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Champions League – Milan win Champions League
Champions League – Milan gained revenge for their 2005 Champions League final defeat at the hands of Liverpool as they lifted the trophy in Athens with a 2-1 victory.
Filippo Inzaghi broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time before adding a second nine minutes from time.
Dirk Kuyt pulled one back in the final minute but Liverpool could not deny the Serie A giants a seventh European Cup success.
The irony for the Merseysiders was that they played better than they did when lifting the trophy in Istanbul two years ago only to go behind to a fluke goal.
Andrea Pirlo‘s free-kick struck Inzaghi, who was looking to collect any rebound off Jose Reina, and deflected past the diving Spanish keeper and into the middle of the net.
It was tough on the Premiership side who had looked dangerous with Jermaine Pennant and Bolo Zenden causing problems on the flanks.
Rafa Benitez’ side on two occasions came close to capitalising on hesitancy by Marek Jankulovski.
When the Czech was slack in possession, Pennant seized upon it and forced Dida into a sharp low-save and later in the half, the full-back was dispossessed and the ball eventually fell to Kuyt whose goalbound effort was blocked.
Xabi Alonso had also hit a sweet drive just past the far post while hitherto the goal, Milan’s only effort was a long-range shot from Kaka which was comfortably saved.
That goal gave the Rossoneri an obvious boost and they were quicker out of the blocks in the second-half with Liverpool lucky that an errant offside flag denied Kaka a clear sight at goal.
But then talismanic skipper Gerrard came close to an equaliser on two occasions.
After picking up a loose ball, he drove past Alessandro Nesta but was unable to open up his body enough to curl the ball into the far corner from the left channel and Dida got down to preserve his side’s lead.
A 25-yard drive was then just a few inches wide of the far post before Inzaghi showed his predatory instincts to deliver a hammer blow to the large band of Liverpool fans in the Olympic Stadium.
Kaka threaded a precise ball through to the striker who tucked the ball under the advancing Reina to justify his inclusion at the expense of Alberto Gilardino.
Kuyt did give his side a glimmer when he nodded home from close range in the final minute but there was to be no dramatic comeback this year as Liverpool lost for just the third time in 11 European finals.
Preşedintele Traian Băsescu rămâne în funcţie
Asta după ce 75 % dintre cetăţenii prezenţi la urne au votat împotriva demiterii sale. Asta spun rezultatele finale ale exit-polului realizat de INSOMAR şi Metro Media Transilvania. În favoarea demiterii preşedintelui suspendat s-au pronunţat 25 % dintre alegători. Prezenţa la vot a fost de 46%, conform aceluiasi exit-poll.
Estimarile CURS arată puţin diferit, dar tot categoric, în favoarea preşedintelui Traian Băsescu. 78,1% dintre alegători au pus ştampila pe NU şi 21,9% din alegători au pus ştampila pe DA.
Românii au intrat şi pe www.protv.ro să răspundă la întrebarea „Doriţi ca Traian Băsescu să rămână preşedintele României?”
83,59% dintre utilizatori au răspuns afirmativ la această întrebare, iar 16, 41% negativ. Sondajul www.protv.ro nu este unul ştiinţific. El reprezintă doar părerea utilizatorilor care au dorit să participe la acest sondaj.
Susţinătorii preşedintelui au sărbătorit aseară victoria pe străzi şi la sediile Partidului Democrat din Bucureşti şi din ţară.
„Suntem în faţa unei realităţi care nu mai poate fi analizată de politicieni la televizor, suntem în faţa rezultatului votului poporului român”, a declarat Traian Băsescu, după anunţarea exit – poll-urilor la referendum.
LG Flatron L226WTQ-BF
The LG Flatron L226WTQ-BF delivers a very sharp picture, excellent color quality, and a lightning-fast pixel response, but its handling of light-gray shading is mediocre at best.Fast pixel response. Good color quality and text readability. HDCP-compliant.Weak light-grayscale performance. No additional multimedia ports. DVI cable not included.
