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I have decided to finally move to full HD. My old TV had huge red and green areas on the screen from time to time. I thought long about which TV to get, especially due to narrow budget but I wanted FULL HD. I found the Toshiba 32″ Regza XV Series
32XV555D. The one I got was supposed to have a scratch on the front but I found NONE! Thanks Amazon! 🙂

The thing which I love a lot is that you can enable some kind of “PAL blurry” so when I connect my DTVs or my Pac Man Gold direct-to-TV joystick it works and looks like on a CRT screen then.

Also there is no blurryiness when watching bluray movies with fast movements. I checked and the picture is crystal clear! It also can be fully powered off which was very important for me!

Very impressive is that you see so much details in bluray movies, even the skin cells of the actors if you pay more attention.

Since I also have a wide screen TFT connected to my graphics card, I missed a 3rd DVI-D plug to connect the TV over HDMI to it.

So I bought this 2 Port DVI Switch Box but I got it lot cheaper from Amazon Marketplace.

Works perfect!

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Long promised by the ICQ Team but put on ice they finally did it: They released ICQ 6.5 with Open Xtraz means you can provide and share your own Xtraz!

Check out the Open Xtraz Gallery! I can highly recommend the SeeToo Xtra, it works wonderfully and allows two people to share and watch together the same movie!

New here is that the Dev Zone moved to the AOL homepage if you follow the deep-links

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I have been rewarded as outstanding BlogDumps member!

Paul – the webmaster – decided to reward outstanding BlogDumps community members.

here is what he wrote:

“I am going to give this award to the most loyal and supportive bloggers – some that have been with BlogDumps since the beginning. I know this isn’t much but it is my way of saying Thanks!

And the awards go to (simply copy and paste the above code in your sidebar if you are a winner):

*Outside my Brain – thanks for helping get the discussion forum going

*Nafcom’s Crap Blog -thanks for helping us in the very beginning with coding and understanding that what works on Internet Explorer does not work on Firefox or Opera.

*Musings of a Chick -thank you for supporting BlogDumps from the begining and displaying the Saturday Night Blogroll

*Terri Terri Quite Contrary – we have enjoyed watching you grow as a blogger in the last two years and are grateful that you were one of the first bloggers on BlogDumps Blog Directory

*Your Caring Angels- To my wonderful sister blogging just wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t have your blog to hijack and I appreciate all the help you give me testing new things here

*Coffee Break?- Thank you for being one of the first BlogDumps Bloggers and thank you for supporting us. You are a treasure to us!

*I Eat Snowman Poop – LMAO I went to check in on you and saw the video of your son licking the glass! CLASSIC!”

Thanks Paul and also congrats to the other rewarded members! Keep it all up!

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This blog post is a successor to my posts Ipevo Trio And The Vista Thing and Ipevo doesn’t seem to like Vista but Apple Macs.

Ipevo now did re-launch their homepage and what do I see? The Vista compatibility is suddenly back?!?!?

Let’s have a look:

Wait, isn’t that the same driver they claimed to not be Vista compatible before?

Let’s check it out:

A sidenote: I have sent emails to the guy doing the official Ipevo Group on LinkedIn. So far no reply to my blog yet or any firmware/software issues I have told.

The level of strangeness when it comes to OS support is amazing.

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Aso you can see, the C64 Orchestra has added a video to their homepage performing Supremacy in Amsterdam.

A really very good interpretation :)!!!

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Recently, I had to come to the conclusion that Skype’s support isn’t that bad after all, at least they reply to their emails.

I received a perfect reply

Hello Joerg,

Thank you for contacting Skype Support.

Our call rates are the same no matter where you are calling from, they only vary depending on where you are calling to, for more information please see our call rates list:
http://www.skype.com/go/rates

If you are calling a mobile phone that is abroad then the receiver will have to pay roaming charges according to their roaming agreement. Also, in some countries people are charged for incoming call as well as outgoing by their phone provider.

Best regards,

Mihkel P.
Skype Support”

Now I needed the info from Vivatel regarding this issue.

Sending emails and even a fax caused… NO reaction and the international numbers mentioned seem to be premium numbers that do not work from Skype. In the downs of their homepage I found one that works: +359 (0) 87123 and then the case was like: they hung up on me on the *English* hotline.

You know this kind of… *something in Bulgarian* ” Vivatel” *something in Bulgarian again*. Then “For English, press ‘1’” – “Your call may be monitored to assure service quality” – *somebody says something in Bulgaria* and I say: “Hello there, I hope you speak English, too” *click*

Skype: “call ended”,

Thank you!

maybe he dropped his headset or fell on the X key on his phone’s dialpad.

The 2nd try I was put on hold and they found somebody who knew English.

Their homepage is full of errors, too…

For example a nice service they offer for business customers are:

weak up calls. Maybe it’s for managers that are too powerful.

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After many ftrustrated users because old iphone cables no longer worked after a firmware update (even the well-prised and known cable from DealExtreme stopped working (they send me 2 different cables built differently fot trying).).

Now Apple seems to have sorted out the issues, at least now an Official TV composite cable for Iphone3G is OUT!

I have just ordered one for myself and will report here whether it works or whether it does not!

Update: The cable works! The first one apple sent had unfortunately a broken wire but the 2nd one works without any problems! 🙂

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As Ipveo pointed out on their blog, they re-released the Ipevo TRIO speakerphone, made it white and added softeare for Mac and Ichat. (Yes, the same product which was first claimed to be Vista compatible and then…. not.!

Well good luck on that market dear Ipevo!

Here is more info on the Ipevo Mac page!

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This image shows 14th mio users and 5 years skype.

As Skype-Watch already pointed out, I didn’t write my view about this yet. This is because I have been on holidays.

The image is from Siim Teller and shows perfectly the changes within Skype (thanks to the pictures he used!) and the milstones Skype reached over the years.

My personal fave ones are:

*2003: The launch of Skype, the awesome sound quality (eventhough it was still half-dublex back then!) really made it outstanding and kicking! 🙂 I was a user since day one they released it and still am! 🙂

*2004: Free conference calling, this is something which I used back then with my ex-classmates and friends and it was a lot of fun so thank you!

– SkypeOut: Allowing me to get a rid of my PSTN line and do calls to abroad from Skype alone! (hint: quality issues to certain numbers should be sent to – including all details – to: pstn-feedback[at]skype.net)

*2005: SKype voicemail: I never had more fun than when listening to strange voicemails left to my Skype account’s voicemail!

*2006: Skype wi-fi phones: The Netgear SPH101 worked fine until Skype did some server chnages and the latest firmware I tried destroyed the phone because it wouldn’t but up anymore after *successful flashing*!

The Belkin wi-fi phone has also some qulity issues ever since but it still works to the surprise of Skype-Watch!

*2007: The Skype desktop phones introduction is another highlight! I have got one myself and it’s amazing! It’s really working well!

-near DVD quality video is also amazing! look here for an example and deep links to more info!)

I hope more great things are aboout to come! 🙂

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There is something new in town: a list called Please fix the iPhone.

It is a list that mentiones what people want to see fixed in the iphone and you can also see what has been already fixed also you can state your vote by clicking on “Me Too!>”!

The tops are:

“#1 Copy and paste.
#2 Add a preference to diasable autoloading of images (webbugs) in Mail. Autoloading of images accounts to tripling the amount of spam i receive.
#3 Ability to view Flash content in Safari.”

#3 is something Adobe wants but Apple not gave them green light yet !(details).

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