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Play Windows Media files with QuickTime Player (free!) Today, two more signs of the forthcoming apocolypse.(1) Apple announces the first Macs with Intel Inside, as Steve rubs “man, can you believe how friggin’ slooow the PowerPC was?” salt into our collective wounds several times during the keynote. (Wouldn’t want to be Kottke right now…)(2) With somewhat less fanfare, Microsoft delivers Windows Media Components [...] read more: MSN Video Download MSN Video Download apparently went live today with a choice of two membership types Premium and Basic. Premium is $19.95 a year and has more content than the free Basic membership. Not wanting to commit myself to a membership yet I signed up for the Basic membership, thinking I could load some videos on to the miniSD card in my smartphone.... Sign up was easy, I used my passport account, agreed to the terms and installed the download software. The download status page showed content was downloading from Fox Sports. In order to sync content to my phone I needed a smart playlist so I followed the instructions to download one. This was the first problem, the instructions used Windows Media Player 9 and I'm using Windows Media Player 10, a little strange, but not a huge problem. With the smart playlist in place I thought I'd be good to go... That wasn't going to be the case though. I started by trying to play a video in Media Player directly and got prompted for a username and password which was being requested by 'admin.theplatform.com' not 'msnvideodownloads.com'. I tried my Passport email address and password which might not have been a great idea, but it didn't work anyway. Meanwhile I could see that Activesync had been trying to sync the content to my phone so I checked the Sync page in WMP. Nothing had been synced, instead there was an error message 'Windows Media Player can not synchronize the protected file. Protected files can not be converted to the required quality level or format'. Now I have almost half a gigabyte of content (and it's still getting downloaded) and I can't watch any of it. If anyone gets this working I'd love to know how. read more: Warning: ''System restore is turned off...'' when you install Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Windows) IssueWhen you install Photoshop Elements 4.0 you see the warning message, "System Restore is turned off. If you continue Setup, you will be unable to use System Restore to restore the version of Windows Media Player that was included with the Windows ope... read more: Clip Notes file contains video but no audio (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0) IssueWhen you create a Windows Media format Clip Note in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, the file contains video but no audio.DetailYou did not set the export module selected in the Adobe Media Encoder to Windows Media. SolutionsDo one of the followi... read more: Thoughts on “Thoughts on MCE beta feedback” Matt Goyer, a Program Manger for Microsoft’s Windows Media Center (motto: “Before we were a Vista feature, we were an entire operating system!”) recently posted that he’s frustrated by people who say that Vista’s Media Center capabilities offer no compelling improvements over Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (a.k.a. MCE 2005).In response, Matt posted a [...] read more: Wifi & Windows Mobile Just a quick response to this article from the Windows Mobile Team Blog about why they took Wifi sync capability out of Windows Mobile 5 & ActiveSync 4: Here is the way I see it: Microsoft announced their so-called security initiative a year or three ago, and right afterwards, disabled wifi sync. You might recall, this was [...] read more: Windows More Secure? Via Joe Mayo, “Reported by CNET, of all the CERT security vulnerabilities of the year 2005, 218 belonged to the Windows OS. But get this - ther were 2,328 CERT security vulnerabilities for UNIX/Linux systems.” read more: Device Security Manager Powertoy for Windows Mobile 5.0 Released! Device Security Manager Powertoy for Windows Mobile 5.0 Released! This test tool helps developers of Windows Mobile applications test various security policies for Windows Mobile devices. Overview: It is designed as a desktop application that ships with a preset list of “security configurations”. A security configuration can be thought of as a template, which contains a collection of individual policies and settings. For example, a security configuration could define policies such as whether unsigned applications are allowed to execute, whether RAPI is disabled etc. Using this tool, the developer can provision a Windows Mobile device with different configurations, and then test the application’s behavior under these configurations. This tool can be used either on an emulator or an unlocked Windows Mobile device. Check it out here read more: PINs and security codes I like this one! Windows Mobile Team Blog : WM Geek Fun (PM+SDE/T match wits with a smart SDE) read more: Zune-PlaysForSure Reax: 'This Can't Be True.' Skim the Digg commentary and you'll find many users who can't believe that Zune won't Play For Sure. It's so bizarre, they assume the report is inaccurate, despite citations to numerous press reports and MS' own release. Even CrunchGear refused to believe it. I think most media reports were so confused, that they didn't report on it -- better to avoid the subject altogether than to write an erroneous report. (That, and the media got spun hard on the wireless sharing feature.) To be fair, I was pretty shocked too. Sure, I can understand