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Pidgin 2.4.3 released

Posted: July rd, 2008, 7:01am UTC by Marcel Klum

Thanks Mephistopheles for posting this on our forum.

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.

View: Official website

View: Changes in this release

Download: Pidgin 2.4.3

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Talisman Desktop 3.0 Beta 2

Posted: July nd, 2008, 9:14am UTC by Uktus

Talisman Desktop 3.0 Beta 2 is available.

Talisman Desktop" (Talisman) is a desktop alternative and shell-replacement for Windows 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP/Vista, capable of transforming your desktop into an interface organized as you like. The program's basic purpose: Launch other applications and functions in a new interface, instead of the standard Windows desktop. But the opportunities presented by "Talisman" are much broader.
Talisman can be used as home and office interface, frontend for Information Kiosks, Car PCs, HTPCs, Media Centers and other specialized interfaces.

Link: Product Overview

Download: Talisman Desktop 3.0 Beta 2

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Merge Tables Wizard for Microsoft Excel 1.65

Posted: July st, 2008, 4:31pm UTC by Ablebits.com

With Merge Tables Wizard you can easily lookup and copy matching data from one Excel table to another. Two tables can be located in the same or two different Microsoft Excel files. The intuitive and user-friendly interface of the wizard makes the join process fast and easy.

With this handy add-in you can:

Find and merge matching data in seconds.
Use one or several columns as matching criteria.
Compare Microsoft Excel lists from different workbooks.
Add new columns to the main table or update data in existing columns.
Highlight updated data in color.
Filter updated or non-updated columns.

The add-in works for Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000.

Download: Merge Tables Wizard for Microsoft Excel | 2.1MB (Shareware, $29.95)

Screenshot: Merge Tables Wizard result

MS to Cut XBox Pro to $299

Posted: July st, 2008, 12:47am UTC by Bezhou Feng

Microsoft plans to cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model by $50, to $299 in the next few weeks, the Hollywood Reporter reported citing anonymous sources. The price cut for the Xbox 360 model with the 20 gigabyte hard drive will come before the video game industry's biggest trade show, E3, taking place in Los Angeles on July 15-17, the report said. Rumors of the Xbox price cut swirled on popular gaming blogs Joystiq and Kotaku last week, with sites receiving snapshots of K-Mart and Radio Shack flyers advertising the $299 price. Not unexpectedly, a Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment on the report.

View: Full Story at Reuters

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CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) 2008-06-28 Beta

Posted: June th, 2008, 6:42pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the primary design goals is to play as much as possible with as little as possible. The CCCP attempts to be as unintrusive on your system as possible. The pack is also now officially endorsed by the Matroska Project, the developers who designed the MKV format.

Combined Community Codec Pack ( CCCP ) 2008-01-24 includes :

- FFDShow 2008-04-09 r1739 CCCP
- FLV Splitter 2006-08-09
- Haali Media Splitter 2008-03-29
- MPV (Mpeg2) Decoder 2007-05-17 CCCP
- VSFilter 2007.05.31
- CoreWavPack 1.1.1
- Media Player Classic HomeCinema 1.1.611
- ZoomPlayer 5.50 beta 1 Standard

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Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 RC1

Posted: June th, 2008, 6:35pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer. SpyBot-S&D allows you to exclude selected cookies, programs or extensions from being reported, allowing you to prevent false positive messages for items that you dont want to be alerted of every time. It can even scan your download directory for files that have been downloaded, but not yet installed, allowing you to detect unwanted programs before you even install them. SpyBot produces a detailed and easy to understand report before it deletes any files and allows you to deselect any item that you do not want to be processed. In addition, a recovery feature allows you to restore your settings if needed.

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DivFix++ v0.30a Released

Posted: June th, 2008, 2:38pm UTC by Death Knight

DivFix++ is an AVI Fix and Preview tool. This Program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and watch them.

Do you felt bad after downloading a big trash movie from internet? Preview them while downloading and after don't like the video? Might be encoding quality is not match your taste or it might be a fake file, than you can delete file after consuming your bandwidth...

DivFix++ is supporting multiple OSes Like Linux,MacOSX,Win and others. Since people love downloading (legal) videos/clips from internet, DivFix++ is a must tool which every user needs to be in their arsenal.

