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Family Friendly X360

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at November 12, 2007 in Microsoft and News. 3 Comments

 

"Are you a Parent?

Looking for top-quality digital entertainment for the whole family? We’ve got age-appropriate games and entertainment for every member of the family.

Family Settings
These comprehensive settings allow you to decide what games your kids can play, who they can interact with online, and what movies they can watch."

Yeah, there a family friendly version of the Xbox 360 now. It comes with a wireless controller, and, as you can see in the picture above, a new low price: $279.

Key Note: It doesn’t come with a hard drive, just 256 MB of storage. It does come with 5 family-oriented games, including, "PAC-MAN Championship Edition," Luxor 2" and "Uno."

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An E-”Will you marry me?” [over xbl]

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at November 12, 2007 in Funny, Microsoft and Cool. 2 Comments

She said yes.

This news is a bit old, but I thought I’d post it anyway.

A guy with the gamertag Moviesign made a map in Halo 3 and set up what his girlfriend thought was just going to be a 2v2 match. After starting the game, he led her to a spot where he claimed he left an energy sword. “Instead there was a nice top-down view where he had spelled out a proposal in weapons. He then asked her to be his teammate for life.”-Xbox Website

That’s pretty awesome. Would it be mean to put this in my “strange” category?

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"Click to Activate" Extra Step in IE gone

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at November 12, 2007 in Microsoft and News. 4 Comments

Here’s some good news for all the people that still use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer! That “Click to Activate” button at the top of your browsing window… is now gone! “YAY!” says Admin. Oh wait, I don’t use firefox. W/E

Microsoft announced that it has licensed technology from Eolas that allows this to occur automatically, and thus, the new patch eliminates the “Extra Step”.

According to CNET and the IE Blog, this will be available with the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview Patch (available on Microsoft download site in early December), and when the IE Cumulative Update releases in April 2008.

Key Note: The update will not affect the way pages work, nor will developers and designers need to make any adjustment to the way they build their pages

Also…

This was announced in 2006… and Microsoft is still making their users wait…yay for ms

Windows cannot access the specific device… Trillian Astra

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at September 22, 2007 in Solutions, Microsoft and Applications. 11 Comments

Getting this error when trying to open a file?

Windows cannot access the specific device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions.

Well, if you are using Windows XP Professional, you can just right click on the file, go to the Security tab, and check the appropriate options (You need to be logged into an account with Administrative Privileges). If you are using Home Edition or some other version, you will need to do this in the Administrator account in Safe Mode. NOTE: While in Safe Mode, you should be able to open the file.

Otherwise, if what you have downloaded was say… a cracked copy of Trillian Astra (or cracked program with a patch for that matter), then chances are the AVG is doing this to you.

So, here are your options… you can either just uninstall AVG, or…

  1. Open up AVG, and scan where the patch for Trillian (or another program) is located. When the message boxes fly up regarding the patch file, just add it to exceptions.
  2. When that is done, keep the AVG window open, and then run the patch. As the popups regarding the patch from AVG popup, simply press Add to Exceptions.
  3. Now, the program should run, and you should be happy! lol…

Hope that helped, comments are appreciated. And uh… oh yeah… Omnamo.com does not endorse the hacking/cracking of any program, especially those which you are supposed to pay for. We are not affiliated with Cerulean Studios, or any of the people that cracked their program, we are just a site providing solutions to everything and anything we can find.

Flyakiteosx messing up your computer? Here’s a possible reason why…

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at August 21, 2007 in Solutions, Microsoft and Applications. 10 Comments

I used to use Flyakiteosx, and I really liked it. Before I go into this, you can read my previous post regarding flyakiteosx, or, heres a quick summary of what it does, right off flyakiteosx.com

FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named ‘FlyakiteOSX’ that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.

What I liked about this program, is that it did everything for me, really quickly, and made everything look nice. The alternative to flyakiteosx, is going all over the web, downloading a bunch of tools. When someone puts it like this, the best choice is obvious, as it was for me. Anyway, the program was great, before it drove me to completely reset my computer all the way back to how it was when it came out of its box. Basically, at one point, flyakiteosx just stopped loading, messed up all my services, and lagged my computer. In addition to flyakiteosx not loading, I could not change the theme of my computer at all, and was forced to use the Windows Classic theme (yeah, I couldn’t even use the blue windows default theme). It probably did some other terrible  things, but I have tried to forget.

Possible Reasons Why

If this has happened to you, chances are you either installed Microsoft Office 2007, or installed MagicISO and its mounting utility, MagicDisc. I think that Office 2007 is a possibility, because, well, it all happened right after I installed it and restarted my computer. Noticing this, I tried to uninstall Office 2007, with no success. The uninstallation always failed. I could uninstall flyakiteosx, and did so, but the problem still remained. Using the computer became quite difficult. It seems that flyakiteosx alters system files for Office 2003, and I guess those interfere with what Office 2007 tries to put in place, messing things up. If you can find a way, get rid of both programs.

