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No FancyBox Safari Extension 1.3 - Disables pop-up JavaScript fancybox.. (Free)
DownloadStory 1.5.1 - Downloads stories from fanfiction websites.. (Free)
Star Wars: The Old Republic contains zero mentions of midi-chlorians
Oil rush 0.93 (updated)
Ruling opens up credit cards, web for lotto
Path Finder 5.8.1 - Powerful, award-winning Finder alternative.. (Shareware)
Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.160 - Multimedia Web browser plug-in (beta).. (Free)
Live Interior 3D Standard 2.7.1 - Powerful interior design app.. (Demo)
SlingPlayer Plugin 3.3.12.232 - Browser plug-in for viewing Slingbox units in Safari or Firefox.. (Free)
X-Plane 10.03b6 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater)
Marzipig!
Powerball Winning Numbers for 12/21/2011
Powerball Estimated Jackpot for 12/24/2011
Mega Millions Winning Numbers for 12/23/2011
Mega Millions Estimated Jackpot for 12/27/2011
Lotto Texas Winning Numbers for 12/21/2011
Lotto Texas Estimated Jackpot for 12/24/2011
Texas Two Step Winning Numbers for 12/22/2011
Texas Two Step Advertised Jackpot for 12/26/2011
Pick 3 Day Winning Numbers for 12/23/2011

No FancyBox Safari Extension 1.3 - Disables pop-up JavaScript fancybox.. (Free)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 03:10 AM PST

No FancyBox Safari Extension is an extension for Safari 5, which disables (as far as possible) the 'fancybox' that pops up almost everywhere these days.

'fancybox' is a JavaScript pop-up box, which spends a lot of CPU-time and resources while loading. It's mainly used for advertising, so there's usually no deal in having it around.

Made la.eater.com and sites that uses similar ways to include CSS/JavaScripts display correctly.

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
Safari 5 or later

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DownloadStory 1.5.1 - Downloads stories from fanfiction websites.. (Free)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 03:12 AM PST

DownloadStory downloads and compiles all chapters of a fanfiction story off of some of the biggest fanfiction websites. Once downloaded, the entire story is available even when you are offline - great for installing on an iPhone or iPod to read on the go, or on your laptop or iPad on airplane trips.

DownloadStory currently supports the following websites:

FanFiction.net
Portkey.org
Sugarquill.net
Checkmated.com
PhoenixSong.net
FictionAlley.org
Sink Into Your Eyes (siye.co.uk)
Ficwad.com
SkyeHawke (archive.skyehawke.com)
Twilighted.net
Sabrina Online (chrisfoxx.com)
Zig Zag Studios (zzstudios.com)
Wonderful World of Makebelieve (squidge.org/~peja/)
crvboy.org
ashwinder.sycophanthex.com
ThePetulantPoetess.com
WitchFics.org
ObscurusBooks.org

Version 1.5.1:

Now supports http://www.ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/
Now supports http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/
Now supports http://www.witchfics.org/
Now supports http://www.obscurusbooks.org/
Improved parsing of FicWad stories to avoid infinite downloads on stories with self-referencing Next links

Known Issues:

Special characters on some sites are displayed badly - anyone know how to convert unicode to readable ASCII text in applescript?
If you encounter other problems from a supported site, please contact me to get them fixed!

Mac OS X 10.3 or later

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Star Wars: The Old Republic contains zero mentions of midi-chlorians

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST

Star Wars: The Old Republic is the most story-focused MMO of all time, with "60 man years" of writing according to lead writer Daniel Erickson, and he has read every single line of it. So when had a chance to ask if the game contained any mentions of midi-chlorians, we took it...

Oil rush 0.93 (updated)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 02:27 AM PST

RTS with a Tower Wars genre

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Ruling opens up credit cards, web for lotto

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST

"In one fell swoop, this issue has been dealt with by the attorney general," in response to an inquiries from New York and Illinois about the legality of online lottery sales and credit card payments, Grossman said yesterday in an exclusive interview.

Path Finder 5.8.1 - Powerful, award-winning Finder alternative.. (Shareware)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:59 PM PST

Path Finder is a file browser that combines the familiar Finder interface with the powerful utilities and innovative features.

Just a small selection of the Path Finder 5 feature set:

Dual pane file browser
Tabs to quickly manage multiple locations on your hard drive in one window
Reorder how your files are listed to suit your personal preferences
View invisible files and navigate inside of Mac OS X packages quickly and easily
Access your frequently used folders, files, and applications with the Shelf, and save multiple Shelf setups to suit different activities
Pause drag-and-drop operations by putting files into the Drop Stack for future use
Create and convert disk images
Access the OS X command line
Much, much more!

Version 5.8.1:

Fixed SMB share discovery in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
New version of the Stuffit Engine.
Fixed duplicate servers in sidebar.

Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.160 - Multimedia Web browser plug-in (beta).. (Free)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:59 PM PST

Adobe Flash Player is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application (RIA) runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and pervasive reach. Flash Player 10 introduces new expressive features, visual performance improvements, and extensibility to unleash the creative potential of designers and developers so they can build richer and more immersive web experiences.

Version 11.2.202.160:

Release features:

Multithreaded Video Decoding (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)* - This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. This modern architecture will also enable future performance enhancements across all platforms.
Flash Player background updates (Windows)** - New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Infinite scrolling and new mouse events to enable first-person shooter experiences.
* Note about Multithreaded Video Decoding
Multi-threaded pipeline was written grounds up to support lower end devices and full hardware stacks where all the decoding and rendering is offloaded to hardware. The benefits of the modernization of the pipeline would be visible from mobile devices, tvs, netbooks to high end desktops. In Flash Player 11.2, the new video pipeline is available for desktop platforms (including netbooks ) and brings enhancements with respect to:
Eliminating jitter seen occasionally in some encoding and typically in live streams and real time interactive scenarios.
Gains in frame rate by reducing dropped frames as much as 50% on certain platforms with high bit rate content.
Seek frame accuracy.
High resolution/bit rate content decoding would still keep the player UI responsive and any background ActionScript processing going, which earlier could have experienced brief halts because all the decoding and player UI/ActionScript resided on the main thread.
For HTTP streaming, ActionScript is the control point of fetching the stream data and delivering to the video stack. On seek, earlier the streaming would halt, while the frames up to the point of seek would be getting decoded. With multithreaded video decoding, not only would the seek be more responsive, but it would also start playback faster after seek.
50+ fixes as part of the modernization of the video pipeline architecture.

New features

Mouse lock:
- A new mouseLock property has been added to Stage.
- To enable mouse locking set Stage.mouseLock to true. There are several rules which are applied here:
- This property can only be set in full screen mode. It dispatches a runtime exception if it is called in non-full screen mode.
- On mobile settings this property always throws an exception. The reason is simple: This feature can only work with a mouse type of devices and mobile devices do not have such a thing.
- The property can be read in non-full screen mode. This allows developers to easily dispatch to alternative input methods if mouse locking is disabled externally for some reason.
- When exiting full screen mode Stage.mouseLock is automatically set to false.
- Note that while in full screen mode mouse event listeners attached to other display objects but the stage will not be dispatched. In other words to receive mouse deltas and any other mouse event while mouseLock is active you need to attach your mouse event listeners to the stage.
- Relative mouse coordinates.
- New properties (movementX and movementY) on MouseEvent.
- When Stage.mouseLock == true:
- MouseEvent.localX and MouseEvent.localY will contain 0.
- MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY will contain delta values.
- MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY are never transformed based on stage transformation, i.e. they always remain in screen space.
- MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY will be 0 when Stage.mouseLock == false.
- Situations where mouse locking is disabled automatically and the mouse cursor is made visible again:
- When the user hits ESC.
- When the window loses focus, for instance when the user hit CTRL-TAB.
- When any settings UI is visible (that includes all privacy dialogs).When a native dialog is shown, for instance a file upload dialog.
- Right and middle click events.
- Just like with Adobe AIR, right and middle click events can now be used to inside Flash Player.
- When a listener is registered to the MouseEvent.RIGHT_CLICK event, the native context menu will not show up, allowing you to create your own context menu.

Known Issues

Multiple kill operations may lead to instability of the application.

Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor
256MB RAM
128MB of graphics memory
Browser compatibility:
- Safari 5.0 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 4.0 or later
- Google Chrome
- Opera 11 or later

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Live Interior 3D Standard 2.7.1 - Powerful interior design app.. (Demo)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:59 PM PST

Live Interior 3D Standard is a powerful yet very intuitive interior designing application. Whether you are remodeling, improving or building a new home, Live Interior will assist in visualizing your redesigned apartment way before you actually start the work.

View Video Tutorials

Draw CAD like 2D plans, then surf 3D environment to get the look and feel of the interior. Automatically add one of seven supplied roof styles using the Roof Assistant. Place and arrange furniture, appliances and other objects in both 2D and 3D modes.

Shoot movies, make screenshots and generate 360° panoramic views of the interior. In addition to that the program allows you to export the whole interior project (an apartment or multy-story building) or selected objects into Google SketchUp format. Easily share your projects with others via Google 3D Warehouse.

Check out the comparison between Standard and Pro editions.

