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Beyaz Show 18 nisan izle

2008-04-20T14:50:00.001-07:00

Beyaz Show 18 nisan izle

Beyaz Show 18 nisan izle

Beyaz show 18 nisan izle. Beyaz show yeni bölümüyle 25 nisan akşamı kanald ekranlarında olacaktır.

RogueRemover 1.22

2008-03-26T09:52:00.001-07:00

RogueRemover 1.22

Gönderen alper borhan Etiketler: Anti Virus Security

Anti Virus & Security

RogueRemover is a utility that can remove various rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive cleaning utilities. Rogue applications are applications that rather than remove spyware, provide false positives, distribute malware or spyware, advertise, or provide useless uninstallers. The main point is that rogue applications are useless and eat up system resources.

RogueRemover has the ability to completely remove WinAntiSpyware/WinAntiVirus, SpyAxe, VirusBlast, VirusBursters and many more!

Simply download RogueRemover. Unzip to a convenient location such as C:\RogueRemover. Navigate to the folder you unzipped the files to and double click on the file named RogueRemover.exe. Finally, select Scan and the program will walk you through the remaining steps.

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File Size = 671 KB

Anti Virus & Security

avast! Home Edition is a complete anti-virus package for Windows 9x/Me, NT/2000/XP. It is FREE for registered home noncommercial users. It's certified by ICSA and obtained 100% mark from Virus Bulletin in June 2002 under Windows XP Pro.

avast! contains two GUIs (simple and advanced) on demand and on access scanner. It simply integrates with user screen saver, file explorer and mail client. Updates are simple as clicking one button - updates are smaller than 100 KB.

avast! 4 Home Edition works for 60 days after the installation in demo mode. You will obtain your FREE license key by E-mail after the registration. The license key is valid for 1 year. After one year you will need to just re-register.

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File Size = 16 MB

Anti Virus & Security

Multi Virus Cleaner is a free, stand-alone utility used to detect and remove major viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when cleaning infected systems. Multi Virus Cleaner is regularly updated and can detect over 6,000 common viruses, worms, trojans and dialers (including all variants of the Sober, MyDoom and Bagle viruses). The program boasts a fast, user-friendly scanner that requires minimal processing power and is an excellent choice for repairing a compromised system.

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File Size = 1.38 MB

Anti Virus & Security

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found.

This tool will help to remove specific, prevalent malicious software from infected systems. Because computers can appear to function normally when infected, Microsoft advises you to run this tool even if your computer seems to be fine. In addition to using this tool, you should use an up-to-date antivirus product to help protect your computer from other malicious software.

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File Size = 7.96 MB

Anti Virus & Security

With PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your PC and personal information. Going online without protection against the latest fast-spreading virus and worms, such as Netsky, Mytob and MyDoom, can result in infections within minutes.

Once infected, the virus will usually attempt to spread itself to your friends, family and associates by accessing your email contacts and networked PCs. The infection may also allow hackers to access files on your PC, use it to launch attacks against other computers and websites or to send mass SPAM email.

That’s why PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition provides world-leading protection, with rapid database updates, OnGuard™ real-time protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your system remains safe and virus free. PC Tools products are trusted and used by millions of people everyday to protect their home and business computers against online threats.

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File Size = 12.47 MB

Anti Spyware & Adware

Arovax AntiSpyware includes Deep Scan, Smart Scan and a Remover - ability to remove the parasites found. It's able to scan and remove spyware from registry, cookies and files.
If Arovax AntiSpyware detects items you consider to be important, you can add them to the Ignore List. These items will not be wiped out by Arovax AntiSpyware Remover. Next time you scan your computer for infections they will not appear in the scan results.

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File Size = 3.43 MB

Anti Spyware & Adware

Doctor Spyware Cleaner allows you to regain your computer's security and performance. This feature-packed program will scan and remove all traces of spyware on your system with a frequently updated database. The effects will be noticed with Internet browsing, application usage and many other areas.

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File Size = 3.02 MB

Norman Malware Cleaner 2007.10.16

2008-03-26T09:48:00.000-07:00

Norman Malware Cleaner 2007.10.16

Gönderen alper borhan Etiketler: Registry

Norman Malware Cleaner 2007.10.16

Anti Spyware & Adware

Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).

Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.

It will clean an infected system completely:

* kill running processes that are infected
* remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
* restore correct registry values
* remove references created by malware in hosts file
* remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs

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File Size = 4.3 MB

WinPatrol 12.2.2007.0

Anti Spyware & Adware

WinPatrol with Scotty the Windows Watch Dog will sniff out worms, adware, spyware, cookies, Trojan horses, and other nasty programs that may attack your computer. This program puts you back in control of your computer with no need for constant updates. WinPatrol´s goal is to help you better understand what programs are running on your computer and to alert you to any new programs added without your permission. Scotty lets you confirm any new programs or add-ons set up to run on your computer.

Unlike traditional security programs, WinPatrol doesn´t scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. Instead using a heuristic approach, a snapshot is taken of your critical system resources and WinPatrol alerts you to any changes that occur without your knowledge. You´ll be warned immediately by Scotty and will be removing dangerous new threats while others wait to hear about them on the news. WinPatrol 8.1 includes enhanced reports and checks for a number of new Internet Explorer helpers and a fix to the disappearing task bar icon quirk in Windows XP.

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File Size = 675 KB

Malware Removal Tool - November 2007 Edition

Anti Spyware & Adware

Malware Removal Tool was designed to take care of malicious software and spyware which are too new, take multiple steps to remove, or are not eliminated by the major anti-spyware companies.

For best results, run the Malware Removal Tool in safe mode. Double click the setup.exe icon to install, and click "Start Scan" to detect and remove the following malware:

* WinTools (and variants)
* SpecialGoods.info / NewGenLook.info
* Nail.exe (Aurora)

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File Size = 290 KB

Popims Animator 2.00

Animation

Animation software for creating morphs, warps and other effect with one or more pictures. The program allows the user to align, resize, and crop the pictures to achieve the best morphing results. The resulting animation can be computed and displayed real-time, it can be saved to disk and it can be printed for use with a Popims screen.

Popims Animator is the successor of MeeSoft SmartMorph and was created in cooperation between MeeSoft and Popims.

Features:

* Morphing one picture to another.
* Warp a picture.
* Morphing or warping multiple pictures.
* Read/write BMP, WMF, EMF, JPEG, PNG, MNG, GIF and PCX images. If MeeSoft Image Analyzer is installed, JPEG 2000, RAS, PNM, PGM and PPM images are also supported.
* Support for TWAIN compatible scanners and cameras.
* Automatically align, resize and crop image for optimal morph quality.
* Animation output as AVI video, animated GIF or sequence of BMP, JPG, MNG or PNG images.
* Create and print movies and 3D images for viewing with Popims screens.
* Filters and color correction for improving image quality.
* Online help and tutorials.

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File Size = 1.78 MB

Flash Slideshow Maker - 2.20 build 388

Animation

ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker is a Flash album creator to make animated photo slide shows with SWF file as the output format. It transforms your digital photo collection to Macromedia Flash file format ( SWF ) which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage or website.

With ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker, you can easily turn a folder full of still images into a stunning Flash slide show with background music and special transition effects .

This Flash slide show software allows you to add nice looking animated slide shows to your website in no time!

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File Size = 4.98 MB

Free Morphing 2.1

Animation

Free Morphing creates a sequence of frames which are the transformation of the source image to target image, giving the appearance that the source image "becomes" the target. Images must be true color (24 bit) and have the same size. In the program you can create lines (the same number in Source and Target) which describe the transformation. You should create line objects in the same order on boths images. There are various viewing tools for preview morphing.

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File Size = 1.08 MB

Sqirlz Water Reflections 2.2

Animation

Add one or more pools of water to any image or AVI video. The pools can be animated to give gentle rippling reflections of the scene above them. Choose from a variety of ripples, and control details such as wave size, perspective and transparency. The pools can be of any shape. Animations can be saved as Macromedia Flash (SWF) files, AVI video clips, and bitmap/jpeg files

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File Size = 1.78 MB

Monday, November 5, 2007

Flash Movie Player 1.5

Animation

Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on the Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has some extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, playlists, browser cache integration and exe projectors support.

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File Size = 444 KB

Penumbra 1.1

Adventure & RPG

Penumbra is a free, first-person horror adventure game that uses the latest graphics technologies and physics to create an immersive game world. The protagonist finds himself in an underground base searching for his lost father. It´s dark, scary, and dangerous.

Penumbra uses the developer´s in-house develop 3D engine, featuring the latest graphics and physics technologies. Thanks to these technologies Penumbra is able to immerse players into it´s world of horror, unlike anything seen before within the genre.

Dynamic shadows, normal mapping and specular effects creates a dark dynamic visual environment, creating a world of constant change. Motion blur, noise filters and bloom is used to create a world where sanity has no place.

The physics engine, using Newton Game Dynamics, allows the player to interact with object in new ways where doors drawers needs to be pulled open and doors barricaded to keep the evil out. Each object creates unique sounds based on surface and force, you can never predict how anything will behave or sound in this world.

