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Education evolves.

iTunes U has arrived, giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students. Presentations, performances, lectures, demonstrations, debates, tours, archival footage — school is about to become even more inspiring.

More of a very good thing.

Designed to be completely intuitive, iTunes U is based on the iTunes Store, where millions of people already get their music, movies, and TV shows. Now there’s an area of the iTunes Store devoted entirely to education, where it’s easy to search thousands of audio and video files from schools across the country.

Colleges and universities build their own iTunes U sites. Faculty post content they create for their classes. Students download what they need, and go. Learning isn’t just for the classroom anymore. It’s for anytime and anyplace you’ve got a Mac, a PC, or an iPod.

Join the movement.

Just like the iTunes Store, the popularity of iTunes U has exploded. Already, more than half of the nation’s top 500 schools use it to distribute their digital content to students — or to the world. Any school can open all or part of its site to the public, from alumni to parents to anyone with a love of learning. iTunes U is transforming the way people learn on campus, off campus, and where there’s no campus at all.

Vuur

HD vuur internet in HD-kwaliteit naar de virtuele vlammen op FireplaceTV.nl dat inmiddels een jaar bestaat. Volgens Jet Stream, dat de haardvuurbeelden streamt, werd de site in een jaar tijd 2,5 miljoen keer aangeklikt.

tv-gids Nu.nl

De gids, sinds afgelopen weekend online, is niet compleet, maar het is wel het meest overzichtelijk. In één blik zie je waar we nu in de programma's op de populairste zenders zitten, zoals we dat kennen van EPG's. De tijd staat horizontaal en dat blijkt erg handig. De zendervolgorde is te veranderen door te slepen.

BlackViper.com

Notes for a Happier Computer and User

• Do not use "msconfig" to disable services, type "services.msc" in the Run box instead! (Why?)
• Before disabling any service, check out the service information about each by selecting the service name links provided.
• Service settings are global, meaning changes apply to all users.
• An "*" (asterisk) indicates changes from Service Pack 1a to Service Pack 2.
• For an easy method of creating multiple Service Configurations, please check out the Windows XP Services Profile Guide.

Legale diefstal

Nummer doorschakelen met mobiel per nummer €2,52 is ruim 6 gulden voor een nummer!!

E4-01

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handschoenen met regelbare verwarming

Van de officiële kledingleverancier van de Noorse nationale ski-ploeg.

De gerenommeerde Zwitserse firma Snowlife ontwikkelde, samen met ski- en snowboard-professionals, de eerste ski-handschoen met instelbare verwarming.
Uiterst zuinig door de duurzame NiHm-accu.
Even in het kleine vakje aan de bovenkant van elke handschoen één van de bijbehorende blokaccu'tjes schuiven. De door een processor gestuurde verwar-
ming tussen handpalm en vingers stelt u in 3 fasen in: van 33 ºC (verwarmingsduur ca. 8 uur) naar 40 ºC (verwarmingsduur ca. 4 uur) tot wel 65 ºC (verwarmingsduur ca. 2 uur). Daarbij wordt de warmte wisselend afgegeven. Dat bevordert de bloedcirculatie en spaart stroom. De blokaccu’s zijn steeds oplaadbaar.
U bespaart op dure batterijen en draagt altijd lekker warme handschoenen – bij het skiën, het wandelen of bij het werken in de buitenlucht.
De Thinsulate©-voering isoleert zonder dikke vulling.
Aan de binnenzijde voelt u zachte fleece van microweefsel. Het weefsel is ca. 10 keer dunner dan de meeste gewoonlijk gebruikte materialen. Daardoor neemt het veel minder ruimte in – maar geeft bijna tweemaal zoveel warmte. Het sterke, waterafstotende buitenmateriaal van Nylon beschermt tegen vocht. Setje accu's en oplaadapparaat bijbehorend. Oplaadapparaat voor 230 V/ 2 x 150 mA. Oplaadtijd ca. 9 - 11 uur. Pro-Idee garantie 3 jaar.

 

€165,

Finding Podcasts

 

Go on a free podcast spree.

The iTunes Music Store puts thousands of free podcasts at your fingertips. To find them, select Music Store in the iTunes source column; then click “Podcasts” to journey Inside the Music Store. Or, here’s another way to get there: select the little podcasts icon in the Source column, then click the arrow next to “Podcast Directory” at the very bottom of the iTunes window. Once you’ve downloaded or subscribed to a podcast, click the Music Store button to return to the home page of the Store.

The best of 2007

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC beschikbaar

Vanaf nu is SP1 ook te downloaden voor het grote publiek waarvan de downloadlink hieronder. Microsoft geeft bij de download het advies SP1 niet te installeren op reguliere of belangrijke computers

De eindversie van de update zal in het eerste kwartaal van 2008 uit gaan komen.
Eén van de nieuwe functies die komt met SP1 is hotpatching. Dit maakt het mogelijk voor Microsoft om Windows-componenten te patchen terwijl een gebruiker aan het werk is en zonder dat het systeem opnieuw opgestart hoeft te worden.

 

Link: Download Vista SP 1 RC (32 Bits)
Link: Download Vista SP 1 RC (64 Bits)

holiday iGoogle theme

 

En nog meer ontwerpen

Nu zijn daar nog twee extra thema's aan toegevoegd die via de onderstaande codes zijn te gebruiken in iGoogle en eveneens niet in de reguliere lijst met thema's staan.

javascript:_dlsetp('preview_skin=skins/tc.xml');

javascript:_dlsetp('preview_skin=skins/skateboard.xml');

Besparen op 0900 nummers!

Iedereen die een bedrijf via een 0900 nummer moet bellen kan besparen op zijn belkosten. Die kunnen namelijk aardig oplopen, omdat veel bedrijven hoge tarieven hanteren en dan ook nog lange wachtrijen hebben. Als u bijvoorbeeld € 0,70 per minuut moet betalen en dan 15 minuten 'in de wacht staat', kost u dat (alleen al het wachten!) 15x € 0,70 = € 10,50! Als u via VraagAlex het alternatieve nummer belt, betaalt u veel minder. Kunt u gratis naar vaste nummers bellen, dan worden ook dit soort gesprekken zelfs geheel gratis!

Verstuur gratis uw post!

Wanneer u een bedrijf een brief wilt sturen moet u hier meestal voor betalen door middel van een of meer postzegels. Maar als het bedrijf een antwoordnummer heeft, dan kunt u gratis een brief sturen aan het bedrijf. Bedrijven hebben heel vaak wel zo'n antwoordnummer, maar geven dat alleen op als u iets wilt kopen of aan een actie mee wilt doen. Maar ook uw klachten kunt u zo prima gratis versturen!

Vista

Boring, immovable the acct filtering basic pictures were yesterday. With a Bildschirmschoner of Windows Vista and with a secret starting parameter you can furnish yourselves an animated Desktop. We show you, how it functions. Solution:

All standard Bildschirmschoner is to Windows under Vista in the listing „\ System32 “. They recognize the files by the ending SCR. If you one of it, about to Aurora.SCR, by doubleclick call, the Bildschirmschoner starts completely normally. If you call the same file however in the request for input with the parameter /p, followed of the identification number of the Desktop window (Desktop acting), then the Bildschirmschoner starts in the background of the Desktops.Er remains also active, if you use the computer - it covers only Desktop icon. Since Vista is served however almost exclusively over the task border and the new starting menu, that does not fall particularly important. window-acts the Desktops changes with each meeting. With on-board means it cannot be determined. With our tools pcwAnimDesk you can animate your Desktop nevertheless. Copy tools into any file, and you call it with the instruction pcwAnimDesk.exe aurora.scr. They can select naturally also one the other standard Bildschirmschoner (Mystify or Ribbons). If you liked to again turn the moved background off, then you called tools simply again the up without the parameter, thus without instruction the screen already he file. Autostart: Naturally you can also automatically start the animated Desktop with our tools with Windows. Put on to it a new linkage to the tools under „start, all programs, autostart “, and you - as above in the command line - insert the desired Bildschirmschoner in the instruction for the linkage goal. So that you can deactivate the Schoner if necessary fast again, you in addition a linkage should put on to our tools without parameters directly in the starting menu. Most simply that can be done, by clicking tools with the right mouse button and with pressed key first on the activate button and then to any place in the aufpoppenden menu pull. With one click on it close you to the Bildschirmschoner again.

Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310

Patchou heeft vandaag versie 4.50.310 van Messenger Plus! Live. Dit programmas is een add-on voor Windows Live Messenger, en is beschikbaar voor Windows XP en hoger.

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Website
Patchou

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http://download.msgpluslive.net/setup/MsgPlusLiv...

Telefoon Jajah

Hoewel de iPod touch geen telefoon is en zelfs niet over een microfoon beschikt, ben je toch in staat om een gesprek op te zetten met je normale mobiele telefoon of je vaste lijn. Vooral bij mobiele operators met onbeperkte databundels werkt dit goed omdat je niets extra’s betaalt. Ben je niet in het bezit van een iPhone, dan kun je in ieder geval nog de recent gelanceerde dienst Jajah Direct gebruiken, waarbij je een uniek lokaal nummer krijgt toegewezen voor je internationale contactpersonen.

Met Jajah iPhone Web 2.0 kun je goedkoop wereldwijd bellen, direct vanaf de iPhone en iPod touch. Het werkt door in de mobiele browser Safari naar iphone.jajah.com te gaan en het gewenste nummer in te toetsen. Je kunt ook een naam uit je Jajah-contactenlijst kiezen en op het nummer tikken dat je wilt bellen.

Flickr uitleg. Youtube uitleg.

Winterthema

Voor iGoogle, de gepersonaliseerde startpagina dienst van Google is er een special winterthema voor de pagina. Het thema is niet beschikbaar in de reguliere lijst met thema's maar kan met behulp van een simpele code ingeschakeld worden, een afbeelding van het thema hieronder. Om het winterthema in te schakelen ga naar iGoogle en kopieer de onderstaande code in de adresbalk en druk op enter. Vervolgens wordt het thema toegepast.

javascript:_dlsetp('preview_skin=skins/winterscape.xml');void(0);

jv16 PowerTools 2007

Macecraft Software heeft vrijdag jv16 PowerTools voorzien van een update naar versie 1.7.0.422. Dit programma is bedoeld om allerlei zaken binnen Windows te fine-tunen.

Zo zijn er bijvoorbeeld modules om te bepalen welke programma's met het booten van Windows gestart worden en kan er naar dubbele bestanden worden gezocht.

Ipod

Demonteren van een Ipod touch of anderen is op deze site te vinden.

Ook in NL zijn er sites die onderdelen los verkopen.

Kalooga

Google, in Groningen, indexeren de servers van het Nederlandse Kalooga de plaatjes op het wereldwijde web. Kalooga biedt als nieuwe zoekmachine voor afbeeldingen een andere benadering dan Google Images. Het zoekt niet in losse plaatjes zoals Google dat doet, maar in albums en verzamelingen van foto's die bij elkaar horen.

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Vista SP1

 

Microsoft on Tuesday said that it has reached the "release candidate" with the first service pack for Windows Vista, with plans to make the test software available publicly next week.

It is releasing the test code this week to the 15,000 or so people who have been beta testing SP1 already, and will also make it available on Thursday to those in the MSDN and TechNet developer programs.

"We feel really good and we look forward to receiving feedback from our larger set of testers," said David Zipkin, a senior product manager on the Windows Client team.

Microsoft also said on its Vista blog on Wednesday that it will make available a "blocker" that will allow customers who have Vista and use Windows Update to block SP1 upon its final release to allow for further testing. Microsoft offered a similar option with Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Service Pack 1 is mainly designed as a collection of bug fixes and performance improvements rather than an attempt to add new features. Among the changes that are more feature-related is the ability to use BitLocker encryption on multiple hard drive volumes as well as changes to the desktop search feature, which were made to satisfy antitrust concerns from Google.

Update

The release candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 should then be available via Windows Update. It might be that you will have to download some prior updates before the Release Candidate becomes available. It should be noted that this is only working on English editions of Windows Vista unless you tweak the Registry on non-English Vista editions to make Vista believe that you are using an English Vista.

Download the file Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Hack and unpack it to your Vista system. Executing the file will remove the old Registry keys that are no longer needed and add the new ones.

Another option would be to open the file in a text editor and manually remove and add the keys to the registry. Restart your computer afterwards and visit Windows Update. You will most likely be prompted to install three minor updates before you will see the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in the list,

Gezicht "Google"

Je zoekt met Google Images normaal gesproken naar plaatjes door een trefwoord in te tikken. 'telefoon' bijvoorbeeld. Maar zet je nu &imgtype=face achter de zoeklink, dan krijg je ook gezichten, maar dan van mensen met een telefoon, kijk maar

Complete site hier.

EveryScape

Een google in het klein. Maps.

Logitech SetPoint 4.24

Logitech heeft een nieuwe SetPoint uitgebracht met 4.24 als de versieaanduiding. Deze stuurprogramma's zijn geschikt voor de 32- en 64-bits versies van Windows Vista en geven je de mogelijkheid om de verschillende opties van je Logitech-invoerapparatuur aan te passen. Zoals gewoonlijk geeft Logitech geen informatie vrij over de aangebrachte veranderingen. Waarschijnlijk worden er weer wat nieuwe producten ondersteund en zijn er weer diverse bugs uit de vorige versie opgelost.
De volgende bestanden staan klaar om binnengehaald te worden:
Logitech SetPoint 4.24 (32-bit - 64-bit)
Logitech SetPoint 4.24 Bluetooth (32-bit - 64-bit)

Adobe Flash Player 9

Adobe Flash Player is an advanced client runtime for delivering powerful and consistent user experiences across browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.

Installed on over 820 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash® Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.

New Date Filter In Google

1. Do a normal search in Google
2. Put &as_qdr=d  after the search string. Just copy and paste it just behind the last digit of the URL you see after you do a search in Google. Now you get only the sources from the last 24 hours indexed by Google (keep in mind: the date that Google found the info is not always the actual publication date). Put &as_qdr=d2 behind the string to get sources of the last two days
4. Put &as_qdr=d3 behind the string to get sources of the last three days

Windows XP - Haal pijltje weg uit snelkoppeling

Start Regedit en zoek de pif-file en de lnk-file-mappen. Open deze en verwijder daar de isshortcut sleutels. Herstart Windows en die lelijke pijltjes staan niet meer op de iconen van de snelkoppelingen. 

Afsluit/Afmelden

 

Om sneller te kunnen afsluiten of af te melden kan het handig zijn om iconen op je bureaublad of in je taakbalk te plaatsen waarmee je dit snel kunt doen. Door dan te dubbelklikken op een snelkoppeling sluit de PC dan direct af zonder dat je dit hoeft te doen via het Start menu.
Om dit nu te maken doe je het volgende, klik ergens met de rechtermuisknop op het bureaublad en kies de optie uit het menu, Nieuws >> Snelkoppeling en er opent een venster. In het venster wat opent wordt gevraagd om het pad in te vullen van de snelkoppeling. Op dit punt vul je in welke actie je wilt geven aan de snelkoppeling.

Hieronder de paden per actie. afsluiten

%SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe /s                                   

Afmelden

%SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe /l

Herstarten

%SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe /r

Vergrendelen

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

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ABC TV

Tags van Technorati: TV

ABC started their streaming service on their website today. Users from the USA are able to watch episodes of Lost, Desperate Houswives, Alias and others right from the website. Unfortunatly they check your IPs origin and decline access if the whois turns out to be from outside the USA. But as always, there is a way around this restriction.

