As one user-interface feature, tabs in Google Chrome are 'sandboxed' to avoid crashing each other (as per user tendency which is very common) consequentially filtering fraudulent sites to guard user engine safe from 'phishing' attempts and spywares.

Chrome's address bar is (by default) characteristic of an all-around box that fills in a user with search suggestions and which displays major pages visited and even those not yet browsed but which are most in demand. Keying in a single word of a certain site leads the address bar straight to the site's search box ready for keyword entry. User may opt on a separate browser, however, to launch web applications without the necessity of address bar or toolbar.

Under Google Chrome's privacy mode, Google promotes the 'incognito' feature by which preference may be made for whether to log a window on the computer.

Everything gradually gets optimally customized by Google Chrome to satisfactorily meet web requirements geared toward tough changes in the future so that adjustment with this area of revolution wouldn't be dramatically unstable. Its beta version released for Windows looks promising for both Mac and Linux which the Google Chrome has since recently configured with, owing to Apple's Webkit and Mozilla Firefox among other source projects it might further avail of, thus, keeping the competition with other options even.

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One more thing. I did hear from a senior professor who has held posts at two of America’s top universities that a student who has applied, is turned down, and then applies again the next year does indeed have a strike–or two–against him or her. He didn’t presume to speak for every school everywhere, of course, but he did seem to think this was the way it was commonly done, and he is very widely connected.

Wait, what? It's counted against you if you reapply to a program that turned you down last year? My entire application strategy was based upon applying to the top tier programs first (all programs that I would say "yes" to without regret) along with some ThM (or equivalent) programs. If I got universally rejected at the PhD level, I'd do a ThM (or equivalent) somewhere and do a second round of applications the next year (with which I would widen the net to "second tier" schools). In the end, I did have two advanced one-year masters programs to choose from, but I am so happy that I got into UCLA as it is really the perfect program for my interests in New Testament social history.

John Stackhouse's well-connected friend shares information that goes against what I thought to be true. If I had been universally rejected at the PhD level, I would be doing another master's program right now and panicking a bit. I'm not sure I understand why a school would make it harder for a re-applicant the second time around, unless that applicant had done nothing to improve or had somehow gone backwards. In response to my amazement and confusion, Prof. Stackhouse commented:

I understand your confusion and, perhaps, dubiety, Brother McCullough. I strongly supported one of our graduates who was in precisely this case and whose case elicited this response from my friend. I only pass it along as something my friend sees as common in elite schools: If you’ve been considered and turned down once, you face a steeper hill the next time. It doesn’t make sense to me either, but there it is.

Something to consider very seriously for those who are applying!

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Om je gebruikers los te kunnen laten gaan, moet je in de ontwikkeling van je dienst ook focussen op die gebruikers en niet op de techniek. Ben Huh van I Can Has Cheezburger? stipte dit onderwerp aan in een leuke presentatie over hoe zijn lolcats-platform groeit. De valkuil voor iedereen die een webapplicatie (of website) ontwikkelt, is de verkeerde focus, namelijk die op de behoeften van de 1% hardcore-gebruikers. Dat zijn de bezoekers die misschien wel 40% van je bezoek veroorzaaken, maar die ook geavanceerde eisen stellen. Het is echter belangrijk om je juist te focussen op de hele grote groep casual gebruikers, die misschien maar weinig langskomt, maar die je wel fan kunt laten worden, door ze genoeg aandacht te geven en hen de juiste ervaring te bieden. Fans die uiteindelijk voor een vliegwiel-effect kunnen zorgen en je bezoekcijfers kunnen laten exploderen.

Zodra je de casual users tot fans van je dienst hebt weten te maken, is het van belang om ze te blijven vasthouden. Digg en Friendfeed zijn daarom druk doende om hun dienst op individueel niveau waardevoller te laten zijn. Op dit moment hebben beide diensten last van een aantal hardcore gebruikers. Bij Digg zijn dat een paar duizend geregistreerde gebruikers die zo fanatiek berichten omhoog stemmen, dat zij bepalen what's hot and what's not. Het gevolg is dat op de homepage van Digg nu vooral politieke en technische onderwerpen de boventoon voeren. De vraag die Digg nu probeert te beantwoorden is: Hoe kan elke gebruiker waardering krijgen voor zijn participatie. Ook de gebruiker die verhalen diggt over niche onderwerpen. En hoe kunnen we ervoor zorgen dat de liefhebber van niche-onderwerpen ook interessante inhoud krijgt voorgeschoteld?

