Our current url http://www.filenetworks.net will be changed to a new one effective from 1st of July, 2007. Therefore we request you not to use http://www.filenetworks.net to access FILEnetworks Blog till further notice. Instead, you can use the URLs specified below to access our blog.

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Daemon Tools is a disk image emulator for Microsoft Windows that mounts images of DVD and CD media on virtual drives, and is known for supporting a variety of different disk image formats. The program is able to defeat most copy protection schemes such as SafeDisc and SecuROM.

Features

• Emulate up to 32 virtual drives!
• DAEMON Tools Pro enables you simultaneously play your favorite game and bring up your route planner written on another CD-ROM, without having to eject and reload any physical discs. The 32 virtual drives ability of DAEMON Tools Pro means you can have the equivalent of 32 CD-ROM Drives in your Home PC all accessible simply and quickly running your Disc image at hundreds times faster than that of a conventional CD-ROM drive. If you need a program or CD it is immediately there - always ready to use!
• DAEMON Tools Pro at the office: Program discs and many other applications generally require the original Disc to be in the computers CD-ROM drive, this restricts the amount of people in your office who can have access to the same software at the same time without the cost of additional discs, DAEMON Tools Pro virtual drives resolves that problem for you. No more hunting around the offices for that elusive disc you need to run your application, every thing you require is just a click.

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MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) seem to have won a major victory against the file sharing community with TorrentSpy and ISOHunt, both deciding to filter copyrighted content from their search engines. This means that MPAA associated movies and RIAA associated albums will NOT be available in the above mentioned sites. Both sites have stated that they will be using filerights software to automatically filter blocked content. This will definitely be bad news for the vast majority who used to download movies and albums through the above mentioned sites. But is it really all over? We don't think so.   

 

 

Meanwhile Demonoid.com, which is another reputed and reliable private tracker created by an anonymous Yugoslavian (nicknamed 'Deimos'), has also come under fire. Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has filed a lawsuit against its ISP and Demonoid.com now displays 'hardware crash - offline' message. Although the message indicates hardware problems, it is widely believed that is site is moving to a safe heaven to avoid legal trouble. We can expect the site to be back up within a few days.

TorrentSpy, Demonoid and ISOHunt are not the only bittorrent indexes/trackers out there. But they were among some of the best out there and their change is definitely a big blow for the Bittorrent community. However, there are hundreds of new trackers coming online every month. The largest bit torrent tracker in the world, ThePirateBay, is still online amidst a shitload of lawsuits and legal threats against them. In fact, Brokep from ThePirateBay has flamed filerights.com in his blog and has sworn to keep building sites like TPB and Bay IMG (censor free image sharing site) and to help out some of the newer/smaller trackers.

You can find a comprehensive list of Bit Torrent trackers/indexes here. (in fact the list contains over 250 sites)

Down with MPAA/RIAA and all it's kissass supporters. Go Pirates!

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How many times have you been annoyed by some web site which asks you to 'login to read more' ? Here is some good news for you. BugMeNot is an Internet service that provides usernames and passwords to let Internet users bypass mandatory free registration on websites. Started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, it aims to allow Internet users to access websites that have registration walls (for instance, that of The New York Times) without the requirement of compulsory registration. This came in response to the increasing number of websites that request such registration. Many Internet users find this to be an annoyance at best and a potential source of spam e-mail at worst.

Currently BugMeNot has logins for 162679 sites. You can use the service free of charge from this location.

Some cool dude has made an extension for FireFox to make life easier for FireFox users. With the extension installed, you can simply right click a form and gain a username and a password from BugMeNot (provided that BugMeNot datababse has the site indexed).

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Winamp is a multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. It also now plays streamed video content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. Winamp 5 includes support for classic Winamp skins and Winamp 3 (Modern) skins; a fancy new Modern skin; the same classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel; a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support (AAC@2x in the Free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in the Pro version); CD-burning support (limited to 6x in the free version); advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams; global hot-key support; a new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in; options for disabling plug-in exception-handling for developers; a new Winamp icon; and the addition of XP manifest.xml to winamp.exe.

Changelog

• Improved: Current translation support of core strings and dialogs
• Improved: Correct theming of tabbed dialogs on WinXP+
• Improved: Various misc tweaks/improvements
• Fixed: More tabbing fixes in UI and Preferences
• Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash with non-English characters in user path
• Fixed: [in_cdda] Gapless playback of mix CDs with Sonic Engine
• Fixed: [in_flac] Genre field truncated in Flac Editor
• Fixed: [in_mp3] Incompatibility with musicbrainz tags
• Fixed: [in_mp3] Long stream urls truncated in Alt+3 dialog
• Fixed: [in_mp3] Tracklength not showing for mp3's with large embedded coverart
• Fixed: [in_mp4] MP4 file parsing buffer overflow vulnerability
• Fixed: [in_vorbis] Cancel button in Vorbis Editor
• Fixed: [in_vorbis] Tabbing in Vorbis Editor
• Fixed: [in_wm] Artist and Title fields reversed in WMA Editor
• Fixed: [in_wm] Crash when attempting to play malformed ASX playlists
• Fixed: [ml_local] NOTHAS and != with empty fields
• Fixed: [ml_wire] (4294967295%) in sc wire downloads
• Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcast downloading bug (uninitialized variable error)
• Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash on sync/transfers
• Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.99.1b

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Xilisoft Video Converter is powerful, versatile video conversion software which convert video file between all popular video formats such as convert AVI to MPEG, WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, H.264 video, etc. No other program like Xilisoft Video Converter supports so comprehensive video formats including DVD, VCD, SVCD, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, 3GP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.264/PSP AVC, MOV, RM, ASF, FLV, SWF, etc. In addition, The Video Converter provides an easy way to convert video file to popular audio file, like MP2, MP3, AC3, RA, M4A, OGG, AAC etc. The Video Converter also supports APE, CUE decoding and audio CD ripping.

