четверг, 6 июня 2013 г.

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Aurora Blu-ray Player 2.12.8.1246 - Software Blu-ray player with DTS 7.1. (Shareware)

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:21 AM PDT



Aurora Blu-ray Player was specifically designed for trouble-free viewing of protected Blu-ray movies, ISO, and online resources. This Blu-ray player software can be used not only as a viewer for Blu-ray movie discs, standard Blu-ray folders, and Blu-ray ISO's, but also as a DVD player, media player, audio player, and photo viewer. The latest support for DTS HD brings Blu-ray DTS 7.1 to your desktop.

Version 2.12.8.1246:
  • Fix some crashing bugs


  • OS X 10.6 or later
  • Blu-ray drive



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Food Frenzy - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:05 AM PDT

During online play (referred to in Food Frenzy as Eat Off mode), players compete in up to five 30 second rounds where they try to make matches of three or more food in a row. Matching additional food before the board has come to a rest will multiply the players score. But watch out, sliding a piece that doesn't result in a match will reduce the player's skill bonus at the end of each round. To help the player out, special power items occasionally become available, including the bomb which blasts all the surrounding food, and the magnifying glass which points out all the matches on the board. Making matches larger than three will improve the chance for special items to appear.

Players can also take a break from the competitive Eat Offs and enjoy the more relaxed solo challenges referred to as Buffet mode. The Buffet comes in three sizes: Super Size, Normal Size and Snack Size. In Snack Size, the player starts out trying to match at least three of each type of food. As the match goal is met, a new level starts with the match goal increased by one of each food type. The game ends after the 60 second timer runs out. Normal Size offers the same matching rules, but with each successive level, the timer is reset. In Super Size, the goal is to match 100 of any food type to clear the level and reset the timer which gets progressively shorter.

Greatfruit Grove - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:47 AM PDT

Players will want to fertilize their trees and keep them smiling through strategic placement near playful monkey structures. Happy, well-fertilized trees bear the most fruit which can be traded for activities, structures, decorations, upgrades and more!

Greatfruit Grove features:
- Dozens of dancing trees to cross-breed, plant, grow and cultivate
- A secret grove populated by the most adorable little genius monkeys you've ever seen
- Trade fruit to unlock fun decorations for the monkeys to play with
- A mystical bovine fertilizer factory
- Bright and cheerful visuals and animations
- Support for Game Center and Facebook to visit other groves, trade fruit and give gifts

Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 6620-6662: Biomedical Importance of Indoles

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The indole nucleus is an important element of many natural and synthetic molecules with significant biological activity. This review covers some of the relevant and recent achievements in the biological, chemical and pharmacological activity of important indole derivatives in the areas of drug discovery and analysis.

Square Enix will reveal the 'Future of Final Fantasy' on June 11

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:26 AM PDT

The future of the long-running Final Fantasy series will be revealed by Square Enix during a pre-E3 event; senior vice-president Shinji Hashimoto will be present.

 

Developer and publisher Square Enix has announced that it will reveal the future of the Final Fantasy series on June 11, Destructoid has reported.

In an invitation sent to media, the company announced plans for a Final Fantasy event to be hosted on the morning of June 11, simply labelled with "The Future of Final Fantasy".

Following the presentation, senior vice-president and Final Fantasy brand director Shinji Hashimoto will be present for a Q&A session with media.

Earlier this year, Hashimoto announced a new Final Fantasy game in development for the PlayStation 4. He did not share any details about the game, but told fans to "please be excited for E3 this year".

The company also showcased its Luminous Studio engine on a technology demo titled "Agni's Philosophy".

Speaking about the demo, Hashimoto said it resembles what the developer is hoping to create in the next generation of games.

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"Square Enix will reveal the 'Future of Final Fantasy' on June 11" was posted by Zorine Te on Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:26:17 -0700

Telltale Games teases more characters on Vine

Posted: 05 Jun 2013 11:33 PM PDT

Latest Vine teasers shows Russell; season two is due to resume in Q3 this year.

