What is MPlayer? The every second linux amateur should know about it. MPlayer is very powerful multiplatform video player wich is very popular in the world of free operation systems. This player is enough difficult to learn but fortunately there is a superstructure - SMPlayer wich is also available for Windows.
SMPlayer has ascetic interface, installer is about 11 MB and the complete installed sizw of files is a little bit more than 36 MB. There is the main feature from Mplayer - independance from codecs. When i installed the SMPlayer on Windows platform it played all my video collection without problems insted of Windows Media Player wich always asked for video codecs. Detailed information about supported video formats you can read here.
The first start of SMPlayer amazed its speed of loading. SMPlayer’s properities have all necessary options to manipulate. Deinterlaced functions has such algorythms as Yadif and LowPass5. Zoom was brilliant - it zoom an image smoothly. There are some video filters to remove black dtripes and etc.
There are karaoke option, sound delay definitions and many others to make this player the most powerful i have ever seen before.
I think SMPlayer can be liked by those who are in speed and high quality.
Why do i need BoxedApp SDK?
BoxedApp SDK is used to create virtual file system and a system registry for any application. So you can create temporary fake registry keys, entries and values, virtual files and etc.
When BoxedApp SDk can be useful?
- When your application must run but you do not have rights to enter necessary registry keys or to write to the file system.
- When your application uses DLL wich are secure and you cann’t save them
- For your application wich requires ActiveX but you don’t have installer to run it now.
BoxedApp SDk 1.0 Features:
- Create virtual files
- Create virtual registry keys
- Embed DLL
- Embed ActiveX / OCX
There are a lot of examples written on C++, Delphi, C# etc.
You can DOWNLOAD a demo version of BoxedApp SDK 1.0 HERE
Tags: app, dll, programming, sdk
DF™ Web-Traffic Shop - a system to buy and sell traffic from different countries and qualities. When you buy traffic the system analyze it, separate by row of parametres and accept only those you would like to get, the rest unnecessary traffic is returned back. The proccess of traffic buying and selling is automated: sellers can register and choose any kind of traffic they want to sell.
This system has a high productivity, written on C++; stability and minimum system requirements are needed (there is no MySQL, Php, Perl, cron). There is a detailed description of traffic (Country, Uniq, Proxy, Cheat, SE Bots, Referrer, JavaScript , Cookie, Java, IE, Connection Type: lan/modem/unknown/All). There is also a powerful tracking system and statistics.
You can try DEMO version here
Tags: buy traffic, traffic shop, web traffic
This article was taken from Telegraf news agency.
1 Google
The powerhouse of the internet and the only place many people go for information. But if you thought Google was a still a mere search engine, look again. Click on ‘more’ at the top of the homepage to discover the work of ‘GoogleLabs’ - more than 50 free tools and web pages that could change your internet life.
GoogleDocs lets you create documents, spreadsheets and presentations, store them online, share them with others and access them from wherever there’s an internet connection.
Googlemail is probably the best email program - it has virtually limitless capacity and you don’t need to change your email address to use it. The Google calendar is a powerful searchable diary that you can allow others to access, so family members can make appointments together.
SketchUp could be just the tool you are looking for to design that conservatory extension and see what it will look like once the builders have gone. Add to that databases for searching academic journals and books in the public domain, the powerful GoogleMaps, with its engaging satellite imagery, a finance page with live stock quotes and an easy-to-use online messaging system, and you can see why some people say Google is taking over the world - and, with GoogleMoon and GoogleMars, the rest of the galaxy, too.
2 Anonymouse
www.anonymouse.org
Surf the web without disclosing who or where you are.
Hints, tips and troubleshooting for your iPod and associated software.
4 Only2Clicks
www.only2clicks.com
If you use just a few websites, this lets you create a home page that has links to them all. Simple, free and practical.
A suite of free business programs. From word processing and presentation software to tools for taking notes in meetings, planning projects and creating databases.
To-do lists, notes, ideas and calendar. Excellent for juggling projects and much more versatile than a ring folder.
7 GetNetWise
www.getnetwise.org
All you need to know about keeping the net safe - protecting children, preventing spam, avoiding viruses and stopping others accessing your personal details.
More than 7,500 free fonts (for Mac and PC), so you can at last stop using Copperplate for your party invitations.
