Microsoft has announced that October 21st 2008, is Global Anti-Piracy Day and will proceed with a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in 48 countries on five continents to combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software.

On their Global Anti-Piracy Virtual Pressroom a statement read: “Microsoft is taking these steps as part of its commitment to working with communities, national governments and local law enforcement agencies around the world to protect its customers and partners and promote the value of intellectual property as a driver of innovation.”

Microsoft Antipiracy Day

Click on the map to go to the Microsoft site for the interactive aspects of the map.

Belkin N1 Vision

Belkin has entered the Indian market with one of the first products-the N1 Vision router. It might be a utility, but belkinhas managed to make it look like a lifestyle product. the design is very good and stands out amongst all the routers you might come across today. Unilink most routers, the N1 stands vertically, but the stand is stable and has rubber padding at the base the stop it from sliding around. There is a small screen on the front, which show data speeds of all the users connected to the router, both wired and wirelessly. There are buttons that can be used to navigate through the interface and the display can also used as a clock as well.

When it’s come to performance, it works pretty well on the wired ports. We recorded speeds of 7.36 Mbps for a single large file. For random files, the speeds were around 6.92 Mbps. The wireless tests revealed the weakness of the N1 Vision. The wireless performance was pretty appalling-2Mbps is the best it could do over a distance of some 10 feet. The software interface has all the features that a router firmware should have-Internet connectivity configuration, VPN, security, etc. The interface is more user-friendly then those on most well known routers. One thing you notice is the long waiting period for the router to restart every time you change a setting.
The price for the Belkin N1 Vision-Rs 11,699-is much higher then mainstream home routers. Although this router will look nice in your living room, it’s definitely not something you can rely on for performance.

The SES668 Music Station is essentially an iPOD dock with killer looks. The dome-shaped design looks good and the use of silver highlight on a jet black body adds that extra style some thing missing on most cheap docks. On the top of the speaker sits the dock receptacle. The receptacle accepts multiple connectors thus allowing the use of almost all generation of iPODS, expect for the newer wider body Nano. The base connector is large enough to hold most iPODS in place. On the corners of the squares, are the buttons for powering on and volume control, and one is dummy button. The buttons are hard to press with distinct clicks, however one can keep them pressed to increase/decrease the volume. The volume control isn’t smooth and boosts in huge steps. The dock requires 12 V and it is powered via an adapter that runs off the mains. There is no option for alternative power source like batteries, if the mains are down. The iPOD can be charged via the dock and the USB connector allows it to be connected to a PC for data transfer. The dock also has an auxiliary input thus allowing an alternate sound source. On the performance front, dock didn’t perform as per our expectation. Bass is non-existent and the drum beats often sound flat, highs are not reproduced at all and the midrange is completely muddled. Also there is no way to control the playback from the dock, and you will have to use the iPOD. Though affordable priced at $34, the SES668 Music Dock isn’t the right solution for your iPOD. We suggest that you up the ante and invest in JBL or Bose if you care for music quality, else stick to the stock earphones.

Specifications: USB charging, USB data transfer, Auxiliary input, mobilephone compatibility and CD/DVD player.

OQO model e2 is a new comer in the UMPC market. Its powered by a VIA 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 memory and comes with Wi-Fi. The 5 inch Screen is capable of a resolution of 800×480, and if this doesn’t suffice, you are free to connect to a display using the VGA, DVI, or HDMI outputs for a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200. Did I mentioned that it runs Windows Vista?
There is an option of a 120 GB hard drive, or a 32 GB solid state drive. A QWERTY keyboard (with a number pad) are designed into it, all in the size of a small notebook. At 450g, it’s heavy only to the weakest of geeks. Price is another matter, and the rumored figure is between £846 and £1,359 – making it heavy on your pocket. Pun not intended.

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Sorry to post this off-topic article.
I was just watching TV while taking dinner, I saw my local news channel (Kolkata TV) was reporting that one england based blog leaked the Last book of the Harry Potter. They claim that they get the leaked part before the blog was shut down.
They briefed some part of it and here are they

• Harry is not going to die.
• Voldemort will kill Professor Snape.
• Professor Lupin will die.
• Voldemort will be killed by Harry.
• The First line of the story is “Nineteen Years Later”.
• Harry will not return in Hogwaters after 7th year.
• Ron and Harmoini was also there with Harry.

and many more, but I forget them.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL’ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

Features:
- various compression methods:
· MPEG 4 compatible (Xvid, DivX 4, DivX 5) using libavcodec or XviD
· Divx 3 compatible, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v1
· WMV1/7, WMV2/8
· H263, H263+, H264
· HuffYUV in YV12 colorspace
· MJPEG
· MPEG 1
· Theora (not for regular use, format isn’t stabilized yet)
· MPEG 2 by using mpeg2enc code from MJPEGtools project
· all Windows Media Video 9 supported encoders with output to asf/

Download FFDShow from here

“I guess i’ll stick to my pad and paper
and quit soon. So far awindow was
something I hated to clean and ram was
the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of
my girlfriend and gig was somthung you did
on stage for money. An application was for
employment. A program was a TV show.
Now they all mean different things. And that
really mega bytes.I hear nobody’s been killed
in a computer crash. But when it does hap-
pen, theywish they were bead.”

DID YOU KNOW?

The firest true laptop was
the GRid compass 1101
designed by Bill Moggridge
in 1970/80, and reieased in
1982. enclosed in a mag-
nesium case, it intro-
duced the clamshell
design, in which
the flat display
folded shut against
the keyboard.

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The first thing noticed about the forum is not so slow loading. Forum staff is quite happy with it, well, it can still be improved a little. Let’s say with changing banners about $6,100 contest into text links.

DNLOdge is hosted on its own server. They even offer hosting. There are still chances to win 1 year hosting with 5 GB space and 150 GB bandwith, control panel, PHP and all other you need for seriuos hosting. Server is fast.

Oh, the next specialty is design. It is recognisable, has some personal touch, don’t you think?

Forum includes chatting room.

On-site SEO Guide has its basic backbone done, yet it is open to contribution from members. SEO reviews are available for free on a forum. Links to very picky choosen SEO tools can be find. Free general website reviews are another goodie.

Newbies can get prompt answers without need to be ashamed of asking even the most basic web site building or online earning questions.

You can join here.

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1. State-of-the-are : Any computer you can not afford
2. Obsolete : Any computer you own
3. Keyboard : The standard way to generate computer errors
4. Mouse : An advance input device to make computer errors easier to generate
5. Disk Crash : A typical computer response to any critical deadline
6. Floppy : The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer
7. Portable Computer : A device invented to force businessman to work at home, on vacation and on business trips.
8. System Update : A quick method of trashing ALL your software.