Friday, February 16, 2007
GIMP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GIMP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; licensed under the GNU General Public License, GIMP is free software."
"The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; licensed under the GNU General Public License, GIMP is free software."
Monday, February 12, 2007
Using a Widescreen LCD for TV
Using a Widescreen LCD for TV:
the Magnolia guy at Best Buy also told me this about the picture quality, but he didn't seem certain.
" The 2405FPW has to convert the TV images to the higher monitor resolution. This lowers the picture quality, but still gives a good result. More of a problem is that the picture on the 2405FPW looks a little squashed as it is not quite the right aspect ratio for standard wide screen TV."
the Magnolia guy at Best Buy also told me this about the picture quality, but he didn't seem certain.
" The 2405FPW has to convert the TV images to the higher monitor resolution. This lowers the picture quality, but still gives a good result. More of a problem is that the picture on the 2405FPW looks a little squashed as it is not quite the right aspect ratio for standard wide screen TV."
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
AVG Anti-Virus
Free program has subpar heuristics and one of the clunkier interfaces among the products we tested. Everyone knows you need antivirus software to combat known threats, but what about those viruses that sneak under the radar before code is written to counteract them? AVG Anti-None of the three free antivirus products tested for the "The New Virus Fighters" ranked highly, but Grisoft's AVG Antivirus Free Edition holds the distinct honor of having placed last among all ten paid and free contenders due to a clunky interface, the omission of significant features, and below-average performance.
The main interface provides just three options: Scan Computer, Scan Selected Areas, and Check For Updates. Options on the console's left panel, such as the Scheduler, lead to notifications that the features you seek exist only in the paid version of the product, AVG Professional.
In our performance tests, AVG Free Edition ranked second to last. (Alwil Software's free Avast Home Edition ranked last.) While AVG Free Edition caught nearly 100 percent of bots and zombies in our collection of zoo malware, it caught a disappointing 65 percent of Trojan horses. It ranked second-to-last in our heuristics tests--detecting just 11 percent of worms and 8 percent of backdoor programs using one-month-old virus data.
The main interface provides just three options: Scan Computer, Scan Selected Areas, and Check For Updates. Options on the console's left panel, such as the Scheduler, lead to notifications that the features you seek exist only in the paid version of the product, AVG Professional.
In our performance tests, AVG Free Edition ranked second to last. (Alwil Software's free Avast Home Edition ranked last.) While AVG Free Edition caught nearly 100 percent of bots and zombies in our collection of zoo malware, it caught a disappointing 65 percent of Trojan horses. It ranked second-to-last in our heuristics tests--detecting just 11 percent of worms and 8 percent of backdoor programs using one-month-old virus data.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Bill Gates re Vista
Newsweek
p. 4
NW: So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like [i.e., the one after Vista]?
Gates: Well, it will be more user-centric.
NW: What does that mean?
Gates: That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you've got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services [a way to connect to Microsoft via the Internet] to know what you're interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else's PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that's kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable.
[Also,] in Vista things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won't need textbooks, they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We'll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we've got a pretty good outline.
Whole interview.
p. 4
NW: So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like [i.e., the one after Vista]?
Gates: Well, it will be more user-centric.
NW: What does that mean?
Gates: That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you've got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services [a way to connect to Microsoft via the Internet] to know what you're interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else's PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that's kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable.
[Also,] in Vista things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won't need textbooks, they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We'll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we've got a pretty good outline.
Whole interview.
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