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If you can’t fix it, buy someone who can. That must be Google’s rationale behind this latest acquisition, as the proprietor of YouTube has just bought Green Parrot Pictures, a company concerned solely with enhancing and improving the quality of video content. Through the use of some fancy motion prediction algorithms, the Irish startup has been able to build a name for itself over the past few years, and now it’s been snapped up by the biggest fish in the online video ocean. The removal of flicker, noise and blotches from poorly executed recordings sounds nice, but we’re most excited by Green Parrot’s video stabilization feature. With all the cameraphone video being uploaded nowadays, there’s plenty of camera shake populating YouTube’s archives, and the addition of such a potent post-production technique seems like a veritable boon to us. Check out video demos of the stabilization algorithm and Green Parrot’s other technologies below.

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This article was written on September 09, 2006 by CyberNet.

Microsoft has released yet another Beta version of their software codename Max. It has already been in development for almost a year and seems to be progressing nicely, but slowly. In that time they seemed to have focused primarily on letting users manage photos and create slideshows to share with their friends. They even made it easy to write on the image which is great for Tablet PC users. Here is what the annotation looks like:

It also has a news reader and the most recent version of Max, that was released today, now has RSS capabilities. The screenshot below is what the news page looks like, however, I grabbed these screenshots off of their site. Once I heard that it had RSS capabilities and a “newspaper” layout I thought I would give it a shot. Apparently I thought wrong because it is not compatible with Vista!? Here is what the general news layout looks like:

I don’t have an XP machine easily accessible at this moment to play with the new feature but the interface does look pretty sleek. I am wondering how their RSS reader works because I couldn’t find any screenshots of an RSS feed being displayed. I wonder if it is the same as the general news layout pictured above?

I am addicted to using GreatNews as my feed reader because it is free (at least while they’re testing it) and it supports the newspaper layout. After you read your feeds in the newspaper layout I don’t think you can go back to the Outlook style.

If someone decides to give this a try then maybe you could send a screenshot of the RSS page that I can post to the article. Send it to tech@cybernetnews.com but make sure you are running Windows XP SP2 otherwise you won’t be able to install Microsoft Max.

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The road to Android 2.1 may have been a long and treacherous one for Milestone users, but the one to Android 2.2 wasn’t even certain of reaching its goal. Thankfully, Moto has managed to conclude its “exhaustive testing process” and is now making a Froyo firmware update available to Milestone users wishing to step their software up a notch. Flash Player 10.1, a faster browser and mobile hotspot capabilities await the intrepid updater, but Motorola warns that any DRM-locked media you have on your SD card will be lost. Weirdly enough, there’s also a caution that “users may experience some adverse effects associated with the upgrade which could include slower operation of some phone functions and applications.” Once you’ve read and understood all the warnings, smash the source link to download the new software.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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This article was written on October 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

We are always looking for a good way to store files in a remote location but we also want something simple to use. Ever since GMail emerged there have been ways available to use your email storage quota, which is currently at 2.7GB+, to store your files. The most popular way is probably this GMail Drive which integrates itself right into Windows Explorer.

Backup To Email is different than other programs because it will let you right click on a file or folder and upload it to your email account. Don’t worry if your files are larger than the 10MB file attachment limitation because it will split the file up for you.

Here are some more of the features that Backup To Email has:

• While right clicking a file and choosing “Backup To EMail” the file will be sent to the email account
• While right clicking a folder and choosing “Backup To EMail” the folder will be zipped and sent to the email account 
• No limit on file / folder size, files/folders larger than 10MB are being split to slices of 10MB
• If connection is disconnected at the middle of file transfer then resending the file, auto retry every 2 minutes, 100 auto retries

I would say that this program is coming along quite nicely and it has a lot of potential. It is nice that you can upload entire folders because it gets compressed but it should do that for normal files as well. Another thing that would be cool (and should probably be easy to configure) is to allow for multiple email accounts. That way I could create separate GMail accounts based upon what kind of files I am uploading (school, work, freeware, etc…) and easily select the location that I want the file uploaded to.

