| 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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vSlideshow 1.1.1 |
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Video Slideshow lets you take your images and give them a creative
effect for your customers. By watermarking your images also, you are
protecting your hard work. So you take your images, add in audio and
make a movie.Three easy steps:1. Add your audio that you want to play2. Add in your images (specify the watermark you want).3. Create your slidesh... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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WallUp 2.10 |
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WallUp for Windows is an easy to use program that gives you real control over your desktop wallpaper. Using WallUp gives you the ablity to group images into sets called albums. Albums can then be used with a schedule to cause the desktop wallpaper to change automatically.You control how many images are in an album and how often your wallpaper changes! Ima... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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DropWaterMark 3.7.0 |
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You work hard to take great photography and should be rewarded for your efforts. Watermarking your images is a way to reduce theft and to get recognition for your creative talents.DropWatermark is an application that allows you to watermark your images quickly and easily. You just configure your watermark and then can create new watermarked images quickly... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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One-click Slideshow 1.0 |
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One-click Slideshow displays your digital photos as a beautiful slideshow. Select the images to display, choose visual effects to your taste, and run the slideshow of your favorite pictures whenever you feel like with just one mouse click.
One-click Slideshow uses a number of stunning transition effects to change images.You can also select the speed of... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Image Converter and Resizer 1.2 |
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With this program you can quickly convert and resize thousands of images at the same time (batch processing). Image Converter and Resizer supports over 20 image formats, including: bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff and png. When working with multiple images you can still customize images individually.
You can resize images by specifying the width and height manuall... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ImageBadger 4.3 |
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Save time when working with a batch of images. Convert and process images from the Windows Explorer right-click menu.
Easily resize and rotate images, enhance your images with more than 40 image filters, turn any image into an icon, make thumbnail images, create pencil drawings of photos, copy images to clipboard from Windows Explorer and much more!Ima... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ELImageCompare 1.2 |
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ELImageCompare ActiveX DLL - Powerful tool for comparing images. Intelligent algorithm allows to compare two images and returns one of the following results: images are different, similar or identical.
The method of comparing of images is base on modern mathematical investigations. It has such parameters as Delta (Level of sensitivity) and type of metri... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Bytescout Watermarking 1.00 Beta 3 |
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Bytescout Watermarking is an effective wizard-based images (JPG, PNG, GIF) watermarking software. Protect your images within a seconds with elegant text or image watermark label. Easy-to-use interface; Built-in set of ready-to-use watermark types with text and logo images support; live preview for watermarks; Ability to preserve original images file f... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Scanitto 1.9 |
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Scanitto - is a lite and mighty software application for image aquiring from TWAIN scanners.
Scanitto allows toscan images from scanner,
save scanned images to various formats (bmp, jpeg, tiff, png, pdf, gif),output images directly to the printer (make a copy)manage scanned imagesScanitto works like wizard in 4 steps: Selecting TWAIN device, setting ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ES Clipboard Monitor Engine (Business) 1.1.4 |
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ES Clipboard Monitor Engine works by intercepting any images being copied to the clipboard. The captured images are then stored on a specified drive and location. The engine can convert these images into various file formats such as: PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNM, and PDF.In addition to simply saving the images in various formats, they can also automatically ... |
[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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