User friendly interface lets you change volume levels, group playback and recording controls in any of five custom layouts, and save and restore mixer settings manually or at specified times.

Hot-keys for quick volume control, too! Remote Control provides hot-key control for the most popular CD and Mp3 players, including Winamp, Sonique, Quintessential CD, etc.

The same hot-keys can even be used for all players. Auto-created submenus can control any installed player. When no external CD or Mp3 player is active, the built-in CD player has all the basic features needed for playing Audio CDs while using minimal system resources.

It can read and edit track information used by the Windows CD Player, and uses the same hot-keys as the external players. Large On Screen Display (OSD) with semi-transparent background pops up when a hot-key is pressed, and indicates the volume level or song name and playback position.

This interactive display also allows you to change the volume level, select the track or playback position, and pause or stop playback. Additionally, Audio Sliders can display time in the different parts of the world and important system information such as drive free space, available physical memory, total memory load, CPU utilization, swapfile size, and local and networked drive read/write speed.

Auto-hide and auto-rollup features save screen space while leaving Audio Sliders ready to go.

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G-Force includes a host of impressive features such as anti-aliased effects, millions of effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects and video file export capabilities. You can also customize and extend G-Force in various ways.

G-Force is basically a mathematical application which takes sounds and turns them into images. It makes an impressive piece of eye-candy but with one drawback. You have to pay an annual subscription to keep using it which will no doubt put off many users. It's therefore probably more appealing to professional DJs and other performance artists that need a visual display to accompany music.

G-Force is an impressive application but will probably appeal more to professionals than general users.

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Having been blown away by the previous version of FIFA, we found it hard to imagine how EA could possibly improve its slick soccer sim. However, after a few matches of this demo version it’s clear that the changes aren’t merely cosmetic.

Refined gameplay

The enhancements to the gameplay in FIFA 11 make it feel a lot more like real football. The new Personality+ system means that players move and act as they do in real life. This means, for example, that Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney will charge around after the ball when he’s not in possession; while his strike partner Dimitar Berbatov is more content to stand around waiting for something to happen!

Other tweaks to the AI help to make FIFA 11 the most enjoyable version to-date. For instance, on crosses, it’s now normal to see more than one player coming up for the ball. You’ll also notice that the players are a bit faster than they were in FIFA 10.

Another important change in FIFA 11 is the ability to control the goalkeeper, which feels very natural and adds an extra element to the gameplay.

Handballs are introduced for the first time in FIFA 11. When a defender is positioned in the line of a shot he may stick out his hand to block it. The frequency of handballs is a little higher than it would be in real life, but you can disable them, or define that they don’t occur in penalty situations.

FIFA 11 also features a more refined passing system, giving you more control over ball distribution. The Pro Passing feature lets you measure passes more precisely by weighting them. The repertoire of passes has been beefed up too, and you can now perform swerve passes, flicks, driven lobs and apply backspin to balls.

One of the changes we didn’t like is the new penalty kick system, which is based around a power-bar. Stopping the pointer in the right place is very difficult because it takes a while to respond to your button press. This makes scoring penalties in FIFA 11 a difficult thing to do.

Graphical tweaks

At first glance, FIFA 11’s graphics don’t look that different to the ones in the last version. Once you start seeing replays or close-ups, however, you realize that player likenesses are now more realistic. EA modeled player faces using photographs, and facial expressions are now more varied and change according to the player.

Another neat addition to FIFA 11 is the ability to upload your own audio for use within the game. You can record your own chants, add audio files of actual team chants, and define the music that a team runs out to.

Game modes
FIFA 11 is still stacked with lots of game modes, including officially licensed leagues, exhibitions, training and Be a Pro. The one significant change this time out is the rehashing of the Manager mode, which is now known as Career mode, and integrates with Be a Pro. This is now more involved in that you start out as a player before becoming a player coach and eventually a fully-fledged manager.

These interesting new features, combined with super intelligent gameplay, make FIFA 11 the quintessential soccer sim.

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Quintessential Player is a free media player for your audio and video library. It's fully skinnable and has many plugins available.

The Quintessential name has been around for many years, and this 5.0 version shows its age in both good and bad ways. As an alternative to iTunes, it doesn't have a dedicated podcast area, but its playback options are a little better. The best example of this is the play queue panel, which can be opened to create an on the fly playlist, which is great for parties.

Otherwise, while some users may like changing the appearance, this doesn't add to the functionality, which is lacking in some areas. The main problem is the equalizer. For people who like to tweak their bass Quintessential Player's equalizer will be hopeless, as it hardly effects the sound at all. The visualizations that come with it are pretty old school, and look really our of date even when compared to those in Windows Media Player.

While this 5.0 version will no doubt be updated over time, currently it seems much less stable than its established peers and is slightly buggy. It is also fairly resource hungry. If you're a fan of customization it's definitely an option, but it's hard to see an iTunes user migrating to Quintessential Player at the moment.

Quintessential Player is slightly quirky, sometimes in the wrong kind of way, but does have some interesting features

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Unreal Tournament is one of the most popular FPS series in the world. Thousands of players around the globe have kept this multiplayer online game alive during all these years since it was first released in 1999.
Now it's time to give them more action, more weapons and more fun with the new title of the series, Unreal Tournament 3.
First of all, bear in mind that this is a beta demo, so it may be a little buggy.
In fact it crashed a couple of times during our tests, but you know, we enjoyed it just the same. It was simply awesome to have that Unreal Tournament feeling back again: a dark, sordid, futuristic scenario; a military-style soundtrack; a wide range of weapons to choose from; and, of course, lots of non-stop frantic action both in local games against bots -with variable AI level- and in online matches against other human players.

The Unreal Tournament demo requires you to create a profile, which barely takes 30 seconds. After that, you'll be able to taste all the goodies brought by this new Unreal.
Although scarce in maps, the demo allows you to play different game modes and even online multiplayer games, including a Capture-the-Flag map where you can drive different vehicles.
However, you'll have to learn how to control them on the way, as there's no help available but a few on-screen tips.
In short, Unreal Tournament's return is great.
This demo is so enjoyable that it really leaves you longing for more. But in any case it's a great way to train before the complete game hits shelves.

Unreal Tournament 3 offers the same gameplay, action and fun of previous titles: the amazing game experience that UT fans have been waiting for!

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