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My new Media Server doesn’t come with everything to play all file types. If I didn’t want to play files in Windows Media Player or Media Center, that wouldn’t be a problem. I highly recommend the Video Lan Client (VLC) as it plays just about every file type you throw at it. There are times [...]

The IE Blog has some information regarding things to watch out for when installing XP SP 3 over different versions of IE.
Internet Explorer 6 Users
XPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the latest security updates for IE6. If you are still running Internet Explorer 6, then XPSP3 will [...]

One nice thing about Windows Vista is that it has built in support for unzipping compressed files such as those with the .zip extension. It is nice until you have to unzip a file that contains lots of directories and small files.
Tonight I was updating the Wordpress software that runs this blog. I downloaded the [...]

Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably
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South Park Studios
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Google outlines proposal for ‘Wi-Fi on steroids’
Google on Monday said it has a plan to have American consumers from Manhattan to rural North Dakota surfing the Web on handheld gadgets at gigabits-per-second speeds by the 2009 holiday season.
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Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn’t mean the media itself still can’t be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired’s How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.

Go to:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Ray

Spammers have launched a new malicious spam campaign that exploits social networking site MySpace. The spam is designed to infect unsuspecting email recipients’ PCs with malware that converts their computer into a botnet zombie.

Go to:
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=143501&f_src=darkreading_section_297

The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to see from a typical banking [...]

If you use Google Calendar and want to follow the NFL postseason, I’ve created a new Calendar. You can add it to your Google Calendar by clicking on this button:

I know we’re already a week in but I thought it might be helpful so I published it. I’ll be updating it with times and teams [...]

There is a lot of confusion about the reply settings in Twitter. I have created a Flash demo with Wink to help try and explain it. You can vies the demo here: Twitter Replies Demo.
 
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