Category: Software

We’re off for a much needed holiday in France! See you soon. This is where we’ll be staying.

An interesting video about the fact that every weekend, thousands of young French people cross the border to Belgium to party in our clubs. You’ll recognize Marie-Jeanne from Lagoa, George’s from Pulse Factory, CP and others. And some drug dealing on the La Bush parking 🙂 The video is from Capital, on M6 (French television).… Continue reading French clubbers in Belgian clubs

“Firefox 2 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 Beta 1 and expect all… Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 2.0 beta 1

Ricoh claims they have developed an optical component that reads and writes all disk formats — Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, as well as DVD and CD — with one pickup and one objective lens. The component is a 3.5-mm diameter, 1-mm thick round diffraction plate with minute concentric groves on both sides which function as… Continue reading Ricoh has a lens that writes Blu-ray and HD-DVD

Microsoft have released Private Folder 1.0, which lets you have a folder called ‘My Private Folder’ which you can password protect. Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 is a useful tool for you to protect your private data when your friends, colleagues, kids or other people share your PC or account. With this tool, you will get… Continue reading Microsoft Private Folder 1.0

With technology buzzwords becoming so commonly used in daily life, Webster and Oxford have both begun to include some new terms in their latest editions. Some of their newest additions include: adware, biodiesel, codec, digicam, google (as a verb), geocaching, hacktivism, mash-up, rewriteable, ringtone, spyware, and texting. This is great news for all the Scrabble… Continue reading Tech words added to dictionaries

An interesting article about the world’s most popular music player. It’s no surprise they’re all made in China 🙂 “Payment is lower because the boss wants to reduce our costs,” said one 26-year-old security guard, who would not reveal his name. “Prices need to be competitive to get orders from abroad.” My opinion on the… Continue reading Where the Ipods are made

The biggest and meanest (and not completely legal) codec packs of all got an update! It contains new versions of MPC, ffdshow, XviD, DivX, Haali Media Splitter, x264, AC3ACM, FLV splitter and InterVideo DVD decoder. Just install it over your current installation. >> Download K-Lite Codec Pack update (27/06/2006) >> K-Lite Codec Pack website

Yes, you’ve read it right. It’s now Adobe Flash Player, since Macromedia was bought by Adobe last year. The Windows and Mac versions of the Flash Player just got a new release. Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), which features a… Continue reading Adobe Flash Player 9.0.16.0

Once again people going to Rock Werchter by train will have difficulties. The unions are preparing actions during the Werchter weekend, starting on June 29th. Two years ago I think, they did the same: there were no trains for the people wanting to go home after the festival weekend. If the unions want to have… Continue reading No trains to Rock Werchter?