In Penumbra the player finds himself in an underground base on Greenland, searching for his lost father. It´s an adventure horror game, free from classic first person shooter elements, with an emphasise on puzzle solving and exploring. Constantly on your toes you will never know what to expect, with no weapons how do you protect yourself?

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File Size = 156.8MB

Jumping Squirrel 1.0

Adventure & RPG

Forget about your daily routine and dive into this amazing world of mystery and adventure. Lead your little hero through this beautiful world full of risky turns and joyful surprises. Enjoy this combination of gorgeous 3D scenes, vivid graphics, various camera angles, professionally animated characters, and the breath-taking game play! Play through level after level, collect magic crystals, avoid evil monsters, find the exit and win! The full version offers 3 game episodes: "Forest", "Rocks" and "Desert". Play over 36 imaginative levels with power shields, freeze bonuses, magic teleports and other features. You will enjoy realistic 3D graphics and sound effects. Jumping Squirrel is a fantastic game for the entire family. Good, clean fun for people of any age!

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File Size = 8.3 MB

Last Chaos 61212

Adventure & RPG

Last Chaos is an on-line role playing game where thousands of players can simultaneously be connected, fight and upgrade their courage and battle skills through adventures, quests and crafting skills with fellow adventurers.

Set in the land of Iris, a place where anarchy, terror and ambition reign after an epic struggle between the Gods, players must use their skill and cunning to unite Iris and become its supreme ruler. Players acquire bravery, intelligence and strength to become the true emperor by accomplishing missions, learning crafting skills and experiencing adventures in the huge and unknown world.

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File Size = 407.8 MB

Urban Terror 4.0

Action Games

Urban Terror is a realism based total conversion mod for Quake III Arena which no longer requires this game to be played. It only uses its engine, which is open sourced through the GPL and may be distributed freely. Urban Terror plays in about the same setting as Counter Strike, but is less focused on realism and plays much faster, which among other things, is caused by the ability to strafe jump, which combined with wall jumping can lead to very quick movement and nice jumps. Urban Terror has 7 game modes, 25 maps and 15 weapons.

If you have Quake 3 Arena already installed, you only need to run the Urban Terror Installer.

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File Size = 531.28 MB

Nexuiz 2.3

Action Games

Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive).The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since then it has been downloaded over half a million times, and the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.3 and new releases being developed.

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File Size = 272.96 MB

Rise of the Machines 1.0

Action Games

Rise of the Machines is a shooter you won't forget. The world has been invaded by an alien race of machine warriors. You are an elite soldier, controlling an advanced military hovercraft. The mission is simple, but tough - destroy alien Machines and reclaim Earth. Many laser, rocket, plasma weapons and bombs are all at your disposal. Your hovercraft is fully equipped and ready to go. Become the one to lead humanity to victory.

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File Size = 12.82 MB

Sky Fight 1.0

Action Games

It's WWI. Your country depends on you. Get in your plane and meet the battle. Destroy enemy zeppelins and many other ground targets in this intense flight combat game.

Game Features:

* training missions for learning
* 10 german and 10 allied airplanes
* Action and Campaign gameplay
* three levels of difficulty

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File Size = 13.2 MB

Gunbound 6.06

Action Games

Gunbound is a game like Worms - only this time played with tanks called Mobiles. Your avatar controls a tank, or "mobile", and you compete against other players, by either shooting at them and killing them, or by scoring points by killing "Jewels" in the Jewel type game.

Features:

* Play with 16 different Mobiles
* Unique types of armor
* Use different strategies such as hiding in a bunker, shooting, etc
* Dress you avatar in any fashion you choose - best dressed avatars earn more points
* Requires 3D graphics card and DirectX 8.1 or better

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File Size = 148 MB

Money Manager Ex 0.8.0.1

Accounting

Money Manager is a personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one´s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a tool to get a bird´s eye view of your financial worth. The program supports checking accounts, savings and credit card accounts, as well as Fixed Deposit and Portfolio accounts. The Outlook-style interface provides an overview for all your accounts and total balance. You can transfer money between accounts, create custom categories to organize your income/expenses and more.

Money Manager Ex is a complete rewrite of the original .NET Money Manager. It is Cross Platform and can be ported to run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It has a very powerful and flexible open data storage using SQLite databases.

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File Size = 1.68 MB

Express Accounting 2.0

Accounting

CompuEx Express Accounting - Free Edition - Version 2.0, Fully functional, commercial-grade, FREE accounting software, A Single Company, Single User, Single Currency Small Business Management and Accounting Software, offers a comprehensive suite of integrated financial accounting and operations management modules covering Accounts, Bank, Inventory, Sales and Receivable, Purchase and Payable, Tax Management, and a comprehensive Financial and Management Reports via Crystal Reports.

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File Size = 44.68 MB

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 v928090

Accounting

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 is everything you need to make your small business idea flourish.

Whatever your idea, take it further with these great features:

* Create quotes and invoices
* track expenses and employee time
* Manage payroll and taxes with ADP’s integrated payroll service
* Store and organize all your customer, vendor, employee, and financial information in one place
* List items on eBay
* track sales activity, and download and process orders
* Email invoices and get paid faster with PayPal
* Monitor your customers’ business credit in real-time through Equifax.

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File Size = 208 MB

Easy Cash Manager 3.0.1

Accounting

Easy Cash Manager is a simple book-keeping program. You can use the program to keep records of your incomes and expenses. It has only the functionality that you need for very simple bookkeeping, so it is very clear and easy to use.

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File Size = 950 KB

Best CashBook 3.54

Accounting

Cash, Deposits and Cards are treated as one altogether in the cashbook. You can tailor the book to your appetite after you master the principle of entries by a little study. This is optimum for small business with total control of fund for home.

Major functions:
* A cashbook entry processes all other subsequent work automatically to prepare various reports.

* You can make entries by simple data-input and enter-key, watching how the book reflects your entries.

* Daily InOut Report gives insight of daily incomings, outgoings and fund changes.

* Monthly InOut Statement, Yearly InOut Statement.

* You can also see the ledger of each account.

* Separate control of the current fund by MyCash can broaden the book.

* Daily InOut Report enables a voucher a day in business.

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File Size = 4 MB

Kerkythea 1.3.04

3D Modeling

Kerkythea is a stand alone rendering engine.

Supported 3D File Formats:

* 3DS Format
* OBJ Format
* XML (internal) Format
* SIA (Silo) Format (partially supported)

Supported Image Formats:

* All supported by FreeImage library
* [JPG, BMP, PNG, TGA, HDR included]

Supported Materials:

* Matte
* Perfect Reflections/Refractions
* Blurry Reflections/Refractions
* Translucency
* Dielectric Material
* Phong Material
* Ward Anisotropic Material
* Lafortune Material
* Thin Glass Material
* Anisotropic Ashikhmin Material
* Layered Material (additive combination of the above)

Supported Shapes:

* Triangulated Meshes
* Spheres
* Planes

Supported Lights:

* Point Omni
* Point Spot
* Point Diffuse
* Area Diffuse
* Soft-Shadow
* Ambient Lighting
* Sky Lighting
* [Physical Sky, SkySphere Bitmap (Normal or HDRI)]

Supported Textures:

* Constant Colors
* Bitmaps (Normal and HDRI)
* Procedurals
* [Perlin Noise, Marble, Wood, Wave, Checker]
* Any Weighted or Multiplicative Combination

Supported Features:

* Bump Mapping
* Normal Mapping
* Clip Mapping
* Bevel Mapping (an innovative KT feature!)
* Edge Outlining
* Depth of Field
* Fog
* Isotropic Volume Scattering
* Faked Caustics
* Faced Translucency
* Dispersion
* Antialiasing
* [3x3 extra rays, 3x3 stratified iterative, texture filtering]

Supported Camera Types:

* Planar Projection
* [Pinhole, Thin Lens]
* Cylindrical Pinhole
* Spherical Pinhole

Supported Rendering Techniques:

* Classic Ray Tracing
* Path Tracing (Kajiya)
* Bidirectional Path Tracing (Veach & Guibas)
* Photon Mapping (Jensen)
* [mesh maps, photon maps, final gathering, irradiance caching, caustics]
* Diffuse Interreflection (Ward)
* Depth Rendering

Application Environment:

* OpenGL Real-Time Viewer
* Material Editor
* Easy Rendering Customization
* Sun/Sky Customization
* Script System
* All of the above integrated in a compact application! :)
* certain features may be absent on some of the rendering techniques

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File Size = 2.46MB

AutoQ3D v1.35

3D Modeling

A complete 3D modeling application for computing aided drafting in three dimensions. AutoQ3D can be used by anyone who wants an easy way to imagine, create, and publish in 3D. It is ideal for you to use as modeling editor for your home additions, game design, math geometrical education or whatever your imagination tells you.

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File Size = 2.31 MB

Aeliom 1.1.2

3D Modeling

aeliom (el-yom) is a real-time virtual scenery generation, rendering, and exploration software. It is the fruit of 2 years´ research on landscape and architecture rendering. Thanks to its innovative engine, aeliom is the place where true per-pixel rendering quality meets 3D real time exploration !

aeliom is not only a viewer. It is also a compiler, and allows user, via its language, to generate complete worlds. Finally, aeliom is a stand-alone renderer, that generates superb materials for each pixel.