This is slighty complex but you should get used to the procedure. All you need is a http proxy that is hosted inside the USA and does not spill your IP address. To achieve this you need a application that checks proxy servers for those variables. I recommend Charon for this task but you could use other tools as well.

Download Charon from the website mentioned, you don´t need to install it at all, just extract the contents to a directory of your choice.

Fire it up, you have no proxy list yet so you could use google to find some lists or let charon do that for you. Simply select Check Proxies and then Scan Search Engines for new Proxies. Charon will find some proxies that are then displayed in the table. Those are unverified, now select Check Proxies and Check Anonymity of all Proxies. This might take some time. If you only recieve bad and timeouts you have to change one option in charon.

Select Connect Options and chose Use External Judge(s).

Let it test the proxies. If you have enough good ones or a finished test sort the proxies by the Country tab. Only USA proxies are working so we need one of those. The Anonymity tab should state YES. If both are correct right click the line and select Copy to clipboard and Copy selected IP:Port.

Open your browser and paste the proxy address into its proxy settings. For firefox you select Tools >> Options >> Connection Settings >> Manual Proxy Configuration and add the proxy and port there. Close the options and visit the abc streaming site. If you see a Launch button you are ready to enjoy the tv shows. If not try another proxy from the list.

I checked the service with this proxy and it worked flawlessly: 192.104.67.250 port:8080

Raid

RAID 0 is de eerste echte RAID-modus. RAID 0 is eveneens bekend onder de naam striping (naar analogie met de manier van wegschrijven) en houdt in dat een aantal schijven worden samengevoegd tot één volume. Gegevens worden in eerste instantie opgedeeld in verschillende blokken (stripes genaamd, vandaar de naam striping). Deze blokken worden vervolgens beurtelings naar de verschillende volumes gevoerd.
Het voordeel hiervan is dat je (in theorie) gegevens dubbel zo snel kan wegschrijven, indien je gebruik maakt van 2 harde schijven. Daarnaast blijft de grootte van de harde schijven volledig aanspreekbaar; indien je 2 harde schijven van 200 GB gebruikt, zal je in het totaal 400 GB aan gegevens kunnen opslaan. Je dient (vanzelfsprekend) overigens minimaal twee harde schijven te hebben om RAID 0 te kunnen toepassen. RAID 0 is relatief eenvoudig toe te passen, maar het nadeel is dat het geen enkele bescherming biedt tegen verlies van data. Gegevens worden namelijk niet redundant weggeschreven. Indien één schijf wegvalt, zijn alle

gegevens uit de volledige array onbruikbaar.

 

Wizzl | Enjoy Wizzl, the first all-in-one virtual phone

Free voice and video calls to other Wizzlers
Cheap worldwide calls
to landlines and mobile phones
One-to-one or group chat
Unlimited file transfer
Whiteboard
Worldwide radio and live TV streaming
The most popular web games around
Integrated media player and library

partitioneren

U kunt deze stappen alleen uitvoeren als u bent aangemeld als beheerder.

Ja. Het is in deze versie van Windows mogelijk om de vaste schijf opnieuw te partitioneren met de functie Verkleinen in Schijfbeheer. U kunt een bestaande partitie of een bestaand volume verkleinen om niet-toegewezen schijfruimte te maken waarmee u een nieuwe partitie of een nieuw volume kunt maken. (De termen 'partitie' en 'volume' worden vaak door elkaar gebruikt.)


1. U kunt Computerbeheer als volgt openen: klik op de knop Start, klik op Configuratiescherm, klik op Systeem en onderhoud, klik op Systeembeheer en dubbelklik vervolgens op Computerbeheer.‌ Typ het wachtwoord of een bevestiging als u wordt gevraagd om het Administrator-wachtwoord of een bevestiging.

2. Klik in het navigatievenster onder Opslag op Schijfbeheer.

3. Klik met de rechtermuisknop op het volume dat u wilt verkleinen en klik vervolgens op Volume verkleinen.

4. Volg de instructies op het scherm.



Als u precies wilt weten hoe u een volume verkleint, opent u Schijfbeheer en klikt u achtereenvolgens op Help op de menubalk, Help-onderwerpen, de tab Inhoudsopgave, Schijfbeheer: Welkom, Standaardvolumes beheren en tot slot op Een standaardvolume verkleinen.

Opmerkingen
Als de vaste schijf in meerdere partities is verdeeld, kunt u partities verwijderen en nieuwe partities maken met de resulterende niet-toegewezen ruimte. Wanneer u een partitie verwijdert, worden alle gegevens op deze partitie gewist.
U kunt vaste schijven ook opnieuw partitioneren met een partitioneringsprogramma van derden. Verscheidene fabrikanten bieden programma's aan waarmee u de vaste schijf kunt partitioneren zonder gegevens te wissen.

YouTube Downloader - Reviews and free YouTube Downloader downloads at Download.com

YouTube Downloader - Reviews and free YouTube Downloader downloads at Download.com

Stevia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stevia is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America. The species Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or simply stevia, is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sugar substitute, stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.

With its extracts having up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar, stevia has garnered attention with the rise in demand for low-carbohydrate, low-sugar food alternatives. Stevia also has shown promise in medical research for treating such conditions as obesity[1] and high blood pressure.[2][3] Stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose, even enhancing glucose tolerance;[4] therefore, it is attractive as a natural sweetener to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets.[5] However, health and political controversies have limited stevia's availability in many countries; for example, the United States banned it in the early 1990s unless labeled as a supplement. Stevia is widely used as a sweetener in Japan, and it is now available in the US and Canada as a dietary supplement, although not as a food additive. Rebiana is the trade name for a stevia-derived sweetener being developed jointly by The Coca-Cola Company and Cargill with the intent of marketing in several countries and gaining regulatory approval in the US and EU.

Vista

Windows Live ID with Hotmail @live.com or @windowslive.com or Local Domains » My Digital Life

Arabic - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/ar-XA/mail/overview)Argentina - live.com.ar (http://get.live.com/es-AR/mail/overview)Australia - live.com.au (http://get.live.com/en-AU/mail/overview)Austria - live.at (http://get.live.com/de-AT/mail/overview)Belgium - live.be (http://get.live.com/fr-BE/mail/overview)Canada - live.ca (http://get.live.com/en-CA/mail/overview)Chile - live.cl (http://get.live.com/es-CL/mail/overview)China - live.cn (http://get.live.com/zh-chs-cn/mail/overview)Denmark - live.dk (http://get.live.com/da-DK/mail/overview)Finland - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/fi-FI/mail/overview)France - live.fr or hotmail.fr (http://get.live.com/fr-FR/mail/overview)Germany - live.de or hotmail.de (http://get.live.com/de-DE/mail/overview)Hong Kong - live.hk (http://get.live.com/zh-cht-hk/mail/overview)Indonesia - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/en-ID/mail/overview)Ireland - live.ie (http://get.live.com/en-IE/mail/overview)Italy - live.it or hotmail.it (http://get.live.com/it-IT/mail/overview)Japan - live.jp or hotmail.co.jp (http://get.live.com/ja-JP/mail/overview)Korea - live.co.kr (http://get.live.com/ko-KR/mail/overview)Malaysia - live.com.my (http://get.live.com/en-MY/mail/overview)Mexico - live.com.mx (http://get.live.com/es-MX/mail/overview)Netherlands live.nl (http://get.live.com/nl-NL/mail/overview)Norway - live.no (http://get.live.com/nb-NO/mail/overview)Pakistan - live.com.pk (registration link unavailable)Peru - live.com.pe (registration link unavailable)Portugal - live.com.pt (registration page URL in pt-PT language locale)Russia - live.ru (http://get.live.com/ru-RU/mail/overview)Singapore - live.com.sg (http://get.live.com/en-SG/mail/overview)South Africa - live.co.za (http://get.live.com/en-ZA/mail/overview)Sweden - live.se (http://get.live.com/sv-SE/mail/overview)Switzerland - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/fr-CH/mail/overview)Thailand - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/th-TH/mail/overview)Turkey - windowslive.com (http://get.live.com/tr-TR/mail/overview)UK - live.com.uk or hotmail.co.uk (http://get.live.com/en-GB/mail/overview)USA - live.com (http://get.live.com/en-US/mail/overview)USA (Spanish) - live.com (http://get.live.com/es-US/mail/overview)Vietnam - windowslive.com (registration URL unavailable)

Signal - Screenshots

Signal - Screenshots

Movie free iphone wallpaper iphone ringtone iphone theme ipod itouch wallpaper ipod itouch backgrounds

Movie free iphone wallpaper iphone ringtone iphone theme ipod itouch wallpaper ipod itouch backgrounds

Rip Music from Movies

I sometimes have the desire to rip music from movies to be able to listen to it as an audio file later on. It is great if you own a Live DVD from your favorite music band for instance or for creating audiobooks from movies.

