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Once again I find myself blogging about something I spent way too long having to hunt down. Listed below is the download for Sony’s Vaio Zone software. In particular this is for the full install of Vaio Zone, not just the upgrade. :)
Why is this such a big thing?! If, like me, you have been [...]

I’ve just bought a Nokia N95. According to Nokia it does just about everything except make a cup of tea. Techies reading this will be particularly pleased to hear it supports SIP VOIP calls… according to Nokia anyway.
The truth is Orange and Vodafone have crippled the firmware of their Nokia N95s so that they aren’t [...]

For a few months now I’ve been using streamripper, a plugin for Winamp, to rip and save to disc tracks played on Shoutcast radio.
The great thing about streamripper is that the plugin slices the files properly and even embeds the ID3 tags. With the exception of the odd spill over from the previous track, [...]

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies for digital content.”
Details of petition:
“Recently APIG has performed a public inquiry into the use of DRM which has recommended clearly labelling DRM infected products (among other [...]

As I mentioned a few weeks back, the first HD-DVD rip was made available via bittorrent thanks to the work of muslix64 (available at doom9.org).
Now, torrentfreak.com is reporting that the first Blue-Ray movie is also available for download via bittorrent.
It would seem that despite not actually breaking the AACS protection mechanism muslix64 and friends have [...]

It seems all you need these days to get 4 million euro funding is to copy somebody else’s idea, have a good graphic designer and buy a cheap dedicated server.
… on that note I’m off to build dating4bikers.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/

I personally use the following tools to convert my DVD collection to smaller compressed version for media players. Personally I own a Sandisk Sansa e270, Orange C600 smartphone and Sony PSP.
All of the above devices only play videos encoded in certain ways.
I recommend the following tools:
AutoGK (Gordian Knot)
DVDFab Decrypter
Video9 (for Sony PSP only)
It bugs me [...]

Found this site via google whilst looking for a password decoder for Filezilla. It has a huge collection of apps that will help you retrieve a lost password.
http://aluigi.altervista.org/
Technorati Tags: password, password recovery, filezilla, security

Lee Stranahan got me thinking the other day about selling stock footage online. I’ve been keen to explore the options available on the Internet for a while.
It all started when I created some IDs for One World Week at Warwick University. Specifically I created some funky intros to One World Week TV which Warren, [...]