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General Software Discussion / Re: Returnil Virtual System

« Last post by Curt on June 09, 2007, 08:55 AM »

Yes, Carol, this sounds very much the same. Only difference I could find is that the freezer is targeting multi-user environments only, and the return thingy seems to be targeting single-users. I expect the subscription will prove to be a problem if Returnil really think they can charge the users every year regardsless of updates.  But they are both way too expensive to update, I think; this is not some daily updating anti-virus program, is it.


But still; I think the idea sounds great - though I don't understand the consequences if you only have very little free RAM:

Returnil Virtual System is a powerful technology that clones a copy of your Windows system into RAM.

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General Software Discussion / Returnil Virtual System

« Last post by Curt on June 09, 2007, 07:08 AM »

http://www.returnilv...nilvirtualsystem.htm
http://www.majorgeek...om/download5451.html

I don't have the required technical insight to test this (I don't even understand HOW it can be done if there is no free RAM), but I really think "someone" should give it a thorough "member mini review", as the idea itself sounds interesting:

Simple, Smart and Strong Approach to PC Safety

Note From the Authors:
“All testers are eligible (by e-mail request) for free 30-day licensing during the Public Beta. Moreover, those testers who provide the best feedback will receive a free, one-year license with our gratitude for helping make this Public Beta a success.

It is time to reject outdated thinking and get proactive with your system integrity protection! By participating in the Public Beta, you will be verifying and supporting a completely new approach to computer security. Moreover, you will be helping yourself by discovering that security does not have to be complicated to be effective and relevant!

We have completed work on two new features we will be adding this coming week for testing. The first is an option that will allow the authorized user to change their language preferences from within the RVS GUI. The second feature will add an optional button to Internet Explorer that allows the user to turn on System Protection from within their browser. Fire Fox and Opera support are still under development, but we should have something ready for testing within the next couple of weeks.”



Returnil Virtual System is a powerful technology that clones a copy of your Windows system into RAM. It is quite simply the most advanced Virtual Partition solution available. Returnil Virtual System protects your computer from harmful viruses, spyware and unwanted programs, preserves your computer settings, and ensures your Internet Privacy. Simply restart your computer to erase all changes.

When the Returnil protection is ON, your Windows system is running on a virtual partition meaning that every single change in the system partition actually takes place in the memory. Therefore all data and modifications will be lost after your system is rebooted. When the Returnil Protection is OFF, you can install or remove any programs, create documents or download your favorite music as you normally do. All changes in the system partition are saved to your real hard drive. By restarting you PC, Returnil will make your system partition identical and fully functional according to the original configurations.

Main Features:
· Stops the danger of an online attack
· Protects your system from any attack by Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Adware, Spyware and Hackers
· Ensures and protects your internet privacy
· Saves you time and money by ensuring that your hard drive will not be infected with any harmful malware or that any of your data will be lost
· No need for regular daily virus and spyware database updates
· No need for the necessary disk defragmentation of your system partition
· Can read emails that may contain viruses or spyware ensuring that your important messages will not be missed
· Saves time that is needed to erase Cookies, URL history, Temporary File Cache, Recycle Bin, Clipboard, Windows Log Files, Windows Temporary Files
· Leaves absolutely no traces of your computer activities
· Eliminates all activities even if your computer is powered-off or crashes
· Eliminates the danger of testing new software
· Offers stronger, simpler and smarter protection for your PC
· Speeds up your web surfing and computer processing
· Seamless integrated with Windows Operating System
· Easy to use and setup

Returnil Virtual System is subscription based starting @ $24.95 for a single user license per year. This download is a 15 day trial.

Supports W2K, XP, 2000/2003 Server, Vista 32 bit

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 09, 2007, 03:50 AM »

steeladept; On a certain point of time in the future there will be a generation that will not have any kids, because the planet and the human race ran out of time. I will like to think that this generation also has a meaning with their life, as everybody else, even they don't get any children. I am saying this because no matter how much you love your girls, then it cannot be this "smaller" kind of love that gives the meaning. I cannot think that God is unjust, and this LAST generation's life will also have the same meaning as our's, if any. Follows that it must be a greater kind of love that gives the meaning of life. A greater LOVE.

