Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Stockholm (Sweden) - The four men in charge of running Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site, have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in their home country of Sweden.
Pirate Bay acts similar to Kazaa in that it is a source for users to find, share and download content, much of which is copyrighted. The site creates Torrent files, which must be accessed through third-party software programs before it can be viewed.
Read more: tgdaily.com
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
This Windows-based software makes it easy and affordable to detect network and website failures early. IPCheck Server Monitor helps organizations to monitor critical network resources, and to detect system failures or performance problems immediately, thus minimizing downtimes and their economic impact.
Main Features:
- Powered by Paessler’s reliable IPCheck technology
- Eight-year-ongoing process of refinement and new features
- Easy installation and usage - You can get started in less than 5 minutes!
- Remote Management via web browser, PocketPC, or Windows client
- Notifies users about outages by email, ICQ, or pager/SMS, and more
- Monitors network services with its comprehensive sensor type selection
- Multiple location monitoring using secure Remote Probes
Free for personal and non-commercial use and limited to three basic sensors as well as a minimum interval of 15 minutes.
Download: Paessler IPCheck Server Monitor 5.4.1.863/864 Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
MusikFusion Audio Player is a simple, but powerful audio player.
Features:
- Load/Save Playlists (*.m3u/*.pls) Format
- Support for MP3/OGG/APE/WMA/WAV/AU/SND/MIDI/AIF/CDA
- Rip an Audio CD to Harddrive and MusikFusions Media Library
- Convert Audio Files to other Audio Formats
- Plugin Capable
- Effects (Normalization/Reverb/Phase Shift/Swap Channels)
- EQ Monitor
- Intercepts with Windows Live Messenger’s ‘Show what I’m Listning To’
- Sort playlist by either Title, Artist or Genre
- Advanced Search Playlist Utility
- Repeat and Random/Shuffle Modes
- Low in Computer Resources
- Minimal File Size
Download: MusikFusion 0.25 Beta
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :
- It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
- It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.
Download: Exact Audio Copy 0.99 prebeta 4
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
PocketDivXEncoder allows you to encode any video clip with optimized parameters for handled devices (landscape mode, 240×320, low CPU usage, increased brightness, …). The video output standards are directly playable on PMP devices (Archos,…) but also on your PocketPC, Smartphone or Palm thanks to the player The Core Pocket Media Player. The clips are created thanks to the fast encoder mencoder.
Download: PocketDivXEncoder 0.3.96
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia’s largest Linux conference.
In an interview at the Linux.conf.au conference today, Torvalds admitted that Linux was lagging behind on power management and energy diagnosis tools.
“It is an area we were pretty weak a few years ago and just building up the infrastructure took a long time but now we are at a point where we have most of it done.
“That doesn’t mean we are done. Now we have an infrastructure in place … we have the tools to measure power and notice when the power is higher and why that is — which is pretty important. Before, it used to be a black box,” said Torvalds.
Full article: ZDNet.com.au
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
GrapeBackup is a backup program with following features:
- extremely fast
- easy to use
- supports incremental backups (multiple versions of a directory are saved in a repository and may be retrieved independently). Create your backups daily or even twice a day. Only changed files will be stored. This is also very useful if you want to be able to access different stages of your work.
- allows to limit I/O throughput (it is limited to 1 MB per second in the basic version). This unique feature allows you to continue to work during a GrapeBackup run. Your computer will not become unusable just because you run a backup.
- uses ZIP format for storing files or single file repository (If you want to burn the created file on CDs? or similar and it is bigger than 650MB you can use 7-zip File Manager to split the file in smaller pieces)
- runs on multiple platforms. It was tested on Windows XP and Kubuntu (Linux) but should also run on any platform that supports Java.
- English and German translations
- basic version is freeware
- command line interface lets you automate your backups.
You must have Java 1.5 or greater already installed before installing GrapeBackup
Download: GrapeBackup 1.5
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
AutomationBox Tools are a free set of command line tools for the automation of recurring actions. These utilities enable you to easily automate the most complex actions, including those that require input from a graphical interface.
AutomationBox Tools include components for:
- Interactive selection of objects on the screen and obtaining information about them.
- Searching for objects using templates and managing them.
- Entering text and controlling applications by emulating keypresses and mouse movements.
- Automatic creation of screenshots.
Possessing an advanced command line interface, the tools can be easily combined with each other and external applications for outstanding results. You can also use AutomationBox Tools in combination with other automation solutions, which almost infinitely expands their area of application.
Due to this extraordinary flexibility, AutomationBox Tools can act as “building blocks” for quick creation or various auxiliary automation solutions.
A unique technology is used for interacting with graphics interfaces – it allows you to select even the smallest elements, such as lines in lists, links or paragraphs on web pages, shortcuts on the desktop and so forth.
