August 2007 Archives

I had the classic, well it worked when I booted, but as soon as I wanted to do real work, it dies problem. Basically, when I try to start the MacBook Pro now, I get the grey screen and the startup chime. Then it sits there doing nothing (I can actually hear the click as the hard drive tries to move). After about two minutes, a folder with a question mark comes up. Not good. Hope everyone is religious about backing up. (I'd recommend the Simpletech that is just about $140 and works very well.

The mac is so graphical it isnt clear how to even query google. In this case it is called a Flashing Question Mark. The main thing you need is a System CD. Of course who carries one of these around (I will from now on!) and then you run the Disk Utility from it to see if you can uncorrupt the hard disk as Apple recommends. If you can not even see the disk then you do the PRAM reset described below.

Here is what I've tried as Apple recommends and I've learned some cool command keys too

1. First reboot. Apparently, holding the Option key, Command key and the Power button down is the equivalent of Ctrl-Alt-Del in the PC world.
2. Reset the PRAM which is the equivalent of the CMOS reset on PCs. You do this by hitting power and before the grey screen comes up you haver to hold the Option, Command and the P and R keys down. It then reboots and again and when you hear the chime you are done.
3. Reset the Power Manager chip onboard by taking out the battery and removing from AC power and holding down the power button for five seconds

To see if it is really a hard disk, you can hold a different keys to get different things to boot according to Apple

Press C during startup Start up from a bootable CD or DVD, such as the Mac OS X Install disc that came with the computer.
Press D during startup Start up in Apple Hardware Test (AHT), if the Install DVD 1 is in the computer.
Press Option-Command-P-R until you hear two beeps. Reset NVRAM
Press Option during startup Starts into Startup Manager, where you can select a Mac OS X volume to start from. Note: Press N to make the the first bootable Network volume appear as well.
Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse (/trackpad) button Ejects any removable media, such as an optical disc.
Press N during startup Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot).
Press T during startup Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode.
Press Shift during startup Start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items.
Press Command-V during startup Start up in Verbose mode.
Press Command-S during startup Start up in Single-User mode.
Press Option-N during startup Start from a NetBoot server using the default boot image.

Alas none of these worked for me. I lose quite a few hard disks with laptops mainly I think because I travel alot and run them hard. This particular macbook has been running hard but it was powered down properly and so forth, so maybe just early mortality. I'm sure glad we bought Applecare.

Who knew that this would be so complicated. The new iMovie '08 is supposed to do this directly, but the support is just awful if you are going to try it. Here are the list of bugs:

• If you are using the 16:9 anamorphic format. What is called widescreen on the camera, then when you try to import things, you get something that is low resolution. iMovie 08 appears to make this letterbox. So you go from 720×480 pixels to something that is 640×480 and you get black bars. This is a standard definition camera, so this additional shrink is just terrible.
• iMovie '08 itself appears to be very buggy. It crashes quite a bit. And when you try to choose Share/Media Browser, it grinds forever, literally an hour on a 40 minute movie and then nothing actually appears in the Movie Browser. The only way that I found to do it was to do a Export as a Quicktime movie, but this creates something that is even worse, you get a 640×350 pixel or so movie, so you are again losing resolution.
• iMovie 08 dropped support for creating chapters, so you actually have to use a new application GarageBand to add chapter marks. Also, I couldn't find a way to change volumes on individual clips so this has to be done in Garageband. Sigh.
• iMovie 08 itself is quite bizarre, you have to be very careful when selecting, since just mousing over a clip does a selection. I've never seen any application work this way, but that means that selection has to be careful indeed.

Net, net, this is just a terrible way and a long way backwards. I wouldn't use iMovie 08, instead, you should get iMovie 06 which remarkably is a completely different application. There is a rumor that you can download iMovie 06 for free from Apple, but I have not been able to find it. So here is the process to make a high resolution as possible movie with iMovie 06. You do need VisualHub to do this:

1. Download Visualhub and shell out the $23 for it. It is worth it
2. Plug your Sony DCR-SR100 camera into the USB port. You should see it appear as a CAMCORDER disk icon. Open that up and in a magic direction, you'll find a whole bunch of MPG files.
3. To preview these files, download VLC for the Mac and then play the MPGs. The ones you don't want you don't have to copy. Sony by the way has this database issue. If you just deleted from the computer, then you get a bunch of broken links in your camcorder, so instead deleted directly from the camcorder rather than deleting the hard disk file.
4. Copy the files you want for your movie into a directory. Personally, I like to sort it by date, so the files that were made 10 August 2007 would go into /Home Movies/2007/2007-08/2007-08-10. While this seems ridiculous, believe me with a bunch of MPG*.* files, you'll get confused really quickly.
5. Start VisualHub and drag the MPGs you want to use for your video into it. Now select the DV tab and click on Force 16:9. Assuming you've shot anamorphic. That is a widescreen is layered onto a standard, you should see a distored image in the resulting .dv files. These are going to be huge by the way, 40 minutes of a DVD can take 8GBs of space.
6. Now start iMovie 06 and create a project like /Home Movies/2007/2007-08/2007-08-10/My Movie 2007-08-10 again this seems repetitive but helps later. Close iMovie 06
7. Now you start Finder and go to that magic directly. Select "My Movie 2007-08-10" and right click and click on Show Package, this shows the files inside the movie project and you want to drag all the .dv files you just made into the Media folder.
8. Now start iMovie again, iMovie now thinks that these .dv files are trash and asks if you should throw them away, you should just drag them all onto the palette at the right. By the way the reason to do this step is that if you just drag the .dv files onto iMovie then it actually makes a copy of all the .dv files and this is slow and uses lots of disk.
9. Now drag the clips you want into the window at the bottom in the order you want
10. Begin editing your movie, you can fix the volume, by clicking on the show time line and for each clip, at the very bottom you can select clip volume from 0% to 150% of what was recorded. Normally when I'm recording chorus or music, I turn it up some. Unlike many other editing applications you can't see the waveform so you'll have no idea if it is too loud and clipping or too quiet, so listen carefully.
11. Now you need to remember to create titles with the title menu. The application is a bit wierd in that every time you add a title, it actually makes a new clip and adds the title rather than keeping the clips clean. This means you had really better be sure that you drop the title in the exact right place. Most of the other video editing packages I've used keep the title separate until render time, so beware.
12. Now click on chapters and add them. You really want this for the DVD
13. Finally save and you are ready to click Share/iDVD. Unlike iMovie 08, this doesn't call a rerendering, literally the .dv files are stitched together so you don't lose any resolution. This is going to take a long time. 40 minutes on my Macbook Pro took 60 minutes to stitch together a bunch of things into a single 8GB .dv
14. iDVD will now start automatically, pick the theme you want and then drag the movie in. If you are using the magic location /User/USERNAME/Movies then it will appear in the browser on the right.
15. iDVD has the concept of a drop zone so it takes a still or something out of the movie and adds it to the menu. Go to Auto Drop Zone and select that, it makes a pretty good choice. If you did this right, you should see a DVD menu with the words Movie and Chapter Selection on it.
16. Now choose Burn to Image and this creates a .img file. You can mount this file to look at it and use the /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility to burn it to a DVD. Save the .img file so you can burn as many copies as you want. The rendering by the way for this burn image also is very long as it is converting the .dv file into an MPEG-2 format file. There is no control over the encoding options (unlike TMPengc that I use on the PC), so a 40 minute video seems to take about 2GB so a single layer DVD stores about 80 minutes vs. 120 minutes if you use a specialized tool that does better encoding so beware.

As a complete aside, check out Apple.com/downloads to get widgets and other junk although I couldn't find iMovie 08. Some good things are Google Earth for the Mac, also in Widget land, check out the airline flight finder and also the

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Apple software is really strange. iMovie 08 is a completely different program from iMovie 06 and you lose an amazing number of features. One big thing is the loss of chapter markets (!!!). You actually have to use an entirely different product Garageband in order to get them back as imovie8.blogspot.com explains

If we didn't have this Sony DCR-SR100 which only iMovie 08 reads natively and if iMovie 06 conversion by Visualhub from MPEG-2 to DV didn't look so bad, I'd have given up on it all.

Right now I'd have to say the best option for now is to keep using iMovie 06 unless you have some hard disk camcorder, then you should probably go to PC software like Sony Vegas.

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I normally use Exact Audio Copy on the PC to do my CD backups. This combined with the latest Lame binary usually results in incredible quality particularly at --preset fast extreme settings, so on the Mac, its a little harder. iTunes has an MP3 encoder, but if you want the really best, try Max which provides Lame encoding of your CDs.

It uses Music Brainz to tag things. I use tritag to do this, but they also ahve a Tagger at MusicBrainz and there is a freeware one called iEatBrainz that appears to be better than Tritag in that it does a lookup automatically.

