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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0522 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 4f171d828d680975a5d2304bbdf50e13 perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm 52eaa19dc867252613c69eac5023d863 perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm Source: a6329dd7bd2a381c40bf5449eec0904b perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

Title: Shuttle KPC K45 Barebones System Reviewed ( -at -) TheTechLounge Quote: "I've had this KPC for a month now. Maybe longer, actually. This review has seen setback after setback: I've had entirely too grand a time playing with this little Linux wonder to really bother with writing. Sure, it's got drawbacks--big ones, to be honest--but it also has this charm not readily engendered by other boxes, no matter how small, elegant, or polished they may be. And, pretty soon, I'm going to have to take it apart and stick its silicon organs into another machine so I can report on my KPC's performance. I want to delay that. I want to keep playing." Article URL: http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/531/Shuttle+KPC+K45+Barebones+System/ Image URL: http://www.thetechlounge.com/files/articles/531/index_197.jpg If you think this article is of interest to your readers, we would greatly appreciate a post in your site's news. Please feel free to

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0504 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0504.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: fa1fef968fe58c5702248ad4c2957201 xorg-x11-server-randr-source-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 67b49520787ae76224d19c03bc69458a xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm f0ad7c9932bc0b80f04dcc3913490445 xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm ea225f3336a8989cd3ff22ae1639d44f xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 8c1b2cf8af835df6b64e6d154001ef67 xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 0c46b45b2be1201e54ddaff24def19c8 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm ada36f4e4aa2e2872ad6a0221f7fb188 xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 8e0312cd76d5155564b9727ce98af676 xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0504 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0504.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 1ed112023ac8b46875769aba0f8cd51e xorg-x11-server-randr-source-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 2477cf3782d76a2b411a75e8034e8ec8 xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 8b62f395157f1cc563e62c9f30c53c5d xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm b10dcb5ea4033db422792e8c1a793e6c xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm b78da76102f997e4cb11505151a872b0 xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 27e88f09cff37410ec06cd4c84076d8a xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm ff83d82fb014ed76f8eb297e1eeb2c8b xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.i386.rpm Source: 8e0312cd76d5155564b9727ce98af676 xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0529 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0529.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 77a5e79229864fcd06f82d462b528689 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 1dd2fc53ee2175dc5e678bbd0decabce net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 01ee72d938d76b6c511cdf6a1a8814ae net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm a949181c4e4301254c72f7fbe72891c0 net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 3d6f967255f6f5b14cfb493627d37181 net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm Source: 23f5c0d9c7ff016f88efbe0840803444 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0529 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0529.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 018f6bc07b6ee131f9d262d3c75eb686 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 85680af8befe283c75aaba524729e385 net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 4e0078d3385139b15bb4e916741e7e53 net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 7efa4a5904ed65d50f56b3fbd2154739 net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.i386.rpm dabf9dbc7bd7b93ed84526fe94b96071 net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 194731e5f304af6faa782693fd37bd53 net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 819aa4c7df01cae85490b897fbd6f88e net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 23f5c0d9c7ff016f88efbe0840803444 net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0522 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 32c2ca09a7faaaf1459fbf663e72d076 perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm 57178599712f58e94958c7250ce0cb5d perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm Source: a6329dd7bd2a381c40bf5449eec0904b perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0499 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0499.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 08c81d8405cef2d476c97f0f60961404 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm be554a38c966ac21797aa83818fc1011 kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm 2cff5ab891757be026462abe5fb4153a kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm b8f9a3b6595ad221f589b0d682712020 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ed7ce2a87a12d1d07e0390f0262aefaa kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.noarch.rpm 3edd290f4ebf329f8bd74b4f8a26141a kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm d84ad24372770903096cf3620b32e80a kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm 7b4eaca9386d6433728ec4da8850e726 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: a41b74d097020738770f536e04c4befc kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0526 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0526.