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- Down the Shore: Beach Run, Boat Poker, Carnival
- Outwitters - Screenshots
- My stupidest moment as a customer, ever
- Leopard WebKit 121685 - Nightly channel build of WebKit for PowerPC Macs. . (Free)
- AuroraFox 15.0a2 - Firefox Aurora for PPC.. (Free)
- Crystals, Vol. 2, Pages 893-934: Vibrational Spectra of β″-Type BEDT-TTF Salts: Relationship between Conducting Property, Time-Averaged Site Charge and Inter-Molecular Distance
- Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 5, Pages 727-744: Probiotics and Atopic Dermatitis in Children
- Societies, Vol. 2, Pages 75-83: Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars
- Cells, Vol. 1, Pages 284-312: Regulation of the Autophagic Bcl-2/Beclin 1 Interaction
- Energies, Vol. 5, Pages 2263-2287: Towards Energy Demand Reduction in Social Housing Buildings: Envelope System Optimization Strategies
- Energies, Vol. 5, Pages 2248-2262: Kinetics of the Formation and Dissociation of Gas Hydrates from CO2-CH4 Mixtures
- Batch Image Resizer 1.5.2 - Re-size multiple pictures for your web page.. (Shareware)
- Wheels of Ages - Screenshots
- Hasta La Muerte - Screenshots
- Sound Byte: Meet the Composer - Skullgirls
- Persona 4 Arena on PS3 will be region-locked
- Big in Japan June 25-July 1: Pokemon, Fatal Frame II Wii
- ACMI Game Masters - A Quick Tour
- Comic-Con 2012 Preview
- Chalking things up with Dokuro
| Down the Shore: Beach Run, Boat Poker, Carnival Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:58 AM PDT Fireworks are through, barbecues are shuttered, but there's still plenty to do down the shore this weekend. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:41 AM PDT Features: - Take turns asynchronously, or pass the device - 1-on-1 or 2-on-2 mayhem! - Battle players of similar skill with League matchmaking - Use your Game Center account and friends list - A universal app with retina support |
| My stupidest moment as a customer, ever Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:43 AM PDT I waited a couple of minutes for it to stop, but it wouldn't stop. I got out bed and looked under the toilet. I jiggled the handle. I flushed. BRRRRRRRRRRRR I called the front desk. "Hi. There's something really wrong with my toilet. I flushed it and now it's going BRRRRRRRRRRRR. Can you find a maintenance person, please?" It was about 1AM. There weren't a lot of maintenance people around. Ten minutes went by. BRRRRRRRRRRRR. Fifteen minutes. BRRRRRRRRRRRR. I called the front desk again. "Hi, I don't mean to be impatient, but I've got a meeting early tomorrow morning and I really need to get some sleep. If you can't get a maintenance staffer in the next couple minutes, I think I'll need another room, OK?" The maintenance guy came. I told him what had happened. We stood in the bathroom together, blearily, confronting the incredible, loud, nonstop BRRRRRRRRRRRR that seemed to come from all around us as the pipes shivered in the very walls. "I've never heard a toilet make that noise before," the maintenance guy said. "Me neither. I'll just wait in the room." I went and sat on the bed, half-fuming, half-dozing. Suddenly, the BRRRRRRRRRRRR noise became much quieter: brrrrrrrrrrrr. Then, quieter still: brrrrrrrrrrrr. The maintenance guy came out, holding my toothbrush. It was one of those battery-powered ones, but the battery had died three cities back, so it was just a toothbrush now. I had left it switched on, in the water glass by the sink, on the marble countertop -- a perfect sounding-board for the anxious little motor in that fucker, which had somehow sprung back to life after several days of being dead. And that was the stupidest thing I've ever done as a customer. I practically prostrated myself in apology before the maintenance guy, called the front desk and told them "Never mind, I'm a huge idiot," and managed to get to sleep at last. (Image: Hotel View: Bathroom (004), a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from jdsmith1021's photostream) |
| Leopard WebKit 121685 - Nightly channel build of WebKit for PowerPC Macs. . (Free) Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:30 AM PDT  Leopard WebKit is a nightly channel build of WebKit for PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.5. It is the only PPC browser to support full H.264 and Grooveshark Mobile. Version 121685: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated. Mac OS X 10.5 only Download Now |
| AuroraFox 15.0a2 - Firefox Aurora for PPC.. (Free) Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:33 AM PDT  AuroraFox is a build of Firefox Aurora for PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.5. Version 15.0a2:
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| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT The relationship between the conducting behavior and the degree of charge fluctuation in the β″-type BEDT-TTF salts is reviewed from the standpoints of vibrational spectroscopy and crystal structure. A group of β″-type ET salts demonstrates the best model compounds for achieving the above relationship because the two-dimensional structure is simple and great diversity in conducting behavior is realized under ambient pressure. After describing the requirement for the model compound, the methodology for analyzing the results of the vibrational spectra is presented. Vibrational spectroscopy provides the time-averaged molecular charge, the charge distribution in the two-dimensional layer, and the inter-molecular interactions, etc. The experimental results applied to 2/3-filled and 3/4-filled β″-type ET salts are reported. These experimental results suggest that the conducting property, the difference in the time-averaged molecular charges between the ionic and neutral-like sites, the alternation in the inter-molecular distances and the energy levels in the charge distributions are relevant to one another. The difference in the time-averaged molecular charges, ∆ρ, is a useful criterion for indicating conducting behavior. All superconductors presented in this review are characterized as small but finite ∆ρ. |
| Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 5, Pages 727-744: Probiotics and Atopic Dermatitis in Children Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT There is increasing interest in the potential beneficial role of probiotic supplementation in the prevention and treatment of atopic diseases in children. Probiotics are defined as ingested live microorganisms that, when administered in an adequate amount, confer a health benefit to the host. They are mainly represented by Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. Several epidemiological data demonstrate that intestinal microflora of atopic children is different from the one of healthy children. Many literature data show that probiotics may modulate the intestinal microflora composition and may have immunomodulatory effect. Based on this hypothesis, probiotics are supposed to confer benefits to allergic diseases. Administration of probiotics when a natural population of indigenous intestinal bacteria is still developing could theoretically influence immune development by favoring the balance between Th1 and Th2 inflammatory responses. For this reason, some studies have evaluated the potential impact of probiotics supplementation in the prevention of atopic dermatitis, with contrasting results. Clinical improvement in immunoglobulin (Ig)E-sensitized (atopic) eczema following probiotic supplementation has been reported in some published studies and the therapeutic effects of probiotics on atopic dermatitis seemed to be encouraging. However, as far as the usefulness of probiotics as a prevention strategy is concerned, results are still inconclusive. In fact, the clinical benefits of probiotic therapy depend upon numerous factors, such as the type of bacteria, dosing regimen, delivery method and other underlying host factors, such as age and diet. More studies are still needed to definitively prove the role of probiotics in the treatment of allergic eczema. |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT This paper highlights the utility of an expanded ableism concept beyond how it is used in disability studies; expanding the concept of ableism so it connects with all aspects of societies and making ableism applicable to many academic fields. It introduces this expanded form of ableism as a new angle of cultural research and suggests it to be one possible venue for disability studies scholars to escape the ghettoization of their impact. |
| Cells, Vol. 1, Pages 284-312: Regulation of the Autophagic Bcl-2/Beclin 1 Interaction Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process responsible for the delivery of cellular material to the lysosomes. One of the key mechanisms for control of autophagy is the modulation of the interaction between the autophagic protein Beclin 1 and the members of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family (e.g., Bcl-2, Bcl-XL and Mcl-1). This binding is regulated by a variety of proteins and compounds that are able to enhance or inhibit the Bcl-2/Beclin 1 interaction in order to repress or activate autophagy, respectively. In this review we will focus on this interaction and discuss its characteristics, relevance and regulation. |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT This work evaluates the potential for the reduction of energy demand in residential buildings by acting on the exterior envelope, both in newly