Rockstar has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV will be arriving on the PC this November, bringing all of the rich, immersive narrative experience found in the console versions, along with newly expanded multiplayer just for the PC.
Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC debuts on November 18th in North America and on Novermber 21st in Europe.
“We are very excited to be releasing the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The whole team is dedicated to bringing an amazing gaming experience to the PC. The game looks and plays beautifully on PC and we can’t wait for people to play it.”
On August 7th, Battlefield: Bad Company players worldwide will get to experience the intense rush as they tackle online play in a whole new way with Conquest mode that will be released as a free download for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Made famous by Battlefield 1942, Conquest mode pits players against each other in a fast paced battle to eliminate the opposing team’s tickets. Players deplete their opponent’s tickets by one point per kill and can cause their opponent’s tickets to spiral downwards by capturing control points.
In Battlefield Bad Company four of the great gold rush maps have been totally redesigned for conquest mode, with new weather and lightning effects.
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.
Changes:
+ If using “Ask for password” and “Interactive” logon types, a username is now optional in the Site Manager
+ New iconset: OpenCrystal
+ MSW: Whether icon sets should be installed or not can be seleted in the installer
- Fix parsing of URLs containing port number in quickconnect bar
- Fix handling of local write errors if downloading files
- If closing FileZilla, the queue is now properly saved using a backup copy to prevent corruption of queue file
- Slight performance improvement if opening settings dialog, language and theme pages are now populated on demand
- Reply to server’s shutdown notification on SSL/TLS secured downloads if connection still open
- After downloading files, local file count did not update
- “My Sites” in Site Manager should not be dragable
- Fix entering IPv6 addresses in Site Manager
- Directory cache was incoherent after renaming a directory
- Several fixes to new socket class
- MSW: Starting a bounding box selection (Windows calls it marquee selection) did not set focus to the file lists
JavaRa is a small open source application that will check if your computer has the latest version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE). If the version you have installed has been superseded by a newer version the program will download and install this newer version for you, by running Java’s update program. It then allows you to remove all possible older versions of this program. This will ensure that the security of your computer is enhanced and extra space on your hard disk is created.
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.
Main features are:
- Hotfix, language pack and driver integration
- Component removal
- Unattended setup
- Tweaks
- Split/merge Vista installation CDs
- Create ISO and burn bootable CD/DVD
Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of unwanted components and bootable ISO creation in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. This tool doesn’t use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are in their original form and protected as they would be if you install the full version only without the components you select for the removal.
It configures the installation directly, before the installation, meaning you’ll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
Features:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
- WYSIWYG
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document
- Multi-View
- Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
- Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
- Dynamic position of Views
- File Status Auto-detection
- Zoom in and zoom out
- Multi-Language environment supported
- Bookmark
- Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
- Macro recording and playback
Changelog:
1. Fix crash bug while processing find in all opened files/find in files in a file contains a very long line.
2. Fix the display problem in found results dialog while processing find in all opened files/find in files in a file contains a very long line.
3. Fix not remembering the history file setting “Don’t check at launch time” option bug.
aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Its main objective is to assist users who are new to the GNU/Linux operating system keep in contact with those who use the Microsoft program which is available only on Windows and Macintosh. To achieve this objective, aMSN attempts to emulate the look and feel of MSN Messenger, and supports many of its features.
aMSN has features not present in MSN Messenger. Users can set alarms, are able to see others who have removed them from their contact list, and are able to open many profiles at once. It is also very customizable, with extensions and themes available at the main site. aMSN also allows functions not available in the Macintosh version of MSN Messenger, such as webcam support, and the “nudge” feature.
Last week when my vacation started I took a decision, that I wanted to convert Live2K to use Wordpress instead of my custom coded script. I feel this is the right choice, cause then I can concentrate on posting news, and not on the script so much.
The database conversation went well, and I feel I picked a good template ( Thanks wpthemesplugin.com ) to go along with the site.
There are still a couple of plugins that needs to be added, and some minor template changes that needs to be taken care off, but overall the site is running pretty smooth.
As you might have noticed I haven’t been able to post many new articles, as I been on a mini vacation to the German city Hamburg, but don’t worry I’ll start updating the site again on a daily basic.
From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Changelog:
- Reduced memory usage by 10%.
- Added Office 2007 doc types to ‘Documents’ filter.
- Added .cab and .url to deep scan.
- Files with no name found during deep scan are now named using meta data.
Works for the following file types: mp3, wma, wmv, rtf, url, doc,
xls, ppt, vsd, tiff, jpg and png.
- Added support for USB drives with a sector size of 2048 bytes.
- Improvements to system info status.
- Minor bug fixes.
Microsoft has released a new update to there virtual desktop / synchronization tool.
What’s new
More capacity: We’ve again raised the limit on the total number of customers we’ll allow to access the Live Mesh Tech Preview. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Expanded availability: If your country/region is the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, or New Zealand you can sign up for Live Mesh directly, with no waiting list, by visiting www.mesh.com. We’re limiting the Tech Preview to these countries/regions for now because we want to make sure that all customers have a great experience with Live Mesh, and we’re still in the process of testing the experience for other countries/regions.
More invites: There is no longer any limit on the number of invitations that Live Mesh customers have for inviting others to the Tech Preview. Invite as many people as you like! (as long as they’re in one of the countries/regions mentioned above, of course.)
Simplified waiting list: Though we’re not quite ready to accept customers into the Tech Preview from countries/regions other than the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, we have greatly simplified the waiting list process for everyone else. You no longer need to sign up through Microsoft Connect. Instead, simply sign in with your Live ID on www.mesh.com, click Sign Up, and you’ll automatically be notified once Live Mesh is available in your country/region.
Performance tuning: We’ve continued making a number of back-end performance enhancements, including tuning the P2P synchronization channel.
Rockstar has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV will be arriving on the PC this November, bringing all of the rich, immersive narrative experience found in the console versions, along with newly expanded multiplayer just for the PC.
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vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.
aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
