Multimedia October 31, 2006

Creating a catalog containing all your CDs and DVDs has never been so simple. This program will read any folder from your computer, and catalog it depending on the options you choose. It supports indexing archives, audio CDs, MP3 music, DVD movies, digital videos, photos or pictures. Disk Inspector features EXIF data support and can create thumbnails of your pictures. (more…)

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IT’S a great time to be selling ads in America. If the $US3 billion ($3.9 billion) predicted to be spent on this year’s US Congressional election campaigns were not enough, there is also the imminent launch of Microsoft’s first new version of Windows since 2001, which will crank up advertising budgets across the technology sector.

And then there is the emerging contest for the digital living room, which already has Apple saturating the airwaves with ads for its revamped iPod music players and iTunes digital music and movies. (more…)

Security news

Although I’m familiar with the watermarks that are put in DVD’s, I never realized that theater releases are marked as well (see picture for the “dot pattern”).

However, sometimes release groups find a way to remove these watermarks. An example can be found in the NFO of the Mission Impossible III release by SaGa. In the NFO SaGa thanks ORC, for helping them out with “de-dotting” the release. (more…)

Security news

A foreign hacker who penetrated security at a Harrisburg, Pa., water filtering plant is under investigation by the FBI for planting malicious software capable of affecting the plant’s water treatment operations, ABC News has learned.

“The concern was high because it is a computer that controls an important infrastructure system, and if, for some reason, it caused it to fail, it would have disrupted service,” said Special Agent Jerri Williams of the FBI’s Philadelphia field office. (more…)

Internet news

If Google’s success has taught the marketing world anything, it’s that advertisers are just as happy creating and placing their own ads as they are paying an agency to do it, espeically if it means better targeting and greater results. Taking that lesson to heart, Interpublic Group and WPP Group have become strategic investors in Spot Runner, a startup that’s bringing automation to the high-touch, expensive world of TV advertising.

In doing so, the ad companies hope not simply to get a return on their investment, but to better serve clients with a local presence and learn the ins and outs of a platform that some say could bring Google-like efficiency and accuracy to the $74 billion TV ad market. (more…)

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Orlando (FL) - Seagate today announced a first hard drive that integrates a hardware- and software-based content protection technology: Called “Drive Trust,” the security platform can prevent unauthorized access to data stored on the drive. It promises users a greater peace of mind when storing critical data, but the technology is very likely to end up as a new digital rights management (DRM) solution as well. (more…)

Internet news October 30, 2006

Titan Backup is an easy-to-use and complete solution for home and small offices, designed for secure backups of your important data. It can make automatic backups of your important files and documents, emails and rules, registry, settings, virtually on any type of storage media including CD/DVD-RW, removable devices, network drives and remote FTP servers.Using 256-bit AES strong encryption will ensure full security of your confidential data.

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What we heard: For years, rumors have bounced around that Blizzard is secretly developing a third installment in its groundbreaking Diablo role-playing series. Just this past February, a flurry of speculation followed the posting of several job listings for leads to join “the team behind Diablo I and II” for “an unannounced PC project.” (more…)

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I am using an acer laptop, with 1.5ghz, 40 GB and 256 RAM specification. I have dual boot of Win XP and Linux WS.

When I start Windows, a dialogue box appears, which tells me that my Windows is not genuine. Please suggest a solution. (more…)

Security news, Virus news October 29, 2006

Hi-tech crime is quickly becoming an important issue for the world’s law enforcement. This means more and better training is needed for police forces across the globe. A new European initiative is seeking to bridge the existing knowledge gap, identified several years ago, by setting up a new IT training course for police officers. The first courses in this program will be held in Ireland in October and November this year, using the expertise of the Computer Crime Investigation Unit of the Irish Police or Garda. The idea for the course stems from the successful Falcone program that operated between 1998 and 2002, which aimed to increase cooperation and educational exchange between EU law enforcement bodies. (more…)