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It's not often but every once in a while companies in our industry go at each other's throats with no regard to the consequences. NVIDIA has been on the hunt recently trying to keep its territory; the "whoop ass" comment will forever live in tech infamy one way or the other. Today NVIDIA's marketing team sent out a letter to the press "asking questions" about Intel's Larrabee. We give you some of the highlights with our own commentary. URL: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=6008 Quote: "To date, Intel has not described Larrabee's development environment. While focusing on one aspect of the architecture $B!>(B the X86 instruction set $B!>(B any differences or new challenges on top of the existing problems with multi$B!>(Bthreading have yet to be revealed. With a new SSE architecture, new software layers to manage threads, perhaps another new language with Ct $B!>(B developers are not simply using the X86 instruction set$B!>!>(Bthey need to learn the way around a different computing architecture. " Thanks for a post! Ryan Shrout Owner - PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com

Hello, OCIA.net has posted their review of the Thermaltake ProWater 850i Liquid Cooling Kit. Below is a direct quote from the review: "While unfamiliarity with the Thermaltake name requires residence under a rock in a remote land, this big named company has also been producing water cooling kits and components for several years now and as such is a known name in the business. Today, I have the Thermaltake ProWater 850i, a complete liquid cooling kit for your CPU. While complete kits don't have the best reputation for performance, they do serve as fantastic introductions to the water scene. Their upgradeability makes them a great introductory choice for beginners and they come with thorough manuals to help ease the leap of faith that is liquid cooling." Direct Link: http://www.ocia.net/reviews/ttpw850i/page1.shtml Image Link: http://www.ocia.net/images/icons/333.jpg Site Link: http://www.ocia.net A news posting on your site would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your support! Thanks, OCIA.net Staff http://www.ocia.net

TechwareLabs has published a review of the Palit ATI Radeon 4870 X2 Review. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: ATI recently came back to kick Nvidia's tail in the marketplace with the new 48XX series cards. And what is better than having one 4870 in your rig . . . why of course having the 4870 X2. We check out the newly released Palit 4870 X2 and give you the scoop on true performance and power of this dually beast. Does the bionic frog on the box top really leap ahead? LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/video/palit-4870x2/ Title: Palit ATI Radeon 4870 X2 Review ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/video/palit-4870x2/images/radeon-hd-4870-x2.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Ubermind Unveils Maperture, a Geotagging Plugin for Aperture - Published on 08/12/08 Over the past two years, Ubermind has taken the digital photography world by storm; consistently delivering the highest quality Aperture export plug-ins available. Now, it's set to change the map once again with the release of its first edit plug-in for Aperture: Maperture. Seattle, Washington - Over the past two years, Ubermind has taken the digital photography world by storm; consistently delivering the highest quality Aperture export plug-ins available. Now, it's set to change the map once again with the release of its first edit plug-in for Aperture: Maperture. "Before today, geotagging photos either required you to own expensive camera equipment or was a slow and painful process involving multiple applications," said Shehryar Khan, Ubermind's CEO. "With the release of Maperture, we've streamlined that process by giving photographers an integrated solution for adding GPS data to their images. And the best part about it all, it's absolutely free." Combining the power of Aperture and Google Maps, Maperture is a powerful, new edit plug-in for Aperture that makes geotagging your photos a snap. Whether you're geotagging a few images, or your entire library, Maperture is the easiest, most intuitive way to add GPS data to your digital photos. In conjunction with the launch of Maperture, Ubermind is also releasing an updated version of its popular Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in. Version 1.4.2 capitalizes on Maperture's capabilities by adding support for uploading geotagged images to Google's photo sharing service. Maperture Plug-in Details: * Version: 1.0.1 * Post Date: 08/12/2008 * File Size: 8.0 MB Maperture Minimum System Requirements: * Aperture 2.0 * Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger or Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard Aperture to Picasa Web Albums Plug-in Details: * Version: 1.4.2 * Post Date: 08/12/2008 * File Size: 