Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. The value of information stored on an average computer hard drive often exceeds the value of the computer itself. But a hard drive is one of the most unreliable internal computer devices. When it crashes (which happens quite frequently), the stored information will be lost fully or partially. Subsequent information recovery is either not possible at all, or constitutes a very sophisticated and expensive procedure that can be performed only by specialists.

Modern hard drives support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) that was specially developed to detect upcoming disk failures. Using this technology Hard Drive Inspector can monitor the current state of various life-critical parameters describing a disk's reliability and performance. Hard Drive Inspector analyzes this data and warns the user if the parameters indicate a critical reduction of disk reliability. Timely alerts make it possible to copy the data and replace an unreliable disk, thus preventing information loss.

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It’s easy to make sketch from photo. Convert your photo (jpg or bmp format) into color sketch, pen-and-ink, black and white sketch.
Now, your photo become fine line art, even indistinguishable from an artist work. Creation of artistic looking hand-drawings derived from photos.

What’s new?

• You can scrawl the line with the color you pick from the photo.
• Color up on the B&W Panel, it will pop up a window to make color sketch just like freehand.
• You can turn your images into a sketch with a few clicks.
• This is a great program for those little images beside your username on forums or instant message programs.

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Popular private tracker FunFile.org has opened registrations for all users today. New users can join the site without an invitation or a registration key during this period. The tracker has been named as one of the most coveted bittorrent trackers of 2008 by Torrentfreak. The site upgraded to a new design few days ago and now boasts a fine layout.

Our free funfile registration key and invite request thread  generated huge response from users all over the world.

Site Name: FunFile

Signup URL: http://www.funfile.org/signup.php

Categories:

• Applications
• Ebooks
• Games
• Miscellaneous
• Movies
• Music
• Portable
• TV

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Blindwrite, is a software to create a clone of your existing CD and DVD! BlindWrite extracts all the characteristics of your original CD and DVD in his own format or as a.ISO to your harddrive to reproduce a working copy of your media. It allows you to protect your investments against damage caused by children, scratches or by frequent use. Your personal CD or DVD backups can even be run directly from your computer using a virtual drive (i.e. Daemon Tools).

Blindwrite's Game Copy Software supports a large number of formats and is regularly updated to support the latest technology. Combined with CopyToDVD, it is a complete set of software for all your backup needs: data files, 1:1 CD/DVD backups, audio CDs from music files and DVD movies. A must-have! BlindWrite supports all popular CD/DVD writers and handles every available DVD format (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer).

Key Features

• Brand new easy to use interface featuring one-click style
• Supports graphic themes allowing you to customize the look and feel
• New reading and writing engine supporting both CDs and DVDs
• Works with most hardware, optimized for high quality CD/DVD writers
• Supports a large number of formats: BlindWrite 4.x (.BWT), CloneCD (.CCD), Iso images (.ISO), Cuesheet/Binary (.CUE/.BIN), Alcohol (.MDS)
• Voice notifications for program events
• Extended log information for easy technical support
• Multilingual support

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Here is a change from the flurry of general 0day sites we've been posting lately. Libble is a dedicated music tracker which has a user base of 6700+ and has a collection of 11000+ torrents. This well known tracker is currently accepting new signups without users requiring invite from existing members.

Site Name: Libble

Signup URL: http://www.libble.com/signup.php

Description: Has more than 11000 music torrents spreading across over 20 genres. Music files are in MP3, FLAC, M4A. WMA and OGG.

Hint: Once you complete the signup form and hit submit, the site will say that the registration is complete and will ask you to login. However when we tried it this didn't work.In this case click the confirmation link in email you get and try logging in. It will work.

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Show Your Ideas While You Are Talking!.Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, combined with transitional effects, animated illustrations and expressive emoticons, and CrazyTalk's powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, virtual guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience.

Features

Fitting Wizard for Photo Animation

• Create 3D talking characters from photos, images or illustrations.
• Custom photo background and SFX with mask editors.
• Apply emotive facial expressions during talking animation.

 

Lip-sync for Talking Characters

• Animate characters with voice, recorded audio, or text.
• Automatic lip-sync animation from audio and typed text.
• Instant expressions and animated SFX from library.

 

Real-time Puppetry for Facial Animation

• Use mouse or handheld devices to puppet your character.
• Puppet character's behavior in real-time as playing the audio.
• Facial control panel for precise puppet performance.

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Two decent private trackers are now accepting new registrations without invites. Check them out. Signups open for Bestshare.ro and BitShock as of 31/3/2008 9.40AM Sri Lankan Time (+5.30 GMT).

Site Name: BitShock

Signup URL: http://www.bitshock.org/signup.php

Description: General 0day site. Has a good collection of music and music videos.

Site Name: BestShare

Signup URL: http://www.bestshare.ro/signup.php

Description: Decent Romania based site with almost 100% English content. Mostly scene releases but they have some unique movie packs and collections as well.

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WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal. It is arguably one of the two main file archive programs for Windows, along with WinZip. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to be proprietary.

Features:

• Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.
• The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, even allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
• Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

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Private torrent tracker The Peer Hub is currently accepting new signups.

Site Name: The Peer Hub

Signup URL: http://www.thepeerhub.com/signup.php

Description: ThePeedHub is a general 0day tracker which tracks mostly scene released movies, music, games and appz. Decent pre times.

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The DivX Create Bundle gives you everything you need to start watching high-quality DivX videos, including DivX Video-on-Demand movies. DivX also support high compression ratios with minimal loss of quality and is a popular choice among DVDrip release groups. You will need the DivX codec to view any video encoded using divX and is therefore essential if you are doing multimedia tasks using your PC.

Features

• Playback all DivX video, including DivX ® media files
• Add DivX playback support to your existing media player
• Rent and purchase high-quality DivX Video-on-Demand titles

Included Components

• DivX Player
• DivX Community Codec
• DivX Web Player
• DivX Converter
• DivX Pro Codec

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