Sorry for talking about these things on a IT site. How can I put it? Oh, yes:
I think a greater kind of LOVE is a must-have in the system tray! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Endnote XI is released...

« Last post by Curt on June 08, 2007, 06:48 PM »

I am feeling a little uneasy with the price, $240

$240 = $300 incl the taxes around here.
The Swedish Scandinavian distributor's price (for version X) is sek 2,575
minus a 10% "new site discount", but plus taxes, making it:
2575 - 10%(257.50) = 2,317.50 _ plus taxes (x 1.25) = 2,896.875
sek 2896.875 =  US$373

$373 is mighty expensive, I think. What is so great about this program?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 08, 2007, 05:17 PM »

.. isn't this what it all boils down to anyway

-steeladept (June 08, 2007, 03:06 PM)

I would like to think there is meaning to life even if the electricity was gone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 08, 2007, 12:56 PM »

"Man of many interests"; hmm - at least I think I used to be. But as I am getting older I am noticing my list of interests is narrowing. There has been far too much "chit'chat" in my life; but now I can see that my life too will end, so more and more often I am thinking "get to the point of what really matters", or something like that. But of course not all day yet - then I wouldn't be here at DC, would I.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 08, 2007, 10:32 AM »

Nuclear energy acronyms? Whoa.

-f0dder (June 08, 2007, 09:27 AM)

In my youth I was a soldier for many years, and learned that you must know your enemy. By this I am not saying that Nuclear Energy is my enemy, and DonationCoder's forum is of course not the place to debate this further, but because of your "comment" I will say that Tjernobyl and the others were not exactly new reactors, were they. In Japan they already think their newest technology to be so safe that they are building new reactors inside their cities! And if the present environmental situation continues to escalate, then we just might be forced to reconsider our attitude towards Nuclear Energy. Whoa!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 08, 2007, 07:28 AM »

I had to use Babylon in order to understand what you said...:

-Curt (June 07, 2007, 05:43 PM)

and if you wanted more synoyms, you can always use Wordzilla's FreeThesaurus.net..

-lanux128 (June 07, 2007, 11:35 PM)

I have of course tried the FreeThesausrus.net and was mighty impressed. I have however Moby Thesaurus as an integrated part of my Babylon, and this will do just fine.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 05:57 PM »

Congratulations Curt! Keep 'em coming!

-Darwin (June 01, 2007, 08:22 AM)

I probably will, Darwin...
BTW; you have just written (me) your number 1,100:



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 05:43 PM »

Yeah; its my own, but I couldn't figure out how to make money on it, so I published it here instead...




I had to use Babylon in order to understand what you said...:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 05:30 PM »

Herzlich willkommen, Thomas!

3. Webshots (screensaver prog ... [ Invalid Attachment ]

-TomD101 (April 24, 2007, 04:37 AM)

Did you change the Webshots icon - because at my PC Webshots is looking like this:



 

-Curt (April 24, 2007, 04:51 AM)

I have just updated Webshots from version 2.5 to Desktop 3.0 and it has an all new icon:

I would like to add that even though Webshots is marketing 3.0 as a completely new and rewritten program, the only TWO things that have changed, are that it is 'Vistable' and has a new icon. Nothing else has changed. NOTHING AT ALL!!

I never really liked CNET...

---

Back to the main subject; my programs in the systray:



and click for the PS Tray Factory popup:

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General Software Discussion / YouTube for Apple TV uses H.264, not Flash

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 04:42 PM »

YouTube for Apple TV uses H.264, not Flash
June 2nd, 2007 by stanley:

Earlier this week, Apple announced that YouTube.com videos would become available on the Apple TV after a software update that will be made available in June.

iLounge spoke with Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Mac Hardware Marketing, David Moody, who provided more details about this upgrade.