constructed buildings and in the retrofitting of existing stock. It focuses on analysing social housing buildings in Mediterranean areas and on quantifying the scope of that reduction in the application of different envelope design strategies, with the purpose of prioritizing their application based on their energy efficiency. The analyses and quantifications were made by means of the generation of energy models with the TRNSYS tool for simple or combined solutions, identifying possible potentials for reduction of the energy demand from 20% to 25%, basically by acting on the windows. The case study was a newly built social housing building of a closed block type located in Seville (Spain). Its constructive techniques and the insulation level of its envelope are standardized for current buildings widespread across Mediterranean Europe. |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the form of its hydrates in natural methane (CH4) hydrate reservoirs, via CO2/CH4 exchange, is an attractive pathway that also yields valuable CH4 gas as product. In this paper, we describe a macroscale experiment to form CO2 and CH4-CO2 hydrates, under seafloor-mimic conditions, in a vessel fitted with glass windows that provides visualization of hydrates throughout formation and dissociation processes. Time resolved pressure and temperature data as well as images of hydrates are presented. Quantitative gas conversions with pure CO2, calculated from gas chromatographic measurements yielded values that range from 23 – 59% that correspond to the extent of formed hydrates. In CH4-rich CH4-CO2 mixed gas systems, CH4 hydrates were found to form preferentially. |
| Batch Image Resizer 1.5.2 - Re-size multiple pictures for your web page.. (Shareware) Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT  Batch Image Resizer ... If you have ever needed to re-size multiple pictures for your web page, then this program is for you. With this appliction, you can resize, rotate, add a transparent border, and save pictures with an icon preview. Best of all, it uses batch mode processing - so you can manipulate multiple pictures at once! Also, it allows you to grab the first page of a PDF file, convert it to an image, and resize it.
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| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:12 AM PDT WHEELS OF AGES features: INTUITIVE GAMEPLAY - Move from wheel to wheel and escape the rising water! - Unlock and play 6 heroes from the most important epochs of the history of mankind! CATCHY UNIVERSE Discover the story of the game through seven comic pages with a unique style! AMAZING CHOICE OF STAGES - Cross 60 stages dispatched among 6 ages! EASY GAMEPLAY FOR ALL - Try the incredibly intuitive « ONE-touch » system which only requires one finger to play! - A game for both the right and left-handed! STORE & BONUSES TO DISCOVER - Collect as many coins as you can through the different stages and spend them in the game store! - Unlock bonus items to boost up your character! SHARE YOUR FAME - With the global Hall of Fame, compare your progress in the game with the best players worldwide, in real time! - Follow your friends' progress with the Apple Game Center! - Share your scores on Twitter and Facebook! UNLOCK ACHIEVEMENTS - 30 achievements await you to salute your performances! |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:03 AM PDT Your mission: accompany the souls of those for whom eternal rest has come, and save them from damnation. But be warned: losing concentration for a second could spell disaster, because these souls, damned and inconsolable, will pursue you relentlessly all the way back to Limbo! Accessible to everyone, this "survival-platformer" offers frenetic, "chase-and-be-chased" gameplay in the style of the famous Pac-Man. During your journey, you'll be aided by "Soulpets" - these are souls that will give you their abilities: speed, stealth, protection, and many more. In addition to facilitating your mission, these abilities will allow you to return to already-played levels in order to find additional bonuses and discover hidden treasures. Features : - Over 30 immersive levels in a uniquely-designed 2D world! - An innovative game experience for all ages. - Meet the Soulpets and utilize their specific powers to create new strategies and increase your score. - Confront the enigmatic Scientist and his bizarre creations, including the Meca-Angel, the Cyclop, and many more. - Game Center access for sharing high scores. |
| Sound Byte: Meet the Composer - Skullgirls Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT We put up our 2D-animated dukes and talked to audio director Vincent Diamante on the game's musical inspiration and the tough bits of sound designing.