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Japan Uses DS to Teach English

Posted: June th, 2008, 7:39pm UTC by Bezhou Feng

Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in English instruction. Junior high school teacher Motoko Okubo has used the handheld DS and textbook software since May in weekly sessions focusing on vocabulary, penmanship and audio comprehension. "They've been using it at home playing games, so at first they were surprised they can use it at school," Okubo said.

Still early in a one-year free trial period, vice principal Junko Tatsumi says results so far have been encouraging in Japan's long struggle with English language education. "The students are really concentrating and have fun in gaining skills such as spelling," she said. Japan's education ministry leaves decisions on teaching tools to schools, but if up to first-year student Kanako Takahashi, the DS would be a no-brainer. "It's fun and helps me remember English," says the 13-year old.

View: Full Story at Reuters

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Police Say GTA IV Inspired Crime Spree

Posted: June th, 2008, 7:33pm UTC by RangerLG

Author's Note: Here we go again!

Teenagers who police say went on a video-game-inspired late-night crime spree were arraigned Thursday after they mugged a man outside a New Hyde Park supermarket and menaced motorists in Garden City with a baseball bat, a crowbar and a broomstick, Nassau police said. The teens told detectives they were imitating the "Grand Theft Auto" video-game series where characters steal cars, beat up other characters and commit crimes, authorities said.

Police have identified at least three victims: a man they said was severely beaten during a robbery; a would-be carjacking victim; and a driver whose van was smashed with a bat. Nassau Det. Lt. Raymond Coté said there are likely more victims who were attacked. At one point during the spree, the initial group of four encountered other youths. "They realize they know them from school and they can't rob them," Coté said. "Two of them they enlist in this crime spree and now they're joining the pack. It's an angry mob of youths." The six suspects were all charged as adults.

View: Full Story at Newsday

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update

Posted: June th, 2008, 10:06am UTC by Steven Parker

This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

Improvements for all Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac applications

Stability is improved.
This update fixes an issue that causes Office 2008 applications to exit unexpectedly when you open or use Office 2008 applications.
Dates in a chart are displayed correctly in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.

This update fixes an issue that causes the dates in a chart to change unexpectedly when you open a Word 2008 document or a PowerPoint 2008 presentation that contains a chart.

Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008. (more at source)

Download: @ Microsoft | 45MB .dmg file

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Lightsaber Battles Make Full Use of The Wii

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:58am UTC by Tom Lee

The game Star Wars fans have been waiting for has finally being announced for the Wii. Making full use of the Wiimote technology, 'Lightsaber Duels' will feature destructible environments with Clone Wars-era characters and plenty of laser swords. Though the Clone Wars were more filled with lightsabers than other times in Star Wars history, setting the scene in that era also sadly means no Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.

No release date at the time of writing, but this announcement is sure to make Star Wars fans worldwide rush out to prepare for battle!

View: Yahoo!

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The Windows PC is the largest gaming platform in the world

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:58am UTC by Steven Parker

If you believe Microsoft...

Prior to Microsoft’s “Big Picture” gaming showcase held today in San Francisco, corporate vice president John Schappert reminded us that, despite what you may have heard, the Windows PC is the world’s dominant gaming platform. Expect another big push from Microsoft to defend the Windows PC against game consoles.

We have to be realistic about the fact that PC gaming is threatened by hugely popular game consoles. And if you look at media coverage alone, it sometimes appears that high-end PC gaming is already being reduced to benchmarking CPUs and GPUs. Subjectively, the lion’s share of gaming talk these days appears to be focused on consoles.

View: Full Story @ TG Daily

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doPDF 6.1.265 released

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:54am UTC by Softland

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Main changes in 6.1.265:

New: doPDF now has an "Always use this folder" option. When checked, doPDF will save the PDF to the specified location each time a PDF is created.
Update: When PDF creation fails, doPDF now returns an "Error creating PDF file: " message
Fix: Corrected a crash with Microsoft Outlook 2007 printing under Vista (does not create ActivateContext anymore, uses existing)
Fix: Corrected interaction with TransparentBlt and StrecthDIBits

Download: doPDF 6.1.265 | 1.4MB (Freeware)

News source: Forum

Screenshot: >> Click here

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GTA:SA Sex Scenes Not Such a Big Issue After All

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:48am UTC by Tom Lee

Lawyers who sued Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive are shocked at the lack of people that bought the game and have been offended by the hidden sex scenes, known widely as Hot Coffee.

Any buyer upset by the scenes could have filed a claim under the settlement and shared in a class action ruling. As it turns out, from the millions of copies of the game sold since release in 2004, only 2,676 people claimed for a refund of between $5 and $35, or a sanitized copy of the game.

