This is a tough work to go through all these freeware(s) so people won’t have to googling around for what they looking for. Still remember the days back in Malaysia, a country full of illegal copies everywhere crowded by people picking up any softwares easily with really cheap price. Or there are some websites providing a crack for software that even cost you none at all to give a full version function. But, there are a lot of freeware provided and worked fine for me so far comparing to those trial version softwares or struggling to find a cracked-version. Nevertheless, I’m not saying that all these below can feed everyone’s satisfaction but just a piece of sharing.

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Joystick-driven cars, hybrid racers, six-wheelers and more: There are more camped out at the concept booth of the Geneva Motor Show to bring you the the cars of tomorrow, today!

Citroen Sbarro Cruise Crosser

This is the kind of car you’d sketch as a kid: six wheels and bright orange. It eats up off-road terrain like an obese man in a pie shop, while a diesel/electric drivetrain ticks the box market ‘green’.
BEST FOR: Ginger-haired all-terrain ecologists.

Mazda Hakaze

The Hakaze combines a roadster’s sliding roof, an SUV’s interioir and the handling of a hatchback. Rear seat cushions slide forward and under the front, freeing up boot space, while the doors open vertically. Take a virtual test drive in online game Second Life.
BEST FOR: Car-buyers who can’t make up their minds.

Honda Small Hybrid Sports

Believe it or not, this is a small hybrid sports concept car. From Honda. Proving green can be mean, its four cylinder petrol/electric hybrid drivetrain fires it off, and its rear-facing cameras make mirrors history.
BEST FOR: Sports-loving enviro-concernalists.

Italdesign Giugiaro VAD.HO

More fighter plane than car, this replaces the steering wheel with joysticks. There’s also tandem seating under a side-hinged canopy, a BMW V12 hydrogen engine and the same F1-style, seven-speed gearbox as the BMW M5 road car.
BEST FOR: Pilots and hardcore gamers.

Sick with the original YouTube single screen while there are several parts of one movie that you trying to watch? YouTube Doubler enable to run 2 YouTube clips in a single window at the same time. This make me easier to load 1 YouTube clip while I can actually watch another one. Just copy the 2 YouTube URLs from YouTube website into both blank fields and hit “Double Up” to load the clips.

Electric cop-trike makes sidewalks safe

Allo, allo, allo – what’s all this then? Astride his three-wheeled and excellently-named T3 Motion, this American plod is able to perform pin-point pavement manoeuvres as if on a Segway, but at double the speed. That’s bad news for ne’er-do-wells – especially if they’re on Segways. Currently used by the LA Sheriff’s Department and a few other US agencies, the T3 has eco-friendly rechargeable batteries and costs just $0.10 a day to run. It even has a siren, although disappointingly, it’s not worn on the copper’s head. T3, T3… is the name something relate to Terminator 3?? lol.

Just as Mozilla Firefox commands a minuscule market share compared to Internet Explorer, so the Mozilla email client lags way behind Microsoft Outlook. Lacking the maturity of Outlook and the host of “beyond email” calendaring, task and personal information management features, Thunderbird has a lot of catching up to do if it’s to be taken seriously. While Mozilla is working on just such a beast, it’s some way from completion.

That’s not to say that Thunderbird hasn’t made progress in this release, though. The new message-tagging feature replicates the categories function of Outlook, bringing the ability to flag individual messages as being work-related, personal or anything you decide to create a tag for. Tags are coloured, and once applied to a message, it too is coloured in the mail folder for easy identification. Coupled with filtering rules that can automatically categorise email upon delivery, it brings some much-needed order to Thunderbird.

Similarly, the find-as-you-type-feature from Firefox has arrived and adds the same type of instant discovery as Outlook 2007. Talking of which, you can save searches to a folder containing a view of the messages rather than the messages themselves. Remote image blocking works well, plus there’s an improvement to message notifications, which adds sender detail and text to the preview.

But that’s where the similarity ends. There are still no calendaring or task functions, and the contacts section is a striped-down shell of the Outlook equivalent. More seriously, the junk filtering is very poor indeed. Messages are flagged with a symbol denoting them as spam. The trouble is, Thunderbird doesn’t learn well, and the false-positives keep flooding in, as does the spam itself.

The availability of numerous free add-ons to extend its features is Thunderbird main attraction, and this might just be enough to sway the casual user. For business use, though, it’s unlikely you’ll be ditching Outlook anything soon.

If you still thinking Thunderbird works fine for you,
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Microsoft’s DirectX sparked a revolution in PC gaming. Since 1995, DirectX technology has given developers a convenient way to develop for Windows, and take advantage of new graphics, sound and CPU hardware. Games were developed quicker, ran faster, and looked better with each successive generation of DirectX. It goes without saying that it was instrumental in kickstarting the PC games industry, cementing the PC as a viable gaming platform.

As we move into the next generation of PC gaming, however, Microsoft is intent to make Vista the chosen PC operation system for games. Traditionally, as long as you could get a DirectX for your version of Windows, you were guaranteed that any games requiring DirctX would be able to run. Now, you’ll have no choice but to upgrade because Microsoft has made the new DirectX 10 strictly for Vista.

Those not interested in upgrading Vista may have a solution, however, thanks to a handful of independent developers who are attempting to create a special ‘compatibility’ tool for Windows XP. I will try to make another post on how it works, and why Microsoft believes it can only run on Vista. As we move into the world of DirectX 10, Microsoft is breaking with tradition and making it exclusively available for Vista – with no intention of releasing it for any previous version of Windows. According to Microsoft, restricting DirectX 10 to Vista is not an arbitrary decision or an attempt to force gamers to upgrade, it’s a technical requirement.