Its graphic user interface supports 4 languages (German [new], English, French and Spanish), and totally benefits from OpenGL (allowing rich multimedia environments).

Features:

* Aeliom is free for non profit use,

* compiler for the aeliom language (include a shader language),

* stand-alone high precision renderer,

* complex surfaces (high order, and Boolean ops),

* shadow generation,

* complex sky lighting,

* complex real time atmospheric volumetric effect (rays of light, fog, …),

* LOD for both the geometry and the materials,

* natural elements : water planes with ripples, volumetric clouds (with shadow projection), planar clouds, ...

* displacement mapping,

* view frustum culling (octree management), geometry coherency, portals, ...

* 3D sound environment,

* Ogg Vorbis codec support.

aeliom is free for non-profit use only.

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File Size = 3.25 MB

Friday, November 2, 2007

DeleD 3D Editor Lite 1.53

3D Modeling

DeleD is a 3D modeler and level-editor combined into one and is specifically designed to create static objects/worlds. It unites the functionality needed to create complex 3D scenes with an easy-to-understand userinterface: build entire worlds within an hour!

The concepts behind DeleD are simple. Draw and manipulate 3D objects like cubes, polylines, spheres, rectangles, grids, pyramids, cylinders and more. Combine them into new 3D objects and use those to create complete scenes. Then use various types of lights like spotlights, directional lights or pointlights to bring your scene to life!

Anything you create with DeleD, either by using the LITE or the PRO version is license free. This means that you can use whatever you make with DeleD for your own purposes, whether commercially or not. No license fees, no legal strings.

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File Size = 6.77 MB

K-3D 0.6.7.0

3D Modeling

K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system. K-3D features a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed from-the-ground-up to generate motion-picture-quality animation using RenderMan-compliant render engines. We strongly recommend the Aqsis render engine for use with K-3D.

K-3D´s innovative interactive tutorial system will introduce you to basic use of the program. New tutorials can easily be recorded and shared with the rest of the community.

K-3D allows you to create and edit documents in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, texture-mapped views. You can even model, animate, and interact with animations while they play back for maximum productivity!

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File Size = 32.8 MB

3D Canvas 7.0.1

3D Modeling

3D Canvas is a real-time, 3D-modeling and -animation tool that incorporates a drag-and-drop approach. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives or created using 3D Canvas´s object-building tools. Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the objects within your scene for each point in time in your animation. 3D Canvas will ensure the resulting animation runs smoothly.

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File Size = 5.9 MB

Misfit Model 3D 1.3.3

3D Modeling

Misfit Model 3D is an OpenGL-based 3D model editor that works with triangle-based models. It supports multi-level undo, skeletal animations, simple texturing, scripting, command-line batch processing, and a plugin system for adding new model and image filters. Complete online help is included. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to extend with plugins and scripts.

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File Size = 4.4 MB

3D Message Free 2.1.7

3D Modeling

3D Message is an easy-to-use, parametric CAD tool for everyday communications. It is an ideal helper for anyone who likes to illustrate an idea or an explanation easily and quickly by 3D drawing.

The user interface is very friendly and intuitive. In a few minutes, you can compose a scene, populate it with objects, change object dimensions, location, orientation, colors, and reflectivities. You can also apply textures to objects´ surfaces. After all these transformations, you can save the scene in a file.

The scene files are amazingly small (only a few kilobytes). You can send them by email. Your recipients do not need to buy any product to read your 3D messages -- they can use the Trial version as a free viewer to view your scenes.

3D Message is a stand-alone tool. It does not depend on any other applications or any third-party packages.

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File Size = 4.45 MB

DAVID-Laserscanner 1.4b

3D Modeling

DAVID-Laserscanner is a freeware software for 3d laser range scanning. All you need to build a 3d scanner is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser that projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.

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File Size = 2.45 MB

Google SketchUp 6.0.1099

3D Modeling

Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you place your models in Google Earth. Are you remodeling a kitchen, landscaping your back yard or adding a deck to your home? Google SketchUp makes it faster, easier and a lot more fun. From simple to complex, from conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp helps you see your vision before you build it.

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File Size = 31.74 MB

Blender 2.45

3D Modeling

Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Blender has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of Three Dimensions. Use it to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations, business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can easy build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves & keys) are well implemented.

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File Size = 7.96 MB

3D Modeling

Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface.

Ayam features:

* RIB (RenderMan Interface Bytestream) export and import.
* Support for NURBS curves and (trimmed) NURBS surfaces, Boxes, Quadrics (Sphere, Disk, Cylinder, Cone, Hyperboloid, Paraboloid, and Torus), CSG, MetaBalls, Patch Meshes, Polygonal Meshes, and Subdivision Surfaces.
* NURBS modelling includes normal and interpolating curves as well as extrude, revolve, sweep, birail, skin and gordon objects with caps, holes, and bevels.
* Custom objects that may freely implement their representations (using OpenGL and RIB) and even small GUIs to edit their type specific parameters may be written by the user and dynamically loaded at runtime.
* Scripting interface: Tcl.
* Misc: instancing, arbitrary number of modeling views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, console, n-level undo.

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File Size = 5.8 MB

3D Modeling

CoCreate OneSpace Modeling Personal Edition (PE) is the world's first free 3D CAD software which follows a Dynamic Modeling based approach. Easily downloaded from the Web, it offers the power of standard CoCreate OneSpace Modeling 3D CAD system allowing you to create assemblies up to 60 parts. This software stands apart from any other CAD system you may have tried or are currently using. Built on a history-free foundation, this Dynamic Modeling based 3D CAD software helps you design products, create associative drawings and analyze design ideas quickly — it's like getting Microsoft Office-like productivity from a CAD system.

OneSpace Modeling PE enables any engineer, designer or student to experience the extraordinary power of a Dynamic Modeling based approach to 3D product development, the cornerstone of the CoCreate OneSpace Suite. Even the most casual user or hobbyist will be immediately productive through quickstart projects, online help and user forums.

Download a FREE version of OneSpace Modeling PE today and see the "dynamic difference" yourself.

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File Size = 90.2 MB

Registry

Some software and hardware developers use outdated or incorrect installation processes that fail to remove all references to the application or hardware when it is either installed or uninstalled.

Uninstalling or changing software, hardware and drivers never leaves a PC clean. Entries are left behind in the computer registry causing the PC to become unstable and corrupted. This results in sudden crashes, system failures and unknown error messages that ultimately cause a severe lag in the PC's performance.

NT Registry Analyzer - free tool to find and fix incorrect or obsolete information in the registry.

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File Size = 1 MB

Hard Disk Tool

UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT. It is very fast, because the defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver. They are three interfaces to them: graphical, console and native. The GUI is very useful, because it represents your filesystem visually as a color coded cluster map. The console is another option for those that prefer the command line. It is also allows you to run UltraDefrag from the task scheduler and scripts. Finally, the native executable will run at boot time in a manner similar to chkdsk.

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File Size = 189 KB

Benchmark & Diagnostics

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

Main Features

* Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
* Displays adapter, GPU and display information
* Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
* Validation of results
* No installation required
* Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported)

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File Size = 353 KB

Email Utility

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that was released in April 2007.

Requirements:
· Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

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File Size = 5.4 MB

Webmaster Tools

Koala Edit is your brilliantly simple webpage and file editing solution, with just the right selection of commonly used functions without the clutter.

Features include dual-mode visual (WYSIWYG) and code based editing, HTML syntax colour coding, a comprehensive 12-chapter HTML webpage creation tutorial for beginners and more. You can upgrade to Koala Edit Pro to also benefit from spell checking and free software updates.

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File Size = 3.58 MB

Download Managers

Save2pc is a free tool that downloads videos from Youtube or Google Video and saves it as Avi or Mpeg or Flv file to your local computer.

The user interface of save2pc is very simple, so you don't need any technical knowledge to use it. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run save2pc and start downloading.

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File Size = 2.2 MB

Download Managers

Free YouTube Download. Download video from YouTube to your computer hard drive with one mouse click. Video from YouTube will be saved as AVI file. You'll be able to play it with any video player on your computer.

It is as easy as never before.

This free program contains no spyware or adware. It's clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.

Download

File Size = 4.11 MB

Portable Apps

HTML Portable Editor is a portable application that allows you to quickly edit your HTML pages. It has pre-tag witch allows you to quickly add stuff to your page. Good for people learning HTML as well as people that already knows HTML.

Features:
Highlight HTML Tags
Drag&Drop on application icon to open
Insert Tags (image, movie, links,etc)
No instalation needed!
Pre tag - Bold, Italic or Underline text
Pre tag - Wrap text in HTML basics
Pre tag - Align Text
Added "Save" and "Save As..."

Download

File Size = 157 KB

CD & DVD Utility

Free DVD Decrypter. Copy video DVD to your computer hard drive with one mouse click.

The interface is very simple and self explaining. There are the field to select a drive with the DVD and the field for the output path. If there is the only DVD drive in your computer, it will be selected automatically.

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File Size = 1.89 MB

Download Managers

Youtube Batch Downloader is software to browse youtube.com, just like if you open youtube.com using IE or Firefox, but this Youtube Batch Downloader have button to download the movie, and the best part is, you can download more than one movie.