I know that everyone says Google is working on file storage that will be “unlimited” but their competition is beating them to the punch. It is fine if they can’t go unlimited right away and maybe they should initially take the user’s file storage space quota from their GMail account. That’s just my thought but I think they need to get moving on this.

Note: There is a small text advertisement that is displayed in Backup To Email while uploading the file to your email account.

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Thanks for the tip Radu!

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Microsoft has done it! After a month and a half of being completed Vista SP1 has been posted to the servers for anyone and everyone to download. There are all kinds of performance improvements included in this Service Pack that will make the operating system more appealing to users who have been holding out on an upgrade. Although I’m skeptical as to whether this, and only this, would sway someone to jump on the Vista bandwagon.

Shortly after Vista SP1 had been completed we decided to give it a whirl and see if Microsoft had actually prevented the use of the cracks that they said they did. We installed a copy of Vista with SP1, and one OEM BIOS crack did not work. It only took us a few minutes to find another crack that did work though, and I’m sure Microsoft is walking around with their heads down since they didn’t patch more of the cracks in time for SP1. I don’t expect them to patch every crack, but something is wrong if it only took me a few minutes to find another working crack. Since then they’ve pushed out an update that correctly checks whether the cracks are installed and notifies the user, but does nothing else.

So it looks like piraters and genuine users alike will be enjoying the benefits that Vista Service Pack 1 has to offer. The download will be available via Windows Update at some point (I don’t see it yet), but you can download the standalone packages if you don’t want to wait. These are, however, quite large in size and may take awhile for the download to complete:

• Vista SP1 32-bit download (434.5MB)
• Vista SP1 64-bit download (726.5MB)

Microsoft has quite an extensive list of improvements in Vista SP1, and instead of listing them all I pulled out the ones that I find to be the most significant:

• An improved SRT (Startup Repair Tool), which is part of the Windows Recovery environment (WinRE), can now fix PCs unbootable due to certain missing OS files.
• Improves the performance of browsing network file shares by consuming less bandwidth.
• Improves power consumption and battery life by addressing an issue that causes a hard disk to continue spinning when it should spin down, in certain circumstances.
• Improves the speed of adding and extracting files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder.
• Improves performance over Windows Vista’s current performance across the following scenarios:
• 25% faster when copying files locally on the same disk on the same machine
• 45% faster when copying files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system
• 50% faster when copying files from a remote SP1 system to a local SP1 system
• Improves the copy progress estimation when copying files within Windows Explorer to about two seconds.
• Includes improvements to Windows Superfetch that help to further improve resume times, in many environments.
• Windows Vista SP1 includes a new compression algorithm for the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) that helps reduce network bandwidth required to send bitmaps or images via RDP. The compression, which can be selected by administrators via Group Policy settings, is transparent to all RDP traffic, and typically reduces the size of the RDP stream by as much as 25-60%, based on preliminary test results.
• Enables support for hotpatching, a reboot-reduction servicing technology designed to maximize uptime. It works by allowing Windows components to be updated (or “patched”) while they are still in use by a running process. Hotpatch-enabled update packages are installed via the same methods as traditional update packages, and will not trigger a system reboot.
• SP1 includes a number of changes which allow computer manufacturers and consumers to select a default desktop search program similar to the way they currently select defaults for third-party web browsers and media players. That means that in addition to the numerous ways a user could access a third party search solution in Windows Vista, they can now get to their preferred search results from additional entry points in the Start Menu and Explorer Windows in Windows Vista with SP1. 3rd party software vendors simply need to register their search application using the newly provided protocol in Windows Vista SP1 to enable these options for their customers.
• With SP1, Windows Vista will report the amount of system memory installed rather than report the amount of system memory available to the OS. Therefore 32-bit systems equipped with 4GB of RAM will report all 4GB in many places throughout the OS, such as the System Control Panel. However, this behavior is dependent on having a compatible BIOS, so not all users may notice this change.

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