Mass Effect has been a game which really challenged the game scene in the recent times. After a RELOADED / DETONATION release which was nuked, there have been many user developed cracks around to fix the various game anomalies caused by the SECUROM triggers which the crackers had initially missed. Now a scene group finally seems to have nailed the game's copy protection once and for all.

Group ViTALiTY (the same guys who've been PROPERing almost every recent RELOADED release) has just released a ISO of Mass Effect which they claim to be fully working without the bugs such as the galaxy map bug, save games bug, weapons overheating bug, etc etc.

P.S - The earlier RELOADED release has subsequently been nuked!

Mass.Effect.PROPER-RELOADED.NUKE:narq.group. banned.abuse_bad.crack_get.vitality

The ViTALiTY release has already made its way to several elite torrent trackers as well as Usenet so it should be a matter of minutes till it spreads around the Internet including your favorite public torrent trackers.

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As you may already know, most of the pirated content on the Internet originate from the scene. When a scene group releases something (let it be a movie, game or an app) the release is usually announced to other members of the scene through IRC announce bots (Pre channels). It is a well known fact that it is not easy to have access to a pre channel. So how do we know which stuff is released by the scene?

Luckily, there are publicly accessible HTTP sites that index latest scene releases, Nuke information as well as .NFOs. We have presented several such sites we have used below. If you know others, fell free drop in a comment.

Dupecheck Project - Probably the best and the most frequently updated. Obtains info from multiple pre bots. Does not have .NFO information.

NFOhump - Another decent indexer. Updates sometimes slow. Clean interface. This was formerly known as Nforce.

VCD Quality - Exclusive movie release index site. Includes sample screens, .NFO and IMDB links for almost every release.

xREL - Contains .NFOs and has a ratings system. Frequent updates.

ORLY PreDB - Another excellent scene release index site. Currently down due to a DDOS attack.

PAJRAT - Update speeds somewhat similar to that of NFOrce. Automatically generates links to search for the release on popular bittorrent sites and other potential download locations.

NfoDB - Another indexing site. Update intervals are long.

Logic-Sunrise - Console and PC game releases indexing site.

As you may notice, these sites do not carry a download link to indexed scene releases. But once you know that the release is out there, just search for it on your favorite bit torrent tracker (or E2DK server, FTP site, Newsgroup or whatever) :p

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Here is another security app for you. BitDefender Total Security is another one of those multi layered protections suites similar to Norton Internet Security and Mcafee Internet Security Suite. I've seen many positive reviews on BitDefender's apps on several sites so why not give this a try?

ANTIVIRUS & ANTISPYWARE

• Protects your PC in real time from  known viruses, spyware and other malware with hourly updates
• Blocks unknown viruses using advanced proactive detection techniques
• Monitors and prevents spyware threats in real-time
• Detects and removes the newest breed of hidden threats known as rootkits
• Provides a smooth gaming experience by reducing the system load to a minimum

ANTI-PHISHING

• Protects against  phishing attacks by filtering all accessed web pages for fraud attempts
• Reduces the risk of identity theft by preventing personal information leaks via e-mail or web.

FIREWALL

• Controls applications’ access to the Internet while “hiding” your computer from hackers
• Helps prevent unauthorized access to your Wi-Fi network by notifying you when computers  log in to the network.

ANTISPAM

• Prevents different types of spam and scam e-mails from reaching your Inbox
• Now responds faster to new spamming techniques with new adaptive engines

PARENTAL CONTROL

• Blocks access to inappropriate websites and e-mail
• Allows or blocks web access during specified time  periods

BACKUP

• Safeguards your data by creating backup copies to local and removable drives, CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW
• Automatically backs up only new files, based on a pre-set schedule. 

TUNE-UP

• Improves your PC performance  by removing unnecessary files and registry entries
• Completely erases files and "traces" of files from disk to prevent recovery

If you want to update the BitDefender suite offline, download offline updates from here.

To find offline updates for other antivirus apps, go here.