Features:

• Convert video file including DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG ( MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ),, RM, AVI, MWV, 3GP, ASF, Divx, Xvid
• Convert audio file among OGG, Sun.au, WMA, MP3, WAV, Ra (Real Audio), M4a, AC3, AAC, MOV etc.
• Extract audio from video file including DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG ( MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ),, RM, AVI, MWV, 3GP, ASF, Divx, Xvid
• Supports batch conversion
• Supports previewing video moive.
• Supports converting more than one file simultaneously.
• Support multi-languages including English, Chinese, French, Dutch, Japanese, Persian, Nederland
• Excellent video and audio quality.
• Super easy to use, suitable for both beginners and Veterans.

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UltraEdit is a commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows initially created in 1994 by IDM Computer Solutions. The editor contains tools for programmers, including macros, syntax highlighting, code folding, file type conversions, project management, regular expressions for search-and-replace, remote editing of files via FTP, interfaces for APIs or command lines of choice and more. Files can be browsed and edited in tabs. UltraEdit compares well feature-wise with other development editors like Emacs or Vim. An installation takes about 30 MB of disk space. It also supports Unicode and hex editing modes, however it does not have full support of Unicode File Handling.

Features

• Code Folding
• Supports 64-bit file handling (standard) on all 32-bit Windows platforms
• UNICODE support
• Disk based text editing - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files
• 100,000 word spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish)
• Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex.
• FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save. (32-Bit Only) Includes support for SFTP (SSH2).
• SSH/Telnet Window
• Project/Workspace support
• Integrated scripting language to automate tasks
• Configurable keyboard mapping
• Column/block mode editing

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Download accelerator plus or DAP is a download manager with 130 million users worldwide according to SpeedBit. It has a number of useful features like scheduled download and auto internet disconnection and\or shutting down of computer upon download completion. DAP also provides auto antivirus scanning of downloaded contents by integrating with the antivirus software present in the OS, though this feature may not work properly with some antivirus applications. DAP integrates very well with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera. It pops up a small message box by the system tray with 'Open/play' commands upon completion of download. It also has a password manager for websites.

Another useful feature is that one can listen or see the preview of a song or video while download is going on. Thus it saves time and helps to stop redownloading of same content by mistake. DAP also boosts up connection speed. DAP also features a very nice and easy to learn interface.

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The stakes are high when the world's most elite counter-terrorism unit enters Las Vegas, where over 36.7 million men, women and children visit each year. "Sin City," the home of the famous Las Vegas Strip, flashy hotels, high-rolling casinos and world-famous celebrities, becomes the setting for a terrorist threat of global proportions. What happens when one of the world's most famous cities is held hostage by terrorists?

  

Pros and Cons (From GameSpot Review) 

The Good: Intense tactical action that requires you to use cover realistically; lets you feel like an elite commando like no other game; beautiful visuals that let you battle in a glittering first-world setting; impressive multiplayer suite supports a wide range of cooperative and competitive games.

The Bad: Story features some standard plot devices and lacks a satisfying ending; multiplayer bug causes game to crash on default settings.

Minimum System Requirements

• Processor: P4 3GHz or AMD equivalent
• RAM: 1024 MB
• Video Card: 128MB, Shader Model 3 and DirectX 9.0c compatible (Geforce 6000 series/ ATI X1000 series or above)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c
• Multiplayer: Local area network (LAN) and/or 128kbit Cable/DSL.
• OS: Windows XP

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After a two-year break for the series, Codemasters Studios designers have created a reinvigorated McRae experience. The new Colin McRae title goes beyond the series' point-to-point rallying to deliver the most diverse selection of extreme off-road competitions. Sensational gravel, mud and dirt racing events from the world over include perilous Hill Climb and collision-packed Rally Cross events. International rallying competitions are also featured, with official cars on tracks based on real roads and locations around the globe. The title also expands on beat-the-clock racing and includes events with multiple cars on track to satisfy anyone who wants to push their on-the-edge driving just that bit further.

 

Features:

• Real racing with real consequences. Stay in control or watch as your car dramatically crashes into a barrier and barrel-rolls, crushing every panel and spewing debris across the track.
• A wide variety of off-road and rallying disciplines to experience: Rally, Hill Climb, Rally RAID, Rally Cross, the CORR desert series, and more.
• Photorealistic tracks painstakingly recreated from real-world location photography and satellite data.
• Incredibly detailed models of 46 licensed vehicles bring the action to life.
• Online play that allows 100 players to compete against one another.

Minimum Requirements:

Good gameplay come at a cost. It's a next generation game and it'll make your system cry if you hardware is out of date.

• Windows XP
• DirectX 9.0c
• Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz or Athlon 64 3000+
• 1GB RAM.
• Graphics Card: GeForce 6800 / Radeon X1300 or above (Shader Model 3.0 is a MINIMUM requirement) 
• DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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