Microsoft Downloads - FREE Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

Download Here

Microsoft has a really nice habit these days of trying to give you software that not only is free, but it will hopefully stop the pushing of malware designed to hook you into paying for a fake virus or malware scanner.

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed. The tool creates a log file named mrt.log in the %WINDIR%\debug folder.

Get more information from the Malicious Software Removal site:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

                

Take $5.00 off Parrallels Desktop for Mac.

Right now, we have a $5.00 off Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Coupon. This is limited to the first 50 Uses. Take advantage now! - Use Coupon


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Tired of having your email attachments flagged!

Size does "Matter" !!

Many different types of perfessionals, have the need to send out e-mails and attach larger file sizes than you average 400K jpg. Most SMTP hosts have the smtp file attachment limit set to a few MB by system admins, meaning that we all look for different ways to send out e-mail attachments that just won't go! We set up FTP servers, create shared MSN Messenger folders, cut CDs and DVDs and sometimes mail out the files. YouSendit is point to point file delivery service that is instant and secure. It allows you to ZIP up a file folder add encryption and or password secure, and deliver the compressed file. The upload and download are resumable.
YouSendit is available for the Mac and PC.

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YouSendit offers multiple plans (Pro Account,Business Plus Account,Corporate Suite Account) to fit your business, the free trial offers you a choice on trying the plan FREE for 14 days, choose the plan that fits your business requirements.

                

21% OFF Toast 9 - Amazon skips you the rebate hassel.

Toast 9 is 21% off currently at Amazon.com. You could get Toast 9, Direct from Roxio.com for $79.99, but only after a $20 mail-in rebate. Amazon is skipping you the rebate hassels.

                

Abobe releases Beta for popular Web Design Tools

Adobe labs has released beta apps for Dreamweaver,Fireworks and Soundbooth and are now available for download.Dreamweaver and Fireworks, made popular by Macromedia and MX Studio, are tools designed to manage and support website designs and applications.

Creative Suite 3 users will be able to use the beta release versions until CS4 becomes public.

                

Does Amazon have too many Kindles?

Is the Amazon Kindle price drop, an indication that the stocking woe's of early Kindle times, means more than, maybe this product isn't worth $399. Did they run out and manufacture Kindles, thinking this would replace the morning paper! Okay, the Kindle is a fantastic news reader yes! If you're in the market, the Kindle is now on a price drop and free two-day shipping.

                

Criagslist goes AIR, Adobe style!

CL Desktop (Craigslist Desktop)
Finally, a user friendly way to browse Craigslist. Setup just the right searches to find what your looking for, and save them for instant access anytime you need. More than a web site, CL Desktop is an application that runs on your desktop, with the help of the Adobe Air (Adobe Internet Runtime) Framework to bring you a better view of Craigslist postings and CL Desktop is Free. CL Desktop is a great example of the types of RIA's (Rich Internet Applications) hitting your desktop/internet! Get the AIR runtime first and then download CL Desktop from Airpollo.com. The best part about .air applications, is that they install on Mac or Windows!

                

[Video] - Run 3D games using Parallels Desktop

Check out the Video here on Facebook

So you have a Mac! Well sometimes you have the need to run in a windows or linux shell, Parallels desktop gives you options. One of the biggest reasons I find for wanting to use windows on a Mac is to play 3D games. Take a look at the Parallels Face book video on running 3D games in a Parallels desktop shell.

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Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac info:

Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that give you the flexibility of running Windows or Linux on a Mac simultaneously without rebooting.

The upgraded 3.0 version delivers completely seamless user experience, native hardware experience and protection against mishaps. Now you can enjoy great new features that make your life much easier: cross OS application & file integration with Parallels SmartSelect, offline access to virtual machine files with Parallels Explorer, improved Coherence 2.0, including shared folders and UI enhancements and Linux Tools for seamless integration between Mac OS X and Linux. Also, now available - 3D Graphics Support!