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 33d755bb804f0b6c208e70b4c539ee36 dhcpv6-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm d79e0332fad79f3bc4a95a47e8eb2b7f dhcpv6-client-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 7054a57248a43b75de1defaef4473043 libdhcp6client-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 1f9e175f77aefbf5aca3ac346ba4b95c libdhcp6client-devel-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm Source: 6fec2a73759cbf6a0dbfd4f038779e5c dhcpv6-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0526 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0526.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: a07a51fbf720be8879d9ab369a42ce34 dhcpv6-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm 7b5deae28f9ce9b0abf9b74f76617eca dhcpv6-client-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm fbb884e7a01a8cbe87ea3e398d19b8af libdhcp6client-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 2f4a73e5456339f95f49e554536d2256 libdhcp6client-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm 5b54fb207a75a27c25646e3f964e37fa libdhcp6client-devel-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.i386.rpm 8f185dcb0edd0c0f2eb3759e65d6aefb libdhcp6client-devel-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm Source: 6fec2a73759cbf6a0dbfd4f038779e5c dhcpv6-1.0.10-4.el5_2.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0499 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0499.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: db1934dddc3c9f073edd480d02931c8f kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm d74d7786d496fb755fbb86edc053d523 kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm a5b87ca64c460d00270d51196f1b8c42 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm 213ca44852c9d6f275442c95631af5f1 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm 80ec833d79ed35c7107b930324138cee kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.noarch.rpm 338f9d2fccbd1049fb5f8e1b62ab3ff4 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i386.rpm 056f2dfa45a659742af054fbb23871b2 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm a55625ac002ecef77f0054f46b2ca537 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm 3377f53d28ba748659aa054a0629f222 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm 13f415d03be49d97a828566b4e661b38 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686.rpm Source: a41b74d097020738770f536e04c4befc kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0498 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0498.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: c5b4f612e365584e479f303ca883b770 cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 8ca83fca32773116751e92f0770ba76d cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 49a318cd261b0b329ffa261845dc1054 cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm ffeef171294d51a5d9557eab88adc94c cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm a071525281e7b10509652c42cdbadebd cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm 1caf6f182c4b7ae1572f17452024a46e cups-lpd-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm Source: efe9caa696c2c6c993110c339e8cadb0 cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

With recent accusations of "They're cheating again", I decided to dig a bit further and talk to the a few of the players in the 3D graphics world. The results may not be surprising, but the journey certainly was interesting! In our editorial we investigate the issue by getting not only NVIDIA's take on the subject but also views from AMD's Dave Baumann, Futuremark's Oliver Baltuch and Epic Games' Mark Rein. URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=584 Quote: "I explained the situation as best I could without trying to throw in any questions that could have lead Mark one direction or the other. Once I finished explaining best I could, Mark essentially replied, "What the hell is wrong with that? Is there really a problem here?" As we spoke his feelings essentially were made known with a refreshing stream of 4 lettered words. This is not a complaint mind, as it was nice to get away from the buttoned-down collar world that I had been immersed in throughout the afternoon. His candor was greatly appreciated." Thank you for a post!! Ryan Shrout Owner - PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0498 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0498.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 7def85e9330093cdc4e62452a1294de7 cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 083831f9d28655c862c4dcd2374e7c28 cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 1a2f8f72a69f4f32868ef1c4d3263508 cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm 9449f5b3228632bedd1a4a3048784af4 cups-lpd-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.i386.rpm Source: efe9caa696c2c6c993110c339e8cadb0 cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos ( -at -) irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________