The company and the plaintiffs both point out that the company has agreed to make a charitable donation of $860,000 as fallout of this.

The $1.3 million in lawyer’s fees requested by the 10 law firms that brought the case, in a rare turn of events, far outweighs the sum of monies collected by claimants in the suit.

View: NY Times

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New York Passes Videogame Bill

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:37am UTC by Tom Lee

New York senate has passed legislation creating a governmental advisory council to examine potential impact on violent video games.

The bill, which won with a vote of 61-1, mirrors one passed by the New York State Assembly, and is now on its way to Governor David Paterson. If he signs it, the new law would be in effect from September 2010.

The legislation requires consoles to be equipped with parental controls, and makes all games require the ESRB rating to be displayed on all packaging.

The 16-member advisory council will make recommendations to the ESRB in relation to game ratings, and will also set up a parent-teacher violence awareness program to help students who may have a leaning towards violence.

In reality, most of the bill just makes it a requirement to follow what is already a well used voluntary system of rating games.

View: Games Industry

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The Political Machine 2008 Released

Posted: June rd, 2008, 9:30am UTC by Island Dog

Stardock has released The Political Machine 2008, the highly anticipated follow-up to its 2004 smash hit. The Political Machine 2008 is a PC game that puts players in control of the 2008 presidential campaign. Play as the campaign manager for a host of candidates including Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, historical candidates or design one from scratch. Players choose their campaign battlegrounds and are off on the campaign trail to face a host of challenges including fundraising, talk show appearances, hiring spin doctors and winning endorsements. The game is won on Election Day by the player who gets the necessary electoral votes to become President.

The Political Machine is both a single- and multiplayer game - players can either compete against the computer or against others online on www.politicalmachine.com. The website also provides an ideologically neutral location for users to discuss the current election. The game is available at major U.S. retail outlets as well as directly from www.politicalmachine.com for $19.95. It requires Wndows XP or Windows Vista to play.

Link: The Political Machine 2008

Screenshot: Create a custom candidate

Screenshot: Campaign across the nation

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Ashampoo Burning Studio 8.01 Beta

Posted: June nd, 2008, 12:44pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

Ashampoo Burning Studio 8, the newest version of the Ashampoo's CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning suite, brings new exciting features and improvements to you. Now you can burn photo slideshows to DVD as well as print and design CD/DVD/Blu-ray covers and labels. With the new features it is really easy to quickly create impressive and elegant results!

New Features:

Burn Photo Slideshows to DVD
- Supports all major image formats: jpeg, png, bmp, gif, tiff, ...
- A palette of different transition effects give your slideshows a professional look!
- Animate your photos with an automatic zoom and pan effect (Ken Burns effect).
- Mix slide shows and movies on the same DVD
- Add your own background music
- Check the resulting slideshow immediately in the built-in preview.

Print and design and CD/DVD/Blu-ray Labels and Covers
- Seven professional themes help you to quickly create and print good looking labels and covers.
- The editor also offers many helpful tools and possibilities to design your own covers and labels.
- Pictures, texts and tables can be inserted quickly and can easily be positioned.
- Complete Undo / Redo support.

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Livestation launches NEW beta 1.0.76.7

Posted: June st, 2008, 11:19pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

Livestation is a free software application that provides a range of live news television channels and radio stations that can be received on a computer anywhere with a basic broadband connection. You can watch television on your desktop, or on your laptop, at home, at work, on the move, or in a hotel room, provided you have a broadband internet connection or wireless access.

Livestation allows you to receive live TV and radio news from the world’s leading broadcasters on your PC, via a multi-channel interactive application on the desktop giving you a unique window on the world’s news. You can watch Livestation full screen or minimised to fit in the corner of your screen, enabling you to carry on with other tasks while also keeping an eye on the news. You can flick between channels, just as you would on your TV set.

Livestation is legal, safe, free and comes with no strings attached.

Current features include:

- High quality live audio and video
- Channel selection and programme guide
- Programme information overlay
- Ability to scale player window from 50% to 200%
- Always on top window setting
- Full screen playback option

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ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver released

Posted: June th, 2008, 1:33pm UTC by Marcel Klum

Thanks +Beastage for posting this on our forum.