 

Earlier this week, Telltale Games posted a Vine showing what many believe to be new characters from The Walking Dead.

Now, the developer has followed up with another cryptic sequence. Labelled "Day 184", this latest update focuses on a young man in a graduation outfit; the name Russell is shown. Another face appears with text alongside, reading "missing".

Telltale Games has confirmed its plans to release the second season of the episodic adventure game in the third quarter of this year. Game writer Gary Whitta previously suggested the possibility of bridging the gap between its first and second season with additional content.

"Knowing that people are hungry for more Walking Dead"there may very well be more Walking Dead from Telltale before season two. We may have a little something extra for you between season one and two," Whitta said in an earlier interview.

As well as a second season of The Walking Dead, Telltale Games is also currently developing The Wolf Among Us.

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"Telltale Games teases more characters on Vine" was posted by Dan Chiappini on Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:33:05 -0700

New Zealand man chooses jail over Xbox

Posted: 05 Jun 2013 09:47 PM PDT

New Zealand prisoner under house arrest asked to serve out the remaining month of his sentence in prison because he had run out of Xbox games to play.

 

A 19-year-old man under house arrest in Whangarei, New Zealand has pleaded with police to serve out the final stretch of his 11-month sentence in jail because he was "sick of playing Xbox."

Regional newspaper The Northern Advocate reports (via NeoGAF) that the man rang police on Tuesday to say he had "run out of Xbox games to play" and would breach his home detention if he wasn't placed in jail to serve out the remaining month of his sentence.

The man is now serving in Northland Region Corrections Facility, which serves 548 prisoners and ranges from minimum to high security detention.

The Northern Advocate reports that judges in New Zealand's Northland region have said home arrest is not as easy a sentence as it might sound.

Under the house arrest laws in New Zealand, prisoners are required to stay indoors and are placed under electronic surveillance. The maximum sentence for house arrest under New Zealand law is 12 months.

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"New Zealand man chooses jail over Xbox" was posted by Martin Gaston on Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:47:55 -0700

Ian Livingstone: Nintendo must bring its games to other platforms - Report

Posted: 05 Jun 2013 08:57 PM PDT

Eidos life president says Nintendo must expand to support non-Nintendo devices; failure to do so risks being missed by an entire generation of gamers.

 

Nintendo needs to bring its software to non-Nintendo platforms if it wants to be seen by gamers, Eidos life president Ian Livingstone said during a Bristol Games Hub presentation, according to a report on PocketGamer.

"Nintendo should have their IP on every platform," said Livingstone. He believes that the Japanese developer must consider publishing its games on non-Nintendo devices, such as mobile phones, even if doing so comes at the cost of its ability to sell its own hardware.

Livingstone suggested that failure to make the transition to other platforms will result in missed opportunities to get key Nintendo franchises in front of gamers who don"t own the company"s handhelds and home consoles.

"Otherwise, a whole generation of young people will miss out on their games," he said.

In 2011, the Pokemon Company announced that it would be bringing its official Pokemon application to Android and Apple phones. But while many hoped that it was the first of many of Nintendo"s key mascots to make the jump to mobile devices, those hopes were dashed when Nintendo confirmed that the company would remain focused on building for its own platforms, saying that Nintendo"s strategy "hasn't changed and won't change".

In a previous interview with Japanese publication Nikkei, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said making a move to support rival devices would drastically change the fundamentals of the way the business operates.

"If we did this, Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo. Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength. It's the duty of management to make use of those strengths," Iwata said.