If you have 10s or 100s of files you want to download from youtube. You absolutely should try this application.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Download

File Size = 2.77 MB

Video Converters

Any Audio Converter is designed for extracting audio from video and converting audio between popular formats, such as WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc.

With Any Audio Converter, you can convert audio between MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and OGG as well as video files including AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc to popular audio files, e.g. convert MP4 to MP3. The user-friendly interface of Any Audio Converter lets you add and convert any unprotected audios and videos to MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG easily. Most work can be done automatically with a few mouse clicks.

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File Size = 13.04 MB

Download Managers

A simple YouTube video downloader and postprocessor. SmoothTube downloads videos from YouTube and converts them to MPEG format, which is supported by almost all media players and devices.

It also post processes videos, smoothing out some of the compression artefacts often introduced by YouTube's file size requirements.

Download

File Size = 4.38 MB

Compression Tool

Quick Zip Lite 3 (qzLite3) is a compact version of Quick Zip, it support a wide range of archive types, provide full drag and drop functionality which allow users to add, extract and delete files without leaving the main screen.

Features:

* Designed for small screen
* Full Drag and Drop
* Queue Monitor
* Thumbnail mode
* Bookmarks
* Search function and Predefined Filters
Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Download

File Size = 2.64 MB

CD & DVD Utility

Free Movies To DVD is a video converter software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. You can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player in just a few clicks and for free.

Free Movies To DVD supports most popular formats like avi, divx, xvid, mpeg, mp4, vob, wmv. It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media or save it as ISO image file.

The output mpeg format can be configured : aspect ratio, bitrate, NTSC or PAL.

Download

File Size = 6.8 MB

Download Managers

Cool YouTube downloader is an easy to use software that allows you to download FLV videos from Youtube, MetaCafe, Pornotube and many other sites.

It's easy to use, just copy the link of the page with the video and paste it (or just drag and drop) to Cool YouTube Downloader textbox.

Download

File Size = 719 KB

Registry

This is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows that can clean and repair problems with your registry.It help fix problems with the Windows registry that are a common cause of crashes, slow performance and error messages.

Recommended utility to safely clean and repair Windows registry problems.
Repair invalid registry entries - a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages.
Increase system speed and stability by removing orphaned references.
Safely make backups of any registry change made by MV RegClean.
Full compatible with Windows 32 and 64 bits.

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File Size = 1.39 MB

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RogueRemover 1.22

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Anti Virus & Security

RogueRemover has the ability to completely remove WinAntiSpyware/WinAntiVirus, SpyAxe, VirusBlast, VirusBursters and many more!

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File Size = 671 KB

Anti Virus & Security

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File Size = 16 MB

Anti Virus & Security

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File Size = 1.38 MB

Anti Virus & Security

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File Size = 7.96 MB

Anti Virus & Security

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File Size = 12.47 MB

Anti Spyware & Adware

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File Size = 3.43 MB

Anti Spyware & Adware

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File Size = 3.02 MB

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Microsoft moving closer to Centro

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The product is still months away, but Microsoft is sharing a few more details on its forthcoming custom software package for midsize business servers.

Microsoft first announced its plans for Centro back in September 2005, saying at the time it would be based on the Longhorn version of Windows Server as well as the latest version of Exchange, then known by its Exchange 12 code name. The product will also contain additional security and management tools, Microsoft said this week, and will be aimed specifically at businesses with between 50 and 250 PCs.

As is often the case, it is dropping its memorable code-name for a larger mouthful. In this case "Centro" is becoming Windows Essential Business Server.

"That really fits with what we are trying to do with Centro," said Russ Madlener, director of product planning in the server and tools unit. Madlener said the server software is "essential" for allowing IT administrators to do more strategic work, rather than "putting out fires" and handling management tasks.

The company said it will come in two flavors, a standard and a premium version.

The standard server package, which actually runs on three physical servers, consists of Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Forefront Security for Exchange, System Center Essentials, and the next version of ISA Server. The premium version also includes SQL Server 2008, which can run on a fourth server.

Microsoft didn't offer pricing details for the product, but said the server software will sell for a single price, as will the client access license required for each PC that connects to the server.

Private beta testing for Centro began last December. The company hopes to release a Beta 2 version in the next 30 to 60 days. Microsoft also said it has entered private beta testing for the next version of its small business server, code-named Cougar.

In May 2006, Chairman Bill Gates noted that Centro would be among a wave of new server products that ship only in 64-bit versions.

On the hardware side, Hewlett-Packard and IBM plan to ship servers that support the software, with software makers Citrix, CA, Symantec and FullArmor planning to integrate with Centro's management console.

The current plan is to ship the product in the second half of next year, ideally closer to the middle of the year, but Madlener acknowledged that some of that is out of his team's control.

"We're dependent on Windows Server 2008," he said. "We're dependent on SQL Server 2008...Until the other products ship, our hands are somewhat tied."

See Also

Ruckus Wireless raises $7.5M more for IPTV router

Microsoft fires CIO

Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech

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Live from New York, it's Founders Club--with M.C. Hammer

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(Credit: NBC Universal)

"It's been a year of surreal moments for me," Digg CEO Jay Adelson said to me, "and the big one was when I met M.C. Hammer."

The funny thing is, Hammer himself was standing right next to us. I was talking to Adelson at Tuesday night's edition of the Founders Club, a gathering of NYC-area digital-media and tech folks from both start-ups and major corporations who meet every few months to drink martinis, socialize, and drink more martinis. And before you start thinking about Hammer as a schlocky celebrity guest, keep in mind that he's a "founder" himself--he's one of the guys behind the new site DanceJam.com.

This Founders Club event was held at the Saturday Night Live studios at NBC Universal's Rockefeller Center headquarters, which meant that unlike at previous installments of the floating party series, restrictions prohibited anyone other than the hired professional photographer from snapping pictures. Some attendees, like Valleywag blogger Nicholas Carlson, did anyway and were repeatedly admonished--but really, the security folks had to understand that Carlson's boss at Gawker Media, Nick Denton, was only a few yards away and that the new "Alleywag" couldn't look like he was shirking his duties as a gossip gadfly. (Blog moguls aren't known to be softies.)

Carlson thankfully managed to snap a photo of M.C. Hammer with Adelson--who is, by the way, based in New York despite Digg's reputation as a scion of Valley 2.0. The rapper's presence spurred a light-hearted debate about celebrity power behind new start-ups, like Ashton Kutcher's involvement in telephony brand Ooma. One venture capital representative at the party informed me that actor Damon Wayans has been attempting to pitch a start-up, and that apparently the majority of his rationale consists of "well, I'm Damon Wayans."

So who was there? It was more like "who wasn't there?" The event was hosted by a handful of start-up founders, but the most visible of the bunch was Blip.tv co-founder and COO Dina Kaplan, who emceed the affair along with NBC Universal's Jessica Schell. Among the other hosts were Mark Cenedella of TheLadders, LX.TV's Joseph Varet, Paltalk's Joel Smernoff, Musicnation's Daniel Klaus, and TreeHugger's Graham Hill, who informed me that he actually was at Monday night's IdealBite party, contrary to my observations--he just didn't ride the bull.

I spoke briefly with MediaBistro figurehead Laurel Touby, who said she still can't believe that her start-up (recently acquired by Jupiter Media), has been as successful as it has. "I'm still pinching myself every day," she told me.

Connected Ventures, the InterActiveCorp division that encompasses CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and BustedTees, was heavily represented--CollegeHumor co-founder Josh Abramson was a co-host, and had brought his "better half" (in a strictly professional sense...I think) Ricky Van Veen with him. Also present was Vimeo's Jonathan Marcus and BustedTees' Josh Mohrer, as well as former Connected Ventures executive Zach Klein, who recently left the company and was consequently wearing a name tag that described his affiliation as "Huge Corporation." Conspicuously missing was Jakob Lodwick, who was across town presenting Vimeo at the November installment of the New York Tech Meetup. (The two events happened to awkwardly coincide.)

Zach Klein was also wearing an impressive pair of massive tortoise-shell eyeglasses, which he informed me that he'd purchased for $7 on eBay.

Also present: legendary Valley investor Ron Conway, who required no introduction; Henry Blodget and Peter Kafka of the Silicon Alley Insider; tech party staple Charles Forman of Iminlikewithyou.com, complete with his trademark oversize business cards; Toby Daniels of British import Mint Digital; Glasshouse New York's Caroline Waxler; the socially prolific Auren Hoffman, CEO of Rapleaf, which has been known to raise a few eyebrows; Lorien Gabel of the yet-to-launch Pingg; Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron; and Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell.

Also present was a guy without a name tag who looked so much like David Spade that some people thought he actually was David Spade. Hey, if M.C. Hammer shows up...

ConnectU co-founder Divya Narendra, still embroiled in a lawsuit against Facebook that goes back to the two companies' days as rival social networks on Harvard's campus, was there in good spirits and informed me that he has no intention of giving up the fight. Several of Facebook's executives, in town for the afternoon's big advertising announcement, were actually on the Founders Club guest list, but word has it that they were tied up at a company dinner at the once-trendy-but-now-mostly-touristy Meatpacking District joint known as the Spotted Pig. (Oh, you West Coasters.)

