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How to Stop Pop Up Advertisements When Playing Movie Clip with RealPlayer

RealPlayer or RealOne Player is quite a popular cross-platform media player that can support numerous RealMedia formats such as RealAudio (*.ra, *.rm), RealVideo (*.rv, *.rm, *.rmvb), RealPix (*.rp), RealText (*.rt), RealMedia Shortcut (*.ram, *.rmm). It is quite common to use Real Player to watch downloaded video movie clips especially in *.rm and *.rmvb. The player is quite easy to use and features a handful of functions. Having said that, RealPlayer users always face a small but irritating problem. When you use Real Player to watch movie clips (*.rm or *.rmvb format), advertisement pages will prompt out inadvertently.

Sometimes your Firewall will notify you that the ad page may contain virus, spyware, adware, etc. It can be very frustrating and annoying when you see these ad pages. A cliffhanger or a steamy romantic scene may be spoilt forever by the appearance of an advert. How to stop RealPlayer from prompting out these advertisements?

To stop RealPlayer from continuing prompting out ad pages, you can go to Windows Explorer and look for Program Files>Real>Real One Player. Under Real One Player folder, look for “rpplugins” folder. Seek for “rpwe3260.dll” file and delete it from “rpplugins” folder. Once you have done it, go to Program Files -> Common Files -> Real -> Common. Delete the “twebbrowse.dll” file. After deleting these two files, the irritating ads will no longer pop out. You can enjoy your blockbuster movies with peace.

D-Link updates DNS-323 NAS unit with BitTorrent client

D-Link’s DNS-323 is already a pretty capable unit with FTP, UPnP AV, iTunes, and print server support, but it’s getting even more flexible today with the addition of an official BitTorrent client that’ll run independently of your computer. It’s certainly not the first NAS we’ve seen to include everyone’s fave copyright, ah, re-appropriation app, but it’s certainly one of the cheapest — you can snag it for under $200 from most retailers.

HP touchsmart 2 desktop

Videoconferencing Kit for Apple iPhone 3G

Those of you complaining about the lack of front camera and videoconferencing in the new iPhone, stop saying words. This July 11 you will be able to buy the Apple Videoconferencing Kit for iPhone 3G at just $29. Press release and an exclusive leaked photo of the user manual—showing how it exactly works—right after the jump.

Microsoft’s $1 Billion Xbox 360 Recall Problems Caused By Chip Cheapness

Microsoft’s red ring Xbox 360 problems have cost the company about a billion dollars in warranty repairs, but the research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner said that the hardware problems were caused because Microsoft wanted to be cheap. Instead of using an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) vender to make a graphics chip for the 360, Microsoft decided to design it themselves and have Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing create it. This saved “tens of millions of dollars” in design costs. Yes, only tens of millions.

The good news is that when Microsoft said that their red ring problems are fixed on newer units, they were probably right. They went to “an unnamed ASIC vendor based in the United States and redesigned the chip.” Probably ATI, is what EETimes thinks. Moral of the story is to not skimp on chip design so you can save tens of millions, because that may come back and bite you in the ass down the road.

Honlai’s QingBar MP101 iPhone projector

Looks like Honlai had more than one mini-projector on display at Computex. The MP101 is capable of throwing a 15- to 27-inch display form your iPhone or iPod touch in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, we’re talking just 10-15 lumens and a 200:1 contrast. Still, it’ll do for a quick and dirty LCoS jones. See a working prototype after the break.

WWDC Keynote

AT&T Memo to Retail iPhone 3G Policy

We knew it wouldn’t be long before someone from AT&T leaked a policy memo vis-a-vis the iPhone 3G’s July 11 launch. the document contains a bit more info, such as how many iPhones each customer can walk out with, and what to do with all existing 2G phone promotional literature.

But this time you can not activate your iphone 3G yourself with itune, you must activate your iphone in at&t store or apple store.

***Confidential AT&T Information. For Internal Distribution Only.***
AT&T and Apple today announced that the iPhone 3G will be available in the U.S on July 11. iPhone 3G combines three products into one small, lightweight device: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and it puts the Internet in your pocket with the best e-mail, web browsing, search and maps applications ever on a mobile phone.

Pricing and Plans
Device Pricing:
$199 8GB and $299 16GB for new activations and qualified upgrades with 2-year agreement.
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Free AT&T WiFi now at Starbucks

It all looks legit and final. AT&T and Starbucks have finally rolled out their free WiFi plan to Starbucks Card users registered with AT&T. In exchange for letting AT&T send you up to 4 emails per year, you get a single WiFi session of up to 2-hours per day at any of Starbucks’ 7,000 or so US-based stores. Now get out of here, and don’t forget your MacBook for some conspicuous posing and caffeine consumption.