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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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CubeDesktop 1.2 |
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CubeDesktop helps you to reduce clutter and better organize your
windowed applications by providing up to six virtual desktops which you
can manage using innovative 2D and 3D effects.Features:Virtual desktops3D effectsMoving windows between desktopsLive previewWindow organizationDesktop customizationSwitch between tasks faster than ever beforeHot corner... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AltDesk 1.8 |
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Modern computers' power is enough to let you run numerous applications at the same time. You can surf the Internet, listen to the music and chat with your friends at the same time, but the more tasks you launch, the harder it gets to manage them. That's when you might start thinking of getting the second monitor. AltDesk gives you a better choice. It crea... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Crawler Notes 4.5.5.9 |
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Don't forget important meetings, things to do, shopping lists, etc. With Crawler Notes you can create your own virtual message board right at your desktop and online to help you remember important tasks. Keep track of all your important things to do. Download Crawler Notes absolutely FREE.Features:Easily organize your tasks and activitiesRemember importan... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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VMware Workstation for Windows 6.0.45731 |
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VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine software for system administrators and developers who want to revolutionize software development, deployment and testing in their enterprise.Shipping for more than five years and winner of over a dozen major product awards, VMware Workstation enables software developers to develop and test the most complex ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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NoteBurner Audio Converter 1.01 |
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NoteBurner Audio Converter is a protected audio and music converter tool designed for virtually burning DRM protected music or audio files to a special virtual CD-RW drive where you can easily get MP3, WMA or WAV files ready for use on any computers or music devices.This amazing CD burner emulator easily emulates the whole workflow for converting protecte... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter 1.34 |
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NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter converts any unprotected music and DRM protected music files (such as M4P, WMA, M4B) to unprotected MP3, WAV, WMA formats with Virtual CD-RW drive. It is a protected audio and music converter tool designed for virtually burning DRM protected music or audio files to a special virtual CD-RW drive where you can easily get plai... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Free Virtual Serial Ports Emulator 0.1 |
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VSPE is intended to help software engineers and developers to create/debug/test applications that use serial ports.
It is able to create various virtual devices that to transmit/receive data.
Unlike regular serial port, virtual devices have special capabilities: for example,
the same device can be opened more than once by different applications, t... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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FD Desktop Notepad 2.0.13 |
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FD Desktop Notepad is a program which displays the text on your desktop wallpaper. Now you can write directly on a desktop! FD Desktop Notepad is user-friendly and feature-rich tool.You can write down reminders or work plans or anything else and you will see them on the screen. FD Desktop Notepad can be used to streamline your note-taking. You can set a ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FD Animated Desktop Slideshow 1.3.21 |
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FD Animated Desktop Slideshow is a program for displaying your pictures on your desktop! Now you can see a slideshow with your photos and other images at the small part of your desktop.Creating a slideshow is as simple as selecting a folder from the settings of Animated Desktop Slideshow. You can specify the time - interval between each slide showing and... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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Virtual Woman Millennium Beta Test 0.95 |
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Your girlfriend just got some competition. In this Windows Virtual Reality Game build and compete against Virtual Women with full artificial intelligence, choose ethnic type, personality, location, clothing etc.Throw away solitaire forever! Features 3-D graphics, Sound and Digital DNA support. Must try to believe. As this is a beta test, some features are... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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