вторник, 24 января 2012 г.

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Magic, juggling and variety: Mat Ricardo's East London spectacular

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST


I've featured the work of net-savvy, happily mutated juggler and magician Mat Ricardo here before. Now he's planning quite an astounding show in east London. He sez,

Further to the tale of how I soul-searched, and crowd-sourced to revitalise my career - I'm launching a unique new monthly variety show in London.

The best performers from the glory days of light entertainment and the dangerous years of alternative comedy, plus the current stars of cabaret will - for the first time - share the same bill and create a series of unique, one-night-only line-ups. In addition to this, every month we'll invite an old hand - a star of their world - a master of their craft - or just someone I particularly love - to perform and then sit down with me for a live on stage interview about their life, career and influences. And in association with SoundsWilde and the British Comedy Guide, we'll be recording the whole thing for release as a podcast.

It's a love letter to the people who inspired me, and who have kept variety alive in the workingmens clubs, comedy venues, festival stages and streets around the world, and I couldn't be more excited about some of the guests I'll be having the pleasure of introducing. In the coming months we'll have some of the most thrilling, astonishing and spectacular acts you've ever seen, not to mention some household names giving you a glimpse into the life of a performer, and a few of the up and coming talents who are helping to spearhead the resurgence of variety. You can expect everyone from Royal Variety show veterans, to street performers, to TV stars. Each night is truly going to be something special.

Full details of the opening night line-up

Trailer podcast

(Thanks, Mat!)

Body Of Elderly Napa County Woman Found

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 11:55 PM PST

Deputies have discovered the body of a missing 87-year-old Napa County woman who went missing during stormy weather Friday, a sheriff's sergeant said.

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RipIt 1.6.2 - Gets your movies off DVD and onto your Mac.. (Shareware)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



RipIt ... Movies are great, but discs are a pain. RipIt gets your movies off the disc and onto your Mac, where it's easier to find, organize and play them.

Why Rip Your DVDs?

  • Use your laptop longer!
    Laptops use a lot more juice when they're spinning a DVD and a hard drive.
  • Easily organize your movies!
    Moving files around on your computer is a lot easier than alphabetizing shelves full of DVDs.
  • Find movies faster!
    Use your Mac's built in search tool, Spotlight, to find a movie in your collection... instantly.
  • Peace of mind!
    Movies stored safely in your computer can't get lost, scratched or broken.
  • Simplify entertainment on the go!
    Why carry around bulky DVD cases or disc wallets when you don't have to?



Version 1.6.2:
  • Updated disc patch for Rango ISBN 1-4157-5894-8.
  • Updated disc patch for Cars 2 Serial 7-86936-81277-0.
  • Updated to not delete rip when compress fails.
  • Added ability to use disc patching with compress.
  • Added new disc patching capabilities (languages, regions, display mode, main title indicator, and more).
  • Modified trial increment function.


Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.183 - Multimedia Web browser plug-in (beta).. (Free)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 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 11.2.202.183:

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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Google Chrome 16.0.912.77 - Modern and fast web browser.. (Free)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



Google Chrome is a Web browser by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple's Safari and Firefox browsers, they made the project open source.

Version 16.0.912.77:

All

  • Bug fixes.


Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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iWatermark Pro 1.19 - Easily add watermarks to art, photos and more.. (Shareware)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



iWatermark Pro allows you to secure and protect your photos. iWatermark allows you to create watermarks within iPhoto and Aperture. If you are a photographer or artist iWatermark works for you to by adding a visible personal text or graphic watermark. Once added to a photo or graphic this visible watermark displays your creation and ownership. Its like signing your intellectual property. Its cheaper, faster and easier to use than Photoshop.

iWatermark works with all photo browsers and directly within iPhoto.

iWatermark, is the only watermarking tool available for iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone/iPad. iWatermark is the most popular utility in the world to watermark photos for photographers.

Why Watermark?

  • Digitally sign your photos/artwork with iWatermark to claim, secure and maintain your intellectual property and reputation.
  • Build your company brand, by having your company logo on all your images.
  • Avoid the surprise of seeing your photos and/or artwork elsewhere on the web or in an ad.
  • Avoid the conflicts and headaches with plagiarists who claim they didn't know that you created it.
  • Avoid the costly litigation that can be involved in these cases of misuse of ip.
  • Avoid intellectual property squabbles.
iWatermark maintains meta tags, uses many input/output formats and can also create thumbnails. Can process single files or folders and more.

"The beauty of iWatermark is its combination of ease of use and functionality. If you've ever wanted to give watermarking a try, or if you're already doing it and you'd welcome a way to do it quickly and easily, iWatermark is an inexpensive and impressive utility. I've yet to see a better solution." Dan Frakes, Macworld, 4.5 of 5 mice.

