCool? CPUCooL is a program that monitors
temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It provides Cpu
cooling under Win9x/2000/XP/NT, allows FrontSideBus changing, optimizes your
memory and CPU.
- Virtual PC 5.2 -
Virtual PC for Windows 5
(download
trial ~
update) is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to
run multiple PC-based operating systems and applications on a single
workstation resulting in reduced hardware costs and improved productivity.
Virtual PC for Windows allows you to create separate "virtual machines" on top
of your Windows desktop, where you can install virtually any PC-based
operating system including OS/2, Linux, Solaris, NetWare or other versions of
Windows.
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