Need for Speed Undercover returns to its roots with hokey cutscenes, wild cop chases, and solid racing action.
The Good:
* Plenty of cop chases
* Instantly join races with press of a button
* Isn’t long before you’re driving a cool car.
The Bad:
* Lots of quirks and nagging gameplay issues
* Emulates Most Wanted, but doesn’t necessarily improve upon it
* Story isn’t much to get excited about
* Frame rate isn’t great.
If you’re looking to create or edit custom icons, try IcoFX. With support for multiple resolutions and transparency, you can create slick, resizable icons for applications you develop or just to help you quickly find oft-used folders. And you can export icons into Windows or Mac format. The software offers some basic image editing tools, but you can also import images from other programs like Photoshop or Illustrator. IcoFX will preserve transparency and even do the resizing and color mapping. The Tools menu offers both batch processing for handling multiple icons, and a resource editor to change the icons for binary files.
IcoFX is available as a free download for Windows.
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27 Oct, 2008
Posted by: mantoadmire In: Softwares
PlayOn streams online video from the likes of Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix to your Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or HP MediaSmart TV. In addition to the three streaming video sites mentioned above, PlayOn also supports CBS, CNN, and ESPN.
The Netflix streaming might cause some problem. If Netflix streaming is what you want most, you can already turn your Xbox 360 into a streaming Netflix player for free or just wait until the fall update.
The application is available as a free three-week trial and costs $30 for a full license. It’s available on the Windows platform only.
Tekken 6 has been officially announced for a fall 2009 release. The latest trailer gives us a glimpse of the Tekken world where some damn hardcore fights take place.
Platforms: PS3, XBox 360
Apple’s iTunes, MTV’s Urge, and similar online stores take the pain out of buying music, but the embedded digital rights management technology in the songs adds a new headache, limiting where you can play them and how often. Some xapps strip out DRM by cracking the encryption, but that tends to be illegal.
You can achieve the same results with the following steps:
1. Create a new playlist with all the songs you’d like to rip
2. Use your software’s Burn Disc option to copy the music to audio-CD format
3. After you’ve burned the music to disc, rename the originally downloaded
songs with another name
4. Insert your newly burned CD-R and click Import CD to copy the songs back
into iTunes or whichever player app you originally used.
That’s it! They will now be stripped of all DRM
The Shutdown.exe command can shut down or restart your computer, optionally forcing it to shut down even if some programs attempt to prevent it. But it does not include an option to hibernate. If you hibernate quite often, then you can have a desktop shortcut for quickly putting your PC into hibernation.
To create a shortcut, right-click on an empty space on the Desktop and select ‘New->Shortcut‘. In the ‘Type the location of the item’ box, add this text:
rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll SetSuspendState
Click on the Next button. In the ‘Type a name for this shortcut’ box type ‘Hibernate’ and then click on the Finish button.
If the shortcut does not work, then the hibernate option might not be enabled. To enable it, click on the Start button and select ‘Settings’. Click on ‘Control Panel’ and then double-click on the ‘Power Options’ icon. Click on the ‘Hibernate’ tab and make sure the ‘Enable Hibnernate‘ is checked.
