Multiplayer lets the game down

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is not a subtle game. The story is silly, but takes you through lush jungles, to Sarajevo and mountains in Tibet. Some segments see you working with a Spotter, or supporting another team. In these parts you are guided through where to look and who to kill. How hard this is depends on the setting. Medium difficulty gives you a red dot that helps you allow for distance and wind when shooting, but this is removed on Hard.

The multiplayer portion is small. It sets two teams up sniping against each other. This makes game pretty quiet, as searching for other snipers is a slow, painstaking process. There really needed to be more creative game modes to make multiplayer worthwhile in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2.

Playability

The controls are well handled. You can hold your breath, which momentarily slows time, allowing you to take a more accurate shot, and in general it plays like a standard first person shooter. The night and infrared vision modes are well done, but you rarely need to use them creatively.

While it never reaches Dishonored or Hitman levels, there is a puzzle element to watching and learning soldiers' movements, and it's fun to get through a level undetected. The good looking environments don't allow for much exploration, and there isn't the same level of fascinating detail like there was in Dishonored.

Quality

Enemy AI can be a little hard to predict. When you're sniping from a great distance, and being guided by your team, this isn't a problem. When you're fighting on your own, deciding which enemies to take down first doesn't always give you predictable results. If you are detected and rushed by a few soldiers, you will find the pistol woefully underpowered to protect yourself! You can take out an enemy very close to another without problem sometimes, but if you miss, generally you'll alert everyone to your position. But not always...

Conclusion

Apart from the dodgy AI, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is an enjoyable, if short, sniping adventure. It doesn't have the gory bullet cam of Sniper Elite:V2, but it's still a solid sniper game.

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Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors the various parameters. By clicking its icon, you'll view real time values for each component.

Once it has detected an overheating state, Hmonitor can perform a number of tasks. First, it can sound an audio alarm, then shut down the system or optionally execute any selected application (i.e. sending E-mail alert messages to system administrator). It can also log information each minute to a file on your hard drive. From the settings dialog, Hmonitor enables you to set "yellow zone" and "red zone" temperatures for the motherboard and CPU. You can also set minimum fan RPM before a warning is issued. In addition, nominal values and thresholds can be adjusted for voltage parameters.

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The ESPN Cricinfo extension for Google Chrome, gives you the latest cricket news, features and live scores from ESPN's extensive cricket coverage service. In addition to alerting you about a new story via auto notifications, it also shows the current scores in a tooltip when you hover over the ESPN Cricinfo icon.

It also includes Wicket Alerts - just select one or more matches to follow and whenever a wicket falls, the ESPN Cricinfo icon will change to a W on a red background. Just click the icon to see the wicket that fell. Alternatively, you can be notified by a Desktop Notification. To configure which one to use, visit the Options page to enable Desktop Notifications. Note however that one bug with ESPN Cricinfo is that the "Disable notifications from ESPNCricinfo" doesn't work and so you have to disable it completely from the Options page.

Finally, you can filter news stories by country. Just click on the small gear cog icon in the top right corner of the extension to access the Options page and you can select up to two countries.

ESPN Cricinfo is a must have add-on for all fans of cricket and Google Chrome.

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In Desura you'll find some free to play games plus some mods to popular games like Half-Life and Red Alert. Unfortunately however, you won't find many major titles on there - it's very limited when compared to Steam.

Desura does however also provide tools and hosting for game developers, as well as a useful forum for the gaming community to exchange opinions and tips. Desura is free to register for and within a few clicks you will be able to play and download games with the rest of the Desura community.

Desura is an interesting alternative to Steam although it lacks many really big games.

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Garena currently supports quite a limited number of games but does include some major titles such as Age of Empires I and II, Battlefield 2, Bordelands, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 and 2, Call Of Duty: World At War, Counter Strike: Source, Call Of Duty 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Red Alert 3, Starcraft, Team Fortress 2 and Warcraft 3.

When you download and install Garena, you have to create and account to log into the Garena network. You will be assigned an avatar that will identify you within the Garena community. You can instantly see who is online and which players are at a similar ability to you. Garena seems somewhat more focused on some games more than others though e.g. World of Warcraft 3, for which there is even an online video channel and high-level championship mode.