One of the most interesting conversationalists of the night was undoubtedly ASmallWorld founder Joe Robinson, whose elite, invite-only social networking site has stood in stark contrast to the uber-open nature of many of the sector's leaders--and generated plenty of controversy along the way. Despite its rich-and-famous reputation, Robinson explained, ASmallWorld is really just meant to replicate real-world relationships in an online setting. He said that people ought to think of an invite-only but nevertheless diverse event like the Founders Club as analogous to his company.

"You're probably only one degree of separation away from anyone in this room," he told me.

Afterwards, the word going around the SNL studios was that the legendary Rockefeller Center bar known as the Rainbow Room was open for business, and that we ought to shift our attention there. Unfortunately, the posse of Founders Clubbers that I'd latched onto didn't quite make it over, since two members of our ranks were wearing sneakers--something that the Rainbow Room doesn't permit.

So we slunk somewhat sheepishly out the door, plagued by an awkward reminder that even though New York's technology scene might be thriving, things are still a little more formal around here than they are in the Valley.

See Also

YouMail, for customized voice mail, raises $4.5M

Microsoft fires CIO

Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech

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SuperMicro announces worlds densest blade

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Supermicro is trying to one-up IBM in a claim that they have now released the world's “densest” blade server. The new SBA-714M-T, part of their SuperBlade line, is thin enough to squeeze 10 of the units into a 7U enclosure, making each individual blade consume under a single U of rack space. That precious little space is packed tightly, too, with each unit accepting up to four Quad-core or Dual-core Opteron processors, for up to 16 cores in a single unit.

What is truly interesting is the chipset in which they are trusting to power these behemoth CPUs in such a tiny environment. They are using Nvidia's MCP55 Pro chipset, showing how vendors are beginning to increasingly trust Nvidia with “enterprise-class” hardware.

They, like many others today, are touting energy efficiency as well – with the enclosure for these servers capable of accepting up to four PSUs that they rate at 90% or higher, which is impressive on its own. You can read the full press release at SuperMicro's site.

See Also

Facebook launches social advertising system

Microsoft fires CIO

Source: TechSpot News

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Things You Probably Don’t Know About Google AdSense

Gönderen alper borhan Etiketler: Things You Probably Don’t Know About Google AdSense

“AdSense Earning = Impression-count x Click-though-rate x Cost-per-click x smart-pricing-factor. Viewing your on website will not get you banned. Just make sure you don’t click on the ads. However, repeatedly reload your page to jack up page impressions can get you banned. Click-through-rate (CTR) is ratio of clicks per impressions. It can range from 0.1% to 30%, but most commonly around 1% to 10%.” [100 Google Adsense Tips]

“First impressions count: make sure the ad unit with the highest CTR is the first ad unit in the HTML code of your page. Keep in mind that the first ad unit in the source code is not always the first ad unit that your users will see when the page finishes loading in their browser.” [Inside AdSense: First impressions count]

“Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page. on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the end of the editorial content tend to perform very well.”[Where should I place Google ads on my pages?]

“Format is important for multiple ad units, display your ad units where repeat users will notice them, place a leaderboard immediately after the last post.” [Six AdSense optimization tips for forums]

“The middle, above the fold location performs the best. Best performing ad format is the large rectangle, 336×280. So the wider ad formats are doing better than the other ones and the reason is that they actually take up fewer lines. And so with every additional line, you have a chance of losing that interested user. So the wider formats do best so specifically, the top three formats are the 336×280 that you see on the page; the 300×250 medium rectangle; and then the 160×600 wide skyscraper. We have a feature in the AdSense account where you are able to multi-select different color palettes that blend with your site to add some variety and freshness to the ads. And that also will help decrease ad blindness.” [Google AdSense Optimization Webinar]

“The second most active placement in terms of click-throughs tends to be the right-hand rail or margin”. “Skyscrapers” and vertical banners do well when placed next to the content in the main body. Square and rectangle ads placed within the center column also do well, provided they are placed in context to the content. Ads placed below the fold tend to perform least well, although that isn’t a hard-and-fast rule.” [Yahoo! Publisher Network: Location, location, location…]

“I found the most success in placing the Google Adsense medium rectangle either right in the middle of the page or in a middle right column as long as it has content above and below the ad unit. Its is fine to use Adsense Ads on a forum however expect a very low CTR.” [Google Adsense Tips for Webmasters]

“Post Adsense ads on text rich pages, avoid titles like the approved ‘Sponsored Links’ and ‘Advertisements’, place Ads above the fold, Match the colors of your ads with the colour scheme of your site, Blend ads with your page - remove the borders by having a similar color as your background.” [How to Increase Google Adsense CTR]

“To remove Public Service Ads (PSA) in Google Adsense develop sufficient good content with keywords, Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site.” [How to Remove Public Service Ads (PSA) in Google Adsense]

“You can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs.” [It’s official! You can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs]

“Google AdSense Policy: We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads.” [ Inside AdSense: Ad and image placement: a policy clarification ]

“Section targeting uses certain html tweaks to force the google adsense bot to focus on specific content. Section targeting is the latest and most effective addition to AdSense”. [Display Relevant Adsense Ads Using Section Targeting]

“Over the weekend, I decided to change the number of ads units on my blog based upon where the traffic is coming from. I have a small PHP function that checks to see if the referrer is a search engine, and if it is, I display and additional 2 ad units. My Adsense revenue increasing by 284% on Saturday, Sunday and Monday!” [Positive Adsense Experiment]

“Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. Never change the Adsense code. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site. Do not mask ad elements. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing.” [ 15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS ]

“Putting ads on your site won’t hurt your traffic. There are 6 sorts of bloggers’ income:

Google Adsense, Donations (e.g. PayPal), Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month),

Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click), affiliate programs like Amazon, Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer) [How to Make Money From Your Blog - a VERY extensive article]

“A number of factors come into play when AdSense tries to determine what the page is about: The URL of the page, the page title, the anchor text of links, the keywords that appear most frequently within the page, search engine queries that lead to the page or to another page that links to the page”. [How to Get Relevant AdSense Ads (Especially For Bloggers)]

“Ask yourself if you are willing to compromise your blog’s layout and over-all feel by adding ads in them. Look at your traffic and see if it’s enough to draw the crowd. Make good use of the Ad Channels. Give it time.” [Tips on Blog Adsensification]

“You can put upto 3 AdSense units on a page. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content. Go Wide - the large rectangle 336×280 is the best paying adsense format.” [Adsense Tips, Layout Optimization Tricks for HigherCTR]

“Google AdSense folks have unveiled another useful feature for Adsense publishers - Section Targeting. The concept is simple but the advantages and possibilities are endless.” [Display relevant Ads in Blogs: Just suggest Google]

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Google AdSense: Google’s Information and Tools

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Google AdSense FAQ: the Adsense support for official guidelines.

Google AdSense Help Page provides a very detailed FAQ about Google AdSense. Learn optimization essentials, how to design successful ads, savvy ad placement and how to use features wisely.

Google Adsense Program Policies.

Google AdSense Ad Formats: an overview.

Google AdSense Success Stories provided by Google itself. Many interesting insights in concrete decisions, which helped to increase Google AdSense revenues.

Google AdWords: Keyword-Tool: The Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends. Start your search by entering your own keyword phrases or a specific URL. You can then add new keywords to the green box at the right.

via Internet Vibes, Smashing Magazine

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Platform As A Service: Cloudo

2008-03-26T09:47:00.001-07:00

Platform As A Service: Cloudo

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Platform As A Service, or PaaS is the latest development in virtualization. Where companies started to offer applications online (Saas, Software As A Service) and the use of virtual servers is becoming mainstream, more and more companies now offer a complete operating system as a service online.
Cloudo is the latest addition to platform providers. There are several others that have existed for a while now in the consumer market, but to be honest I have no idea if there is a consumer market for this technology. Virtualization is huge in the business market - after offering servers with virtual servers on top even SUN Microsystems now considers offering online platforms for businesses.

So what is so interesting about Cloudo? Why would we want a webbased operating system? Well, something that makes a huge difference is the option to sync your files to the operating system. Until now, nobody else offers this.

There currently is a private beta for developers only, so there's nothing for me there right now. But I will keep an eye on it.

Cloudo is here.

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Cisco 11500 Series of Content Services Switches - Cisco

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Cisco 11500 Series of Content Services Switches - Cisco

New / Used or Refurbished Cisco 11500 Products

The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch is a high-performance, high-availability modular architecture for Web infrastructures. As the premiere switch for the Cisco Web Network Services Software, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series helps businesses to build global Web networks optimized for content delivery and e-commerce. By activating HTTP headers, the CSS 11500 Series helps to ensure availability, optimize utilization, reduce latency, increase scalability, and enhance security for Websites, server farms, cache clusters, and firewall systems.

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Change the username/password prompt with AAA

Gönderen alper borhan Etiketler: Change the username/password prompt with AAA

TACACS+ protocol introduced with the IOS AAA architecture had great provisions for customizing the whole login process (user-defined banners, prompts ...). Unfortunately, it never really took off and most AAA solutions deployed today rely on RADIUS servers that cannot control the login process itself (the RADIUS server can only check the username/password pair for validity).

To change the login prompts when using RADIUS servers, use the aaa authentication [bannerfail-messagepassword-promptusername-prompt] text configuration command.