4.8 MB Aperture to Picasa Web Albums Minimum System Requirements: * Aperture 1.5 * Mac OS 10.4 Pricing and Availability: Maperture and the new version of Aperture to Picasa Web Albums are now available for direct download from Ubermind. Maperture is a free plug-in while Aperture to Picasa Web Albums comes with a 15 day trial. Ubermind's Website: http://www.ubermind.com Maperture: http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperture.php Maperture Download Link: http://www.ubermind.com/products/downloads/Maperture.dmg Maperture Icon: http://www.ubermind.com/assets/icons/maperture-icon.png Maperture Screenshot: http://www.ubermind.com/assets/misc/maperture-sshot.jpg Aperture to Picasa Web Albums URL: http://www.ubermind.com/products/aperturetopicasawebalbums.php Ubermind's expertise in integrating large enterprise systems, combined with its knowledge of designing intuitive user interfaces, has provided a solid foundation for developing high quality export plug-ins for Aperture. ### Uriah McKinney Public relations 206-633-1167 pr ( -at -) ubermind.com *******

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new cairo snapshot 1.7.4 is now available from: http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.7.4.tar.gz which can be verified with: http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.7.4.tar.gz.sha1 c2b139a11336bf1c7a3423baff12ba949269a36b cairo-1.7.4.tar.gz http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.7.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc (signed by Behdad Esfahbod) Additionally, a git clone of the source tree: git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo will include a signed 1.7.4 tag which points to a commit named: 012a12a67b66f3809fa203f91ff8920936c25361 which can be verified with: git verify-tag 1.7.4 and can be checked out with a command such as: git checkout -b build 1.7.4 Release 1.7.4 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod ) ============================================================== The cairo community is embarrassed to announce availability of the 1.7.4 snapshot of the cairo graphics library. This is a followup release to the 1.7.2 snapshot to ship a tarball that can actually be built. The only change since 1.7.4 is including the missing header file cairo-user-font-private.h in the distribution. Behdad Esfahbod 11 August 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkigkjgACgkQn+4E5dNTERXRIACdFnxleIbbWx/tFpx9Y3l/AKb5 PGkAoKXChmye/gJqCLO1CrZKY4leRiea =jlgY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pango-1.21.4 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.21/ or ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.21 75f8dea346a160f8f45c47cd30e6ab3b pango-1.21.4.tar.bz2 3a12cb5a7f2dc562aab415d764810f4e pango-1.21.4.tar.gz I figured Vincent is at Akademy busy distracting the KDE folks from hacking, so I thought I may sneak in some last-minute API additions while he's not paying attention. All the additions are pretty straightforward. The more complex ones (supporting application fonts) did not make it this time around and so are pushed forward for the next Pango stable series . Notes: * This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of Pango. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall Pango-1.20.x * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. About Pango =========== Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x. Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can be used with different font backends. There are three basic backends, with multiple options for rendering with each. - Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries. Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries. - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly using the native Win32 API. - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo. The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org) provides a complete solution with high quality text handling and graphics rendering. Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular combinations of script and font backend. Pango ships with a wide selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul, Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major scripts are supported. As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text, and routines to assist in editing internationalized text. More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/. Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Pango 1.21.4 depends on version 2.17.3 or newer of the GLib library and version 1.7.4 or newer of the cairo library (if the cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and cairo can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/ respectively. Overview of changes between 1.21.3 and 1.21.4 ============================================= - - Use cairo_show_text_glyphs() if target cairo surface supports that. This is done by adding a new PangoRenderer method, draw_glyph_item(). Custom PangoRenderer implementations that delegate to pango_cairo may want to implement this method if they target PDF files. - - Requires cairo >= 1.7.4 now - - Win32 build improvements - - Justify lines broken by U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR - - Various small fixes and improvements - - New API additions: New public API: PangoRenderer::draw_glyph_item() pango_renderer_draw_glyph_item() Make layout and layout-line default renderers go through draw_glyph_item(), which then by default falls back to draw_glyphs(). The advantage in draw_glyph_item() is that it has access to the text and cluster information. New public API, for iterating a PangoGlyphItem: PangoGlyphItemIter PANGO_TYPE_GLYPH_ITEM_ITER pango_glyph_item_iter_copy() pango_glyph_item_iter_free() pango_glyph_item_iter_init_start() pango_glyph_item_iter_init_end() pango_glyph_item_iter_next_cluster() pango_glyph_item_iter_prev_cluster() Make the following previously backend-only API public: pango_context_new() pango_context_set_font_map() This also means that bindings are recommended to allow instantiation of pango.Context. This was discouraged before. New public API: pango_font_map_create_context() This is equivalent to pango_context_new() followed by an immediate pango_context_set_font_map(). This change also deprecates various per-fontmap-type context constructors: Deprecate pango_cairo_font_map_create_context(). Deprecate pango_fc_font_map_create_context(). Deprecate pango_ft2_font_map_create_context(). Deprecate pango_win32_get_context(). Deprecate pango_xft_get_context(). Deprecate pango_x_get_context(). Language bindings are encouraged to bind pango.Fontmap.create_context() and remove the create_context() method from subclass implementations. - - Bugs fixed in this release: Bug 547303 – pango_layout_get_cursor_pos crashes on certain text buffers Fedora Bug 457883 - Sindhi Characters are not supported in pango [u+097B-U+097F] Patch from Pravin Satpute Bug 441654 – prefix fails when more than one base characters (as conjuncts) present after a half form the next prefix renders incorrectly Patch from Rahul Bhalerao Bug 546534 – pango_cairo_font_map_set_default(NULL) errs Bug 431394 – Use pango_glyph_item_iter in more places Bug 377948 – Make pango_glyph_item_iter public Bug 472625 – Add draw_glyph_item() to PangoRenderer Bug 540592 – Crash in HB_GSUB_Apply_String with Linux-Libertine font Bug 540036 – Doesn't link to fontconfig Bug 380094 – Fix split matra rendering bug for Kannada language Bug 536017 – Remove SF_MPRE_FIXUP from Sinhala script flags Patch by Harshula 11 August 2008 Behdad Esfahbod -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkig0g8ACgkQn+4E5dNTERV+yQCfb3b+JHGACR6AUZOAXH1auMEU qu4Anj5MvfsrEPTsvHGl9O/XzCuicrju =+b5H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________

NVIDIA is in trouble; and on many fronts. Their chipset division has had some extreme highs and lows recently and AMD's graphics cards have quickly caught up with NVIDIA past performance advantages. The new HD 4870 X2 we previewed before is back and giving NVIDIA fits... URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=605&type=expert Quote: "There is little room to debate that the new AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB is the best performing graphics card on the market. By combining the power of a pair of RV770 GPUs along with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the R700 design is able to run away from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 1GB card handily. Our various game tests proved this - Crysis, Call of Duty 4 and GRID showed big gains for AMD's new card at resolutions 2048x1536 and 2560x1600 though they were minimal at 1600x1200." Thanks for a post! Ryan Shrout Owner - PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com

Hello, - Warlords IV v1.05a Patch http://www.gamershell.com/news_57560.html - Universal Combat: A World Apart v1.00.22 Patch http://www.gamershell.com/news_57558.html - Fallen Earth Alpha Test This Week http://www.gamershell.com/news_57554.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Cant install brand spanking new Nvidia Drivers on your laptop? NOT ANYMORE! Our Ati Mobility Modder has been an enthusiast favourite for years now, with over 10 million downloads it seems there are a lot of laptop users who don't want to wait on their manufacturer up[censored] driver sets. Let's be honest, most of the major laptop makers are normally lagging many months behind the latest official driver sets from either nVidia or ATI. With the success of our free ATI modding tool we felt it was a good idea to begin development of an automated tool for nVidia enthusiasts who like to game on the go. Newer drivers have bug fixes, performance enhancements as well as possibly making a hot new game playable on various platforms. http://www.driverheaven.net/articles.php?articleid=123 DriverHeaven and GamingHeaven News Mailer