Friendfeed zit op een soortgelijk pad. Voor elke gebruiker worden de statistieken uitgelezen en genalayseerd. We vinden namelijk niet allemaal elk bericht van Robert Scoble of Jeremiah Owyang zo reuze interessant. Door de huidige opzet zullen hun bijdragen vooral in de toplijstje terecht komen. En de foto die een goede vriend met me wil delen blijft ongezien. Friendfeed zal zorgen dat op basis van je profiel, de bron, het onderwerp en op basis van social validation voor mij alle interessante inhoud zichtbaar wordt. Ook de foto van die casual gebruiker, zonder dat die wordt ondergesneeuwd door de praatgrage Scoble.

Naar mijn idee is dit een vooruitblik op wat komen gaat. We willen natuurlijk allemaal dat internet voor ons gaat werken. Zeker na die enorme hoeveelheid input die we hebben gegeven op die tientallen social networks. Web 3.0 is here to come?

De meeste presentaties van de Future of Web Apps zijn bij Carsonified terug te vinden, inclusief  video- en audioregistraties van de presentaties.

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Some examples of what I would like it to do

Situation 1.

I am working in my graphics applications and based on the fact that I have Photoshop, TextMate and maybe Dreamweaver open.

So the computer should do the following.

* Mute my new email notification sound.
* Mark me as busy in any IM client I have open.
* Fire up my 'working' playlist in iTunes but lower the volume.
* Check that I have the right screen settings and chosen calibration file in the OS settings for correct display and also change the desktop background to a nice neutral gray so my eyes are not tricked on color evaluation.

Situation 2.

I have Logic Studio open and have incoming audio from my Firewire 410 interface, so clearly I have an instrument plugged in and might be recording or jamming.

So the computer should do the following.

* Mute all system sounds and notifications other than those generated by Logic or my audio interface application.
* Hide all applications except Logic and my audio interface
* Reconfigure my audio settings so everything is set out thru my Firewire 410 and disable any other applications that might be changing the sound (I use Hear and/or SRS iWOW) so I am only hearing the raw Logic audio thru my studio speakers.
* Mark me as busy on any IM client and close any applications that I have listed for this particular context, for example I don't need my email client open and Logic will appreciate the extra memory it might free up.

Now I am sure we are a way from this kind of computing and operating system, but it sure would be nice if someone could solve the problem. My programming skills are not up to it, but who knows maybe one day I'll figure it out.

I'm talking about Last.fm streaming in Novell's Banshee media player. If you need any information on the internet music service Last.fm, head over to its wiki to get educated. If that's not necessary, then you likely know that Last.fm works like any other internet radio station, when you toss aside the fact that it's a website, and it attempts to guess what you like, and also that it can be narrowly tailored to your liking.

For constant Firefox users and Add-on fanatics like myself, there's even a Firefox toolbar called Fire.fm that beats being chained to the Last.fm website, every time. It can start a station when you open your browser, and keeps playing wherever you roam on the net. No more "Shit, I've closed the wrong tab. Looks like I need to visit the page again and restart my station. Too bad I've been dying to hear that Stones song for the longest time, and now it's gone..."

At the present, most if not all full-fledged media players for Linux offer some type of Last.fm support. What I haven't seen until Banshee is the wonderful ability to see several songs at a time, almost like a temporary playlist, from which you can choose your next song. It's like your music library has been extended and made even more dynamic, by bringing in the internet to your desktop.

Anywhere else, including Last.fm's own website, the playback only shows you the current song. Rhythmbox does this, and so does Amarok. See the screen grab to get a better idea of what Banshee is doing instead:

Let's say you're a Last.fm user (if not and you've been feeling limited by your library lately, and don't buy too many cd's, like me: this is a good reason to start using it) wouldn't you prefer this type of playback? This functionality changes the whole game for Last.fm, it's no longer a boring stream you have little control over, like internet radio. This is a whole other playlist your plugged into thanks to the internet. But can Last.fm's website even do this? No. Two points to you, Banshee team.

But hold on, that's just Last.fm

I'm thrilled about this feature I stumbled upon, that has drawn me away from Pandora and back to using Last.fm again. However, with more dedicated use of the Banshee player (which by the way, also plays video--take that Rhythmbox) I have a few things I have to nitpick. Keep in mind that the tested release of Banshee was version 1.2.1...