I also mentioned that MagicISO with MagicDisc could also end up doing this to your computer,  be sure to uninstall this, and upon your next restart, things may be back to normal. In fact, after I wiped my computer and tried to use this program (without flyakiteosx, or Office 2007), the program screwed my computer the same way it did before I wiped my computer.

So… before you go and get that recovery cd and lose all your work, try to uninstall all of these programs, reboot, and see if things go back to normal.

Hope this helps, and thanks for reading!

btw, before I did wipe my computer, I already had my external hard drives full, and ended up only being able to back up all my media by using every single 4.7 GB DVD I had in my house… :(

DirectX 10.1 to be downloadable

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at August 20, 2007 in Microsoft and News. 5 Comments

Microsoft has now announced that there will be a DirectX 10.1 preview (demo) availiable for download, as well as XAudio2, Microsoft’s replacement for DirectSound.

According to Microsoft’s website…

Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental, side-by-side update to Direct3D 10.0 that provides a series of new rendering features that will be available in an upcoming generation of graphics hardware.

  • TextureCube Arrays which are dynamically indexable in shader code.
  • An updated shader model (shader model 4.1).
  • The ability to select the MSAA sample pattern for a resource from a palette of patterns, and retrieve the corresponding sample positions.
  • The ability to render to block-compressed textures.
  • More flexibility with respect to copying of resources.
  • Support for blending on all unorm and snorm formats.

This tech preview provides an early look at these features and the handful of new APIs that support them. The August 2007 Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview requires the Windows Vista SP1 Beta which will be available to MSDN subscribers once it is publicly released.

So, I guess those of us that have already bought DX10 cards do not need to fret, 10.1 is just gonna be another download.

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DirectX 10.1 not just another download?

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at August 15, 2007 in Microsoft, News and Hardware. 6 Comments

NOTE: Updated article at http://omnamo.com/?p=47

 

According to an article published on the Inquirer…

 

At the SIGGRAPH event, Microsoft spoke about the upcoming new installment to the DirectX line, DirectX 10.1. The new software is to be released with the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1). This may be exciting and all, especially for all of us out there who have spent money already to procure a DirectX 10 card, but bad news may potentially lie ahead. Rumor has it that this new software will require new hardware along with it, meaning users will have to spend more money to get what they thought could be obtained with a free update. Basically, just like you need new hardware to get from DX 9 to DX 10, you may need new software to get from DX 10 to DX 10.1. However, at this point in time, none of this has been announced officially by Microsoft. With that in mind, and change possible, here is some good news: (ARTICLE UPDATE AT http://omnamo.com/?p=47

 

But these gamers shouldn’t fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about. The spec revision basically makes a number of things that are optional in DX10 compulsory under the new standard - such as 32-bit floating point filtering, as opposed to the 16-bit current. 4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1, whereas graphics vendors can pick and choose their anti-aliasing support currently.

DX 10.1 will supposedly need Vista SP1 and new hardware, the two things that most users will not have, and will not want to spend their time and money to get. Of course, developer implementation will also be needed for it to be used. Surely, with this being the case, the new update will be minuscule, and will not affect gamers who have already spent their money on top of the line DX 10 cards.

 

With developers struggling to justify including DX10 features in their games (see the recent comments by John Carmack and Mark Rein), they’re going to be about as likely to further limit their product’s market as they are to start developing NES games again. This is especially true given the incredibly limited benefits 10.1 is bringing to the party

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41577

ARTICLE UPDATE–> http://omnamo.com/?p=47

Microsoft’s Grand Unveiling - Microsoft Surface

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at May 30, 2007 in Microsoft, Cool, News and Hardware. 2 Comments

Today, Bill Gates revealed his latest creation - The Microsoft Surface. With its five special motion-detecting cameras, the Surface responds to the user’s touch, allowing someone to manipulate objects on screen with more freedom than ever before.

What makes this any different from a giant touchscreen? Well, not only can the Surface interact with humans, but it can work with other devices as well. Take a few pictures with a digital camera, and just place it onto the Surface. It’ll read the pictures from the camera, where it’ll load them on screen, allowing anyone to manipulate and edit the pictures with simple hand movements.

The Surface shows many promising applications. It can be used in restaurants, where diners can scroll through an electronic menu, dragging items they want into an ordering “pile” in the center of the screen. After the meal is finished, just throw your credit card onto the Surface and it’ll complete the transaction for you. They’ll be found in department stores, where the placement of an item onto the screen will cause data of the item to be displayed in an interactive menu. Look out for them in hotels and tourists attractions too, where they’ll be showing road directions, tourist hotspots, and more.

The Surface is planned to be available to various businesses by November of this year. If you’d like your hands on it, be ready to wait at least three years for a consumer version. At least this’ll give you plenty of time to save up the $5,000-$10,000 that you’ll have to pay.

Link: Microsoft Surface