Category: Software

I’ve read over fifteen different articles about Plasma and or LCD-television sets over the last few weeks. I couldn’t agree with one of them. They always make the wrong comparisons. Of course a 42 inch plasma consumes more power than a 27 inch lcd screen, it’s almost twice as big! All these people talking about… Continue reading Plasma / LCD wankers

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even… Continue reading K-Lite Codec Pack Full 2.7 beta 1

The New York Times has an article looking at the social implications of technology in the home. Specifically, the problems a spouse can face when their loved one is working in bed. The only piece of technology in our bedroom is a television, that is almost never watched for more than 30 minutes, before we… Continue reading Using your laptop in bed

Microsoft has released Release Candidate 1 of their browser Internet Explorer. RC1 includes some additional enhancements mainly under the hood. The new browser runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Improvements have been made to performance, stability, security and application compatibility, says Microsoft. “We’ve made some changes that are not user noticeable but… Continue reading Internet Explorer 7 rc1

The master of all graphics editing programs got an update! The most significant fixes in the 9.0.2 release include the following: * Menus now respond correctly after a single click. * Undo/Redo work properly when multiple documents are open. * Photoshop no longer produces a program error when encountering unsupported file types through the Acrobat… Continue reading Adobe Photoshop 9.0.2

Maar liefst 235 bezoekers van Belgische zomerfestivals hebben dit jaar hun partner ten huwelijk gevraagd via de grote sms-schermen van gsm-operator BASE. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van de 26.089 sms’jes die over de schermen rolden tijdens Cactus, Suikerrock, Lokerse Feesten, Gentse Feesten en Antilliaanse Feesten. Dit soort van aanzoeken zit blijkbaar in de lift.… Continue reading Huwelijksaanzoeken via sms zitten in de lift

Mozilla has today delayed the release of the open source Firefox 2.0 browser until the 24th of October. The browser was supposed to be ready on 15 August. A second beta is now scheduled for 23 August. Some of the browser bugs which programmers are still working on involve visual refresh, tab overflow, spell check… Continue reading Firefox 2.0 delayed until October

Yesterday the zzillezz.net server got hacked. All index pages were changed. A backup was restored, but the backup was made *after* the server got hacked, so that didn’t solve anything. I still don’t know how they gained access to the files, but the hosting company did a kernel update this morning. I’ll keep you updated.… Continue reading Server got hacked

Hitman Pro is a collection of spyware removal tools, all in one automated package. New in Hitman Pro 2.5 * Added Expert tool. Even though Hitman Pro was never designed for the experienced user, a lot of people asked for it. Users can now have complete insight and control over threat objects (files and registry… Continue reading Hitman Pro 2.5

There’s an audio documentary about Kraftwerk on the BBC Radio 1 website. Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand is the talk host. >> Listen to the documentary