1. From the first use, Banshee tried to be nice and help me migrate from my other media players which I still use. And I keep around Amarok, Rhythmbox (favorite), and Xfmedia. When Banshee tried to pull my playlist info from Rhythmbox, it dumped the playlist in the Music Library in a rather haphazard way that needs to be immediately fixed. Songs were ordered descending by track number, and despite many clicks and checks into the Preferences, no other sorting was possible. Also, 'browsing', or narrowing by Artist or Album criteria, was totally broken, too. There is a solution--don't import from other players. Do it from scratch and tell Banshee which directories or devices to look to for your Media Library. All is fixed with that.
2. Secondly, and quite possibly what irks me the most about the Banshee player, is the illogical and troublesome way it handles Albums . Case in point--I have a compilation called The Second Wave that I snagged when I worked at Starbucks, and many artists are on the album such as Joy Division, Roxy Music and The Smiths. I'm often an album-listener, so I might try to narrow my playlist to just that album and enjoy it's Post-punk/New Wave goodness. But as they say, I can "fuhget about it." Know what Banshee does? It lists the album name several times, once for each artist that belongs to it. That does not make sense! I solve this by sorting my entire Library by Album name and playing through an album unshuffled. Alternatively, you can make individual playlists that include songs from that Album. It shouldn't take that long to hear my albums.

Those problems (and possibly others) aside, I think Banshee is a nice media player. I had to throw some rocks at it, but I am happy that it offers video playback in the same app as music, podcasts, internet radio and Last.fm. I can't speak to it's podcast playback as I haven't loaded any new ones, and Banshee lumped my old iTunes podcasts (from my Win XP install) together with regular music files.

Another great feature that I have yet to use is the disc burning that's available straight from Banshee, provided that you have Brasero Disk Burning. However, I see no way to choose a different burning program if you don't use Brasero.

I also read in Linux Format that iPod support in the current release is pretty solid. One thing that caught my eye was the way Banshee shows your iPod's disk usage--just like iTunes does. Check out the screenshot I found.

As soon as Banshee cleans up its act which it likely will do in the near future, Rhythbox et al may get a run for their money. This may be to iTunes what OpenOffice is to Microsoft Office--a near drop-in replacement for an old app left behind in the jump from Windows to Linux. I use Banshee 1.2.1 frequently to learn my way around it and discover little faults like those I described above, but for now I have run back to Rhythmbox, and I feel much better using that. For the future of Banshee on SUSE releases and your own desktop, things are looking pretty good.

Well well well... If you guys haven't yet discovered that apps can be now downloaded for FREE!
THis only works if you have a Jailbroken Ipod touch running firmware 2.0 / 2.1 etc...
I will be posting Jailbreak tutorials and Also on how to get cracked apps onto your Iphone/Ipodtouch!
Also any requests for tutorials will be considered just post them in the comments! XD

We're heading into a world where PCs will be reduced to portable Mobile devices (about which I'll have an article soon) and this calls for a change.

Enter into Parallel Kingdom! This new game is exploiting into a virtually empty space in mobile game industry where your move abouts in the real world actually have something to do with the game.

Their  blog writes

Parallel Kingdom uses location-based features to place the virtual world over the real world, where you can kill creatures, collect gold, and destroy your friends.

Im still not exactly sure what we are supposed to do in this game! I'll have to experience it. From the looks of it, Parallel Kingdom is based completely on the location based services of your iPhone, iPod, Android - GPS but appears to have ignored their graphic capabilities. I mean com'on! We could have a much better game design other than just laying out maps slapped with icons. Nonetheless, Parallel Kingdom is still in beta stage and deserves to be recognized for its promising concept. It can spark a whole new range of games in this "location based" category.

And its game-network combines iPhone, iPod, Android. In other words, if you see a lot of players in your area rest assured, they're all Apple eaters or Googlers!

Release date : 31st October 2008.

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ps: for some reason, im reminded of an episode of CSI:NY!  and now its scaring me

Simply Create, Rip, Burn, Copy, Share, Back Up, Play, and Enjoy

Nero 9 is the next generation of the world’s most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple.

This easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere.

With easy-to-use Nero StartSmart command center, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun.

