Opera is now free!
Sep 20Opera becomes freeware! Opera has removed the banners, found within their browser, and the licensing fee. Opera is the most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different...
Whats that song?
Sep 17A Query by Humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune. No musical training is needed.The idea is simple: you hum into the microphone. The computer records the hum and extracts certain features corresponding to the melody and rhythm characteristics, then it compares the features to the features of the songs in the database. Finally it returns a rank list of the songs...
Static Electicity
Sep 17Victorian authorities believe a man built up at least 30,000 volts of static electricity in his jacket simply by walking around the western Victorian city of Warrnambool yesterday. The man left a trail of scorch marks and molten plastic behind him. It was yesterday afternoon when Frank Clewer walked into a Warrnambool business and got his first shock. “It sounded almost like a firecracker...
How to run windows with minimum memory usage!
Sep 04Running Windows with No Services A Windows service provides functionality to the operating system and user accounts regardless of whether anyone is logged into a system. Windows XP comes with around four dozen services enabled by default, including ones that many people consider superfluous like Remote Registry, Alerter, and SSDP Discovery (Universal Plug and Play). A question many Windows...
Advertising Terms
Sep 02Ever wonder what all those advertising terms really mean? NEW – Different color from previous design. ALL NEW – Parts are not interchangeable with previous design. ADVANCED DESIGN – The advertising agency doesn’t understand it. EXCLUSIVE – Imported product. UNMATCHED – Almost as good as the competition. FOOLPROOF OPERATION – No provision for...