VLC is one of my favourite movie players. Though i mostly prefer Windows Media Player , but i turn to VLC everytime i get a file which doesnt play in WMP and truly VLC is able to play them …Today a new version is out …some new features in it are
Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows …

It’s been nearly a month since i last posted on this blog …and trust me I have been really busy during this time …first i had my exams , then i got a week vacations and during that time i just decided to rest , rest and rest . After vacations i got busy with my college project which was an “e commerce” site and after a weeks encounter with Dreamweaver , php , my sql , css and stuff i finally completed it today …. and i am free …

Well we all love gaming dont we . In this post i look at few of the people who have made a diffrence in this field, without them the gaming scenario would have been very much diffrent .
John Carmack

If you are a true action gamer , you would recognize him at once . If not for him , we wouldnt have experianced the legendary FPS -> DOOM which is regarded as one of the best action games of all times . He is also the co-founder of id Software and is also behind …

In my previous posts i mentioned that Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express to enable anyone to program game for the Windows and the XBOX . Here are a few Links which contains tutorials , examples , videos to get you started .
MSDN Forums : Microsoft developers Network forums is an ideal place to find out about XNA . It has a separate Game Technologies Forum as well as a XNA Blog .
Some other MSDN blogs related to this are
Paul Stubbs Blog : Application Customization with .NET
Gary Kacmaricks’s Blog …

A new form of advertising may soon be around to hit us . Advertisers who want to get there products noticed to 16-30 years old , EA Games and Microsoft might have a solution for you . EA Games , in conjunction with Massive Incorporated (a subsidiary of Microsoft) will be able to provide live advertising in XBOX 360 and PC games it releases - first game featuring this will be NFS Carbon .
In the past we have had several games like Rainbow Six , Swat etc which are displaying ads in …

Microsoft has released the public beta of XNA Game Studio Express , the technology that will open up game development to new people including student , independent developers . They may be hoping to bring some creativity to this entertainment industry . Game Developers or those interested can download the tool from here to develop games for Windows XP and Vista . Initially the release is targeted at Windows Games only . After few moths the users will get an option to migrate there games to XBOX by taking the …

The owner of Shoemoney.com , one of the top 100 blogs on technorati has been called to testify over the comments made on his blog . One reader of the blog is suing another after being slandered on the blog thorugh comments . Now this is the first time i am hearing of such a case . I dont even know whether a law is there for such a case . This might turn out to be ‘first of a kind case’, lets wait and see what happens
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Microsoft recently released a blogging editor called Windows Live Write which would enable you to write blog posts . The application is currently free and is only available for the Windows Platform . I recently tried the application and to say the truth , i was quite pleased with it .
The download size is about 4.7 Mb . After installing the application it will ask you whether you have a blogging account or not . If not it gives you an option to create a Windows Live Space account . …

Just saw this news on digg . AMD today announced plans to buy Ati in a deal worth $5.4 billion . There aim is to create products that can have innovative capabilities in terms of processing and Graphics . Lets see what it turns out to be .
Read the Press Release

Microsoft have now closed there Vista Preview program . The downloads are available till 14th July but they have stopped giving the product key .
Luckily i have downloaded it and even installed it once but removed it as it was showing some incompatibility with few games and VB.NET . But they have really made the desktop and interface more interesting and 3d . I will give a detailed review later when i install it in a my new Hard Disk
Via Microsoft