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Version 2.18 - September 8th 2008

A rom trimmer for Nintendo DS (NDS & GBA)

Features
- Batch processing
- Recursive folder scanning
- Auto detection for Wifi games
- Auto detection of already trimmed games
- Auto fix of incorrect trimming from other trimmers
- Extremely fast
- Trims NDS and GBA roms
- RAR/ZIP/7zip support
- It works for all the currently known cards for DS (R4, Acekard, M3, CycloDS, G6 etc..)

OS Compatibility
- 32/64 bit Windows from win95 to Vista; Linux under wine
- No 7zip for win9x and Linux
- Does not require .net shit

What’s New : v2.18
- Option to rename files to remove scene numbers. (like “0123 - abc.nds” -> “abc.nds”)

Drag&Drop notes:
- Drop any kind of files, it will detect and sort the right ones (nds,gba,zip,rar,7z,folders)

Q: Which version do I need?
A: If you use Vista with UAC enabled, or with a non-admin account, you need the 2nd one, “Vista compat…”, otherwise (win95-vista without uac, and Linux), use the normal one that says 32/64-bit)

Download:

32/64-bit 9x-Vista-Linux (891 KB) Downloaded a total of 59572 times

Vista compatible for non-admin/UAC accounts (841 KB) Downloaded a total of 31535 times

Additional Backgrounds (1.5 MB) Downloaded a total of 7004 times

Backgrounds by http://www.j-suki.de

Support MAL Updater by purchasing Anime from our affiliates

Mal Updater a software made specially for Anime fans.

First off, let me tell you about MAL (http://www.MyAnimeList.net): This is an impressive and big Anime community where you can make your own list of the series you have watched, plan to watch, what episode you are at, set a score for each etc. You can make your own personal profile, blog, make and join clubs about anything, search the anime/manga/people database, reviews, shared Anime with other users, and a bunch of stuff. There are around 80.000 registered users at the moment. There’s so much to explain that I can’t possibly cover it all here, so better check it out yourself: http://www.myanimelist.net/

Once you have an account and made a list there, you can then start using this application: Mal Updater

This program connects to the website with your MAL user account and retrieves your Anime list. From here on there’s a lot you can do:

- Start watching some Anime in one of the supported players, and MalU will detect which Anime and episode it is, and update your MAL list automatically with the last episode you have watched. That’s right: malu will check your video players and identify the Anime and episode.
- See how many people are watching the same Anime at the same time, and open a chat window with them
- Manually sort and update your list from MalU (episode watched, score, status, etc)
- Tell MalU to search in your hard disk for the next episode of the Anime you are currently watching, or from any in your list, and launch it in your default player. You can even use a HotKey and hook a mouse button for this. There is also an option so that malu automatically launches the next episode when you close the player
- Have it automatically check TokyoTosho for torrents of new episodes for the Anime in your list, have it download and launch the .torrents automatically according to some filters, and even tell uTorrent to store each file in its own Anime folder, if you have set it for every show. You can even have it automatically discard either MKV or AVI when both versions are present.
- Check your hard disk to see which Anime have new episodes available, and how many
- Show in MSN and mIRC what you are watching, including your score, ep/eptotal and a URL to information of the Anime. You don’t need to install any extra plugins or scripts in msn or mirc for this.
- Show in mIRC what you are listening to in either winamp or Last.fm. No extra plugins/scripts either for this
- You can make your own php forum signature which shows what you are currently watching, your last updates etc..
- Batch rename your Anime files to some criteria like Fansub - Anime Name - Episode
- Send your computer system info to a mIRC channel (ok this is unrelated to Anime, but you can use this to replace any script/dlls you are currently using). It has full 64-bit support and detects more than 4GB of ram
- Easily move and rename entire folders of Anime with a batch tool.

Note for Vista users: If you are using a non-admin account, or have UAC enabled, you should install to “C:\” instead of “Program files”. This will avoid UAC popping up when you want to install themes (annoyance).

Some screenshots, click on the reduced ones for a bigger image:

Main window. Vista 32/64 is fully supported, including blurry glass window, UAC for file operations, and live thumbs. The Anime panels colors change according to mal status, airing status, playing, etc..

mIRC and MSN features in action: (MSN URLs from other people in your list are clickable with MSN9). The variables and styles for mIRC are customizable

Main menu and Anime menus.