For example, to introduce meaningful prompts when using one-time password solution, you could use something similar to this configuration:

aaa authentication banner #
Access to this router is protected with one-time passwords.

Send an e-mail to admin@nowhere.net if you need access.

#
aaa authentication fail-message #
Login failed. Wait at least 30 seconds and retry
#
aaa authentication password-prompt "Enter your PIN + one-time password:"
aaa authentication username-prompt "Enter your username:"

Note: the texts specified with the password-prompt and username-prompt options are one-line texts delimited with quotes, the parameters of the banner and fail-message options are multi-lined texts delimited with any character.

Consider the network shown above with the configuration on the three
routers as follows -

Router R1


interface Loopback0
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
!
interface Serial2
ip address 12.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
!
router ospf 100
router-id 1.1.1.1
log-adjacency-changes
network 1.1.1.1 0.0.0.0 area 1
network 12.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 1

Router R2


interface Loopback0
ip address 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.255
!
interface Serial2
ip address 12.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
!
router ospf 100
router-id 2.2.2.2
log-adjacency-changes
network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
network 12.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
network 23.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Router R3


interface Loopback0
ip address 3.3.3.3 255.255.255.255
!
interface Serial2
ip address 23.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
!
router ospf 100
router-id 3.3.3.3
log-adjacency-changes
redistribute connected subnets
network 23.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Now consider the following output from the show ip ospf database database-summary command taken on router R1. The first command was issued with the configuration shown above and the subsequent outputs were taken after some configuration changes on the routers in the network which are not specified in this problem.

Output #1


R1#sh ip ospf database database-summary

          OSPF Router with ID (1.1.1.1) (Process ID 100)

Area 1 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   2        0        0
Summary ASBR  1        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
  Prefixes redistributed in Type-7  0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Subtotal      5        0        0

Process 100 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   2        0        0
Summary ASBR  1        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Type-5 Ext    1        0        0
    Prefixes redistributed in Type-5  0
Opaque AS     0        0        0
Total         6        0        0
R1#

Output #2


R1#sh ip ospf database database-summary

          OSPF Router with ID (1.1.1.1) (Process ID 100)

Area 1 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   1        0        0
Summary ASBR  0        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
  Prefixes redistributed in Type-7  0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Subtotal      3        0        0

Process 100 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   1        0        0
Summary ASBR  0        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Type-5 Ext    0        0        0
    Prefixes redistributed in Type-5  0
Opaque AS     0        0        0
Total         3        0        0
R1#

Output #3


R1#sh ip ospf database database-summary

          OSPF Router with ID (1.1.1.1) (Process ID 100)

Area 1 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   3        0        0
Summary ASBR  0        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
  Prefixes redistributed in Type-7  0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Subtotal      5        0        0

Process 100 database summary
LSA Type      Count    Delete   Maxage
Router        2        0        0
Network       0        0        0
Summary Net   3        0        0
Summary ASBR  0        0        0
Type-7 Ext    0        0        0
Opaque Link   0        0        0
Opaque Area   0        0        0
Type-5 Ext    0        0        0
    Prefixes redistributed in Type-5  0
Opaque AS     0        0        0
Total         5        0        0
R1#

Your task in this problem is to look at the output and reverse engineer what config changes must have been done to cause the changes in the output shown above. Note that you have to specify what happened between output #1 and output #2 and then what happened between output #2 and output #3.

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Kill browser ads with Cisco router's DNS server

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Kill browser ads with Cisco router's DNS server

As you might already know, you can use the /etc/hosts file (or its Windows equivalent) to kill unwanted browser ads - just list all the banner-serving sites in you hosts file and set their IP addresses to 127.0.0.1. In my June IP Corner article, Cisco Router: the Swiss Army Knife of Network Services (section Stop the browser ads and banners), I'm describing how you can do the same thing network-wide with a router acting as a DNS server.

For those of you who would like to automate this approach and convert a hosts file into a router configuration, here's a short PERL script to do it:

#
# hostsToCisco.pl: converts hosts file into router configuration
#
# Stdin: hosts file
# Stdout: IOS configuration
#
our @line,$i;

while (<>) {
@line = split(/\s+/,$_);
next unless $line[0] eq "127.0.0.1";
for ($i = 1; $i < $#line; $i++) {
  last if $line[$i] =~ /\#/;
  print "ip host $line[$i] 127.0.0.1\n"
}
}

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Cisco Acquires Social Networking Company

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Cisco Acquires Social Networking Company

Cisco Systems Technical Marketing Engineer David Lin holds up Cisco's latest wireless 7921 IP phone at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, Calif., Monday, Jan. 5, 2007. Cisco Systems is expected to announce quarterly earnings, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, after the closing bell. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc., whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows businesses to create MySpace-like communities on their Web sites.

Cisco said Friday that it was paying an undisclosed amount to acquire privately held Five Across Inc., an 11-person San Francisco company whose software allows companies to add user-interaction and multimedia-sharing capabilities to their Web sites

Five Across' publishing platform allows users to create personal Web pages and post photos, videos and audio clips, much like the proprietary system used by News Corp.'s MySpace. Cisco said the acquisition, its 116th since 1993, is the company's first in the social networking space but likely not the last. The deal is expected to close within the current fiscal quarter. Analysts said the acquisition helps further Cisco's expansion beyond its role as purely a network equipment provider and into helping distribute the media that drives bandwidth consumption and even more network upgrades. Danielle Levitas, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, said the Five Across acquisition could help Cisco win greater access to a wide range of companies, particularly those in media and entertainment, looking to upgrade their Web sites to connect with customers. "I actually see this as benefiting their core business - if they can promote users using their broadband more, that's huge for them," Levitas said. Cisco has profited mightily in recent quarters from surging sales of its routers and switches as service providers and other companies scramble to upgrade their networks to prepare for the next generation of video and other bandwidth-intensive downloads. Cisco, which was sitting on nearly $21 billion in cash at the end of the second quarter, has been rapidly expanding by acquiring companies that capitalize on the products and services that utilize the network itself. The company's largest recent acquisition was its $6.9 billion purchase last year of Scientific-Atlanta Inc., the world's second-largest cable television box seller. Last month, Cisco also announced it was paying $830 million in cash and stock to acquire IronPort Systems Inc., a maker of anti-spam and antivirus security products. That deal is also expected to close in the current quarter. Investors have cheered the San Jose-based company's robust earnings growth, sending its shares up 45 percent from a year ago and creating more than $51 billion in additional shareholder wealth. Cisco's stock closed up 5 cents to $28.14 on Thursday before the acquisition was announced. By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Cisco Buys Into Wireless Spectrum Analysis (CSCO)

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Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Germantown, MD-based Cognio, Inc., a company involved in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks.

Cognio's spectrum technology enhances performance, reliability and security of wireless networks by detecting, classifying, locating and mitigating sources of radio frequency interference. The acquisition is said to provide Cisco with complementary and differentiating technology, intellectual property and a core team to expand Cisco's leadership in unified wireless networking.

The Cognio acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's 2008 fiscal year, and this looks to be the company's 122nd acquisition. Upon the close of the acquisition, Cisco plans to integrate Cognio into its Wireless Networking Business Unit, under the Ethernet and Wireless Technology Group.

Financial terms were not disclosed as far as what Cisco is paying, nor ant financial backgrounder on Cognio. Cognio was venture-backed with Northbridge Venture partners, ABS Ventures, and Avansis Venture listed as backers.

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Turn your OS X and Linux-based machine into a FON Spot

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Turn your OS X and Linux-based machine into a FON Spot

Not one to dwell too heavily on the past, FON is apparently already moving beyond its newfangled partnership with Time Warner, and has now caved to giving Mac and Linux users the ability to get in on the action. The latest FON Spot software now appears in a beta form for OS X and Linux (preferably Ubuntu) users, allowing Ethernet-connected machines to share excess bandwidth with others via WiFi. Notably, it's even supposed to work if connected via 3G, but we can't imagine your carrier being all too pleased with such a scheme. Per usual, the company warns of its beta nature and insinuates that problems could arise, but if you're still not deterred, be sure to hit the read link and get your respective download on.

$500 million underwater fiber network to link Asia, America

Unfortunately for most, traversing back and forth to Asia from America on a regular basis isn't exactly in the cards, but thanks to a $500 million project agreed upon by a 17-member telecommunications consortium, visiting via fiber will soon be a whole lot snappier. Telekom Malaysia, along with 16 other firms, have awarded a half billion dollar contract to Alcatel-Lucent and NEC to construct a 12,428-mile link between the west coast of America and Southeast Asia. The aptly-dubbed Asia-America Gateway will connect the western US with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii, while also offering "seamless interconnection" with Europe, Africa, and Australia. Moreover, the project is being designed to provide a "more secure link for traffic" across the seas, as it avoids the hazardous Pacific Ring in hopes of dodging massive internet outages due to unexpected earthquakes. Best of all, the wait time for the undersea cabling to make an impact is fairly reasonable, as users should see "faster and more reliable service" when it becomes operational in December of next year.

