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Mal Updater has been updated to 1.94

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DailyTech - Clubbing Goes Green

The new club employs a variety of measures to cut energy use and carbon emissions by 30 percent and water use by 50 percent compared to similar clubs.  In order to accomplish the savings and stick to its green theme, the club employs a broad variety of measures.

Among the most attractive elements is the dance floor which generates power when danced upon.  Typically a club uses a lot of electricity in lighting the dance floor.  WATT’s dancers power the club’s disco lights with their dance moves, and the more power they generate the wilder the light show gets.  A prominent power meter helps to whip patrons into a dancing frenzy.

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Version 2.18 - September 8th 2008

A rom trimmer for Nintendo DS (NDS & GBA)

Features
- Batch processing
- Recursive folder scanning
- Auto detection for Wifi games
- Auto detection of already trimmed games
- Auto fix of incorrect trimming from other trimmers
- Extremely fast
- Trims NDS and GBA roms
- RAR/ZIP/7zip support
- It works for all the currently known cards for DS (R4, Acekard, M3, CycloDS, G6 etc..)

OS Compatibility
- 32/64 bit Windows from win95 to Vista; Linux under wine
- No 7zip for win9x and Linux
- Does not require .net shit

What’s New : v2.18
- Option to rename files to remove scene numbers. (like “0123 - abc.nds” -> “abc.nds”)

Drag&Drop notes:
- Drop any kind of files, it will detect and sort the right ones (nds,gba,zip,rar,7z,folders)

Q: Which version do I need?
A: If you use Vista with UAC enabled, or with a non-admin account, you need the 2nd one, “Vista compat…”, otherwise (win95-vista without uac, and Linux), use the normal one that says 32/64-bit)

Download:

32/64-bit 9x-Vista-Linux (891 KB) Downloaded a total of 59571 times

Vista compatible for non-admin/UAC accounts (841 KB) Downloaded a total of 31534 times

Additional Backgrounds (1.5 MB) Downloaded a total of 7004 times

Backgrounds by http://www.j-suki.de

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Mal Updater a software made specially for Anime fans.

First off, let me tell you about MAL (http://www.MyAnimeList.net): This is an impressive and big Anime community where you can make your own list of the series you have watched, plan to watch, what episode you are at, set a score for each etc. You can make your own personal profile, blog, make and join clubs about anything, search the anime/manga/people database, reviews, shared Anime with other users, and a bunch of stuff. There are around 80.000 registered users at the moment. There’s so much to explain that I can’t possibly cover it all here, so better check it out yourself: http://www.myanimelist.net/

Once you have an account and made a list there, you can then start using this application: Mal Updater

This program connects to the website with your MAL user account and retrieves your Anime list. From here on there’s a lot you can do:

- Start watching some Anime in one of the supported players, and MalU will detect which Anime and episode it is, and update your MAL list automatically with the last episode you have watched. That’s right: malu will check your video players and identify the Anime and episode.
- See how many people are watching the same Anime at the same time, and open a chat window with them
- Manually sort and update your list from MalU (episode watched, score, status, etc)
- Tell MalU to search in your hard disk for the next episode of the Anime you are currently watching, or from any in your list, and launch it in your default player. You can even use a HotKey and hook a mouse button for this. There is also an option so that malu automatically launches the next episode when you close the player
- Have it automatically check TokyoTosho for torrents of new episodes for the Anime in your list, have it download and launch the .torrents automatically according to some filters, and even tell uTorrent to store each file in its own Anime folder, if you have set it for every show. You can even have it automatically discard either MKV or AVI when both versions are present.
- Check your hard disk to see which Anime have new episodes available, and how many
- Show in MSN and mIRC what you are watching, including your score, ep/eptotal and a URL to information of the Anime. You don’t need to install any extra plugins or scripts in msn or mirc for this.
- Show in mIRC what you are listening to in either winamp or Last.fm. No extra plugins/scripts either for this
- You can make your own php forum signature which shows what you are currently watching, your last updates etc..
- Batch rename your Anime files to some criteria like Fansub - Anime Name - Episode
- Send your computer system info to a mIRC channel (ok this is unrelated to Anime, but you can use this to replace any script/dlls you are currently using). It has full 64-bit support and detects more than 4GB of ram
- Easily move and rename entire folders of Anime with a batch tool.