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"Ian Livingstone: Nintendo must bring its games to other platforms - Report" was posted by Dan Chiappini on Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:57:49 -0700

Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 6608-6619: Self-Assembly of a 1D Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer from a Hexamethyltetraaza Macrocyclic Nickel(II) Complex and Isophthalic Acid

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The compound [Ni(L)(isoph)2][Ni(L)]·8H2O (1; L = C-meso-5,5,7,12,12,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane; H2-isoph = isophthalic acid) has been synthesized and structurally characterized. Complex 1 exhibits a geometrically symmetric core with a {4/6} coordination number set. The coordination environment around the Ni(1) ion is a distorted octahedron, while the geometry around the four-coordinate Ni(2) is depicted as square planar in 1D hydrogen-bonded infinite chain. The compound crystallizes in the triclinic system P-1 with a = 8.602(2), b = 10.684(7), c = 16.550(3) Å, a = 91.04(4), b = 94.09(2), g = 111.09(4)°, V = 1413.9(10) Å3, Z = 1. The cyclic voltammogram of 1 undergoes one-electron wave corresponding to NiII/NiI process. The electronic spectra, electrochemical and TGA behavior of the complex are significantly affected by the nature of the hexamethyltetraaza macrocycle and the axial isoph2− ligand.

Nutrients, Vol. 5, Pages 2047-2061: Does Excess Weight Interfere with Bone Mass Accumulation during Adolescence?

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Obesity and osteoporosis are important global health problems characterized by increasing prevalence with high impact on morbidity and mortality. The objective of this review was to determine whether excess weight during adolescence interferes with bone mass accumulation. If bone mineral gain can be optimized during puberty, adults are less likely to suffer from the devastating complications of osteoporosis. The increased fracture risk in obese children has also been attributed to a lower bone mass for weight compared to non-obese children. Thus, adiposity present in this age group may not result in the protection of bone mass, in contrast to what has been observed in adults. However, studies involving adolescents have reported both protective and detrimental effects of obesity on bone. The results and mechanisms of these interactions are controversial and have not been fully elucidated, a fact highlighting the extreme relevance of this topic and the need to monitor intervening and interactive variables.

Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2898-2927: Relation between Seasonally Detrended Shortwave Infrared Reflectance Data and Land Surface Moisture in Semi‑Arid Sahel

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

In the Sudano-Sahelian areas of Africa droughts can have serious impacts on natural resources, and therefore land surface moisture is an important factor. Insufficient conventional sites for monitoring land surface moisture make the use of Earth Observation data for this purpose a key issue. In this study we explored the potential of using reflectance data in the Red, Near Infrared (NIR), and Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) spectral regions for detecting short term variations in land surface moisture in the Sahel, by analyzing data from three test sites and observations from the geostationary Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. We focused on responses in surface reflectance to soil- and surface moisture for bare soil and early to mid- growing season. A method for implementing detrended time series of the Shortwave Infrared Water Stress Index (SIWSI) is examined for detecting variations in vegetation moisture status, and is compared to detrended time series of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). It was found that when plant available water is low, the SIWSI anomalies increase over time, while the NDVI anomalies decrease over time, but less systematically. Therefore SIWSI may carry important complementary information to NDVI in terms of vegetation water status, and can provide this information with the unique combination of temporal and spatial resolution from optical geostationary observations over Sahel. However, the relation between SIWSI anomalies and periods of water stress were not found to be sufficiently robust to be used for water stress detection.

Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2883-2897: Estimation of Offshore Wind Resources in Coastal Waters off Shirahama Using ENVISAT ASAR Images

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Offshore wind resource maps for the coastal waters off Shirahama, Japan were made based on 104 images of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the ENVISAT satellite. Wind speed fields were derived from the SAR images with the geophysical model function CMOD5.N. Mean wind speed and energy density were estimated using the Weibull distribution function. These accuracies were examined in comparison with in situ measurements from the Shirahama offshore platform and the Southwest Wakayama buoy (SW-buoy). Firstly, it was found that the SAR-derived 10 m-height wind speed had a bias of 0.52 m/s and a RMSE of 2.33 m/s at Shirahama. Secondly, it was found that the mean wind speeds estimated from SAR images and the Weibull distribution function were overestimated at both sites. The ratio between SAR-derived and in situ measured mean wind speeds at Shirahama is 1.07, and this value was used for a long-term bias correction in the SAR-derived wind speed. Finally, mean wind speed and wind energy density maps at 80 m height were made based on the corrected SAR-derived 10 m-height wind speeds and the ratio U80/U10 calculated from the mesoscale meteorological model WRF.

