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| Open Any File Type - FREE !!! |
| Saturday, March 31, 2007 |
Even after many years of dealing with hundreds of file formats, I still encounter some file I cannot open without installing software. For people who are new to using computers the encounter is more frequent and often intimidating, until now.
Universal Viewer (ATViewer) is a Freeware/OpenSource utility which can open practically any file format you may encounter. Here is a short list from the product website:
- Text/Binary/Hex/Unicode: all files, with unlimited file size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed);
- RTF/UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts;
- Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF etc;
- Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Window Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3 MIDI etc;
- Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML DOC XLS etc;
- Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins.
However, even with the broad ability to open so many file formats, ATViewer will not open the following file formats:
For all the above file formats you will need to install the application software with one exception (as to my knowledge). Microsoft Office documents (.doc files) can be opened with the free Doc Viewer available from the Microsoft website HERE, which also has viewers for other MS Office products formats.
If you are a "newbie" ATViewer is an invaluable tool to have on you maching. Visit the product website HERE.
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posted by Pablo DiCiacco @ Saturday, March 31, 2007  |
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| Stormy Weather |
| Monday, March 19, 2007 |
Wimpy offers some great ways to post your music or video. Their light-weight applications are easy to configure and install. It is worth a visit to their site to take a look at the free offerings. Among them are an easy to use XML playlist maker. For my example of the Wimpy player here I used the iPod skin and reduced the mp3 files size with DietMp3 for faster downloading. DietMp3 is another small application used to reduce the size and quality of Mp3's to suit your particular needs. In my experiments 1500, 128kbps files were reduced to fit on one 750 Mb Cd.
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| posted by Pablo DiCiacco @ Monday, March 19, 2007 |
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| Easy Apache Server Setup |
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 |
If you're interested in setting up your own private Apache server read on. Like myself, it may take you hours of surfing to bring yourself up to date on things. There are many very useful sites which will guide you through the (somewhat complicated) installation process. Server, PHP and SQL can be installed manually, even by a beginner with patience, but why?
XAMPP of Apache Friends is the easier and more time efficient way to go. Whether you're installing on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, or Solaris you'll find a complete installation/setup file. With the latest release, in less than 15 minutes you can have Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.33, PHP 5.2.1 & PHP 4.4.5, phpMyAdmin 2.9.2 FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.22 and OpenSSL 0.9.8d up and running.
Ok, some extra effort may be required, such as setting the correct ports and configuring them in your firewall and router. But having solved those, surf around to find the many useful free PHP utilities.
One final note: running your own private server, you must consider bandwidth and ISP issues. Also, the URL to your server will be your IP address unless you configure it otherwise with DynDNS.
Labels: apache server, php, server, ssl, xampp |
| posted by Pablo DiCiacco @ Sunday, March 18, 2007 |
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| Nigmae Community - Copyright Infringement Rampant |
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 |
Here is a good place to begin. Over at what is called the Nigmae Share Community is a pirate site run by the NILLAND Group Limited. Googling Nilland Group results mostly in links back to Nigmae.
The first page offerings today include VanDerLee Photoshop plugins valued at $80US and more Photoshop plugins from theimagefactory valued at $240US.
Several links away you arrive at the Rapidshare file-sharing site. It appears that most links to file downloads at Nigmae are to Rapidshare. The rare exception will link to IceFile or Megashares.
While the majority of offerings at Nigmae are moviestar/model photos, wallpapers and icons, there are 673 pages of available software listed. For comparison there are 389 music pages, 81 games and 156 video among the 16 listed categories. Clicking on the "Amenities" category takes you to the xxxNigmae site where a plethora (945 pages) of soft/hardcore images and movies are listed.
Copyright infringement is rampant on this site. Software, images and video are all linked with either passwords, cracks or password generators. I would strongly urge readers to avoid either visiting or downloading any material from this site and its provided links. In addition to violating copyright laws, most files offered in such a way are infected in some way by trojans, viruses and BHO's.
Labels: copyright, icefile, megashare, nigmae, piracy, pornography, software |
| posted by Pablo DiCiacco @ Saturday, March 17, 2007 |
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| Welcome to Pirate World |
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The purpose and intent of this blog is simple and straightforward: I would like to enlighten software users and manufacturers on the world of piracy. Daily posts will direct interested visitors to what I have discovered to be the most active venues of software piracy. Labels: ahead, cracks, hackers, macintosh, macromedia, microsoft, piracy, software |
| posted by Pablo DiCiacco @ Saturday, March 17, 2007 |
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