| Business News |
Oil slumps on easing storm worry and dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil tumbled more than $5 on Tuesday,
pushing losses so far this week to about $10, as forecasters
said an Atlantic hurricane would steer clear of offshore oil
platforms and the greenback gained against other currencies.
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Alcoa's profit off but tops forecasts
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on
Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter
profit, lifting its shares, as higher aluminum prices and sales
volumes offset higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch sues InBev over takeover attempt
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc sued
InBev NV in an effort to stop its Belgian-Brazilian
suitor from taking any more steps to replace the U.S. brewer's
board of directors, which had rejected a $46.3 billion takeover
offer from InBev.
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Stocks rise on banks and lower oil
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose in another turbulent
session on Tuesday as a pullback in oil prices eased worries
about consumer and business spending, while financial shares
gained after the Fed chairman said he may keep open a lifeline
for banks.
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Traders plead guilty to foreign exchange scam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on
Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged
in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from
investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal
prosecutors said.
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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit
2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault
for taking out loans they couldn't afford.
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Oriens MultiPage Professional 1.1.0.318 |
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Create TIFF or PDF multi-page documents with the power and ease of automation. View, extract, append, remove or change the order of constituent pages of existing multi-page file. Integrates a full-featured inbuilt editor and enhancement tools to give another dimension to your photos.Generate ready-to-use documents such as multi-page images, single-page i... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PearlyWhites Mac 1.0.0 |
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PearlyWhites is a NEW Adobe Photoshop compatible Plug-In filter that automatically whitens and brightens teeth. Digital cameras are known to add a yellow cast to teeth.PearlyWhites automatically restores teeth to gleaming white. PearlyWhites can be run on individual images or be combined with other Image Trends Plug-Ins in a Photoshop Action and applied t... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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Picture-Desk Batch Converter 1.2p |
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This is an advanced tool for batch conversion with lot of image processing features from rotating, image resizing,
adding an anti-theft "X", overlaying text and/or a logo onto the image to more advanced requirements such as
leveling RGB, HSL, brightness, contrast, gamma, adding IPTC information such as captions, copyright or
photographer name, etc..... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Chipmunk AV Controller 2.0.2541.28532 |
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Chipmunk AV Controller is a .NET application capable of controlling audio visual equipment, home cinemas and performing general automation tasks. Chipmunk enables the easy creation of macros and commands to control devices via plugins. Chipmunk can also receive incoming events from equipment. Chipmunk incorporates a Lua scripting engine which has been int... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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DVD Reauthor 3.0 |
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DVD Reauthor is a simple, easy and powerful tool for DVD Reauthoring. It works only with Sonic Scenarist.The
main function of DVD Reathor is decomposing the DVD into video, audio and other files with the creation special
script-file for the current DVD disk. All output data and script-file is ready for editing in Sonic Scenarist. It saves you
time a... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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XShow 4.0 |
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XShow v4.0 is an ActiveX control designed to create transition effects between images. The control offers choice of over 100 transition effects. The following image formats are supported: BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, DIB, PCD, PCX, PSD (single layer), PSP (single layer), TGA, TIF, TIFF. Control is able to display images in original size or stretche... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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IncPlugins 1.0.0 |
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IncPlugins is a scalable plugins-based web site engine for PHP with dynamic CSS and JavaScript. Valid XHTML and CSS. No MySQL is required. Free and Commercial editions are available.Unique features:Dynamic CSS and JavaScript.Very small page source code.Easy of install and use plugins.Wiki-like simple text as a page source (Pro Edition).Multilingual and mu... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux] |
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SentiSight algorithm demo (for Windows) 1.0 |
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Object recognition technology for robotics and computer vision. Supports webcams, surveillance cameras, still image and video files. Tolerant to object scale, rotation, pose etc. Real-time video stream processing.The algorithm implements advanced visual-based object learning and recognition. Suitable for real-time applications like security systems, parts... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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EF Multi File Renamer 1.20 |
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EF Multi File Renamer a versatile tool for comfortable renaming of numerous files or whole directories (including subfolders) in a processing step. In relation to comparable programs, EF Multi File Renamer stands out by its concept for the clear definition against renaming rules.
Select the rule(s) you need for the current task from an extensive set of... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Picturizer 1.0 |
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Colorize or picturize text. Create unique and colorful emails, web pages, and flyers using this simple to use program. This program allows you to make colorized text, or to make text with a unique effect in which an image of your choice is overlaid on the text body. The resulting file is still a text file, but you can see the imprint of the image on th... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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| Software News |
EA says has complied with FTC request on Take-Two
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth
(AP)
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Sets Hosted-services Pricing, Irks Partners
(PC World)
PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete...
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
(PC World)
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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VMware warns on revenue, replaces CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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New Yahoo board might lure Microsoft back into talks
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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