Technology opinions and digital photography
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Windows Vista: Marketing techniques
Microsoft just announced that there will be a grand total of 6 different versions of Windows Vista. This is an approach well known of marketing specialists. A product is on a competitive market, the price goes down (or up) according to the laws of free market. If the market is not competitive, the price may…
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Button Maker, your small button for free
The Adam Kasley web site draws images of the small buttons that you may need for your own web site. Simple and easy. Merely what you want without knowing where to look for it.
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Download others – legally
Music friends, noise friends, sound friends, ear sportsmen and sportswomen, here you will not need Kazaa, eDonkey, eMule, BitTorrent, or soulseek; In short, no P2P or Warez wbe site, your old wbe browser is enough. You will only find good old links and download and listen to music coded in Ogg or MP3 format, freely…
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No ATI/nVidia board is HDCP compatible
It has just been confirmed that currently the existing graphic cards on the market will not be able to play High-Definition DVD. Even when they display an HDCP-compatible label. As said on Darknet.com:
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DRM creeps into our hard drives
The Trusted Computing Group announced it will be publishing a specification describing how hard disc drives will include Digital Rights Management (DRM) to support the Trusted Platform that is being pushed in preparation of PCs that will be completely secured against free flow of information and to avoid hackers and pirates to steal information. This…
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Trusted Computing Platform – Not for the consumer
Trusted Computing Platform is an initiative that is going to help the media companies (music, movies, etc.) securing the media they sell in a strong way. Essentially, it’s intent is to keep everything encrypted to avoid users to have a direct access to it. This approach promises to stomp out pirates. The problem is that,…
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Nikonians
Nikonians is the name of an English-speaking web site about digital photo cameras holding the yellow brand mark. New, forums, galleries, everything.
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1 Million Free and Legal Music Tracks
After all, it’s not only a matter of downloading a lot of MP3’s from the web. Sometimes, if you avoid the top-50 list of songs, you could be finding a lot of tracks that will be satisfying your thirst for music in a legal way: Many artists offer their music for free and this is…
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WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…
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