Get the full article at GameSpot "Sound Byte: Meet the Composer - Skullgirls" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:19:23 -0700 |
| Persona 4 Arena on PS3 will be region-locked Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:28 PM PDT The North American version of an upcoming fighting game will only work on North American and South American PS3 consoles; online servers will be global.
Atlus has announced that the North American version of the upcoming 2D fighting game Persona 4 Arena will only work on PS3 consoles in North and South America. While both the Japanese and North American version of P4A will be identical and will include both English and Japanese text and voiceovers, the Japanese version of P4A will require a Japanese PS3 console. Atlus also confirmed that the online servers for P4A's online play will be global. This means that players using the North American version of the game can fight against other online players from different territories. No comment has been given by Atlus to GameSpot as to why the region lock has been implemented in the PS3 version of the game. For more information, check out GameSpot's recent coverage. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Persona 4 Arena on PS3 will be region-locked" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:28:36 -0700 |
| Big in Japan June 25-July 1: Pokemon, Fatal Frame II Wii Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:44 PM PDT Nintendo pocket monster role-playing game still reigns supreme; new Atelier RPG and Fatal Frame Wii remake debut in top 10.
It's hard to keep a monster simulator down, and the most recent sales update from Media Create proved just that. Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 was once again the best-selling title for the week of June 25 and July 1, following its debut the week of June 18. Both versions of the DS game sold 416,850 units, bringing its total sales unit to 2,035,471. Newcomer Atelier Ayesha also made a strong debut at second place with 60,548 units sold. The role-playing game is the next iteration of the Atelier series following the previous trilogy consisting of Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori, and Atelier Meruru. The game's combat system enables players to move party members around and lets them perform team attacks depending on their positioning. Atelier Ayesha also has multiple endings and a new item synthesis mechanic like previous Atelier titles. Other newcomers include strategy game Culdcept and visual novel adventure title Robotics; Notes for the 3DS and PlayStation 3, respectively. The former sold 55,469 units, while the latter sold 54,753. The PS3 version of Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection debuted at sixth place with 33,393 units sold. Apart from HD visuals, the collection features unlockable trophy achievements and PlayStation Move support. The Wii version of Fatal Frame II made an appearance in the top 10. The adventure game was at seventh place with 25,280 units sold. The remake still retains elements of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly for the PS2 and Xbox, but adds in a third-person camera angle and new viewfinder options and controls for the camera obscura. Former top 10 spot holder Persona 4 The Golden was bumped down to 11th place with 15,497 units sold. Mario Party 9, too, went down a few notches to 13th place with 14,049 units sold. Due to the release of the crystal white version of the PlayStation Vita, sales for the system went up to 22,638 units. Otherwise, each system stayed in the same spot as the previous week on the hardware charts. The 3DS was still on top with 65,267 units, while the PS3 was at third place with 16,399 units. Top Japan Game Sales for June 25 - July 1 Software Hardware [CORRECTION]: This story originally misreported the sales figures for Persona 4: The Golden and Atelier Ayesha. Adjustments to the story have since been made to reflect the changes. GameSpot regrets the error. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Big in Japan June 25-July 1: Pokemon, Fatal Frame II Wii" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:44:44 -0700 |
| ACMI Game Masters - A Quick Tour Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:41 PM PDT Laura Parker takes us on a quick tour of what you can expect when visiting the ACMI Game Masters exhibition in Melbourne, Australia!
Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "ACMI Game Masters - A Quick Tour" was posted by edmondt on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:41:51 -0700 |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:51 PM PDT Maxwell searches the GameSpot office for answers to his Comic-Con questions.
Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Comic-Con 2012 Preview" was posted by franka on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:51:05 -0700 |
| Chalking things up with Dokuro Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:39 PM PDT You will believe a member of the undead can feel love in Game Arts and GungHo's inspiring platformer.