Nero 9 Highlights:

* Fast and easy rip, burn, Autobackup, and copy functions
* Backup files to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs*
* Create professional-looking DVD movies with integrated 3D menus
* Copy, burn, share, upload, and create music mixes like a DJ
* Convert music, photos, and DVDs to play on your iPod® and other mobile devices
* Quick photo and video upload to My Nero, YouTube™, and MySpace
* Watch, record, pause, and customize your live TV experience
* Play AVCHD and other HD formats

Creative Projects Are Easier than Ever

Using the intuitive Nero StartSmart command center of Nero 9, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun. You directly access features and perform one-click functions such as Audio Ripping, Burning, Copying, and AutoBackup, with optimized performance for Windows Vista® with Nero DiscCopy Gadget and Nero Live (TV) for Windows Vista Sidebar.

Fully Enjoy Your Content at Home, Online and On-the-go

Whether it’s video, photo, or music, you can convert and share everything your imagination creates in your digital world. Convert & share multimedia files to play on iPod®, PSP®, and upload online your coolest photos and videos to share with online communities like My Nero, YouTube™, and MySpace.

Make Your PC a Dynamic Home-Entertainment Device

Experience TV from the comfort of your sofa with state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Pause, record, schedule, manage, and playback your TV shows.

Best in the Business Software Gets Better

The ripping and burning capabilities of Nero 9 are the most reliable in the industry. Burn and copy to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc – even copy movies*. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you’ll get more data on a disc than ever before!*

Trusted and Reliable – Backup, Restore, and Secure

Don’t lose your valuable memories and important files to life’s potential hazards, system crash, or risky hardware. Backing up, securing, and managing files and data is a point-and-click away.

Note: This software requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 to run on Windows XP SP2/SP3.

[Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package]
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..just right + click on the .nfo file and open with notepad..

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now natively supported in Mac OS X.

I know Windows Live SkyDrive is a Microsoft service, so I'll ask a lot of you very nicely to put aside your immediate contempt for a minute, and ask just for one moment forget that its a Microsoft offering.

This FREE online storage offering by Microsoft can be found here : http://skydrive.live.com/

Its not entirely bad either, it gives you a whopping 5GBs of free online storage, you decide exactly what you want to store. There are no restrictions as to what you can store, but there is a restriction on the size of file you can store - currently only files smaller than 50MB can be hosted. Not sure on exactly why they enforced this restriction, since they are after all giving you the full 5GBs, surely you should be able to store files of any size, shape or form, but yeah - thats Microsoft for you, gotta love em.

You also have to respect this healthy competition between Microsoft and Google, clearly MS, not wanting to feel outdone by Googles GMail offering, have at least provided something more useful than simple email storage, your files stored in your SkyDrive can be accessed indiviually on their own HTTP address. This means you can upload files like podCasts or video recordings and link them to your blog, or website.

The service is not available in every country yet, this is another limitation I fail to understand, this seems to me like internet sanctions for the user, but if you are lucky enough to live in a country where MS offer this service and you would like 5GBs of free online space, by all means sign up for it, or sign in using your Windows Live Passport.

PowerDVD is the latest evolution of the world acclaimed DVD software program that offers maximum video and audio playback entertainment on the PC. It comes complete with numerous customizable video/audio controls that can deliver the highest quality viewing and listening experience. PowerDVD incorporates support for high-definition audio and video, true 8-channel home theater audio playback, virtual surround sound, as well as complete controls and extra features for DVD enthusiasts.

CyberLink enriches the high-definition movie experience with brand new PowerDVD 8, featuring support for interactive Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD features, home theater audio formats, and video file formats. New features let users extend the movie experience by building a database of movie info and trivia, writing movie reviews, rating their favorite movies, and creating movie remixes. A newly released web site dedicated to PowerDVD users allows the meeting and making of friends, and the sharing of movie information that can be synchronized with a user's own version of PowerDVD.