Hello, - Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Screens #2 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57552.html - Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe Screens #2 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57550.html - Cursed Mountain New Details Released http://www.gamershell.com/news_57546.html - Lighthouse Interactive Signs Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches/Screens #2 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57548.html - NeoSteam Mercus and Kerman Factories Unveiled and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_57544.html - The Magic Toy Chest Released and Demo http://www.gamershell.com/news_57542.html - My Aquarium Screens #2 and Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_57540.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hi, It's Kristofer from DragonSteelMods, and I have a new review today that I think your readers might find interesting. Title: Eagle Consus N-Series IDE to USB HDD Enclosure Reviewed ( -at -) DragonSteelMods Review Link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8928&Itemid=1 Review Snipit: " Up on the review block today is a product from EagleTech that is meant to give new life and new meaning to those old discarded IDE hard drives since you've upgraded to the new SATA versions; it's the Consus N-Series IDE to USB Enclosure and it's exactly as it sounds, an enclosure that turns your IDE hard drive into a portable USB hard drive. The Consus N-Series Enclosure is very nice, it's well made, and it even has thumbscrews for easy access to install your IDE hard drive." Review Picture(200x150): http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/Images/reviews3/eagletechhdd/eagle7.jpg Main site link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com A post in your news would be greatly appreciated. Any and all news sent to me will be posted! If you would like to be added to our 'News Feeds' page please feel free to send me your http link to the feed and I will gladly add it ASAP. If you'd like to swap links for affiliation, I'd be happy to, just drop me a message...

Hello fellow editors! Tech ARP ( http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>'>http://www.techarp.com/> ) has just posted the ED#99 : Intel Brands The Nehalem! Quote - After years of using the codename Nehalem, the new-generation Intel processor finally has an official name - the Intel Core i7 processor! Like previous Intel Core processors, the new processor family will also feature Extreme Edition versions of the processor. Direct URL - http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=577 Logo URL - http://www.techarp.com/editorials/img/0827_Intel_Nehalem_Brand_big.png We would appreciate your help in getting the word out. Rest assured that we will reciprocate and post your news with all due haste. If you have any news, please feel free to send it to our news mailbox at news ( -at -) techarp.com. Thanks! Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>

Hello, - SplitFish Announces GS 2008 Attendance http://www.gamershell.com/news_57528.html - International Athletics New Release Date http://www.gamershell.com/news_57526.html - Mary King's Riding School Delayed http://www.gamershell.com/news_57522.html - Hell's Kitchen: The Video Game Product Page Launched http://www.gamershell.com/news_57520.html - Alison Carroll Portrays Lara Croft http://www.gamershell.com/news_57518.html - Midway Games Cancels Unannounced Project http://www.gamershell.com/news_57524.html - Shrapnel Games Website Revamped http://www.gamershell.com/news_57514.html - PayPal Now Accepted on the PlayNC Store http://www.gamershell.com/news_57516.html - Space Siege in Stores http://www.gamershell.com/news_57512.html - New Titles Coming to Wii Shop Channel #75 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57504.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - Rappelz: Epic V: Dragonic Age Client http://www.gamershell.com/news_57510.html - Mabinogi Client and Patch http://www.gamershell.com/news_57508.html - New Nintendo DS Limited Edition Pokémon Pack Announced http://www.gamershell.com/news_57506.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Creative Inspirations Debuts Big Spaceship Documentary at Flashforward - Published on 08/12/08 Big Spaceship, the fourth release in a new documentary series for lynda.com, makes its theatrical debut at the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival August 20th in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room. This documentary takes viewers inside Big Spaceship, a leading digital agency, to hear them express their unique philosophy, how they engage clients, assign work, and even how they set up desks. San Francisco, CA - Creative Inspirations: Big Spaceship, the fourth release in a new documentary series for lynda.com, makes its theatrical debut at the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival August 20th