Hi, We've just posted a new article on our website, Hardware Secrets. Title: Gigabyte GA-EP31-DS3L Motherboard Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/575 Category: First Look Summary: We took a look on GA-EP31-DS3L, a socket 775 motherboard from Gigabyte based on Intel P31 chipset and targeted to mainstream users. Here is a snippet: "We took a look on GA-EP31-DS3L, a motherboard from Gigabyte based on Intel P31 chipset targeted to the mainstream market, coming with a lot of features and a relatively low cost. Check it out!" A news post would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gabriel Torres Editor-in-Chief Hardware Secrets http://www.hardwaresecrets.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello, - Glu Mobile and Activision Sign Deal http://www.gamershell.com/news_53700.html - Sword of the New World Nocturnal Sonata Expansion Released http://www.gamershell.com/news_53698.html - Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches Announced and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_53696.html - Spore Creature Creator Hits 1 Million Creatures Created http://www.gamershell.com/news_53694.html - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Screens #4 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53692.html - Roogoo PC Version Now Available and Screens #6 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53690.html - Dungeon Lords: The Orb and The Oracle Annonced http://www.gamershell.com/news_53688.html - GamersHell.com Casual Games 25 June 2008 - Kiss Me - Mah Jong Quest III - PictoWords - Wedding Dash 2 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53686.html - Euroleague Basketball Manager Released Online http://www.gamershell.com/news_53682.html - Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942 EU Release Confirmed http://www.gamershell.com/news_53680.html - Major Minor's Majestic March Screenshots http://www.gamershell.com/news_53678.html - Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Screens #3 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53676.html - Overlord: Raising Hell Available Across North America http://www.gamershell.com/news_53674.html - Top Spin 3 Now Available http://www.gamershell.com/news_53672.html - Final Fantasy IV New Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_53670.html - Sins of a Solar Empire Tops UK Charts http://www.gamershell.com/news_53668.html - Legendary Screens #8 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53666.html - Insecticide Screens #9 http://www.gamershell.com/news_53664.html - Nintendo Summer 2008 NDS/Wii Line-Up Revealed http://www.gamershell.com/news_53662.html - Super Swing Golf Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_53660.html - NVIDIA ForceWare 177.33 WHQL Windows XP/Vista Drivers Released http://www.gamershell.com/news_53658.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Are NVIDIA PhysX Drivers Cheating on 3DMark Vantage? Ever since we published the article on the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics cards last week Legit Reviews has been getting a ton of e-mail complaining about NVIDIA's paper launch spoiler and the fact that the drivers we used for are not fair. We talk with Futuremark and NVIDIA about the cheating claims and try to figure out if anything is being done that shouldn't be. Quote "When Futuremark Vantage was designed the AGEIA PhysX SDK was used and a discrete Physical Processing Unit was needed to offload the benchmark DLLs from the CPU to the PPU. We showed this in our article about 3DMark Vantage the day the benchmark came out. We dedicated an entire page to offloading PhysX to a PPU and no one cried that it was cheating moving the DLLs from the CPU to the PPU. Now that NVIDIA had moved the workloads from the CPU to the GPU they are accused of cheating!" Article Title: Are NVIDIA PhysX Drivers Cheating on 3DMark Vantage? Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/733/1/ --

Flashforward Keynotes Pogacnik, Carson and McCloud Join All Star Line-up - Published on 06/25/08 First time Flashforward Conference and Film Festival presenters Miha Pogacnik, Cultural Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia; David Carson, ground breaking typographer and graphic designer; and Scott McCloud, comic book artist and, according to Locus Magazine, "arguably the most important cartoonist alive" join an all star speaker line-up from the Flash industry; Last chance for early bird conference pricing ending on July 1, 2008. San Francisco, California - The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival announces three keynote speakers for the August 20-22, 2008 conference taking place in San Francisco at the Nob Hill Masonic Center. Joining the current line-up are three diverse speakers and a roster of industry leaders bringing fresh creative perspectives to the conference and rounding out the educational presentations with inspiration and fresh insights. Leading the line-up are three keynotes speaking for the first time at Flashforward2008: Miha Pogacnik, Cultural Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia; David Carson, ground breaking typographer and graphic designer; and Scott McCloud, comic book artist and, according to Locus Magazine, "arguably the most important cartoonist alive". Pogacnik will present Passion, Creativity, and Business in which he demonstrates the principles of renewal and change, transforming thinking patterns and removing barriers which limit creativity and vision; as graphic design's leading rule breaker Carson will cover The Rules of Graphic Design, and McCloud on