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- Changes to the Audio Stack and Changes in Windows Media Player Audio Playback Behavior in Windows Vista
- To improve reliability and to simplify audio application development in Windows Vista, the Windows audio stack has been redesigned. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 uses a new multimedia API in Windows Vista that is called Media Foundation. Media Foundation provides Windows Media Audio WMA, Windows Media Video WMV, and MP3...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Audio, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows Vista, Media Player, Audio Playback, Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, Media Foundation, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Digital Music, Digital Media, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2006-11-13
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- 360 degree virtual reality training RIA
- SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...
- Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Sherwood America introduces $300 Blu-ray player
- The Sherwood name has been attached to electronics for more than 50 years, but it may get some new visibility with its announcement that it's releasing the $299.95 BDP-5003 Blu-ray player next month. By hitting that price point, it will match low-priced competitors like the Samsung...
- Tags: Player, Blu-ray, Sherwood America, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- The University of iTunes
- The ability, or rather art, of being able to be in bed, pyjamas on (or off, if that's your style), mug of tea in your hand, cuddled up all warm and snug, whilst being able to listen to their adoring lecturers waffle on in class about particle physics or some...
- Tags: University, Apple iTunes, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Thoughts on Apple's new products
- Thoughts on Apple's new productsExcept the rest of the market didn't hold an event......announcing new products.The reasons to not buy anything always outweighthe reasons to buy.When you switch to a MacBook Air, you can't believe how you just don't care about what connectivity you don't have. With wi-fi everywhere...
- Tags: FireWire, Notebooks, GO PC, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPort
- More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPortDisplayPort is fine...but include the VGA port too so we don't have to carry around an extra cord....duh. It doesn't take up much space and EVERY windows laptop has a VGA port.30"!It's nice that it finally works with 30" even on MacBook (non-Pro).I just...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, Network technology, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, Mini, Apple Inc., adapter
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPort (updated)
- One of the announcements coming out of Cupertino is that their MacBooks now ship with a new video out port called the Mini DisplayPort complete with funny capitalization and lack of space between the words. It means that you'll have to remember to bring a US$30 dongle/adapter with...
- Tags: HDMI, Apple Inc., Mini DisplayPort, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Confirmed: MacBook drops Firewire
- It's confirmed. Apple has dropped the Firewire port from the new MacBook. The port lineup for the new MacBook L to R: MagSafe power port Gigabit Ethernet port Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) Mini Display Port Audio...
- Tags: FireWire, Apple MacBook, Mbps, Ethernet, Notebooks, Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Microsoft OCS R2 adds single-number reach, hosted audio conferencing
- Microsoft OCS R2 adds single-number reach, hosted audio conferencingHave people been willing to VoIP with Microsoft?I know the chatting, IM, conferencing, and traditional digital portions some organizations are willing to go to, but has there been many deployments of replacing the PBX with this?I've been doing VoIP on Cisco for...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, Microsoft OCS R2, audioconferencing, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright warsThis article is right on track...Now if we can just get the lobbyists to leave Washington and get the Congress to repeal all the copyright acts passed since 1975.Never Going To HappenThe recent meltdown of Wall Street and the financial markets world wide pretty...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Microsoft OCS R2 adds single-number reach, hosted audio conferencing
- Microsoft did, as expected, go public at long last with details about its Office Communications Server OCS Release 2 (R2) product on October 14 at the VoiceCon show. Here's what's coming in the upgrade to Microsoft's unified IM/VOIP/conferencing platform. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Audioconferencing, Communications Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft OCS R2, Office Communications Server Release 2, Release 2, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement
- (Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging into some of the details, and reading some of the commentary on various blogs, there are a...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse, Numbers Game, Linux, Java Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- MacBook revision could drop FireWire port
- MacBook revision could drop FireWire portThat would suckOne of the best reasons for firewire is Target Disk Mode. It's saved my butt a few times.Jason, You're an Air User. Do You Miss Firewire?I think it stinks but to be honest, I've only used FW for migration. I'm really not looking...
- Tags: Notebooks, Firewire800, FireWire, USB, MacBook revision, Firewire port, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model
- Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business modelBut were is that highway system going?Sure, WiMax is building a highway system, so it was with the cellular network and, so it is now with 3G too. The problem is where are those highways going. They...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Satellite Service, WiMAX, broadband, wireless business, mobile broadband, wireless, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- BurnInTest Professional (exe)
- Fast, easy-to-use utility that simultaneously exercises all the major components of a PC, to test for endurance and reliability. Tests include CPU, RAM, disk, video, CD/DVD, printer, sound, serial ports, parallel ports, USB, tape, Network, video playback or customer developed plugins. Also, user configurable errors and logging detail, temperature monitoring...
- Tags: Video, PassMark Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-13
- SoundBoard (zip)
- SoundBoard lets you select many groups of sounds for easy playback. Need to quickly play some funny boink noises for your podcast or radio show, or a wrong buzzer for your party quiz? Load them up in SoundBoard and click play. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Xnapid Data, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-12
- The Ultimate Video Screensaver hd1080p (zip)
- The Ultimate Video Screen Saver, (High Definition 1080p capable) displays a wide variety of popular computer video formats, including WMV/HD and several audio formats. Choose from six different video screens, plus full-screen. Create a play list to queue up video and audio files displayed in order of selection or at...
- Tags: Audio, Screensaver, Video, Video Format, RAM-Shock Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-12
- Klipsch Image X5 - headphones
- When it comes to portable devices, audio quality depends just as much on the headphones as it does on the audio specs of the player. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that many people spend more on their headphones than they do on their MP3 players. In...
- Tags: ear piece, cord, Klipsch Image X5, headphone
- Product reviews 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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