Archive for October, 2007
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
CheckDisk is a powerful tool for searching and repairing disk errors. It is quite similar to the ScanDisk tool or chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems (Windows 2000 and higher, possibly with Vista and admin rights). You can select either standard or full tests. The full test additionally performs a sector check. It is capable of finding bad sectors on your disk and marking them as such. The program works both with hard disks (including SCSI and RAID) and removable media.
Download: CheckDisk 1.03
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Did you know that: You could have an unlimited number of invisible files on your computer?…That such files could be secretly used by spyware companies or virus authors?…That they are currently used by Microsoft to store hidden data?… And that Microsoft has provided no standard means to view or remove these hidden files?
Windows NT (NT4/2000/XP/2003) has the ability to attach multiple hidden files, known as “alternate data streams”, to any given file (or folder). These are not the usual “hidden” files that you can choose to make visible. These are invisible files. In other words, this is an entire, secondary file system for which there is no equivalent to “Windows Explorer”. This is an entire, secondary file system which you are not intended to access.
Or to put it another way, Microsoft has deliberately created a file system that is incompatible with their own file browser (Windows Explorer), creating types of files that Windows itself cannot see!
Stream Viewer is a free “shell extension” that provides the ability to view these hidden files through the normal functionality of Windows Explorer.
Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Download: Stream Viewer 1.05
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Manage your blog: create, edit, delete posts
· Compatible with Wordpress and dotClear (beta)
· Integrate pictures, sounds, videos, webcam and Flash animations to your blogs
· Automatic upload while publishing
· Full support of drag and drop
· Offline edition mode (alpha)
AirPress requires Adobe AIR
Download: airpress 0.31
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Digital music service Napster is relaunching itself as a Web-based music service which enables customers to play their music on any computer without additional software.
The digital music service Napster is relaunching itself as a Web-based music service that enables its users to tap into their music from any Web-enabled computer without having to download and install client software. Dubbed “Napster 4.0,” the idea is to make Napster’s music service more flexible by being compatible with a wide range of Internet-enabled devices—with the hopes that, in turn, will attract more paying customers. Napster also hopes the move will appeal to consumer electronics manufacturers looking to offer direct integration with a music service, as well as third-party Web sites looking to offer music capabilities.
Full article: digitaltrends.com
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
HexBrowser is a tool that identifies file types. It does not care about the file extension, but opens each file to look for signatures so it can determine the exact type of a file. It recognizes more than 200 different file formats.
HexBrowser shows detailed information about each file, or a hex- or text dump of the beginning of each file (for the sake of speed).
HexBrowser shows extended information about the followin file types: exe,pe,ole/doc/xls,ttf,jpg/exif,lnk,mov/qt/3gp/mp4,zip,wav,rmf,asf
HexBrowser can be started with a file or directory path as parameter. Files can also be dragged and dropped onto the HexBrowser window. Other ways to view a file: Use File > Open, or simply browse to the file.
HexBrowser should work on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. HexBrowser is freeware.
Download: HexBrowser 1.5.69
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
After few weeks ago Microsoft announced new features and an improved Live Search, now the final updates were unveiled. Live Search will offer to its consumers free 411 information, mobile maps containing real-time traffic information and voice-activated mobile search.
For example, Microsoft said that the new Live Search is able to offer more accurate and easy-to-use driving directions by integrating dynamic rerouting based on real-time traffic information.
Also, Microsoft has extended the 3D imagery which now covers 80 percent of the U.S. population and nearly 200 complete cities are available. In addition, people who use Live Search Maps can create and share their own 3-D models of buildings through an alliance with Dassault Systemes.
Full article: efluxmedia.com
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Firebird PHP Generator is a FREEWARE but powerful Firebird GUI frontend that allows you to generate high-quality Firebird PHP scripts for the selected tables, views and queries for the further working with these objects through the web.
· Data management: adding, editing and deleting records
· Customization of the HTML appearance
· Filtering and sorting abilities
· Data protection with a lot of security settings
· Lookup options for master-detail relations
· Integrated script navigation
· Ability to create multilingual web apps
Firebird PHP Generator is distributed as freeware for business or personal use.
Download: Firebird PHP Generator 7.10
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
CoreAVC is a DirectShow filter for decoding H.264 video. It has very good performance.
Download: CoreAVC 1.5.0.0
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Do you usually view videos in YouTube? For sure that you have ever viewed any video from that website, and do you wish to play those favar videos in your cell phone? and maybe you have felt a bit upset because you can’t download them. But now, the 100% FREEWARE YouTube Video Downloader will let you download those videos you viewed and surprised you!
Just install it, surf the web, and when you find the video you want to download, copy & paste the link in the New Download URL textbox and it will be saved in your harddisk, so you may convert it to your cell phone by Mobile Video Converter.
Download: YouTube Video Downloader 2.00
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Apple and resellers are now taking pre-orders for both the client and server editions of the new Mac operating system, which will launch at the same time.
