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POPSAnother Nail in Cable's Coffin I'm not watching cable TV just because I'm not free to choose (I mean completely free) and of course of commercials. In goal oriented information is not easy to insert manipulative technique. Apple QuickTime player is the best in quality and stability, the same for their hardware. So welcome, Apple, in our virtual life.
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POPSRemove A Plethora Of FAKE Antivirus Software With This Free App list of applications that it detects and removes: 1. Cyber Security 2. Alpha Antivirus 3. Braviax 4. Windows Police Pro 5. Antivirus Pro 2010 6. PC Antispyware 2010 7. FraudTool.MalwareProtector.d 8. Winshield2009.com 9. Green AV 10. Windows Protection Suite 11. Total Security 2009 12. Windows System Suite 13. Antivirus BEST 14. System Security 15. Personal Antivirus 16. System Security 2009 17. Malware Doctor 18. Antivirus System Pro 19. WinPC Defender 20. Anti-Virus-1 21. Spyware Guard 2008 22. System Guard 2009 23. Antivirus 2009 24. Antivirus 2010 25. Antivirus Pro 2009 26. Antivirus 360 and 27. MS Antispyware 2009 I hate these programs --software that advertise their ability to protect and fix your machine, yet once they are installed, they take over your machine, disable your antivirus and hold your computer as a virtual hostage
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POPSAugmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data; some applications and demonstrations.
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POPSLifelike Animation Breakthrough AMD last week released a new chip with a billion transistors that will be able to show off creations such as Emily by allowing a much greater number of computations per second. "If you're trying to process the graphics in a photo-realistic animation, in real-time, there's a lot of computation involved," said Mr Koduri. He said that AMD's new chip - the Radeon HD 4870 X2 - was able to process 2.4 teraflops of information per second, meaning it had a capability similar to a computer that - only 12 years ago - would have filled a room. AMD's chip fits inside a standard PC. But he said that the line between what was real and what was rendered would not be blurred completely until 2020.
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POPSAugmented Reality This is amazing. A real Sci-fi wet dreams... :) one day a good HD image will transcend the so called "real" one.
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POPSGizmo Central 2.5 I just discovered this while looking for an easy way to mount VHD files on XP. It has a lot of very unrelated functionality but it's cool :)
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POPSVMware Player:Run iso files before installation
I put the url of a program that can check iso files on a hard disk in comments and another with VMplayer OS images.The clip might make more sense then I've often wondered how to check an Operating System before installing it, or even burning an iso file onto a Disk. One the main problems apart from the space, has been, after installing another operating system, in a dual boot, it can mess up the boot files of systems already loaded, if it is removed. This player allows booting of another system, or the running of an Appliance in another window without having to reboot, or partition the disks.This could have saved me a lot of trouble over the last month - at least I know more about disk partitions and boot files. They suggest 1GB of free space to give an internally booted system room. It is available for Windows, and Linux, and the site also has a range of other Virtual Appliances, both free, and commercial, is Open Source, and has a knowledge base, community, and Self-Help Support.
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POPSDon't Believe The Second Life Hype According to Yankee Group, the growth rate of Second Life users has stalled since October '06, and average time spent per user is just 12 minutes per month. That hardly sounds like a revolutionary, booming, incredibly important cultural force for change.
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POPSVirtual Machines - an OS in an OS I currently use Microsoft's program (I got it through school) and it is great at running MS programs...but I need something for various Linux programs, so I can try those out without having to a dual boot, etc. etc. This is a great way to experiment, and if you mess up, it's really easy to go back to the beginning.