To communicate with other gamers, Garena has its own Instant Messaging and internal mail system and forums to discuss gaming issues. There's also a points system for those users with more experience and forum activity.

Garena isn't compatible with enough major titles but for those it does work with, it's a simple way of finding like-minded gamers.

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You have free hand at every mission. Coordinate your men, call the right carunits and apply the proper equipment. Yourknowledge and your strategic skills decidethe success of your mission.

FEATURES. Thrilling missions like plane crash, tornado or earthquake. Lots of different units like ladder truck, fire brigade crane, fire truck.

Realistic equipment for all units. For casual and core gamers. Enthralling sound and extensive voice response. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. Minimal:Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

Pentium 3 800 Mhz or higher. RAM 128 MB. DirectX9 compatible 32 MB RAM graphic card. free disc space 1 GB. DirectX9 compatible sound card. Recommended:Windows 2000/XP.

DirectX9 compatible sound card.

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Hunting Unlimited is the perfect solution for those who want a taste of hunting in the jungle or the African savannah, but without leaving home. The animals don't suffer and you don't run the risks, but even still you get the chance to go after some of the most impressive beasts on the planet, right on your computer screen.

Animals & Locations

Lions, elephants and majestic European red deer are just some of the many beasts you'll find in Hunting Unlimited. Depending on where in the world you choose to hunt, species change and adapt to each area. Hunting Unlimited's locations include places like North America's Rocky Mountains and the African plains.

Weapons

To make the experience as real as possible, the Hunting Unlimited brings dozens of weapons and accessories that facilitate hunting. Jeeps, maps, special food for animals, lookout towers... Stay alert and practice sport hunting without falling into the clutches of the beasts. When you do come face to face with one of the giants, Hunting Unlimited provides you with over 42 weapons to take them on, from shotguns and rifles to crossbows and more.

Hunting Unlimited is an interesting game with a unique theme that surprised us with its wealth of options, although the graphics were a little lacking.

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All developers will tell you that using an efficient, easy-to-use and reliable bug-tracking tool is one of the most important parts of their job.

Bugzilla is Mozilla's system for reporting and tracking errors and bugs in web or software development. It is very easy to use and works in any web browser, although you will need an SQL database to use it. You can search errors instantly with the Bugzilla search engine, which can be switched from normal to advanced mode depending on how deep you want to go.

As you'd expect from a Mozilla product, Bugzilla is extremely customizable. For example, you can add options such as activating email alerts for when changes are made, and set levels of permissions for who can access what. The overall usability of Bugzilla is what impresses the most. While many development tracking tools are complicated and end up creating more work than they save, Bugzilla keeps everything clean and simple.

If it's good enough for Red Hat, Gnome and even NASA, then it shows what an excellent bug tracking tool Bugzilla is.

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sends (optional) email alerts when defined thresholds are reached and can send (optional) summary emails of current values. can also write hourly values to a database so they can be used to generate graphs over time.

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After installing McAfee SiteAdvisor, you’ll see a new button on the browser interface, as well as an additional search field. Also, from now on, every time you use a search engine you’ll see a small rating icon beside each result. These tools will help you detect risky websites before visiting them.

Using McAfee SiteAdvisor is really simple: a green icon means the site is safe, a yellow one means low risk and the red one stands for high risk. These potential threats include spam, hackers, adware, phishing and others. You can also view a complete report about the site you’re currently visiting.

McAfee SiteAdvisor Works fine, except if you’re using Internet Explorer 9. The plug-in doesn’t get on well with Microsoft’s latest browser and shows Javascript alerts and error messages. On the other hand, I didn’t like it trying to change my default search engine.

McAfee SiteAdvisor adds an extra layer of security to your usual browsing habits.

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Whether you're the salesperson or tour manager, the organization and self-calculating features will leave you wondering why you haven't latched onto this before!

When keeping inventory on the road, it's usually divided into two categories: Stock and On-Hand supplies. On-Hand supplies are what you count in that's for sale every day.

