Ratatouille is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef. The film was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and it was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States.

Although a new scene group called SPiRAL released this first, it got nuked immediately for missing content (actually it was only 6 seconds but scene rules strictly prohibit such releases). This was PROPERed later but the PROPER too got nuked. Finally well known scene group MDP has released a good quality DVDrip of this popular movie.

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Scene group FXG brings yet another much awaited movie DVDrip; This time it's the 3rd installement of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 adventure film, the third in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Video and Audio quality are exceptional as usualy for a DVDrip.

From Group NFO:

TiTLE......  Pirates of The Caribbean - At World's End
YEAR.......  2007
GENRE......  Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
RUNTiME.... 02:48:28
iMDB RATE.. 7.3/10 (64,254 votes)
iMDB URL...  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/

AUDiO...... MP3 48000Hz 117 kb/s CBR (2 chnls)
LANGUAGE... English
ViDEO...... 460 kbps XviD 23.976 FPS
RESOLUTiON. 672 x 288
SUBS....... None
SiZE....... 700 MB
SOURCE..... NTSC DVD

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HiDownload is a multi-threaded download manager that allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from web and FTP sites while maximizing the potential of your internet connection. It also supports multimedia streaming and and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) with optional resume, enabling you to download movies, music and capture streaming video and audio, record radio from Internet. HiDownload also offers a built-in Broadcast Manager. In addition, it provides all the standard features of a download manager, including scheduling, drop basket, download history, clipboard monitoring, download categories as well as zip preview and more.

  

Features:

• Accelerated Downloads: By splitting the files into several parts and downloading
• Support HTTP, FTP, MMS/MMST/MMSU, RTSP, PNM protocols
• Support rapidshare, megaupload and other similar sites(Premium Account)
• Record Streaming Video and Streaming Audio All the popular streaming formats are supported, including:
  • Windows Media™
  • Real Audio™ and Real Video™
  • QuickTime™
  • Flash Video (FLV)
  • Streaming MP3 (Shoutcast™)
• Record all kinds of great online media, including:
  • Music Videos.
  • YouTube, PutFile, Google Video and other Video Sites.
  • Live Internet TV and Radio.
  • Streaming Webcams.
  • Shoutcast™ and other Streaming MP3 radio.

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Ever since the very beginning in the year 2000, the BS.Player™ has been one of the world’s most popular video player. It is popular for many reasons, one however should be pointed out: BS.Player™ is the first movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec. Also, it has very low CPU and RAM requirements.

Features

• Display subtitles - Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency,... Supported formats: MicroDVD, SubViewer, SubRip. The subtitles only appear on the computer monitor. Not on the television set hooked to the computer.
• Fully skinnable - Any shape, transparent skins...
• Resizable and borderless movie window
• Multilingual
• Drag-and-drop support
• Command line support
• Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
• Custom aspect ratios
• Playlist support
• Resolution changing
• Frame capture
• AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage)
• Support for OGM files, including more than 2 audio/video tracks, supports embedded subtitles/chapters
• External audio file supported
• External chapter file supported
• S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder)
• INI files
• Remote control support via WinLIRC
• Bookmarks
• Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required)
• Playback rate (½×, 1×, 2×) and custom speed
• 3rd-party plugins
• Customizable Equalizer
• Support for Capture and Tuner devices (and Teletext support)
• Capture Video from capture device to file
• Integrated subtitle editor
• Network file buffering
• Support for Flash playback
• Improved subtitles
• Improved VMR9 support
• Sackmann PUT0 isn't supported
• Technical e-mail support
• DVD support (MPEG-2 codecs required)

Note: BS.Player freeware version came bundled with WhenU Spyware. However the Pro version which is featured in this post is a premium version which is completely free of spyware and any other threat so you need not worry.

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Some while back, we talked about the pros and cons of SLT's new ADSL package which has a 1GB download limit. Users of this limited ADSL package will find this software extremely useful as it makes life easier by keeping track of your bandwidth usage.

BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller, which measures, displays and controls all traffic to/from your computer or on your network. Unlike other products, it can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). This makes it possible to distinguish between local and internet traffic for example. BWMeter can also be used for traffic control by setting a speed limit for all kinds of connections or restricting access to certain internet sites. It creates statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all LAN traffic as well as download / upload from the internet. You can even define filters which show your transfer with certain internet addresses (e.g. to see how much data you download from your favorite news server). BWMeter is ideal for home users to get an overview of how much bandwidth they use, as well as small to large businesses, where one computer can control the traffic and maintain the statistics of downloaded / uploaded data of all computers in the network.

Features:

• Graphical and numerical display of bandwidth
• User definable filters for measuring bandwidth
• User definable graphs to visualize bandwidth
• Can monitor all network interfaces / adapters
• Can monitor and display all traffic on the network

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Fraps (derived from Frames per second) is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications. It is commonly used to determine a computer's performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage. The program is very popular in the making of amateur machinima films. Fraps is only available for Digital Purchase (yeah right!).

Major features

• Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

• Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There’s no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

• Real time Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560×1600 on dual-core CPUs (1152×864 single-core) at up to 100 frames per second!

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WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying a new skin. There are thousands of different skins to choose from that are freely downloadable from the WindowBlinds website. A WindowBlinds skin can change Windows to look like an alternative operating system, favorite sports car brands, favorite sports team, or virtually anything else. With modern video cards, WindowBlinds can do this without reducing performance. WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have “blurred glass” window borders on Windows XP which allows artists to make skins that could make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista.

New in version 6:

• New start menu animation support
• Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
• Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
• Random skin support
• The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
• Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
• Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
• Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
• Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
• Ability to save such changes as a preset
• Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
• Ability to skin the sidebar
• Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
• Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
• Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
• Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
• Support for explorer background bitmaps
• Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
• Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
• Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
• Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
• Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
• Clean and easy configuration dialog.
• Tons of configuration options for users
• Animation supported on titlebars, buttons, and many other elements.
• Change the color of any visual style on the fly
• Per-application visual styles
• Doesn't alter any system files
• Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows

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Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 makes it easy to protect your home network, personal identity, and online activity. It guards against present viruses, spyware, and identity theft as well as the web threats of tomorrow. Confidently e-mail, shop, bank, or share photos online, knowing your privacy and files are well protected.

Image: Screenshot of the 2007 version. This post features the new 2008 version.

Features:

• Anti-virus
• Anti-spyware
• Email safety scan
• Protection against rootkits
• Proactive intrusion blocking
• Anti-spam
• Two-way firewall

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F-Secure® Internet Security 2008 provides a complete and easy-to-use protection against all Internet threats, whether they are known or previously unidentified. It includes an award-winning antivirus, an easy-to-use personal firewall, antispyware and F-Secure DeepGuard™ technology that constantly monitors the very heart of your computer, ensuring that no malicious programs can take over your computer even if you do not have all the latest updates. In addition, the product filters unwanted spam and so-called phishing attempts from your e mail, and with the parental control, you can block access to websites with questionable content.

Features

• Protects your computer against viruses, worms and unknown attacks
  With daily automatically updated virus protection from the world-renowned F-Secure Data Security Laboratory and F-Secure DeepGuard ^TM technology that protects you against zero-day attacks and other future threats, you can safely use your computer, now and tomorrow.
• Detects and removes spyware from your computer
  F-Secure Internet Security detects and removes secretly installed software from your computer better than ever before, ensuring that your system is running smoothly and clean of spyware.
• Protects your computer against hackers
  You can keep your private data to yourself with the personal firewall that stops hackers from breaking into your computer.
• Helps you stay free from spam e-mail and phishing attempts
  F-Secure Internet Security filters unwanted spam and e-mail schemes designed to steal your private information.
• Protects your children against unwanted Internet content
  F-Secure Internet Security ensures that your children or teenagers do not enter objectionable sites or surf the Internet when you are not around.

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Although this Shrek the Third premiered months ago, a good quality rip was not around except for a few low quality camera copies (CAMs). The wait is finally over with scene group FLAiTE releasing a DVDrip today. The audio and video quality of the rip is excellent and it can be downloaded through popular bit torrent sites.

Shrek the Third is a 2007 computer animated comedy film of the Shrek series. It is the third film in the series, following Shrek and Shrek 2. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures, and was released in U.S. theaters on May 18, 2007.

IMDB Information

• Release Date: 18 May 2007 (USA)
• Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
• Tagline: Who's ready for Thirds?
• Plot Outline: When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.

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