LG Electronics U.S.A. Inc
http://www.lgusa.com
Type: LCD Monitor
Native Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Screen Size: 22 inches
Pixel Pitch: 0.282 mm
Video Inputs: DVI
PC Interfaces: Analog VGA, Digital (DVI-D)
Built-in TV Tuner: None
Rated Maximum Viewing Angle: Horizontal: 170 degrees
Rated Maximum Viewing Angle: Vertical : 160 degrees
Brightness (Max): 300 cd/m^2
Max PC Resolution: 1680 x 1050 pixels x pixels
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The LG Flatron L226WTQ-BF ($350 street) is a versatile 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor with a 1,680-by-1,050 pixel resolution and a speedy 2-millisecond black-to-white pixel response. Extra features are scarce on this display, but it’s more than capable of meeting your everyday work needs. Its excellent motion performance and sharp image quality make it a good choice for after-hours activities, too.With its piano-black cabinetry framed by an ultrathin matte-black bezel, the L226WTQ will dress up the drabbest of desks. The panel rests atop a glossy oval base with tilt-and-swivel capabilities, but the stand lacks height and pivot maneuverability. Mounted at the rear of the display are two PC inputs (DVI-D and analog) and a power plug. The monitor lacks extra connections such as USB ports and additional video ports, but at least the DVI port is HDCP-compliant, so you can view movies from an HD DVD or Blu-ray drive.
The five clearly labeled function buttons hidden beneath the lower left bezel help you navigate the on-screen display (OSD) menu, where you can change image settings and manipulate screen properties. Color temperature, tracking (clock and phase), brightness, contrast, and gamma levels can all be tweaked via the OSD. If you’d rather not use the function buttons, the included LG forteManager software lets you make all the same adjustments from your keyboard and provides wizards to help you obtain the best picture quality for your environment. One of the buttons is used to invoke the auto-adjust function. Another takes you to the f-Engine screen, where you can choose one of three preprogrammed image settings for specific applications: Text, Movie, and Normal. A User setting lets you program and save your own custom brightness and color management properties. There’s also an EZ Zooming button, which is supposed to let you switch resolutions on the fly. According to LG, however, it may not work with all video cards. I tried it on a system with an nVidia GeForce 6600 GT in both digital and analog modes and could not get it to work. It also didn’t work with an ATI X1650 XT graphics card.
Overall, image quality was impressive. The L226WTQ delivered a bright, sharp picture with a good balance of dark-black and bright-white levels, thanks to a high dynamic contrast ratio (3,000:1). It’s worth noting that most LCD monitors of this size have a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1, such as the ViewSonic VX2245wmb, which is rated at 700:1 but is still plenty bright. The monitor had no trouble displaying small fonts, and colors were vivid and uniform across the scale with no evidence of tinting. But my DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com) testing revealed a weakness with light grayscale reproduction. Light shades of gray appeared white, and highlights were blurry on my photo test as well. I also noticed a slight problem with dark grays. Fortunately, the flaws didn’t affect color quality. If you work with photos and require a higher degree of grayscale integrity, Samsung’s SyncMaster 225BW may be a better fit (as long as you can run it in digital mode).
The L226WTQ really shines when it comes to displaying moving images. I was blown away by how it handled motion while I was playing a few rounds of F.E.A.R., a notoriously fast game with lots of explosions and detail. The monitor showed no signs of ghosting or background noise, and game play was as smooth as can be. Likewise, movies looked awesome on the widescreen, although the viewing angle was closer to 160 degrees (horizontal) than LG’s claim of 170 degrees.
A three-year warranty covers parts and labor, but LG chintzes out on the backlight, which is covered for only one year. Also annoying is the lack of a DVI cable (an analog cable is included). This means you have to part with another 20 bucks or so to run in digital mode.
Superb gaming and video performance and a razor-sharp picture make the LG L226WTQ-BF a solid choice for anyone in the market for a 22-inch LCD. If superior grayscale performance is vital, however, you may want to check out alternatives.
Photomax™ – your new best friend
Photomax™ – your new best friend
Photomax.com is the newest, easiest, and most convenient way to preserve, organize, share, and enjoy all your photographs. Photomax.com is a photo website that guides you through photo scanning, organizing, and editing, while offering a variety of specialty items for your enjoyment. The site is built on simplicity, making it possible for people of all ages to use and enjoy – even children and grandparents! “Max”, our friendly photo mascot, sits on the sidelines, ready to answer any questions you have along the way. With photomax.com, you can fill all your photo needs with the click of a mouse.
Preserve your fading photos!
It is estimated that more than one trillion photographs are deteriorating every day and will soon become obsolete. As time passes, colors begin to fade and photos become dim and worn. The Photo SaverTM service from Photomax™ preserves your photos for you in a unique and revolutionary way. Simply send your traditional photos, slides, or negatives to the Photomax Digital Imaging Lab, where they are carefully cleaned, scanned, and saved in your own Photomax account. Photomax also brings you the Digital Developer™ which allows you to move all your photos directly from your digital camera to the Photomax website. With photomax.com, you can preserve your precious memories forever.
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Most of us these days are taking lots of digital pictures, but what are we doing with them? Our computer hard drives are clogged with hundreds, even thousands of digital photos — just finding them can be a project in itself! Fortunately, photomax.com has the answer to this universal problem — easy online organization. After uploading your photos to the photomax.com website, you can place your photos in folders or online photo albums. You can rearrange, remove, or add pictures to your albums and it’s all done in seconds!
