On December 4th at 2:00AM PST Xbox 360 owners (with an Xbox LIVE subscription) will be able to get some awesome new features at no additional cost! At the top of the feature list is MPEG-4 Part 2 video support, which means that most of your DivX and Xvid files will now be play on the system! This was expected, however, because of the DivX/PS3 compatibility that was announced earlier this month.
Some of you may not realize it, but record companies (like EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal) pay rather large amounts of money each year to trade groups like the RIAA and the IFPI which funds their operations. In return, these groups support the artists and labels and spend some of their money to help stop piracy.
Oliver Rist, an editor at PC Magazine, decided to take a new perspective on the who Vista sucks theme going around. Normally I just pass right by these articles, but his really caught my attention by saying that Leopard is the New Vista. The article, to say the least, is hilarious. Checkout my favorite parts of the article:
Whoops! Looks like Linksys made a small little mistake on a Wireless-G Home Router box that they recently sold a lot of. Apparently on the day after Thanksgiving, Circuit City and other stores sold the router for pretty cheap ($20 after rebate).
I just updated my Firefox nightly build, and it's impossible not to notice the new location bar. I sat there for a minute almost like a deer staring into headlights because I just wasn't sure what to think about it. It's, well, big.
It's amazing to think about how much has changed with Google Reader since it was released back in October of 2005. They've done a great job of making some major revisions to the service by adding new features and tweaking the interface so that it's easier and more efficient to use.
Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).
Have you ever been in Firefox and wanted to paste multiple lines of text into a single-line text field? You know, like in the example above where there is an address which has been placed on two different lines, but if you paste that into the Google Maps search field it will cutoff anything on the second line.
Mary Jo Foley has tapped some of her sources to try and get information regarding Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), and it appears that she didn't come up empty handed this time around. Her sources said that Vista SP1 RC will be in the hands of testers as early as next week, and that the public will be able to get a taste of it the following week. I'm definitely down with that if it works out that way.
It looks like Yahoo has spent some considerable time designing an all new homepage for their Yahoo Widgets, and I must say, it looks good! They wanted to improve the experience, and that they did. They've also launched a new version of Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) version 4.5 which has new features and some fixes. You can find the upgrade for that here.
The Pirate Bay sure does care about their users, don't they? :) Today they've shown this by launching a music discovery feature to help people find more of the music that they like so that they can spend more time downloading files. They were able to offer this thanks to data from Last.fm.
Mozilla pushed out Firefox 2.0.0.10 on Tuesday which fixed three highly rated security vulnerabilities, but a rather critical bug slipped through their test routines. The issue lies in the which is used by some extensions and websites to display images. An example of this can be seen here where a line graph is supposed to appear on the left side using the source image as the background.
Hey Google, remember that Google Talk application you have? Yeah, the one that keeps getting ignored? You launched it back in 2005 and added a features in 2006 (offline messaging and voice mailing), but since then it seems you've just forgotten about it. Now it looks like you're focusing all of your efforts on Gmail Chat and the flash based Google Talk gadget for personalized homepages.
It's another big milestone for Windows XP/2003 users! Vista Transformation Pack 8 ( VTP 8 ) was just released, and it will bring even more of the Vista finesse that you know and love without the hefty upgrade price tag. One of the most notable changes is the ability to use the "Aero Glass" without needing WindowBlinds.
Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).
Have you ever wondered how you can get more information on your laptop's battery? That's a question that many people wonder, especially when they start experiencing shortened battery life. There is a quick and free way for you to get all of this info and more!
Many of you are probably sitting in front of a computer that has the amazing CCleaner application (review) installed. It helps keep your computer free from clutter by deleting unimportant files and cleaning up the registry, which is especially useful after uninstalling a program.
The first 400 Optimus Maximus 113 key OLED keyboards will be shipping in December, and 3 new configurations have been announced for those people that might be on more of a budget. I use the word budget loosely...
Favicons can be used for a variety of purposes, including the little website icon that shows up in the address bar or even the icon for applications running on your computer. Favicons have the file extension ICO, and as we've seen before generating a favicon can be a rather tedious process.