the possible business rationale, but the simple fact remains: Microsoft developed a player that can't play protected Windows Media content from all services providers except the Zune Marketplace. Hell, that even includes the MSN Music Store. On its face, that just doesn't seem to make sense -- until it was official, I couldn't believe any of the rumors. Kudos to Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk who did report this early and often, before the official Zune announcement this week. read more: Media Center Recorded TV Backup To DVD I've had the media center PC for over a year now and its changed the way we watch TV dramatically. But the other day I found something new. I always knew the media center could backup recorded TV to a DVD but I was surprised how the media center laid the DVD out. I fully expected the shows to run back to back with no DVD menu, but what I found was that the media center put a really cool media center themed menu into the DVD. I was really surprised and really happy that after all this time I can still be amazed at how cool the media center is. read more: Blue Screen of Death Blue Screen of DeathThe Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD), is an error that can appear on computers running in a Windows environment. This includes even the earliest versions of Windows, such as Windows 3.0 and 3.1, and still occurs in later versions such as Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98,... read more: Revoking the First Amendment This article by Paul Waldman at Media Matters was published on the web June 30. It is timeless, extremely important, and is loaded with substantiating links. I would go as far as to say this article outlines the demise of what remained of our democracy. In fact, reading it reminded me in an awkward way of Jeff Cohen's words in, Go to Venezuela. You Idiot! 'If Venezuela is a dictatorship, it must be the first in world history in which the opposition controls most of the media.' ...For nearly five years, George W. Bush and other members of his administration have been proclaiming proudly that they have been tracking terrorist financing through international financial institutions. Cooperating they are. Media Matters also cites a few of the talking points echoed loudly in our media: * Republicans are 'pro-military' and 'support the troops,' while Democrats are 'anti-military' and 'attack the troops.' * Democrats want to 'cut and run.' * Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. * Democrats are 'divided' or 'weak' on national security. * The Republicans will always win debates on national security. * The Republicans won the Iraq debate. Unfortunately, Bush Is Not Incompetent 'Unless conservative philosophy itself is discredited, Conservatives will continue their domination of public discourse, and with it, will continue their domination of politics.' ~Lakoff read more: WebMaster Media Maker. Create Streaming Audio and Video with Media players that do not require a streaming media server. read more: McAfee Launches Total Protection Beta McAfee has launched the beta version of a new all-in-one security platform that is designed to compete with Microsoft's recently introduced Windows Live OneCare. read more: Download and install the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows driver The Adobe Universal PostScript Windows driver installer installs the latest version of the Adobe PostScript (AdobePS) printer driver for each supported version of Windows: -- PScript 5 for Windows XP and 2000 -- AdobePS 4.5.3 for Windows Millennium E... read more: Microsoft's Zune Won't Play Protected Windows Media In yesterday's announcement of the new Zune media player and Zune Marketplace, Microsoft (and many press reports) glossed over a remarkable misfeature that should demonstrate once and for all how DRM and the DMCA harm legitimate customers. Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or 'rented' from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure doesn't even play on Microsoft's own device. Buried in footnote 4 of its press release, Microsoft clearly states that 'Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264' -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent. This is a stark example of DRM under the DMCA giving customers a raw deal. Buying DRMed media means you're locked into the limited array of devices that vendors say you can use. You have to rebuy your preexisting DRMed media collection if you want to use it on the Zune. And you'll have to do that over and over again whenever a new, incompatible device with innovative features blows existing players out of the water. Access to MP3s and non-DRMed formats creates the only bridge between these isolated islands of limited devices. The real culprit here is the DMCA -- but for that bad law, customers could legally convert DRMed files into whatever format they want, and tech creators would be free to reverse engineer the DRM to create compatible devices. Even though those acts have traditionally been and still are non-infringing, the DMCA makes them illegal and stifles fair use, innovation, and competition. May this be a lesson to those who mistakenly laud certain DRM as 'open' and offering customers 'freedom of choice' simply because it is widely-licensed. With DRM under the DMCA, nothing truly plays for sure, regardless of whether you're purchasing from Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else. Take action now to support DMCA reform and to stop the government from mandating more DRM. [Postscript: In an interview with Engadget, Microsoft Zune architect J