Sony Vegas

Professional HD video editing, audio editing, and DVD authoring software
The Vegas Pro collection combines Vegas Pro 8, DVD Architect Pro 4.5, and Dolby® Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. These tools let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM™ formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs. Sony Vegas Pro 8 Boxed Upgrade


Precise Editing Tools
Edit SD or HD video with drag-and-drop functionality, mouse and keyboard trimming, and ripple editing. Features include ProType Titling technology, multicamera editing tools, 32-bit floating point video processing, customizable window layouts, color-coded snapping, improved HDV/SDI/XDCAM support, Cinescore plug-in support, A/V synchronization detection and repair, and auto-frame quantization. More about video editing

Efficient, Professional Workflow
The Vegas Pro 8 interface provides a fully customizable workspace for accomplishing a wide range of production requirements. Dock multiple windows across multiple monitors, and save your layouts to fit specific editing tasks; nest Vegas projects within the timeline, customize and save keyboard commands, and use application scripting to automate repetitive tasks. System-wide media management produces maximum efficiency. Network rendering saves time by using multiple computers and networked drive arrays to render complex projects. Vegas Pro software also supports 24p, HD and HDV editing. More about the Vegas Pro workflow

Superior Audio Control
Use unlimited tracks, 24-bit/192 kHz audio, punch-in recording, 5.1 surround mixing, effects automation, and time compress/expand. Apply customizable, real-time audio effects like EQ, Reverb, Delay, and more. Expand your audio processing and mixing options with supported third-party DirectX® and VST audio plug-ins. Use the Mixing Console for precise audio control. More about audio production

Powerful DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ Authoring Tools
Burn Blu-ray discs directly from the timeline for high-definition delivery. Create standard DVDs with multiple video angles, subtitles, multiple languages, and running commentary. Apply Brightness and Contrast, Auto Levels, Crop, and Anti-Flicker filters. Set CSS and Macrovision® copy-protection flags for masters. DVD Architect Pro 4.5 software supports the latest devices, including dual-layer DVD burners. More about DVD creation

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Interactive Tutorials New!
Vegas Pro 8 software has a comprehensive help system, as well as detailed interactive tutorials that provide walk-through demonstrations of common features and functionality. These tutorials provide an easy step-by-step method of learning the product and the workflow necessary to complete most common tasks.
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The Witcher Enhanced

Languages:
Setup: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese Traditional
Voice-Overs: English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Hungarian
Subtitles: English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Chinese Traditional

Overview:
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is the ultimate version of the ultimate role-playing game. The Witcher, which was released in October 2007, has won more than 90 awards
and has sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide, and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition brings the game even closer to perfection with a number of technical and visual
improvements jammed into the value-packed retail box. The enhancements introduced in this version include more than 5000 lines of re-written and re-recorded dialogue,
more than 200 new dialogue animations, a new character differentiation system for NPCs, an enhanced inventory with improved alchemy, reduced loading times, improved
combat responsiveness, D'jinni adventure editor, two new adventures that will give you more than 5 hours of additional gameplay fully voiceover`ed by the same actors acted
in ‘The Witcher' and much more. The Witcher represents the pinnacle of storytelling in role-playing games, shattering the line between good and evil with a world where moral
ambiguity reigns. In a beautiful, rich game universe, the player takes on the role of renowned monster slayer, Geralt of Rivia, in an epic, action-packed narrative in which his
decisions have a major impact on how the story plays out. The Witcher emphasizes story and character development in a vibrant world, while incorporating tactically-deep
real-time combat like no game before it.

