Nafcom's Personal Site

Hello again dear readers, I have decided to sell again a few bits for PCs I do not need anymore.

No.1 is a Creative Labs SB 16 PCI (international- ship to any country) and an Acer SURF 56K Modem (for sale inside Germany only!)

Technorati Tags: Nafcom, sale
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

My LCP research will continue soon! Sorry for the big gap! I have recently ordered 2 units of the tape original (before I had only the disk original – the “boeder” re-release on disk and the original on Activisions’ 15 C64 Action Pack) one unit comes with teh full manual included, so I can better study the LCP guys! I will post about it with pics as soon as it arrived to me!

Technorati Tags: Old computer Games, LCP
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

Note: Because I got the USB version of the HardSID now, I am selling my PCI variant at Ebay here! Feel free check it out! =)

———

HardSID celebrates 10 Year Anniversary – so you save 100 EUR now if you decide to order till 18th of March 2009 or until the current stock is exhausted!

The card arrived safely as a registered letter to my place. (i.e. I picked it up from the local postal service agency).

The quality of the device us superb, looks like manufactured by a large company. Also the sound quality is great! So exactly like we know from the PCI variant =)

First time ever, it has Windows X64 (64bit!) support! (Thanks Téli!)

There are a few things to pay attention about though if you decide to run it under Windows Vista X64 (XP X64 is no problem). Problem here is, that the 64bit drivers are not signed! Thanks to the help of Wilfred Bos who suggested the following:

Use prior to installing Driver Siganture Overrider! It works perfectly!

Technorati Tags: HardSID, SID
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

Just 1 1/2 years ago I changed the Netgear SPH101 for this one.

The echo issue never got completely resolved as you can read here: Skype’s public bug database – Skype on Devices.

Any email to Belkin support regarding this will result into a pre-defined text block refering to the UK firmware upgrade download page.

Also the 4-key on the phone got broken. I sent it back to Amazon asking for a refund. Now is there any more hope for Skype wi-fi phones on the market? YES! From Ipevo… We know Ipevo, they make some of the best Skype phones (The SOLO is really veeeery bug free!!!) so they probably made the new Ipevo S0-20 Skype Wi-Fi phone a kicker! If Ipevo is good in something, then it’s rock solid products! 🙂

Technorati Tags: s0-20, Skype, Ipevo, wi-fi
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

Just recently, the ICQ Team released an official ICQ client for the iPhone/IPod Touch! It looks a lot like the original Windows release. However it’s buggy because it crashes often and some people cannot login. Also it doesn’t support being used horizontally! (Source: AppStore user reviews.
There is a screenshot of this client on the Java4iPhone blog.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, ICQ
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

Socializing on Skype dead forever and ever! You will never SkypeMe again. This is what Skype told its users in the Skype Open Bug Database “Jira”. Written by Skype worker Raul Liive:

“Unfortunately there are currently no plans to bring SkypeMe back.”

It all started back in September with closing SkypeCasts, and now it continues by discontinueing the SkypeMe feature (rather than making it spammer proof!).

Remember this video?. A guy randomly calling people hoping that somebody in the search results would be only and pick up!

The Skype people picked this up from YouTube and posted the following reply on their blog:

Posted by Jaanus Kase:

“Here’s a video that a random Skyper made that illustrates how it may be difficult to find someone to talk to, and how it’s fun to finally find someone who responds

Here’s a tip. To find new friends more easily, you can tick the “Search for people who are in ‘Skype Me’ mode” when you search — you then find everyone who has actively indicated they are available for contact.”

Socializing on Skype – Rest in Peace.

Technorati Tags: Skype, SkypeMe
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

As some of you might maybe know, there are ICQ tools/alternative clients that allows to protect yourself against spammers by putting up a security question until they can send you messages.

Now, ICQ spammers decided to start their spamming with the word “Earth” which is the default answer for such protections. (The question asked is “How is the planet on which we are living called?”)

The client then responds “You are now able to directly send messages”.

