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Living Room / The anti-piracy lobby makes a convincing argument
« on: April 17, 2011, 12:53 PM »
I've always marvelled at the effectiveness of the anti-piracy campaign. Here's another gem they can be proud of.

P.S. - Bonus points for anyone who knows which software the guy in the video is using.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPNL82EY1dY


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General Software Discussion / Output to a DAC using Foobar+ASIO
« on: March 22, 2011, 12:07 PM »
I recently upgraded my sound system and got a DAC to go along with the new equipment.

The DAC has been set as the default output device in Windows and it shows up as "USB Audio DAC" in Foobar. Foobar also supports an ASIO plugin. Does one of these methods have an advantage over the other?

Someone on an audiophile forum mentioned that ASIO would give far superior sound quality, I'm wondering if he misunderstood and assumed I was comparing it to DirectSound or some other method which would involve Windows processing the audio. If it's all the same I'd much rather not use ASIO and save myself the hassle of configuring and updating the ASIO component.

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Found Deals and Discounts / O&O Migration Kit for Windows 7
« on: March 04, 2011, 01:48 AM »
http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/03/hassle-free-xp-to-7-upgrade-with-o.html

If someone tries this, please post your results.

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General Software Discussion / hooeey webprint - browser history tool
« on: February 03, 2011, 11:52 PM »
I've finally come across a really interesting app made specifically to maintain a (plain text) searchable database of your browsing history. I think it deserves an indepth review, so if someone can find the time to write one after using it for a while that'd be great.  :-[

hooeey.jpg

Here's a quick rundown of the main points. I am not affiliated in any way with this product.

  • hooeey webprint (still in beta)
  • Adobe Air app (which, for me, equates to a somewhat annoying UI)
  • Works with IE and Firefox
  • Records plaintext (html) and screenshots (just the visible part of the page, screenshot recording can be disabled)
  • Realtime recording worked well for all the pages I opened within the browser, when I opened ~20 pages using a bookmark manager (Linkman Lite) however, the opened pages didn't show up in the catalog immediately... they did show up one by one as I activated those tabs in the browser.
  • Auto-tags pages and also lets you tag saved pages manually - creates two separate tag clouds for auto & custom tags.
  • Provides stats using charts (websites by time spent, websites by visits)
  • Data is stored locally. The privacy policy seems acceptable to my untrained eye.
  • Data can be exported locally (plaintext (.csv) export only, no thumbs, no stats), to their paid ($5/month) cloud service, or to 3rd party cloud services - Zoho, Google Docs, Amazon S3 - (no thumbs, "no browsed pages" <- I'm not clear about what they mean by this.)
  • Password protection available for the local database - the thumbs for browsed webpages show up as a faded background when you're prompted for the password *serious eyerolling*, I assume a glaring flaw like this will be brought to their notice and fixed in a future version.
  • Allows for blocklists to disable recording specific sites, wildcards and keyword filters, currently not implemented, would be welcome here.
  • Performance: Doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on system or browsing performance. Currently using a little under 100 MB memory on my system with a similar no. of pages (with screenshots) stored.

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General Software Discussion / Checking for available domain name = giving it away?
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:15 PM »
I thought of a domain name I liked: digistrom.com, a couple of years back. I checked for availability using a domain name checking site though I wasn't serious about getting it then. The name was available. I had thought up the name myself and a Google search showed negligible hits for 'digistrom'... someone posting in a forum using the nick. I expected the name to be available when I was serious about getting a website. A few months down the line I checked again and... you guessed it: this time it was taken. The home page leads me to believe it's been taken up by squatters. There seems to be no legit presence behind the site even now.

I Googled a little and a comment on this page confirms my suspicions.
# Steve Jones Says:
October 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm

The problem is even worse than stated…..domain name checking sites and searches are now being monitored by squatters. I searched and found two available domain names for my site, and within 15 minutes of finding each one, they magically became “taken”. This is BS and needs to be stopped!!!

Do we even need a web service to tell us if a name is available? Seems to me the best way to go about it is just try opening the name you like in your browser and if you hit a "server not found" the name's probably available.

I just wanted to put this up as a cautionary tale for anyone who might be thinking of getting a domain name in the future. I've learned my lesson the hard way and the name I like is probably worth a few hundred $, if not more. The ridiculous amounts some people are willing to pay squatters seems to make it worth their while to usurp thousands of domains. Even if a handful of domains are actually bought back the squatter comes out a winner.

 

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