in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room. The series focus is on creative people and companies, and tells the inside story of those who produce extraordinary work. This documentary takes viewers inside Big Spaceship, a leading digital agency, to hear them express their unique philosophy, how they engage clients, assign work, and even how they set up desks. The new documentary expands the traditional lynda.com focus from instructional content to include inspirational offerings and is perfectly suited to the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival. "Nothing inspires creative people like other creative people," said Lynda Weinman, Founder of lynda.com. "Our goal is to inspire our subscribers by providing an inside look at the work, careers, and lives of top creative professionals. Big Spaceship is an extraordinary company that has set out to reinvent what it means to be creative, and we are thrilled to present them in our Creative Inspirations series." The Big Spaceship documentary makes its theatrical premiere at the Zeum Theater during the Flashforward Opening Night party. The screening includes two repeating segments of a half hour each. The first segment includes highlights from the Creative Inspirations documentary, and the second segment marks the premiere of an entirely new lynda.com series called Start to Finish, the goal of which is to document the step-by-step creation of real world projects. The premier installment of Start to Finish showcases the creation and animation process Big Spaceship used for their own logo featuring stop motion, practical effects, and digital effects. Creative Inspirations and Start to Finish were produced in HD by the special projects team at lynda.com including Scott Erickson, lead cinematographer/editor; Michael Anderson, cinematographer/editor; Gaea Klingberg, producer; and Billy Pittard, executive producer. "This is an opportunity for Flashforward attendees to visit Big Spaceship - one of the most talked about, awarded, and innovative digital agencies - to see how they redefine the work in this space," said Beau Ambur, CEO Metaliq and Flashforward Conference and Film Festival. "Big Spaceship is rethinking how they do everything - they have a unique team structure, a seamless integration between strategy, design, and programming, and they all work very closely." Tickets for the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival, which include the private screening of Creative Inspirations, can be purchased at the Flashforward website. Additional documentaries from the lynda.com series Creative Inspirations can be seen at her website. Flashforward Sponsors: Flashforward2008 San Francisco is supported by Adobe, Metaliq, 24 Seven, Academy of Art, Artisan Creative, Aquent, Electrotank, FlashEff, FILTER, lynda, Permission TV, Powerflasher Multimedia, Rackspace, R/GA, Walt Disney Internet Group, Xuinet, Yahoo! Developers Network, and YouTube. Media Partners include Actionscript.org, Flash & Flex Developers Magazine, IdN world, netdiver, productionHUB, Ribbit Films, and Stash magazine. Flashforward Conference Register: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/register Creative Inspirations: Big Spaceship: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?sid=320 Sponsors: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/sponsors Flashforward is the longest-running and largest Adobe® Flash user conference in the world. Flashforward2008 San Francisco, entering its ninth year, is a three-day event filled with sessions led by the world's leading Flash professionals, offering education, best practices, and inspirational case studies in Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and AIR. Flashforward2008 San Francisco, developed and produced by Beau Ambur, in cooperation with the team at Metaliq, includes the international Flashforward Film Festival and Awards ceremony and a Flash-related industry Expo Hall and community center with opportunities for the entire Flash community to network and share knowledge. August 20-22, 2008 Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco. ### Laura Des Enfants Marketing/PR 917-991-1807 laura ( -at -) flashforwardconference.com ******* ******* *******

Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Miscellaneous) - Smooth Creations Asylum Gaming PC QUOTE: "Today, we’re not just looking at one of Smooth Creations’ pimped out cases, but a complete system from them which includes everything from CPU to DVD-ROM. The first thing we’ll be doing is looking at the outside of the case to see what’s going on with the paint job along with the particular case Smooth Creations decided to use. From there, we will take the panel off and dive inside the case to see what we’ve got as far as components go. Once that’s all done, we’ll fire the system up and see how it goes in performance land against our humble graphics card testbed." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1543/smooth_creations_asylum_gaming_pc/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 On Linux ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12734 Summary: "While details on AMD's high-end ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card began surfacing last month, today this dual-GPU graphics card has formally launched and will begin shipping to retailers. The good news this time around is that this graphics card will actually be something worth looking at under Linux now that there's the needed CrossFire support on the horizon. We're not yet permitted to publish the Linux CrossFire benchmarks, but today we have a few pieces of information to share about the Radeon HD 4870 X2 on Linux." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may

Yazsoft releases ShareTool: access your Bonjour services from anywhere - Published on 08/12/08 Yazsoft is happy to release a major new application, ShareTool. Developed for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, ShareTool lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home or office network from anywhere in the world securely over a 100% SSH encrypted connection. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and much more. No configuration. No complication. No server or technical skills required. Just a mouse click. Chicago, Illinois - Yazsoft is happy to release a major new application, ShareTool. Developed for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world. No server or technical skills required. Just a simple mouse click. Also works with VPN connections. For anyone that's been itching to get Bonjour working over VPN, ShareTool is for you! What is ShareTool and why should I care? Scenario: You've just purchased a brand new iMac and MacBook and are simply loving it. You've set up your home or office network exactly the way you want it. You have file sharing between the two machines and can transfer your documents easily between them; you can listen to your iMac's iTunes Library from the MacBook and view your MacBook's iPhoto Library from your iMac. Everything on your network works exactly as you want it to and life is beautiful. What happens when you have to leave (i.e. work or travel) the comfort of your new custom configured network? Wouldn't it be nice to know that with one mouse click you will be able to access almost everything you've just setup from anywhere in the world securely? Before ShareTool, this was simply not possible without an extremely (if at all possible) complicated setup even for those in the know. Not anymore! With ShareTool, that complex procedure is reduced to a simple mouse click and as a result, yes, you can be at two places at the same time! ShareTool lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home network from anywhere in the world. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and more. With ShareTool, you can listen to your entire iTunes music library at work, control the screen of any of your home computers, or grab that important file you forgot to bring with you. And this is simply the tip of the iceberg. With ShareTool, it's as if you've never left your own network. Some Key New Features in ShareTool: * Simple Setup: ShareTool automatically configures routers supporting NAT-PMP or UPnP * Easy Access: Remote services automatically appear in Finder, iTunes, and other applications * Compatibility: ShareTool enables remote access for any application or service that advertises itself using Bonjour and runs over TCP/IP * Security: All network traffic is strongly encrypted. Access to your services requires your Mac OS X username and password * Dynamic domain name support * On the fly compression: Transfer large files quickly * Secure web browsing: surf the internet using your own browser securely * and much more What's New in version 1.2.2: * New: Major new interface changes for even more simplified usage. * New: Updated internal ShareTool protocol to be more versatile. * New: Added Remote Printing functionality. * New: Integrated Sparkle support for future updates. * New: Remote Login detection procedure. * New: Built-in Help menu added. * New: Updated ShareTool manual added. * Other: Many internal tweaks to ensure optimal performance and security. Supported Languages: * US English System Requirements: * Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later; Leopard ready. * 22 MB Hard Drive Space. * Internet connection. Pricing and Availability: * $20: 1 User license. * $30: 2 User license. (Save $10) * $75: Lite user license (Save $25) Free demo is available today. Yazsoft: http://www.yazsoft.com ShareTool: http://www.yazsoft.com/st/ Download: http://www.yazsoft.com/st/sitepages/download.html Purchase: http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=7NT_LIVE Screenshots: http://www.yazsoft.com/st/i/contentimages/screenshots/ss.png ShareTool Icon: http://www.yazsoft.com/st/i/contentimages/icon/st_128.png Yazsoft was founded in 2001 to develop software expressly for the Mac platform. With an emphasis on total customer satisfaction, Yazsoft makes up a development team of 5 professionals, each responsible for coding, marketing, and total customer support. As Yazsoft's spotlight product, Speed Download is regularly updated to ensure optimal performance at all times. Copyright © 2001-2008 Yazsoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Mark Forrester Marketing and Sales Info ( -at -) yazsoft.com *******

