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My Windows Vista's Aero and Flip 3D

Sunday, 1. February 2009, 01:59:16

software, random stuff

I'm so happy since I finally can enjoy the Vista's beauty!

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CS4 Was Cracked

Thursday, 15. January 2009, 05:32:25

software, graphic design, news, security

Releasing Adobe Creative Suite 4 meant that Adobe gave the crackers a new challenge. Adobe had worked hard to make their new applications safe from the crackers but their sophisticated security was successfully cracked. It didn’t need a long time after the releasing of Adobe Photoshop CS4 until the crackers had made it to discover the way to trick Adobe CS4’s security and spread it all over the workld via torrents.

Most of Adobe CS4 downloads that was given by the crackers were a trial version. While the crack and key generator was provided separately. Some crack was made to patch executable files (.exe) for the programs in CS4 (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.).

The first crack that was released for Windows and Macintosh version used key generator. The key generator worked right after the software was installed. Software tried to contact Adobe, but the key generator tried to inactivate the feature that enabled the connection between software and Adobe by modifying the operating system HOSTS file in Windows and Mac version. So as the key generator was active, Adobe CS4 can be used freely.

All sophisticated securities seem to be useless... Banzai for the crackers!

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Best Freeware 2008: Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and… Maxthon?

Wednesday, 7. January 2009, 04:36:12

opera, internet, software, opinion

PCMedia, as always, announced the best freeware and hardware by the end of the year Opera and Mozilla Firefox seem to make a great competition. They are two of the bests!

It’s said that Mozilla Firefox has an effective pop-up blocker. Besides, this browser only needs 55 MB of our RAM to open 25 windows at once. Hmm… But in fact, my PC gets hang and the “Network Timeout” page appears if I open more than 15 windows. Well, maybe the problem is my PC or the internet connection, not the software.

The comment for Opera is not so good. Although the popularity is comparable to Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, from the data in some sites, Mozilla Firefox has more users that Opera. I can see it… actually I myself use Opera to access my blog only. I prefer Mozilla Firefox for any download activity because if the download process is suddenly paused or stopped, it can be resumed without re-downloading the downloaded part of the file. While in Opera, it should be started from zero. But for the speed, Opera wins!

From the benchmark by PCMedia, Opera 9.6 shows a much better performance than the previous version, though. Don’t give up, Opera! Keep going forward! GANBATTE!

One thing that makes me so surprised is Maxthon 2.1.4.433, which also takes a place in Best Freeware 2008 as one of the best web browsers. The engine is based of IE’s. Wow, Internet Explorer works so slowly, eh? And I even never hear the name Maxthon before! Oops… According to PCMedia, this browser has a customable interface and tabbed browsing. It has other features like mouse gesture, privacy protection, AD Hunter, RSS hunter, etc. It doesn’t sounds so special. I’m not sure this browser can work well. But I think I should try it myself before judging.

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Free FLV to AVI MP4 3GP WMV MP3 Converter

Saturday, 3. January 2009, 05:04:36

software, music, video

I should admit that I never download any video before. How embarrassing! The first video I downloaded was the one on the screenshot at the right side, Lies by Big Bang, at December 27 (it’s when I was going to write Big Bang vs Seventeen). Huh! I felt like an untechy internet user. But I had some reasons for it:

My internet connection is too crappy to download such a large file.
I couldn’t be that patient waiting for a long download.
My friends often got confused of where to find FLV Player and I was too lazy to browse for any FLV Player download.

But Free FLV to AVI MP4 3GP WMV MP3 Converter has solved one of my problems. Now I just need to convert the FLV file into WMV, so I can play it in Windows Media Player. Not only into WMV, but this application can also convert FLV files into some other popular formats. It also supports batch conversion.

Download: http://www.appfree.net/flv-to-all/
Size: 4290 KB
OS: Windows XP

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Adobe Photoshop CS4

Wednesday, 17. December 2008, 09:41:41

software, graphic design

Adobe has released its new graphic design application package, Adobe Creative Suite 4, with Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended inside. They are the newest image editing applications from Adobe that has been completed by GPU feature.

Photoshop CS4 and CS4 Extended with their GPU feature makes these applications able to work together with video card and faster. They commit some jobs like panning, zooming, and canvas rotating to GPU.

Photoshop CS4 Extended enables us to paint on 3D objects and also give textures in 2D image. We can also give animation effects on 3D objects by using the newest ray-tracer to create a more realistic rendering.

About the price, Adobe sets US$699 for Photoshop CS4 and US$999 for Photoshop CS4 Extended. Much more expensive than ASUS EEE PC, huh! But it’s a reasonable price for such a cool application, though…

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