Microsoft announced the new version of DirectX within the GameFest festival. While some of you will worry about this new version and its compatibility with your video card, Microsoft assures us that the 11 version will recognize DirectX 10 and 10.1 graphic cards. DirectX 11 will work only within Windows Vista but the new features caught our eye.
- multi-threaded resource handling – the new processing will take advantage of our multi core machines
- new shader technology – with better CPU and GPU management
- Tessellation/Displacement – models will now be more smooth when viewed up-close
Microsoft stated that we should expect DirectX 11 in mid-late 2009 and i’m guessing some features will be tested within upcoming versions of DirectX 10.
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The Microsoft family will gain a new member soon, the Windows 7 OS. While some of us are skeptical, we should at least give Windows 7 a chance and forget about Vista. Bill Veghte, chief in charge of Windows seems very confident regarding the new Windows and the states that Windows 7 will be released within the scheduled time frame (2010).
Although MAC (Media Access Control) addresses were designed to represent a network card’s ID and were designed as permanent, some software and techiques allow us to easily change (or “Spoof”) the MAC address easily.
Change the MAC manually under Windows XP
Method 1
Go the the Ethernet Adapter’s Properties menu, the Advanced Tab and you can see a filed named: “MAC Address”, “Network Address” or “Ethernet Address”, depending entirely on the network card’s driver.
Using this method you can change the MAC address very fast, in a matter of clicks.
Note that some network cards don’t have this featured enabled, but those are rare cases.
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Symantec Corporation, opened this week the 2009 Public Beta versions of Norton Security and Norton Antivirus. Symantec claims that this versions will be more faster than their predecessors, more user friendly and moreoever, less resource hungry.
While the Symantec security products lost some market share to other companies such as Kaspersky, Avira or Esset (NOD32), the new features and overall speed increase might get them back on the average home user’s list.
Let’s review some important features, worth taking in consideration:
Speed Increase
The Norton programs can determine now which files are trustworthy based on prior scans and community feedback, adding them to a “white-list” and avoiding them in the future scans.
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ICANN, the organization oversees the internet domains will open tommorow the registration for .me domains. The .ME registrations were open in May, to allow companies or websites to register their trademark with no hassle. Also, several domains were auctioned the past days and are still taking place.
Today, WordPress got its announced update to the 2.6 version. Although this update was not scheduled now, I can say I’m impressed by the new features. Bloggers will cheerish this new version and WP’s functionality gets better and better with every new update. The 2.6 version is named “Tyner” after the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and it’s available for download.
Let’s review some important features of WordPress 2.6
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A new bug within Microsoft Office seems to allow attackers to plant Trojan horses within our computers. This new exploit isn’t confirmed at this moment, Symantec, the security company behind this finding, is still in discussions with MIcrosoft to confirm this exploit. Symantec states that some MS Office versions, even if fully patched, are affected.
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“Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3. Our initial investigation indicates that customers who use all other supported versions of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, and Microsoft Office for Mac are not affected.”
There isn’t much time left until the Beijing Olympics and for all the business travelers out there, we got some good news. The Olympics will be brought to you online for free by TVTonic, who partenered with NBC Olympics.
Another good news is that, if you happen to miss your favourite Olympic event, you can watch it any time even if the event has taken place. TVTonic works best with Windows Media Center or within Interner Explorer (I wonder why Firefox isn’t included). Putting aside the irony, I think we can put our recorders to rest during the 2008 Olympics, TVTronic offering us the perfect service.
Source: TVTronic
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