Have you modded your Xbox 360 and now afraid that you will get banned from Xbox Live? Maybe so, Maybe not.  Microsoft has built in guards that will prevent the Xbox from playing bootleg copies of games.  Yes, Microsoft does want to block pirating, but should they block people that mod their Xbox from Xbox Live that are using legal copies of games?  No, I don’t think they should.

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You love Windows 7 right?  The awesome clean design is great, but if your looking into changing a setting, it can get confusing and just a pain sometimes.  What if there was a way to have every setting available to you in one some folder?  There is a way and I am going to show you have to enable this God Mode hack on Windows 7.

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As most of you know that Windows 7 has been released not to long ago. (October 22nd 2009; to be exact) Microsoft has partnered up with Burger King in Japan to sell what’s called a “Windows 7 Whopper”  This Whopper has seven beef patties stacked that reaches 5 inches in height, this 1,000 calorie busting Windows 7 Whopper will cost around $8.55 for those that are welling to have immediate surgery for foolhardy enough to try eating one.

If you want to get this Windows 7 Whopper, you will have to go to Japan to get one.  This Whopper is only available for seven days only, completing this run of sevens.

Microsoft is hoping for a fresh start with Windows 7, after a poor reception for Vista, the previous version of the software that runs most on the world’s personal computers.

Microsoft has a reputation for quirky ad campaigns, most recently a strange series with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. This particular ad may leave a bad taste in your mouth, as well. After all, the company has been criticized for releasing top-heavy, bloated operating systems. A blog on the Computerworld theorizes that “this could be one of its worst promotional ideas ever.”

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A while ago you may saw my older post about a Microsoft Powertoy-Image Resize clone.  Of course this was just a clone of the program to be use with Windows Vista.  I have used it many times and it works well but the quality of the photos really degrade and it bothers the heck out of me. 

I recently came across a new program for Windows XP or Vista called VSO Image Resizer – this is one great handy program.   VSO Image Resizer is a free program, but they do have a paid version.

With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive. Using high resolution 1600×1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support.
VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures !

I have not noticed any degrade of image quality and it works very well when you are doing batch jobs.  How ever if you do a ton of photography like I do, then this isn’t a very great way of resizing photos because though it might look alright, but there could be lost of data.  So use Photoshop or something similar!

This is the interface, as you can tell it is very clean and easy to use.  Also you can see all the neat features it offers!

 

And this is the processing box.

 

 

So if you have a ton of photos to resize for facebook to increase upload time, this is the program to use!  I know you will like it and it is a better tool than the powertoy one. So download it now!

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

Tags: Image, Microsoft, photos, Powertoy, Resize, Resizer, Software, Vista, VSO, Windows, XP

I know you been hearing a lot of Windows 7 and you didn’t like Vista and think that Windows 7 is going to be the same.  if you thought that you are very wrong.  Windows 7 is suppose to be one of Microsoft’s best operating Systems since windows 98 SE / 2000.

Anyways Desperate beta testers brought down Microsoft’s Windows 7 download page yesterday for about two hours.

Only Microsoft Developer Network members and TechNet members were offered keys, but Microsoft still had to make some changes to keep the site up and running. The MSDN blog said “systems are having trouble keeping up” and thanked people for their patience.

The Release Candidate code will be available to the great unwashed public from 5 May.

By the way, Windows 7 Server is available for testing too.

Tip of the hat to Ed Bott, who reckoned the crash was caused by an SQL database falling over thanks to too many requests. The site got a week’s traffic in less than hour. (now that’s just crazy!!)

It emerged yesterday that the final code is due for release in autumn 2009.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 page is here.

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