Note for Vista users: If you are using a non-admin account, or have UAC enabled, you should install to “C:\” instead of “Program files”. This will avoid UAC popping up when you want to install themes (annoyance).

Some screenshots, click on the reduced ones for a bigger image:

Main window. Vista 32/64 is fully supported, including blurry glass window, UAC for file operations, and live thumbs. The Anime panels colors change according to mal status, airing status, playing, etc..

mIRC and MSN features in action: (MSN URLs from other people in your list are clickable with MSN9). The variables and styles for mIRC are customizable

Main menu and Anime menus.

Tray notification for scheduled updates. You can customize the time for this and also the picture through themes

Torrents window and options/filters

Special tool for renaming and sorting your Anime files and folders

Themes: You can choose from a variety of existing themes (currently 80), or even make your own. There is an easy to use themes editor. Themes support full alpha blending features, as you can see in the first screenshot.
Check our complete themes gallery here: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=13935

Help and settings wizard

There is a very detailed help manual explaining every single setting and feature (besides our own club forum where people posts with questions, feature requests etc)

The application is updated regularly, including an auto-updater which detects new updates and auto-downloads them. Amongst the upcoming features is full support for remote controls to perform various actions (play next ep etc). This will be very useful for people with Media Center pcs without keyboard/mouse

Cpu/Ram usage: being a native win32 application, it doesn’t use the bulky .net framework, thus using very little CPU and RAM: (idle, logged in with 328 anime)

Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows OS, from Win2k to Vista, 32 and 64 bit editions supported.
- Linux supported (only manual updates, through wine lib)
- .NET is NOT required
- Internet connection
- Players supported: MPC(+HC ed), MPlayer, Zoom Player, GOM Player, Real Player, Winamp, WMP, BSPlayer, VLC, The Core, KMPlayer, DivX Player, SMPlayer, JetAudio
- If you use a firewall, you might need to give it permissions to access techsuki.net (for program updates) and myanimelist.net (list retrieval and episode updates)

To get started, please register in http://www.myanimelist.net first, build your list, then join the Mal Updater club for info: http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=907

Ananova - Dolphin speedboat makes a splash

The Seabreacher can glide on top or below water at high speed - and it has enough power to soar out of the water and fly through the air and perform stunts.

The two-man £30,000 craft has been designed to mimic the shape of a dolphin and self-rights whenever it splashes down.

The mini-submarine has a top speed of 45mph over the surface of the water and half that when it dives under.

This is very cool

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Intellectual work induces excessive calorie intake.

Quebec City, September 4, 2008—A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.

The research team, supervised by Dr. Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks: relaxing in a sitting position, reading and summarizing a text, and completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer. After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.

The researchers had already shown that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period. However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests. This represents a 23.6% and 29.4 % increase, respectively, compared with the rest period.

Blood samples taken before, during, and after each session revealed that intellectual work causes much bigger fluctuations in glucose and insulin levels than rest periods. “These fluctuations may be caused by the stress of intellectual work, or also reflect a biological adaptation during glucose combustion,” hypothesized Jean-Philippe Chaput, the study’s main author. The body could be reacting to these fluctuations by spurring food intake in order to restore its glucose balance, the only fuel used by the brain.

“Caloric overcompensation following intellectual work, combined with the fact that we are less physically active when doing intellectual tasks, could contribute to the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries,” said Mr. Chaput. “This is a factor that should not be ignored, considering that more and more people hold jobs of an intellectual nature,” the researcher concluded.

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In addition to Jean-Philippe Chaput and Angelo Tremblay, the study’s authors include Vicky Drapeau, Paul Poirier, and Normand Teasdale.

Information:
Angelo Tremblay, Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine
Université Laval
Phone: 418 656-2131, ext. 7294

Cool video if you ignore the lame music

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BBC NEWS | UK | UK ’sex on beach’ trial delayed.

One witness, a 21-year-old Palestinian man, told police he saw them “start kissing” after getting out of a taxi.

Maybe you should think twice if you are planning to ever visit that shithole.

DailyTech - Price Cut Makes Xbox 360 Cheaper than Nintendo Wii in Japan

Microsoft will lower the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade model by 8,000 yen ($73.92) to 19,800 yen.