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The Official Berlin 3D City Model For Google Earth

March 11th, 2007 | View Comments

From the website’s “News”-section (quoting): Berlin is the first city recreated as a realistic large-scale three-dimensional model that Internet users can explore with the aid of Google Earth. (end of quote) Official website: www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de [de] [en] Download Google Earth: earth.google.com … Read entire article »

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“Exifer” And “Photo Info” For Windows

March 11th, 2007 | View Comments

Found two nice tools which allow you to edit the EXIF-data of your photos: Exifer: www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer Photo Info: Microsoft Download Center … Read entire article »

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ObjectDock Freeware For Windows

March 10th, 2007 | View Comments

From the author’s website (quoting): ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their programs and running tasks into a dock. ObjectDock enables users to have more control over how they organize their desktop. Rather than have a bunch of icons on the desktop, these icons can be put into docks. ObjectDock can also be used to replace the Start bar entirely freeing up valuable screen real-estate. (end of quote) Objectdock Freeware: www.stardock.com/products/objectdock … Read entire article »

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“Aero Glass” Was Yesterday…

March 10th, 2007 | View Comments

Check out the following projects, and you’ll know what I mean: Beryl: www.beryl-project.org Watch it on YouTube.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM Looking Glass: www.sun.com/software/looking_glass Watch it on YouTube.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g … Read entire article »

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Kaspersky Antivirus 6 Slowing Down Firefox?

March 10th, 2007 | View Comments

I just recently discovered that I had problems with Firefox showing the “Write”, “Manage” and “Comments” pages within the WordPress interface. It took much too long time to display the pages after clicking on the link. IE worked fine, though. So, I thought about what changes I’ve made recently, and I recalled installing Kaspersky Antivirus 6 lately. One of the KAV modules is the “Web-Anti-Virus” that is supposed to scan http-headers while surfing. It was set to “recommended” by default. After setting it to “low”, everything worked fine again. I don’t really know if there is a close connection, but I have read several threads in the Kaspersky forum referring to firefox. I am still using the trial version, and I am not sure wether to buy Kaspersky AV if … Read entire article »

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Spreading The Word About “Joost®”

March 10th, 2007 | View Comments

Excerpt from the Joost® FAQ: What is Joost®? Joost® is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We’re in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come! … Read entire article »

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Bug In Skype 3: No History Tab When Only Sending SMS

March 7th, 2007 | View Comments

I just discovered that if you are using Skype in version 3 just to send SMS and not for calling, no history tab will be shown – i.e. you can’t see the texts you have already sent. As soon as you make a call, the history tab will show up. So, here is a workaround: Just make a call to whatever number you like and let it ring once (you don’t need anyone to answer the call). Then, all of a sudden, the history tab will appear! See the following posts: Skype Forum: forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t75138.html Skype Developer Zone: developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCW-266 … Read entire article »

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Ads In Counterstrike After Steam Update

March 6th, 2007 | View Comments

I was very surprised today when I saw that – after a short steam update – they now show ads in Counterstrike! Well, I saw that coming… Click on the images to see the screenshot. I marked the ads with a red hand, which means that you don’t actually see that hand in the game – just to make that clear. … Read entire article »

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Zoom Player v5

March 5th, 2007 | View Comments

A long time ago, I used Zoom Player as my default media player. But as it had some difficulties with some codecs, I switched to VideoLAN VLC Media Player. Today, I thought I could give Zoom Player another chance, because I haven’t been too pleased with VLC Media Player. … and see: there is a new version 5 available, and it also has a feature to install missing codecs – very nice! The standard version is freeware. Zoom Player v5: www.inmatrix.com/zplayer … Read entire article »

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Handling Image Spam With Thunderbird

March 5th, 2007 | View Comments

Being so sick of spammers trying to bypass text-based anti-spam filters by sending text as images (so-called “image spam”), I googled and happened to find an interesting website which explains how to set filters in Thunderbird to sort out that kind of junk mails (see the link below). In addition to that, I created a new folder Possible Image Spam as a subfolder of Junk where such mails are stored, so that I can easily sort out “false positives”. Note: You should also set From to isn’t in my address book as decribed in the MozillaZine Knowledge Base. Stopping Image Spam In Thunderbird: www.neilturner.me.uk/2006/Aug/06/stopping_image_spam_in_th.html … Read entire article »

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