This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

View: ATI website

Download: ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver

View: Release notes

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Sauerbraten CTF edition released

Posted: June th, 2008, 1:11pm UTC by Marcel Klum

Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

The engine supporting the game is entirely original in code & design, and its code is Open Source (ZLIB license, read the docs for more on how you can use the engine).

In addition to the FPS game which is in a very playable state, the engine is being used for an RPG which is in the preproduction phase. Additionally, Proper Games ltd are the first to use the engine commercially. dot3 labs is a company started by the creators of sauerbraten that offers commercial support.

View: Sauerbraten website

Download: Sauerbraten CTF edition

Screenshots: >> Click here

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SmartCode VNC Manager 4.0.13.0

Posted: June th, 2008, 8:13am UTC by averkiev

SmartCode VNC Manager is a powerful remote administration and monitoring software application for both the business and home network environments. It is typically used for remote network management, remote system administration and in helpdesk environments. The application allows you to take remote control of any computer running VNC, Windows Terminal Servers, or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.

Key Features:

Connectivity
- Integrated VNC viewer with SSH tunneling, MSRC4 DSM plug-in, UltraVNC Repeater, SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies support.
- Integrated RDP viewer with SSH tunneling support.
- Integrated Virtual Machine Remote Control Client with SSH tunneling support.
Computer Management
- Service, Printer, Share and Event Log managers allow you to simultaneously manage several computers using a single window.
- Computer Domain/Workgroup Membership Manager, Remote Task Manager, Installed Software Manager, Remote Exec, Remote Registry Editor, and "Show who is logged on" features.
- Many more..
VNC Management
- VNC Deployment and VNC Password Reset Wizard (with support for UltraVNC 1.0.4).
- VNC Thumbnail View
- Many more..
Terminal Server Management
- Terminal Services manager.

Download: SmartCode VNC Manager v4.0.13.0

Screenshot: >> Click here

View: Home Page

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Godfather Author's Estate Sues Over Videogame Revenue

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:55pm UTC by Tom Lee

The estate of 'Godfather' author Mario Puzo has filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures claiming the studio owes at least $1million in revenues from the game 'The Godfather'.

According to the suit, Puzo's estate alleges Paramount breached a 1992 contract giving the studio 'audio-visual' rights for the Godfather saga or related works.

"Despite the vast wealth Puzo created for Paramount, it has refused to pay his children their agreed share of the revenue from that audio-visual product," the lawsuit states.

Electronic Arts published the game, and is currently developing a sequel.

View: Games Industry

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Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm Sets Sail

Posted: June th, 2008, 1:18pm UTC by Shane Pitman

Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm is based on the Discovery Channel's hit television series Deadliest Catch. The game is a realistic representation of crab fishing in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, one of the most dangerous and deadliest jobs on the planet (hence the title of the show). In Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm you play the role of the captain of a crab boat. It's your responsibility to plan for everything that you'll need to complete a successful season. You'll have to hire on crew members based on individual strengths and weaknesses as well as how much of a share they want, you'll have to buy provisions and fuel, decide how many crab pots to load, and consider other factors. Load the boat too heavy and you could have serious problems, run out of food at sea and your crew won't be too happy.

Once you're at sea you'll have to pay attention to the weather, keep track of where the crab are, monitor your crew members to make sure they're getting enough rest and eating so that they don't become fatigued and injury prone. You'll also have to consider taking their advice sometimes. "Are you sure you want to leave port on a Friday?" All the while racing against the clock to reach your quota and get back to offload by your deadline. You'll also be able to go online with Xbox Live to talk to and compete against other players. Just like being out on the real Bering Sea, you won't be alone. There will be other captains out there. Some you may form alliances with, share tips and hot spot locations. Others may just be stringing you along. Being able to judge someones character with limited contact will be key to your success when dealing with other captains and crews.

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"Limbo of the Lost" Devs accused of Plagiarism

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:12am UTC by El Sid

The Register has released an article detailing some seemingly blatant plagiarism by the Developers of the 2007 game 'Limbo of the Lost'.

The game, that was published in July 2007 by Tri Synergy, was released almost a year before GamesPlasma.com got around to reviewing it; and upon doing so, they noticed that parts of the game seem to have come from elsewhere. Most notably, it seems that the developers, a small 3 man outfit by the name of "Majestic", have taken more than a little inspiration from Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Since the article on GamesPlasma.com has been published [LINK], a Forum thread on gamesradar.com has gone to find that the game seems to have taken a large amount of it's scenery from more than 5 games, including Unreal Tournament 2004, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Diablo 2. Even films like Spawn seem to have been copied.