Free DVD MP3 Ripper is a prime example of a software that I like. It is small and easy to use with only a few options to choose from. The music ripper supports vob, dat, mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 movie files which translates to DVDs, (S)VCDs and MPEG movie sources.

Users can preview the movie and the audio of the movie and select a range that should be ripped instead of ripping the full movie. The output settings and ID3 tags can be customized and edited as well. Everything is accessible in the main window which makes this an error proof software to use.



The projected size of the audio file is displayed as well, nice if you want to keep the audio files below a certain size.

YouTube - Android Demo

AppleInsider | iPod touch software 1.1.2 adds calendar functions

Arriving alongside iPhone software version 1.1.2 on Thursday evening was iPod touch software version 1.1.2, which adds new calendar functionality to the touch-screen media players.

The 158MB update began turning up via iTunes for some iPod touch users in the late evening hours, but is also available as a raw download for those users who don't mind triggering the install manually.

Thus far, one of the only visible features delivered by the update appears to be the ability to add and edit calendar events through the Touch's calendar application. Although these capabilities had long been available to iPhone users, Apple omitted them from the initial version of the Touch software presumably to help differentiate the player from the iPhone.

For his part, however, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs in a recent email response to a customer chalked the absence of the functions up to an oversight, calling it a "bug."

"The inability to edit and add calendar events is a bug that will be fixed in a future software update," he said.

Bouw een P.C.

[ Hardware.Info ] - Hardware.Info TV: Bouw je eigen PC!

Antwoordnummer.nl, gratis opzoeken van antwoordnummers en gratis spullen. Nu ook via www.antwoordnummergids.nl

Welkom bij Antwoordnummer.nl, gratis opzoeken van antwoordnummers en gratis spullen. Nu ook via www.antwoordnummergids.nl

En een gewoon nummer bellen inplaats van de dure 0900

YouTube limiet verhoogt naar 1 GB

YouTube limiet verhoogt naar 1 GB plus nieuwe Multi-Video Upload
zaterdag 10 november 2007

YouTube heeft een nieuwe optie gelanceerd voor de videowebsite, de Multi-Video Upload. Met deze optie is het mogelijk om meerdere video's tegelijk te uploaden vanaf de computer. Om gebruik te kunnen maken van de Multi-Video Upload is het wel nodig om software te installeren op de computer. De software is op dit moment alleen nog beschikbaar voor Windows gebruikers, een Mac versie wordt binnenkort uitgebracht. Verder heeft YouTube de limiet op de grootte van de video aangepast. Normaal gesproken was dit 100 MB en dit is nu verhoogd naar 1 GB per video. Het uploaden van bestanden die groter zijn dan 100 MB gaan ook via de Multi-Video Upload optie, via de reguliere weg uploaden is nog steeds gelimiteerd op 100 MB. De lengte van de video is wel gelijk gebleven op 10 minuten. Bij het uploaden van echt grote video's kan het tot 30 minuten duren voordat deze beschikbaar is op de videowebsite.

De optie is nog niet beschikbaar op de Nederlandse versie van YouTube, op YouTube.com vind je de optie onder stap 1 bij het uploaden van een video, daar volgt een melding voor het installeren van de software.

Link: YouTube
Link: YouTube Multi-Video Upload

Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007

Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007

Amigoe.com

Amigoe.com

Mediamarkt : IkHebDeGrootste.nl

Mediamarkt : IkHebDeGrootste.nl

Activation Reset

This is not an illegal crack. According to the Sysprep Technical Reference, this method can be used to delay the activation requirements in Vista.
After the installation of Vista you have 30 days to activate.

Failing to active will limit the system to Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM).


Using the following command, you can reset Vista's activation clock up to 3 times.

This can be done by running the following command from a command prompt:

\windows\system32\sysprep /generalize

Windows Mail BBC

If you are sending an email out to a few people or a mailing list, you probably are wanting to hide the list of addresses from each recipient. You do this by using the blind carbon copy field in the message you are creating. Windows Mail has this field hidden by default, to unhide the field, follow these steps:
1. From Windows Mail, click Create Mail from the toolbar.

2. The New Message window will appear.

3. Click View and select All Headers.

4. The Bcc field will appear. Place the address(es) you wish to send a blind carbon copy.

Run System File Checker

System File Checker checks that all Windows files are where they should be and that they're uncorrupted. If you've done all your virus and spyware checking, error checking and defragging, and Windows is still doing strange things, then SFC can avoid a reinstall.
1. Open a Command Window in Administrator mode:

* click Start
* click All Programs, then Accessories
* right click on the Command Prompt option,
* on the drop down menu which appears, click on the Run as Administrator option.



* If you haven’t disabled User Account Control (and you shouldn’t!) you will be asked for authorisation. Click the Continue button if you are the administrator or insert the administrator password.

2. Start the System File Checker

* In the Command Prompt window, type: sfc /scannow,
* press Enter.
* You’ll see “the system scan will begin”.

The scan may take some time and windows will repair/replace any corrupt or missing files. You will be asked to insert your Vista DVD if it’s needed.

Close the Command Prompt Window when the job is finished.

One caveat: you need a Windows CD or DVD to enable SFC to make repairs. Don’t get suckered into buying any Windows computer with a Recovery or Restoration disc

SpeedTouch 330

Download Install Software R4.1 voor Windows Vista (13.0 MB)
Instructie: Na download, programma starten en het modem pas aansluiten als de wizard er om vraagt. U dient vooraf op de hoogte te zijn van het voor het betreffende ADSL-netwerk geldende verbindingsmodel (PPPoA of RFC1483 en welke VP/VC).
bestand uit de map met de naam van uw ADSL-netwerk.

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Symbaloo - start simpel

iPod Touch

Review: iPod Touch in Nederland » Nieuws » iPhoneclub.nl

Review: iPod Touch in Nederland » Nieuws » iPhoneclub.nl

Mac OS Leopard gekraakt voor standaard PC

Mac OS Leopard gekraakt voor standaard PC
zondag 28 oktober 2007 - Bron: tweakers.net

Een dag na het uitkomen van het nieuwe besturingssysteem van Apple, Mac OS X Leopard is er al een handleiding verschenen waarmee het mogelijk is om de software te kunnen draaien op een standaard PC. Leopard was voortijdig uitgelekt via onder meer diverse nieuwsgroepen waarna hackers ermee aan de slag gingen om het besturingssysteem aan de praat te krijgen op een computer, oftewel een "Hackintosh". Dit is al eerder gelukt met oudere versies en zodoende was de klus binnen een dag geklaard. De nu gebruikte methode hiervoor is nog redelijk omslachtig, naar verluidt wordt er nog gewerkt aan een wat meer gebruikersvriendelijke illegale versie.

