Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on January 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

Thanks to BentUser, we now have the ability to make comparisons of this future operating system with the one that is currently the most popular. That’s right, they compare Windows XP and Windows Vista 5270 (‘Beta 2′). They have a lot of really nice screenshots that really allow you to see what we can really expect to see changed. According to Microsoft Windows Vista 5270 is not Beta 2 but many different parts of the build have ‘Beta 2′ branded all over it. This should be very close to being feature complete but we can expect to see an official Beta 2 probably within a month.

News Source: BentUser

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This article was written on November 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

I was recently approached by a friend who had just installed Quicken 2008 onto his computer, and previously he had kept his transactions in a complex Microsoft Excel spreadsheet much like myself. He thought that the import process would be a piece of cake, but that didn’t turn out to be the case since Intuit, the parent company behind Quicken, decided to start phasing out Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) file support a few years ago.

The decision came about because QIF was seen to have many inefficiencies that the new format, Open Financial Exchange (OFX), is able to conquer. Intuit wanted to make it extremely difficult to import QIF files into Quicken 2008 (as well as 2005, 2006, and 2007) so that banks and credit card companies would start using the new format. This has angered many people because some banks only provide their data in the QIF format.

But wait, why do I even care about QIF if I’m trying to import data from Excel, which doesn’t have the ability to save a QIF. Actually there is a nifty little add-on for Excel called XL2QIF that will convert your spreadsheet to a QIF file using the data that you specify. In just a few seconds I had the Excel data converted into the needed format.

TIP: All QIF files can be edited and examined in any text editor, such as Notepad or WordPad. This is important because we’ll be doing some manual editing in a minute, but don’t be intimidated because it is pretty straightforward.

Here are the steps you need to take to import QIF files into Quicken 2008:

1. Open Quicken and create an account for the data that you want to import. You don’t have to create another account if you already have one made.
2. Now go to File -> Export -> QIF File, and select the account that you want to deal with from the Quicken Account to Export from. This should be the account that you created/used in Step 1. It’s crucial that you check the Account List box.
   
3. Now open the QIF file from Step 2 in a text editor, such as Notepad. Copy all of the text up to the line that specifies the date for the first transaction (highlighted in yellow below). The data we want should look something like this:

   !Option:AutoSwitch
   !Account
   NCyberNet Credit Card
   TCCard
   L0.00
   ^
   !Clear:AutoSwitch
   !Account
   NCyberNet Credit Card
   TCCard
   ^
   !Type:CCard

   Now open the QIF file that you want to import. Paste the text that you just copied, and replace all of the data up to the date on the first transaction. The entire process should look something like this:

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   Wondering why you just did that? The data that you just copied is used by Quicken to identify which account the transactions belong to. The original file was missing that critical information, and without it Quicken will have no idea where to put the transactions. In older versions of Quicken it would let you select which account to apply the transactions to, but that doesn’t work anymore. Needless to say it’s an important part of the process if you want to import a QIF file into Quicken.

4. In Quicken go to File -> Import -> QIF File. Browse for the file location on your computer, select All Accounts as the account to import into, and make sure the Account List box is checked. Then hit the Next button!

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5. Now all that you have to do is accept the transactions that you just imported from the QIF:

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It may seem like a long process, but once you understand how it works you can probably import a QIF file into Quicken in under 30 seconds. Just save the account information that you copied in Step 3 if you regularly download QIF files from your bank. By saving that information you will never have to go through the export process in Step 2.

Believe it or not it took me upwards of two hours to figure out that this trick would work. I tried dozens of different techniques mentioned around the web, and then I finally figured that if Quicken can still export the data as a QIF that it should also be able to import it. Turns out that I was right.

Whether you’re trying to import Microsoft Money data or import an Excel spreadsheet this trick should be just what you’re looking for!