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Someone asked me about protecting the really nice 2.5" screen on the D40x. Invisible Shield is something I use for all my cameras. It is really strong and light piece of plastic. Expensive, but worth it. I used to use for my iPod screens as well, but the new iPhone is just too beautiful to use.

As an aside, the screen size of the D40x and the D40 are identical.

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Had a chance to download iMovie '08 and it does indeed support the Sony DCR-SR100. It is a little wierd though, you can't just drag the .MPG files into iMovie HD, instead, you have to turn on iMovie HD, plug the camcorder in and then it detects the camcorder. It then goes through a long process where it creates thumbnails and then imports. Importing takes quite a while so I suspect that it is transcoding the MPEG-2 files into something else.

I sure hope the picture quality is better than the VisualHub transcode into DV format and then import into iMovie HD '06. On the other hand, I find the new iMovie 08 to be a very strange video editing program. it is completely different from iMovie '06 and I can see why folks who are used to other editors won't like it much. Personally, I still like Sony Vegas the best for editing. But maybe that's because I've used it the longest. Also, the iDVD integration doesn't quite seem to work. I had it work flawless with a video once, but for the latest Sony DCR-SR100 it doesn't seem to work at all.

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In trying to get videos on all the many videos down to gadgets, you have to know quite alot to get the maximum resolution and quality, so for iSquint, here are the detailed resolutions you need to know:

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The new Pearl has video and mono sound. The new Curve has video and stereo, so not a bad video device if you can figure out how to encode for it. On the Mac, the8thsign.com has a freeware encoder called mencoder and then an automation script that lets you right click on any video and then encode for it. It does encode at 15 fps, so not quite fast and at 230Kbps for video with mpeg4 and 64Kbps MP3 audio.

The instructions are to:

1. download mencoder
2. download Automator Workflow which you put into the magic directory _/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/
3. Unzip mencoder.zip onto your desktop, start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and type "cd Desktop" and then "sudo mv mencoder /usr/bin"
4. Find an AVI or video file and right click on it, you should see the Atomator Menu and "Encode for Blackberry"

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There aren't many benchmarks done, but the new iMac all-in-one is really very fast. It uses the new Santa Rosa chipset and also if you spring for it, they actually use the Core 2 Extreme 2.8 GHz as Primatelabs

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Everyone seems to use Captain Jack's as their tide table, but as usual, online, there are a zillion resources. Saltwatertides.com seems to have a really great list. BTW, for Tuesday, it shows high tide at 3:52AM at +6.7 feet and a low tide of -1.1 at 11:39AM, so basically in the AM, there is an ebb tide towards the south in Haro Strait and then after 10:32AM, the tide goes north.

For the corresponding currents, Mobilegraphics.com shows that Rosario Straits has a maximum current of -2.5 knots ebbing to the south at 10:32AM and that about 2PM, there is a slack and that the maximum flood is at 4:42PM.

I also like Sailwx.info which has a nice map of the tides and the stations

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It is amazing how detailed a forecast you can get on the Internet. The actual official NOAA is reproduced by the University of Washington. (BTW this week, it is going to be not super nice. Showers and such for the inland waters of Western Washington.

Weather Underground has a pretty version of the same forecast along with coastal temperatures, but the most useful thing is that you can look at all the offshore buoys and see the wind and waves there. For instance right now at buoy 46206 which is in the open ocean 45 nautical miles off the coast, the waves are 22 feet high! Wow, that's why its nicer to be inland where we have one foot waves at Wave Heights

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Yikes, how could this happen, just beware that not all SDHC cards are created equal. The 4GB cards for SanDisk, Toshiba and Panasonic are compatible, but the Lexar 4GB card is not. One of my friends just lost most of the data on the card for that reason. I've no idea why, maybe because that card is a 133x card, so there is timing problem.

Get the SanDisk, Toshiba and Panasonic SDHC compliant cards only for this camera. So go get the Sandisk 4GB for just about $50 now.

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Well, I've been using the hard disk based Sony SR-100 for a while now but never with the Mac. iMovie bundled on the Mac understands DV and also the high definition DV format called cleverly HDV out of the box. Just plug your camcorder in with firewire and you are ready to go. But, with the Sony SR100, it makes MPEG-2 .MPG files on a hard disk and iMovie doesn't recognize it for import. Also, it appears you can't play these MPG file either with stock Mac software. How sad, seems like they have a DVD Player that reads MPEG-2 from .VOB files in DVD format, but not a generic MPEG-2 player.