Hello, - Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition Details http://www.gamershell.com/news_57502.html - Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Website Launched http://www.gamershell.com/news_57500.html - Help from Hell - 11 August 2008 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57498.html - Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War New Mods http://www.gamershell.com/news_57496.html - GamersHell.com Casual Games 12 August 2008 - Baby Blimp, Fairy Jewels 2, Fussy Freddy, Glyph 2 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57494.html - PT Boats: Knights of the Sea New Details #3 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57492.html - Shadow of Legend v2.5D Announced http://www.gamershell.com/news_57490.html - Railroad Lines Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_57488.html - Star Trek Online Screens #3 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57486.html - Yggdra Union PSP Screens #4 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57484.html - Mulver Released and Demo http://www.gamershell.com/news_57482.html - Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI New Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_57480.html - Deep Silver GC 2008 Line-Up Revealed http://www.gamershell.com/news_57478.html - Too Human Screens #21 http://www.gamershell.com/news_57476.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Networking) - TRENDnet 200Mbps Powerline Network Kit QUOTE: "Wireless networking technology is evolving rather rapidly with 802.11n Draft 2 Wi-Fi currently being the standard of choice when going out to the store and picking up the latest router. If you are in the right place, you also have the choice of connecting your devices to the outside world via 3G or faster HSDPA 3.5G and beyond. If you are really in the right place, you might have the option to use WiMAX. Wireless technology is a wonderful technology and it is really pushing radio to extreme limits. What happens, though, when wireless isn’t appropriate for your home or office? Maybe wireless isn’t an option due to other devices interfering or the range you are trying to work with is just pushing it too much. Of course, there is the CAT5e or CAT6 networking cable option for local Gigabit networking, but if your house or office isn’t new and not connected up with this cabling, it can be rather messy having cables running around all over your floors." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1542/trendnet_200mbps_powerline_network_kit/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com

Hi all, We have just published a review of *Cooler Master's Silent Pro 700W power supply* - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/12/cooler-master-silent-pro-700w/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/cooler-master-silent-pro-700w/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"So, would we buy the Silent Pro 700W? It certainly takes precedent over the now ageing but still hugely popular Corsair HX series, though when you compare it to the Dark Power Pro 650W it doesn't quite cut it. Don't get us wrong though, it's still an excellent purchase if you don't want a Be Quiet!, but be prepared to throw out the craptacular rubber surround because it can survive without it. On the whole, it feels like a very good product, but one attempting to be better than it is, albeit made up by a good price."/ * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hi all, We have just published a review of *Braid* for Xbox 360 - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/08/12/braid/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/braid/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"Braid does have a few problems despite our love for it. The oblique logic and lateral thinking that you need to learn how to apply too rapidly scales up from Easy to Murderous, for instance, and the game doesn't always do a great job of introducing the new ideas. Worse, the game doesn't even have a proper help page and there's literally no introduction to the rewinding mechanic until you die for the first time -- something you naturally spend your first go through the game trying to avoid. The combined ingenuity of the gameplay and the gentle, nostalgic brilliance of the art and writing do manage to overcome this though and it's a testament to the pacing of the game that you manage to learn all these elements without any decent manual or instruction. Cerebral