Now you can play your favorite Windows-only games and run the most popular graphic applications on your Mac and enjoy the best of both worlds at the same time. Evaluate the expanded support for USB 2.0 devices, developed USB 2.0 connection assistant, which quickly connects you to the OS of your choice. Hardware experience becomes easier with shared printers for cross OS printing and significantly enhancements performance and audio quality. Protect your data from mishaps.

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Check out Photosynth - from MS Live Labs

Microsoft Live Labs -Photosynth

If you haven't heard of the Photosynth project, which should change the way everyone take vacation photos in the near future. You need to check out the Tech Lab Demo. It's got to be some of the coolest upcoming photo reconstruction 3D tooling. Take a walk around Rome, or the NASA shuttle! Maybe you need to start taking 100+ pictures of each place you visit now!

“Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space”

Check out the Microsoft Live Tech Labs Photosynth informational page for a fully functional photosynth demo, photosynth videos and informational packages.

                

Cyberlink Live - access your media anywhere

Access what you want where you want!

                

VLC - VideoLAN player 0.8.6 update

VideoLan VLC 0.8.6 Download
Download Here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It's appears that the open source VLC media player is starting to take hold as one of the number one media players on the net. With out taking in to account the player is bundled into other software, the direct download page boasts a 4.1 downloads per second. Currently with a download counter at 81.4 million downloads. VLC Binaries are supported for multiple OS support (Windows,OS x, Linux [Some flavs unsupported]).

                

Napster's taking on iTunes

Looks like you'll have choice on where to get your downlo's of your music fav's!
Napster has started selling per song downloads in it's Napster music store, as of yesterday they have added even more choice to iPod and MP3 users everywhere. DRM (Digital Rights Management) Free and useable on any portable media device, Napster hopes to lure some iTunes customers over to their non-copyrighted music selection. With Amazon.com starting to sell MP3's in it's store and Napster on-board, will iTunes continue to dominate? I'm sure that if you own a MP3 player that isn't an iPod, you'll most likely be moving to the DRM free environments. Once you pay for the song, the digital file is yours, you can back it up, use it on any device, not so with iTunes DRM content.

It's not expected that many iTunes users will jump ship to Amazon or Napster, iTunes is integrated with the iPod and iPhone.

Napsters market appeal will be to the audio file that likes to rip a MP3 DVD for a home theater experiance, or a non-ipod device like a Blackberry Curve, or the new BB Bold series 9000.

Napsters Subscription Services, which allows you unlimited access to music content to enjoy, is still a DRM environment and not to be confused with the new Digital Music Store. Now if you just love a song you can buy it and use it else where.

Napster MP3s will be priced at 99 cents each, while full-album downloads will start at $9.95 US, the company said.

Napster official site

                

Adobe is FLEX'ng to the dev community!

The Flex® framework is open source and developers are embracing the opportunity to be a part of the community.

Adobe Flex User Groups
Meet other developers to talk about RIAtechnologies, get resources, and learnnew techniques.
Find a Flex user group near you.

Adobe® Flex Builder™ 3 software is now available in Standard andProfessional editions. The Standard edition offers new features including code refactoring, SWF file size reduction, and improved skinning and styling workflow.
Upgrade to the Professional edition and get memory and performance profilers, automated functional testing support, and enhanced charting components including the new advanced data grid.
Try Flex Builder 3 Professional free for 60 days.
Buy Flex Builder 3 starting at US $249.

Adobe AIR™ software takes rich Internet applications (RIAs) to thedesktop. The new cross-operating system runtime lets developers use familiar web technologies including Flex, Adobe Flash®, HTML,Ajax, JavaScript, and ActionScript™ to build RIAs that deploy on the desktop.
Download the Adobe AIR SDK.

                

Encrypt your data, drives, partitions and virtual HD files

TrueCrypt - Keep your data, YOUR data!