Opera Link: your stuff everywhere

Opera Link: your stuff everywhereOpera Link: your stuff everywhere
Opera connects mobile and desktop worlds
Oslo, Norway and Mountain View, CA - October 25, 2007
Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released Opera Link. Wherever you are, whatever Opera browser you use, or whichever device you use Opera on, you can instantly access your bookmarks, Speed Dial, and personal bar. Say goodbye to the tedious hassle of entering text in your mobile phone to visit your top sites and say hello to a new level of convenience from device to device. Try Opera Link for yourself at www.opera.com.

Apple - iPhone - Leistungsmerkmale - High-Tech

Apple - iPhone - Leistungsmerkmale - High-Tech

iPod

Probably the single most frequently-asked question of our editors here at iLounge is “How do I copy music from my iPod back to my computer?”

Although Apple’s iTunes program is very good at keeping a computer-based library synchronized to an iPod automatically, or for manually transferring tracks from your computer’s iTunes library onto your iPod, it provides extremely limited functionality for transferring information in the opposite direction—from your iPod back to your computer.

One of the likely reasons for Apple to have taken such a restrictive approach to this is to combat piracy and thereby maintain good relations with the music labels that are currently selling their content via Apple’s iTunes Store. In reality, however, there are any number of legitimate reasons why a user may want to copy music from their iPod back to their computer, such as recovering from a catastrophic system failure, or easily transferring a large iTunes library over to a new computer.

Unfortunately, with the exception of tracks purchased from the iTunes Store, which we’ll discuss further later in this article, iTunes provides no method for transferring your music and other media content from your iPod back to your computer. It has therefore fallen to third-party developers to pick up where iTunes left off in this regard, and there are today a number of very robust and full-featured utilities that will do everything from basic copying of media content back to your hard drive all the way through to rebuilding your entire iTunes library using the information on your iPod, complete with playlists, ratings, and play count information.

In this tutorial, we will begin with a background on how music is stored on the iPod in the first place, and then look at the options available for copying music and other media files from the iPod back to your computer, both on an individual basis and en masse for a complete disaster-recovery scenario.

It should be noted that although the information in this article applies to all past and current models of iPod, including the iPod nano, iPod mini, and even the iPod shuffle, there is no guarantee that future generations of iPod will continue to support these methods. Further, this information does not apply to content stored on the Apple TV or iPhone, since despite their integration with iTunes, a different synchronization technology is used for these devices.

Under the Hood—How Content is stored on the iPod

Before we get into the details of how to copy media content from the iPod back to your computer, it’s important to begin with a discussion of how that content is actually stored on the iPod. An understanding of how the iPod stores its content will make it more clear as to what the various recovery or copying options actually do, and help decide on what the best option is for a particular situation.

Unlike many other portable media players, the iPod stores its content using a database methodology. iTunes copies the content itself to a hidden directory structure on the iPod and then updates a database stored on the iPod. It is this database that is used both by iTunes and the iPod interface itself to index and catalog the content that is stored on the iPod.

For the most part, this database information is gleaned from the internal header tags within the media files themselves, in much the same way that iTunes indexes and catalogs your media library. Information such as the track name, artist, album, genre, and a myriad of other information that you can find for each track in iTunes is actually stored in each file, and the name of the file has no bearing on what iTunes or the iPod sees or how it catalogs any given media file. In fact, the only time the file name is ever used by iTunes is if the tags themselves are not present.

The iPod database also contains additional information about your music that is not normally stored within the tracks themselves. This includes your playlists and the listing of their content, as well as track metadata such as rating, play count, last played time, skip count, last skipped time, and more.

This particular means of storing information on the iPod has both advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage to this approach is that music is catalogued in such a way that it is easily and rapidly accessible from the various menus on the iPod itself, without having to search through individual track information or build a separate cache. The disadvantage is that the music must be tagged properly in order for this to work, and of course this obscures the actual layout of the music files themselves, making it more difficult to find and copy specific tracks from the iPod back to the computer.

Fortunately, a number of third-party utilities have been developed that can read these iPod databases directly, and use them to not only locate specific tracks to recover, but in some cases even recover playlists and other additional metadata such as rating and play count.

On the iPod itself, all of the internal iPod information is located in a hidden folder called iPod_Control. Most of the information in this folder pertains to internal iPod operations, such as device configuration and settings and the library database described above. However, beneath this iPod_Control folder is a Music folder that contains all of the individual audio and video files that are stored on that particular iPod. The only information not stored here is photos, which we will discuss separately later in this article.

The files in the Music folder won’t necessarily be organized in any meaningful way for a human, since they are expected to be accessed via the iPod’s library database, which contains all of the information and other metadata for each track cross-referenced with the location of these individual files.

Disaster Recovery

So you have a nice big 80GB iPod with your entire media library loaded onto it, synchronizing automatically with your iTunes library, when suddenly the unthinkable happens… Your computer’s hard drive decides that it’s been spinning for long enough, and gives up on you.

You now suddenly find yourself in the position where your only copy of your music library is on your iPod itself, and you need to get those tracks back off the iPod onto your computer, so you can rebuild your iTunes library.

In a situation where you’ve been using automatic synchronization with your iTunes library, and you suddenly find you no longer have an iTunes library to sync with, there are a couple of additional considerations that are important to keep in mind.

Automatic iPod synchronization from iTunes is, for the most part, a one-way experience. Some information does come back in the other direction, such as ratings and play counts, but the bottom line is that iTunes considers the library on your computer to be “authoritative”—meaning that the iPod mirrors the iTunes library, rather than the other way around.

The unfortunate downside to this is that if you have an empty iTunes library on your computer, an iPod that is automatically syncing to it will happily mirror the content of your empty library. In other words, everything on the iPod will be deleted and replaced with, well… nothing.

The good news, however, is that this is only really a problem if you’re actually using the same library as you were syncing with before. iTunes is intelligent enough to notice when an iPod that you connect was previously associated to a different iTunes library database, and prompt you with a warning as to what you want to do next:




If you are trying to recover your music from your iPod, you obviously do not want to select Erase and Sync. Simply click Cancel instead, and your iPod will remain connected to your computer, but the auto-sync process will not run.

So what about those situations where you are connecting your iPod to your existing iTunes library? For example if you accidentally deleted a few tracks from your main iTunes library that you want to recover from your iPod. In this case, the iTunes automatic sync will run without notification since it’s the same library database. Fortunately, iTunes offers a solution for this as well: Simply hold down the SHIFT+CTRL keys (on Windows) or CMD+OPT keys (on a Mac) while you are connecting your iPod to your computer. Keep holding these keys down until your actually see your iPod show up in the iTunes source list. This will prevent iTunes from running any kind of automatic sync when it detects the iPod, but the iPod will again remain connected and ready to work with.

Awesome iTunes hack: Get Apple's hi-res album art for free! - iPod Hacks Forums

Awesome iTunes hack: Get Apple's hi-res album art for free! - iPod Hacks Forums

Flickr

The so called Flickr Related Tag Browser offers an interesting and comfortable way to search Flickr using tags. The user enters a tag of his choice and the website compiles the relevant information and pictures from Flickr. 25 of the pictures are shown as tiny thumbnails which increase in size if the user moves the mouse over any of them.

Messenger button voor je website of mail

button builder

Microsoft heeft een tool gemaakt waarmee je snel en eenvoudig een eigen Windows Live Messenger button kunt genereren. Deze button kun je vervolgens gebruiken om op je website, blog of Windows Live Space te plaatsen, of toe te voegen als handtekening in je e-mail in Outlook, Live Hotmail etc. Gebruikers zoals familie die op de button klikken kunnen je op deze manier eenvoudig toevoegen aan hun contacten in Live Messenger. Nadeel is dat de button alleen werkt in Internet Explorer en voorzien is met Engelse teksten. Bij het maken van een button kies je een stijl, kleur en tekst en vul je je e-mailadres in. Hierna krijg je een HTML code en eventueel aanvullende instructies.