Comics: A Medium in Transition discussing comics and technology. More detailed information on these speakers' biographies and their topics can be found on the conference website www.flashforwardconference.com/speakers. "Our goal for Flashforward2008 was to choose speakers driven by their passion," said Beau Ambur, CEO Metaliq and Flashforward Conference and Film Festival. "To make things more exciting we looked for meaningful and groundbreaking topics outside traditional industry presenters and sought fresh new speakers who could push attendees' ideas to the next level." Speaker topics for the Flashforward Conference are diverse and planned to educate, inspire, and inform. Confirmed speaker topics range from: Sound Visualization with Physics and Code, Education in the Internet Age, Project Management for the Developers Perspective, to Education Doodling, Why (I Still) Love Flash, and Papervision3D. In addition to Pogacnik, Carson and McCloud, Flashforward also confirmed their all-star line-up for the 2008 conference includes speakers: Mike Downey, Jared Ficklin, Stacey Mulcahy, Tinic Uro, Lynda Weinman, Richard Galvin, Ivan Todorov, Seb Lee-Delisle, IDEO, and Disney. Previously announced speakers which include: Chuck Freedman, Hoss Gifford, Robert Hodgin, Eric Natzke, Paul Ortchanian, Todd Rosenberg, and Grant Skinner round out the list of presenters. To review speaker topics and get additional information on any presenters please visit their website. Early bird pricing, at $899, is extended until July 1, 2008 for those wishing to attend the conference at the best possible rate. After July 1 the pricing for Flashfoward2008 goes to $1099 until the conference starts. Hotel accommodations meeting every budget and style expectation can be made at a number of hotels surrounding the Masonic Center in San Francisco. To register for the conference visit the Flashforward Conference website. Flashforward Sponsors Flashforward2008 San Francisco is supported by Metaliq, Aquent, Disney, and YouTube. Media Partners include Actionscript, Flash & Flex Developers Magazine, netdiver, and productionHUB. Flashforward Conference: http://www.flashforwardconference.com Conference Lodging: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/hotels Register: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/register Sponsors: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/sponsors Speakers: http://www.flashforwardconference.com/speakers 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 ******* ******* *******

Dare to be Creative offers Software Bundle for Designers, Photographers - Published on 06/25/08 Dare to be Creative today announced the release of its software bundle for Mac OSX targeted at photographers, designers and creative professionals. The software bundle consists of Dragoman, a batch image converter, and Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, tools designed to save hours of work by automating manual tasks. The bundle is available for $40 at Macsnack and offers savings of $25 off retail prices. Vienna, Austria - Dare to be Creative today announced the release of its software bundle for Mac OSX targeted at photographers, designers, creative professionals, and anybody who works a lot with images and photos. The software bundle consists of Dragoman, a batch image converter, and Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer - tools designed to save hours of work by automating manual tasks. The bundle is available for $40 at Macsnack and offers savings of $25 off retail prices. Dragoman - batch file conversion made easy: Dragoman batch converts images and photos between widespread file formats. With Dragoman, photographers can convert photos from raw digital camera formats to JPEG and other formats; Dragoman supports all popular digital camera formats including those of Canon, Kodak, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Fuji cameras, as well as Adobe's Digital Negative format. Designers and creative professionals benefit from Dragoman's support for popular image formats, allowing them for example to batch convert TIFF images to PNG, or Postscript images to PDF. Renamer4Mac - batch file renaming made easy: Renamer4Mac is a batch file renamer that supports search and replace renaming, numbering files, and converting between lower, upper and mixed case. With Renamer4Mac, photographers and creative professionals can save hours of work renaming thousands of images at once, such as renaming photos downloaded from digital cameras into something meaningful. The software bundle in a nutshell: * The software bundle benefits photographers, designers, creative professionals and anybody who works a lot with image and photo files * The bundle is available at Macsnack for $40 USD and offers savings of $25 off retail prices * Sold separately Dragoman is $39 USD and Renamer4Mac $26 USD * Dragoman batch converts images and photos. It handles the popular image formats PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PostScript, EPS, JPEG-2000 (JP2), GIF, PSD, Windows Bitmap (BMP), and many more. It also handles raw digital camera formats: Adobe Digital Negative (dng), Photo CD (pcd), Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format (crw, cr2), Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File (dcr), Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File (mrw), Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File (nef), Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File (orf), and Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File (raf). Dragoman supports multi-page PDF and TIFF documents * Renamer4Mac is a batch file renamer that supports search and replace renaming, numbering files, and converting between lower, upper and mixed case Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4 or higher * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Pricing and Availability: The software bundle is $40 USD and available at Macsnack. Sold separately Dragoman is $39 USD and available as a free download from the Dragoman website, and Renamer4Mac is $26 USD and available as a free download from the Renamer4Mac website. Both applications run initially in a 10-day trial mode with all features active. Macsnack: Software Bundle for photographers, designers and creative professionals: http://macsnack.com Dragoman: A batch file converter for images, photos, music and archive files: http://dragoman-mac.com Dragoman: Screenshots of Dragoman in action: http://dragoman-mac.com/screenshots.html Renamer4Mac: A batch file renamer: http://renamer4mac.com/ Renamer4Mac: Screencast of renaming photos downloaded from a digital camera: http://renamer4mac.com/screencasts/batch-rename-photos-video-tutorial.html Located in Vienna, Austria, Dare to be Creative Ltd. is a software forgery founded in 2006 by a group of Mac enthusiasts. The Dare to be Creative team focuses exclusively on developing utility applications for Mac OS X designed to save valuable time while being enjoyable and easy to use. The current portfolio includes a) iArchiver, an archiving and file compression utility, iCombiner, a tool to combine images and PDF files into single PDF documents, c) Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, and d) Dragoman, a batch file converter for image, music and archive files. All Material and Software © 2006-2008 Dare to be Creative Ltd. / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Philipp Mayerhofer Chief Operational Officer +4319551750 philipp ( -at -) iarchiver.com *******

PocketMac MacThemes "Macintosh-Ify" BlackBerry Devices - Published on 06/25/08 Information Appliance Associates, creators of industry-leading connectivity solutions, announces the release of the PocketMac MacThemes for BlackBerry, the first tool to transform the look and feel of a BlackBerry into a miniature Macintosh. The MacTheme replaces the standard icons and images of the BlackBerry with those of original, yet very familiar Mac-like icons, complete with familiar colors and backgrounds. San Diego, CA - Information Appliance Associates, creators of industry-leading connectivity solutions, announces the release of the PocketMac® MacThemes for BlackBerry, the first tool to transform the look and feel of a BlackBerry into a miniature Macintosh. "We're incredibly excited," said Terence Goggin, CTO of Information Appliance Associates. "All of our customers love the BlackBerry but they preferred something that reminded them of home... their Mac. That's why we created the PocketMac MacTheme; it's a customer's Mac on their BlackBerry." The MacTheme replaces the standard icons and images of the BlackBerry with those of original, yet very familiar Mac-like icons, complete with familiar colors and backgrounds. "I'm a passionate Mac user. I love my Mac and I love my BlackBerry," Goggin continued. "There are so many, many Mac fans who have BlackBerry handsets that will love looking at their BlackBerry even more." Pricing and Availability: The PocketMac MacTheme for BlackBerry retails for $9.95 USD and is available for the BlackBerry 7100, 7200, 8100 (Pearl), 8300, 8800, 8700 and 8703e. Support for the BlackBerry Bold is coming soon. It works on OS 10.4.x and 10.5.x (Tiger and Leopard). A complete video demo can be found at their website. More information about the PocketMac MacTheme for BlackBerry can be found at PocketMac. PocketMac: http://www.pocketmac.net/ MacTheme: http://www.pocketmac.net/macthemes.html YouTube Video Demo: Purchase Link: http://store.esellerate.net/pocketmac/themestore Information Appliance Associates (IAA) is a world leader in creating unique software solutions, primarily for the Macintosh platform. Their first product, PocketMac Pro, the original Mac-to-Pocket-PC sync solution accomplished what at the time was thought impossible-connecting a Mac to a Pocket PC. IAA then expanded into other areas of connectivity with their Microsoft Smartphone product, their iPod product and now their BlackBerry sync solution. PocketMac and MacThemes Copyright © Information Appliance Associates (IAA). ### Timothy Goggin VP 858-775-6116 timg ( -at -) pocketmac.net *******

Hi News posters, Hope you're all well. Tech- Reviews has just completed another review on the Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste. A post or link to the review on your website would be much appreciated. Title: Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste ( -at -) Tech-Reviews.co.uk Briefing: Thermal paste is probably the most disregarded part of building a PC. However, thermal grease can be a very important factor for users wanting to overclock or game heavily. One of the leading manufacturers in this field is Arctic Cooling with their Arctic Silver range. Arctic Silver 5 has always been the most favourable paste, but today, we have another manufacturer, Noctua, challenging Arctic Cooling for the title of the thermal paste king. Let's fight. Image SRC: http://tech-reviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/nt-h1.jpg Review Link: http://tech-reviews.co.uk/reviews/noctua-nt-h1-thermal-paste/ Thanks for your help.