The superfast way to send large files over the web. Don’t attach that family video to an email, Pando it instead.
10 FlipClips
www.flipclips.com
Turn your home videos into animated flip books. Much more appealing than another DVD.
ENTERTAINMENT
11 Digital Spy
www.digitalspy.co.uk
Entertainment, media and showbiz news. Plus, a surprisingly good forum for technology-related problems - a great place to sort out your broadband.
12 BBC iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
On-demand television and radio programmes from the BBC.
13 Whatsonwhen
www.whatsonwhen.com
Events, attractions, openings and exhibitions from around the world. Enter a location and dates and the site will show listings.
14 London Theatre Guide
www.londontheatre.co.uk
What’s coming on and what’s making an exit in London’s theatre world. Especially good for seating plans, so you can see where the box office staff are putting you.
15 The Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com
The world’s biggest (and still growing) reference for actors, directors, locations, plots…
16 Rotten Tomatoes
www.rottentomatoes.com
A round-up of what the critics thought of films on general release.
17 Screenonline
www.screenonline.org.uk
The British Film Institute’s definitive guide to the British film industry. Plots, features, statistics and news from the film world.
18 Good Reads
www.goodreads.com
Expand your reading. Catalogue your books online and others make recommendations based on what you seem to enjoy.
News, features and listings for Britain’s terrestrial and cable television. Customisable interface so your favourite channels are always at the top.
20 Football365
www.football365.com
The authentic (and often tangential) voice of the Britain’s ‘real’ football supporters.
Everything you want to know about the world of cricket.
22 Beijing Olympics
en.beijing2008.cn
The official Olympics site, with news, scheduling, features and a countdown to the games themselves.
23 Radio Locator
www.radio-locator.com
From shock jocks to orchestral baroque, thousands of internet radio stations to listen to on your computer.
24 Live Plasma
www.liveplasma.com
Expand your music and movie tastes. Enter the name of a song, band, movie, actor or director you like and Live Plasma will return some pretty intelligent recommendations for further investigation.
A clever way of searching for video clips on the internet - from uploaded episodes of your favourite soap to comedy home-video moments.
26 Lulu
www.lulu.com
Self-publishing made smart again. Write, design and then print your own books - though you’ll still have to persuade others to buy them.
28 Wonder How To
www.wonderhowto.com
Two great sites full of short videos showing you how to do almost anything, from the incredibly useful (exercises for diabetes sufferers, tying a Windsor knot) to the revelatory (’learn different kinds of kisses’), via the wonderfully obscure (’make a moving jaw for your werewolf mask’).
Te rest part you can read here
Tags: web site
Google released a new version of Google Earth: programme to explore the places of our planet. You can see detaild information about cities, landscapes, also 3D modeling is available and even sky map is included in a package.
In a new version 4.3 developers improved 3D building models, now they are downloaded faster and there are more cities in 3D structure. Besides, sunlight function was added, fly mode was improved and street names like in Google Maps viewing was added.
You can download the lattest version of Google Earth here.
This programme can be interested for those who doesn’t have a printer but his/her friend has 
You can adjust PrinterShare to print your documents through another computer and printer via Internet. PrinterShare uses secure algorythms to code your docs, emails, photos from hackers. So you can easily print you necessary files even the printer is hundreds kilometres away.
PrinterShare advantages:
- You will be sure that docs are printed;
- PrinterShare doen’t use copies of electronical documents;
- There is no special software on printer side client;
- You can use that printer to print photos wich is not compatible with your requirements;
- It is free
Everything you need to start working is to download PrinterShare utility and install it on your and printer’s computer and change some preferences.
Tags: internet, printer, share
Adobe - Photoshop Express is a free online photo editor for the photo amateurs from Adobe. Photoshop Express based on Flex technology. In contrast to Photoshop CS (desktop version) Photoshop Express has anly few tools to edit photos.
To start working you have to register and confirm your email address:
After logging in you can upload photos from your computer or via online services like Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa.
All tools are devide on three groups: Basics, Tuning and Effects:
Edited photo you can insert into your blog, forum etc.
Conclusion: on the whole this service is good for non-professionals. Every process works fast and there is a 2Gb storage for you photos which gives you access to you works from any place.