Tri Synergy has since stopped all forms of Distribution of the game, and are 'anxiously awaiting [Majestic's] response'. Bethesda are also said to be 'looking into it'.

Link: Full Story @ The Register

Link: GamesPlasma.com Article

Link: Tri Synergy Press Release

Link: GamesRadar.com - Examples of LotL Plagiarism [56k Warning]

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Video Game Industry Predictions for 2012

Posted: June th, 2008, 3:21pm UTC by Fred Derf

PricewaterhouseCoopers is about to release a new industry report titled "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008-2012". The overall video game industry is expected to grow 10.3% annually but console games will continue to dominate sales which will grow at a healthy 6.9% per year. Online games are predicted to see the highest annual growth rate of 16.9% but will still have a way to go to catch up to console sales. Video game advertising, a relatively new entry, is also predicted to have strong growth at 16.7% annually. PC games will continue to be the industry laggard with an expectation of decreased sales between now and 2012. They are predicting an annual growth rate of negative 1.2%. This news doesn't bode well for hard-core PC gamers as this will likely lead to a reduced investment in quality titles.

Read the extended article for actual sales figures and predictions of 2012.

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Canada: Future Shop to enter used video game market

Posted: June th, 2008, 2:53pm UTC by Fred Derf

Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133 Future Shop outlets by late summer. By the end of 2008 or early in 2009, Future Shop hopes to have used game titles available from their website.

Best Buy is eager to take advantage of margins that are up to five times higher those of new games but the move will place then in direct competition with sector leader EB Games (GameStop Corp.) who has had a near monopoly on the sale of used games in Canada. HMV had previously investigated the sale of used games but it did not appeal to their core market of young women. Future Shop's customers, on the other hand, are mostly young males.

In order to get established in the market, Future Shop is initially prepared to undercut the prices of EB Games. Future Shop will target a margin "only" four times higher than new titles. The additional competition is likely to be very good news for Canadian gamers especially with the possibility of some sort of price war between EB Games and Future Shop.

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Quero Toolbar 4.2: 64-bit add-on for IE x64

Posted: June th, 2008, 10:56am UTC by Viktor78

Quero is the alternate navigation bar and ad blocker for Internet Explorer and is the first toolbar which supports the Aero Glass effect in Windows Vista. The idea behind Quero is to replace the fixed address bar, search box and find on page dialog of IE7 by combining them into one address bar-like toolbar. The new release natively runs in the 64-bit version of Internet Explorer under Vista x64 and is also slightly faster than the 32-bit counterpart.

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Dexster 3.2

Posted: June th, 2008, 10:36am UTC by chuntat

Dexster is a perfect audio editor tool for your music production that supports many popular audio formats and features audio cd burning. Dexster provides cool and easy-to-use interface that allow you to edit an audio file visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Select, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File); apply different effects (Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Envelope, Equalizer, Expander, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Silence, Stretch, Trim, Vibrato, Chorus, Pitch Shift); Vocal Reduction; Noise Reduction; Mix Stereo Channels; Insert noise and silence in an audio file; Insert and change described information about a marker; Apply different filters to the selected part of an audio file (Band Pass Filter, FFT Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter, Notch Filter, Peak EQ Filter, Finite Impulse Response Filter); Record an audio file from a microphone or from other input device; Play an audio file or any part of it; Convert an audio file from one format to another; Extract audio from video files; Merge Audio Files; Extract audio from audio cd.

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BurnAware Home 2.0.0.610

Posted: June th, 2008, 6:02pm UTC by johnny33

BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. BurnAware Home is the preferred edition for home desktop and mobile PCs. It includes additional burning tools which help you to copy your CDs and DVDs with digital photos, documents, games, movies and music easily. Also with BurnAware Home you can compile and burn bootable discs and disc images.

Key Features

* Create data, bootable and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
* Create Audio CDs and jukebox CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
* Create DVDs-Video
* Copy and backup CDs/DVDs
* Create and burn disc images, bootable images
* Erase / Format rewritable discs
* Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
* Supports UDF/ISO9660/Joliet Bridged file systems (any combination)
* On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
* Auto-verification of written files
* Supports CD-Text
* Clean, flexible, easy to use interface
* Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
* Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit), no drivers required

Download: BurnAware Home 2.0.0.610

Screenshot: >> Click here

View: Home page

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FileZilla 3.0.11

Posted: June th, 2008, 7:04pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.

