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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
Nvidia has released the Beta Forceware 169.28 for Windows XP and Vista.
These drivers are designed specifically for Unreal Tournament 3. Note
also that they still appear to suffer from the Anti-Aliasing issues.
Forceware 169.28 Beta
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
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Here is a new beta patch for ArmA: Armed Assault,
updating the military shooter to (beta) version 1.09. The update
is a use-at-your-own-risk affair, and is not fully tested and stable. The
beta installs alongside, not over, the full version though, so you should still be able
to run the original game after installing the beta.
1.09 Beta Patch
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
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Here is the ATI Catalyst 7.12 with Control Panel.
Download
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
avast! antivirus WHS Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as
all avast! antivirus products, offering best-in-class protection
against the latest and legacy virus, malware, trojan and spyware risks.
Virus definitions and scanning capabilities are updated very regularly
(sometime several times per day, depending on current threats), so you
can rest assured that your Windows Home Server is protected at all
times, all you need to do is install, configure once (if you want to
change the default settings) and forget about malware being a problem.
Install and forget: we've got it covered.
Features:
* Full on-access scanning - which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection
* On-demand scanning - for scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes
* Virus Chest - a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system
* Fully automatic updating - of the program and virus definitions
* Full scanner preference control - set avast! to work in the way you want
* Integrates seemlessly with the WHS Console
* Allows for easy management of all avast! installations running on your home network
avast! Windows Home Server Edition
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Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
The yearly Child's Play, organized by the guys from Penny Arcade, is fully ongoing again. Since 2003 gamers have banded together to help sick children get new toys, games, books and money for Christmas. It started out in North America, but has currently expanded to several countries across the globe.
The current score stands at $974,000. You can donate cash directly, or select a hospital from the map to donate toys or games to which you directly buy from Amazon.com.
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Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
Mozilla Labs has launched a new project with the aim to explore the
blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the
browser with online services. The project, dubbed Weave, will focus on
finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user
control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for
developers to build innovative online experiences. “Just like Mozilla
enables massive innovation by making Firefox open on many levels, we
will aim to do the same with Weave by developing an open extensible
framework for services integration,” reads the blog post over at
Mozilla Labs.
Weave v0.1 for Firefox 3.0b2pre or greater
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Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
NOD32 for Windows is the best choice for protection of your personal computer.
Almost 20 years of technological development enabled ESET to create
state-of-the-art antivirus system able to protect you from all sorts of
Internet threats. ESET Smart Security is a new product designed to
provide comprehensive protection against a variety of threats. It
features the following:
- The next version of ESET's anti-malware
engine with comprehensive protection against adware, rootkits, spyware,
Trojan horses, viruses, worms and other types of malicious software
- A personal firewall with port stealthing and advanced filtering features
- An antispam filter with Bayesian filtering, whitelisting and blacklisting.
What's New
Firewall
- Fixed synchronization through ActiveSync while firewall is in Automatic Mode
- Fixed Incorrect IP Packet checksum issue
- Fixed issue with creating duplicate rules
Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
- Improved general performance by several optimisations
- Interactive Toolbar (turn off icons/text, large icons)
- Possibility to rescan selected/unscanned/all messages in folder for viruses and spam
- Possibility to add Names instead of e-mails to blacklist
- Possibility to turn off ESET toolbar in OE/WM
- Added Alt+S shortcut to mark message as spam
GUI
- Extended options available from system tray menu
- Fixed delays when creating exclusions
- Export logs into XML or TXT
- Fixed problem of multiple threat notifications
- Fixed problems saving changes of some settings
- Fixed several minor bugs related to GUI
ESET NOD32 3.0.621: 32-Bit 64-Bit
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
Avivo Update
Catalyst 7.12 introduces an Avivo update. The update allows the ATI
Catalyst Control Center to reflect what is supported by the driver
taking into account the graphics card installed in the system, and will
not expose any video features that is not supported by the driver. The
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) driver will perform a profiling
mechanism to query the graphics capability and the Catalyst Control
Center queries the caps via the interface defined between the Catalyst
Control Center and the DXVA components. This feature will be supported
on ATI Radeon 9500 series products and above.
Enhanced ATI OverDrive support for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series
This release of Catalyst introduces an enhanced version of ATI
OverDrive for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series. Users can now Overclock
both GPU engine and graphics memory clock speeds in CrossFire mode (and
over-clock single ATI Radeon graphics accelerators as well). This
version of ATI Overdrive also
Performance Improvements
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.12:
3DMark2005 performance improves 5% or more with largest gains noticed
when Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are disabled on systems
containing either an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of
products
Company of Heroes DX10 performance improves up to 5% on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD38x0 series of product
Catalyst 7.12 Windows XP and Vista Driver
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
Nvidia has released Vista drivers for the Geforce 6, 7 & 8 series.
This is a WHQL release available in 32bit and 64bit flavours.
International versions are not available. ForceWare ensures the best
out-of-box experience for every user and delivers continuous
performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
Release Notes:
* WHQL driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs
* Added support for NVIDIA 3-way SLI Technology.
* Added support for GeForce 8800 GTS 512 GPU.
* Recommended driver for the latest DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
* Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
Nvidia GeForce Forceware 169.25 Vista 32-Bit
Nvidia GeForce Forceware 169.25 Vista 64-Bit
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
There is a growing trend of people starting to use their PC as a Home
Entertainment Center. This introduces the challenge of controlling the
PC when you sitting on a couch 10 feet away, with just a conventional
wireless remote. Creative Entertainment Center was therefore developed
from the ground up, in order to deliver a system that not only
integrates all the components required for music, pictures and video
playback seamlessly, but is also easy to use as well.
The result is an intuitive, self-contained Entertainment System that
allows you to browse and enjoy any media on your PC wirelessly, right
away.
This download supports the following devices only:
* Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Elite Pro
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty® Champion Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy® 4
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
* Creative Sound Blaster Live!® 24-bit External
* Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music SX
* Creative USB IR Receiver
Known issues:
* DVD playback is not supported
Requirements:
* Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit
* Creative devices listed above
* Latest Creative device drivers for Windows Vista
Creative Entertainment Center 3.40.21 for Windows Vista (32/64-Bit)
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