Tags: Adobe, photoshop express
The PRICE-S model was originally developed at RCA for use internally on software projects such as some that were part of the Apollo moon program. It was then released in 1977 as a proprietary model and used for estimating several US DoD, NASA and other government software projects. The model equations were not released in the public domain, although a few of the model’s central algorithms were published in. The tool continued to become popular and is now marketed by PRICE Systems, which is a privately held company formerly affiliated with Lockheed Martin. As published on PRICE Systems website (http://www.pricesystems.com), the PRICE-S Model consists of three submodels that enable estimating costs and schedules for the development and support of computer systems. These three submodels and their functionalities are outlined below:
The Acquisition Submodel: This submodel forecasts software costs and schedules. The model covers all types of software development, including business systems, communications, command and control, avionics, and space systems. PRICE-S addresses current software issues such as reengineering, code generation, spiral development, rapid development, rapid prototyping, object-oriented development, and software productivity measurement.
The Sizing Submodel: This submodel facilitates estimating the size of the software to be developed. Sizing can be in SLOC, Function Points and/or Predictive Object Points (POPs). POPs is a new way of sizing object oriented development projects and was introduced in based on previous work one in Object Oriented (OO) metrics done by Chidamber et al. and others.
The Life-cycle Cost Submodel: This submodel is used for rapid and early costing of the maintenance and support phase for the software. It is used in conjunction with the Acquisition Submodel, which provides the development costs and design parameters.
PRICE Systems continues to update their model to meet new challenges. Recently, they have added Foresight 2.0, the newest version of their software solution for forecasting time, effort and costs for commercial and non-military government software projects.
Tags: Acquisition Submodel, Life-cycle Cost Submodel, PRICE-S Model, Sizing Submodel
Software development cost models and estimation techniques are used for a number of purposes.
These include:
- Budgeting: the primary but not the only important use. Accuracy of the overall estimate is the most desired capability.
- Tradeoff and risk analysis: an important additional capability is to illuminate the cost and schedule sensitivities of software project decisions (scoping, staffing, tools, reuse, etc.).
- Project planning and control: an important additional capability is to provide cost and schedule breakdowns by component, stage and activity.
- Software improvement investment analysis: an important additional capability is to estimate the costs as well as the benefits of such strategies as tools, reuse, and process maturity.
Just like in any other field, the field of software engineering cost models has had its own pitfalls. The fast changing nature of software development has made it very difficult to develop parametric models that yield high accuracy for software development in all domains. Software development costs continue to increase and practitioners continually express their concerns over their inability to accurately predict the costs involved. One of the most important objectives of the software engineering community has been the development of useful models that constructively explain the development life-cycle and accurately predict the cost of developing a software product. To that end, many software estimation models have evolved in the last two decades based on the pioneering efforts of the above mentioned researchers. The most commonly used techniques for these models include classical multiple regression
approaches. However, these classical model-building techniques are not necessarily the best when used on software engineering data.
Tags: cost estimation of software development, software development cost
Software Development Company – EffectiveSoft - presented the next version of Intellexer Summarizer, a helpful tool for document management and data search.
The changes mostly applied to inner mechanisms of the program operation. Implicit to a user, they improved the quality of summarization and the program processing speed. A few usability improvements were made:
Mozilla Firefox extension was added. Now users who prefer to explore the Internet with Mozilla can enjoy the advantage of immediate web page summarization within the browser.
Keyword navigation, i.e. “hot keys” is now available. Keyword navigation makes working with the program faster and easier. The list of hot keys can be found in the Help section.
The mechanism of product trialing and ordering was made more flexible and secure. Now Intellexer Summarizer can be downloaded from http://summarizer.intellexer.com/ and used free of charge for 30 days. The trial version has the same functional as the purchased version so that the potential customer could enjoy all the benefits of Summarizer from the first day of use. When the trial period is over the user can either purchase or uninstall the program.
About Intellexer Summarizer:
Intellexer Summarizer is a desktop application which generates a summary of any electronic text, such as a document or Web page, thus allowing a user to get the main ideas of the text prior to or instead of reading it. It helps to reduce the time and effort spent on information processing, systematization and storage. Its complex algorithms recognize text structure and summarize the content on the level of meaning: the principal ideas are excluded and put into coherent informative summary. The program has some special features such as concept tree, history, summary types etc.