Stock is the remaining bulk amount that's kept in the trailer, bus bay, or wherever. This is your Warehouse (Warehouse Stock). No need to wonder when it's time to re-order; the Alert Centre reminds you of this whenever your Stock, On-Hand or Total Inventory (the combination) get below levels that you've set.

The Alert Centre provides three tiers of notices for three types of inventory when it's running low. There are three tiers for Warehouse Stock levels, three for On-Hand Supply levels, and three for a Total Inventory.

You need to know how much you have in Stock, how many you have On-Hand available for sale, and what the total inventory for each product is (the combination).

If you provide 100, 75, and 40 for Stock alert levels, you will have a different message notifying you when that Stock has reached a certain level.

Each tier has a color-coded text message (Alerts = Orange, Cautions = Pink and Warnings = Red). When your stock supply is empty, it tells you that it's been Depleted.

These three notices also apply for your On-Hand supplies and Total Inventory, as stated. There's even a notice to let you know when you've counted more items Out than you counted In (this helps for mis-counted items).

Features Include:* LOADED with Smart Tips * 3-Tiered Alert Centre Matrix for 3 types of inventory* Color-Coded matrix warnings alert of several combinations of low inventory levels* Email the Reconciliation Totals* Auto-Complete typing in fields and menus* Two Sales & Reconciliation printouts* Print manual count-sheets with or without products pre-printed* An endless amount of products can be stored in the database* Print M&IE Reports (track your Federal Per-Diems)* Find a County, Check Domestic & Foreign PD Rates online* Track your Salary, Buyouts, PD, with Running Totals* Store 30 photos a day; View & Print in Biggie-Sizes* Store Venue, Promoter, and Promoter Rep contact information and photos* Store 2 Maps or Photos per Venue* Email or Call the Promoter, Rep or Venue from your computer's software* Open website URL's* And so much more.

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You can change the Origin Currency for every tour or leg. Selecting currencies has never been easier! All you really need to know is the country.

The drop-down menu contains over 240 countries and nearly 260 currencies and codes. With the Auto-Complete feature, you can start typing the country and the menu will shorten accordingly and even finish it for you!

Once you've chosen a Country, you select the Locale (world location) it provides. Whatever Currencies are available in that location appear in the Currency menu.

With your currency decided, the next menu gives you the Currency Code for the selected Currency. As you can see, there's really not much you need to know - it does the thinking for you.

Sometimes you'll need to include tax with the sales price. This can get interesting, especially when doing conversions. If $1 USD = 0. 83273 EUR (Euro), you probably won't want to sell at 83 cents!

You're able to put in whatever foreign sales price you want, and it automatically converts everything back into your originating currency for you.

It'll show you the base price, plus if you have any tax included (tax amount and the base plus tax). It does this for your foreign amounts as well, and always displays whatever your Active sales prices are (in whatever your origin currency is and the foreign currency).

There is always a notation that "1 EUR = 1. 20087 USD" for example. It's always good to know the reverse exchange rate. And for the easy way out, you'll enjoy the currency exchange calculator.

Simply enter what price you're wanting to sell at (of either currency), and it calculates the conversions for you. The Conversion Calculator lets you enter "15" (for example), and it will tell you that 15.

000 USD = 12. 491 EUR, and that 15. 000 EUR = 18. 013 USD (based on the previously entered conversion rate). This is a very quick and efficient tool for coming up with conversion calculations and sales prices on-the-spot.

The Alert Centre provides three tiers of notices for three types of inventory when it's running low. There are three tiers for Warehouse Stock levels, three for On-Hand Supply levels, and three for a Total Inventory.

You need to know how much you have in Stock, how many you have On-Hand available for sale, and what the total inventory for each product is (the combination).

If you provide 100, 75, and 40 for alert levels, you will have a different message notifying you that stock has reached a certain level. Each tier has a color-coded text message (Alerts = Orange, Cautions = Pink and Warnings = Red).

