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Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2008 Posted: 30 Dec 2007 02:18 PM CST Hello, hello, hello! I’m sure that you have a great pleasure time these holidays. What about us? Well, we are still working hard and preparing a new gift for you :-). Very soon we will release a new program Free MP4 Video Converter. This tool will enable you to convert video files to MP4 video format for portable devices: players, cell phones, smart phones and so on. The new program will have lots of predefined profiles for different devices, included but not limited to BlackBerry, Nokia, Motorola, SonyEricsson cell phones, Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Archos DVR, Creative Zen Vision, Epson P-series, PlayStation, Xbox, etc. The program will have a profile editor, so you will be able to specify your device screen resolution, to play with bitrate and framerate in order to increase quality of output video or decrease output file size and to create custom profiles for your specific device with MP4 video support. Have a great time and do not forget to visit DVDVideoSoft! PS. I apologize for not answering to your personal emails for about a week or so. I promise, I will answer you within the first days of January 2008.

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Free Video Editing Software

... that works.

Merry Christmas

Upgrade to XP

Excellent article on the smooth upgrade path available from Vista to XP

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Jim
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

Blogging on Domino

Here's an example of how good DWA (Domino Web Access) and the Domino blogging engine can be

Reliability...

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jef Raskin

The Nerd Handbook

Jeez I will have to get dozens of copies of this.

FastStone Capture now on version 5.9

In a post I made earlier this year, I lavished praise on one of my favourite little apps these days

FastStone Capture (the best bang per buck screen capture app there is, I think)

It's remarkable how many features they packed into 1.3MB:

• multiple image format conversion (jpg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, pcx, tga)
• export to PDF
• screen capture direct to Word, PowerPoint
• edit, edge effects, negative, sepia, blur etc.
• captioning
• image format quality setting, with lossless compression and instant preview
• zoom
• magnifying glass with negative feature to help those with very poor vision
• and of course, multiple screen capture modes, such as active window capture, selected window capture, freehand, region, full screen and scrolling window capture
• oh, and a colour picker
• and a screen ruler

I think that's everything, as of version 5.9, but I could be wrong.

Sample screencap (with added caption):

What really slows your PC down

For most people there are not too many surprises here. Our old friend Norton is up there.

Reporting on PHP

Got some reports to generate? Want to offer them in a variety of formats? No problem: you can start with pdf and xls and work from there.

The Register has put together a simple howto on the subject

Linux is poised to take over the low-end PC market

Or so this article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols would have us believe:

I've heard this kind of thing said many times before (Linspire, anyone?) and it has never really come to pass. It's true that with Ubuntu and openSuse you don't have to know anything about Linux to use them for most basic tasks, but when you run into trouble you'll need to be able to find your way around Yast2 at least, if not the bowels of the Linux filesystem. I suppose that's the way it is with Windows, but I don't think that the average PC user is quite ready for Linux yet, even Ubuntu.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Just sit back and enjoy...




Watch it in a separate window

Visit Kloonigames

Sony is Best ;-)

Nice article about the HD DVD / Blu-Ray battle

Submitted by Al via email

IBM Server Sales Slump - will Eclipz be the saviour?

With IBM falling behind Dell and Sun in the server market (which is still IBM's core business), and with their main competitors showing no signs of slowing down, IBM introduce Eclipz to the world at large. Will it do anything to stimulate growth and entice buyers? Perhaps not, according to this article on tech-news. It seems that the impressive sounding 4GHz four-core Power 6 CPUs may not be as quick as the existing z9a CMOS based processors, so will customers bite? Will they believe the claims that z6 will "never lose data, never go down"? Only time will tell.

Read the full article on tech-news

Read the z6 product specification (pdf)

AV-Comparatives November Report

Here's the monthly AV-Comparatives report for November. All the luminaries are there: Symantec, McAfee, Eset, AVIRA, Avast and Grisoft to name but a few...

On-Demand Scanning:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_08.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report15.pdf


Retrospective/proactive scanning:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_11.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report16.pdf

Lowlights:
NormanVirusControl only caught 2 of 12 polymorphic viruses, with AVAST and AVG next worst at 3 of 12. The honour of worst overall detection rates fell to Dr. Web (but it is beta).

Highlights:
At the top of the polymorphic threat spectrum were: G DATA, MicroWorld, F-Secure, Kaspersky, ESET and Symantec - all with 12 of 12. AVIRA, McAfee, Softwin, F-Prot and AEC were joint second with 11 of 12. Best overall detection rates were for AVIRA's AntiVir PE Premium (so this is THE AV to put on your copy of MiniPE ;-)


Very little has changed in the last 6 months, and still (for me) Nod32 provides the best balance between rock-solid protection and speed. I'm still puzzled as to how Symantec and McAfee score so high, when most of the infected systems I see are running them (if they are running AV at all, up-to-date or not).