WINDOWS XP GOODIES

Vista How to bypass Vista activation

Imagine a race. A race between Microsoft and Crackers. Whenever Microsoft releases a new operating system that they say is absolutely secure and uncrackable some crackers find a way after days, weeks or even months. Vista was designed to be the first operating system that would not be copied en masse because of the way it had to be activated to function after a trial period. The first workarounds popped up pretty quickly buying time for the one real workaround to rule them all.

The weakness was first discovered by the famous (underground) group Paradox which discovered a way to emulate so called “Royality OEM2″ which require no activation at all. Those special OEM versions are only issued to major computer manufacturers such as Dell and Asus to take the hassle of activating the operating system away from their clients. These manufacturers embed license information into their hardware products which is equivalent to a online or phone registration.


This is called system-locked pre-installation 2.0 (SLP 2.0) and it consists of three key elements: (taken directly from the Paradox info file)

The OEM’s hardware-embedded BIOS ACPI_SLIC information signed by Microsoft.
A certificate issued by Microsoft that corresponds to the specific ACPI_SLIC information.
A special type of product key that corresponds to the installed edition of Windows Vista.

“If all three elements match Windows Vista’s licensing mechanism considers the given installation a valid system-locked pre-activated copy (that does not require any additional product activation procedures).”

Which means they had to create a tool that would emulate an SLP 2.0 system fulfilling all three key elements. This process introduced by Paradox could be described as rather complex for the average user.

Thankfully a group called Clony created a one click activation from this information. The process would be the following:

Install RTM or Retail Vista without product key
Execute a single file and follow the instructions
Reboot Windows Vista
Now this does not sound complicated at all, does it ? In case you are wondering where to get those activation files. I do not want to link directly to them because it could mean serious trouble. But, I would like to let you know where you can download them. Just head over to the friendly pirates of the piratebay and search for Vista Clony to find a well seeded torrent. The file is called Vista.All.x86.OneClick.Activator-CLoNY.

Please rest assured that this method to bypass Vista activation does not tinker with your bios at all. It is a pure software emulation of a OEM bios.

Vista

With the Vista CTP Build 5231 release Microsoft has even more tightly integrated many of the services into the operating system; as a result there are less performance gains to be found from disabling many of the services as compared to previous builds. After considerable testing and benchmarking by PROnetworks staff, we have found little if any performance gain to be found by disabling services with the exception of disabling the User Experience Session Management Service (uxss.exe). In addition there are a number of new services which are only partly integrated into this build, and as such, disabling some services can cause unforeseen results. If you would like to experiment yourself, the procedure below outlines the steps to disable services.
To Disable Services:
Go to the start menu, select run, and type in ’services.msc’ (without the quotes). This will open up the Services Management Console.

Scroll down the list of services until you find the service you wish to disable then double click on the service, or alternatively, right click on the service and select Properties.

In the dropdown for Startup type select “Disabled”, click Apply, and click the Stop button to stop the service.

Once the service shows as being stopped, click OK and go on to the next service.

*Note: Some services have dependencies with other services so depending on the order that you disable them you may get a message that tells you that stopping this service will stop another service.

Services Tweaks for Older Hardware

Those attempting to install Vista build 5231 on older hardware, for example having an older Sempron CPU or Pentium III for example, would be well-advised to apply the following Services tweaks, which have been found to provide significant performance improvement on such older machines.

Disable the following Services:

Application Layer Gateway Service

IKE and AuthIP IPSec

Infrared monitoring service - do not disable if using a remote with the Media Center shell

Offline Files

Remote Registry

Secondary Logon (if you have only one user)

SSDP Discovery - *Note: disabling this service will also stop the UPnP Device Host service and the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service– in some cases disabling the SSDP service has been found to fix the 100% CPU usage problem in svchost.exe with some programs such as NOD32 Antivirus

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

For those users who experience poor performance due to an unsupported Graphics card, or who have Graphic Driver problems, we recommend disabling the User Experience Session Management Service

This will disable DWM and the Aero effects, but you can get a performance boost depending on your setup. This tweak is recommended for those who find their machines running slow with the DWM effects enabled as well as those wishing for a moderate performance gain.

On some machines, especially those with older hardware, it may be desirable to disable the Windows Search Engine service. This is a core feature of the new Operating System; however in this build of Windows Vista, it is still fairly buggy and can drain too many resources. On the other hand, if you have a recent and relatively fast CPU, we would advise you leave this service running automatically, even though the service may cause some temporary performance loss during the content cataloguing process.

For added Security, you may try disabling the following Services:

The following tweaks are suitable for both older and Vista-ready machines.

Intersite Messaging
Peer Networking Group Authentication
Peer Networking Grouping Service
Peer Networking Identity Manager
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Terminal Services – do not disable if using Infrared monitoring service

Ipod Touch

Met de komst van de iPod Touch is de vorige maand geïntroduceerde nieuwe lijn iPods compleet. De Touch is de meest in het oog springende iPod, maar tegelijkertijd ook het exemplaar met de meeste mogelijkheden en de hoogste prijs.
De iPod Touch ziet er prachtig uit en lijkt behoorlijk op de in Nederland niet verkrijgbare iPhone.

PC World - PC World Downloads - Mz Vista Force

Tweak Windows Vista in many different ways. Here's a free Vista tweaker, and it's a very good one --- you'll be able to tweak Vista in countless way, including for speeding up performance, juicing up Internet speed, cleaning up your hard disk, cleaning out startup programs, and even tweaking Windows Media Player and Explorer. There are numerous settings here, many of them exceedingly fine-grained. Want to change the speed at which the Start menu search display? Yes, you can do it, and plenty more as well. The program free, and there's a lot to play with, and based on that, it's hard not to want to download it.

Toyota i-REAL Concept

Toyota i-REAL Concept

Aanvullende ondersteuning voor Windows Vista - Windows Vista Service

Aanvullende ondersteuning voor Windows Vista - Windows Vista Service

service_pack_1_vista

De eerste Service Pack voor Windows Vista staat gepland om uit te komen in het eerste kwartaal van 2008. Op dit moment verkeerd Service Pack 1 nog in betafase en ligt bij de testers. De meeste veranderingen van Service Pack 1 voor Vista zullen weinig ingrijpend zijn en bestaan uit voornamelijk al bestaande updates die het systeem stabieler en betrouwbaarder moeten maken. 'Het is geen manier om veel nieuwe functionaliteit uit te rollen', aldus Shanen Boettcher van de Windows-groep.

Maar met de Service Pack komt wel een kleine nieuwe optie, en wel om een herstelschijf te maken.