What's New in FileZilla 3.0.11:

- MSW: Reduce flicker if resizing main window
- Improve compatibility with Cygwin's SSH server. Use Site Manager to select server type
- Correct position of queue size in statusbar

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Go-OO 2.4.1.5

Posted: June th, 2008, 6:59pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has quite a few impressive features which really ought to be in official OO, but for some reason or another aren't, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, Excel VBA macros, Visio diagrams and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times -- at least on our poorly equipped test machine.

- Better interoperability
Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-oo.

- Better functionality
Go-oo's user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. We have built-in (working) multimedia integration on Linux, a beautiful solver component, and your Chinese should look sane. We also integrate with your system better by default: eg. enabling native file-selectors on Linux.

- A Faster application
From first-time startup, where we sort I/O to reduce seek cost, to a highly optimised second start application and a systray quick-starter on Linux we are faster. We use less memory than up-stream, we link faster, use better system allocators, and don't waste so much time & memory in the registry. Go-oo performance is hard to beat.

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WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2

Posted: June th, 2008, 6:14pm UTC by Mihai Asmanow

WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

WinRAR features:

* WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially for executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
* WinRAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
* WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
* WinRAR supports NTFS file security and data streams.
* WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
* WinRAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.

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Folder Castle 2.2 - Protect Your Files and Peace of Mind

Posted: June th, 2008, 12:38pm UTC by Anatoliy

MagneticSoft today announces Folder Castle 2.2, the newest upgrade of the security software for protecting computer files from snoops and thieves. Now, Folder Castle can hide files and folders automatically when you log off, shut down the system, or switch to another user. The latter capability is available on Windows XP and Vista. Another new feature enables you to change the hot keys to personal preferences.

Folder Castle provides two methods to keep computer files away from prying eyes. You can lock away files and folders, which literally gets confidential materials off the screen in a moment. Or you can put files into a secure container called Secure Storage with on-the-fly AES-256 encryption. Once the files are protected, they cannot be seen in Windows Explorer even if the computer is re-booted in Windows Safe Mode. For more security, you can step into Stealth mode, which instantly hides the presence of Folder Castle itself. In addition, a password protection scheme ensures that only the user can restore access to the protected files as well as the control panel.

Folder Castle 2.2 is available for download today at no charge from www.magneticsoft.com. You can try its fully-functional trial version for 15 days before you have to buy it. The product costs $39.95 (US) for a single-user license. Folder Castle 2.2 is available for the Windows platform and works well on Windows VISTA, 2003, XP, 2000.

View: Product Page

Download: Folder Castle 2.2 (1701 Kb)

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Free SolveigMM AVI Trimmer 1.6 is out

Posted: June th, 2008, 12:37pm UTC by DmitryV

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. It is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. No video / audio degradation and out of sync problem arises after editing. All AVI file types of any size and video / audio content are supported.

With AVI Trimmer you can do the folowing things:

* Edit movie for YouTube.
* Get rid of TV tips in your AVI
* Cut or edit out any AVI part you want to
* Remove audio stream form AV file.

Download: Download

Link: Home Page

Screenshot: >> Click here

How to edit movie for YouTube

How to remove AVI audio

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FireFox 3.0 to be Released Tuesday June 17th 2008

Posted: June th, 2008, 12:35pm UTC by sava700

A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design.

Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but haven't bookmarked.

There's also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list - similar to what's already available on Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 browser.

Other new features include the ability to resume downloads midway if the connection is interrupted and an updated password manager that doesn't disrupt the log-in process.

View: cbsnews.com

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Videolan 0.8.6h

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:02am UTC by insanekiwi

VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it's own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too. It can also be used as a server to stream on a (wired or wireless) high-bandwidth IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 or 6 network in multicast or unicast. VLC (VideoLAN Client) is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, Crux Linux, Debian GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Linux, Familiar Linux, Fedora Core Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Novell's SuSE (System und Software Entwicklung = System and software development) Linux, Turbo Linux, NetBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, Zaurus and Windows CE (Windows Mobile) for Pocket PC. The installer includes the eMule partfile plugin, which lets you preview eMule partfiles more efficiently.

What's New in VideoLAN 0.8.6h:
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6h.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries.
VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec.
Technical details are available in our security advisories. This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules. More information can be found in the release notes for 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h.

