UEFA Euro 2008 Final - Germany 0-1 Spain

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres was Spain’s goal hero, striking after 33 minutes when he cleverly lifted Xavi’s pass over Jens Lehmann.
Spain dominated the final throughout, with Torres heading against the post and Marcos Senna within inches of adding a second after 80 minutes.
Michael Ballack came close for Germany, shooting narrowly wide after the break.
Source: BBC [...]

UEFA Euro 2008 Semi-final Fixtures and Quarter-final Results [Updated]

Final Fixture
Sunday 29 June 2008
Germany vs. Spain at 19:45 GMT
Semi-final Fixtures
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Germany 3 - 2 Turkey at 19:45 GMT
Thursday 26 June 2008
Russia 0 - 3 Spain at 19:45 GMT

Mozilla Firefox 3 Out Today

Mozilla has announced that the final version of Firefox 3 will go public today, Tuesday, June 17, 2008:
After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, [...]

UEFA Euro 2008 Match Schedule and Scoresheet (Excel Spreadsheet) [Updated]

The UEFA EURO 2008 starts on 7th June 2008 (tomorrow) and is going to be the biggest football event this year.
I tried looking on the official UEFA Euro 2008 website and could not find a Excel match schedule and scoresheet like the one from the World Cup 2006 website. So I have found you an [...]

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (v1), Windows Search 4.0 and Windows Installer 4.5 Released!

The Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, can load track route files [...]

Virgin Media Throttling Heavy Downloaders Even More (Updated)

Virgin Media will double the number of hours it throttles the bandwidth of customers who hammer its network day and night, changes to its traffic management policy have revealed.
The tightened regime means that between 10am and 3pm subscribers to its “M”, “L” and “XL” packages will have their connection throttled for five hours if they [...]

Adobe Flash Player 9 and Shockwave Player 11 Downloads

The following downloads will give you the latest versions:
Flash Player 9

Operating System
Browsers
Languages
Installer

Windows
Internet Explorer
All supported languages

Download EXE Installer
Download MSI Installer
Download MSM Installer

Windows
Plugin-based browsers
All supported languages

Download EXE Installer
Download MSI Installer
Download MSM Installer

UEFA Champions League 2008 Final (Moscow): Manchester United vs. Chelsea

Manchester United win 6-5 on penalties. 1-1 at the end of half-time till the end of extra-time. Scorers: Cristiano Ronaldo 26′ and Lampard 45′
Manchester United FC vs. Chelsea FC
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Wednesday 21 May 2008 - 19.45 (GMT)
Attendance: 67,310
Drogba gets a red card on the 116 minute.
Not only that but Ryan Giggs takes over Sir Bobby [...]

Manchester United Premiership Champions! And the link between La Liga

Manchester United won the English league title for the second year in a row and the 17th time overall, defeating Wigan, 2-0, Sunday on the last day of the season, but it was Ryan Giggs who perhaps achieved the greater feat.
The former Wales winger appeared in his 758th game for Manchester United, tying the record [...]

Where is the 80GB PS3 for Europe, Sony? (A PlayStation 3 Story) [Update 2]

I have wanted to buy the PlayStation 3 ever since it came out in November 2006 (USA and Japan). I waited and waited. Then finally Sony released the PS3 in Europe in March 2007. After finding out that Sony had removed the “Emotion Engine” CPU from the European PS3, I was angry. This limits the [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 5512 Final Download

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system, in addition to a small number of new functionalities that will not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3, and how to deploy the service pack.
File Size: 316.43 [...]

UEFA Champions League Semi-finals 2008: Fixtures and Results

Home & Away Fixtures and Results

Home Team
Result
Away Team
Date
Leg

Liverpool
1 - 1
Chelsea
22/04/08
L1

Barcelona
0 - 0
Manchester United
23/04/08
L1

Manchester United
1 - 0
Barcelona
29/04/08
L2

Chelsea
3 - 2
Liverpool
30/04/08
L2

Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors - 3 Weeks Deadline

Microsoft yesterday (April 5, 2008) sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors:
Dear Members of the Board:
It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day prior to our announcement. Our goal in [...]

Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) Officially Released to Consumers

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make [...]

UEFA Champions League Quarter-final and Semi-final Draw 2008

The UEFA Champions League Quarter-final and Semi-final Draw Draw 2008 just happened a few minutes ago. Here are the results of the draw.
Quarter-final Draw:
Arsenal vs. Liverpool
Roma vs. Manchester United
Schalke vs. Barcelona
Fenerbahçe vs. Chelsea
Semi-final Draw:
Arsenal or Liverpool vs. Fenerbahçe or Chelsea
Schalke or Barcelona vs. Roma or Manchester United
Who do you think will win the UEFA Champions [...]

YouTube Has Higher Resolution Videos With Better Sound!

YouTube has started making available higher resolution versions of its videos, offering 480×360 video with higher quality audio, up from the standard resolution of 320×240. The video is MP4 with AAC audio. It has also made available 448×336 video, with 44100 Hz audio, double the normal.
To benefit from this, append &fmt=18 to the end of [...]

Completly Uninstall and Remove Bonjour Service and Files (mDNSResponder.exe, mdnsNSP.dll) for Windows

Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.
If you’ve installed software by Apple such as iTunes, software by Adobe such as [...]

foobar2000 0.9.5

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Audio formats supported natively: MP1,
MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV,
AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
More audio formats supported through optional components, [...]

Happy New Year 2008!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!
This blog will be two years old on the 9th of January.
I have created a brand new forum (powered by Invision Power Board). Everyone is welcome to join and please invite your friends. Please post your feedback and suggestions. I am still adding new stuff e.g. forum categories.
Amarjeet Rai Forums
Other stuff of [...]