Sharing your pictures is a snap!
Although digital photos make taking pictures fast and easy, many are stumped about how to actually share their wealth of digital photos. When you place your pictures into your online Photomax™ account, you can send friends and family an email link inviting them to view your photos. Your friends and family can then click on the link and view the photos you’ve selected them to see. You don’t have to wait for family reunions to see family photos anymore. With this exciting new technology, Photomax makes your photo sharing easy and enjoyable.
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Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 offers some killer new features, such as non-destructive filtering, a newly flexible interface, excellent monochrome conversion, and terrific cloning enhancements. Photoshop remains the best option for getting anything done in the field of computer graphics.Nondestructive filtering; outstanding animation features; overhauled interface; increased platform support; myriad excellent new features and tools.Weak interface support for two-monitor setups; a little feature bloat.
Type: Business, Personal, Professional
Free: No
OS Compatibility: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS
Notes: Price: Standard version $649; Extended version $999; upgrade to Extended $349; upgrade to Standard $199 8)
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Just about anyone who’s serious about using a computer as an art tool has Photoshop, or wishes to have it. This 800-pound graphical gorilla has been tooling up for a refresh for quite some time now, and the early signs were quite good, as my review of the beta showed. With Photoshop CS3, Adobe has delivered on that early promise—and then some.The public beta version of Photoshop CS3 may have revealed most of the program’s new features to registered users, but Adobe still held a card up its sleeve. Little did we know, then, that the beta represented only one of the two versions of Photoshop CS3 now shipping. The beta I reviewed was of the Standard version of Photoshop CS3; it costs $649 ($50 more than version CS2, but a return to the price of version CS). An additional $350 gets you Photoshop CS3 Extended, with everything included in the Standard version plus major new tools for animators, medical professionals, and scientists.
The Extended version is found in four of the six permutations of Creative Suite 3, those being the Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and Master Collection. The Standard version of Photoshop CS3 is bundled only in the Design Standard; Web Standard users get no Photoshop at all, having to rely on Fireworks CS3 instead.
I tested Photoshop CS3 (Extended and Standard) in Vista, in Win XP, and on Mac OS X 10.4. The program performed well on all platforms, but MacIntel users will experience the greatest leap in speed, because of the software’s Universal Binary status
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Fireworks has found a much-deserved place in CS3. Adobe has made significant steps toward integrating the app with rest of its suite and has added some tools to enhance its usefulness as a prototype builder for Web sites.Strong Photoshop and Illustrator integration. Multipage support. Nine-slice scaling.Interface not updated. No Windows Vista-style rich symbols.
Price $274.00 – $339.00
Rewiev When Adobe acquired Macromedia, most observers correctly predicted that Adobe GoLive would be replaced in the Creative Suite lineup by Dreamweaver, and that Adobe Illustrator would similarly prevail over Macromedia FreeHand. The fate of Macromedia’s Web-image optimizer Fireworks, however, was a question mark. As things have shaken out, Adobe’s competing app, ImageReady, has vanished completely. That left the door open for Fireworks, and Adobe further broadened the appeal of the former Macromedia app by refocusing it as a Web-site and Web-app prototype builder. You can use it to do the graphic design and layout that goes into creating a complicated Web site—the sort of thing you’ll want to do before you move on to Dreamweaver. As a result, Fireworks CS3 has become an important part of the new Creative Suite. You can find it in the Web Premium, Web Standard, and Master Collection editions. I tested Fireworks CS3 in Vista, Windows XP, and on an Intel-based Mac. To earn that spot in the Creative Suite, Adobe first had to teach Fireworks how to play nice with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and it’s succeeded there very well. Fireworks now opens the native file formats of both applications, preserving things such as layers, names, layer groups, blending modes, and transparency. Better still, it not only preserves Photoshop’s layer styles, it also lets you apply them within Fireworks. One complaint: Fireworks doesn’t share the new docked palette interface that I like so much in the new Photoshop and Illustrator. I wish it did, both for consistency’s sake and because that’s a very useful enhancement.
Fireworks’ strongest new prototyping ability is its true support for multipage documents. The pages can vary in pixel dimensions, you can create links between pages, and you can even share layers across multiple pages. I’m glad to see this feature, which is a huge improvement over the clunky old workaround of using frames to create a crude approximation of multipage support.