General:

1200+ Object Library, with brand name content.
Export to RenderMan® Compliant RIB Format
Export to Google SketchUp^TM format.
Google 3D Warehouse^TM integration.
Import Google SketchUp^TM, Ogre XML and 3ds objects.
View and Edit designs in 2D & 3D.
Various measurement units (fractional supported).
Create two-story projects.
View objects in 3D Preview window.
Drag & Drop objects to 2D/3D window.
Runs natively on both Power PC and Intel Macs.

Working with 2D Plans:

Create plans in any scale.
Smart guides and object snapping.
Automatic/custom floor and ceiling creation.
Auto/custom dimensioning.
Custom ceiling height.
Option to fill walls/slabs with color or one of 96 patterns in 2D plan.
Export 2D plans to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG.

3D Environment:

Realistic walk through mode.
Adjust Lighting on the fly.
Realistic light and shadows rendering.
3 rendering modes to control lights and shadows.
Set daytime (day, night, etc.)
Real Geo orientation (North, East, South, West).
Collision detection.
Multiple adjustable user cameras.
Make screenshots of interior 3D view in JPEG, TIFF and more.

Editing 3D Objects:

1300+ Materials library, including materials with reflection.
Advanced options to customize doors, windows, columns, furniture.
Wall moulding support (base and crown).

Version 2.7.1:

Fixed problem with application launch when placed to directories with special non-english symbols;
Fixed blocked menu 'Export 3D View...' for exporting high resolution screenshots;
Alt + Mouse Scroll shortcut for Zoom in 3D View added;
Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.

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SlingPlayer Plugin 3.3.12.232 - Browser plug-in for viewing Slingbox units in Safari or Firefox.. (Free)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:59 PM PST

SlingPlayer is the screen interface software that works hand-in-hand with the hardware inside the Slingbox to make your TV viewing experience just like that at home. It features an array of innovative features and controls, including a favorites bar, customizable remote controls, and the best streaming video money can buy.

Version 3.3.12.232: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Safari 4/5 or Firefox 3/4 (32-bit)
1GB RAM
One of the following Slingbox models with the latest Slingbox Software installed
- Slingbox PRO-HD
- Slingbox PRO
- Slingbox SOLO
A Sling Account

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X-Plane 10.03b6 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:59 PM PST

X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.

Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.

X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Space Shuttle. X-Plane comes with 35 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several thousand more are freely downloadable from the internet. (See www.X-Plane.org as a good place to start).

X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between 74 degrees north to 60 degrees south latitude. We also have MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation). On Earth, you can land at any of over 33,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.

Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists at the location of flight!

X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with multitudes of systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, landing gear, or dozens of other systems at any moment.

While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) Airfoil-Maker (allowing users to create airfoil performance profiles), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the internet).

X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.

X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux platforms.

BE SURE TO TURN ON THE >BETA< option in the installer before you run it to get the beta!

The demo contains a limited scenery area to keep the download size reasonable. It will run for 10 minutes before it begins to ignore the user's input, at which point the simulator must be restarted to fly more.

Version 10.03b6:

ATC:

Fixed bug preventing lowercase routings from working
Fixed numerous crashes in the ATC system.
Fixed bug causing AI planes to suddenly taxi through a hold short line wildly.
Fixed bug causing the view to change while using the arrows to navigate ATC menus.
Adjusted timers to let users communicate with ATC more easily.
Adjusted "off course" tolerances to make it less annoying.
Improved automatic layout generation at KTCM (and hopefully other airports that are long and thin)

Aircraft:

CRJ and other aicraft cockpits should work at night in HDR mode on OS X Lion.
Sim is more tolerant of missing textures - the rules now match v9 for OBJs.
Slight improvement to braking model to aid in erroneous aircraft drifting.
Baron 58: Added cockpit night lighting. Use the four lighting knobs under the copilot yoke to adjust.
F4 Phantom: Adjusted the flight model for better in-flight handling and more reasonable manners on approach and landing.
Fixed seg fault in weight/weapons window.

Rendering:

Fixed cut-off global lights on ATI hardware.

If X-Plane 10 does not prompt you to update automatically, pick "About X-Plane" from the About Menu. If your copy is out of date, X-Plane will prompt you to update.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later
a 2 GHz, dual-core CPU
2 GB of RAM
a DirectX 9-capable video card with 128 MB of on-board, dedicated video RAM (VRAM). See here for compatibility and graphics cards.

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Marzipig!

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 11:04 PM PST

Jonas Laberg made this horrifyingly delicious marzipig:

This was meant as a Christmas present for two girls I know who are 5 and 7, but I don't think I'll give it to them actually. It turned out a bit too evil-demon-pig-from-hell-y for that. Now it' s sitting on a shelf threatening me with its existence. I'm not quite sure what I should do with it.
For those that are into numbers: that's 10kg of marzipan, about 47 000 kcal. And it's got six nipples.

Evil marzipan pig is evil (via Neatorama)