Here is what the internet folks have to say via a google query. Jeff Carlson has a blog entry with lots of problems. Basically some folks are trying to use MPEG streamclip to convert and then you need the MPEG2 addon for Quicktime. There is lots of frustration with Quicktime Pro which has a generic MPEG-2 decoder.

It is possible as VLC an freeware product lets you look at things, so it is all about codecs. It took me years to figure out codecs on Windows (the short answer is get ffdshow if you are on Windows and it decodes just about everything and it is open source and free), but I'm starting afresh on the Mac.

Net, net it looks like:

1. Buy the $20 Quicktime add-on
2. Use MPEGStreamClip to convert MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 which iMovieHD can read

On alternatitve is to use freeware:

1. my old friend iSquint which includes my old friend mmpeg which is a freeware utility or you may have to buy the upgrade called Visual Hub. You use Visual Hub to convert MPEG-2 to DV format and then it goes into iMovie. To retain video quailty, you either play with the advanced settings or just say "Go Nuts"
2. Use VLC to view MPEG-2 videos (although I've found VLC to be quite unstable and hang my Mac
3. Other hints are to use the AC3 decoder at NAegelic and to use the encoder ffmpegx)

Finally solution is to just buy iLife 08 which was just announced, it apparently now supports the SR100. It surely supports the new AVCHD format so the high def Sony camcorder will now work, but no word on how it does with the older MPEG-2 based disk camcorders. The main comment is that the new Imovie HD is way different from the current iLife 06 version and some folks don't like it much.

From Apple Support it shows the DCR-SR100 is supported, but that there is a bug that previews are incorrect.

For me, I'll start with the freeware iSquint and take it from there.

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BBC took me back to the days of Tom Clancy and Hunt for the Red October and Red Storm Rising. The TU-95 Bears were the early warning and ocean hunters of that day. Big slow turboprops with incredible range. Apparently, the Russians visited Guam with just such a plane.

The article makes them sound like dangerous bombers, but Wikipedia is right, they are really surveillance aircraft and ahardly a threat. Some great stories of keeping them at bay, because where you see a Bear, Backfires are sure to follow to quote from Red Storm Rising and their really gigantic AS-4 Kitchen antiship missiles (called Raduga Kh-22 by the Soviets back then). They used a high speed rocket motor given them a speed of Mach 2 in cruise and 250 mile range and in terminal mode, could dive at Mach 4 and caried a 2,000 pound bomb load, enough to really wreck a carriers day. The idea was to keep the Bears at bay and then for the F-14 Tomcat to use its Phoenix missiles to take them out before they got within a 200 mile range.

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Well, hackers have been busy, now there are several utilities for hacking around your iPhone according to TUAW and the best is iFuntastic, it includes a full file browser for the iPhone and lets you put in your own ringtones, etc.

They also have some great tips as well and also a good list of "games"

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Well, the all-in-one iMac got launched last Tuesday. While Apple laptops are 2/3 of sales, I think these iMacs will cause lots of folks to buy. It is exactly what I need at home, a huge screen plus it has all the power features. For $2500, you can get a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of memory and 1TB of disk plus a gorgeous 24" screen.

In the old days, an all-in-one box like this would really tradeoff against the flexibility of have a system unit where you could plug things in and out, but this design really will last three years. The only really big tradeoff left is that it isn't a gamer machine, but for just about everyone else, it is ideal. Not to mention it makes an incredible TV as well with its remote control gizmo.

The coolest site is something called unboxing that is dedicated just to showing how the initial take it out of the box experience is for electronics.

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OK more Mac utilities, this time from a quick read of Mac magazine:

• iStumbler. This is like a similar utility on Windows, it tells you the strength of various Wifi and Bluetooth devices. Even has a widget for your dashboard
• USB Missile Launcher. OK, its not really a utility, its a nerf rocket launcher you can attach to your computer to fire at coworkers. Adrian will love one!
• DVI to HDMI Cable. If you've got a late model TV, then you can take the DVI output of your Mac and plug it directly into the HDMI input. This works great. Its $20.

