Posts Tagged ‘media’

VideoLan Client Turns 1.0

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There are few tools which are as cool as VideoLan Client, more commonly known as VLC. Its the single best unified CODEC media player for any platform there is, hands down. Instead of having to track down and install hundreds of different CODECs you can just grab VLC, install it, and go. There’s little it [...]

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Will Microsoft Make IE7/8 Uninstallable For Win7?

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Word on the street is that Microsoft may be working on a way to separate Internet Explorer from Windows, thereby answering ongoing, fevered calls for sanctions against the global OS giant for anti-trust issues. For years, Internet Explorer has been the center of a huge anti-trust battle of Microsoft vs. the world. Opponents of Microsoft [...]

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MSI Outs Wind NetOn AP1900 AIO

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MSI has announced their new Wind NetOn All-in-one (AIO) desktop system. MSI is billing it as the thinnest AIO there is, and at 35mm, I’m inclined to believe them. Other than that, its your standard Atom-based system with an N270 CPU, up to 2GBs of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, GM950 shared video with up [...]

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Can Microsoft’s IE8 Beat Firefox?

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I’m poking around the web, as I’m wont to do, and I came across this review of RC1 of Internet Explorer 8. It was the title in this Ziff-Davis newsletter which caught my eye “Can IE8 Top Firefox?”. You know, it looks like a decent browser. The major advances the reviewer claims in his article [...]

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