So recent news on airlines taking images of laptop harddrives as new practice, has lawfirms, businesses and the like all in a tiff! Non-Disclosure means it's not for anyones eyes right, well wrong. Airport securities are rumored, taking images of passengers laptop HDs. Now I can see this to be useful for national sercurities and such, but its still an invasion of privacy. So what to do, well you can encrypt your whole HD, make a hidden encrypted partition or use a virtual HD file and encrypt it. TrueCrypt helps encrypt USB HD, Sticks and OS partitions. Remember the stronger the password the stronger the cypher, the less chance you'll be seeing you companies gaurded information floating around the web!

                

Adobe Flash Player 10 Pre-release

Release 10, firming up soon. Developer and Consumers please test.
Adobe labs is releasing Flash Player 10 pre release for Developers and Consumer testing. This is to allow tests of their content to ensure the new features will function the way Abobe and the users expect. All languages are supported, but the installer is English only at this time.
Flash Player 9 Released is available at Abobe.com at the Flash player download center.

Pre-Release 10 Plugin is available for Windows,Mac and Linux support.

                

Blackberry BOLD, not an iPhone killer

BlackBerry 9000 (BOLD)

The newest Blackberry to hit the fold isn't the iPhone killer that everyone is saying it's going to be. Why? Because the Bold (9000) series is aimed mostly at the business market. With a case like iPhone design, most commercial elements are missing from the new Blackberry phone that would make it a true iPhone comparison. This is a sexy update to a great phone, with a iPhone like form factor (metal backing, glass frontage), The touch elements and a full screened phone display, which would be a true comparison are missing.

See more info at RIM on the BB Bold.

                

Vista gone country! Get a Mac, sad sad song

Awww, Vista's gone to the dogs, or that's what the new Mac ad is singing about in "Sad Song" a country duet! If you wanted to re-cap the new ad that air'd tonight during American Idol, and hear some singing that Simon would probably love, check it out here at the Apple site.

                

Go to AT&T or Retail if you want your iPhone!

iPhones in Apple Store no more!

It's confirmed that the iPhone is OUT-OF-STOCK at the Apple Online US & UK shops. If you're looking for a non-3G iPhone, goto AT&T or other retail channels before they too vanish. The 3G iPhone is around the corner, can you feel it! - Apple Store

                

Roxio May/June Promotion Codes

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Go to Roxio now - These coupons are valid through May/June 2008 . Using site wide coupon gets you Toast 9 or any other product at 10% off.

                

Windows Media Player 11 - looking better every release

I've got to say, this is the first time I've actually liked the look and feel of the Windows Media Player. It's no shock that it's hot on the heals of the new WMV codec. Pretty much the same functionality, a couple of tweaks and a easier to use user interface. You can get the download here.

Microsoft's Discripto! -Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home—all from one place.

                

Adobe Photoshop Express - Now with Flikr support.

As Adobe Photoshop Express says "2GB Rent Free"
PX -Photoshop Express beta is a free toolkit for showing off your photo's, with facebook support and now flikr support, it makes it easier to share your photos. The photo editing in Photoshop Express is nothing special, what is special is how you can embed the photos into Myspace,Facebook etc. Yes, you can tweak the hue, rotate the pic and make quick notes or doodles with the draw tool. It's the integration with the social networks and other 3rd party applications that makes PX a pretty cool tool. Take a Test Drive or Join Now - Here

                

Windows Vista Premium and Ultimate Discounts

Looks like our Microsoft marketing engine is in full response to the why buy vista ads Apples running across the internet these days. I'm talking about the one with the light bulb banner that lights up don't buy Vista!

Is a $30 discount on Premium or $40 off Ultimate going to make you run off and purchase Vista over Lepoard (OS x), prob. not!

The windows market place has the price discounts now. You decide.

                

PowerDVD v8 - Release with cool Remix tool!