The new Common Library is a repository for Fireworks’ rich symbols—design and interface components for Web-site designs that you can edit and reuse. It’s easy to add symbols to the Library, where they can be reused and even shared among coworkers for consistent design. Included in the prebuilt rich symbols that ship with the program are graphics and buttons in the style of Windows XP and Mac OS X. I was disappointed that it doesn’t ship with those for Windows Vista, however.
Another of Firework’s great new content creation tools is the ingenious new nine-slice scaling feature. What is nine-slice scaling, you ask? It’s a solution to a common problem. In general, without this ability, if you take a rounded rectangle button and scale it horizontally, you stretch every part of the button equally, and the rounded corners will be unattractively out of proportion. Nine-slice scaling cuts objects into a grid of nine squares, which lets you manipulate individual „slices” of the image, such as the parts that fall in the slices that run from 1 to 9 on a number pad. You can specify which slices are allowed to stretch and which should stay frozen. If you stretch horizontally, only the slice made up of the central vertical squares (corresponding to keys 2, 5, and 8) stretches. The other squares don’t and therefore retain their original proportions. If you’re having trouble visualizing this, check out this visual explanation on Adobe’s site. This nifty feature shows up in Illustrator CS3 as well.
Adobe Fireworks isn’t the sort of program that’s designed to „wow” you with knockout features. It’s much more utilitarian in nature, and given its integration with the rest of the CS3 apps, it probably makes more sense to buy Fireworks as a part of the Creative Suite than to buy it on its own. Either way you purchase it, however, I’m sure you’ll agree that Adobe continues to impress with this useful and impressive tool.
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
If the promised driver update can fix the noise issue, we’d gladly call the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT the best $400 card around, even though the power requirements are steep. Until then, we have to ding it for power and noise issues.
Forward-looking DX10 features and more. Advanced video processing. New AA modes. Blazing fast performance.
Power-hungry and loud (for now). DX10 performance is hard to predict.
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Last summer, if you asked us when we would see new graphics cards based on the next-gen R600 architecture from ATI, we’d have told you „this fall.” All signs pointed to a release ahead of Windows Vista. Then last fall, Nvidia released their DX10 graphics cards, the GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS. Microsoft followed up with the release of Vista at the end of January (required to run DirectX 10), and still no word from ATI. Now acquired by processor giant AMD, ATI finally pushes their DirectX 10 products out the door. The first to be released is the Radeon HD 2900 XT, a $400 top-of-the-line card. Midrange and budget cards, the HD 2600 and HD 2400 series, are announced today as well, though cards won’t be available until the second half of June. There’s even a full line of notebook graphics, also hitting the market in the June/July timeframe, based on this new architecture.
So what’s new? Just about everything. R600 (the codename for the graphics processor in the HD 2900 XT) borrows quite a bit from the GPU built into the Xbox 360, also designed by ATI. It’s certainly much more than just „the PC version of the Xbox GPU” though. We have broken the details of the 3D architecture down in a separate article, here we provide performance details in a full review of the Radeon HD 2900 XT.
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AMD Launches Quad-Core Brand, R600 GPUs
SAN FRANCISCO – At a press event on Friday, Advanced Micro Devices provided a comprehensive overview of its new branding strategy for „Phenom,” the company’s forthcoming enthusiast-level, quad-core desktop CPU family based on its „Barcelona” technology.
The company also used Friday’s event to officially launch its previously delayed Radeon HD 2000 (formerly known as the R600) series of GPUs.
According to AMD, the new DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2000 family will begin shipping today and consist of 10 products, from the ultra high-end Radeon HD 2900 XT (available Monday) on down to middle and lower-end versions of the graphics card, which the company says will be released in early June.
As AMD had previously stated in March, the release date for the Radeon HD 2000 series, while never firm, was pushed back so that the company could debut a „more comprehensive” set of new GPU products simultaneously—as opposed to just one high-end version.
In the coming weeks, AMD said it will be making good on that promise.
AMD’s ‘True’ Quad-Core Family: The Phenom
As far as the revamped processor line-up is concerned, the Sunnyvale-based company announced it will be adding a new high-end processor family, dubbed Phenom, to its desktop processor lineup in the second half of the year—one that AMD is describing as a „true” quad-core solution.
Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite
Avira’s security suite costs almost as much as the Norton and ZoneAlarm suites, but although its got a good AV engine, the suite is far less polished. Its firewall asks too many questions; its real-time antispyware yammers incessantly and can be annoyingly obtrusive; and its awkward spam protection mismarks valid mail.Does a good job of keeping spyware out of a clean system and reasonably good job of cleaning up infested systems. Firewall resists malware-style attack. Good at virus detec-tion.Real-time antispyware is annoyingly ineffective if malware is running. No easy way to whitelist e-mail correspondents. Firewall pops up numerous program control confirmation queries.
