Nightly Tech Reading - tech
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- Nintendo Sets Launch Date for New 'Zelda' Game - Nintendo
on Tuesday
set a late-March release date for the long-awaited new entry in its
"Legend of Zelda" series and said customers who order the $49.95 game in
advance will get two other games free.
Nintendo set March 24 as the release date for "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker," a game that was first previewed in August 2001.
- Digital media a Plus for Windows XP - Microsoft will release
early next year a
Plus expansion pack for Windows XP that will enhance the digital media
features in its desktop operating system. At the same time, the company said,
it will make available the final release of its Windows Media 9 software.
Windows XP Plus Digital Media Edition, which Microsoft will release on Jan. 7,
marks two firsts for the Redmond, Washington, software maker.
- Compromised in a Flash - A flaw found in Macromedia's
animation software
leaves Web surfers vulnerable to attack when they visit an Internet site
or, possibly, open an e-mail, a security firm said Tuesday. The
vulnerability, found by security firm eEye Digital Security, allows an
attacker to create a hand-edited Macromedia Flash, or SWF, file that can
compromise a PC or Macintosh if its user views the file with the Shockwave
Flash Player plug-in for Internet Explorer, Netscape or other browsers.
(download an
updated Flash player v6.0.65.0)
- DirecTV Broadband Customers Await Plan - DirecTV Broadband, which
said Friday that
it will close within 90 days, is expected to update its 160,000 digital
subscriber line (define) customers today about transitioning to other service
providers.
- NASA to launch satellite to study ice - NASA scientists hope
to get new insight into the future of global ocean levels with the launch this
week of a
laser-equipped satellite designed to measure the waxing and waning of the
planet's largest ice sheets. The Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or
Icesat, is intended to spend a minimum of three years making nonstop
measurements of the elevation of the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and
Antarctica. That will help answer the question of whether those layers of ice,
which are up to two miles thick in places and contain an estimated eight
million cubic miles of fresh water, are growing or shrinking.
- US$20,000 phone stolen in USA - The USA's Orlando Police Department
has reported that last week, an owner of
the
ultra-exclusive Vertu mobile phone had it stolen when he was visiting a
nightclub in downtown Orlando. The phone is very unique and is valued at
US$19,450. The Vertu phone is only available in four stores in the world. The
phone contains 150 grams of platinum. The keypad numbers are rubies and other
jewels. The faceplate is sapphire crystal. Mr. Rado, the owner of the phone is
race car driver for team World Racing (NHRA, Modified Class), Reading PA.
Other owners include Madonna, Gwenyth Paltrow, and Tom Ford (Gucci).
- Terminator 3 Interview - TheArnoldFans.com has posted short
Quicktime 6.x movie interview with Mr. Schwarzenegger who again plays a
leading role in the upcoming Terminator 3: The Rise Of The Machines movie.
- The Iceman Cometh: P4 at 4.1 GHz - Record-breaking - Tom's
Hardware breaks records once again,
this time by building a 4100 MHz+ system. It's a PC of superlatives,
including dual DDR400 and 700 MHz FSB - one of the world's fastest PCs. Plus,
we bring you the highlights of the test in the sixth THG video.
- New DVD player accesses your PC - Sonicblue is looking to solve all
your PC and DVD needs. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based consumer-electronics
maker on Monday announced its
new DVD
player, the Go-Video D2730. In addition to playing DVD movies, the new
player will be able to access content on PCs, such as photos, music and
videos, via a wireless network connection. The company will demonstrate the
device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and will begin selling it
for $250 in the first quarter of 2003.
- Mobile Net Switch - Do you connect to more than one network? Don't
want to reconfigure your computer for every new location?
Mobile Net
Switch (download)
enables you to use your computer at more then one network with the click of a
button. Mobile Net Switch allows you to automatically select the correct drive
mappings, printer settings, IP settings and much more!
- HyperSnap-DX 5.02.00 -
HyperSnap-DX 5 (download)
is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens
from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D,
3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games.
- Winamp 3.0c -
Winamp 3.0c has been released silently, though it's still noted as build
#488, but the compile is 15 Dec.
- Foobar 2000 v0.28 -
Foobar2000 Media Player is a new player (alike WinAmp or MediaPlayer) that
consumes only 2MB RAM.
- Creative Jukebox Filemanager 1.01.06 -
This package is tested on NOMAD Jukebox 2, NOMAD Jukebox 3, NOMAD Zen
only. It does not work for NOMAD Jukebox C & NOMAD Jukebox 6/10/20GB.
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