Version 1.19:

  • now use Dropbox to backup your watermarks and settings and sync them between your Macs. from the advanced tab you can create a new dropbox account (2GB free) then upload to save settings and watermarks. If you have another Mac you can open iWatermark and download from Dropbox to sync watermarks between computers. Great for publishers and large photo workflows.
    • - also a fix for importing settings from the old iWatermark to deal with corrupt settings.


Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Music Manager 1.0.23.1334 - Official Google Music upload tool; store 20,000 songs for free.. (Free)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



Google's Music Manager lets you add songs from your computer to the Google Music service.

The software resides in your Mac's menu bar and in System Preferences.



Version 1.0.23.1334: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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TextSoap 7.2 - Flexible text editing utility.. (Demo)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



TextSoap is for people working with other people's text.

TextSoap is a tool designed for people who work with other people's documents, email, web pages, and more, TextSoap effortlessly cleans up text from endlessly different formats. Wash away unwanted characters, spaces, tabs. Fix paragraphs with hard returns at the end of each line, as well as a myriad of other formatting issues that come your way and do it all while retaining desired font styles.

Unlike finding and replacing each of dozens of typical formatting issues or manually perusing through a file to find errors and fixing them by hand, TextSoap can automate that task down to just one click. And you can do it all from within your favorite app using the TextSoap Universal menu.

Easy to learn for casual users, TextSoap also has the flexibility that serious users need.



Version 7.2:

Improvements:

  • Additional polish when opening, closing, selecting sidebar tabs.
  • Added iWorld,iPhone,iPad,iMac to common tech names capitalization cleaner.
Major preferences rework:
  • Renamed Universal to "Universal Menu", with new icon.
  • Renamed Grep to "Saved Searches", with new icon.
  • Moved Universal Menu tab to more prominent placement.
  • Moved Clipboard Workspace & Extras options into General tab.
  • Install Universal Menu in Menubar moved to General tab.
  • Agent mode option also moved to General tab.
  • Markdown with Preview is now handled internally instead of opening Safari for the preview.
  • Better handling of dropping Automator workflows onto TextSoap window.
  • Better regular expression replacement string handling.
  • Shows amount of text cleaned in about box.
  • Usage statistics option added to about window to show specific cleaners applied and how often.
Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: When closing find or regex lab sidebar, cursor focus would not return to text editor.
  • Fixed: Text field heights in find & replace custom cleaner action could get incorrect value.
  • Fixed: Under certain conditions, find sidebar tab would default to regular expression instead of text string searches.
  • Fixed: Running an automator workflow from within a custom cleaner could cause cleaner to crash.
  • Fixed: Could not properly replace match when also using look-ahead or look-behind groups in a regular expression.
  • Fixed: Regression issue that could cause some html entities to incorrectly evaluated.
  • Fixed: Conditional "If Text Matches" did not always respect the match capture group option.
  • Fixed: Action list "cleaners" in cleaner editor would not update correctly when new cleaners were added.
  • Fixed: Word count and invisibles properly update when document is opened and preferences are set.


Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

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iRip 2.1.4 - Transfer songs, videos, contacts, and more from your iOS device to your Mac.. (Shareware)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



iRip (formerally iPodRip) is the definitive iPod companion application. iRip allows you to get the most out of your iPod, iPhone and iPad -- you can transfer music, videos, and books from your iDevice back to your iTunes Library, listen to music directly on your iPod (allowing you to save valuable disk space) -- plus much more. iRip supports all iPod Media Types -- MP3, AAC, Protected AAC or Audible.com Content. Upgrade to iRip 2.0 for only $9.95 with your license from iRip 1.x.

Version 2.1.4:
  • Added support for iCloud
  • Bug Fixes


  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
  • iTunes 8.0 or later.
  • any iPod, iPhone.


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Fantastical 1.2 - Create calendar events using natural language.. (Demo)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 11:09 PM PST



Fantastical is the Mac calendar you'll actually enjoy using.

Creating an event with Fantastical is quick, easy, and fun:

  • Open Fantastical with a single click or keystroke
  • Type in your event details and press return
...and you're back to what you were doing with a shiny new event in your calendar!

Fantastical's natural language engine is expressive and intelligent so you can write in your own style. Fantastical also automatically recognizes the location of your event and can even invite people from your Address Book to the event.

Your events have never looked better

Plan your day in style with the most attractive calendar you've ever seen. Color-coding and beautiful design help you quickly make sense of your schedule. You can even change the number of events you want displayed, allowing you to focus on what's important.

Need more info about an event? Just click on it and the event's important details will be displayed instantly.

Edit and delete with ease

Presenting the easiest and quickest way to change your events: select the event you want to change and take control of your event with a single click or keystroke. For example, add event notes to existing events. Enter the information that's important for you to remember and it will stay attached to your event.

BYOC (Bring Your Own Calendar)

Fantastical works with your favorite Mac calendar application: iCal, BusyCal, Entourage, or Outlook.

