Sony and NEC merge optical drive teams

by zzillezz on February 28, 2006

Sony and NEC are to merge their respective optical drive divisions into a single ¥220bn ($1.9bn) jointly owned company, Sony NEC Optiarc, the two Japanese giants announced today. The move may pave the way for reconciliation between the two next-generation (…)

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FrostWire 4.10.9

by zzillezz on February 22, 2006

” Several months of network abuse by advertisement agencies to deliver unwanted search results have only slightly hindered Gnutella’s reputation. Previously, when the user attempted to download one of these “Sponsored Results”, FrostWire would launch the URL associated with this (…)

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foobar2000 0.9 rc

by zzillezz on February 22, 2006

* Improved playlist management: all playlists are editable without being active, multiple playlists with the same name, Autoplaylists * Field remappings in titleformat scripts: see Titleformat Introduction and Titleformat * Reference for details * Tag merging: combines information from multiple (…)

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Winamp 5.2 final

by zzillezz on February 21, 2006

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x (…)

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Exact Audio Copy 0.95 beta 4

by zzillezz on February 21, 2006

Exact Audio Copy allows you to get audio tracks off a CD and save them to your hard drive. It uses the Windows ASPI Interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported. It supports hidden sector synchronization and (…)

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mIRC 6.17

by zzillezz on February 19, 2006

“Khaled added support for displaying UTF-8 text as unicode to mIRC. This works in status, channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes, window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips. The display of UTF-8 can be enabled by default for all (…)

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UK government wants access to Vista encryption

by zzillezz on February 16, 2006

The BBC is reporting that the British Government is working with Microsoft in order to gain backdoor access to hard drives encrypted by the forthcoming Windows Vista file system. Professor Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, urged the (…)

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7-Zip 4.33 beta

by zzillezz on February 6, 2006

- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased. Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB, Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB. – 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary – 7z/LZMA now can (…)

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The future of digital camera technology

by zzillezz on February 5, 2006

“CNet News has an interesting look at where digital camera technology is headed now that the megapixel buzzword can be put to rest. From the article: ‘In compact cameras, I think that the megapixel race is pretty much over,’ says (…)

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XnView 1.82

by zzillezz on February 5, 2006

XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. It exists for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.  To me it beats ACDSee on all fronts, and above all: it ‘s free. The Windows version just got a new release: 1.82, the (…)

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