No. 1 DVD Experience on the PC now delivers New Dimensions in Movie Entertainment
* Indulge in the extreme quality of high-definition movies
* Explore high-definition Blu-ray Disc movies
* Remix your movies: create new stories to watch and share
* Build your own movie collection; write personal reviews
* Share a love of movies with new friends on MoovieLive.com

Enjoy High-Definition Movies
PowerDVD delivers award-winning playback quality for movies on the PC.
* High-definition movie content - The best video quality out there, with support for video formats like AVCHD and Blu-ray Discs.
* Advanced video technologies - See the beauty in each shot of every scene with TrueTheater™ Technology.
* Home theater audio - Enjoy movies on the PC as if you are right at the cinema, with support for Dolby, DTS, and other home theater technologies.
* Smart DVD utilities - Save battery power on your notebook (See-it-All), move language subtitles (Read-it-Clearly), and auto loop a section of dialog (Say-it-Again), with PowerDVD's award winning DVD controls.

Remix Your DVD Movies
PowerDVD lets you create new stories based on existing movies, or simply express your creativity and opinions in unconventional ways.
* Movie Remix - Put your own touches to a movie by re-ordering scenes, adding subtitles, inserting animated PiPs, and recording a voice-over.
* Watch other people's remixes - Download remixes from MoovieLive and see what other people have created.
* Share your remixes online - Upload your remixes to MoovieLive and let others share in your unique vision.

Collect Movie Information
PowerDVD helps you build a library of movie facts and figures, combining personal notes and disc information. Sync your movie collection to your MoovieLive account.
* Your movie collection - Create a collection of movies, and keep a record of your viewing experience. Gather data and trivia about the DVDs you watch.
* Reviews &amp; ratings - Write reviews about the movies you've seen. Give a quick 5-star rating and compare that with what others like through the global rating.
* Quick movie stats - Quickly check how many PowerDVD users enjoy the same movies as you. PowerDVD lets you see the number of viewers, remixes made, reviews written, and DVD owners.

Connect via MoovieLive
PowerDVD gets you connected with other users via MoovieLive.com. You can see global ratings for the movies you watch, access information about the movies other people are watching too.
* Upload &amp; download remixes - Download remixes to see different takes on a movie. Upload your own remixes to share with other PowerDVD users.
* Make friends - Find other people who are interested in the films you like, then get connected.
* Publish your thoughts - After writing a review of a movie, why not share your review with other PowerDVD users? MoovieLive lets you upload your review, and adds your ratings to the community's global rating.
* See what others have to say - Read reviews from other PowerDVD users and browse MoovieLive's database for tons of details about the movies you love (and loathe!).

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 offers complete multi-channel (4/6/7/Cool, S/PDIF and HDMI sound device support, including (but not limited to) devices from Analog Devices, Aureal, Creative, Cirrus/Crystal, CMedia, ESS, Fortemedia, KCTech, Philips/VLSI, Realtek, IDT, SiS, TI, Yamaha, VIA, and any other sound device that supports the Microsoft WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE interface.

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 supports Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) in display chips or integrated chipsets from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA/S3. Acceleration functions include Entropy Decode, Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform, Hardware Motion Compensation and Subpicture Alpha Blending units.

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is fully optimized for multimedia instruction sets, such as AMD 3D Now! Professional, Enhanced 3D Now!, 3DNow!, Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 2/3/4 (SSE/2/3/4), MMX, the Hyper-Threading technology, dual-core and quar-core CPU supported.

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is compatible with new DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW, DVD-Multi, DVD-Dual, DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drives, BD-ROM drives with IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, ATAPI, SCSI or CardBus interface, as long as the drive conforms to the SFF8090 command set and SBP-2 (if applicable).

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is compatible with all Centrino, Socket 478, Socket 423, Socket 370, Slot 1, Socket A and Slot A chipsets from Intel, VIA, SiS, ALi, NVIDIA, and AMD. The features for hardware deinterlace and "Read it clearly" may need updated drivers to support them. If you find problems when using these features, please update your drivers to latest version and then try again.

CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is capable of high-definition audio decoding. However, due to the industries lack of common secure audio path technology, all protected audio content (eg. DVD-Audio, Blu-ray Disc) will force audio to be down-sampled to 48Khz/16bit output resolution. This constraint will be removed once an approved secure audio path is deployed for the PC ecosystem.