Toxins, Vol. 5, Pages 1089-1104: Limited Stability of Microcystins in Oligopeptide Compositions of Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanobacteria): Implications in the Definition of Chemotypes

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The occurrence of diverse oligopeptides in cyanobacteria, including the cyanotoxins microcystins, has been recently used to classify individual clones into sub-specific oligopeptide chemotypes, whose composition and dynamics modulate microcystin concentrations in cyanobacterial blooms. Cyanobacterial chemotyping allows the study of the ecology of chemotypical subpopulations, which have been shown to possess dissimilar ecological traits. However, the stability of chemotypes under changing abiotic conditions is usually assumed and has not been assessed in detail. We monitored oligopeptide patterns of three strains of Microcystis aeruginosa under different nutrient and light conditions. MALDI-TOF MS revealed alterations in the microcystins signatures under N and P poor conditions and high light intensities (150 and 400 μmol photons m−2s−1). Variations in the general oligopeptide composition were caused by a gradual disappearance of microcystins with low relative intensity signals from the fingerprint. The extent of such variations seems to be closely related to physiological stress caused by treatments. Under identical clonal compositions, alterations in the oligopeptide fingerprint may be misinterpreted as apparent shifts in chemotype succession. We discuss the nature of such variations, as well as the consequent implications in the use of cyanobacterial chemotyping in studies at the subpopulation level and propose new guidance for the definition of chemotypes as a consistent subpopulation marker.

Toxins, Vol. 5, Pages 1064-1088: Currencies of Mutualisms: Sources of Alkaloid Genes in Vertically Transmitted Epichloae

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The epichloae (Epichloë and Neotyphodium species), a monophyletic group of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae, are systemic symbionts of cool-season grasses (Poaceae subfamily Poöideae). Most epichloae are vertically transmitted in seeds (endophytes), and most produce alkaloids that attack nervous systems of potential herbivores. These protective metabolites include ergot alkaloids and indole-diterpenes (tremorgens), which are active in vertebrate systems, and lolines and peramine, which are more specific against invertebrates. Several Epichloë species have been described which are sexual and capable of horizontal transmission, and most are vertically transmissible also. Asexual epichloae are mainly or exclusively vertically transmitted, and many are interspecific hybrids with genomic contributions from two or three ancestral Epichloë species. Here we employ genome-scale analyses to investigate the origins of biosynthesis gene clusters for ergot alkaloids (EAS), indole-diterpenes (IDT), and lolines (LOL) in 12 hybrid species. In each hybrid, the alkaloid-gene and housekeeping-gene relationships were congruent. Interestingly, hybrids frequently had alkaloid clusters that were rare in their sexual ancestors. Also, in those hybrids that had multiple EAS, IDT or LOL clusters, one cluster lacked some genes, usually for late pathway steps. Possible implications of these findings for the alkaloid profiles and endophyte ecology are discussed.

Netflix Fix: 'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon' highlights sibling rivalry with humor, charm

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:31 AM PDT

Sibling relationships are strange. They have the built-in "love you forever no matter what" situation that we feel with our parents but also have the flair of drama that could only come with someone who is a friend.

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Pyramus - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:41 AM PDT

The Terran ship abilities include the Destroyers' Homing Missile to take out the enemy at range, while the Support ship is able to repair damage of two nearby ships simultaneously. The Korthan Empire's arsenal includes the devastating Cluster Missile which fires as a single missile which then splits into multiple warheads.

Syberia (iOS) - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:31 AM PDT

The Redneckoning - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:27 AM PDT

Key Features:
• Intense action arcade shooter
• Intuitive controls: just tilt to aim and touch to fire
• Get ornery and activate buffs like 'Riled Up' to generate rage
• Earn Bux to gain gameplay buffs
• Shoot power-ups and barrels in the field improve your weapons and blow aliens to smithereens
• Wipe away gooey alien bits on the screen before your vision's plumb gone
• Beat friends' high scores on iOS via GameCenter

Realms of Arkania - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:20 AM PDT

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Screenshots

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:48 AM PDT

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