In the case of having no anti spam protection like those in action, you will probably ask “pardon?” and the spammer sends you the spamming message anyway

Technorati Tags: ICQ, spam
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

Yes, the The iPhone3G can’t do video ringtones. Is it a bad thing?

I am not sure after I saw this… The German ringtone company “Jamba” (called “Jamster” everywhere else) did close the year 2008 with a video ring tone called “Eddy Bär” that got famous on youtube.

Now I checked again and of course – I knew they would – they have translated the song into a couple of languages now – including English! –

Welcome “Howie Heart” (how romantic!)

He things the same thing as in the German original!
(And the same user comments and discussions whether the girl is pretty or not

Technorati Tags: iPhone, howie heart
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

I have written about VueScan earlier it saved me from buying a new scanner because at the time back then, Epson wasn’t convinced yet to release a 64bit Vista and XP driver for my Epson Perfection 2480 Photo scanner which was just half a year old by that time.

Now they celebrate their 10th Anniversary.

Here is what the coder Ed Hamrick writes on the VueScan homepage:

“We’ve been working on VueScan for 10 years now and have made thousands of improvements in this time. We’d like to thank everyone who has ever purchased VueScan by giving them a free upgrade to VueScan 8.5.

To get your free upgrade, just click the DOWNLOAD button above. If you don’t have your old serial number, you can get your serial number online.

VueScan 0.1 was first released in 1998 with support for a single scanner on Windows only. Within 5 years VueScan supported more than 400 scanners and after 10 years of development, VueScan now supports more than 1200 scanners on 3 operating systems and in 35 languages, has been downloaded more than 5 million times and has been purchased by more than 170,000 people worldwide.

For the past ten years we’ve continued to add support for more scanners and we’ve made thousands of improvements and added hundreds of features that customers have asked for. Since we first released VueScan 8.4 two years ago, we’ve made more than 600 improvements and it’s really changed a lot in this time.

So, Happy 10th Anniversary to VueScan and thanks for your support!

Regards,
Ed Hamrick”

Most remarkable: “We’d like to thank everyone who has ever purchased VueScan by giving them a free upgrade to VueScan 8.5.“

Well done, Ed! Wonderful decision!

Ed also sent me an email today asking me to also mention that it has been released in German too, now!

Simply update to the latest version and it will automatically change to German if your OS’ language is.

Me for my part prefers English so I changed it back in the preferences, so it’s all in English again 🙂

Technorati Tags: hardware, VueScan
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!

ICQ seems to have decided to feed those people who complained about the Xtraz of ICQ 6 (down till ICQ 4 Lite)

While back then the difference between Pro and Lite was that – as of ICQ 4 Lite – Lite had Xtraz while ICQ Pro (ICQ2003b) had none but other “professional features that lacked in ICQ Lite (ICQ Lite – ICQ Lite 4), the difference now, according to Chip Germany is, that the new ICQ Lite 7 has no Xtraz in comparance to the just recently released ICQ 6.5 with Open Xtraz.

With the release of ICQ 5 in 2005, the ICQ Team decided back then to get a rid of the lite and pro lines (which they just created in 2004) and make just one big ICQ that has it all again. But because many users missed the “Pro” features of ICQ2003b and before (you could switch ICQ back then between “Simple” and “Advanced mode”), ICQ re-coded ICQ from the scratch and released an unfinished ICQ 6 with the promise of revolutionizing ICQ and bringing back the loved Pro features.

Still many complained that they do not need Xtraz games and stuff (which you could disable) and only want to chat. And for such people is ICQ 7 Lite!

It can be downloaded from Chip.de here.

Chip.de also released screenshots of ICQ7 Lite (click on “Weiter” there to get the next screenshot).

Note: The screenshots are in Russian but at the beginning of the installer you can choose which language you want to use ICQ in!

Technorati Tags: ICQ, ICQ Lite
—-
Wanna discuss this post? Then do it in my forum! 🙂
—-
No more ICQ Support? Get active! Complain now!