Allard pointed out that Zune has sufficient video format support, in part because there's 'Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.' Gee, he isn't suggesting that his business model benefits from customers using tools like DeCSS or Handbrake to evade the DRM on DVDs, right? Especially since Microsoft is furiously trying to squash the FairUse4WM tool, that would seem rather hypocritical.] read more: Just me, HTML and Windows Have you ever been in a situation when you just need to correct an error or a mistake on a web page but you are nowhere near to your usual trusted workstation? If you ever hand-coded your web pages, or even web application scripts such as ASP or PHP, you don't really need any extra software installed. On Windows box, for a quick job of updating a web page you can just make do with what already installed on Windows out of the box. read more: My Legend The new PodShow+ site, unleashing pretty darn soon, has a personal bio feature called 'The Legend of me'. I just filled mine out. Here's what I wrote: I'm a programmer with an apetite for timeshifted media. That pretty much sums it up. In 2000, before I'd heard of RSS, I was using Voquette Media Manager to record Real streams of This American Life, which I'd lovingly burn to CD and listen to on long car trips. Later, in the days of 'audio blogging', I used the Radio Userland news aggregator to automatically pull MP3 files from enclosure-bearing RSS from Dave Winer, Chistopher Lydon and Doug Kaye. I'd then locate these on my hard drive and drag them, one at a time, into the media management software for my Neuros MP3 player. It worked, sort of, but was too much effort, and there was still too little content (especially after Chris took a break) for practical daily use. Adam Curry switched me back on in 2004 with a steady stream of daily content, developer feedback, feature ideas and a critical insight that made the medium: we needed automatic sync to the listening device. The early innovations in podcasting were nearly all Mac-only, which as a Windows user drove me nuts. Erik de Jonge's 'iSpider' project had a decent command-line Python/Applescript codebase, and were up for doing a cross-platform GUI product, which is where I wanted to go. Bringing in some modest COM knowledge that Pieter Overbeeke's 'i-podder' javascript helped me learn, I joined the iSpider team and Lemon was born. Nearly two years and one Ceast and Desist later, Lemon is now known as Juice and has accumulated over 2 million downloads. Along the way, Martijn Venrooy and I built the GigaDial 'podstation factory' (October 2004), and in Fall 2005 I joined PodShow and moved my family from Boston to San Francisco. At PodShow I do a mix of engineering (DGAP, Golden Tickets), developer relations (developer.podshow.com, DevCasts), technical reviews of potential partners and, when anyone will listen :-), talent scouting. I'm bullish on New Media and on the lookout for cool new stuff to build, to make listening and viewing better. Pretty verbose --- it fills the alotted space on my profile page --- yet it barely scratches the surface. read more: Links for 2006-05-21 [ma.gnolia]
read more: Windows XP and Almost Maximized Windows I believe I am not the only person in the world who likes to work onlywith maximized windows and Alt+Tab - there are quite a lot ofadvantages to that approach, mainly the fact that you can pull yourmouse to the upper-right corner of the screen and blindly left-click toclose it - without the need to fuss over aiming your cursor just right. How many times have you seen this before: A window for application A isabove another and only appears maximized, but since Windows XP hasintroduced curved corners for windows, it neglects to cover thecorners. Behind application A's window is another window - application B, which really is maximized - therefore covering thecorners of the screen.  However, when you try closing application A's almost-maximized window with an upper-right corner click, the mouse-click is actually sent to application B's window, causing it to close and you, the user, to get utterly frustrated. Unfortunately, it looks like Vista isn't going to make any great improvements there, so if you're developing a UI, please try and avoid this - when a window needs to be big - open it maximized; otherwise, please make the window, at most, with 10 pixel margins from each corner of the screen. All you have to do is use Form.MaximumSize and set it to values received from System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea (for a single display system) minus the margin and save headaches from thousands. Thank you in advance. Security Agreements for Business Loans Although there is no specific language or terminology that must be included in a Security Agreement, the following is a list of key provisions to consider: Identity of parties;debtor and secured party ... read more: Back to the Opening New Windows Issue? Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents is Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox article, dated August 29, 2005. Although he'd previously stated not to force links to open new windows, he now feels that you should indeed set links to open in new windows for PDF and other non-Web documents. Even after reading this new article, I still feel strongly about considering the website's target audience, letting the user choose, and avoiding accessibility problems. Today's post goes into why I feel that way and even includes an informal test to check out Nielsen's latest recommendation for yourself. (1195 words, 9 links) read more: Required permissions for Photoshop (CS2 on Windows XP) Required permissions for Photoshop CS2 on Windows XPTo install Photoshop, you must be logged in to Windows with Administrator rights. To use scratch disk files, ICC profiles, preferences files, and application files, you must have read and write access... read more: Alert: New HIPAA Rules Could Affect Your Organization On April 21, 2005 (just over three weeks from today), a new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security rule goes into effect. The requirements of this rule, which are basically information security best practices, focus on the three cornerstones of a solid information security infrastructure: confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.The imminent HIPAA regulatory requirements encompass transmission, storage and discoverability of Protected Health Information (PHI). Given the widespread use and mission-critical nature of email, enforcement of HIPAA encryption policies and the growing demand for secure email solutions, email security has never been more important to the healthcare industry than it is right now. read more: Business Continuity Group Educates Businesses About Digital Disaster Recovery KL Security Enterprises provides small and big business with the knowledge and solutions they need to survive fires, floods and other data disasters. They are an official Government Vendor and approved GSA Supplier of fireproof safes and filing cabinets designed to protect critical data and computer media for networks and direct server backup. [PRWEB Nov 10, 2005] read more: Optimize Windows XP for Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 Optimizing Microsoft Windows XP can eliminate compatibility problems that can interfere with video editing. To optimize Windows XP for Adobe Premiere Elements, work through the tasks in this document. To further eliminate problems, simplify the system to ... read more: How do I set environment variables on Windows XP? A: For Windows 2000/XP systems, the environment settings are edited in a special Control Panel applet called System. read more: Protara Standard Edition Protara is an easier way to build application for Windows or Windows Mobile. Use an integrated development environment to design forms using a ... read more: How to disable a Media Center add-in Jason over at Digital Media Thoughts sent me an email about his new article on The Powers and Perils of a Platform. Jason talks about the trouble he had when a Media Center 'plugin' went bad and couldn't be uninstalled. It's not clear if it was an HTML application or a managed code add-in, but based on the description I'm assuming it's the latter. He ran into problems when trying to manually uninstall the application so I thought I should post something on what to do when an add-in goes bad... In Media Center 2005 add-ins can do pretty much what they want to do without restriction, if one starts to misbehave the best thing you can do is to disable it:
This will disable the app from starting and hide anything entrypoint it's registered throughout Media Center. It won't uninstall the app, but it will prevent it from running. read more: Error when you open Clip Notes PDF files with embedded QuickTime video (Premiere Pro 2.0) IssueWhen you try to open a Clip Notes PDF file with embedded QuickTime 7 video, Adobe Premiere Pro returns the following error message, "Couldn’t find QuickTime Player on the system. Please make sure that QuickTime Player is properly installed and try a... read more: Move Over Twain, Faulkner; The South has Done it Again Why is Homeland Security concerned about horses? In 'That's No Miracle...Nettles, Thistles, Humor, and Stories by a Scotch American', R.K. Ferguson provides comic relief in the story 'Hay Would Eat It' for those who are overly security minded... or sends them over the edge. [PRWEB Nov 10, 2005] read more: Media Brewfest! The annual brewer festival is coming to Media this weekend. (Last year’s post) Me, Brian and Marc will be there. Will you? If you are going, you can buy your ticket online and save $5 ($25 online, $30 at the door). Should be fun.... read more: Firms offered free advice on net security EDINBURGH Chamber of Commerce is hosting a free seminar next week where experts will provide advice about improving internet security. read more: CES Keynote So far I'm not impressed with the CES keynote. I guess I'm just more of a give me something cool now developer instead of a dangle it out in front of me kind of guy. Update: Directv and MS Windows Media Center Partnership announced. That is going to rock! Update 2: HD DVD recorder available in march for $499 update 3: Xbox360 update coming shortly! update 4: third manufacturering partner announced for the 360. update 5: external HD DVD announced for xbox 360 read more: Windows Live Messenger Ready for Prime Time First major service in the Windows Live suite of Web apps to go live. read more: How HIPAA Security Policies Affect Corporate E-mail Systems Collaboration between healthcare professionals, their colleagues, their patients, and employers has grown progressively more digital, and e-mail has played an ever-increasing role in this communication. Although many consider HIPAA security policies to be the sole concern of health care providers, they also affect corporate email systems as Human Resources departments become increasingly involved in transmitting employee information electronically. This article explains what you need to know to bring your email security programs into compliance with HIPAA regulations. read more: MSN Remote Record MSN Remote Record is live and out of beta. In simplest terms it's a way of browsing the same TV guide as your Media Center PC uses and then remotely instructing your Media Center PC to record something. Pretty clever stuff. There's a small download for your Media Center PC and then it looks pretty easy to use. Try it and let me know what you think. read more: Comparing Java and .NET security O'Reilly's DevCenter has posted three articles comparing Java and .NET security, with a fourth one coming in February. We'll update this story when the fourth article is available.Securit... read more: BoF session for voting: 'Developing as a Non-Administrator in XP and Vista' A little late (voting ends today at 5:00 pm), but I have submitted a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session for TechEd 2006:
Please go vote here if this sounds interesting to you. I know some members of the Vista UAC team will probably be there (they are presenting a couple of sessions on UAC at TechEd) plus a few others with lots of experience on this topic. It should be a great discussion. REAL Software Ships REALbasic 2006 Release 3 for Windows; Similar to Visual Basic, Upgrade Improves Productivity, Supports Team Project Development In addition to the over 100 features and fixes that have been added, REALbasic 2006 Release 3 for Windows provides users a wide variety of options for customizing user interfaces, both for REALbasic and for the applications it creates. Enables Visual Basic developers to create software for Windows, Mac and Linux. (PRWEB Jul 6, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/TWFnbi1UaGlyLUxvdmUtUGlnZy1JbnNlLVplcm8= read more: PPD file isn't listed when you install a printer (AdobePS 4.2-5.0 on Windows) IssueWhen you install a printer using the AdobePS 4.2.x or later setup utility, the AdobePS 5.0 for Windows NT setup utility, or the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver installer, a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file for the printer doesn't... read more: Back from @media 2006 The trip to London and @media 2006 was a real success, for me at least. I had so much fun and listened to so many great people and talking to many interesting people. It was simply a blast to be there.Me and my colleague came to London the evening before the event started. We [...] read more: Maximizing E-mail Security ROI - Part IV – The Digital Monsters under Your Bed: E-Mail Intruders There are very real dangers posed by network intrusions. Keep these monsters from stealing the digital lifeblood of your enterprise and ensure that your investment in network security is handsomely rewarded. read more: Maximizing E-mail Security ROI - Part V – A New Twist to an Old Problem: Email Encryption While email has become a mission-critical application, it also raises important privacy and security concerns. Sensitive personal and business communications are vulnerable to the prying eyes of hackers, industrial spies and others who would love to have access to information not intended for them. Learn what you need to know about Email Encryption. read more: Firefox Hack: Suppress New Windows Pinder has a great tip for suppressing the target='_blank' property of anchor links which opens new windows. Apparently, the new release of Firefox advanced preferences for this no longer works, it has been overridden by a new advanced preference.To turn it on, go to about:config and set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to TRUE. Alternatively you can add read more: windows media player securityClick windows media player security to go to MMK TechnologiesSEARCH RSS NEWS USING THE WORDS BELOW windows media player security | secure media | protect audio | video stream protection | MMKTechnologies | MMK Technologies | prevent audio theft | prevent video theft | web page design | ecommerce shopping cart | shopping store ASP | sell online | sell products | products to sell online | web technology | website builders | web site builder | bradenton web design | florida web design | bradenton website design | protect MP3 | keep video from being copied | sarasota web design | secure upload video | web programming | cgi programming | net hosting | net development | flash design | flash programming | cool flash | action script | flash database programming | flash graphics | graphics design | graphics disign | flash disign | web disign | web design | website design | internet marketing | web marketing | web site marketing | programming | web sites designer | web designs | internet design | programming developer | website marketing | web development | marketing internet | web sites designing | site designs | sites designs | internet designer | internet designs | e-commerce store | web development | web site development | design webs | internet site marketing | internet hosting | internet host | web hosting | web host | sell on the internet | sell on the web | e-commerce store | internet development | webdesign | florida web site design | website development | ecommerce store | sell online | affiliate program | asp web store | marketing program | marketing software | submission software | asp programmer | cgi store | perl store | internet store | database programmer | internet database | online marketing | ecommerce software | streaming media | video streaming | secure video streams | media streams | audio streaming | MP3 security | avi security | Windows Media Security | protect video | secure web cam | webcam security | video piracy | media piracy | windows media player security | (c) Copyright 2005 MMK Technologies.
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