Cyberlink just released the latest version of PowerDVD, CyberLink's flagship product. In version 8, in addition to the amazing features such as Blu-ray playback, DTS-HD 7.1 channels and HDMI sound, PowerDVD 8 is integrated with the "MoovieLive" portal, which lets users share information about DVDs they've watched using PowerDVD.

According to the press that has reviewed this product, the most interesting and unique aspect is the "Movie Remix" feature, which lets you re-edit your favorite DVD movies by cutting, rearranging? and adding effects to movie scenes. You can also dub over the existing audio track with your own, and overlay text and graphics.

Get More Information

                

Zoovision - iPhone video and music streaming

ZooVision Free Streaming Videos - Music

URL: http://www.zoovision.com/imobile.html

A free mobile phone video- and audio-streaming portal, is providing free streams of music videos, daily news clips, podcasts, video podcasts, anime, cartoons, movie trailers, and full feature films to your iPhone.

                

XP SP3 - Gets Official

If you've been waiting for the long time coming XP SP3. Look no further than your Windows Update Center. It's LIVE. After a little software glitch that had MS pulling the download until they fixed a "Compatibility issue" between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for small and midsize businesses, is now finally available.

You can take a look a the XP SP3 Overview Page for more information.

Microsoft's official descripto!

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.

                

You might need to update your WMV codec.

Grrrr! Why won't my WMV convert!!

Ok! So I got a little frustrated this weekend, I was trying to convert a WMV file to an AVI to play on a DIVX player. I soon realized that a new WMV Codec 9 is out there and I needed to update the codec on my machine. So all you XP users that might want to do a WMV decode or encode!

Windows Media Video 9 VCM
This Video Compression Manager (VCM) based version of the Windows Media Video 9 encoder/decoder will enable legacy encoding and editing applications to support the Windows Media Video 9 codec in file containers such as AVI

Go here to get the Download.

• In Select Download dropdown choose Codecs Installation Packages
• In Select Version dropdown choose For Windows Media Video 9 VCM

                

Apple's new Ad! Like it or Hate it!

Like it or Hate it? Well it's airing now.

Check it out

I'm not a big fan of this ad. Maybe it's a bit too much disco colored funk, with all the muted saturated colors. Nah, I don't like the song, it's all bad!

[update] I keep watching trying to like this ad! I know it's my opinion. Everyone has personal tastes, it's just The Ting Tings -"Shut up and let me go!" is a bad rip off. It sounds like a Strokes - Franz Ferdinand wanna be rip off! I like the style of music, but not this song. The dancing also isn't dancing, it's a bunch of people jumping around like monkeys. I've always loved the iTunes ads before. What happened! I'm not being anti-mac, cause I laughed my butt off with the new PC-YOGA-MAC ad.

                

XP SP3 Download not available.

If you've been waiting for the long time coming XP SP3. You will be waiting again a little while longer. Looks like a little software glitch has MS pulling the download until they can put in a filter to the Update Center. The software maker said there is a "compatibility issue" between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for small and midsize businesses. You can take a look a the XP SP3 Overview Page for more information.

Microsoft's official descripto!

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.

                

iTunes, Apple TV - Buy now feature.

With Apple gaining seller rights to new release at the same time as DVD release dates; it's no wonder that it quietly added the "buy now" feature in Apple TV devices. Why would someone want to buy a movie for a proprietary set-top-box? I get the detachment to physical media. For one, it's a pain to store! Shelves lined with cases, mostly just collecting dust. Apple TV rental window made it easy to rent and watch movies with you Apple TV device, now you can buy and store them on the device. Let's hope they keep a purchase record in iTunes or allow a Time Capsule backup to safe gaurd your purchased media!

With Apple using a time-based DRM (digital right management) for rental video, how will they handle the digital content they sell you? Probably with a digital iTunes certificate that will allow you to transfer to your iPod or iPhone. Don't expect to be able to rip any DVD's. I'm sure you'll find a way to do the MP4 to DVD conversion and strip the DRM.