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From Vnunet: AOL has announced an agreement with a number of major film studios to offer movie downloads through its AOL Video portal. The partnership with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros will allow visitors to AOL Video to download full-length movies from the site. Popular films from recent DVD releases …
From SecurityFocus: Searching for free stuff on the Internet? Beware what you find. That’s the message form Web safety firm SiteAdvisor. Building on a Wall Street Journal analysis of the 20 million search queries leaked by America Online that found “free” to be the most popular search term, SiteAdvisor warned that the results produced by …
I received this information from Iolo the other day regarding their Search and Recover 4 software: Have you ever accidentally deleted a treasured photo, erased an important document, or deleted an email message you wish you could get back? Accidentally deleting photos, files, songs, e-mail, or videos can leave you feeling angry and helpless. With …
I came across this link yesterday pointing to a free, open source software utility used for recovering photos from digital media. There is no install needed, just run the software from a directory. It is a DOS based program but still seems very easy to use. Photorec does not write anything to your digital media …
When I was growing up I was a huge fan of Tetris. In fact, everyone in my family was. I had the original Nintendo, and we’d fight over who would get to play it. My Mom would even get into it. There are lots of clones around and web-based Flash versions. A very good one …
Quite some time ago Chris reviewed Stardock’s Object Desktop. It was an impressive product. The latest version has been released: Object Desktop 2007 has just been released and it has a ton of great new features such as: * WindowBlinds 5 * DesktopX 3.2 * WindowFX 3 * RightClick 1.2 * Keyboard LaunchPad 1.5 And …
Last week I continued my discussion of black and white digital photography and the topics of using grayscale and saturation to convert you colour photographs to black and white. This week I discuss using the channel mixer in order to create pleasing and dynamic monochrome photographs. Channel mixer is available in the full version of …
I received this press release this morning: Microsoft on Top of Its Game With Launch of Exciting New Gaming Peripherals Company boosts gaming offerings with top-of-the-line gaming mice and wireless controller  LEIPZIG, Germany — Aug. 23, 2006 —  Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Corp. unveiled several new products to enhance …
From the Mercury News: On Sept. 13, 1956, an IBM lab at 99 Notre Dame Road in San Jose began shipping a product that changed history. It is Silicon Valley’s unsung hero, though it taught us bits and the mega, giga, tera, peta and exa bytes. Dubbed RAMAC, or Random Access Method of Accounting and …
From InfoWorld: Dell and Sony knew about and discussed manufacturing problems with Sony-made Lithium-Ion batteries as long as ten months ago, but held off on issuing a recall until those flaws were clearly linked to catastrophic failures causing those batteries to catch fire, a Sony Electronics spokesman said Friday. Spokesman Rick Clancy said the companies …