eMule Plus 1.2c

Author: eMule++
Date: 2007-09-01
Size: 2.52 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

With over 50 million users worldwide, eMule has become the new king of file sharing, so if you are tired of slow downloads, fake files, viruses and worms then forget Kazaa and step up to eMule. eMule is a file sharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client.

eMule++ is the third generation eMule / eDonkey compatible client created to improve the clients abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user interface. With a dedicated team of coders, beta testers, and translators, it has since evolved into a feature-rich, stable, and thoroughly tested eMule client with dozens of features unavailable in the original client, all the while retaining its slick user interface.

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VirtualDub 1.7.3.28191

Author: virtualdub.org
Date: 2007-09-01
Size: 1.27 Mb
License: Freeware – GPL
Requires: 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Main Features:
- Fractional frame rates. Don’t settle for 29 or 30 when you want 29.97.
- Optimized disk access for more consistent hard disk usage.
- Create AVI2 (OpenDML) files to break the AVI 2GB barrier and multiple files to break the FAT32 4GB limit.
Integrated volume meter and histogram for input level monitoring.
- Real-time downsizing, noise reduction, and field swapping.
- Verbose monitoring, including compression levels, CPU usage, and free disk space.
- Access hidden video formats your capture card may support but not have a setting for, such as 352×480.
Keyboard and mouse shortcuts for faster operation. To capture, just hit F6.
- Clean interface layout: caption, menu bar, info panel, status bar.
- Reads and writes AVI2 (OpenDML) and multi-segment AVI clips.
- Integrated MPEG-1 and Motion-JPEG decoders.
- Remove and replace audio tracks without touching the video.
- Extensive video filter set, including blur, sharpen, emboss, smooth, 3×3 convolution, flip, resize rotate, brightness/contrast, levels, deinterlace, and threshold.
- Bilinear and bicubic resampling — no blocky resizes or rotates here.
- Decompress and recompress both audio and video.
- Remove segments of a video clip and save the rest, without recompressing.
- Adjust frame rate, decimate frames, and 3:2 pulldown removal.
- Preview the results, with live audio.

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Malware Removal Tool September 2007

Author: Joe Pestro
Date: 2007-09-01
Size: 289 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

Malware removal information and instructions

For best results, run the Malware Removal Tool in safe mode. Double click the setup.exe icon to install, and click “Start Scan” to detect and remove the following malware:

WinTools (and variants)
SpecialGoods.info / NewGenLook.info
Nail.exe (Aurora)

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PowerFile Picks Blu-ray for Storage Device

Active Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition drops DVD technology for Blu-ray support.

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Brian Fonseca, Computerworld

PowerFile Inc. has announced that it has added Blu-ray disk technology to the latest version of its Active Archive Appliance, part of an effort by the vendor to move beyond the limits of DVD in scaling the optical-based storage offering.

The Active Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition, or A3, utilizes Blu-Ray media from Panasonic Industrial Co., which boosts the optical storage density in the appliance to 120TB per appliance. The new version is now shipping.

Jonathan Buckley, vice-president of marketing for Santa Clara, Calf.-based PowerFile, said the company expects to further boost the capacity of the appliance to 160TB in six months. Previous versions of Active Archive, which used DVD technology, supported only 12TB of data per rack, he noted.

The company said the updated appliance is positioned as an alternative to disk-based archiving systems for storing fixed content.

Jason Lewis, IT manager for Petaluma, Calif.-based Erickson Productions, Inc., has been running A3 in production for about a month, after a successful beta trial. He said he has the online storage system configured with two storage libraries holding 200 media disks apiece, providing his Macintosh environment with about 40TB of capacity to store space-hungry stock photography images and files.

Lewis said he was a bit ‘leery’ of using systems based on the standard DVD format to archive images and data that is infrequently accessed due to concerns about density.

“There’s just no use to having all the spinning disks for images that are not regularly accessed, not to mention the electricity costs to keep that much disk spinning for no need,” said Lewis. “It made sense to stick it on a permanent [archive] solution.”

He said that it is also important that the Blu-ray technology is non-proprietary.

Prior to installing the A3 system, Erickson Productions had all its data backed up on RAID spinning disk, often stored on attached drives that were spread through the company’s facilities.

Buckley said that A3 does not serve up Blu-ray or tiny disks such as old ‘jukeboxes’ used to pop into a network, but rather serves up volumes much the same as a network attached storage (NAS) filer system does.

“Optical and enterprise storage in the past has failed miserably for many reasons. Many of those reasons we’ve addressed here,” said Buckley. “We’ve changed the way this plugs into a customer environment. They don’t have to think about optical, the day it’s plugged in, it looks and acts and feels like a NAS filer to a user or an application.”

Google Updates Desktop for Mac

Update to the public data adds support for nine more languages plus e-mail and reporting enhancements.

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Peter Cohen, Macworld

Google Desktop for the Macintosh has added support for nine additional languages in its most recent update. The announcement comes in a posting on Google’s Official Mac Blog.

Google Desktop for Mac, which remains available as a public beta test, enables Mac users to search for content on their computers the same way they use Google to search for content on the Internet. It also searches GMail accounts and Web browser history. It can create cached copies — or snapshots — of files and other items each time you view them, to provide file version control.

Languages now supported by Google Desktop for the Mac include Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dutch, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

According to the release notes, the new release of Google Desktop for the Mac also adds a crash reporter, supports the ability to ignore spam in Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage, supports contact groups in Address Book and Entourage, and splits its kernel extension into two parts to avoid future reboots on Tiger. The software also has seen a variety of bug fixes.