computerboom: May 2008

Saturday, May 10, 2008

New LIP language packs for all versions of Vista

Direct link and download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94B6C536-E49C-4602-8D3C-37E8BDBE12DB&displaylang=en

the LIP provides limited customization of languages, unlike MUI that are full language packs. (see below for links for full MUI packages and tool to install them on all versions of vista)

This package applies to the following languages:
. Albanian*
. Bosnian - Cyrillic*
. Bosnian - Latin*
. Gujarati*
. Hindi*
. Indonesian*
. Kazakh*
. Macedonian*
. Marathi*
. Serbian - Cyrillic*
. Tamil*
. Uzbek - Latin*
. Vietnamese*
. Welsh

Full language packs (MUI) download:
Windows Vista SP1 Language Packs 32-bit -Official-

Free tool to install language packs on ALL versions of vista:
Vistalizator - Install Vista Language Packs MUI on

Vistalizator - Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista!

About Vistalizator

Did you buy a Vista laptop from abroad and want it to talk to you in your mother language?

(You can use this on a desktop too, have in mind this is not a microsoft supported tool but one made by someone else)

Try Vistalizator - this tool allows you to change display language in Vista editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate:
Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business.

Features

Change Vista display language in less than 5 minutes!

Uses official Microsoft language packs

You can install all 35 languages and switch between them easily

Works in 32-bit Vista

Works in 64-bit Vista (new)

Compatible with Vista Service Pack 1

User Account Control (UAC) compliant - prompts for administrative privileges

No file is overwritten/changed during language installation - except for language upgrade after Vista SP1 installation

Go here to download this software http://www.froggie.sk/

Vistalizator - change display language in Vista Home and Business

Windows Vista SP1 Language Packs 32-bit Official and TOOL to install them on ANY version of Vista!

We have made available updated Language Packs for users using Windows Vista SP1 as well as those running Windows Vista RTM. For those running SP1, the Language Packs should be showing up for you under Windows Update.
The specific language packs which are being released are as follows:
German
English
Spanish
French
Japanese
Korean
Bulgarian
Czech
Danish
Greek
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Italian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Norwegian
Dutch
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Arabic
Hebrew
Croatian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Serbian (Latin)
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Russian

Download : Arabic
Download : Bulgarian
Download : Chinese (Simplified)
Download : Chinese (Traditional)
Download : Crotian
Download : Czech
Download : Danish
Download : Dutch
Download : English
Download : Estonian
Download : Finnish
Download : French
Download : German
Download : Greek
Download : Hebrew
Download : Hungarian
Download : Italian
Download : Japanese
Download : Korean
Download : Latvian
Download : Lithuanian
Download : Norwegian
Download : Polish
Download : Portuguese (Brazil)
Download : Portuguese (Portugal)
Download : Romanian
Download : Russian
Download : Serbian (Latin)
Download : Slovak
Download : Slovenian
Download : Spanish
Download : Swedish
Download : Thai
Download : Turkish
Download : Ukrainian

To read about a free program that allows you to INSTALL VISTA LANGUAGE PACKS MUI ON ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA, read my other post on this subject here:

http://computerboom.blogspot.com/2008/05/vistalizator-install-vista-language.html

Friday, May 2, 2008

Pictomio - free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards

What is Pictomio?

Pictomio is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. The extensive capabilities of the latest programmable 3D graphic cards are utilized for image decoding and displaying slideshows. The Pictomio software is composed of three parts:
a photo browser and slideshow editor, a slideshow viewer, and a slideshow screensaver.

Minimum requirements

Intel or AMD x86 CPU with >1 GHz

1GB RAM

Shader Model 2.0 graphics card with 128 MB of Video RAM

500 MB of available hard drive space (depending on number of managed photos)

Operating system Windows XP/Vista