According to Moody, not all of the Youtube catalog will be available on day one. Instead, “thousands of videos designed for Apple TV” will be available at launch, but that the remainder will become available by the fall. The reason for the delay is that Youtube will be encoding all of their videos into a “H.264 streaming-efficient compression format” specifically for the Apple TV. All of Youtube’s videos are currently encoded in Flash Video (FLV) format.

While no official reason is given for the mass transcoding of Youtube’s entire catalog, Macformat.co.uk believes it has to do with the iPhone.

As far as I know even now, Flash content per se might not play on the iPhone from day one. But Apple clearly doesn’t – indeed, shouldn’t – care, as YouTube is for many people the most critical site that uses Flash.

Indeed, both the iPod and iPhone can play H.264 encoded video, and so it seems the entire Youtube catalog may also become available to those devices later this year.

In an early iPhone FAQ, Jobs described this exact scenario:
Markoff: “Flash?”
Jobs: “Well, you might see that.”
Markoff: “What about YouTube–”
Jobs: “Yeah, YouTube—of course. But you don’t need to have Flash to show YouTube. All you need to do is deal with YouTube. And plus, we could get ‘em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec.”

http://mediacoder.so...forge.net/blog/?p=18

4 Responses
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4): gaspah Says
June 5th, 2007 at 2:14 pm :

I know the brilliance of the h264 video codec…. but what’s youtube?

does it run doom?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 10:41 AM »

GSpot is a little program that will try to identify what codecs are inside video files. ...

-Hirudin (June 06, 2007, 03:20 AM)

I now find MediaInfo to be an even better alternative,
and MediaInfo can 'over and above' display the information as a simple and quick tooltip! 


Click to enlarge thumbnails:







http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 07, 2007, 01:57 AM »

Thanks for the idea, lanux128. However, I use K-Lite Mega; FFDshow should not be the problem. But I may use the occasion to update the package; it is some fifty days OLD...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Full Recall, on Bits du Jour on Monday

« Last post by Curt on June 06, 2007, 08:38 AM »

It may sound as it is some "Total Recall - 2" movie, but it is a program that will help you to remember!

Latest version: 1.2.48, released 1 day ago.

What is FullRecall?
It's a software that can help you memorize knowledge effectively and retain knowledge in memory spending minimum time on repetitions. FullRecall uses artificial neural network, which gradually grasps your forgetting curve, to schedule the best time for an item to come up for a review—a day when you'll be close to forgetting the information.

FullRecall also uses "Power of Question" and CPL (Critical Path Learning) method, based on J. Andrew Shaw's ATOL theory, to maximize learning efficiency. CPL "gets most of its effectiveness from using tight feedback loops and enforcing information accuracy"—FullRecall lets you immediately check if your recall is correct, reinforcing always only the correct answer. You can also ask FullRecall for "hint" (next character in the answer) or type answer by keyboard and FullRecall gives you instant feedback whether just pressed letter is right.

The software is similar to common flashcard programs: knowledge is stored in question-answer pairs. In review mode you're presented questions, one by one. To every question you think about an answer, and after a while you're confronted with the correct answer. Then you pick a grade to evaluate how well you remembered it. That grade gives FullRecall a feedback.

FullRecall also stores other data (number of total reviews of item, current interval, etc.), given also current grade is able to schedule next optimal review (and later try to learn itself if there was a mistake: if scheduled interval was too long or too short—i.e. if your grade on the next review is below or above "good").

With FullRecall you can learn new things fast, without worrying about repetitions of what you remember—FullRecall assures that even if you forget something, you'll be soon reminded about it.




The problem of forgetting
We do forget. Nothing stays in our brain forever without reviews. If something is important to you, you'll think about it from time to time (or even dream about it)—these repetitions, conscious or not, will reinforce your memory of this fact. We often come across new information and we want to keep it in memory even though we may not need it for the next weeks or months. In order to not forget we have to do repetitions. However, how much time spent on repetitions is optimal? What is the optimal time of a review?

FullRecall is the solution here. Ensures that you remember new things, but don't forget what you have already memorized (reviews are scheduled on days when you're close to forgetting, so sometimes you may happen to actually forget an information, but FullRecall "learns" from this mistakes, self-corrects on scheduling to minimize such lapses in the future).

