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Sony Electronics announced that it had begun to ship its single-layer blank Blu-ray optical media and that it would start delivering dual-layer discs at the beginning of June. The company also confirmed the rumor saying that the manufacturer plans to equip its computers with Blu-ray disc drives. Sony is shipping 25-GB BD media, which will retail for about $25 each disc. The 50-GB versions It seems that, later this year, Sony will also release the internal BWU-100A drive, which will be able to handle both 25-GB and 50-GB discs, burning a full 25 GB disc in about 30 minutes. Retail pricing for the BWU-100A drive will be available later this year. ...

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. (business web hosting). Release: VLC media player 0.8.5 (2006-05-066 May 2006) This new Release features many improvements, including MacIntel support, a statistic system, the support of DV inputs on Linux, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), many new and improved video filters, a new AJAX HTTP interface, Winamp 2 Skins support, a Mozilla plugin on Mac OS X (PowerPC only), a new default skin.. ...

The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence – Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web. Firefox 1.5.0.3 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. ...

Here’s the best FREE download manager. This is the download manager of my choice. It has every feature of paid counterparts and more.. Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before! ...

Seems to be a fixed build. Changelog: Build [309]: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 09069 ODS: “Run task if skipped” option sometimes work incorrectly 10000 ODS: Missing an alert “Active Threat Found” if the product started from a network share 10118 Crashes upon first product startup, on build 308 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 FS 06626 Trusted Proc: Proccesses added from a different computer are not properly trusted Build [308]: New: 1. Settings for ABS on all tasks for ODS (On Demand Scanner) 2. Setting “don’t display icon in the main window” 3. Support tab is now customizable via the Admin Kit 4. Wizard for On Demand scan task creation ...

Though Winamp has by default a very good mp3 decoder, it lacks many features such as replaygain, resampling, higher bit-depths, etc. Here is where the mpeg123 input plugin by Otachan comes in. This plugin is considered to be the best decoder for mp3 so far. The sound quality is crystal clear. The main plus point is that it supports ReplayGain. ReplayGain is used to make the volume of all audio files equal. I recommend MP3Gain to analyse your MP3 collection. MP3Gain will store the ReplayGain information into the ID3 tag. ...

The Internet is extremely vulnerable because of the chain of dependencies between the computers that hold different parts of net addresses. As a result, this main characteristic of the so called web could lead to several hacker attacks, it is said in a study of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. It seems that all simple attacks combined could lead to the take-over of 85% of the Internet, because of the huge number of computers that have to be consulted in order to trace the exact location of a web site. ...

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. Unfortunately although its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human. ...

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Changelog: v0.66 2006.4.27 Core Improved: more program run-time error can be detected by the crash report Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the sometimes program will crash when display chat message ...

This is the worst nightmare for any of us. Having to Format and re-install windows. And no matter how careful you are with installing software, a time comes when some software does not uninstall properly, or messes up your system, or even a virus attacks windows! There are many cases where Formatting is the only option left. Formatting the PC takes at least around 2 hours to get back everything to normal working conditions, as in re-installing all software, setting them up, just the way you like it. But here, im gonna tell you a trick which does all that within 5 minutes! Interested? Read on! We will use disk imaging to create an image of our windows partition. But its just not that! The key is to create a good image, and keep it organised. A list of software we would need: ...