Priceless Software

Fabulous Freeware Replacements For Popular Commercial Applications – Spyware and Adware Free

Video Apps

• AVIcodec – Gives the codecs needed to play the file, and where to download those codecs if they are missing on your system.
• DVD Shrink – DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs
• MovieTrack – a freeware dvd database and general movie collection organizer, for Windows.
• TMPGEnc – converts .AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
• VLC – Stream DVDs and Videos over a network
• VirtualDub – VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)”

Dummies EBooks

Found in an open directory. For Dummies EBooks with self-explanatory titles. Copy the required link into a new browser window to view/download (you need a pdf reader like  Adobe Acrobat Reader) . Good while they last. 

Click to access Bit.Torrent.for.Dummies.pdf

Click to access Buying.A.Computer.For.Dummies.2004.Edition.pdf

Click to access C.Game.Programming.For.Dummies.2.pdf

Click to access Eurocode.3.for.Dummies.pdf

Mahathir’s Moral Authority

By ProArte

Malaysians ‘mudah lupa’ (forget easily) that is all I can say.It would be dangerous for the opposition to latch on to Dr Mahathir Mohamad purely because he opposes the government. We must ask why he is opposing the government – is it because he wants to make Malaysia more democratic? Is it because he wants to make the police force more professional? Is it because he wants the judiciary to be independent? Is it because he believes in equality for all Malaysians?

Scooby-Doo: RIP Takamoto

Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created Scooby-Doo and directed the 1973 feature toon “Charlotte’s Web,” died Monday of heart failure in Los Angeles at the age of 81, reports Variety.During his six-decade career, Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows for Disney and Hanna-Barbera, including “Cinderella,” “Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “101 Dalmatians,” “The Jetsons” and “The Flintstones.”

Shadow Play in PAS Territory

Osman Bakar is a specialist in Malaysia’s traditional art of shadow puppetry, but fears his craft is flickering out under curbs imposed by strict Islamist rulers in the country’s northeastern state of Kelantan.”I have lost a source of income,” said Osman, who has been a drummer for 20 years at performances of wayang kulit, as the art of puppetry, based on myths from India’s Hindu epics, is known.

Seven Rules for Reading the Paper

Newspapers are portable, disposable and convey a certain savoir faire. Follow these easy steps, and you’ll be leaving your laptop behind.

Koh’s Headache

Malaysia’s only ethnic Chinese chief minister has a political headache — the state he governs is too much of an economic success.The northern state of Penang, Asia’s first Silicon Valley, is the country’s biggest magnet for foreign direct investment this year and has its lowest poverty rate, the envy of other states.

But for Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon, there is a racial tinge to the envy surrounding Penang, a state where ethnic Chinese form a very slim majority in a country dominated by majority Malays.