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SPAMfighter Standard 6.6.47: spam protection

June 28, 2009 – 9:48 pm
New version of SpamFighter. This is - another attempt to resist the flow of unwanted mail, which sometimes overwhelm your mailbox. The program is a antispamovy filter that integrates with Microsoft Outlook as a plug. A powerful system of filters allows you to accurately determine the «trash» letters and remove them from the server. The peculiarity of the program is that if one of the users Spam Fighter determines that a message is spam, the program automatically updates its database of spam addresses to all other users do not receive such letters. This version improved the entrance to the mailboxes. Developer: SPAMfighter Distribution: free Operating System: Windows All Size 13.74 MB Download can here . Materials: - Overview of e-mail clients; - Program of network traffic. ...

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John Carmack talks about his plans for the future

June 28, 2009 – 9:00 pm
Following reports that ZeniMax (Bethesda) bought id Software John Carmack (John Carmack) no other choice but to shed light on the sale itself, and the studio plans for the future. According to the developer, the company will add a third team to develop. At the same time, developers of Quake Live will go on multiplayer Rage and Doom 4 to quickly learn new technology. To date, id employs 105 people. About a year the company will recruit new talent. Carmack noted that the financing of Rage were mostly of the id, not the publisher. With regard to the sale of the company holding ZeniMax, then there are several interesting points. Initially the company going to buy Electronic Arts and Activision, but in the first and second case, the studio would have to go through major corporate changes. In order to ...

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Looking at the evolution of Heroes BioShock 2

June 28, 2009 – 8:48 pm
The site Cult of Rapture, on BioShock, has a small story on the evolution of the main hero of BioShock 2. They added some beautiful pictures, showing how changing the appearance of a big character. sure the developers have thought a lot of options, most of which was never used. In the end, turned out to be a «transitional version», showing what could be the first Big Daddy. The same material covers the Big Sister - a new women's analogue of Big Daddy. Some developers have tried to convey the concept of character, while others worked on its final form. In any case, get something in between a tractor and model. Evolution heroes BioShock 2 .

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Blizzard is not prepared to do console MMOG

June 28, 2009 – 8:00 pm
One of the managers, Rob Pardo, Blizzard (Rob Pardo) talked with the employees and told IndustryGamers why World of Warcraft so has not yet made it to consoles. First, prefixes do not have the keyboard and mouse, which makes management very difficult. Secondly, there is no bulky hard drive where you want to record a huge amount of data. The third is to produce patches for the console versions is quite difficult because of platformoderzhateley (Microsoft, for example). Pardo does not believe that the MMOG will soon appear on the console. Perhaps the next generation will be more open, and then the prefix will be the first normal network role-playing games. www.industrygamers.com

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The share of iPhone accounts for 69% of mobile web traffic

June 28, 2009 – 7:48 pm
Research firm AdMob has published statistics on mobile web traffic. In May, the U.S. share of users of devices with iPhone OS had 68% of the data, which is 10% more than in April. Shares of BlackBerry OS and platform Android, for comparison, represent 13% and 7% respectively. In a world first as the iPhone OS (50%). Share Platform for Symbian, promoted Nokia , for the month decreased from 36% to 32%. BlackBerry has lost 2% (from 9% to 7%). Smartphones and communicators with Windows Mobile is less interested in users (4%). summer in the rating should be significant changes. In early June, has Palm Pre, last week entered the market iPhone 3G S, and recently was the announcement of HTC Hero. Materials: - A Mass Effect Galaxy output for iPhone; - Colored ...

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An interesting update for Left 4 Dead

June 27, 2009 – 9:00 pm
Valve Company has released a new update for the zombie-shooter Left 4 Dead. One of the main innovations in our view, is that now the game supports custom campaigns. This means that any modo-builder can build their own adventure of several cards, connect them with each other to provide the storyline, packed in. VPK file. After that, anyone can download the necessary file and run it inside the toy. At least now the players do not need to talk because of Left 4 Dead 2. Fans can provide gamers with fresh improvised adventure. The main thing is that the quality of such products remained at the level. Among other of amendments is called a superior selection of partners, an amended list of leaders. Full list of updates can be found here . www.shacknews.com ...

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IPod touch firmware update, only 1% of users

June 27, 2009 – 8:48 pm
In the middle of the month Apple has released a firmware iPhone OS 3.0, designed for iPhone and iPod touch. According to Apple, the software downloaded 6 million times. However, it is estimated marketing company AdMob, firmware absolutely no interest to the owners of iPod touch. Only 1% of the player installed iPhone OS 3.0. In AdMob as the main reason for this view is that the update had to pay $9.99, while owners of iPhone 3G set it free. In addition, iPhone OS 3.0 mainly improves the functionality of the phone, not the player (Find My Phone, Voice Control). Materials: - A Mass Effect Galaxy output for iPhone; - Colored version of iPhone 3GS from ColorWare; - The main event of the week. Issue 87. electricpig.co.uk

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Hard Drive Inspector 3.27: monitoring the hard disks

June 27, 2009 – 8:00 pm
Update program, designed to track the status of hard drives. Using the technology of SMART, which now supports virtually all of the hard drive, Hard Drive Inspector analyzes the hard drive and warns the user about the possibility of problems. The program may recommend an emergency back-up data, as well as urgent to replace the hard disk. At the request of the user Hard Drive Inspector can perform backups automatically. Other features include the forwarding of reports on the status of your hard disk by mail, turn off the computer if a problem occurs. Data on the status of the drives can also be stored in a log file or print. Program has Russian interface. The latest version adds support for Western Digital Elements Desktop and WDE1UBK, improved in Windows 7. Developer: AltrixSoft Distributed: shareware, 29,95 USD ...

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AceMoney 3.6.12: house accountant

June 27, 2009 – 7:48 pm
Updated Simple, easy to use program for the daily financial calculations. With its help, you can finally see how much money you spend each month on food, clothing and other expenses. The program helps keep track of where to take the money and will generate reports as required. Although the program is intended for home users, unfamiliar with the accounting, its possible enough. Among them: Support for multiple currencies and update their courses via the Internet; Unlimited number of beneficiaries and taxpayers; Import/Export to Excel, HTML, TXT, and QIF; Protection of data file with a password; Backup Scheduling; Support for Russian language. The latest improved version of the window creating accounts, fixed bugs. Developer: MechCAD Distribution: shareware, 30 U.S. Operating System: Windows All ...

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Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 6: The famous file manager

June 27, 2009 – 12:48 am
Was the next beta release of the popular file manager. This program has very high functionality: search for files, work with archives (ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE), an integrated Ftp client. In addition to working with FTP, Total Commander offers a lot of additional features, including easy setup interface, its own Quick Launch files and applications, detailed information about the system viewer graphics, multimedia and documents in RTF format, etc. In version 7.50 the full Unicode support in all modules of the program adds support for file names with up to 1022 characters, an opportunity to compare the contents of text files of different types (eg, Ansi and UTF-8), a password protection for FTP-accounts using encryption AES256, the number of characters in the notes has been increased to 4095, an opportunity to synchronize the empty folders, adds support for the ...

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