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House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.
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Amazon Q2 net profit doubles, sales up 41 percent
(Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday
quarterly net income doubled on a 41 percent rise in revenue,
helped by higher operating profit margins.
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Fed says price pressures gain, growth slackens
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The United States faced increasing
inflationary pressures in recent weeks amid slowing economic
growth, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, as it described
conditions in some areas as "grim," "morose" or "bleak."
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Pulte Homes second-quarter loss narrows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Pulte Homes Inc posted a
smaller quarterly loss on Wednesday, but said buyer confidence
remained shaky.
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Wall Street rises on oil drop, housing plan optimism
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial
shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price
of oil fell.
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Waiters pick up part of LongHorn's labor costs
(AP)
 AP - With the cost of everything from air conditioning to whipped cream rising, many restaurants have been raising prices. LongHorn Steakhouse is passing on part of the tab to its servers.
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Oriens DesktopMood Pro 1.4 |
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A desktop tool for creating wallpapers, screensavers, slide shows, greetings, web albums and videos with the ease of automation and batch photo processing. The application is plugin driven - special effects, animations and configurations for the screensavers/greetings are performed by a selected plugin. Highly extendible by adding/downloading more plugins... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Mojicon Dispenser 2.0 |
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Mojicon is a free & safe interactive plugin that allows you to access & pick from thousands of unique characters designed by some of todays hottest character artists. Add 1000's of fun characters to your I M/ Email. Works with all major Email clients and instant messenger applications. 100% Spyware / Adware Free.... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AKVIS SmartMask 1.1 |
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AKVIS SmartMask is an efficient masking tool that saves you time on complex selections and is fun to use. Never before has selection been so simple! Just draw an outline with the blue pencil inside the objects you want to select (for example, yourself on a group photo), and with the red pencil - some lines outside the object to cut out the background. Th... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Water Ripples plug-in 1.32 |
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Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. The highly realistic water ripples effect designer has numerous options as well as an impressive 3D quality.The random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces. |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Desuade Partigen 1.0 |
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Desuade Partigen is an extension for Adobe Flash which lets you create realistic vector and raster particle effects (such as fire, smoke, sparkles), without requiring you to do any complex coding.Simply put, Partigen is the easiest way to create real-time particle effects for Flash, in Flash. Every effect is generated in real-time and is fully dynamic - ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Macintosh] |
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AKVIS Noise Buster 4.0 |
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AKVIS Noise Buster is software for noise suppression on digital and scanned images. Digital noise can be seen as grains (luminance noise) that compromise the smoothness of the photo or/and random red and blue pixels (color noise) spoiling the color accuracy of the snap-shot.The plugin is efficient against both color and luminance noise. There is an option... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Macintosh] |
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Flash and Media Capture 1.4 |
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Flash and Media Capture is a Windows plugin application for MS Internet Explorer. It adds a nice toolbar that allows you to save all images and Flash applets from a page to the folder you want.
This tool is great for making collections of images on your disk from online photo albums, image forums and desktop wallpaper sites. ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Excel to PDF Converter 3.0 |
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Excel to PDF Converter is the fast, affordable way to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface allows you to create PDF files by simply click the "Save as PDF" button from MS Excel, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.Excel to PDF Converter supports Font embedding,... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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AKVIS Sketch 6.5 |
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AKVIS Sketch is a plugin for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Surprise your friends with realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor.You can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the drawing adding color or trying different techn... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AKVIS ArtSuite 3.0 |
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ArtSuite is an impressing collection of versatile effects for decoration of photos. Decorate a photo to give it an original and festive look! You may need it on many occasions: when creating a postcard for your friends, making a holiday album, a personalized desktop wallpaper, or just playing with your images for art's sake. The software offers over 15 gr... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Macintosh] |
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