Netgear acquires Infrant to boost storage offerings

Hot on the heels of yet another big time acquisition between Philips and DLO comes news that Netgear will be snapping up the privately-held Infrant Technologies for a cool $60 million in cash. All 34 employees will soon be wearing Netgear badges, and Infrant's CEO will move over and become Netgear's Vice President and General Manager for storage products. Essentially, Netgear is hoping that this move will strengthen the firm's presence in the enterprise and small-business storage realm, as it can now offer up a trusted name in RAID-based NAS products for SMB, SOHO, and the home. More specifically, the ReadyNAS, RAIDiator, and X-RAID portfolios were the targets of Netgear's desire, and while details on branding and the timeframe for the merge weren't noted, it sounds like Netgear's ready to get this party started

Smoking kills Internet2

Say what you want about net neutrality, at least the Internet hasn't been taken out by a hobo. Unlike the regular Internet we all use everyday, which was originally designed to distribute the AACS hex key withstand a nuclear attack, Internet2 is designed primarily for speed -- up to 9.08Gbps in most recent tests. All that juice comes at the price of redundant network links, though -- which means the whole thing got taken offline last night when a homeless man threw a cigarette onto a mattress under Boston's Longfellow Bridge, starting a blaze that eventually melted the fiber-optic link between Boston and New York. While initial estimates called for a service outage of 1-2 days, quick-thinking techs were able to get service going again in just 4 hours. Good thing, too -- if the panic that sets in around here when our DSL goes out is any indication, with the kind of bandwidth these guys were missing out on, there must've been wailing in the street.

Nokia Siemens Networks drops the axe on 9000 jobs

While this doesn't come as a huge surprise -- this layoff was predicted last year -- it still hurts to see such massive cutbacks in an industry held so near and dear to our hearts. Apparently 2,900 jobs in Germany and 1,700 in Finland will be cut on the road to finding savings to the tune of $2 billion by 2010. The final cut will be about 9,000 employees which is roughly 15 percent of the joint venture's workforce of 60,000. The joint venture was founded to help both companies compete with the likes of Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent with 5 major business units focusing on Radio Access, Broadband Access, Service Core and Applications, IP / Transport, and Operations Support Systems. Of course, the verdict is still out on how successful this venture will ultimately be, but Nokia's track record in the mobile space has been strong for as many years as we care to remember.

Every TCP package have 'flag bit’ defining content and intention of each package.
Example:

A package with flag bit contain "SYN or SYNCHRONIZE" will undertake to conduct initiation connection from sender to recipient. A package with flag bit contain "ACK" will undertake to inform receiver about sender information.
While a TCP package with beet flag contain "FIN" or "FINISH" undertaking to stop connection from sender to recipient.

To build a TCP connection, need data transfer package between two host, transfer of this data recognized by the name of "TCP Three-Way Handshake" as below picture.

Computer Network Threat

Threat is very harmful to the entire system and also by application at internal and external network.

The threat as follows:

Remote Login - this matter happened when someone capable to connect to a computer and have ability to control to several things related to resource found on the host or computer.

Application Backdoors - some program have special ability to access with long distance (remote access). Some bug program, exactly contain a backdoor or hidden access providing level control the computer and program.

SMTP session hijacking - SMTP is most commonly method used to deliver E-mail. By getting E-mail mailing-list, someone can deliver undesirable E-mail to thousands of or more users. This matter is called unsolicited junk mail or spam.

Spamming conducted with joining SMTP server which not suspect, then deliver thousands of E-mail called redirecting process, so that complicate to detect who is the real sender of the Mail Spam.

Operating system bugs – In application, some operation system have conducive security gap to be exploited illegally.

E-mail bombs - is an Individual attack, someone send hundreds or thousands of E-mail to one address so the victim E-mail cannot accept E-mail anymore.

Macro - To make simple or facilitate procedure an application, many application program permit us to make command which can be run by the program (script). By exploiting ability of script or macro, attacker can cause damage of data at computer.

Virus – Most known to make trouble at computer. The growth of virus from method, way of, making, effectiveness, damage storey, and also speed of spreading is different each other.

Redirect bombs – Hacker or Cracker can use ICMP to change direction of information and attack to other router.

Source routing - At many case, a data package which work through one or some network determined by router pass to route information by the router, but sometime hacker used the package as the real sender.

Another type of computer attack are from (next posted about this) :

Denial of Service (DoS)
Spoofing
Broadcast Amplification
TCP SYN

Mind the (online) gap

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Mind the (online) gap

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Mind the (online) gap

Instant messaging, blogs, Facebook, MySpace there are limitless ways your child communicates online with the offline world. And the risks and opportunities are only increasing.

A new Tel Aviv University research study has observed that, despite what parents might believe, there is an enormous gap between what they think their children are doing online and what is really happening.

In her study, Prof. Dafna Lemish from the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University surveyed parents and their children about the childrens activities on the Internet. The data tell us that parents dont know what their kids are doing, says Prof. Lemish.

Her study was unique in that parents and children from the same family were surveyed.

Strange Encounters

In one part of the study, Prof. Lemish surveyed over 500 Jewish and Arab children from a variety of ages and socio-economic backgrounds, asking them if they gave out personal information online. Seventy-three percent said that they do. The parents of the same children believed that only 4 percent of their children did so.

The same children were also asked if they had been exposed to pornography while surfing, or if they had made face-to-face contact with strangers that they had met online. Thirty-six percent from the high school group admitted to meeting with a stranger they had met online. Nearly 40% of these children admitted to speaking with strangers regularly (within the past week).........

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Copper connections for high-speed computing

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Copper connections for high-speed computing

Caption: Graduate student Todd Spencer and Regents' professor Paul Kohl have developed an improved signal transmission line, made of an organic substrate, to link high-speed signals between computer chips.

Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek

As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their performance requires better connections that operate at higher frequencies with less loss.

Improving these two types of connections will increase the amount and speed of information that can be sent throughout a computer, as per Paul Kohl, Thomas L. Gossage chair and Regents professor in Georgia Techs School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Kohl presented his work in these areas at the Materials Research Society fall meeting.

The vertical connections between chips and boards are currently formed by melting tin solder between the two pieces and adding glue to hold everything together. Kohls research shows that replacing the solder ball connections with copper pillars creates stronger connections and the ability to create more connections.

Circuitry and computer chips are made with copper lines on them, so we thought we should make the correlation between the two with copper also, said Kohl.

Solder and copper can both tolerate misalignment between two pieces being connected, as per Kohl, but copper is more conductive and creates a stronger bond.........

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Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability

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Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability

A team of academic, industry and independent scientists has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of secure memory systems, especially in laptops.

The attacks overcome a broad set of security measures called disk encryption, which are meant to secure information stored in a computers permanent memory. The scientists cracked several widely used technologies, including Microsofts BitLocker, Apples FileVault and Linuxs dm-crypt, and described the attacks in a paper and video published on the Web Feb. 21.

The team reports that these attacks are likely to be effective at cracking a number of other disk encryption systems because these technologies have architectural features in common.

Weve broken disk encryption products in exactly the case when they seem to be most important these days: laptops that contain sensitive corporate data or personal information about business customers, said Alex Halderman, a Ph.D. candidate in Princetons computer science department. Unlike a number of security problems, this isnt a minor flaw; it is a fundamental limitation in the way these systems were designed.

The attack is especially effective against computers that are turned on but are locked, such as laptops that are in a sleep or hibernation mode. One effective countermeasure is to turn a computer off entirely, though in some cases even this does not provide protection.........

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Ranger Supercomputer For Texas Computing Center

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Ranger Supercomputer For Texas Computing Center

Understanding HIV drug-resistance: A snapshot of the HIV-1 protease (a key protein that is the target for the protease inhibitor drugs) from a computational simulation. Mutations from the "wildtype" can occur within the active site (G48V) and at remote locations along the protein chain (L90M ). The "asp dyad" is at the centre of the active site, where polyprotein changes are snipped by the enzyme; this is the region that any drug must occupy and block.

Credit: Peter Coveney, University College London. Texas Advanced Computing Center.

Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, entered full production on Feb. 4. Open science research makes clear accounts of methodology, along with data and results extracted therefrom, freely available. Ranger, which will enable the leading scientists in the country to advance and accelerate computational research in all scientific disciplines, was dedicated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) on Feb. 22 at the University of Texas at Austin. NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure Director Daniel E. Atkins represented NSF at the ceremony and delivered remarks on this historic occasion.

"Ranger is the first leadership computational resource provided under the National Science Foundation 'Track 2 initiative' and the first machine funded through the newly formed Office of Cyberinfrastructure," he said. The Track 2 initiative is NSF's four-year activity designed to fund the deployment and operation of up to four leading-edge computing systems that will greatly increase the availability of computing resources to U.S. researchers. The Ranger award, the largest NSF grant to the University of Texas at Austin, was made after the evaluation of selection criteria that were "multi-faceted, including not only raw performance of the machine, but also effective education and outreach commitments, institutional competency and commitment for service to the national research community," noted Atkins.........

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Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch

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Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch

Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University.

Unlike most other haptic interfaces that rely on motors and mechanical linkages to provide some sense of touch or force feedback, the device developed by Ralph Hollis, research professor in Carnegie Mellons Robotics Institute, uses magnetic levitation and a single moving part to give users a highly realistic experience. Users can perceive textures, feel hard contacts and notice even slight changes in position while using an interface that responds rapidly to movements.

