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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Making History: The Calm & the Storm Demo

Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail.

This pre-release demo allows you to check out a full-length tutorial, as well as one scenario, playable with all 8 nations but with a limited number of turns.

Download: Making History: The Calm & the Storm Demo

News source: WorthPlaying
Battlefield 2 v1.41 Patch and Dedicated Server
Electronic Arts has released a new patch for Battlefield 2, bringing their popular sequel game to v1.41.

A dedicated server for Windows is also available for download.

Download: Battlefield 2 v1.41 Patch

Download: Battlefield 2 v1.41 Dedicated Server for Windows

News source: Gamers Hell

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol for distributing files. It makes use of the upstream bandwidth of every downloader to increase the effectiveness of the distribution as a whole, and to gain advantage on the part of the downloader. On average, the faster you upload to your peers, the faster you will be able to download.

Download: BitTorrent 5.0.1

View: BitTorrent homepage
The unified Catalyst software suite delivers a full software solution for supported Microsoft Windows operating systems

All ATI products use the same Catalyst driver ensuring all products take advantage of the incredible performance, stability, innovative features, and incredible visual quality that the Catalyst software suite have to offer.

Download: ATI Catalyst 6.11

View: ATI homepage

WinZip is the original compression utility for Windows, It is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that quickly zips and unzips your files to conserve disk space and greatly reduce e-mail transmission time.

View: Changelog

Download: WinZip 11.0 Build 7313

View: WinZip homepage

The MySQL database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used in more than 10 million installations ranging from large corporations to specialized embedded applications on every continent in the world.

View: Changes

Download: MySQL 5.0.27

View: MySQL homepage
Skype 3.0.0.106 Beta

Skype is a free program that uses the latest P2P technology to bring affordable and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world.

View: Changelog

Download: Skype 3.0.0.106 Beta

View: Skype homepage

Zoom Player was originally conceived to fill a void in Multimedia playback. Prior to Zoom Player, playing media files on the PC was either overly simplistic for the Power User or overly cryptic to the common user. Zoom Player tries to both simplify the playback experience for the common user, while giving the Power Users all the tools and interfaces they may require to manipulate their playback environment to their exact specification.

Zoom Player Standard remains Free for Non-Commercial use, While Zoom Player Professional and Zoom Player WMV Professional come in a Fully Functional (uncrippled) trial version, requiring registration ($27.95 and $35.95 respectively).

View: Changelog

Download: Standard | Pro | WMV Pro

View: Zoom Player homepage

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another (FXP). Remote-host directory information is cached for future viewing, and FTP URLs are supported.

View: Changelog

Download: 32-bit | 64-bit

View: SmartFTP homepage
Messenger Plus! Live is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger 8), the two popular Instant Messaging software from Microsoft. Messenger Plus! adds different features to Messenger to make it more enjoyable, day after day. Remember that Messenger Plus! is not a chat program, it only adds functionalities to Messenger, it can't be used as a standalone application.

View: Changelog

Download: Messenger Plus! Live 4.01.250

View: Messenger Plus! Live homepage
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Live Maps more useful than ever.

Download: Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D Beta

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The missing consumer link in the move to HDTV is a universal DVD player that would accommodate both the new HD DVD and Blue-ray formats. Such a player could be coming soon, thanks to Broadcom Corp., which on Thursday unveiled a system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that aims to be a foundation for companies looking to build dual-format player.

The Broadcom single-chip BCM7440 Blue-ray/HD DVD SoC features a software stack complaint with both of the warring DVD specifications.

Will there be a universal player, Doug Grearson, Broadcom senior marketing manager, was asked. "The short answer is, absolutely," Grearson said. "It helps that the two formats are fairly close to begin with. Once you can read the disks you have reduced it to reading bitstreams."

Grearson noted that the video and audio compression solutions used by each format are virtually the same.

Full story: CRN

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Techzonez BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol for distributing files. It makes use of the upstream bandwidth of every downloader to increase the effectiveness of the distribution as a whole, and to gain advantage on the part of the downloader. On average, the faster you upload to your peers, the faster you will be able to download.

Download: BitTorrent 5.0.0

View: BitTorrent homepage

Google have updated their photo management application, Picasa, to version 2.5. It works in the same way as its predecessor but includes many great features to help you organise, edit, share, print and backup images. Google Picasa offers plenty of tools to edit your images including many quick fixes including Red Eye Removal and adding effects like Sepia and Glow.

Organising images is fast and easy, when the program launches each time it will search through your computer (you can specify which folders if you wish) and add all the images it can find on your hard drive and organise them into folders (youâ??ll be surprised at what images you have on your computer). Picasa 2.5 allows you to create Web Albums with Googleâ??s new service Picasa WebAlbums, you can also upload to Hello and your blogger account.

Picasa 2.5 includes all the features seen in previous versions including Timeline, Slideshow, Importing, Printing, Editing, Emailing, Exporting, Ordering Prints, HTML Web Album Creation, Poster Creation, Creating Movies, Creating CDs and much, much more. It is a perfect solution if you don't want to spend loads of money on an image management application.

Download: Picasa 2.5

View: Picasa Homepage

News source: Simnorcomputing

Firefox is a free, open-source and cross-platform web browser for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and other operating systems. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

View: Release notes

English (US): Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

Other languages: Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

View: Mozilla Firefox homepage