Sep 29

Internet TV on Windows Vista

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Microsoft is making great grounds in invading the living room with the realization of their vision that started almost six years ago when they introduced XBox back in 2001.

XBox 360 which was released in 2005 hits Microsoft with more than $100 for each unit instead of making profit on each sale. The loss per sales doesn’t matter because Microsoft’s long-term goal is to build the a backbone for their product in the living rooms of the consumer.

True enough, Microsoft felt it was time to take the living room invasion into the next level by providing TV broadcast over a computer with Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Premium. This broadcast would also need an XBox 360 or a Home Media Extender.

The TV broadcast is provided free by Microsoft but it would contain ads to cover costs.

Microsoft is in talks with Google to provide TV broadcast across different countries as well. If both of these companies decide to make a run together, I would seriously doubt it would require Windows Vista for its broadcast.

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Sep 28

SCO gets reprieve from Nasdaq (InfoWorld)

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InfoWorld - The Nasdaq stock exchange has given The SCO Group a little more time to get its financial house in order.

Sep 28

Special Discount for Mobile Connections, Fall 2007, Las Vegas

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Hop over to Loke Uei’s blog to get a special discount for the Mobile Connections developer event in Las Vegas, Nov 5th thru 8th.


http://blogs.msdn.com/lokeuei/archive/2007/09/24/special-discount-for-mobile-connections-fall-2007-las-vegas.aspx


James

Sep 28

3D Beers of the World Screen Saver 1.0

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About 3D Beers of the World Screen Saver
Celebrate Oktoberfest on your desktop all year round as realistic 3D beer bottles from around the world float around your screen in stunning, real-time 3D!
Features Include:

- Real time 3D beer! So real, you can almost taste it!

- Use any background you want From your desktop, to your wallpaper, or a photo of your drunken Aunt Gladys!

- Clinking! As the bottles hit, you hear them clink. Just like real floating bottles, dude!

- Download additional bottles with ease! The registered version lets you download bottles right into the screen saver from the Settings screen on the Mac OS X version, and from the website for Windows. It couldn’t be easier!

- Countdown to Beer O’Clock! You’ll never miss beer o’clock again! Set the time in the settings then sit back and watch the seconds tick away til your work is done and you can go and crack open a cold one!

- Many options so you can customize it to your liking. With the full version, you can have as many as 30 bottles floating around at once, as long as your CPU can handle it! There’s also a clock, and loads of other options!

- Loads of your favourite beer bottles from around the world available, with more on the way!

- Feedback is always welcome! If this isn’t the best 3D beer screensaver there is, then let us know how you think it can be improved.
Sep 28

Xupport 3.3.3

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About Xupport
A multipurpose system utility for Mac OS X. It provides many features to configure hidden Mac OS X and UNIX options, to increase system security and performance, to maintain and back-up Mac OS X, and to dig deeper into the world of UNIX. Xupport 3 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), and is available as universal application for Intel Macs.

Key Features:

- Access hidden system, finder, and dock settings

- Run native maintenance scripts

- Reset file type settings (rebuild desktop)

- Reset Finder information (.DS_Store)

- Clean system and application log files

- Clean browser caches, cookies, web icons, etc.

- Delete files and folders with administrator privileges

- Network optimizer

- Virtual memory optimizer (swap)

- Access hidden server settings (afp, http, ssh, ftp, smb)

- Many more features
Sep 28

CornerChaos 1.1.8

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About CornerChaos
A unique puzzle game! It’s very easy to learn and great fun to play! The object of the game is to drop the colored balls into the holes located near the four corners of the play area. The ball then rolls into the sloped arena and lays to rest. If four balls of like color are touching, they’re removed from the game! As the levels progress, the number of different balls increases making it more difficult to create color groups.
Sep 28

Printfolio 1.2

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About Printfolio
Suite of 4 printing programs (Business Card Composer, Mail Factory, Swift Publisher, Disc Cover) and 2 bonus programs (Art Text LE and Image Tricks Pro). The suite will assist in creating: business cards, CD/DVD art, flyers, brochures, newsletters, catalogs, postcards, address and shipping labels.

Collection of 900+ professional designs and 23,000+ clipart images comes with the program.

A variety of editing tools ensure that your documents will look as if done at a design studio. You have full control over tint, tile, transparency and shadow effects for any image or text. 100 unique masks and option to use custom image as a mask. Background and Foreground editing layers. Flow text capabilities. Smart guides help to align objects neatly. Circle text mode and adjustable layout guides. Horizontal and vertical object alignment. And many more editing capabilites.
Sep 28

LiveQuartz 1.6.5

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About LiveQuartz
A simple image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters. You have the layers at the left and the filters at the right of the window. To edit an image, just drag it into the window and it will be added as a new layer.

LiveQuartz has all the essential tools:
The drawing tools (brush, lines, rectangles, ovals), the duplication tool, the eraser tool, the gradients, the layer moving arrow, the text tool, the CoreImage tool, the rectangle and lasso selections, the hand, and the magnifying glass.

LiveQuartz gives you the choice between two user interfaces via its preferences.

LiveQuartz is localized in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian and Spanish.
Sep 28

E-Mail Commander 1.2.5

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About E-Mail Commander
We’re all also aware of the painful redundancy of manually sending a newsletter, set of seasons greetings cards, or wedding invitations in order to achieve personalization for each message. E-Mail Commander brings you up to speed and takes care of all that fuss ë simply have your list of contacts ready!

E-Mail Commander lets you send out uniquely customized e-mails to everyone in your database. Insert variables in your contact database to further customize each message on the fly! Include current date/time, dates, nicknames, addresses, phone numbers, or pretty much any other field you could dream up. Even insert a special variable that’ll write lines at random, or in sequential order.

With all this, you could hardly want for more, except we’ve also managed to fully integrate E-Mail Commander with Address Book to allow you to quickly send out your message to any group you’ve previously created.
Sep 28

Icosystem 2.0

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About Icosystem
Will let you add a funny, distinctive and visual colors on top of a file, folder, or app icon as the same time you specify a color label for it with the Finder Get Info Command (Cmd+I).

With Icosystem you can apply a color to an item icon as you select a color label for it. As you know, the Mac OS X Finder doesn’t color the icon, but only it’s name. Now, folders, files and apps can be easily and beautifully tagged with colors! You just have to use the Finder Get Info command or the Finder contextual menu on an item! Just as usual!

Besides that, Icosystem will display a funny and colorful animation on top of the icon and, play a sound effect.
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