Story:
The game tells the story of Geralt of Rivia, who at the opening of the game is tasked to cure the daughter of King Foltest of a curse which causes her to transform
into a feral monster. Geralt successfully cures her, introducing the player to the nature of witcher-work. A period of years mysteriously pass ending with Geralt being
transported to the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen by fellow witchers who had discovered him unconscious in a field. Geralt remembers almost nothing of his life
before returning to Kaer Morhen. The game's story is separated into five acts, each representing a different area and distinct set of quests. Geralt meets many former
friends and foes throughout the plot who help him to recover information about his mysterious past

Minimum System Requirements:

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (must be up to date with the latest fixes)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
RAM: 1024 MB RAM for Microsoft Windows XP / 1536 MB RAM for Microsoft Windows Vista
Video: 128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon X800 or better)
Free HD Space: 8 - 13 GB available hard drive space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
DVD: DVD-ROM
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Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl is the videogame adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game
of the same name.No holds barred : Bribe the referee, foul your opponent as
they whimper on the ground, hurl devastating fireballs from the stands or
even sneak a chainsaw on the field, whatever it takes to defeat your
opponent... But don't ever forget the ultimate purpose of the game: Get the
ball into the End Zone and score touchdowns!
Two completely different game modes
Play the authentic turn-based Blood Bowl experience thanks to this faithful
adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game. Live the game in Real Time
and unleash Blood Bowl's wrenching frenzy for spectacular and intense games!
A huge single player game
Take part in a complete Blood Bowl campaign and win trophies in 15
Championships and Cups. Each victory will allow your team to gain Star
Player levels and new pieces of performance enhancing equipment.
The multiplayer competition at its best
Choose your own competition rules and create your own Championships.
Create a team online and take part in Leagues and Tournaments over the
Internet to climb to the top of the official rankings!
Create your own Private League with your own competition rules and organize
your own Tournaments!

System Requirements for Blood Bowl


* Operating system: Windows XP (Service Pack 2), Windows Vista
* Processor: Intel® Pentium 2.4GHz / AthlonXP 2400 +

* Memory: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
* Video Card: 256 MB memory, compatible with DirectX® 9.0s
* Sound Card: compatible with DirectX® 9.0c
* Free space on your hard disk: 4 GB
* Device control: Keyboard, Mouse
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Gothic

War has decimated the land, Orc Hordes are invading human territory and the king of the land needs a lot of ore to forge enough weapons for his army to stand against this threat. Prisoners from all over the empire are imprisoned in a large magical sphere where they have to work in the mines for the king. You are thrown into the sphere to give a letter to the high mages, this letter may be the turning point on the war against the Orcs. Learn More Gothic

Risen ( Game)

Risen 2009
Shipwrecked and ready for adventure! Come face-to-face with untold
mysteries on a dangerous, forbidden island: ancient temples suddenly
bursting forth from the earth, monstrous creatures roaming long lost
ruins, active volcanoes, treasures from a distant past, and a ruthless
inquisitor who rules inside the city walls with an iron fist.
Unlock the terrifying secrets of Risen and never be the same again.
This latest open-world RPG by Piranha Bytes delivers a thrilling
edge-ofyour- seat storyline wrapped in a fully immersive sensory
experience. You will enter the Risen world uniquely through mood,
emotion, and cultural exploration, in addition to hallmark RPG
interactions such as dialogue and combat. A vast reputation system
sets a new standard in the genre, lending unparalleled sophistication
and subtlety to the gameplay.



Required Hardware Specification for  Risen 2009
OS: Win XP
CPU: 2.0 GHz
GPU: Direct X 9.1; Pixel Shader 3.0; 256 MB (GeForce 7900 - ATI 1800)
RAM: 1 GB
Hard disk: ~2.5 GB

Recommended System Specifications:
OS Win XP or Vista
CPU: 3.0 GHz Dual Core
GPU: Direct X 9.1; Pixel Shader 3.0; 512 MB (GeForce 8800 - ATI Radeon HD 2900)
RAM: 2 GB
Hard disk: ~2.5 GB
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Visual Basic .NET Black Book

Welcome to your Visual Basic .NET support package. That's what this book has been written to be: your complete Visual Basic .NET support package. It has been designed to be the one you turn to first, the one that gives you more of what you want than any other.

I've crammed as much Visual Basic .NET into this book as possible, broken down into hundreds of easily-accessible topics, each short and to the point, and each with an example. The format here is like no other computer book series, and it's designed to give you exactly what you want, when you want it.

And that's not an easy job, because the subject of this book, Visual Basic .NET, is huge. I've used and written about Visual Basic even before version 1.0 came out and in those 10 years, Visual Basic has grown in power and complexity enormously. The changes in Visual Basic .NET are immense, and this book has been entirely rewritten from its predecessor, the Visual Basic 6 Black Book.

