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Registry Cleaning Software?

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Not mine, but at InformationWeek Fred Langa has a nice review and test of ten Registry Cleaning Software programs.

Be sure to read the opinions of forum members here..


Rescue orphans

Cavalcader  on our forum asks for a little utility:

I have a download area that regularly ends up with "orphans" in folders/subdirs (subdirs with a single file) as their former companions are replaced elsewhere by newer or better versions. What I'd like to do is somehow automate going through a particular dir tree, and any files that are by themselves in their own folder are moved to their parent dir.

Read about and download jgpaiva's solution..


SEPTEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS POSTED

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As you know we have a software giveaway every month, but we always try to make the fundraising month a little special, and this month we are giving away an unprecedented number of top-quality programs, including:

If you haven't won anything, please remember you still have until September 31st to take advantage of use the discounts for these and the other programs offered in August.  The discounts are listed here (on the specials page) and supporting members can access them directly here (in the members only discount code section).

Curious about how we award prizes?  See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility.

And now onto the winners..


Patch for new Internet Explorer Exploit - Updated

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A group of security researchers on Friday posted an unsanctioned patch for the Internet Explorer VML bug, putting more pressure on Microsoft to push its own fix to users before its next scheduled update on Oct. 10.
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Eric Sites, vice president of research and development at Sunbelt Software, which first reported the vulnerability and exploit earlier this week, also said that attacks were "definitely escalating." In a conversation with a tier 1 support representative at Cox Cable on Friday, Sites said, he was told that the cable operator had several thousand support calls and e-mails backed up, with users reporting a wide variety of complaints, including IE crashes. "That may be a targeted attack," said Sites.

More on the exploit: http://www.techweb.c...e/security/193003570

This thread has been updated with a link to the new Official MS patch..


Nice blog on rapid game prototyping

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Interested in creating a game in a week? I mean who wouldn’t be. Everybody’s got great ideas for a game. Unfortunately you can’t design fun on paper. So the best way to see if a game is fun to play, is to create the damn game (or at least a playable prototype).
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I thought I would gather here a little list of articles about rapid game prototyping. These are from very different contexts and there might be some segments in these articles not directly related to rapid development.

http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/


Alice: Open Source 3d Interactive Story Authoring

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Alice v2.0 is the next major version of the Alice 3D Authoring system, from the Stage3 Research Group at  Carnegie Mellon University. It has been completely rewritten from scratch over the past few years. The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students.
-Alice Website

http://www.alice.org/

Example videos of the program can be found here: http://www.alice.org/Alice_movies/

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