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Mozilla isolates Flash

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:45 +0000

According to the technical director of Adobe, Kevin Lynch, widely embedded in the software Flash-plug-ins have no known bugs and fixes. Such a statement can only be explained by the fact that Lynch is absolutely not familiar with the situation. Recently, Adobe increasingly criticized precisely for incorrect work of its Flash-Plugin. This apparent silence on the shortcomings, of course, would not benefit the company’s reputation and may affect its profits, but, nevertheless, problems remain unsolved.

Mozilla Foundation decided to investigate the problem and the use of this plug-in with low security and an unstable work. Some popular browsers have isolated the “unreliable” plug-ins to avoid the collapse of the whole browser because of their unstable. The same will be implemented in the new version of Firefox.

insulation Flash is part of a wider project called Electrolysis, the essence of which lies in the implementation of multithreading in Firefox. Each browser window, the process will run in its own thread and, in case of critical errors, it will affect only one window (or tab), but not the entire browser. This separation of flows already implemented in Internet Explorer and Chrome.

As you can see on the screenshot pre-release versions of Firefox 3.7, in the event of such errors the browser will issue a warning.

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Domestic publications adventure Assassin’s Creed 2

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:13:14 +0000

In Russia began selling the domestic edition of Assassin’s Creed 2. For distributing licensed version of the company undertook “Akella”. A gamer will be able to buy 2 edition of the game: standard and Collector.

events of Assassin’s Creed 2 puts the player in Renaissance Italy. Gamers will see the highest Catholic churches and visited Venice, Rome and Florence. The main hero was Ezio Auditor da Firenze – a young killer, the avenger of his father’s death. He learned not only fly, but soar in the sky with the help of the airframe of Leonardo Da Vinci. The famous inventor also helps to improve your weapons.

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Sony Santa Monica has spent on the God of War 3 $44 million

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:32 +0000

An employee of Sony Santa Monica, John Hite (John Hight) reported that the development of the final part of trilogy of God of War had cost the studio in a round sum – $44 million, he believes that the game itself just pay for. Knowing the success of the previous parts, we readily believe him.

Events brutal fighter God of War 3 put the final point in the battle with the forces of Olympus Kratos. Punish conceited deities as the main character is always spectacular and ruthlessly, wielding swords, magic spells and artifacts. The head of Helios Kratos uses as a lantern, but the famous sandals of Hermes will help him run around the walls.

PS3-exclusive God of War 3 will be in European stores on March 19 this year.

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PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.8: increase the size of photos

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:52:37 +0000

Program PhotoZoom useful in cases where you want to increase the size of the original photo. This can be useful, for example, in preparing the images found on the internet or received via mobile phone to the press. The user can enter in the program several files and even folders (including subfolders), and apply your selections to resize all the pictures at the same time.

most important stage of work on the image is the choice ways of changing the size. PhotoZoom provides an opportunity to choose from a dozen different ways, among them such well-known as the Nearest Neighbour and Bicubic. Worth noting that PhotoZoom has its own method of increasing the image S-Spline XL, which, according to developers, makes it possible to get the best results.

PhotoZoom can operate as a standalone application and as plugin for Adobe Photoshop.

In the latest version of the updated language modules, bugfixes, improved accuracy of imaging quality.

Developer: BenVista

Distributed: shareware, 149 euros

Operating System: Windows All

Size 8.2 MB

You can get it here .

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Driver Magician 3.49: backup drivers

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:39:08 +0000

Updated easy to use program to backup drivers and restore them in Windows. When you reinstall the system usually takes a long time to install the driver for the driver with different drives. If you have a Driver Magician, you will only need to specify the necessary drivers and the program itself will restore them. In this case, no additional data sources do not need. In addition to the drivers, the program can keep the My Documents folder, desktop, browser favorites, registry, email messages, filters, and accounts, etc.

In the latest version of the updated database devices.

Developer: GoldSolution software, Inc

Distributed: shareware, 29,95 USD

Operating System: Windows All

Size 3.76 MB

You can get it here

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The concept of “degradation” trial versions of games from Sony

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:19 +0000

When a large company, a developer wants to make any media player to buy their product, in the course are all the methods. Recently, Sony has patented a new approach to the implementation of the principle of trial versions of their future game projects.

bottom line is this: as the player holds gameplay time in the trial version of the game, its various aspects will “dry up”. As an example – first in the racing game will be available six runs, but the more you play – the less capacity (number of tracks, cars, etc.), yet there will be nothing at all. Sony expects that this approach will spur users to buy the full version of the game.

imagine – until your game character beat the monsters, and it weakens, you are frantically for identification credit cards in the form of an online purchase. Despite the comic approach, it may well give the desired result – it is much more interesting than a boring box term trial version of the game ended. Please buy the full version.

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The program for the iPhone keeps track of cell phone radiation level

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:13:43 +0000

Attitudes towards this controversial issue as the level of harmful radiation of mobile phones varies from person to person. For those who are particularly worried about this, and also owns the iPhone, has appeared an interesting solution – the application Tawkon.

program displays the level of radiation, and if it exceeds a certain threshold, more and advises to change the disposition. The Apple did not want to sell the program through the Apple Store, the official reason as follows: “such a diagnostic program can confuse users of iPhone in terms of usability apparatus. What does not interfere with an interest in pay from 5 to 10 dollars per Tawkon, when developers lay out a program on your site or anywhere else.

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BuzzAware – collection of the best applications for Google Buzz

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Tools Google Buzz was launched relatively recently, but has already managed to acquire a dozen applications, most of which are informal. However, they have enough to run BuzzAware – Galleries all applications for new service. BuzzAware started by the same developers that launched Twitdom – a compilation of fifteen thousand applications for Twitter.

most interesting applications in BuzzAware are:

New trailer add Chaos Rising strategy for Dawn of War 2

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:42 +0000

Company THQ has published online the new trailer add Chaos Rising sequel to the strategy Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War. In the 2-minute video creators managed to show the new characters and gameplay. This is the first full-fledged addition to the Dawn of War 2.

In Chaos Rising developers will add a lot of new units and maps for the multiplayer mode, will give gamers the opportunity to continue the storyline, as well as raise the bar for the maximum level of 30. Built addon promise to create a truly atmospheric and spanning adventure.

Draft Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 2 was released in late February of last year and received many rave reviews from critics.

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Ubisoft has wanted to “kill» Red Steel

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:16 +0000

The first part of Red Steel was the perceived cool in the game environment. Employees have taken into account this fact. For a time they even thought about that throw the old brand and start over from scratch. However, later changed his mind and management decided pardon series, making a sequel and correct all the deficiencies of the original.

Now

Ubisoft Paris prepares to release Red Steel 2. In his brainchild the authors attempted to combine the stylistic elements of East and Wild West. The game will unfold in the desert surrounded by the city, where the hero arrives. He wants to take revenge on the villains, carved his own clan. When gamers get bored shoot enemies in the course will go sharp samurai sword. The project uses technology «cell-shading», giving the picture visible plaque cartoon and masking technical feebleness Wii.

Action Red Steel 2 will be available in late March this year.

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