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Here is a forum based torrent tracker for our Hindi movie fans. BwTorrents is a tracker which tracks a lot of Indian and Pakistani movies, music and TV Shows. As of now, signups are open but it would not be for very long as mentioned in the forum:

"Just a heads up for everyone, we will be opening up registrations to the public within the next 24hours. The registrations will remain open for a very limited amount of time, it could be a few hours or it could be a few days but i cannot say exactly when they will close... all i can say is it will be very short."

So if you love Hindi movies and stuff, sign up for an account without wasting time.

Site Name: BwTorrents

Signup URL: http://www.bwtorrents.com/register.php

Categories: There are a shitload of categories and the list will be too long to mention. To sum it up it tracks a lot of Indian (Hindi, Marathi, Pubjabi, etc) and Pakistani stuff; Movies and TV Shows are the majority.

To register, you need to complete the quiz (It's a simple set of questions that test your understanding of torrents). After signup you will be asked to view about 4 of their threads. Categories will be visible only after you view these.

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MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/ editing/ extracting tool. It can open / create / edit /extract CD/DVD image files, and it can convert bin to iso and back.  as well as make ISO file from DVD/CD-ROM or hard disk, and handle bootable information at meanwhile.

Features:

Create ISO file

• Save CD/DVD disc as ISO files.
• Create an new ISO file.
• Create bootable ISO file.
• Using MagicISO to Create ISO Image

Edit ISO file

• Open ISO files.
• Open any other CD/DVD image files (such as BIN,NRG,BWI,IMG,MDF,IMG and so on)
• Detect various CD/DVD image files automatically.
• Support opening multi-session CD/DVD image file
• Add file to ISO files.
• Delete file from ISO files.
• Rename file in ISO files.
• View and run files contained in the ISO file.
• View and modify properties of ISO files.
• Search file by wildcard characters in ISO file.
• Add bootable image file to ISO file for making bootable CD image file.

Extract ISO file

• Extract files from ISO file and CD/DVD image file.
• Ability to preserve file dates when extracting files from ISO file.
• Using MagicISO as ISO Extractor
• Mount ISO file
• Using MagicDisc(freeware) to mount CD/DVD image as virtual CD/DVD.

Burn ISO file

• Burn ISO file and CD/DVD image files to CD-R,CD-RW,DVD-R,DVD-RW,DVD+R,DVD+RW directly.
• Burn files and folders onto CD/DVD on the fly.
• Can create/continue/finalize multi-session CD/DVD. you can create data CD/DVD and then add files and folders to CD/DVD later time.

More Details

• Burn Audio CD image file to CD-R,CD-RW on the fly
• Burn Video CD image file to CD-R,CD-RW on the fly
• Burn Super Video image File to CD-R,CD-RW on the fly
• Support burning CD in format mode 1 or mode 2 / XA.
• Support burning proof
• Support burning CD on USB connection CD-R/RW driver.
• Using MagicISO as ISO Burner
• Create Audio CD image file
• Create new Audio CD image as BIN/CUE image file.

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Pioneer DJS software was designed for professional and amateur DJs to enable full-scale DJ play on a PC. The software offers the same playability and functionality as the company's Pro DJ products, using a PC instead of two CDJ turntables and a DJ mixer. The DJS software combines the key elements of Pioneer's professional digital CD decks and mixers with a host of innovative features.

Features:

• Auto mixing
• Waveform display for indicating playing position and cue/loop points
• BPM synchronization and beat synchronization
• Eight effects including Delay, Echo, Auto Pan, Trans, Filter, Flanger, Reverb and Pitch Shifter
• Fader start function for controlling the playback of two players (channel, fader and cross fader)
• Create function for setting four points for cues or loops in a song
• Also included is a ripping function for converting CD, line input signals and wave files to MP3.

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webcamXP is a powerful webcams and ip cameras streaming software for private and professional use. it offers unique features and unequaled ease of use to let you broadcast and manage up to 100 video sources per computer. it is the perfect tool to secure your goods and it's possible to manage users access like no other application on the market.

Features:

• local and remote pan & tilt control (Logitech Orbit, Creative LiveMotion! and IP cameras).
• motion detector with many possible ways to handle alerts (local recording, ftp, http post, launch external applications)
• integrated gallery manager
• advanced users manager to grant limited or unlimited access (time limit, day period, possibility to load from file / server, ...).
• overlay editor supporting picture in picture, animated gifs, alpha-blending and text editor.