Moto

IS IT distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? These are questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries, and chances are you've pondered them too occasionally.
None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights. Advances in medical science, too, have led to a better understanding of what goes on as the body gives up the ghost.
Death comes in many guises, but one way or another it is usually a lack of oxygen to the brain that delivers the coup de grâce. Whether as a result of a heart attack, drowning or suffocation, for example, people ultimately die because their neurons are deprived of oxygen, leading to cessation of electrical activity in the brain - the modern definition of biological death.
If the flow of freshly oxygenated blood to the brain is stopped, through whatever mechanism, people tend to have about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. They may take many more minutes to die, though, with the exact mode of death affecting the subtleties of the final experience. If you can take the grisly details, read on for a brief guide to the many and varied ways death can suddenly strike.
Drowning
The "surface struggle" for breath
Death by drowning has a certain dark romance to it: countless literary heroines have met their end slipping beneath the waves with billowy layers of petticoats floating around their heads. In reality, suffocating to death in water is neither pretty nor painless, though it can be surprisingly swift.
Just how fast people drown depends on several factors, including swimming ability and water temperature. In the UK, where the water is generally cold, 55 per cent of open-water drownings occur within 3 metres of safety. Two-thirds of victims are good swimmers, suggesting that people can get into difficulties within seconds, says Mike Tipton, a physiologist and expert in marine survival at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.
Typically, when a victim realises that they cannot keep their head above water they tend to panic, leading to the classic "surface struggle". They gasp for air at the surface and hold their breath as they bob beneath, says Tipton. Struggling to breathe, they can't call for help. Their bodies are upright, arms weakly grasping, as if trying to climb a non-existent ladder from the sea. Studies with New York lifeguards in the 1950s and 1960s found that this stage lasts just 20 to 60 seconds.
When victims eventually submerge, they hold their breath for as long as possible, typically 30 to 90 seconds. After that, they inhale some water, splutter, cough and inhale more. Water in the lungs blocks gas exchange in delicate tissues, while inhaling water also triggers the airway to seal shut - a reflex called a laryngospasm. "There is a feeling of tearing and a burning sensation in the chest as water goes down into the airway. Then that sort of slips into a feeling of calmness and tranquility," says Tipton, describing reports from survivors.
That calmness represents the beginnings of the loss of consciousness from oxygen deprivation, which eventually results in the heart stopping and brain death.
Heart attack
One of the most common forms of exit
The "Hollywood Heart Attack", featuring sudden pain, desperate chest-clutching and immediate collapse, certainly happens in a few cases. But a typical "myocardial infarction", as medical-speak has it, is a lot less dramatic and comes on slowly, beginning with mild discomfort.
The most common symptom is, of course, chest pain: a tightness, pressure or squeezing, often described as an "elephant on my chest", which may be lasting or come and go. This is the heart muscle struggling and dying from oxygen deprivation. Pain can radiate to the jaw, throat, back, belly and arms. Other signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea and cold sweats.
Most victims delay before seeking assistance, waiting an average of 2 to 6 hours. Women are the worst, probably because they are more likely to experience less well-known symptoms, such as breathlessness, back or jaw pain, or nausea, says JoAnn Manson, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School. Survivors say they just didn't want to make a fuss; that it felt more like indigestion, tiredness or muscle cramps than a heart attack. Then again, some victims are just in denial.
Delay costs lives. Most people who die from heart attacks do so before reaching hospital. The actual cause of death is often heart arrhythmia - disruption of the normal heart rhythm, in other words.
Even small heart attacks can play havoc with the electrical impulses that control heart muscle contraction, effectively stopping it. In about 10 seconds the person loses consciousness, and minutes later they are dead.
Patients who make it to hospital quickly fare much better; in the UK and US more than 85 per cent of heart attack patients admitted to hospital survive to 30 days. Hospitals can deploy defibrillators to shock the heart back into rhythm, and clot-busting drugs and artery-clearing surgery.
Bleeding to death
Several stages of haemorrhagic shock
The speed of exsanguination, as bleeding to death is known, depends on the source of the bleed, says John Kortbeek at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and chair of Advanced Trauma Life Support for the American College of Surgeons. People can bleed to death in seconds if the aorta, the major blood vessel leading from the heart, is completely severed, for example, after a severe fall or car accident.
Death could creep up much more slowly if a smaller vein or artery is nicked - even taking hours. Such victims would experience several stages of haemorrhagic shock. The average adult has 5 litres of blood. Losses of around 750 millilitres generally cause few symptoms. Anyone losing 1.5 litres - either through an external wound or internal bleeding - feels weak, thirsty and anxious, and would be breathing fast. By 2 litres, people experience dizziness, confusion and then eventual unconsciousness.
"Survivors of haemorrhagic shock describe many different experiences, ranging from fear to relative calm," Kortbeek says. "In large part this would depend on what and how extensive the associated injuries were. A single penetrating wound to the femoral artery in the leg might be less painful than multiple fractures sustained in a motor vehicle crash."
Fire
It's usually the toxic gases that prove lethal
Long the fate of witches and heretics, burning to death is torture. Hot smoke and flames singe eyebrows and hair and burn the throat and airways, making it hard to breathe. Burns inflict immediate and intense pain through stimulation of the nociceptors - the pain nerves in the skin. To make matters worse, burns also trigger a rapid inflammatory response, which boosts sensitivity to pain in the injured tissues and surrounding areas.
As burn intensities progress, some feeling is lost but not much, says David Herndon, a burns-care specialist at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "Third-degree burns do not hurt as much as second-degree wounds, as superficial nerves are destroyed. But the difference is semantic; large burns are horrifically painful in any instance."
Some victims of severe burns report not feeling their injuries while they are still in danger or intent on saving others. Once the adrenalin and shock wear off, however, the pain quickly sets in. Pain management remains one of the most challenging medical problems in the care of burns victims.
Most people who die in fires do not in fact die from burns. The most common cause of death is inhaling toxic gases - carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and even hydrogen cyanide - together with the suffocating lack of oxygen. One study of fire deaths in Norway from 1996 found that almost 75 per cent of the 286 people autopsied had died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Depending on the size of the fire and how close you are to it, concentrations of carbon monoxide could start to cause headache and drowsiness in minutes, eventually leading to unconsciousness. According to the US National Fire Protection Association, 40 per cent of the victims of fatal home fires are knocked out by fumes before they can even wake up.
Decapitation
Nearly instantaneous
Beheading, if somewhat gruesome, can be one of the quickest and least painful ways to die - so long as the executioner is skilled, his blade sharp, and the condemned sits still.
The height of decapitation technology is, of course, the guillotine. Officially adopted by the French government in 1792, it was seen as more humane than other methods of execution. When the guillotine was first used in public, onlookers were reportedly aghast at the speed of death.
Quick it may be, but consciousness is nevertheless believed to continue after the spinal chord is severed. A study in rats in 1991 found that it takes 2.7 seconds for the brain to consume the oxygen from the blood in the head; the equivalent figure for humans has been calculated at 7 seconds. Some macabre historical reports from post-revolutionary France cited movements of the eyes and mouth for 15 to 30 seconds after the blade struck, although these may have been post-mortem twitches and reflexes.
If you end up losing your head, but aren't lucky enough to fall under the guillotine, or even a very sharp, well-wielded blade, the time of conscious awareness of pain may be much longer. It took the axeman three attempts to sever the head of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587. He had to finish the job with a knife.
Decades earlier in 1541, Margaret Pole, the Countess of Salisbury, was executed at the Tower of London. She was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head down. The inexperienced axe man made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. According to some reports, she leapt from the block and was chased by the executioner, who struck 11 times before she died.
Electrocution
The heart and the brain are most vulnerable
In accidental electrocutions, usually involving low, household current, the most common cause of death is arrhythmia, stopping the heart dead. Unconsciousness ensues after the standard 10 seconds, says Richard Trohman, a cardiologist at Rush University in Chicago. One study of electrocution deaths in Montreal, Canada found that 92 per cent had probably died from arrhythmia.
Higher currents can produce nearly immediate unconsciousness. The electric chair was designed to produce instant loss of consciousness and painless death - a step up from traditional hangings - by conducting the current through the brain and the heart.
Whether it achieves this end is debatable. Studies on dogs in 1950 found that electrodes had to be placed on either side of the head to ensure sufficient current passed through the brain to knock the creature out. There have been many botched executions - those that required several jolts to kill, or where flames leapt from the prisoner's head, in one case due to a damp synthetic sponge being attached to the electrodes on the prisoner's head, which was such a poor conductor it was heated up by the current and caught fire.
An analysis in 2005 of post-mortem remains from 43 prisoners sentenced to death by electrocution found the most common visible injuries to be head and leg burns where the electrodes were attached. The study's senior author, William Hamilton, a medical examiner in Florida, concluded that these burns occurred post-mortem and that death was indeed instantaneous.
However, John Wikswo, a biophysicist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, maintains that the thick, insulating bones of the skull would prevent sufficient current from reaching the brain, and prisoners could instead be dying from heating of the brain, or perhaps from suffocation due to paralysis of the breathing muscles - either way, an unpleasant way to go.
Fall from a height
If possible aim to land feet first
A high fall is certainly among the speediest ways to die: terminal velocity (no pun intended) is about 200 kilometres per hour, achieved from a height of about 145 metres or more. A study of deadly falls in Hamburg, Germany, found that 75 per cent of victims died in the first few seconds or minutes after landing.
The exact cause of death varies, depending on the landing surface and the person's posture. People are especially unlikely to arrive at the hospital alive if they land on their head - more common for shorter (under 10 metres) and higher (over 25 metres) falls. A 1981 analysis of 100 suicidal jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - height: 75 metres, velocity on impact with the water: 120 kilometres per hour - found numerous causes of instantaneous death including massive lung bruising, collapsed lungs, exploded hearts or damage to major blood vessels and lungs through broken ribs.
Survivors of great falls often report the sensation of time slowing down. The natural reaction is to struggle to maintain a feet-first landing, resulting in fractures to the leg bones, lower spinal column and life-threatening broken pelvises. The impact travelling up through the body can also burst the aorta and heart chambers. Yet this is probably still the safest way to land, despite the force being concentrated in a small area: the feet and legs form a "crumple zone" which provides some protection to the major internal organs.
Some experienced climbers or skydivers who have survived a fall report feeling focused, alert and driven to ensure they landed in the best way possible: relaxed, legs bent and, where possible, ready to roll. Certainly every little helps, but the top tip for fallers must be to aim for a soft landing. A paper from 1942 reports a woman falling 28 metres from her apartment building into freshly tilled soil. She walked away with just a fractured rib and broken wrist.
Hanging
Speed of death depends on the hangman's skill
Suicides and old-fashioned "short drop" executions cause death by strangulation; the rope puts pressure on the windpipe and the arteries to the brain. This can cause unconsciousness in 10 seconds, but it takes longer if the noose is incorrectly sited. Witnesses of public hangings often reported victims "dancing" in pain at the end of the rope, struggling violently as they asphyxiated. Death only ensues after many minutes, as shown by the numerous people being resuscitated after being cut down - even after 15 minutes.
When public executions were outlawed in Britain in 1868, hangmen looked for a less performance-oriented approach. They eventually adopted the "long-drop" method, using a lengthier rope so the victim reached a speed that broke their necks. It had to be tailored to the victim's weight, however, as too great a force could rip the head clean off, a professionally embarrassing outcome for the hangman.
Despite the public boasting of several prominent executioners in late 19th-century Britain, a 1992 analysis of the remains of 34 prisoners found that in only about half of cases was the cause of death wholly or partly due to spinal trauma. Just one-fifth showed the classic "hangman's fracture" between the second and third cervical vertebrae. The others died in part from asphyxiation.
Michael Spence, an anthropologist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has found similar results in US victims. He concluded, however, that even if asphyxiation played a role, the trauma of the drop would have rapidly rendered all of them unconscious. "What the hangmen were looking for was quick cessation of activity," he says. "And they knew enough about their craft to ensure that happened. The thing they feared most was decapitation."
Lethal injection
US-government approved, but is it really painless?
Lethal injection was designed in Oklahoma in 1977 as a humane alternative to the electric chair. The state medical examiner and chair of anaesthesiology settled on a series of three drug injections. First comes the anaesthetic thiopental to speed away any feelings of pain, followed by a paralytic agent called pancuronium to stop breathing. Finally potassium chloride is injected, which stops the heart almost instantly.
Each drug is supposed to be administered in a lethal dose, a redundancy to ensure speedy and humane death. However, eyewitnesses have reported inmates convulsing, heaving and attempting to sit up during the procedure, suggesting the cocktail is not always completely effective.
The reason, say Leonidas Koniaris at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is insufficient thiopental. He and his colleagues analysed 41 executions by lethal injection in North Carolina and California, and compared anaesthetic doses to known effects in animal models, such as pigs. As the same dose of thiopental is used regardless of body weight, the anaesthesia produced in some heavier inmates might be inadequate, they concluded.
"I think that awareness is a real possibility in a large fraction of executions," says Koniaris. That awareness might include feelings of suffocation from paralysed lungs and the searing, burning pain of a potassium chloride injection. The effect of the paralytic, however, might mean that witnesses never see any outward signs of pain.
The Supreme Court is now going to review whether this mode of execution is legal.
Explosive decompression
It takes your breath away
Death due to exposure to vacuum is a staple of science fiction plots, whether the unfortunate gets thrown from an airlock or ruptures their spacesuit.
In real life there has been just one fatal space depressurisation accident. This occurred on the Russian Soyuz-11 mission in 1971, when a seal leaked upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere; upon landing all three flight crew were found dead from asphyxiation.
Most of our knowledge of depressurisation comes from animal experiments and the experiences of pilots in accidents at very high altitudes. When the external air pressure suddenly drops, the air in the lungs expands, tearing the fragile gas exchange tissues. This is especially damaging if the victim neglects to exhale prior to decompression or tries to hold their breath. Oxygen begins to escape from the blood and lungs.
Experiments on dogs in the 1950s showed that 30 to 40 seconds after the pressure drops, their bodies began to swell as the water in tissues vaporised, though the tight seal of their skin prevented them from "bursting". The heart rate rises initially, then plummets. Bubbles of water vapour form in the blood and travel through the circulatory system, obstructing blood flow. After about a minute, blood effectively stops circulating.
Human survivors of rapid decompression accidents include pilots whose planes lost pressure, or in one case a NASA technician who accidentally depressurised his flight suit inside a vacuum chamber. They often report an initial pain, like being hit in the chest, and may remember feeling air escape from their lungs and the inability to inhale. Time to the loss of consciousness was generally less than 15 seconds.
One mid-1960s experiment by the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory in New Mexico found that a chimpanzee had a period of useful consciousness of just 11 seconds before lack of oxygen caused them to pass out.
Surprisingly, in view of these apparently traumatic effects, animals that have been repressurised within 90 seconds have generally survived with no lasting damage.
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If you are worried that some programs on your PC are secretly making connections to websites in the background, here's a quick tip that uses a simple DOS command to detect and prevent such suspicious activity:

