Websites of California State University Stanislaus and University of Memphis Exploited for Affiliate Spam

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More and more websites of American colleges and universities have fallen victims to affiliate spam these days. The latest websites that are exploited for affiliate spam include those of Department of Psychology and Child Development at California State University Stanislaus (http://psyc.csustan.edu/) and Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis (http://www.ce.memphis.edu/)

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Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 Quick Overview

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This video is open to the general public. It quickly overviews some of the basic features of Cleaner 6.5 by Autodesk, the developer of popular 3D modeling application Maya. It also shows how to use Cleaner 6.5 to compress a QuickTime movie (H.264) into a Windows Media Video file. Note that this free version of video does not contain audio commentary. Continue reading

Mac Software Review: Episode 4.3 and Episode Pro 4.3

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A few weeks ago, Telestream, the developer of Flip4Mac (QuickTime WMV component) has updated its Mac-only applications Episode and Episode Pro to 4.3, respectively. So what do these Mac applications do? Episode is a compression suite. It’s similar to Sorenson Media’s Sorenson Squeeze. Episode contains many compression profiles. And it supports many multimedia formats such as MOV, AVI, MPEG and WMV. Continue reading