Archive for September 9th, 2007
Sep
9
We've received a pic of a retail pricing worksheet, that shows "V2" pricing for Zune accessories.
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Sep
9
Darren has been playing around Windows Live Translator domain names, and for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live over following urls:
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Sep
9
D-Link and DivX have teamed up to create the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media Player to enable streaming of media from digital devices directly to a television. The new device is the first of what DivX hopes will be a range of media devices from a variety of manufacturers. The DivX Connected platform includes built-in
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Sep
9
The birth of the VC-1 Encoder SDKs will reduce the need for these over the next few months, but Alex has updated his WMV PowerToy and also revised our documentation about the registry key options.
Here's the new PowerToy. It mainly removes a few options that we determined weren't
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Sep
9
The under posted chessboard, is basically a Google Spreadsheet embedded using the advanced publishing options, the king and rook automatically switch their places around every hour.
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Sep
9
Google Book has added a very useful new feature that lets you build a virtual library or my library of your favorite books. Just click on the "Add to my library" link below book search result snippets. The book will be added to a publicly viewable library page of yours, you can then import the books
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Sep
9
At the secret gathering of journalists, freelance writers, vendors and a few bloggers they call Influence Forum 2007 hosted by Media Connect, the CEO of ICANN Paul Twomey, who happens to be Australian, gave a deep insight into what he and his organization thinks of the
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Sep
9
Some guy over on the Xbox-Scene forums started to work on what will hopefully one day be the finest Xbox casemod of all time. The Xbox Mini case that he fabricated is a thing of beauty, reducing the ugly black behemoth that was the original Xbox into a
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Sep
9
Windows Vista Media Center won't play Xvid and Avi files, even if Windows Media Player will play these files. If you want to add support for third party codecs including Xvid and Avi files in Vista Media Center then you need to install the Media Control Plugin For Windows Vista Media Center. This plugin allows Windows
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Sep
9
Through several registry modifications, you can create an enhanced “right-click” menu for the Recycle Bin. The new options will allow you to delete the temporary files in the following two directories: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp and %SystemRoot%\Temp. Additionally, another menu will be created that will allow you to run the disk cleanup utility.
Please be aware that this change requires
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Sep
9
What if your desktop computer could run 100 times faster than a PC and were simple enough for a high school student to program?
That’s not an idle question. Researchers at the University of Maryland have built a prototype of a “desktop supercomputer” that can do just that.
The new computer is at least three years from reaching
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Sep
9
The original entry stated: 'Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is expected to "set a new high water mark" for next-generation games.' However, a sentence had been added which reads: 'Although it
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Sep
9
MICROSOFT is courting the BBC as it plans to launch its digital television and video service in Europe.
The software giant is intent on turning its Xbox 360 video-games machine into a digital entertainment hub offering films, TV shows and high-definition programmes. It already offers video content in America via its Xbox 360 video-games console.
Launched last November,
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Sep
9
The Catalyst 7.9 driver suite hasn't been released yet and already it has been partially turned into a hotfix (driver) by the ATI dev team. This new package comes in advance of the release of the demo version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and all it does is bring improved performance for owners of
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Sep
9
The developer community forums teams have been hard at work releasing a new service pack (SP5) for Microsoft Forums. With this release we have added User Recognition system to forums for answering questions and providing bug information. This feature is currently available in the forums.
A recognition system gives users points for actions deemed beneficial to
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