Category: Software

Download the unofficial WMF-fix made by the Russian programmer Ilfak Guilfanov (working in Belgium by the way). Exclusive download mirror @ zzillezz.net. Don’t wait for Microsoft’s fix! The fix is known to work on Windows 2000, XP (SP1 and SP2), XP64, Windows 2003. >> Download WMF-fix (exclusive!).

FrostWire is a free and open source Gnutella P2P application, based on the LimeWire source. There’s no “pro” version of FrostWire, you get all the goodies for free. FrostWire can run on Windows XP, MacOSX, Linux … * Added: Intelligent Spam/Junk Filter to filter bad search results with various tweaks * Added: New Theme *… Continue reading FrostWire 4.10 beta

A measure to legalize P2P file sharing has passed through France’s lower house amidst a storm of protest from the country’s film, music, and audiovisual industries. If the measure passes through the government’s upper house, France would become the first nation to legalize P2P file sharing during a time in which most Western nations are… Continue reading France set to legalize P2P

” Computer disk drive supplier Seagate Technology has agreed to buy rival Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The paper said the deal is expected to be unveiled later in the day, with Seagate planning to swap 0.37 of a Seagate… Continue reading Seagate buys Maxtor

“I am not a cynic by nature, but years of experience in the IT world have compelled me to make sure that everything passes the smell test. As a result, I can often tell beforehand whether I am hearing marketspeak or the real deal. For instance, 5 minutes after I figured out what Larry Ellison’s… Continue reading Overhyped IT Top-10 2005

The European parliament accepted a proposal ‘… on the retention of data processed in connection with the provision of public electronic communication services … ‘. Summarized: any data (internet connections, traffic, email, file sharing, SMS, phone calls) of 450 billion people of Europe has to be collected by telecommunication companies, to be used by governments… Continue reading Europe 1984

“The algorithm used by the Sober worm to ‘communicate’ with its author has been cracked. According to F-Secure, it can now calculate the exact URLs the worm would check on a particular day. Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure, explained that the virus author has not used a constant URL because authorities would easily… Continue reading Sober worm code cracked

* New: [in_wm] Windows Media Video support (with DRM) * New: [in_mp4] Support for HE-AAC MP4/M4A files * Improved: lots of minor plugin improvements * Improved: Visualization data calculations * Improved: Significantly less playlist memory usage * Improved: more multi-user improvements (almost there!) * Improved: [installer] setup options, saved settings, codec downloading * Improved: [gen_ff]… Continue reading Winamp 5.12

My wife Véronique was on Studio Brussel (national radio) this morning with three of her favourite music tracks of all time. She picked these: LUC VAN ACKER – Zanna BLACK CROWES – Remedy EURYTHMICS – Love is a stranger >> Listen to the music and the interview (13 mb, 14 min.) >> Listen to the… Continue reading Vero on the DreamTeam (StuBru)

Microsoft today publicly announced that the availability of an updated Internet Explorer 7 beta will not be until Q1 2006. In real terms this means that the next IE7 beta for Windows XP isn’t likely to ship until January/Feb. An educated guess may place Microsoft revealing WMP11 Beta for Windows XP and the next IE7… Continue reading IE7 beta not until January / February 2006