Type: Business, Personal, Professional
Free: No
OS Compatibility: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Fans of Avira’s free AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic antivirus take note: Avira also offers a full security suite. Called Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite, it includes antivirus, spyware protection, antispam, and a personal firewall. The suite’s not free, though, and it isn’t as polished as Norton Internet Security or ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, despite the fact that it costs about the same.
Price $52.09
Top 10 ai celor mai rai virusi in 2007
In primele trei luni al acestui an, numarul noilor malware a crescut. Scena predilecta a crimei, pentru majoritatea autorilor de programe daunatoare, este Internetul. Acesta este ceea ce reiese din cercetarea activitatilor globale ale crimelor informatice, condusa de Sophos, sociatate lidera la nivel mondial in siguranta informatica si in tehnologia de control al accesului la reteaua globala(NAC).
In primul trimestru al anului 2007, Sophos a identificat 23.864 de noi amenintari, o cifra tripla fata de aceeasi perioada a anului trecut, cand au fost inregistrate 9.450 de noi amenintari. In acelasi timp, procentul de email-uri infectate a scazut de la 1,3%, in primul trimestru al anului 2006, ceea ce traduce prin un email infectat la 77 de email-uri trimise, la 0.4%, in primul trimestru al anului 2007, ceea ce inseamna un email infectat din 256.
Din ianuarie pana la sfarzitul lui martie, Sophos a identificat o medie zilnica de 5.000 de noi pagine internet infectate. Deoarece utilizitatorii sunt mult mai bine informati de cum sa se protejeze de eventualele email-uri malware si virusi, hackerii sunt intr-o continua cercetare de noi metode si noi strategii de a infecta calculatoare si sisteme informatice. In prezent modalitatea cea mai usoara de acces la retele il reprezinta Internetul.
Top 10 al celor mai intalnite malware intalnite pe site-uri infectate in primul trimestru al anului 2007:
1. Troj/Fujif – 50,8%
2. Troj/Ifradv – 12,1%
3. Troj/Decdec – 10,4%
4. Mal/Packer – 6.3%
5. JS/EncIFra – 5.5%
6. Mal/FunDF – 2,3%
7. Mal/Psyme – 2,2%
8. Troj/Zlob – 2,0%
9. Mal/Behav – 1,2%
10. Mal/DepBanc 0,4%
Altele : 6,8%
Nu toate site-urile web infectate sunt opera hacker-ilor. Sophos a constatat ca in 70% din cazuri este vorba de site-uri curate, expuse la atacuri ale « cybercriminalilor » din cauza vulnerabilitatii, a programarii defectuase sau a slabei ingrijiri din partea titularilor.
12,8% dintre site-uri gazduiau script-uri malware, iar 10.7% contineau malware creat special pentru a ataca sistemele de operare Windows.
In 4,8% din cazuri, in site-uri existau programe adware, in timp ce doar 1,1% contineau conexiuni dial-up catre site-uri pornografice cu suprataxa.
Atacul cel mai mare inregistrat acest an a fost in luna februarie, cand, hacherii au introdus un script malware sub numele de Mal/Packer pe site-ul official al unei echipe de fotbal american. Cu o saptamana inainte aceasta echipa de fotbal a ospitat campionatul Super Bowl, deci site-ul era vizitat de foarte multa lume. Atacurile de acest fel, independent de continutul site-ului, demonstreaza ca se poate deveni victime ale atacurile hacker-ilor daca site-ul nu este bine protejat, iar cei care vor avea de suferit vor fi vizitatorii care se vor trezi cu calculatoarele infectate. Sophos recomanda firmelor implementarea de solutii pentru siguranta retelelor, nu doar prin filtrarea site-urilor web ci si prin verificarea codurilor inainte de a permite accesul utilizatorilor.
Iata si un top al tarilor care au suferit atacuri malware, in primul trimestru al 2007.
1. China 41,1%
2. Statele Unite 29,2%
3. Rusia 4,6%
4. Germania 4,6%
5. Ucraina 3,9%
6. Marea Britanie 3,0%
7. Franta 2,2%
8. Tarile de Jos 1,9%
9. Corea de Sud 1,3%
10.Taiwan 1,0%
Alte tari 8,1%
In primul trimestru al acestui an, Marea Britanie, care are actual 3% dintre site-urile infectate, a debutat in top direct pe locul sase. Totusi, s-a inregistrat o crestere semnificativa a site-urilor chineze controlate de hackeri. Mai mult de o trime dintre malware prezente pe site-uri sunt de provenienta chineza, motiv pentru care China a intrecut SUA in top, ajungand prima.
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