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Exclusive: Combat Arms to release new Kriss weapon

Thu, Jul 29, 2010

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The folks at Nexon have been nice enough to send Big Download this new and exclusive video showing off one of the new weapons the development team will be adding to its free-to-play first person shooter Combat Arms. The above footage shows off the new Kriss sub-machine gun in action.

As Nexon tells us the Kriss was “developed for military and police forces, chambered specifically for .45 ACP rounds. Its unique operating mechanism is designed to provide stability by absorbing recoil when firing.” There is also a modified version of the weapon called the Kriss SpecOps. This version “features an integrated dot-sight and a suppressor. The stability, damage potential and magazine have all been enhanced.” (more…)

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Russian Court Bans YouTube

Thu, Jul 29, 2010

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Russia joints the less-than-flattering list of countries to ban the video site YouTube. Now a court in the far-east town of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Khabarovsk region has ordered that YouTube, along with four other sites, be blocked by an ISP in the region. In YouTube’s case, the reason was an extremist video, dubbed Russia for Russians, belonging to a far-righ… (more…)

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Mushkin Ridgeback DDR3 Line Welcomes 8GB and 12GB Members

Thu, Jul 29, 2010

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Like all of its rivals on the memory and storage market, Mushkin spent the past few months tirelessly working on new SSDs and memory products. Such companies have even had a special reason to work fast in the fact that both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices brought out new CPUs not too long ago. Now, in order to give such chips enough me… (more…)

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Big Download’s News Bits & Bytes – July 28

Thu, Jul 29, 2010

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Our review of StarCraft II is still coming along. We don’t want to be first; we just want to give you the best opinion of the game.

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CrossOver 9.1.0 and CrossOver Games 9.1.0 Available Now

Thu, Jul 29, 2010

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New versions of the popular CrossOver software which enables users to run Windows applications on Linux have been released. CrossOver 9.1.0 and CrossOver Games 9.1.0 are now available for download as trial versions. The biggest change is the update to Wine 1.2 as the underlying code base. You can read more about the Wine 1.2 release here. … (more…)

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Motorola Multi-Room DVR Now Live at Cincinnati Bell

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

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Mobile phone maker Motorola was rumored only a couple of days ago to plan the launch of a Multi-Room service, and it seems that the company has already done that. Its Motorola Multi-Room DVR is now available in the United States on the airwaves of Cincinnati Bell. According to the company, its market leading multi-room digital video recorder … (more…)

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Lego Universe to get digital trading card game

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

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Even as developer Netdevil gets ready to finish up work on the family-themed MMO Lego Universe, The Lego Group is working with another developer to release a digital trading card game based on the MMO. Today The Lego Group announced that the trading card game will be released in 2011, after the Lego Universe MMO will be released on October 26.

The trading card game will be created by Dire Wolf Digital, the recently launched developer based in Denver and made up of veterans of Sony Online’s various digital trading card games. No other details on the Lego Universe trading card title were announced.

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SilverFast SE / Ai Scan-Software 6.6.2r2 For Mac OS X

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

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SilverFast SE / Ai Scan-Software
Software for scanners, digital cameras, print and image processing brings the best out of all devices. LaserSoft Imaging offers individually adjusted solutions for hundreds of flatbed scanners, film scanners and digital cameras untapping the full potential of each device.

A SilverFast software overview:

- SilverFast SE / Ai (scanner software): THE scanner software per se, for perfect scans

- SilverFast HDR (imaging software): 48Bit/64Bit HDRi image processing, RAW data processing, PhotoShop obsolete

- SilverFast Archive Suite (Ai + HDR): combination of scanner and imaging software, the optimum archiving tool

- SilverFast DC (digital camera software): optimize and archive your images using a RAW workflow

- SilverFast PrinTao (printer software): easy but color-true printing like you need it

- Many more features

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VueScan 8.6.47 For Mac OS X

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

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VueScan
A program that works with most scanners to produce high-quality scans that have excellent color fidelity. It takes advantage of the advanced hardware capabilities of most scanners on the market today, and helps you do batch scanning while at the same time producing color-balanced and cropped images.

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June comScore Numbers Under-Reported Yahoo’s Page Views by 1 Billion

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

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Yahoo has now revealed that comScore’s traffic numbers for June were erroneous and underreported Yahoo’s US page views and time spent on the site by a significant margin. comScore contacted Yahoo about the error last week. Both companies have now commented on the story.

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