• Vista Codecs v4.50 Final / x64 Components 1.3.0 Final
  Get your codecs, get your red hot codecs…
  (tags: Codec Video Audio )
• Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer 11 brings better Vista support
  A handy tool for all you Sys Admins out there!
  (tags: Software Utility )
• A Blu-ray / HD DVD update
  Ed Bott talks about how he setup a machine to playback HD video on a Vista PC, and notes that Vista's DRM doesn't come into play.
  (tags: DRM Blu-ray HD-DVD Video Media Center PowerDVD )

Sometimes what customers want is not always what customers get. Take “Scout” for example, a little piece of Microsoft Research ingenuity that really helps users with the new Office 2007 “Fluent” interface. As religious as I am about the Ribbon and contextual interface, I suffer just as much knowing a feature exists somewhere in the application that I just can’t find in the Ribbon. I mean how do I know what context it’s in? And I’m almost certain I’m not the only one suffering.

Developed and distributed internally at Microsoft as a proof-of-concept, “Scout” solves the problem by offering a simple and straight-forwarding search solution. You basically type the command you are thinking of, and you’ll be presented a list of matching command buttons. And unlike commands in the Ribbon which are only a select few picked by someone else who thought might be relevant, this search goes deep into the application to find anything and everything.

Even though it was highly favored by Microsoft employees, Scout was never released to the public. Chris Capossela, corporate VP for Microsoft’s business division argued Scout was “superfluous and potentially confusing”. No. The only thing superfluous are the features I can’t find.

News Source: www.istartedsomething.com

FireFox when compared to IE has many features which can be turned on and off. Users can play with the tweaks for enhanced user experiences. Here is a short tutorial on how to speed up your internet connection with FireFox. Follow these steps:

1. In FireFox address bar (where you type the website address) type about:config and hit enter.
2. In filter box just below the address type in network.
3. Then scroll down half way untill you see network.http.pipeling. Click on the right column to change the value to True.
4. Now below this row change the value of network.http.pipeling.maxrequests to 10.
5. Then click ok and restart FireFox.

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E-mail is a vital element in society, enhancing communications, productivity and e-commerce. Unfortunately,spammers and online criminals exploit e-mail, creating security, and personal identity threats. Left unchecked,these dangers threaten customer trust and online confidence, as well as the deliverability of legitimate e-mail.

To address this critical security issue, an industry consortium has jointly developed the Sender ID Framework(SIDF), now approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force to help increase the detection of deceptive e-mail,while improving the deliverability of legitimate e-mail. SIDF is an e-mail authentication protocol designed to beimplemented at no cost for all senders, independent of their e-mail architecture. Today, SIDF is the leadingsolution now embraced by over 12 million domain holders, sending nearly 50% of all legitimate e-mail worldwide.

When e-mail-receiving networks include the SIDF results with their existing anti-spam solutions, SIDF canimprove e-mail deliverability while reducing false positives. Although this will not stop spam, SIDF along with theapplication of reputation data, anti-spam and phishing heuristics, will help improve online trust and confidence.

How Does Sender ID Work?
E-mail senders and domain owners need to publish or declare all of the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of theiroutbound e-mail servers, or IPs authorized to send e-mail on their behalf in the Domain Name System (DNS).These IPs are included in a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) text file.

1. Sender or user sends e-mail from their e-mail client of web interface. No interaction or changes to theirclient or MTA are required.
2. Recipient’s inbound e-mailserver receives the e-mailand using SIDF, calls thePurported ResponsibleDomain’s (PRA) DNS forthe SPF record.
3. The Receiving MailTransfer Agent (MTA)determines if the outbounde-mail server’s IP addressmatches the IP addressesthat are authorized to send e-mail for the domain.
4. For most Domain and / or IP sender reputation data is applied to the SIDF verdict check/
5. Based on the SPF record syntax, pass or fail verdict, reputation data and content filtering score, thereceiving MTA delivers the email to either the inbox, junk/bulk or quarantine folder. For e-mail whichfails, receiving networks may block, delete or junk the e-mail.

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Pretty cool discovery that popped up yesterday, a way to run PS2 homebew on the PS3 by using the EUR PS2 Demo disc that came with the EUR PS2 at launch. This has been confirmed to be working on firmware 1.8-1.92 PAL. Watch the video below for full explanation about this.

PS3 running homebrew explained

Homebrew on the PS3 video

News Source: www.ps3hax.net

At CEDIA EXPO 2007 in Denver this week, a few of our partners unveiled new Windows Media Extenders that will let customers easily extend the Windows Media Center experience to other rooms in their homes. Companies involved included Linksys, D-Link and Read More……(read more)