I’m being extremely cheap until I can afford the CS4 Master Collection from Adobe and ran across these alternatives while researching the best After Effects alternative.

It looks like using VirtualDub and DebugMode’s Wax are my best options. t@b’s ZS4 Video Editor was a close second but it never quite fit the bill. It seems to have similar troubles that Jahshaka does — random bugs and horrible management. However, it is in MUCH better shape and should be revisited as “countinn” (I believe “Andy”) one of the authors of ZS4 apparently wishes to revive it at least long enough to fix usability issues.

AutoDesk Combustion

I just have to say though that I am thoroughly disappointed in AutoDesk anymore.  Their student curriculum offerings are awesome if you actually absorb the material quick enough to make use of 30-day trials — I cannot.

The Foundry Nuke

Eye Online Fusion

FX Home CompositeLab Pro

Jahshaka — I didn’t link Jahshaka because it sucks (I’ve used it before) not because it is commercial. For those systems that can actually run the buggy software mild success has been reported.

EDIT: Eh, I figured I may as well put all of them here so I don’t end up revisiting them at some point.

Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects

NewTek VT[5] (formerly known as Video Toaster)

Corel VideoStudio X2

Sony Vegas Movie Studio

“The new version of Axogon (which used to be called Mainvision) will be out sometime this year.: frin CG Society’s forums.  Yet when I checked Axogon (dot com) there didn’t appear to be ANYTHING remotely related to a video editor linear or non-linear.

Mac-only:

Final Cut Studio
Shake an “advanced digital compositing” extension for Final Cut Studio.

I’m not entirely sure how much of this applies to 2007 but this article was very useful in merging Outlook 2000 and 2002 PABs and OCs.

Additional Links

The University of Leicester has a bit of information on the Global Address List as it pertains to 2007 — which is why I believe the above link doesn’t pertain to 2007.

The Global Address List in 2007 automatically populates your PAB with your OCs.

I have searched all over the Web looking for the originating site for “vzoom.js” and simply cannot find who wrote it or where it came from.

Most forums or articles that link to it are actually linking to e-commerce sites that use it rather than whoever the author is.

In the meantime here’s jQZoom.

I used the DI-524 emulator and the screen shots found here and here to fix someone’s internet connection and get their router secured.

Additional Links

The beauty of both of these well-known applications is that you can simply save them to your hard disk drive and disconnect from the internet if you are worried about the transmission of a sensitive key.  (Although a glance at the JavaScript can tell you it does no such thing.)

WPA PSK (Raw Key) Generator

Kurt M’s Secure Password Generator

EDIT: I had to revisit this problem and this post was a boon.  Here’s a bit about firing up the Wireless Zero Configuration which is apparently called Wired AutoConfig in Vista?

http://www.ifelix.net/tech/2007.html

I wonder at what point civilization transforms from a culture that “takes drugs” (natural ones) for religious or medicinal purposes into one that classifies these as illegal and dangerous?

Mark and Olly tripped heavy on ayahuasca mixed with several other lovely goodies like pure coca while chilling with the Machigenga tribe.

GTGina.dll was blocking the option to change how users log on and off in a Windows XP Home laptop so I first unregistered the DLL and then removed any offending keys from the registry by exporting the key and then deleting only the value.

regsvr32 /u GTGina.dll

The modify Windows Logon options were immediately available and the data was not permanently lost. No complications thus far.

Additional Notes

Update your Linksys USB NIC drivers first if you experience this problem.

Olieng.net recommended these brushes from Celestial Star during one of his tutorials.

Coghillustration is probably the first and last place you will sea a gorilla holding a movie camera.

Brad Fitzpatrick has more than just an awesome Flash demo reel.

You The Designer has a varied array of wonderful vector art.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

Additional Links

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

iPod Access seems to be the best solution.

Music Rescue 4.0 is another really good alternative (per popularity that is).

Then again it looks like you can do it for free and pretty much without any external tools.

iPod to Computer Transfer (http://www.ipod-to-itunes.com/) looks a lot like that Antivirus 2009 crap — as in totally fake software one should avoid.

nLite — “Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation.” Related tutorial.

RyanVM — um… a much cooler MSFN?

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD — not a tool per se but a useful method of slipstreaming. Basically an explanation of what some of these automated tools do and gives you an idea how to do this manually.

How to use AutoStreamer to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 2 — dated but useful in getting started.

Additional Links

AutoPatcher (Actual Homepage)
AutoStreamer

MSFN

WindizUpdate

Don’t use Vista to create a slipstream.

“Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live Windows CD/DVD“