Can a representative of the undead ever find love and gain the affection of a radiant human princess in a gothic setting? That's the question Game Arts and GungHo poses in its upcoming 2D puzzle-laden platformer, Dokuro. You play the title character, a diminutive undead skeleton, who has to lead a princess captured by the Dark Lord to her freedom. Players will need to go through the different sections of the impossibly-large castle, as they tax their brains with all sorts of puzzles. Luckily, the skeleton has a few tricks of his own to guide the princess from point A to B. You can make the skeleton double-jump to reach high places, and move like the wind to trigger switches. He also has a club he can use to stun and knock enemies away, but doesn't hurt them in the slightest. The puzzles we saw involved moving targets In one stage, we needed to light up a powder keg by using a nearby fire demon. Because it was jumping around, we had to time our swing so that it landed close to the keg. The skeleton needs more than just a calcium-crafted club for defense; that's where the hero form comes into play. With either a double-tap on the front or rear touchpad, Dokuro transforms into a prince that can not only slash enemies to their deaths, but also carry the princess to bypass small ledges or other manageable obstacles. The potion meter on the right side of the screen displays how long you've got until you revert back to your bony form. In addition, you have access with chalk powers; by selecting the color type of chalk with the left trigger, you can draw lines on the touch screen to alter the environment. Using a white chalk line connects severed ropes onto heavy objects so that they stay suspended, while using a red chalk lets you light up fuses to blow up powder kegs. We played through five stages in our demo, with each stage consisting of ten segments and its own brain teasers. While the first stage was a tutorial about the game's controls and mechanics, we ran into a bit of trouble with some of the puzzles on the third stage and beyond. Some require you to lay out a makeshift bridge of boxes while clearing a path of beasties, while others required us to fly across the area using a blimp while capping off fire traps using crates. One puzzle forced us to use metal casings as platforms, and when combined with fire traps the metal platforms eventually became dangerously hot. In another instance we needed to shoot the princess out of a cannon and adjust its trajectory so that she didn't smash her face through a spiked barrier. Dokuro's puzzles require a bit of thinking, as well as speedy platforming and navigation, especially those with timers. Restarting a puzzle was quick and painless should our previous efforts have failed. In fact, you have the option to skip up to ten puzzles if your brain can't handle particular conundrums. To earn back a skip option, you need only head back to the puzzle that stumped you and complete it. The game also throws in a boss fight or two for good measure. We came across one creative one and one that felt anticlimactic given Dokuro's puzzle-encrusted motive. The first boss, the Guardian, jumps around on three highlighted spots on the ground while attempting to pound you. While you can heap on the damage in hero form, we found it easier to wait until it did a stomp bringing down a crate with spikes on top of it, then drag it to one of the landing spots; dealing heavy damage and stunning it momentarily for you to land a few hits. The other boss, the Chef, is a spider-like demon who will throw fish bones at you from a distance. Hitting the nearby bell will bring the Chef's platform closer so you can inflict prince power on him. You just have to time your dodges from its powder attack and cleaver swings. Hopefully the remaining boss fights are just as creative as the rest of the game because the fight with the Chef is as dry as our protagonist's complexion. Dokuro's art style is unique to say the least; relying on chalk scribbling and 2D animations. It isn't entirely black and white, but the game's look is what you would get if The Nightmare Before Christmas was hand-drawn on a black board frame by frame. The monsters are more cartoony than horrifying, and the main protagonist is adorable to a point of sadness that his default form isn't noticeable by the object of his affection. While the drive of the game is to see how the narrative ends, the puzzles and decor are obvious highlights. We definitely enjoyed our stay in the gothic and complex chalkboard world, and we're eager to see more on how the story plays out. Look for Dokuro's 2D action on the PS Vita right now as it just launched on July 5 with both Japanese and English subtitles. A North American and European release has yet to be announced. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Chalking things up with Dokuro" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:39:29 -0700 |
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