Author: gilles

In the recent weeks, technology giants Sony and Toshiba have expressed an interest in settling the dispute over the next generation of high definition digital versatile discs. Now it appears that both sides are as far apart as ever, with the billions of Yen spent in development of each company’s respective format being the dividing… Continue reading HD-DVD / Blu-ray

Microsoft has launched a public beta for a new piece of software, code named ‘Acrylic’. Acrylic is a design tool that will feel reasonably similar to anyone familiar with Adobe Photoshop. Acrylic offers the more advanced editing features (layers, etc) not currently found in the standard imaging program bundled with Windows, Microsoft Paint. Microsoft describe… Continue reading MS launches Acrylic, new graphic software

Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run… Continue reading Apple switching to Intel

There are two important events that will happen to the support policy for Windows 2000 after June 30th of this year. First, support for both IE 5.01 SP3 and IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP3 will expire. Users running IE 5.01 or IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 should upgrade to Windows 2000 SP4… Continue reading No IE7 in Windows 2000

Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. Improvements: * Disk-scan is approximately 30 % faster * CSI scan is now more efficient * Added “Scan for low risk threats” option, to scan for targets with low TAC index… Continue reading Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE 1.6

Citing user requests to coalesce it’s disparate services, Google released its new personalized homepage service. It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot, Wired, New York Times, BBC News) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support. Clearly a… Continue reading Google startpage

* New: By popular demand all “http force to ‘Now Playing’” support has been removed* New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin* New: WMA Playback now works with WaveOut plugin* New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly* Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams* Fixed: Drag and Drop strange… Continue reading Winamp 5.092

In my opinion, MSN Messenger is getting way too bloated with functions I’ll never use. So I returned to Microsoft’s other instant messaging program: Windows Messenger. It’s nice to see that classic interface again … A new version of Windows Messenger has been released on Friday the 13th. Windows Messenger 5.1.0680 is currently available in… Continue reading Windows Messenger 5.1.0680

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends… Continue reading Gaim 1.3.1

After more than a year, a new version of this very good, free music ripping soft. * Wave editor and native interface stability improved * Many bug fixes (E.g. extraction engine crashes, CDDB problems, compression queue) * Added interface for CDRDAO for CD writing * Inserting all tracknames from Clipboard using Ctrl+Shift+V >> http://www.exactaudiocopy.de For… Continue reading Exact Audio Copy 0.95 beta 2