[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #543

MikesWhatsNews, 25, 07, 2002
in today's issue #543
Perseid meteor shower
Proxomitron New version - Naoko 4.3
Parks Canada Virtual Visits
Workaround for Windows Media Player Bug
NVIDIA Open Sources Cg Compiler Technology
SaveMartha
RealNetworks goes open-source
Tina's FrontPage Tips
CCC   
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Perseid meteor shower

This weekend Earth will enter the outskirts of a cloud of comet debris. 
It marks the beginning of the annual  Perseid meteor shower, which peaks
on August 12th and 13th. The warmth of northern summer makes the Perseids
one of the year's most inviting sky shows.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/19jul_perseids.htm?list98446
Thanks to; Pam
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Proxomitron New version - Naoko 4.3 ~ free
http://proxomitron.org/
The Proxomitron - Universal Web Filter
Have you ever wished you could turn off some of those fancy new HTML
features your web browser supports? Are you tired of pages filled to the
brim with blinking banners, pop-up windows, and other such aggravations?


Enter The Proxomitron, Re-Writing the web Your way... 

Using special HTML filters, the Proxomitron can transform web pages on the
fly - changing most anything you wish. Speed your browsing by saying goodbye
to slow loading cyber spam and other web-gimmickry. Customize pages to suit
your tastes. Take control of your web viewing, and don't be slave to some
web-master's whims. 

It works with most any browser (not just the big two) and, for starters, can
do the following keen things... 

Stop or limit Pop-up windows 
Control MIDI music and other sounds 
Freeze animated .GIFs - load only the first frame 
Kill most all advertising banners 
Stop Web-Branding and other scripts added by web space providers 
Stop Pop-up alert/confirm boxes 
Remove slow web counters 
Stop web pages and ads from "auto-refreshing" 
Remove Dynamic HTML 
Prevent getting stuck in someone's frames 
Remove frames or tables altogether for that matter 
Kill or change selected Java scripts and applets 
Add your own scripts to pages! 
Remove or replace web page and/or table background images 
Stop Status bar scrollers 
Unhide URLs obscured by status line text 
Convert blinking text to bold 
Remove Layers and Style sheets 
Automatically re-write or redirect URLs 
Create lists of sites to block or allow 
Create similar lists for just about anything else 
And as they say, much, much more... 
All features can be individually toggled on and off, or limited to specific
sites. Better yet, it's just a taste of what the many included filtering
rules can do. You have the freedom to modify the rules or create new,
equally powerful, rules of your own! You can add filters or complete
configurations created by other Proxomitron users for an ever expaning array
of tasks. 
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Parks Canada Virtual Visits
http://www.parkscanada.gc.ca/thesite/virtual_e.cfm
These virtual visits showcase a wide array of natural and cultural 
features of significance to our country. So sit back and enjoy these 
armchair tours of many of Canada?s national parks and national 
historic sites. 
You will need Quicktime and a sound card in order to play and 
hear the online videos. 
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Workaround for Windows Media Player Bug
http://www.winxpnews.com
Have you noticed that after installing the Windows Media Player 
bonus pack that processor utilization goes to 100% between 
songs? This is a real PITA because it causes all the other 
applications running on your computer to wait while the song 
change in the Windows Media Player. I realize that music is 
important, but not *that* important! But here's the fix. 
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. This brings up the Windows Task 
Manager. Click on the Processes tab. In the Processes tab, 
click on the Image Name column header. That will alphabetize 
the list of image names (an image is a program). Find the image 
wmplayer.exe. Right click on wmplayer.exe, point to Set Priority, 
and click on Low. This will prevent the Windows Media Player 
from sucking up all your processor resources after you install 
the Windows Media Player bonus pack. 
From; WinXPnews Vol. 2, 29 - Issue 35
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NVIDIA Open Sources Cg Compiler Technology
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20020719_7269
NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in 
visual processing solutions, today announced that it is open 
sourcing the NVIDIA Cg Compiler technology under a nonrestrictive, 
free license.  Available in August for download from 
the developer.nvidia.com and www.cgshaders.org Web sites, 
this code will contain the parser that reads the language and 
creates intermediate code for compilation, as well as a generic 
back-end.  Together, these components provide everything 
required to create optimized Cg compilers for other platforms 
and architectures.  In addition to the NVIDIA Cg Compiler, 
NVIDIA has provided full source code for example shaders 
in the NVIDIA Cg Toolkit. 
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Save Martha
http://www.savemartha.com/
"Save Martha! The Website dedicated to helping save Martha 
from the current media onslaught."
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RealNetworks goes open-source ~ By Jim Hu
http://www.msnbc.com/news/784117.asp?0si=&cp1=1 
New ?Helix? streaming software supports multiple formats 
  
July 22 ? RealNetworks on Monday unveiled a new open-source 
version of its streaming media technology that supports multiple 
file formats for audio and video, including those that use 
Microsoft?s Windows Media technology. 

     THE NEW CAMPAIGN, dubbed ?Helix,? and first reported by 
The New York Times, marks one of the most ambitious moves 
in the company?s history. RealNetworks is simultaneously 
releasing technology without permission that plugs in to Microsoft?s 
competing software and is raising the hood on much of its 
own software technology to ?open source? developers or 
anyone else who wants to look. 

        The twin moves raise the risk of lawsuits and renewed 
competition?potentially even from Redmond, Wash.-based 
Microsoft itself, once it gets a look under the hood at 
RealNetworks? technology. But it marks a dramatic, potential 
way for a company watching its market share diminish to regain 
momentum and support across an industry where many other 
players remain skeptical of Microsoft?s power.
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From; CNET
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Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke

Broken links that don't exisit.

Broken Links Report can sometimes report that
you have a broken hyperlink and yet the link
does not appear to exist.

This can occur if you press Shift + Enter instead
of the spacebar to make the link clickable.
FrontPage will put a closing tag after the page
break not before it so the code will look like the
following:

<a href="index.htm">Home<br></a>

If you decided to delete the text 'Home' the link
will be left behind.

<a href="index.htm"><br></a>

So though you think you have deleted the link
it's still lurking in the code, and you will have to
go into html view to delete it.

AccessFP ~ FrontPage Resource Centre
Site ~  http://www.accessfp.net/
Ezine & Forums ~ http://anyfrontpage.com/  FREE FP E-Books
Journal ~ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPJournal
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