Download: Videolan 0.8.6h | Multi-OS versions (Freeware)

View: Product Overview

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i2p 0.6.2

Posted: June th, 2008, 8:59am UTC by Mathiasdm

I2P is a Java application which builds up an anonymous network from hundreds of Nodes, similarly to the Freenet Project. Data is encrypted en relayed through several other I2P routers, to maintain anonymity.

There are "normal services" that are integrated into I2P networking. These include IRC, web servers, email, bittorrent, gnutella, instant messengers, ... All of these programs work anonymously via the I2P network infrastructure. There are no official connections from I2P to the 'normal' internet, however, unofficial bridges do exist and can connect to regular websites.

The 0.6.2 release delivers performance and anonymity improvements.

Improvements:

LeaseSet data is no longer added to every end-to-end message, reducing protocol overhead.
Unreachable peers are avoided as inbound tunnel gateways, which helps reliability and makes it possible to use
persistent Lease selection, which in turn helps performance by reducing out-of-order message delivery.
The sequence of peers in a tunnel is now kept in a strict order according to XOR distance from a random value, to make it harder for an adversary to gather statistics for a predecessor attack.
Improvements to applications like I2PSnark and the Router Console are also introduced.

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Opera 9.50 Build 10063 Final

Posted: June th, 2008, 8:57am UTC by EL1TE

Opera is a free Web browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-window navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, an e-mail client with a spam filter, and integrated search for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, a password manager, and one-click customization and privacy-protection settings.

Features:

New in version 9: Fraud protection, BitTorrent, Add your favorite search engines, Content blocker, Site preferences, Widgets, Improved rich text editing, Thumbnail preview
Efficient surfing: Transfer manager, Tabbed browsing, Password manager, Integrated search, Pop-up blocking, Mouse gestures, Fast Forward, Sessions, Quick preferences, Notes, Voice, Keyboard Shortcuts, Trash can
Security and privacy: Security bar, Encryption, Delete private data, Cookie control
Mail and Chat: Opera mail, IRC chat
Customization: Drag and drop, Skins, Language
Accessibility: Zoom, Text size and colors, User style sheets,
Web development: Standards support, Small-screen mode, Validate code, Toggle graphics and style sheets, Info panel, Reload from cache,
Special: Full-screen mode, Kiosk mode and more...

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Mozilla releases Firefox RC 3

Posted: June th, 2008, 8:56am UTC by Plutonium

Just days into the Firefox 3 RC 2, Mozilla releases Firefox Release Candidate 3.

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 15,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

View: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC 3 Main Page

View: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC 3 Release Notes

Downloads

Download: Firefox 3 RC3 English for Windows | 7.15 MB

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC3 English for Mac OS | 17.17 MB

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC3 English for Linux | 8.66 MB

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CodeLite IDE v1.0RC02

Posted: June th, 2008, 11:43am UTC by Eran Ifrah

The CodeLite team is pleased to announce the CodeLite v1.0RC02 is available.

This release includes a bundle app for MacOS 10.5.2. Debian package and Windows Installer.

What is CodeLite?
CodeLite is a fully functional, stable C/C++ IDE with all the features a developer needs to rapidly develop an application on multiple platforms.
Some of CodeLite functionalites: Code Completion, Syntax Highlight, Code refactoring, Code generation, Code navigation, Subversion integration and much much more.

for a complete functionality list, visit my web site at: [codelite.org]

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PE Explorer 1.99 R3

Posted: June th, 2008, 11:42am UTC by pexplorer

PE Explorer provides a UI for exploring and editing the contents of EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls, and other 32-bit executable file formats. Functions include disassembly and inspection of unknown binaries and modification of properties of executable files. Enjoy the comfort of being able to have all the necessary tools in one simple, clean interface.

When you first choose to explore an executable, PE Explorer shows you information about the headers of the file, such as the number of code sections, the size of the image, the application subsystem, and the stack size information. Another view offers you an overview of the section headers in the executable — double-clicking a section header brings up a window gives you the ability to explore the contents of each section.

Visual editing features let you quickly view, extract, modify, rebuild, delete, customize, or translate executable file resources from within the file. Dialog boxes, menus, string tables, icons, typelib and more are right at your fingertips. Other features include automatic UPX and Upack unpacking, adding of XP and Vista control styles to older applications, a Digital Signature viewer, and more. But if Resource Editor is the only feature you really want, take a look at the company's much cheaper Resource Tuner application.

