Condemned 2: Bloodshot Announced for Xbox360/PS3

Ask anyone who owns an Xbox 360 what one of the most memorable and surprising hit launch titles were and I’m sure Condemned will be at the top of everyone’s list. Thankfully, SEGA knows this and has announced today Condemned 2: Bloodshot will be released in early 2008 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot will put us back in the shoes of Ethan Thomas. It seems Ethan’s former partner has gone missing, so he sets out to find him. Ethan though isn’t the same man he used to be. He was effected by all of the craziness that went on in the first Condemned and is now a “desperate burnout”, according to SEGA’s description.

One of the biggest surprises from the announcement is the fact there will be online multiplayer included in Condemned 2: Bloodshot. No further details on what we should expect with this addition, but as soon as details emerge we will make sure to update you guys accordingly.

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Increasing User Experience With Javascript

Using the javascript library MooTools with some other free libraries, this tutorial series teaches how to increase user experience with some simple javascript. Using a fictional "blog" as the test site, subscribers will learn how to enhance the blog with modern web techniques such as:

• LightBox type photo gallery
• Expanding sub-menus
• AJAX loaded pages
• Sliding image menus
• Reflecting images without having to touch Photoshop
• Condensing a web page with Fx.Styles and Sliding Tabs
• ...and more

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Scribus 1.3.3.9

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was the first DTP application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so by almost a year. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Scribus also has unexpected touches such as: useful vector drawing tools, SVG import/export and support for OpenType Fonts. The Scribus file format is XML based; open and completely documented. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor - sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. There is an easy to use drag and drop scrapbook. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages and more are coming in the future.

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Freez Screen Video Capture 1.2

Freez Screen Video Capture is a tool to record screen activities and sounds as standard AVI video files. You can record any part of the screen's activities and the cursor's movements, using a microphone to narrate your screen recordings. You can choose the output video's compressor (such as Microsoft Video 1, MPEG-4, DivX...), quality, framerate, audio format (such as PCM, ADPCM, MP3, OGG...), and volumn. You can also start, pause, and stop screen recording with hotkeys. Use Freez Screen Video Capture to create screen demos, training videos, animated tutorials, animated presentations etc. Enjoy it!

Key Features:

* Start, pause, stop screen recording with user-defined hotkeys.
* Record screen activities into Standard or Compressed AVI video files.
* Record any region of the screen.
* Record Screen in any screen color depth.
* Supports sound recording from microphone, videotape, Internet, etc.
* Select the video encoder for your screen recording output AVI file.
* Adjustable screen capture framerate, output AVI video quality.
* Set the sound recording format and compressed audio format.
* Can record Actual Cursor on the screen.
* User-friendly interface, easy to use.

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Sun's open source Java

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of an open-source version of its Java Development Kit for Java Platform Standard Edition. Sun has contributed the software to the OpenJDK Community as free software under the GNU GPLv2. Sun also announced that OpenJDK-based implementations can use the JCK (Java SE 6 Technical Compatibility Kit) to establish compatibility with the Java SE 6 specification.

This announcement represents one of the largest source code contribution to the free software community and the open-source release of one of the industry's most significant and pervasive software platforms, Sun officials said.

OpenBSD has already started importing the release into distribution, as other Linux/BSD platforms are expected to follow.

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Comcast Demonstrates 150-Mbps Modem

At the National Cable and Telecommunications Association meeting in Las Vegas, Comcast has unveiled its future weapon against the competition: a modem three times faster than FiOS. The DOCSIS 3.0 technology ties four cable lines together. The cable modem, developed by the Cable Industry's Cable Television Laboratories, could be available in a few years. It reportedly features a broadband download speed of 150 Mbps – in the Las Vegas demo, a 32-volume copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's visual dictionary were downloaded in less than four minutes.

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EasyBCD - Vista bootloader modification tool

EasyBCD provides an advanced GUI that makes it relatively easy to modify the Windows Vista bootloader, allowing you to add and remove entries to it for dual booting with other versions of Windows, as well as Linux/BSD, Mac OS X and other operating systems. Depending on your system configuration, creating a multi-boot system can be as simple as clicking a few buttons (but it may also require copying and editing of system files). The program can backup and restore your current boot settings, allowing you to undo any changes if you run into problems.

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