Year: 2007

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The Belkin Skype wi-fi phone (F1PP000GN-SK) has received a firmware update: download firmware version 1.1.0.22.

It finally fixes the echo issues totally, the phone is overall more responsive and stable, headset support has been improved and there are voices who say it even cares more of the barry lifetime!

Thank you Belkin! 🙂

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Since the bug tracking isn’t really open for its users (something even Tim Altman from Opera Software admits), so some fans created a Opera 9.5 Beta Other Known Issues Wikia.

They write:

“The purpose of this temporary wiki is to supplement the rather modest list of Known Issues included in the original posts on the Opera Desktop Team Blog and create a one-stop place to look to see if “your” problem has been confirmed by anyone.

If you’re looking for a place to post what you’d like to see improved in Opera, then please use the Opera Browser Feature Wishes Wiki.
This list will by no means be complete or official, but should consist of issues that are “known” in the sense that others have confirmed them for you. Opera will likely have confirmed few of these publicly in any obvious place, but that’s to be expected with the current bug reporting system. Include any bug numbers you know of for reference.

Please avoid posting issues that only you have seen; instead, post those to the blog and try to gain consensus. Please avoid posting issues that have already been noted by Opera in the latest original post on the blog (some very well may have been confirmed in comments, but few read all several hundred of them with each release).”

Great idea, keep it up! 🙂

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You know, some day I had this “error number 2738” error when trying to update to QuickTime 7.3.

I did the mistake to do what everything else will do at first; Google for the solution.

You will find “solutions” like registering .dll files, renaming folders, deleting folders, re-download .MSI files, links to FAQs, reinstall Windows and whatnot!

And no support I came accross yet ever managed to be able to actually tell what error “xyz” in an installer means. I mean if it would say “file missing” or whatnot, it would at least be helpful. But error numbers without references to what they mean or “unexspected error while installation” doesn’t help a bit!

All I got from Apple is a letter in my letterbox a few weeks ago telling me:

“We don’t support this product (QuickTime)“

The solution is easier than any registry hack! Download and use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. It will just remove all references to the sourse .MSI file so it no longer will be missed when you try to reinstall or update your program in question!

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Since a while now, Skype for Linux is available with Video (beta) and can be downloaded.
More info about this release can be found in the Skype for Linux Blog.

There are other changes that can be read in the release notes.

Next to the very much positive reactions from the Linux community, some complained that Skype would do better by fixing SkypeCasts problems with the Linux client which persist since over 6 months instead of adding more features.
This also did Skype cost some users.

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I am very often complain about bad customer support.

Now I want to point out 2 companies/devisions that are doing better than all the others.

Axle3D and MSI’s Taiwan HQ.

Usually, the main problem is that I have questions arising that require a certain background of knowledge or involvement of the technical support deparment involved.

Unfortunately, many devisions of the MSI support are either:

-lacking of knowledge
-slow
-proving wrong information
-giving up helping you and stop replying to you.

The manuals of my current motherboard had so many errors and the BIOS was so much bugged that I was just on my wits’ end. I wrote to MSI Taiwan as my last resort and they replied.
Since then, I write my questions directly to Taiwan.

The people there are pretty fast, helpful, enjoying themselves and sometimes even somewhat funny 🙂 Thanks guys!

Another very positive example is Axle3D whose technical support can be reached by emailing to tech[at]tdi.com.hk.

They are very skilled with a bunch of knowledge and reply within 24h to any question I sent.

Those 2 very important experiences made me confidental to stick with MSI and also to try out Axle3D this time.

Thanks guys! Keep it up!

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Today, Microsoft invited me to have a look at the Microsoft Download Center Beta Preview and I have to admit, it’s looking great!

Here are some screenshots. The new windows udpate, I will check out on Windows XP X64 somewhen since in Vista it asks you to use the update function included in Vista instead.

As you can see, the MarketPlace also got a new face now and the whole thing is more like a small control panel and you can more easily find your way around the whole offerings of the Microsoft homepage

Interesting: Required is the installation of Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology.

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The ICQ Team recently released a new ICQ 6! Build ##6039 and many new localized clients. Thanks to my friend Martin for pointing it out.

The new build features new – animated – emoticons and features some bug fixes like the bug that made people using Windows XP Service Pack 2 not being able to see that that has been copied and pasted!

Unfortunately, I cannot tell more for now, since the installer has some bug, it keeps crashing on me. A bug report has been sent to the ICQ Team already.

The new build and the new languages can be downloaded at >http://www.icq.com/download

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A new New ICQ 6 German Pro7 Austria client can be downloaded from the download section of ICQ6 now.

This Austrian localized version features differs from the ICQ 6 Pro7 Germany client, instead it contains the Xtraz known from old German ICQ 5.1 Pro7 client and the Soccer Xtra from the old ICQ 5.1 Sat1 client.

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One year of Vista has passed. I have found 2 interesting posts. One saying that it sucks very much, another one saying that it is the best way to get MacOS-like experience for little money.

My catch? Windows Vista is really fun to use, even with only 1 GB of RAM and single core AMD64 3200+ CPU, however I cannot wait for the new multi-core CPU and a better system with 4 GB of RAM. This thing should rock the sky then. Anyway, Vista worked since the final (Use it since February) pretty well for me even with out any updated.

I have however to admit that the Performance and Reliability Packs have made it smoother and more applications work better with each new release.

The most I am disappointed about HardSID not releasing 64bit drivers and Leadtek not convincing the sound chip manufacturer of the PAL version of the LeadTek TVUSB 2 card to supply the source so they make a 64bit XP/Vista driver.

Bad!

I seldom saw any BSOD and I seldom had any serious issues and it’s cool that you can access system restore right from a graphical Vista boot DVD interface. Back in XP times if you couldn’t access the Safe Mode, you were done with it and had to restore an image if nothing else helped.

On the software side I am very disappointed about freeware firewalls which were all either incompatible, or very bad to use and just a piece of trash! The situation changed when the Alpha of the Comodo Firewall came out (final is out since yesterday – download it!).

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The final of Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 is out! This includes 32bit and 64bit versions for both, Windows XP and Windows Vista! Of course the firewall is still free!

More
info and download

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