What's New in CyberLink PowerDVD 8:
Audio
* New! - Dolby Digital Plus*
* New! - Dolby TrueHD*
* New! - DTS-HD*
* DTS-ES*
* DTS Neo:6 (Discrete, Matrix)*
* DTS 96/24**
* AAC 5.1 Channel support**
* DTS**
* Dolby Digital 5.1
* Dolby Digital EX**
* Dolby Pro Logic IIx**
* Dolby Headphone**
* Dolby Virtual Speaker**
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Multi-channel Environment Impression Mode)
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Virtual Speaker Mode)
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Headphone Mode)
* MLP lossless**
* SRS TruSurroundXT**
* Pitch scaling technology
* Audio equalizer presets
* Audio visualizations
* Direct 96/24 output
* MP3, WAV

Video
* New! - SMPTE VC-1 High-Definition Video*
* MPEG4 AVC (H.264) High-Definition Video**
* TrueTheater™ - Lighting (Adaptive lighting for video quality enhancement)
* TrueTheater™ - Stretch (Non-linear stretch technology)
* Video smart de-interlacing

Playback Formats
* New! - BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) playback*
* New! - BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc) playback*
* VCPS for DVD+VR with content protection
* CPRM for DVD-VR with content protection**
* DVD-Audio**
* External subtitles
* DVD files (DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR) from any folder in your hard drive

Advanced Features
* New! - Movie Collection Support
* New! - Movie Remix
* New! - Integration with MoovieLive Service
* UPnP Support - Access your media from a Home Network**
* Say-It-Again - Automatically repeats the last movie scene
* See-It-All - Automatically speeds playback to show as much of the movie as possible
* Read-It-Clearly - Moves subtitles from the viewing screen

* Available in Ultra Edition (Blu-ray Disc) only

** Available in Deluxe version and Ultra Edition (Blu-ray Disc)

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Windows Media Player is the multimedia software application developed by Microsoft that provides users with the ability to view multimedia content, both from their hard drive and from the Internet.

Windows Media Player 10 gives you more music and more choices, and for the first time makes it possible to sync high-quality music, video, and photos to the latest portable devices.

Overall, Windows Media Player 10 is a huge improvement over previous Windows Media Player versions, though it still falls short of the competition in a few key areas.
If you've bought into the Microsoft-oriented music world in any way, however--perhaps with a Media Center PC, Portable Media Center device, or by using a WMA-compatible online music service--you simply must upgrade to WMP 10.

This release offers major improvements for discovering and buying, and subscribing to content online, sports an improved UI, and integrates nicely with a coming generation of portable devices.

And if up-and-coming music subscription services, like that now offered by Napster, take off, the release of WMP 10 will be heralded as the watershed moment of what is clearly still a nascent market.

That said, users interested solely in music playback will likely find little reason to abandon iTunes. And iPod users will simply ignore WMP 10 as they have previous versions.

Windows Media Player 10 is free and requires Windows XP (any edition), but not any other Windows versions.

That decision will be controversial, but I think it's the right one: With over 300 million users, XP is clearly the preferred Windows client for consumers and music enthusiasts: Had Microsoft shipped a WMP 10 version for older Windows versions, that product would have lacked key features and held up the release of the XP version.

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Description: PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.

Features:

• Support almost all CD/DVD-ROM image file formats(ISO, BIN, NRG, CDI, DAA and so on).

• DAA(Direct-Access-Archive) is an advanced format for image file, which supports some advanced features, such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. It can be handled directly just like other formats, such as ISO, BIN, …

• Open and extract ISO File.

• Create ISO file from hard disk files or CD/DVD-ROM.

• Edit an existing ISO file directly.

• Convert image files between ISO/BIN and other formats. PowerISO can convert almost all image file formats to standard ISO format file.

• Make bootable ISO file, get boot information from bootable ISO file.

• Make floppy disk image file.

• Optimize files to save disk space while saving ISO file.

• Mount ISO file with internal virtual drive. You don’t need install any other virtual drive software.

• Can be used easily. PowerISO supports shell integration, context menu, drag and drop, clipboard copy paste…

Release Name: PowerISO.v4.1.Incl.Keymaker-AGAiN
Size: 1 MB
Links: Homepage, NFO

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Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There’s no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560×1600 with custom frame rates from 10 to 100 frames per second!

Features :

• Fixed video capture corruption in FSX on multi monitor setups
• Fixed codec crashes in large projects
• Fixed Fraps not starting with Windows when running on battery power
• Fixed Fraps closing when switching to battery power
• Fixed OpenGL video capture not recording correct viewport in some applications
• Fixed sound sync when recording started while rendering paused

Release Name : Beepa.Fraps.v2.9.6.retail-FOSI
Size: 3.2 MB
OS: Windows

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