When your stock supply is empty, it tells you that it's been Depleted. Features Include:* LOADED with Smart Tips* Conversion Calculator for quick, reliable conversions and sales prices* Over 240 Countries; 260 Currencies and Currency Codes* 3-Tiered Alert Centre Matrix for 3 types of inventory* Color-Coded matrix warnings alert of several combinations of low inventory levels* Email the Reconciliation Totals in both the Origin and Foreign Currencies* Auto-Complete typing in fields and menus* Two Sales & Reconciliation printouts for the Originating Currency* Two Sales & Reconciliation printouts for the Foreign Currency* Print manual count-sheets with or without products pre-printed* An endless amount of products can be stored in the database* Print M&IE Reports (track your Federal Per-Diems)* Find a County, Check Domestic & Foreign PD Rates online* Track your Salary, Buyouts, PD, with Running Totals* Store Venue, Promoter, and Promoter Rep contact information and photos* Store 2 Maps or Photos per Venue* Email or Call the Promoter, Rep or Venue from your computer's software* And so much more.

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User-friendly tools like Reminder, To-Do, Sticky Notes, Expenses Tracker, Address Book, enhanced Calendar and others will make your life much easier.

Experience it to believe it! Address BookHave difficulties in looking up your friends or business associates contracts? Separate them into different groups, attach photo and manage history for each contact.

You can even send email, visit a web page, make a phone call and send mail merge letter to your entire mail list. CalenderTrying hard to remember your appointments for the day?

Time slot enables you to view all appointments, their conflict graphically, reschedule and to enter new appointments using drag and drop method.

Sound alarm will alert you of the upcoming appointments. Use other RedBox sections to view your Daily, Weekly and Monthly Calendar. PlannerWith duration percent, different color and description.

You will be enable to track projects, meetings, conference, vacation etc. Add events just by using drag and drop technique. Palm/Pocket PC SynchronizationSynchronize Calendar, ToDo, Address Book and Notes section with Palm device or Pocket PC.

Just install Palm HotSync manager or Pocket PC ActiveSync and everything is ready to go. NotesForget to jot down anything? Let Notes assist you.

Use different color and creation date and you will never get mess up again. You are enable to import a text in Notes section from external file and save it on the disk.

Look up your Notes easily by using date, color or title. ExpensesWonder how much you spend for the month? The new Expenses interface lets you have a better view of information from your receipts and Expenses.

Just enter the details and lets RedBox take care of sorting and categorizing them. Import files from outlookWanna transfer the data from Outlook?

Let RedBox import the data from MS Outlook. New Outlook import with manual selections of records and records preview. If you still haven't found a PIM you like, RedBox Organizer is well worth a download.

Editor's Pick, ZDNetRedBox Organizer is the critically acclaimed personal organizer, that will make your day. Trusted and used by thousands worldwide since 1997.

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There are four mini campaigns in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising. Each of the main factions has a campaign - the Soviets, Allies and Empire of the Rising Sun. The other campaign follows the story of the Yuriko, the telekinetic, psychic schoolgirl weapon.

There are also Commander's Challenges, great for Command & Conquer experts, as they offer greater difficulty. The campaigns too get harder, faster than in the original game, making Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising very much geared towards fans who want more!

If you're new to the series, it's an over-the-top real time strategy game set in a world where Einstein was assassinated, which created a completely different reality. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising is full of the cheesy live action cut scenes that add to the ridiculous story lines!

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising offers a lot for fans, with more story and more challenges. Its only weak point is mutiplayer.

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Do you like to keep an eye on your PC's performance? Big Meter Pro is a basic monitoring tool with a speedometer-like display.

The main gauge show you CPU usage, and in settings you can toggle smooth motion of the needle and whether it is blue or red. The two small meters show your RAM and Disk usage. In settings you can choose to run at startup, enable alerts and define the Disk you want to monitor (maybe you have more than one HDD).

There is nothing more to this utility. It's very attractive, but doesn't offer you as much information as other system monitors. The alerts are useful, but if your CPU or memory usage is critically high, you will be aware of it due to your PC grinding to a halt and getting hot!

Big Meter Pro is an attractive performance meter, but it's very limited and really not much more than window dressing for your desktop.

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Codename: Panzers Cold War is a real-time strategy war game set in the cold war.

