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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Calendar LAUNCHED!

« Last post by Mark0 on April 15, 2006, 07:21 PM »

Very very nice! I was awaiting this from the first times the rumor about it surfaced!
I will have to export my birthday list from Yahoo! 

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Living Room / Re: How to stretch a Hummer

« Last post by Mark0 on March 29, 2006, 09:53 AM »

Link: YouTube - How to break an Hummer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by Mark0 on March 29, 2006, 06:44 AM »

Check also the free Wink.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BitmapRip - Bitmap Ripper

« Last post by Mark0 on March 29, 2006, 05:36 AM »

I updated the tool a little.
Now can work with files of any size, and it's pretty fast too (got about 70MB/s from a cached file).
I also tested it as a recovery tool. Copied some photos / images on a compact flash disk, quick formatted, then made an image with the free DriveImage XML (pretty good tool, BTW), and then it recovered back all the images.

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 28, 2006, 07:47 AM »

Their tracker for WOW updates is usually swamped after an update is release, and their client SUCKS so much that I used to manually extract the .torrent file from it, and used with uTorrent.

-f0dder

And ffter that, even the Tracker is no more needed, thanks to DHT! What more one could ask?
My first "real use" for Torrent was to let some people download the video that a friend of mine have made out of a tour in Japan. To today, it was downloaded over 200 times, and it's about 0.5GB. All without dedicating more than 50KB/s. of upload bandwidth on my server (and usually way less was used / needed).

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General Software Discussion / Re: BitmapRip - Bitmap Ripper

« Last post by Mark0 on March 27, 2006, 05:58 PM »

Very nice! Thanks!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: play music together over the internet

« Last post by Mark0 on March 27, 2006, 07:38 AM »

I think a very low latency connection will be mandatory, to use something like this...
But very nice, indeed!

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 04:10 PM »

Now it should be up & running, hopefully!
If you can retry, let me know if it worked!

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 03:40 PM »

My server is having problem! I'm not even able to Remote Desktop to it now. I will start to beg with my hoster... uff... !

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 03:37 PM »

OK they can share the sourcing of their download between various computers but I still can't see it being as efficient as a straight download at full speed from a fast server.

-Carol Haynes (March 26, 2006, 03:13 PM)

Instead, that's exactly why it works so well.
For example. That video I mentioned above, put the server that hosted it originally down very quickly, after it was linked from Digg (and some other site).
Instead, my mirror, hosted in a not so powerfull (compared to some other hosts), keeped up without a problem with the increasing demand.
Whit Torrent, even a small, single user, with limited resource, can host a very popular and larged sized files, with not much worries. The Tracker has very limited resource hit on the server, and the compound bandwidth offered by a swarm of PC with even low upload bandwidth soon build a very powerfull serving platform. The more popular the file will be, the more faster everyone will download.

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 03:33 PM »

Sorry the link just leads to a blank page ???

-Carol Haynes

Sorry, I was probably doing some maintenance on the server just in the moments you tried. Now it should work: http://www.exe64.com:6969/

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 01:03 PM »

Carol, just to double check, you may try to download a video from my Tracker, here: http://www.exe64.com:6969/

Try the second file, Windows XP on Apple iMac - The video.
It's small (7MB), but you should get more than 100KB/sec. on that one.
And now there are only about 14 seeders. The day I put up that file as a mirror, it was downloaded about 1000 times, with over 80 seeders. Download speeds was typical waaaay above 300KB/sec.

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 12:58 PM »

Another thing to note is that some provider do traffic shaping on some ports, typically used by BitTorrent and some other P2P file sharing software (like eMule). Here in Italy at least, but I have read of some other around the world too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any recommendations for mp3 streaming/playing module for a website?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 26, 2006, 12:52 PM »

This also is pretty nice:

XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) - Plays MP3 on your website

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General Software Discussion / Re: BitmapRip - Bitmap Ripper

« Last post by Mark0 on March 24, 2006, 07:21 AM »

Nice tools, thanks for mentioning it.
Anyway, the PDF extraction is just a sample; I built the utility to get the images out of any kind of file.

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General Software Discussion / BitmapRip - Bitmap Ripper

« Last post by Mark0 on March 24, 2006, 06:47 AM »

I quickly coded this simple tool the other day, out of a immediate need.
I tried a couple of tools but no one really worked the way I wanted.


It can extract embedded bitmaps (JPEG, PNG, GIF) from any given file. It search for bitmap's headers / signatures, and create a new file for every data block that "seems to be" a valid image. No particular things are done to "clean up" the extracted images (i.e., remove eventual garbage at the end of the file); if you want to get rid of that, simply open the files with a graphic tools / viewer of your choice and re-save them.

Can also be used as a recovery tool of some sort in certain situations, for example if you have an image file of a compact flash with accidentally deleted photos.

Link: BitmapRip 1.02

Hope it can be useful to someone.

Edit:
Updated the screenshot, and changed the sample file from a PDF to a PowerPoint one to show a little more variety in the extracted bitmaps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Netcaptor web browser - development is dead?

« Last post by Mark0 on March 16, 2006, 06:41 AM »

Sad!
My first try at tabs too!

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Living Room / Re: feedyes.com and feed43.com - services that make rss feeds from any webpage

« Last post by Mark0 on March 09, 2006, 02:19 PM »

Very nice tool! 
Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Social bookmarking sites

« Last post by Mark0 on March 01, 2006, 08:08 AM »

I used to like and use LookSmart's Furl. I liked the "social" part, but in fact was most in search of something for just recording my bookmarks in an online place.

Lost interest when upgraded to Firefox 1.5, because their button doesn't worked with it, and recently started using the Google service instead (not social, at least for the moment, but that will probably change in the near future).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are There No Decent Mailing List Programs? - short article

« Last post by Mark0 on February 20, 2006, 07:57 AM »

There's always the option of setting up a Google Group.

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Living Room / Re: Laser Turntable plays Records like a cd player!

« Last post by Mark0 on February 20, 2006, 07:55 AM »

I remember someone did something like scanning a vinyl, and then reconstructing a PCM stream analyzing the bitmap... even more cooler, albeit non just as effective!

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General Software Discussion / Re: utorrent and azureus high cpu activity

« Last post by Mark0 on February 17, 2006, 05:43 AM »

Speaking of BitTorrent... anyone can recommend a Win32 one that could be run as a service?

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General Software Discussion / Re: utorrent and azureus high cpu activity

« Last post by Mark0 on February 16, 2006, 07:39 PM »

uTorrent should be pretty light on resource.
In my PC it has about 3MB allocated after hours of running, and CPU time is around <=1%.

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Found Deals and Discounts / REALbasic free license for Delphi users

« Last post by Mark0 on February 14, 2006, 06:53 AM »

Link: REAL Software - Special offer for Borland Delphi® Users

Borland has announced it will sell its IDE business, including Delphi. REAL Software is offering Delphi users a new home — REALbasic. From now through February 28, 2006, get a fully functional license to REALbasic 2006 Standard Edition for Windows (and six months of updates!), completely free of charge.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail Adds New Chats Feature

« Last post by Mark0 on February 09, 2006, 11:26 AM »

I'm seeing it by some hours. Seems really great!

And you can also easyly forward the entire chat session to some other contacts (think about brainstorming with a friend, and then letting know of the news some other friends).

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