and startlingly playable, / /Braid is a throwback to the forgotten world of commercial platformers and proper adventure games where the puzzles were hard, but rewarding. At times it can be too difficult for its own good, but the bulk of the game isn't weighed down by this and //Braid instead manages to float upwards, to excellence." /* *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hi everyone, Since its launch courtesy of the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870, AMD's latest RV770 graphics core has proved itself admirably at the price points at which has been sold. However, today sees the company looking to leverage these capabilities in the enthusiast sector, by teaming up two RV770 cores in a multi-GPU configuration. The result is the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and to accompany today's launch of this part we take a look at just what makes this particular offering what it is. AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 technology preview "Anyone who has found themselves poring over the block diagram for an RV770 core will have noticed some die space used for a 'sideport connector'. If you ever wondered what it was for, now's your chance to find out. In addition to that PCI Express bridge, the sideport on each RV770 core can be directly connected to another RV770 GPU core for direct communication and data transfer between the two GPUs. Much like a PCI Express 2.0 16x link, this direct sideport connection offers up 5 GB/sec of bandwidth, given a total of 21.8 GB/sec of bandwidth across the entire board's interconnects compared to just 6.8GB per second found on the Radeon HD 3870 X2." http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=601&Itemid=29 As always, a news post on your site would be hugely appreciated, and we guarantee to reciprocate by posting any news items received from yourselves. Many thanks! Regards, Hanners Elite Bastards ------------------------------------- Elite Bastards News Letter www.elitebastards.com

A news post would be great. OCC has published a new review on the Sapphire HD 4870 X2 Here is a quote from the review: Quote: "Most of the video cards I have looked at lately have a good bit of headroom for the enthusiast crowd. I was expecting the HD 4870X2 to offer that same level of overhead for overclocking. The HD 4870X2 gave up a little bit of love, but not as much as I had hoped for - 55MHz on the GPU cores and 50MHz on the GDDR5 memory. Both pretty low numbers when you consider that this video card is an enthusiast-level card. I suspect that heat is the main culprit in limiting the overclocking here. With temperatures in the range of 90+ degrees Celsius, heat is a major concern, and may ultimately be the problem to solve to get more overhead. At 955MHz on the memory, I ended up with large colored blotches on the screen. At 950MHz, the problem disappeared. On the GPU cores, once I got over 805MHz, I was greeted with lockups and reboots. Setting up a profile in the Catalyst Control Center and modifying the XML file for the profile did not help, as it has with the 4850 and 4870 video cards. The fan speed never changed, so I was left with a hot card and no way to cool it down any more than the drivers would allow; as with any piece of hardware, your mileage may vary. Knowing what my limits were on the clock speeds, I decided to see how much the CPU clock speed was impacting performance. So I pulled the Q9450 and put in my trusty QX9770 to get some real clock speed to find out what kind of performance difference the CPU makes. At 400x10, the performance did not let me down. In 3DMark06 at the default 1280x1024 resolution, the combo did not disappoint - 22520 was the score I achieved." Title: Sapphire HD 4870 X2 Review Link: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_4870x2/ Img: http://www.overclockersclub.com/siteimages/articles/sapphire_4870x2/12_thumb.jpg

Fellow Webmasters, Site Owners and Newsposters, Tweaknews.net has released yet another review onto the internet. I was wondering if you could please post it in today's news for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Name: Moneual Lab Moncaso 972 HTPC Case Review ( -at -) Tweaknews.net Article Url: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/moneual_lab_moncaso_972_htpc_case_review/ Article PIC: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/moneual_lab_moncaso_972_htpc_case_review/img/email.jpg Article Snippet: "This case offers just about everything one would need in a HTPC enclosure, although it comes at a steep price of around $500. For someone who is serious about building the ultimate media center system the Moncaso 972 is hard to beat." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Could you email back saying you posted it, TWEAK IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!! Many Thanks, Nathan Glentworth Owner / Head Editor nathan ( -at -) tweaknews.net www.Tweaknews.net www.Tweaknews.com