The Direct3D API in DirectX 10 is very different from previous versions, with the most significant change being a unified shader model. Put simply, developers program vertex, pixel or geometry ’shaders’ to describe how objects and scenes appear, animate and transform on the screen. The new unified model means that a game can assign the limited resources of the graphics processor unit (GPU) to any type of shader as needed, rather than being confined by the ‘fixed’ shader pipelines in previous versions.

Furthermore, Direct3D 10 allows the GPU to take on the types of jobs that were traditionally done by the CPU, effectively turning the graphics card into an all-purpose ‘gaming’ processor. This may sound complex, but it all points to one simple idea: greater use of the graphics card’s GPU. This robust use of the GPU, according to Microsoft, is why Direct3D 10 requires Windows Vista. Unlike previous versions of Windows, Vista uses a new type of graphics driver, the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM). The WDDM is designed to offer a range of stability and performance improvements over that used in XP. For example, under Windows XP, only a single application could access the GPU at a time, and because the display driver was so embedded in XP’s core system, a graphical problem could cause a full system crash.

To combat these problems, Vista’s WDDM separates the applications from the core system, preventing a faulty application from bringing the entire operating system to a halt. Furthermore, it streamlines performance when running multiple applications by allowing more than one application or game to access the GPU at the same time.

From the outset, it seems that DirectX 10 and Vista are inextricably linked. Newer games based on DirectX 10 will want to access the full power of new graphics cards, and Vista’s WDDM is the ‘glue’ required to make that happen.

You have noticed that the clock on the bottom right in your Windows isn’t correct and seeking for the solution badly thinking that there must be the problem in your windows setting. So, you in tend to adjust it right but few hours later the clock goes wrong again. Besides, most users don’t think much on CMOS battery as this shows sign of losing its BIOS setting on boot up as well. Replacing the CMOS battery is very simple or follow the instructions below:

Instructions:

1. Boot your PC and enter its setup mode.
2. Write down all of the settings from the various BIOS menus.
3. Power off your PC and plug out the power cable as well.
4. Open the case of your computer
   
5. Locate the battery on the motherboard.
   
   The layouts of the components differ on different motherboards, so you’ll have to consult your motherboard user manual for specifications about the battery and its location.
   
   A close-up view of the typical CMOS battery on the motherboard.
6. Remove and replace the old battery.
   
7. Replace the case and power on the PC.
8. Enter the setup mode of your PC.
9. Reenter the settings you have written down from the various setup menus.

Tips:

• Don’t forget to observe proper anti-static precautions when working inside the case of your PC.
• If you can’t see your battery right away, try removing expansion cards or unplugging cables. The majority of newer motherboards use lithium batteries that look like large watch batteries.
• If the battery is already dead and you receive messages saying “CMOS checksum error”, skip Step 1 and Step 2.

So you are a big fan of the most hyped gadget of the decade – iPhone and perhaps you may found this information valuable for the use of activation of brand new unactivated iPhone without paying a cent. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work. Stay tuned!

Update:

Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers:
Offset 2048912: 33C0C3
Offset 257074: 28
Offset 257013: 33C9B1
Add “127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com” to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Download Phone Activation Server v1.0 to activate your iPhone for iPod+WiFi use. Note that this application will not do anything unless you understand the magic numbers as well as add the hosts entry. Phone Activation Server (PAS) requires that you have the MS .NET Framework 2.0 installed.

Download PAS v1.0 Source Code.

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Before you falling in love with iPhone, I hope you may consider to read what Geoff says.

A 4 years old blog is running 100 bucks for 100 words contest until Tuesday, 31st of July 2007 by John Lampard, a former web designer based in Sydney. He worked for Australian Infront in 1999, and been profiled at Design at Kinky. The blog involves information technology, web design, projects, cultural, fashion trends and a bit more of personal lifestyle. Theme has a mainly white layout which is excellent encouraging on the important of white for design. As for what I know, the blogger is highly emphasizing on a clean design from his previous post which complaining on some annoying pop up from snap shot and distracted on reading focus.

71 photos are found in disassociated dot com’s flickr page.

Nothing much can be commented instead of the light font color which I hardly to read. A flickr feature is connected in his column and there is none of them are higher than 1024 resolution which I think this is quite lack of photographer technology. People are more seeking to higher or even highest resolution images today which a picture greater than 2MB is better presented. As because the blog is dissecting the culture so there is not much I can comment and dig out from his technology category. Anyway, the review is done by ChemstudioWEB.COM on disassociated.com.

I’m going to visit a place somewhere in Tasmania which I’m not really sure about it’s location. A place named Bicheno, that would take about 2 hours plus and 182 kilometres north east from Hobart. A trip together with my church buddies and feel fatuity knocking my head to put on my signature on a piece of paper forcing to participate a 3-days winter camp. I have no idea what’s the place look like, how’s the history came from, why is it named and hopefully the scene is wonderful and worthy for a paid trip. I will be staying in *** Holiday Park (I forgot the name), carrying a big backpack, maybe a bit unconscious on 2 hours bus traveling, and the worst, no heater provided in the room??? Well, more lifestyle will be discovered out later and let’s see how is the place looks like. Stay tuned.