Unlike Red Alert, this fictional version of the cold war is pretty realistic. If you loved the over the top cartoon action of Red Alert, Codename: Panzers Cold War will seem pretty dry.

Control is via keyboard and mouse, and while there are of course plenty of controls, picking units and giving the orders is pretty simple. When taking on small groups of the Russian enemy, you feel a little removed from the action, as your troops can take care of themselves! With more challenging numbers of enemies, there's a bit more strategy involved in taking out the bad guys.

Graphically, there's a good amount of detail in both the environment and the units themselves. The sound effects are pretty good, especially with the tanks. Much of the environment is destructible, and the sound of a tank crunching over trees is great.

For real-time strategy, Codename: Panzers Cold War, takes the middle road. It's neither complex enough for hardcore strategists, nor as easy to use as something like Nintendo's Pikmin games. Unlike some of its peers, there's no instruction here (at least in the demo), so you're left to guess the controls and basic strategies. However, it's a solidly built game, and if you like the scenario, there's a lot to enjoy here.

Although it lacks a training mission, Codename: Panzers Cold War is an enjoyable real-time strategy game.

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One of the great franchises of PC gaming, Command & Conquer: Red Alert has been a firm favorite since the mid-Nineties thanks to its unique combination of real-time strategy, Cold War aesthetics and camp humor. The latest edition, Red Alert 3, continues this fine tradition with major improvements to the game's graphics and sound.

The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 demo consists of three tutorial missions and a couple of playable campaign missions, one each for the Soviets and NATO, making for a decent-sized demo which will give you a good idea of whether or not you'll like the full game

As in previous editions of Red Alert, this latest version pits the Soviet Union against the Allies and manages to pack time travel, nuclear weapons and a hilariously high-camp series of performances into its 7-minute introductory movie. The movie also introduces Red Alert 3's main addition: the Empire of the Rising Sun, a new playable power bent on world domination.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 makes use of the new graphics and 3D effects that were unveiled in last year's Tiberium Wars title, meaning that C&C fans will already be completely familiar with the game's controls and appearance. We thought we detected slightly higher CPU and GPU load in this title over Command & Conquer 3 but this caused nothing more than minor glitching with the maximum settings applied. The sound, video and acting are all of superior quality, making the game feel like a really well-rounded product.

At the end of the day, though. what Red Alert 3 is really missing is something new. Sure, the vehicles and units have been shaken up a bit (including the bizarre War Bear addition for the Soviets), and Japan has been added to the roster of competitive powers. But Red Alert 3 really isn't that different from Command & Conquer 3, or Red Alert 2 for that matter. The graphics and sound are much improved but the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same.

Fans of the series will enjoy Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's graphical improvements and comedic moments. But anyone expecting new gameplay features will be disappointed.

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TopStyle Lite is a free version of TopStyle that contains an extremely small subset of the features found in the Pro version of TopStyle. Most importantly, TopStyle Lite is strictly a simple CSS editor, whereas TopStyle Pro is a full-blown XHTML, HTML and CSS editor. However, if all you want is a very basic CSS editor, TopStyle Lite will serve you very well.

TopStyle Lite is a simplified version of its bigger brother, TopStyle. Although it provides a smaller selection of features, it's still a powerful style sheet editor that enables you to confidently and accurately create cascading style sheets, which can then be implemented into your website.

The burden of producing style sheets that are cross-browser compatible is eased by the inclusion of a multi-browser style checker and validator. This not only alerts you to invalid entries in your style sheets, but will highlight any bugs in popular browsers that may affect the style sheets' display.

It can create a basic style sheet from an existing HTML file, and all you need to do is simply apply styles to all the relevant tags in this document. Properties can be altered using the drop-down menus, or through manual entry. Any property that isn't supported by the current CSS definition will be highlighted in red, enabling easy location of errors later on.

The interface is extremely adaptable, enabling you to preview the current style sheet from within the editor itself and locate elements within the style sheet easily and quickly. In fact, TopStyle Lite makes every aspect of CSS creation extremely easy. If you're an old hand at style sheets you'll be surprised at the time this package will save you. And if you're a novice you'll be grateful for its error reporting aspect.

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