TechwareLabs has published a review of the Digsby 'Public' Beta Review. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: Looking for a good program to help you keep in contact with all your friends, family, and online pals? Chris has a look at the new program called Digsby which is in its beta. Does Digsby work and how well? Find out in our review. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/software/digsby-beta Title: Digsby 'Public' Beta Review ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/software/digsby-beta/images/digsby.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, We've just posted a new article on our website, Hardware Secrets. Title: Zalman FPSGun FG1000 Mouse Review Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/574 Category: Reviews Summary: Our test of the gun shaped gaming mouse FPSGun FG1000 from Zalman. Here is a snippet: "FPS, or first person shooter, is the most popular genre of PC games. No console controller has surpassed the mouse as the weapon of choice among FPS enthusiasts. Zalman, a company known as a maker of coolers, is trying to woo FPS players with a gun shaped mouse, the FG1000. Since we are card carrying fans of the genre, we tested the new toy. Let the (digital) bullets fly." A news post would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gabriel Torres Editor-in-Chief Hardware Secrets http://www.hardwaresecrets.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Altomac releases Speedy Mac for Mac OS X - Published on 06/25/08 Altomac announced today the release of Speedy Mac, an innovative utility that speeds up the work with the Mac. Speedy Mac is a little and innovative utility that brings you the power to quickly open everything you need for your everyday work: documents, folders, applications, and sites. Milano, Italy - Altomac announced today the release of Speedy Mac, an innovative utility that speeds up the work with the Mac. Speedy Mac is a little and innovative utility that brings you the power to quickly open everything you need for your everyday work: documents, folders, applications, and sites. Speedy Mac let users quickly access their favorite and recent documents, folders, sites and applications with a totally new approach. Speedy Mac lists your recently used web pages and your favorite pages, grouped by site. In this way you will quickly find a page you visited lately or a page you need to quiclky open. The same applies for the favorite and recently used documents: every entry is automatically placed inside its own application group. The utility also sports an edited "Task" menu that enables you to accomplish quickly some useful tasks as: hide or quit all running applications at once; create a new folder establishing the name and the location of it before to create it, eject all removable and external disks at once and so on. You can also create new tasks in minutes using Automator or Script Editor. Some additional tasks created by Speedy Mac users are already available for download, as for example: Optimize Mail Database, Take a Screen Shot choosing the format and Make File Names Web-Friendly. Another innovative feature of this utility is the Current item menu. It lists where the document you are using is located in your hard drive to let you quiclky open the folder that contains it, in this way finding the location of the document you are using is a question of just opening a menu item. Pricing and Availability: Speedy Mac is available for $27.00 USD from the Altomac online store. A free Speedy Mac trial is available from the Altomac website. The trial provides a fully functional version of Speedy Mac that you can use and experiment with. While it includes all the features available in a licensed copy, the trial version will expire 30 days after you launch it for the first time. Altomac: http://www.altomac.com Speedy Mac: http://www.altomac.com/speedy_mac/ Direct Download Link: http://www.apimac.com/sw/speedy_mac.dmg Purchase Link: http://store.kagi.com/?6FBHM_LIVE Screenshot: http://www.altomac.com/images/screen_shots/speedy_mac_screen.png Screenshot/App Icon: http://www.altomac.com/images/icons/speedy_mac_icon.png Founded in 2005, Altomac develops award-winning Mac OS X software, including iPod Notes, Hide Folders and Speedy Mac. People at Altomac aim to put into users hands applications which they can use in a way they do things every day. Right after opening their programs, users can immediately focus on their task, not even noticing that they're using an entirely new program. ### Rosy Ferrari Customer Care rosy ( -at -) altomac.com *******

Hello All, The rather sensational headline above says it all. Direct Link: http://www.hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA_Responds_To_GPU_PhysX_Cheating_Allega tion/ And a snip: "During the benchmark install, a runtime library is updated to allow the test to run on the GPU and then during the test, it addresses the benchmark DLLs to the GPU instead of the PPU or CPU. Nothing within the benchmark is changed at all. No software libraries or even a line of code changes in the benchmark whatsoever. The only thing that changes is that installer, nothing else. It has been said that the tests results look different on the screen when running with PhysX enabled on the GPU. And of course this is true, just as the screen results look different when you test on a dual-core CPU versus a quad-core. This isn't a graphics test; it's a physics test. 3DMark Vantage specifically scales more complexity into a scene to take advantage of additional physics compute resources, which of course is why it looks so different/better on a test run with PhysX processing on our GPUs. This is by design in the benchmark and if the folks accusing us took the time to run it, they would know that." Thanks for your time. A post in your news section would be appreciated.