That book was a bestseller, but this, the entirely new edition, is far better. (At least in my opinion, and I wrote both books.) There's much more material here, in greater depth, and there are many more of the programming "nuggets" that programmers want to see.

This book has been designed to give you the Visual Basic .NET coverage you just won't find in any other book. Other books often omit not only the larger topics, like deploying your program after you've created it, but also the smaller ones like covering just about every Windows and Web control that comes with Visual Basic .NET in depth-from the text box control to three-state checkboxes, from datetime pickers to hot tracking tab controls, and from Web page validation controls to ad rotators. And the advanced topics are here too, like creating your own Windows and Web controls, writing Windows and Web services, distributed data applications, multithreading, deploying applications, and more Visual Basic .NET Black Book

Mastering Visual C# .NET

This book shows you how to use C# and the ASP.NET framework in a specific way— by using code-
behind classes to build Web applications. In classic ASP, you could mix executable code and HTML in
the same file. You can still do that in ASP.NET, but the technology described in this book is more like
VB6 WebClasses, which used HTML templates in conjunction with a compiled VB-generated DLL. The
DLL code could access the HTML templates to "fill" them with data, thus creating a very clean
separation between the user interface (the HTML) and the code.

Code-behind classes in C# follow that same logic but are considerably easier to use. At the simplest
level, you create an HTML template, called a Web Form, that contains the user interface elements. From the Web Form, you reference the code in a class in the code-behind file; finally, you program the contents of the HTML elements from the C# class. Like WebClasses, separating the code that activates the HTML templates from the templates themselves gives you a much cleaner separation. For example, it's very easy, after you have a defined set of user-interface elements, to let HTML designers build an interface and modify that interface by adding static elements or changing the positions and/or the look-and-feel of those elements without interfering with the way the page works. Similarly, you can reuse the user-interface templates, filling them with different data or copying them from one application to the next without having to rebuild the interface.

Visual Basic .NET Tips & Techniques

This book examines hundreds of ways you can exploit Visual Basic .NET capabilities and
features built into the .NET environment. Each Tip provides ready-to-run source code that you can
use to experiment with a programming concept or that you can cut and paste into your own
programs. Further, each Tip provides step-by-step explanations of the processing the code performs.
In this book’s chapters, you will:

• Learn how to exploit Visual Basic .NET’s object-oriented programming capabilities, such as classes, inheritance, interfaces, and reflection.
  
• Understand how your programs can use the Common Language Runtime and Base Class Library’s thousands of programming-language independent methods and classes to accomplish specific tasks.
  
• Learn about the “common dialogs,” which your programs can use to display standardized dialog boxes for operations that open, save, and print files and for selecting fonts and colors.
  
• See how Visual Basic .NET supports multiple threads of execution which create the illusion that your program is performing two or more tasks at the same time.
  
• Explore ways in which the .NET environment makes the forms-based user interface available to all programming languages through the use of Windows forms.
  
• Use the Try-Catch statement to detect and respond to an exception (which programmers refer to as structured error handling).
  
• Create an ASP.NET Web page using a compiled programming language such as Visual Basic .NET or C#.
  
• Create and use Web services (functions or subroutines a program can call remotely to accomplish a specific task) using Visual Studio.
  
• Learn how the .NET environment replaces the ADO model for database access with ADO.NET.
  
• Explore the many operations you can perform in Visual Basic .NET to quickly improve your program’s performance and functionality.
  
• And much more! 

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Business Communication Today (9th Edition)