1. Type cmd in your Windows Run box.

2. Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt" and press enter. After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.

3. Type "activity.txt" on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)


The file activity.txt will have a log of all process that made a connection to the Internet in the last two minutes. It will also show which process connected to which website in this time. And not just the web browsers (like iexplore.exe or opera.exe), the log will also show your IM clients, download managers, email programs or any software that requires a net connection.

Scroll though the activity.txt file and look for any process names or website addresses that you are not aware of. If you track one , go to the task manager (or Process Explorer) to find the location of the executable on your computer and eliminate it.

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Negentig procent van de geheugenkaartjes die tweedehands worden aangeboden, bevat nog privé-foto's en -bestanden van de vorige eigenaar. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van computerblad PC Magazine.

PC Magazine kocht tientallen gebruikte geheugenkaartjes via websites als Marktplaats.nl en Tweedehands.nl. Veel eigenaren hadden niet de moeite genomen om hun kaartjes te wissen of deden dat niet grondig genoeg. Op bijna negentig procent van de media werden uitermate persoonlijke filmpjes, foto's en bestanden teruggevonden.

Behalve onschuldige vakantiefoto's troffen de onderzoekers ook een flinke portie Hollandse huiskamererotiek aan, zowel op foto's als bewegende beelden. Daarnaast stuitte PC Magazine op talloze mp3-tjes, e-mails en volledige sollicitatiebrieven.

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Met gratis verkrijgbare software is het een fluitje van een cent om verwijderde foto's alsnog boven water te halen. Dezelfde techniek wordt toegepast om per ongeluk verwijderde bestanden weer te herstellen.

'Vergeten' foto's, films en tekstbestanden kunnen vervelende consequenties hebben als ze in verkeerde handen vallen. Officier van justitie Tonino kan daar over meepraten, maar ook veel bedrijven worden geplaagd door het dupliceren van data via mobiele geheugendragers.