You can even use your iCloud, MobileMe, Google Calendar or Yahoo! Calendar accounts: simply add them to iCal and you're all set.



Version 1.2:
  • Fantastical is now fully localized for French, German, Italian, and Spanish and automatically detects the language of your event regardless of your OS X language settings!
  • Improvements to recurring event parsing (such as "Soccer practice every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm" or "Lunch every Tuesday until 2/5")
  • Timed events for today that have passed are now dimmed
  • Event end times are now shown in the event list
  • URLs are now automatically detected when entering an event
  • Links in notes are now clickable
  • Fantastical no longer shows accounts that are disabled in iCal
  • Subscribed calendars are now automatically updated in Fantastical
  • Improved compatibility with proxy servers
  • Fixed subscriptions appearing duplicated in rare cases
  • Fixed the Fantastical service not working if Fantastical wasn't already open
  • Fixed a problem with sending invitations when using an Exchange calendar in Outlook
  • Various parsing improvements
  • Various bug fixes and improvements


Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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SoulCalibur V Roll Call Part 3

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:49 PM PST

Vampires and a fully-clothed female character? What game is this again? Join us as we continue to look at SoulCalibur V's character roster!

 

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"SoulCalibur V Roll Call Part 3" was posted by edmondt on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:49:42 -0800

Microsoft phasing out virtual currency system?

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:13 PM PST

Specialist mobile site reports that publisher is looking to end its proprietary Microsoft Points currency system in favour of real-world money.

 

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"Microsoft phasing out virtual currency system?" was posted by James Kozanecki on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:13:24 -0800

Scarygirl Review

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:48 PM PST

Scarygirl has style to spare, but vexing combat and loose controls get in the way of a great time.

     

Score: 6.0 / fair

Get the full article at GameSpot

"Scarygirl Review" was posted by Jason Venter on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:48:32 -0800

Sad Panda Skyblazing Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Ge

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:48 PM PST

Drop out of the sky in a panda suit and chop up citizens with a chainsaw in the Sad Panda Skyblazing mode in Saints Row: The Third – Genki Bowl VII.

 

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"Sad Panda Skyblazing Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Ge" was posted by JimM on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:48:15 -0800

Super Ethical PR Opportunity Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Th

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:47 PM PST

Get a good PR opportunity for your gang as you help Professon Genki get to his destination.

 

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"Super Ethical PR Opportunity Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Th" was posted by JimM on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:47:34 -0800

Sexy Kitten Yarngasm Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Ge

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:46 PM PST

Use a gaint ball of yarn to destroy the city in the Sexy Kitten Yarngasm mode of Saints Row: The Third – Genki Bowl VII.

 

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"Sexy Kitten Yarngasm Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Ge" was posted by JimM on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:46:51 -0800

Genki Apocalypse Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Genki

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:46 PM PST

In Genki Apocalypse you will need to make your way through a booby-trapped fake jungle environment while shooting billboards of Professor Genki.

 

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"Genki Apocalypse Gameplay Movie – Saints Row: The Third - Genki" was posted by JimM on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:46:09 -0800

Ten Ways to Improve Skyrim

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:45 PM PST

Some not entirely serious solutions to some of Skyrim's not entirely serious problems.

     

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"Ten Ways to Improve Skyrim" was posted by Justin Calvert on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:45:27 -0800

The President's challenge: What more does government want — or deserve — from the tech world?

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:16 PM PST

There's an old joke. Heavy rains start and a neighbour pulls up in his truck. "Hey Bob, I'm leaving for high ground. Want a lift?" Bob says, "No, I'm putting my faith in God." Well, waters rise and pretty soon the bottom floor of his house is under water. Bob looks out the second story window as a boat comes by and offers him a lift. "No, I'm putting my faith in God." The rain intensifies and floodwaters rise and Bob's forced onto the roof. A helicopter comes, lowers a line, and Bob yells "No, I'm putting my faith in God."

Well, Bob drowns. He goes to Heaven and finally gets to meet God. "God, what was that about? I prayed and put my faith in you, and I drowned!"

God says, "I sent you a truck, a boat, and a helicopter! What the hell more did you want from me?"

As SOPA looked shakier, the President handed a challenge to the technical community:

"Washington needs to hear your best ideas about how to clamp down on rogue Web sites and other criminals who make money off the creative efforts of American artists and rights holders," reads Saturday's statement. "We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge."

All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you MP3 and MP4. We gave you e-commerce, micropayments, PayPal, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, the iPad, the iPhone, the laptop, 3G, wifi--hell, you can even get online while you're on an AIRPLANE. What the hell more do you want from us?

Take the truck, the boat, the helicopter, that we've sent you. Don't wait for the time machine, because we're never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying was hard and you could treat the customer's convenience with contempt.

Republished with permission from O'Reilly Radar

PD: Illegal AZ, CA gambling ring busted

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:50 PM PST

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