Supported devices:

• usb webcams (WDM driver required)
• tv, analog or multi-input capture cards (WDM driver required)
• ip cameras (JPEG/MJPEG/MPEG4)
• Windows Media streams (ASF)
• local video files (AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/...)

Supported streaming modes:

• still image for being watched on low-tech device
• flash client (compatible with most operating systems and handheld devices)
• javascript clients (MJPEG or JPEG PUSH)
• java clients (MJPEG or JPEG PUSH)
• Windows Media Stream

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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:

Codec:

• Up to 50% faster decoding on multi-core computers for better HD playback
• New custom matrices that allow better fine tuning of the encoder for specific content types
• Compress digital video 5 to 10 times more than MPEG-2/DVD format and hundreds of times over raw digital video
• Encode high-definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p
• Play DivX videos on almost any 3rd party software media player
• Achieve the perfect balance between visual quality and performance with six carefully optimized encoding modes
• Enjoy maximized performance for all multithreaded processors (Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 FX)
• Reduce grain and low-light noise (common with DV cameras) without significantly degrading the video with the automated noise reduction feature

Converter:

• Convert nearly any popular video format to a DivX file
• Convert digital video camera footage into DivX video with up to 25:1 savings to easily store and share home movies
• Merge several videos into a single DivX video with an auto-generated menu
• Maintain quality while decreasing the file size of HD videos (up to HD 1080p)
• Keep original subtitles thanks to external subtitle muxing support
• Back up your home-made DVDs and fit a whole movie onto one CD using the optional MPEG-2/DVD Plug-in

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Popular Hungarian torrent tracker PREtorians now has open signups for an indefinite period. Although the tracker is Hungarian, majority of the content is English; scene releases etc. Do not be put off by the Hungarian language in the interface (See translation below if you have trouble).This is a well sought after tracker with over 10000 torrents indexed and nearly 25000 users.

Site Name: PREtorians

Signup URL: http://pretorians.net/signup.php

Categories:

• Film/DVD-R/Eng
• Film/DVD-R/Hun
• Film/DVD9/Hun
• Film/HD/Eng
• Film/HD/Hun
• Film/XViD/Eng
• Film/XViD/Hun
• Játék/DOX
• Játék/PCiso
• Játék/PS2
• Játék/Wii
• Játék/XBOX (XBOX360)
• Lossless
• Mp3/Eng
• Mp3/Hun
• Music-Video
• Program/iSO
• Program/RiP
• Sorozat/Eng
• Sorozat/Hun
• XXX
• XXX/DVD-R

*Játék = Games, Sorozat = TV Shows, Hun tag means HUngarian language while Eng tag means English language.

A brief translation of signup page:

• Kivánt felhasználónév: - Username
• Jelszó: - Password
• Jelszó megerősítése: - Retype Password
• Email cím (az oldalon email cím változtatásra nincsen lehetöség):Nemed - Email
• Last three checkboxes stand for 'Read FAQ?', 'Read Rules?', and 'Above 13 years of age?'.

And in the interface, Letoltes means browse.

Enjoy!

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jetAudio is integrated multimedia software composed of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, but it also has other features such as CD burning, recording, conversion to other file formats, and so on. In addition to these features, you have the ability to create your own Internet broadcasting by using JetCast, which is provided with JetAudio. Play all major file formats and discs, including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM, and video, and audio CD. Convert among audio file formats, and record analog audio to various formats. The program features Internet broadcasting with JetCast; visualization plug-ins, including Sound2Vision; tag editing for MP3, OGG, and WMA; various sound effects including wide, reverb, and x-bass; multichannel sound output; speed control of audio playback; crossfading for smooth transition between two songs; a skinnable user interface; synchronized lyrics display (karaoke) for MIDI and MP3 files; and subtitles.

What's New in jetAudio 7.1.1

• Fixed Messenger & Balloon display
• Fixed crash for Convert Audio & Convert Video dialog box
• WavPack writer plugin added in Setup

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