We believe this device provides the most realistic sense of touch of any haptic interface in the world today, said Hollis, whose research group built a working version of the device in 1997. With the help of a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, however, he and colleagues have improved its performance, enhanced its ergonomics and lowered its cost. The grant also enabled them to build 10 copies, six of which are being distributed to haptic scientists across the U.S. and Canada.

We have gone from the prototype to a much more advanced system that other scientists can use, Hollis said. Putting the instrument in the hands of other scientists is critical in a young, developing field such as haptic technology, he emphasized. Though haptic interfaces have uses in engineering design, entertainment, assembly, remote operation of robots, and in medical and dental training, their full potential has yet to be explored. Thats especially the case for magnetic levitation haptic interfaces because so few have been available for use by researchers, he added.........

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Locks On Microchips Could Reduce Hardware Piracy

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Locks On Microchips Could Reduce Hardware Piracy

Hardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry.

Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement: Each chip would have its own unique lock and key. The patent holder would hold the keys. The chip would securely communicate with the patent-holder to unlock itself, and it could operate only after being unlocked.

The technique is called EPIC, short for Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits. It relies on established cryptography methods and introduces subtle changes into the chip design process. But it does not affect the chips' performance or power consumption.

Michigan computer engineering doctoral student Jarrod Roy will present a paper on EPIC at the Design Automation and Test in Europe conference in Gera number of on March 13.

Integrated circuit piracy has risen in recent years as U.S. companies started outsourcing production of newer chips with ultra-fine features. Transferring chip blueprints to overseas locations opened new doors for bootleggers who have used the chips to make counterfeit MP3 players, cell phones and computers, among other devices.

This is a very new problem, said Igor Markov, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at U-M and a co-author of the paper.........

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Microchip fingerprints used to lock out chip pirates

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Microchip fingerprints used to lock out chip pirates

Pirated microchips -- chips stolen from legitimate factories or made from stolen blueprints -- account for billions of dollars in annual losses to chipmakers.

But a series of novel techniques developed at Rice University over the past year could stop pirates by allowing chip designers to lock and remotely activate chips with a unique ID tag. When a chip is locked with the new technology, only the patent-holder can decipher the key and activate the chip -- meaning knockoffs and stolen chips are worthless.

"Ours is the first remote-activation scheme that protects integrated circuits against piracy by exploiting their inherent, unclonable variability," said the technology's original inventor, Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering at Rice. "We use slight variations that arise in modern manufacturing to create a unique, digital identification that acts like a fingerprint for each chip, and we integrate that into the chip's functionality".

The original work was presented last August at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston. Since the invention of the method, Koushanfar has collaborated with many scientists to build upon her original scheme. Last October, at the International Conference in Computer Aided Designs, Koushanfar and Rice graduate student Yousra Alkabani, in collaboration with Miodrag Potkonjak from UCLA, showed the first method that could continuously check, control, enable and disable a chip's operation online by integrating the chip's fingerprints into its functionality and actively checking them during operation.........

Microsoft End User License Agreement

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Microsoft End User License Agreement

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Microsoft End User License Agreement

By touching any computer ever made, you agree to the terms of this agreement....

Microsoft shall have the rights to your first born child. This child shal be called Bill or Billina. Said child shall be assigned an activation code, which must be used prior to this child playing outside....

User furthermore agrees to sing praises to Microsoft every morning upon waking and each evening before retiring.... Simply raise your hands in the air and repeat aloud, ''All hail Microsoft!''

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From Wal-Mart for $198

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From Wal-Mart for $198

Need a new computer at home and don't want to pay the earth for it? Your next computer could very well be the Everex gPC bought from Wal-Mart for just US$198.

This is a rather modest little number, but has the added feature of a Ubuntu 7.10 (the latest version of the best Linux software) already installed. Great for a kids machine in the family or rumpus room.

The computer features a middle of the road computer as far as capability, and can very well be a good Internet ready machine. It already has installed the Open Office suite of programs, including a word processor, spreadsheet program, diagram editor etc., and has Google Aps, Skype, iPod compatible software and more . . . all free-ware software.

Now isn't the price really coming down on computers!

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Tablet Computers

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Tablet Computers

Would a tablet computer help you in your business?

Tim Berry has a blog entry at Small Business Trends were he talks about what he likes about a tablet computer over a standard laptop.

The biggest advantage tablets have according to Berry is that they are easier to use on airplanes. It allows you to adjust the screen if the person in front of you lowers his seat back. Another versatility offered by the tablet is the ability to do handwriting or use the keyboard.

He also points out several other ideas that benefit from using a tablet.

Is it right for you? Well that depends on your computing needs.

If you are traveling frequently, using it for power points, or have other needs that will benefit from a tablet, then consider a tablet.

Personally, I purchased my first laptop computer last May. So far I have used it on all of my trips and found it handy. Would a tablet computer be more useful for me? It is possible but the laptop is working for now. However, as my consulting increases and I have to be on the road even more the benefits of a tablet may become more apparent.

It all comes down to what is best for you and how you operate your business.

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Roadrunner: A New Age of Super- computing

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Roadrunner: A New Age of Super- computing

Roadrunner
Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Records Management/Media Services and Operations

Laboratory officials celebrated Los Alamos's decision to pursue, pending approval by the National Nuclear Security Administration, the final phase of Roadrunner, a high-performance computer (HPC) slated to become the computational cornerstone of Laboratory mission-related work.

"Roadrunner ushers in a new era in high performance computing," said Terry Wallace, principal associate director for science, technology, and engineering (PADSTE). Wallace praised the hard work and dedication of the entire Roadrunner Project Team at the celebration last Thursday.

Roadrunner is designed to achieve a sustained operating speed of 1,000 trillion calculations each second, or a "petaflop/s" in computer jargon-peta signifying the number 10 followed by 15 zeros, and flop/s meaning "floating point operation per second." The fastest current supercomputer is rated at 478 teraflop/s (teraflop/s meaning one trillion floating point operations per second); Roadrunner would be roughly 3 times faster.

The computer will be developed in partnership with IBM and will utilize commercially available hardware, including aspects of commercial gaming and graphics technologies. Because of its off-the-shelf design, the computer costs significantly less than a one-of-a-kind machine. It uses a Linux operating system.........

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Active computer games no substitute

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Active computer games no substitute

New generation active computer games stimulate greater energy expenditure than sedentary games, but are no substitute for playing real sports, as per a research studyin this weeks Christmas issue of the BMJ.

Young people are currently recommended to take an hour of moderate to vigorous physical exercise each day, which should use at least three times as much energy as is used at rest. But a number of adolescents have mostly sedentary lifestyles.

Time spent in front of television and computer screens has been associated with physical inactivity and obesity.

The new generation of wireless based computer games is meant to stimulate greater interaction and movement during play, so scientists at Liverpool John Moores University compared the energy expenditure of adolescents when playing sedentary and new generation active computer games.

Six boys and five girls aged 13-15 years were included in the study. All were a healthy weight, competent at sport and regularly played sedentary computer games.

Before the study, each participant practiced playing both the active and inactive games.

On the day of the study, participants played four computer games for 15 minutes each while wearing a monitoring device to record energy expenditure.........

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Google's Knol against Wikipedia?

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Google's Knol against Wikipedia?

Google loves the content of Wikipedia. Just do some Google searches and you’ll see the Wikipedia articles among the top results. While Google tries to battle Wikipedia and to create their own encyclopaedia ( under the name Knol), I thought I should share my thoughts with you as a Wikipedia administrator. But Larry Sanger, the head and founder of Citizendium, the expert-encyclopaedia, has beat me to it:

There are a few problems.

First, quality. It looks to me as if Knol is a high-level attempt to do what many others have done… Time will tell, but Knol will probably resemble other such websites, and have a huge amount of mediocre content, with a little excellent content mixed in. The concept does not sound like a model that would attract many genuine experts. I say that because the notion that anyone may write a "knol" and be compared and ranked by "the crowd" - not by expert peers - is apt to attract relatively little notice from experts who are very careful about where they publish.

Second, lack of buy-in from the free culture crowd. Many of the sort of people who contribute knowledge to projects like Wikipedia and the Citizendium are likely to be very skeptical of a giant corporation organizing such a project, particularly with Google Ads appearing on the articles. It does not appear to be in the spirit of the free culture movement. Still, it is good that Google has decided to make ads optional.

As an encyclopaedia, Knol has no chance against Wikipedia or Citizendium. As an other place for advertisements where people can promote their products, it seems to be a perfect solution. We’ll see…

I highlighted the features: article rating, Google ads and peer reviews.

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How about a 40-hour laptop battery?

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How about a 40-hour laptop battery?

Unbelievable isn''t it? A laptop battery that can keep your laptop going for 40 hours! Yes, research is underway at Stanford Tech to develop a hi-tech lithium ion battery that can juice up your laptop for 40 hours, keeping those charging woes at bay for a longer period.

Apparently, the new battery uses a discarded technology that has been been revamped by Professor Yi Cui and team - silicon anodes in the form of nanowires for charging. This technology was earlier abandoned as the silicon expands up to 400 times when charged, exploding the battery in the process. Using silicon in the form of nanowires eliminates this danger.

So when can you start rejoicing? In a "few years time" is all the information we have at this moment.

Via Newlaunches.