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At just under $40,000 for an eight camera setup, we’re hardly in hobbyist territory here, but Organic Motion’s new OpenStage 2.0 motion capture system could certainly make do in the average basement. Unlike a few competing solutions shown here at SIGGRAPH, this one actually has no backdrop mandate, and better still, doesn’t require you to latch a single sensor onto your subject. The magic lies within the cameras hung above — kits are sold that contain between eight and 24 cameras, and even the latter can be handled with a single workstation. Multi-person tracking ain’t no thang, and while you aren’t capturing HD footage here, the high-speed VGA capability enables up to 200 frames per second to be logged. Not surprisingly, the company’s aiming this squarely at the animation and medical realms, and should start shipping bundles as early as next month. Looking to take down Pixar? You’ll need a lot more than 40 large, but perhaps the video after the break will give you a bit of inspiration.

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This article was written on June 01, 2011 by CyberNet.

Windows only
There are so many free screenshot utilities out there that it can be overwhelming trying to find the one that fits your needs, which is why we try to cover many of them. Cropper is one that we can’t leave out because it keeps things simple, but lets you extend the functionality with a variety of plugins that have already been created.

For starters I would grab Cropper and take a look at the controls on the products homepage. Some of the keyboard shortcuts are really nice, such as being able to use the arrow keys to nudge the area selector by one pixel. This is a screenshot utility that keyboard junkies will surely love.

Once you’ve got the controls under your belt you can move on to downloading plugins that extend the functionality of Cropper:

• AnimatedGif – Captures to an animated GIF image.
• AviFormat – Captures to an AVI movie.
• CountdownPng – Gives you a countdown before taking the shot to allow you to set it up.
• SendToEmail – Creates an email message using the default email program, and attaches the image to the message.
• SendToFlickr – Sends captures to one’s Flickr account.
• SendToOneNote – Sends captures to a page in OneNote.
• SendToS3 – Sends captures to one’s Amazon S3 account.
• SendToTwitPic – Sends captures to TwitPic, and also sends a Tweet.
• TFSWorkItem – Creates a Team Foundation Server work item with the captures image as an attachment.
• Imgur – Sends captures to ImgUr, a free image hosting service.
• ImageShack – Sends captures to ImageShack, a free image hosting service.
• Paint.NET – sends captures to the Paint.NET application for immediate editing.
• SendToPicasa – sends a capture to Google’s Picasa photo sharing service.
• SendToFacebook – uploads a screen capture to Facebook.

On my system Cropper uses very little resources (under 3MB of memory), but unfortunately there isn’t a portable version which would be the cherry on top for me.

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Microsoft must be extremely unhappy with the “quality” of the cracks available for Vista right now. Earlier this month we showed that the Vista OEM BIOS crack is still alive and kicking in Vista SP1 despite claims by Microsoft that those types of cracks had been patched. I would mark that up as an “oops” by Microsoft.

The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) team is flexing their muscles at all of the hackers out there right now though. Later this month Microsoft is going to release an update (via Windows Update) for both the RTM and SP1 copies of Vista that will notify users if they are running a pirated copy of Vista:

Gold and SP1-installed systems [will] detect the presence of the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS exploits then alert the customer of their presence. The dialog box (shown below) also provides customers with guidance about what they can do to fix it and provides a Web link for more details, so that customers can learn about the particular exploit and learn how to disable and remove it. If they are a victim of software piracy, the linked Web pages will provide information on how to get genuine software.

They then go on to say what the users will experience that are running Vista with one of the activation workarounds installed:

The timing of when customers will first see the “Activate Your Copy of Windows” message can vary depending on what exploit is running on their system. Customers whose systems have the OEM BIOS exploit, for example, may not see anything for 15 days due to the way activation was set up for our OEM partners. Systems that have the Grace Timer exploit will be immediately prompted to activate once SP1 is installed.

The update will not uninstall or disable the exploits that it finds, but a separate tool will be available to users who wish to do so. They expect that the next release of the exploitation analyzer will include the tool needed to remove the any of the activation workarounds. From what I gather the tool will not deactivate the system nor will it mark Vista as not genuine, but it’s possible that I’ve misunderstood just how this is going to work.

What I’m left wondering is whether Microsoft has plans to push out a new update to Service Pack 1 that is able to detect some of the additional OEM BIOS cracks that are out there. Those of you who are running pirated copies of Vista better tread lightly because Microsoft is coming after you!

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