Definitive source for business communication

As a university prof teaching ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) courses at undergraduate level, I regularly use texts that offer authentic language (English, not designed for english teching) from various fields to design study material, mostly from the technology and business sectors. While attending a conference in Singapore this winter I stumbled across this text and immediatelly recognised I had found a gem, but I had no idea how valuable it would become until later. I thought that it would supplement my current selection of business material, but I soon found that it not only offers excellent examples of english vocabulary for study purposes not found in a technical learning environment, but also serves as a standard reference for modern day business communications. Having longed for a text like this while working in the electronics industry, now as a teacher I have found it. This 'encyclopeadia' is so much more than a comprehensive guide to business communications; it leads the reader through topics by presenting interesting, current and concise information, giving checklists, using examples, summarising, posing critical thinking questions, using illustrated documents for analysis, and well-thought out exercises. It can be used both as a self-study text and a teacher's textbook. Designed to present foundations of business communication, it offers the native and non-native English speaker what they need to know; from writing memos and reports to giving presentations and understanding electronic communication over the Internet. Needless to say this book has moved from my adjunct shelf as a model for good English to my content shelf where it regularly serves as a core text for my language and written/oral presentation classes. It is a must have -- I'm not sure how I got along without it. I now look forward to exploring other texts available in this series. Learn More  Business Communication Today (9th Edition)

TextAloud With AT&T Natural Voices (Windows Software)

TextAloud is the leading text to speech program, available now with optional AT&T Natural Voices for the best in computer speech. TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen to text from email, web pages and documents on your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. Imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind. TextAloud can save your daily reading to audio files for your portable player.

Get TextAloud now and find out why it’s a great utility to bring information that final yard from your PC to your brain. Business people, students. educators, writers, homemakers and busy people from all walks of life find TextAloud to be an essential tool they use every day. Be more productive or just be entertained as you listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Several great voices and languages are offered
* A cleaner, more powerful interface with support for skins to allow personalization
* Direct support for Word, PDF, and HTML files
* Unique new Proofread function to eliminate errors
* Batch File Converter to convert audio files quickly from any number of documents
* New Internet Explorer Plug-In makes listening to web pages easier than ever
* The ability to change voices within a single document to simulate conversation or multiple speakers
* Advanced Font Controls to improve readability for those with low vision
* Bookmarks for easy navigation of large texts
* Advanced pronunciation tools to teach computer voices unusual words like technical or medical terms
* Configurable pauses between sentences and paragraphs make text more understandable – especially useful for those learning a new language 

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Antares Auto-Tune Pitch Software (Version 5 Native for Macintosh and Windows)

The Next Generation of the Worldwide Standard in Professional Pitch Correction.
The Fastest, Easiest-To-Use, Highest-Quality Tool for Correcting Pitch.
Hailed as a "holy grail of recording," by Recording magazine (and adopted worldwide as the largest-selling audio plug-in of all time), Auto-Tune corrects intonation problems in vocals or solo instruments, in real time, without distortion or artifacts, while preserving all of the expressive nuance of the original performance - with audio quality so pristine that the only difference between what goes in and what comes out is the intonation. All with a user-interface that is a model of clarity, speed and ease-of-use.

For most common pitch problems, Auto-Tune 5's Automatic Mode instantaneously detects the pitch of the input, identifies the closest pitch in a user-specified scale (including minor, major, chromatic and 26 historical and microtonal scales), and corrects the input pitch to match the scale pitch. A Retune Speed control lets you match the retune rate to virtually any performance style.

For meticulous tweaking, the Graphical Mode displays the performance's detected pitch envelope and allows you to draw in the desired pitch using a variety of graphics tools. This mode gives complete control over the correction or modification of the most elaborate expressive gestures.

Auto-Tune is used daily by thousands of audio professionals around the world. Whether to save studio and editing time, ease the frustration of endless retakes, to save that otherwise once-in-a-lifetime performance, or to create striking special effects, Auto-Tune 5 is the tool of choice.Learn More Antares Auto-Tune Pitch Software (Version 5 Native for Macintosh and Windows)

Microsoft Encarta Premium 2009

Want to watch wildlife? Explore Mars? Travel the globe from the comfort of your home? Microsoft Encarta Premium 2009 has the visual tools to help. See historic events and places with 2- and 3-D virtual tours. Get a new perspective on the past with the unique Dynamic Timeline, which illustrates key events from geologic time to the present day. Enjoy captivating videos from the Discovery Channel which let you view a range of topics in detail.

The latest Microsoft Encarta Premium 2009 multimedia encyclopedia combines more than 62,000 detailed articles, immersive research experiences, and thousands of trusted Web links to some of the most relevant—and age-appropriate—sites on the Web, all maintained by a team of dedicated editors.