Tray notification for scheduled updates. You can customize the time for this and also the picture through themes

Torrents window and options/filters

Special tool for renaming and sorting your Anime files and folders

Themes: You can choose from a variety of existing themes (currently 80), or even make your own. There is an easy to use themes editor. Themes support full alpha blending features, as you can see in the first screenshot.
Check our complete themes gallery here: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=13935

Help and settings wizard

There is a very detailed help manual explaining every single setting and feature (besides our own club forum where people posts with questions, feature requests etc)

The application is updated regularly, including an auto-updater which detects new updates and auto-downloads them. Amongst the upcoming features is full support for remote controls to perform various actions (play next ep etc). This will be very useful for people with Media Center pcs without keyboard/mouse

Cpu/Ram usage: being a native win32 application, it doesn’t use the bulky .net framework, thus using very little CPU and RAM: (idle, logged in with 328 anime)

Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows OS, from Win2k to Vista, 32 and 64 bit editions supported.
- Linux supported (only manual updates, through wine lib)
- .NET is NOT required
- Internet connection
- Players supported: MPC(+HC ed), MPlayer, Zoom Player, GOM Player, Real Player, Winamp, WMP, BSPlayer, VLC, The Core, KMPlayer, DivX Player, SMPlayer, JetAudio
- If you use a firewall, you might need to give it permissions to access techsuki.net (for program updates) and myanimelist.net (list retrieval and episode updates)

To get started, please register in http://www.myanimelist.net first, build your list, then join the Mal Updater club for info: http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=907

This is very cool

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

AnandTech: Google Chrome: Performance and First Impressions.

Click the link for the article

Source: DailyTech

Former computer engineer Hans Reiser was today sentenced 15-to-life after a first-degree murder conviction after he strangled his wife and buried her in a ravine.

Reiser’s claim to fame in the computer world is the ReiserFS file system, a general-purpose file system used in the Linux operating system.  ReiserFS is still popular in Linspire, Xandros and other Linux distributions, but has lost support in Novell SUSE Linux and other distributions.

Very interesting and informative articles about common myths about optimizing windows:

http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths

http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html

DailyTech - Microsoft Tricks Diehard XP Users Into Liking Vista with “Mojave” Ruse

Inspired by an employee email from Microsoft’s David Webster, the Vista team gathered over 120 XP users in San Francisco who were critical of Windows Vista.  After being questioned on video about their Vista impressions, Microsoft told them it was giving them a stunning opportunity — the chance to view their secret operating system they had been cooking up, codenamed “Mojave”.  The excited users showed great enthusiasm for the new operating system, with over 90 percent giving positive feedback of the 10 minute demo of the system.

The comic twist is that there is no “Mojave” and it wasn’t a pre-release version of Windows 7.  “Mojave” was simply a fictitious title applied to a standard Windows Vista install.  Interestingly, the XP users seemed utterly unable to recognize Vista or its features, despite criticizing it.  Remarked one user on the new features, “Oh wow!”

http://www.cuil.com/

Researcher to demonstrate attack code for Intel chips | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-14 | By Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service.

Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel’s microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at the upcoming Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during October. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler.

“I’m going to show real working code…and make it publicly available,” Kaspersky said, adding that CPU bugs are a growing threat and malware is being written that targets these vulnerabilities.

Different bugs will allow hackers to do different things on the attacked computers. “Some bugs just crash the system, some allow a hacker to gain full control on the kernel level. Some just help to attack Vista, disabling security protections,” he said.

The demonstrated attack will be made against fully patched computers running a range of operating systems, including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux and BSD, Kaspersky said, adding that the demonstration of an attack against a Mac is also a possibility.

Processors contain hundreds of millions of transistors and errata in these chips are relatively common. While some errata can affect a chip’s ability to function properly — such as the errata that last year forced Advanced Micro Devices to push back volume shipments of its quad-core Opteron processors — many others exist unnoticed by users.

For example, the Silverthorne version of Intel’s Atom processor, which lies at the heart of the Centrino Atom chip platform, contains 35 errata, according to a June specification update released by Intel.

“It’s possible to fix most of the bugs, and Intel provides workarounds to the major BIOS vendors,” Kaspersky said, referring to the code that controls the most basic functions of a PC. “However, not every vendor uses it and some bugs have no workarounds.”

Source: http://www.tofugu.com/2007/08/02/studying-japanese-with-a-nintendo-ds/

Nintendo DS Kanji Dictionary:
???????????????? (sono mama raku hiku jiten / Kanji Sonomama). How many times have you looked at a kanji and had no idea what it was? More than you can count, most likely. Once you stop reading children’s books, you’ll probably start to notice that there is less and less furigana going on (that’s the hiragana next to the kanji telling you how to pronounce it). Furigana will only stick around for very difficult kanji, and that’s why you need this software. All you need to do is write your kanji into the box (as ugly and as poorly as you want to) and it will decipher it and give you its meaning. What makes this “game” so invaluable, however, is that it will translate it for you into English. You can also translate the other way around (English -> Japanese). Here is what happens when you look up a word:

Source: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8

This is pretty cool, *when it works. It lets you easily install Fedora in a usb pendrive as a live system.

Get it here: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

However, as it’s Linux, there’s of course trouble and problems. If you can’t get it to boot, here’s the fix:

http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?t=4365

cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdc

(Change sdc to your drive letter)

If that doesn’t work, try here:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=104367

If those solutions still don’t work, just give up, this is trash Linux after all and is bound to fail.

Source: CNET

http://85.150.216.22/blog/NDS/ProjectJDS.asp

Nice freeware homebrew application for DS