Vitamin C Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment | LiveScience
This would be amazing if it proves to be effective.
Vitamin C Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment | LiveScience.
Japanese Anime Studio Embraces YouTube Pirates
Wow, finally someone with common sense.
Japanese Anime Studio Embraces YouTube Pirates.
Tech: Disable Data Detectors
via DaringFireball, you can disable data detectors in Apple Mail with this command.
Download Firefox Day!
After a rough start 13:00 EST, the Spread Firefox website is finally up and running. You can now download Firefox 3 and help set a new world record!
Change IE Homepage
If for some reason you have a locked down Internet Explorer ( from an ISP ) that doesn’t have the option to change the homepage you can use Npust Homepage Guard to change it. Install and run the program. Use it to change your homepage and then click ‘Shutdown’ to close the program. Otherwise it will run in the background trying to change your homepage every second, which was ‘supposed’ to fix a malware infested system. It’s a flawed solution for malware, but perfect as a quick and dirty way to get around a locked down homepage.
Update
If you are more technical you can create a quick script to update the homepage.
OMG, Somebody Buy Krakow a Clue
via DaringFireball.net, Goodness. It doesn’t sound like Gary Krakow has a clue about technology.
First of all, people are already using the supposedly non-enterprise-ready iPhone 1.0 in the enterprise. And what exactly is the killer enterprise app for Blackberry? It’s push e-mail on the phone. The reason that is so successful is because traditional cell phones have crappy data connections and can not access IMAP / POP mail boxes like a desktop application. The iPhone has IMAP support and a great e-mail application. Along with Wi-Fi and hopefully 3G soon, it functions just as well or perhaps better than Blackberry phones. Lastly, Apple has already licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft and announced it’s availability in the next iPhone firmware update. iPhone users will have full access to MS Exchange servers using the standard iPhone applications.
So, it’s utterly pointless to “bite the bullet”.
Fixed: Windows Update Broken
Apparantly the root cause of the Windows Genuine Advantage Failure I mentioned in the last post was an issue where “Automatic Updates service cannot impersonate the logged-on user to finish downloading and installing the update.” Somehow my system was missing a needed Windows registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\SensLogn
After adding the subkey back with the appropriate registry entries Windows Update worked again and I was able to install the latest Windows XP SP3. I created the following registry file to import, based on KB 910341 :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\SensLogn]
“DLLName”=”WlNotify.dll”
“Lock”=”SensLockEvent”
“Logon”=”SensLogonEvent”
“Logoff”=”SensLogoffEvent”
“Safe”=dword:00000001
“MaxWait”=dword:00000258
“StartScreenSaver”=”SensStartScreenSaverEvent”
“StopScreenSaver”=”SensStopScreenSaverEvent”
“Startup”=”SensStartupEvent”
“Shutdown”=”SensShutdownEvent”
“StartShell”=”SensStartShellEvent”
“PostShell”=”SensPostShellEvent”
“Disconnect”=”SensDisconnectEvent”
“Reconnect”=”SensReconnectEvent”
“Unlock”=”SensUnlockEvent”
“Impersonate”=dword:00000001
“Asynchronous”=dword:00000001
Fixed: Unable to install Windows Genuine Advantage Tool
For some reason I’ve had an issue with running Windows Update lately. Windows Update has been wanting me to install the Windows Genuine Advantage Tool, but it is never able to successfully do so. I’ve finally gotten around to fixing the problem. There are many solutions as detailed in various forums and Microsoft Knowledge base articles. But this solution from Stephen Holm is what worked for me:
1. Click the Start button, then click “Run”
2. Type in “iexplore http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=39204” then click ‘OK’. You will be prompted to download “LegitCheckControl.cab”.
3. Choose Open. Once this completes, a window will open showing two files, LegitCheckControl.dll and LegitCheckControl.inf. Leave this window open for now.
4. Click the Start button, then click “Run”
5. Type in “system32”, then click ‘OK’. (If you are running Windows XP, you may need to click “show files” to allow access to this system directory.)
6. Drag the LegitCheckControl.dll file from the window that was open into the system32 directory. If you are prompted to overwrite a file, choose ‘Yes’ to overwrite any existing file. (If you are running Vista, you may be prompted to provide administrator permission to complete the action. If so, press “Continue” and allow it.)
7. Click the Start button, then click “Run”
8. Type “regsvr32 LegitCheckControl.dll”, and then click ‘OK’.
9. You should see a dialog saying “DllRegisterServer in LegitCheckControl.dll succeeded.”
SoftBank To Release iPhone in Japan
via Gizmodo, SoftBank announced on June 4th it’s intent to release iPhone in Japan. Details of the release date or pricing have not been announced yet.
VLC Player on iPhone
Wow, it’s amazing what people are porting to the iPhone.
iPhone: Great user experience, but that’s all
via DaringFireball, An enterprise CIO says of the iPhone: “It has a great user experience, but that’s all.”
10 Million iPhones?
via DaringFireball.net, There have been analysts and reports that are questioning if Apple can really sell 10 Million units of iPhones this year. I have no doubt they can. They may even beat that number. Jason Snell at MacWorld also thinks so.
Also, just look at some of the amazing things people are already doing with the iPhone development kit: Multi-iPhone Pong, PC Engine / Turbo Grafx Emulator
iPhone gaining even more steam
via Gizmodo, Orange, the iPhone is coming to even more countries. Orange will offer the iPhone in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Africa. It looks like the iPhone sales should be able to accelerate in the second half of 2008.
More iPhone Carriers
via DarinFireball, more carriers to offer iPhones in Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia.
More iPhone Deals
MEXICO CITY, May 7 (Reuters) – America Movil AMXL.MX said on Wednesday it would sell Apple Inc’s (AAPL) iPhone across Latin America this year, a deal that could extend its lead in the region over Telefonica TEF.MC.
Mmm, why is AAPL falling?