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The Political Machine 2008 Ready for Retail

Posted: June th, 2008, 3:33pm UTC by Island Dog

With candidates now finalized on the major party's tickets, Stardock also throws its hat in the ring in time for the start of election season. Today Stardock Entertainment announced The Political Machine 2008 has gone gold and will be available via download on Stardock's revolutionary new digital distribution platform, Impulse, as well as in major retail outlets across the U.S. on June 17 for $19.95. Preorders are available on www.politicalmachine.com.

The Political Machine 2008 is a new PC game that puts players in control of the 2008 presidential campaign. Play as the campaign manager for a host of candidates including Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, historical candidates or design one from scratch. Players then choose their campaign battlegrounds and are off on the campaign trail to face a host of challenges including fundraising, talk show appearances, hiring spin doctors and winning endorsements. The game is won on Election Day by the player who gets the necessary electoral votes to become President.

Read full article at IGN.

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Extra Content for GTA IV Delayed

Posted: June th, 2008, 4:50pm UTC by Kevin Horrocks

After the announcements and the hype for new DLC for GTA IV on the Xbox 360, the rejoicing now comes to a halt. Rockstar’s magnum opus, Grand Theft Auto IV, will not get the much-hyped Xbox 360 extra downloadable chapters till November at the earliest, possibly slipping into 2009. Xbox gamers were expecting the first bunch of downloadable GTAIV chapters this coming September, but the game’s publisher, Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two Interactive, has now revealed the content won't be released until the fourth quarter of its fiscal year at the earliest, which means nothing until November and – quite possibly – nothing until early 2009.

View: TechRadar

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DriverMax 4.0 with downloadable driver updates for Vista

Posted: June th, 2008, 1:55pm UTC by Innovative Solutions

What's New: In version 4.0 of DriverMax, driver downloads have finally been enabled. You can download driver updates for Windows Vista.

DriverMax 4.0 features:

- Download drivers for Windows Vista.

- Check for driver updates.

- Get a lot of information about your hardware and drivers, for computers running Windows Vista and Windows XP.

- Backup all or just some of your drivers. Keep all your drivers in one place.

- Restore all your drivers from the backup, in a few minutes. This is especially handy after you reinstall Windows.

Download: DriverMax.exe | 3.2 MB, Freeware

Screenshot: >> Click here

Link: The DriverMax web site

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released

Posted: June th, 2008, 11:45pm UTC by Doug Bemis

Apparently entering thus far unannounced, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available for download. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Version 2 Beta 2 adds several major new features, including:

Improved Template Model
Including controls in the runtime instead of packaged in the app package
Upload support
Duplex communication
Silverlight DRM streaming content

Link: Read full change log notes to see all new changes

Download: Download Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Source: ArsTechnica

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

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Red Alert 3 for PS3 'on hold'

Posted: June th, 2008, 12:46pm UTC by Tom Lee

Electronic Arts have thrown a blow to PS3 owners, confirming that they have put development on Red alert 3 on hold for the console. No reason has been given for the resources being pulled, or indeed, whether work could eventually be continued in the future.

Confirmation that EA LA is focusing on the PC and Xbox 360 versions, which will ship simultaniously in the Autumn was given by the representative.

This comes only a day after Sony announced that they are cancelling two first-party games for the console - The Getaway and Eight Days.

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Windows Live Writer 14.0 preview

Posted: June th, 2008, 10:55am UTC by Steven Parker

What you’ll find in this release:

SDK Updates
This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events. These updates are still experimental and these APIs are not stable--we may make changes based on your feedback that break plug-ins that use these new methods. However, we’re really excited about the new set of scenarios have been unlocked and look forward to hearing feedback from all of you Writer plug-in developers out there.

For more details about the SDK, please see the blog post on Windows Live Dev.

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doPDF 6.0.262 released

Posted: June th, 2008, 10:50am UTC by Softland

Fixed: Some CambriaMath characters were not converted well
The Path variable (in Environment Variable) changed type to REG_SZ under certain circumstances, now it's not modified by the installer anymore
Temporary PDF files and logs are not stored in C:\Windows\Temp anymore, but in the application data folder
Other bug fixes

Download: doPDF 6.0.262 | 1.4MB (Freeware)

News source: Forum

Screenshots: >> Click here

Link: Home Page | Forum

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2

Posted: June th, 2008, 9:50pm UTC by boogerjones

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