Normal registration fee is US$24 and gives you the right to use FullRecall on as many computers as you wish. Come Monday, June 11, it will be even cheaper at Bits du Jour.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 06, 2007, 07:59 AM »

Fine program, this little GSpot. Only; now I am for the first time aware that many of the downloaded music videos only have mono sound!      22kHz, 64 kb/s, mono   

Does the AndyMckee Africa.FLV file display a thumbnail if you rename it to AVI?

-Hirudin (June 05, 2007, 11:14 PM)

Yes; it did!!   

- so why then doesn't the Riva encoded .FLV to .AVI file display a thumbnail???    
I am not too sure I will dare continue to trust this Riva.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 06, 2007, 01:17 AM »

a quick check in GSpot

-lanux128 (June 06, 2007, 01:07 AM)

Do you mind tell some more?    I have no idea what you are referring to! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: download google video

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2007, 04:49 PM »

You can also stay clear of Google and use this little German app:

Google Video Direct Downloader
http://www.bernd-lei...ectdownload-en.shtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2007, 01:59 PM »

I think there may be something wrong with the Riva .AVI format. The encoded .avi files from Riva (Africa.avi) is not showing any thumbnail image, as the other .avi files in Explorer are doing, but shows only the extension's icon:

[ Invalid Attachment ]


Is it only my XP / Riva combination, or is this some general Riva Encoder error? 

-Curt (June 03, 2007, 05:38 PM)

-Curt (June 04, 2007, 08:39 AM)

You may find it interesting that the BaylieBrown video thumbnail on the far left, actually is a flash .FLV file! It was renamed to .avi, but not converted. A flash file should not display a thumbnail image, but renaming it to avi obviously makes this one do so anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook 2007 - a rant

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2007, 12:17 PM »

On the other hand, if one must try to think happy thoughts, this could hopefully soon be the occasion for Microsoft to vastly improve Word.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New: Special Offer Raxco DiskState (or PerfectDisk Bundle) expires 30th Nov. 05

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2007, 05:40 AM »

And again, but with a new code, Q2RCN2007 :

You can save 20% off our newest product PerfectDisk Rx, and all other products (including PerfectDisk) in the Raxco ecommerce store by using promo code Q2RCN2007.

Click Here to go to our Buy Now page to look over our latest product selection - including the product bundles towards the bottom of the page.

Hurry - promotional offer ends June 16, 2007!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 04, 2007, 02:08 PM »

Of course I should have mentioned that it was a flash file I was converting, using Riva
- I just took that for granted, since this thread is all about converting 'flash'es...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 04, 2007, 08:39 AM »

... This is an FLV thread only! Please address non-FLV relateded comments Elsewhere

-Hirudin (June 04, 2007, 03:34 AM)

I hope you will forgive me for not having the same great sense of humor as you.

I think there may be something wrong with the Riva .AVI format. The encoded .avi files from Riva (Africa.avi) is not showing any thumbnail image, as the other .avi files in Explorer are doing, but shows only the extension's icon:

[ Invalid Attachment ]

Is it only my XP / Riva combination, or is this some general Riva Encoder error? 

-Curt (June 03, 2007, 05:38 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Curt on June 03, 2007, 05:38 PM »

I think there may be something wrong with the Riva .AVI format. The encoded .avi files from Riva (Africa.avi) is not showing any thumbnail image, as the other .avi files in Explorer are doing, but shows only the extension's icon:



Is it only my XP / Riva combination, or is this some general Riva Encoder error? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quizo's At It Again: Breadcrumbs Address Bar

« Last post by Curt on June 03, 2007, 10:18 AM »

Mine is not stable, and is furthermore interfering inside Explorer with Skype Toolbar for Internet Explorer!

Regarding QT:
Next to the clock on Explorer Taskbar I found this QT Tab Desktop Tool, that I didn't know I had...   

Did you use it and can tell what it is for, and how to?