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I need some help to navigate through a website, so how do I do it. Well, Mac's allow desktop sharing and it should be pretty easy as long as you can get through some settings. Softwareareas.com has a good guide for Max OS X 10.4 "Tiger"

For the machine that you want to share, do this:

1. System Preferences | Sharing | Apple Remote Desktop. Tick this option.
2. Click on Access Privileges
3. Tick “Observe”, “Show when being observed”, “Guests may request permission to control screen”, and “VNC viewers may control screen with password”
4. Enter the password next to the last of these options, e.g. we’ll assume it’s “easy2guess”

Now you have to forward a port with your router

This application will ask for the IP address of the view. Use whatsmyip.org that should give you the IP address of the client

This is the hard part, you have to forward TCP port 5900 to your Mac. Every router is a little different, but for Linksys and D-link, you need to know the IP address of the router and access its administrative web page. Typically http://192.168.0.1 for D-link and http://192.168.1.1 for Linksys. Hope you know the password for the router!

Install a VNC Client onto the "viewer machine"

Use Chicken of the VNC as its free and my goodness what a great name!

You need to give the viewer, the IP address from wahtsmyip.org and also the password

He should then see a replica of your screen and you can now share and debug

Windows alternatives

As an alternative, Unyte is a free skype addin that does that same thing for any Skype user with Windows. You can actually view from any platform with IE, Firefox or Safari, but the client has to be a Windows machine.

I'm going to see if this runs under Parallels

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Wired points out there are plenty of remixed Windows that are configured better than the default from Microsoft. I've tried "WinXP SP2 Lite Edition" which has a ton of utilities and is way smaller. There is also Super WinPE Ultimate Boot CD 2004 which puts seven versions of XP on a single DVD. It includes two Chiense versions and also a mini Windows XP that runs on a CD like Knoppix. These are available on many versions of Azureus.

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In the Mac, I just lost 10GB worth of data doing that. With Windows, when you "replace" a folder, it actually merges the contents together. With the Mac, it overwrites anything taht was there. Taht means once you do it that data is lost, lost. It doesn't even go into the trash. You've been warned as xvsxp.com points out. Sigh!

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OK, I love my MacBook Pro, but there are still four or five things that I can't figure out how to do. I know these little Windows utilities so well that I just miss them. Here's the list:

• Beyond Compare. I use this incessantly to keep the backup NAS, the main machine and my laptops in sync. The nearest analog seems to be Match on the Mac, it does the date comparisons, but unfortunately, doesn't have the move feature, so I can update both, but it is hard to move files from one place to another. The most common use is to edit some photos on my laptop and then move the changes up the the file server at home. I tried using Parallels and Beyond Compare, but it doesn't like the funcy name structure of the Parallel Shared Folders, so it can't compare with files in the Mac file system.
• DVD Shrink. This is a wonderful PC utilities that helps take a big DVD backup into something that works single layer. There doesn't seem to be anything like it on the Mac and again when I try Parallels, it dies on the funcy .PSF file space
• Nero Burn. I have lots of DVD that a saved as VIDEO_TS files, but the default Mac Finder burn doesn't seem to create a valid Video DVD. It looks like it is just creating a Data DVD and I can't figure out how to fool it to make a Video DVD. Mac Help is useless on this point. I don't want to reauthor menus and things in iDVD. I need something like Nero Burn

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This is a cool tool for downloading and runs cross platform and also has a large plug in library. Some of the interesting ones are.

Zeropaid has a nice list including advanced statistics

Although its effectiveness is questionable, you could install a freeware IP blocker called PeerGuardian 2 (methlabs.org/projects) that blocks incoming traffic from IPs that are known or suspected to be part of the surveillance networks. You can use this if you’re running the original BitTorrent client. In Azureus there’s a plug-in available called SafePeer that uses a similar block list as PeerGuardian, but it only loads when Azureus does. Use the Plugins menu to open Installation Wizard and follow the prompts until you get a list of plug-ins. Check the SafePeer box and continue through the menus to install it. When you restart Azureus, SafePeer will download the current IP block list (adding about 30 seconds to the load time).