The combination of flexibility, modern technologies and zero price makes AutomationBox Tools an indispensable tool for any experienced user.
Download: AutomationBox Tools 1.0
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Vista Firewall Control protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access. Allows you to control personal information leakage via controlling application network traffic.
Features
• Designed for Windows Vista 32/64 bit
• Free versions available
• Special editions for portable devices (USB flash/HDD drives, iPod etc)
• Special editions for U3 smart devices
• Protection from incoming and outgoing threats
• Simplicity of operation
• Per-application security settings
Download: Vista Firewall Control 1.3
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
System Safety Monitor (SSM) allows you to track down Microsoft Windows operating system activity in real-time and to prevent undesirable actions from various malware and spyware programs. SSM’s main goal is to discover and block malicious actions of any application.
Operating System: Windows 2000(SP4+)/XP(SP1+)/2003, Microsoft Windows 98/Me (free edition only)
Download. System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.583 Free Edition | System Safety Monitor 2.4 Beta
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Apple says it needs another couple of weeks to finish the software upgrade that will let people rent movies directly from their televisions.
Apple has postponed the release of the Apple TV software update by a week or two, saying it needed more time to finish the upgrade that would let people rent movies directly from their televisions.
The company also said on Wednesday it had started shipping the MacBook Air, the ultra-thin notebook introduced at Macworld in San Francisco this month. The Air, which costs $1,799, weighs about 3 pounds, has a 13.3-inch display, and is 0.16 of an inch thick at its thinnest point.
Read more: informationweek.com
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
yarNe is television, simple
yarNe is the future of television. We all love television and we all need the internet. yarNe combines the TV we love with the power of the internet we need. Forget the short clip internet TV as you know it, yarNe is proper TV with many channels, and never stops playing.
yarNe is the way it shall be TV
Platform: Windows XP/Vista
Download: yarNe 1.25
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Active@ ISO Burner is a freeware application that will allow you to burn an ISO image file to CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DL DVD+RW, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Active@ ISO Burner software is free for distribution and commercial use.
Download: Active@ ISO Burner 1.1.4
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Active@ DVD Eraser is an easy-to-use free software to erase DVD-RW or CD-RW media to clear the old data from the disk.
Two erasing methods are available:
Quick Erase: The disc’s structures are changed on drive level so that a drive sees the disc as blank media.
Full Erase (Secure method): The complete surface of the disc is over-written with a neutral pattern. The result is that all data is now cleared forever.
Active@ DVD Eraser software is free for distribution and commercial use.
Download: Active@ DVD Eraser
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Plain Edit is an editor for text files (ASCII and ANSI) with syntax highlighting for the most common Web, scripting and programming languages.
The main features:
· Various functions for text conversion
· Easy to switch between ANSI (Windows) and ASCII (DOS)
· Syntax highlighting for the most common Web, scripting and programming languages
· Automatic replacement of special characters in the HTML coding
· Freely definable templates allow for the rapid creation of files
· Page settings (margins, headers and footers), and a print preview
· Insert document templates and content templates
· Plain editions can be extended with plug-ins
Operating system: Windows ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Portable.
Download: Plain Edit 1.7.3
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool assists Network administrators with troubleshooting network related failures, focusing primarily on IPsec. It is applicable on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool checks for common network problems on the host machine and if found, suggests repair commands. Further, it collects IPsec policy information on the system and parses the IPsec logs to deduce why a failure might have happened. Beyond IPsec, it offers trace collection for VPN, NAP client, Windows Firewall, Group policy updates, Wireless and System events. The Diagnostic Report generated by the tool is conclusive and is derived from the system logs collected by the tool during its analysis phase. These logs are self sufficient to diagnose any network related issues. For further assistance, the logs would require to be shared with Network Administrators or Microsoft support.
Download: Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool 1.0
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Features
• Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.
• Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
• Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
• Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, - EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
• Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
• Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
• Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.
Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
Download: Wink 2.0 Build 1060 Alpha
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
In an unexpected move, a judge has extended the federal government’s oversight Microsoft’s business practices until November 12, 2009.
As part of a 2002 consent decree with the federal government, Microsoft agreed to federal oversight of its business practices to ensure it didn’t use its monopoly power in the computer operating systems market to unfairly inhibit competition and control prices. Portions of that consent decree were set to expire in November 2007, but Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended the date in order to hear arguments presented by two groups of states arguing the consent decree should be extended five more years. Industry watchers generally felt that Kollar-Kotelly would let the decree expire on schedule—albeit with admonishments that the government would continue to keep a close eye on the Redmond software giant—in part because the Bush administration’s Justice Department also backed the idea of letting the consent decree expire.
Read more: digitaltrends.com
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.
The system is heavily based on the VCG library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the core mesh processing tasks and it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX (intel only).
Download: MeshLab 1.1.0
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