Apple has announced that Leopard, the next version of its Mac operating system, will go on sale in the UK and US at 6pm local time on Friday 26 October.
The computer and iPod maker and other retailers have already started taking pre-orders for the Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, otherwise known as Leopard, its first new version since the company migrated its computer products to the Intel x86 processor platform.
Read more: itpro.co.uk
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Winamp to Skype sets the actual playing Winamp song title to the Skype profile mood text. Start winamp after Skype.
Just copy the dll file to your winamp plugin directory.
Download: Winamp to Skype
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
With BBC iPlayer you can catch up with the programmes you’ve missed during the last 7 days - or want to watch again - by downloading them to your computer.
You can:
· find programmes you want to catch-up on or watch again
· download and store them on your computer until the licence expires
· playback high quality programmes on your computer as often as you like during the licence period
To install BBC iPlayer software you need to be based in the UK, aged 16 or over, be connected to broadband and register with bbc.co.uk.
Requirements: Windows XP.
Download: BBC iPlayer Beta
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
At the eMetrics Summit today in Washington, D.C., Google stunned this writer by announcing something I thought I’d never hear: the resurrection of Urchin’s log-based web analytics suite. The company is preparing a significant update to the standalone Urchin weblog analysis tool at the same time that it is also announcing improvements to Google Analytics, its “on demand” stats service.
As previously discussed, Google Analytics is based on Urchin’s “on demand” software, which Google acquired along with the company back in 2005. Urchin’s other killer product, a log-based analysis tool, was essentially ignored, leaving many customers feeling abandoned (and not a little ripped off). Those abandonment issues may soon fade…
Full story: arstechnica.com
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Xenu’s Link Sleuth checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Additional features:
• Simple, no-frills user-interface
• Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
• Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
• Executable file smaller than 1MB
• Supports SSL websites (”https:// “)
• Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
• Detects and reports redirected URLs
• Site Map
System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, WININET.DLL required (is usually included).
Download: Xenu’s Link Sleuth 1.2j
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on the sharing of video without permission.
The tools, called Video Identification, will block copyright material from appearing and spreading on the site.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, is currently fighting a billion-dollar legal battle with Viacom over the spread of pirated files.
Full article: BBC News
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
The group said the iPhone contains chlorinated plastic polyvinyl chloride and “brominated flame retardants” that can be harmful to the environment.
The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace says Apple’s new iPhone contains a number of hazardous chemicals that could become significant pollutants.
“Apple is not making early progress toward its 2008 commitment to phase out all uses of these materials, even in entirely new product lines,” Greenpeace said in a report published Monday.
Read more: informationweek.com
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Microsoft investigating…
Blogs have been buzzing with reports that Windows users who thought they had automatic updates set to either not install or get permission before installing nonetheless had their machines patched and rebooted.
But Microsoft posted a response on its website saying no changes were made to the automatic update mechanism nor did any recent updates change AU settings. The company is looking into whether customers might have actually had their settings changed by Microsoft Office or Windows OneCare, two programs that do have mechanisms that will change a computer’s automatic update preference settings.
Read more: silicon.com
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
ZipGenius has greatly evolved over the years, and today it isn’t just a zip/unzip application, but a perfect companion for your work. ZipGenius is not only a great solution for those who need to archive and protect their files and projects, but also suitable for everyone who just wants to share pictures and music files.
Version 6 of ZipGenius take advantage of the experience acquired since ZipGenius 5 first public release: we got bug reports, compliments, critics, suggestions and feature requests, and everything has contributed to build a better ZipGenius day after day. ZipGenius now is more flexible than before, it has been improved and it is faster, but it still is easy to use.
ZipGenius is presented in two editions: STANDARD and SUITE that differs for the content they ship to user’s Desktop. While the suite edition is the full setup package that includes all the optional modules of the ZipGenius project, because it is a setup layout oriented to experts and power users, the standard setup package just includes the main ZipGenius application because it is designed for most Windows users, that just want to open/compress/decompress archives in several formats: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ARJ, CAB, ACE, ISO, TAR, RPM, CZIP, EXE (ZIP SFX), JAR, EAR, WAR(Java ARchives), DSFZ, TGZ,SQX, BSZ(BS Player skin), MSKIN(Maxthon skin), OOT (OpenOffice.org 2.x documents), WAL(WinAmp Skin), WMZ(Windows Media Player SKin) and many more.
ZipGenius is 100% free
Download: ZipGenius 6.0.3.1150
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
AOL 9.0VR (Windows Vista Ready) is the latest version of the AOL software. On either broadband or dial-up, you can enjoy a safer, all-inclusive Internet experience — putting your email, instant messaging and Web browsing all in one place. And best of all, it’s absolutely free.
· Easy-to-use email with built-in anti-virus protection
· Parental Controls to help steer kids clear of inappropriate content
· Powerful spam and pop-up controls to prevent annoying interruptions
Download: AOL 9.0 | AOL 9.1 Beta 8
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