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I just love how rumors seem to start. All of the rumors about the next update to the iPhone seem to come from a single post on Howard Forums so who knows what is true or how much gulp Apple might make us pay for this update. I sure hope they remain customer friendly. What he says makes some sense to me, they jammed the iPhone out fast to make the June date with just enough, but they want to sync it with the Leopard release. Here is an excerpt from the original post plus (my comments):

1. There will be a build in file browser like the new finder in leopard for sorting through files something I wish the Blackberry really had
2. There will be a disk mode it is crazy that they don't have this, everything should look like a hard drive
3. The reason that there currently isn't a file browser + way to save files from web is because there isn't a file browser on the phone, and they wanted to release the same one that's gonna be in the upcoming leopard OS, complete with coverflow.
4. There will even be a special version of "iWork" so you can show your keynote presentations wow, that would be very neat
5. So anyway a FULL file browser is coming so you can browse just like windows mobile explorer only in the cool way leopard's file browser is
6. Full spotlight like search is coming too
7. Widescreen keyboard support will be coming in every app, not just safari this is really, really important, the soft keys are just too narrow
8. Copy & Paste, Select Text is coming too (clipboard) probably the feature I miss the most compared with Blackberry
9. Also mail will see an upgrade so you can add accounts without doing so through itunes.
10. Most of the delays in this is because iTunes is the App Windows & Mac users are familar with for iTunes, so Apple didn't want to do a bad interface that had a file browser hacked into iTunes. sounds lame to me, more like, they had to ship
11. When Leopard FINAL release comes out, plugging in the iPhone will pop open a special window in the finder that has areas for dragging all your files like a file explorer only more advanced and designed specifically for the iPhone, it will make sure that it works so iTunes knows how much space is for data, and how much is for "iTunes" stuff. makes sense that with Leopard, the phone's interface isn't a standalone app
12. Apple will be putting iChat on the phone, very, very soon, before Leopard.
13. Real Applications are coming to the phone shortly.
14. These are all updates that will be software based for the iPhone you already have, so give it a little bit of time. In the meantime enjoy the features it already has.
15. Oh and also there will be Photo Sharing, just like in iPhoto how you can check an option to let other people on the network view your photos.
16. He said .Mac account would eventually sync your accounts to the .Mac server as well from the phone, and so forth.
17. Simplified File sharing when on WIFI networks through bonjour (auto ip discovery) is coming, so once the file system software is up, your buddy in the same room will be able to navigate to his file browser > Network, and grab a file off your phone that you are sharing.
18. Ringtones will be coming very, very soon. hard to believe you can just connect any MP3 to a ringtone a la the Curve
19. The Camera Software will get upgraded soon to have stabilization (software based)
20. Flash is coming eventually, it's just a matter of handling it in a way so when i page has dozens of flash apps running at the same time the page doesn't slow to a crawl, so they have to take the Adobe flash and make some customizations, including for security.

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One of the highlights of Seattle, the Blue Angels don't fly until 1:30PM today. A cloudy day like this is a good one for photos and getting the kids on the boat.

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Well, sometimes when you are reading a navigational chart, all those little symbols are so mysterious. NOAA used to print something called Chart 1 which explains what is going on. Chart 1 is now available online so you can figure out mysterious, but important things like obstructions and wrecks when you are tooling around.

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oala101 presents...

Windows TinyXP Rev06 (brought to you by eXPerience), together with some appz.

Basically, this is Windows XP Pro SP2, with useless contents removed, for performance's sake.
It runs fast, installs with no trouble, is updatable (passing WGA), and contains the following useful applications:

Codec Pack All in 1 v6.0.3.0
Cool Edit Pro v2.1
Daemon Tools v4.08
Directory Printer v5.1
DVD Ripper Platinum v4.0.72
DVD X Player Pro v4.1
DVD-Cloner IV v4.10
Free Download Manager v2.1
Nero v7.7.5.1
NOD32 v2.70.32
Office Pro 2003
PC Auto Shutdown v3.4
Premiere Elements v2.0
Reader v8.0
Rename v1.56.0
SnagIt v8.2.2
Spy Sweeper v5.3.2
UltraISO v8.6.1
Unlocker v1.8.5
uTorrent v1.6.1
WinRAR v3.62

Some of these applications got their useless parts cutted off (in order to fit a 700 MBs CD), but they are still fully functioning. Taking these applications as a whole, they will fit your most-common needs.

The "Save System RAM Memory" file of the eXPerience folder allows the user, simply by answering a series of user-friendly questions, to balance functionality and RAM allocation.

To set up, low-speed burn this ISO disc image on a CD- or DVD-ROM, restart the PC, boot from that ROM, then format the partition using the NTFS file system. No serial number is required.

Enjoy and SEED for a while please... thanks!

Edit: fantasyware has solved the Unicode characters problem! (thanks to him!):

To read unicode characters in TinyXP Rev06, you need a copy of untrimed WinXP to obtain those kbd***.dll and related language files. Follow these instructions.</blockquote

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