S.W.I.N.E. is a real-time tactical strategy game in which you must carry out extremely varied missions while taking advantage of the terrain and your units’ special abilities.

Game Features:

• 12 missions for each race plus additional multiplayer maps with a
  variety of playing modes for hours of entertaining gameplay
• 15 different combat and service units for each race, with their own unique roles and attributes
• Units gain experience and can be upgraded by the player continuously for progressive gameplay
• Dynamic weather effects, day and night missions, a variety of landscape types heighten realism

Here comes good news for iPhone lover's outside USA, the so called iPhone Dev Team has released a open source fully-automatic utility named "anySim" to unlock the iPhone ready to be used on any network with all features.

This software needs to be copied over to the phone and executed, it's fully automatic, the whole process takes around 3-5 minutes :D.

Microsoft is doing it again, users are reporting stealth updates at Microsoft Windows XP and Vista forums, files are getting updated without consent and even while Windows Update is turned off.

The new update has the version number 7.0.6000.381,A user Dean-Dean at the Microsoft forum states:

"Windows Update Software 7.0.6000.381 is an update to Windows Update itself. It is an update for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Unless the update is installed, Windows Update won't work, at least in terms of searching for further updates. Normal use of Windows Update, in other words, is blocked until this update is installed."

Dean-Dean names several files that are changed on XP and Vista as below:

In XP, the following files are updated:

1. cdm.dll
2. wuapi.dll
3. wuauclt.exe
4. wuaucpl.cpl
5. wuaueng.dll
6. wucltui.dll
7. wups.dll
8. wups2.dll
9. wuweb.dll

As more and more users are switching to the latest version of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007, users are facing trouble using these new formats in older versions of office but their's a solution provided by Microsoft as Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, installing this 28 Mb update will enable earlier versions of the Microsoft Office to open, edit and save files in the latest format of the software.

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. For more information about the Compatibility Pack.

A new threat named "Warezov Trojan horse" has hit the leading VOIP service provider Skype, the target Skype user receives a message stating "Check up this" and a link to the infected file "file_01.exe" with the Trojan payload, once a user is fooled into downloading this malicious file more files are downloaded automatically and installed. The infected computer now acts as the propagator and all their contacts are sent the same message to spread the Trojan.

Fileplanet the gaming website is offering free full-version game downloads for leading titles, catch being all free games having in-game advertisements, currently four games are being offered:

• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time



• Far Cry



• Tom Clancy's - Ghost Recon



• Rayman Raving Rabbids

Electronic Arts is giving away its popular PC game Command & Conquer Gold for free to celebrate 12th anniversary of the C&C franchise, the latest version also works on Windows XP.

The game is available for free download on EA servers as a single .iso image file, you can burn it on a CD or mount using a virtual cd emulation software like Daemon Tools.

After a very long wait, very popular free spyware cleaning software Spybot - Search & Destroy has been updated to version 1.5.1, the new version is 100% compatible with windows vista and has a new user interface.

Here is the official changelog:
System support

* Restored Win95 compatibility
* Improved Wine compatibility
* Fixed HyperThreading issues
* Improved 64 bit immunization
* Create Portable.ini in main folder to use app folder as data folder as well
* New warnings about missing admin rights on Windows Vista
* Support for multi-line bookmarks (IE 7 / Vista)
* New Immunization for Firefox & Mozilla
* Improved Immunization for Opera

Reports

* Added version info to bug report
* Include Errors.log now includes timestamps
* Improved Windows version display

Misc

* "Single excludes" now include filenames to be more unique
* Improved settings retrieval from registry (mixed installations)
* Fixed .reg import bugs
* Added support for automated removal of F/Ps from host lists
* Changed update UserAgent and Referrer
* Improved (Vista-compatible) support for fast user switching
* Updater now in separate executable file
* Vista manifests for assigning required rights to each application
* Deactivated list of active ports per process for Vista (incompatible)
* Fixed support for handle list on 64 bit systems
* Improved disabling/enabling BHOs
* New special error reporting for beta versions
* Support for Windows Error Reporting for public versions
* Fixed update-related crashes on Vista
* Fixed memory leaks (replaced Indy with Synapse)
* Vista-compatible MSI installer for those who like/need that
* Support for alpha tests on services and domains lists
* Added hundreds of new automated tests of internal functionality for prerelease QA
* Added TeaTimer hide icon (disabled) registry value in installer

Detection and removal of threats

* Improved PE detection all over the place
* New 64 bit detection all over the place
* Improved file removal methods
* Added optional custom RecoveryDir setting in Default.ini
* Automatic guessing of "Download Dir" folders
* Added support for renaming services before stopping/killing/deleting them
* Improved plugin support (example: current TCP/IP Plugin)
* Support for regular expressions nearly all over the SBI interface
* Much improved logic connections between files, registry and API detections (others would invent a new TLA for that *g*)
* Speed-ups through improved caches
* File version checking
* Authenticode checking
* Improved archives checking
* Faster fulltext checking
* Improved Sys Internals file location algo
* Improved hosts file location algo
* Added some more Opera 9 detection schemes

User interface changes

* Fixed "show more information" panels
* Implemented workarounds for misarranged buttons (including TeaTimer)
* Improved support for /allhives in tools section (inactive installation support)
* Fixed flag shown on shortcut bar after changes
* Fixed IE proxy import in wizard
* Changed "use proxy" button to checkbox
* Improved localization on simple dialogs
* Added option to add a proxy inside app if running on Win PE
* Improved localization of list of updates
* Added Firefox icon on Cookie exclude page
* Fixed bad keyboard handling on some exclude lists
* Fixed cookie removal selection problems
* New confirmation dialog for system restore points
* Changed default font to Tahoma
* Red cross (trademarked) replaced with green cross
* Made "Check" option unavailable during fix
* Process list now is a bit less eager on tooltips
* Improved "delay start" dialogs
* Now displays checksum for each result for better trackback of results
* Fixed "Ignore Products" column width problems on Vista
* Improved localization of product descriptions
* Adjusted wizard for new situation (external updater etc.)
* Fixed Tools snapshot comparison highlighting
* Made display of registry changes in results list less confusing
* Improved SDHelper dialogs and block/allow choices
* Update date format on info page now localized
* Displayed app version is now four digits (e.g. 1.5.1.12)
* (De+)Select all in list of old reports
* Improved Warning/Confirmation dialog IE plugin
* Configuration & Information dialog in IE plugin

DVD Shrink is a very simple and versatile free DVD re-authoring software for compressing and backing up DVD discs, mostly used for compressing bigger DVD’s onto a single layer standard recordable DVD.



DVD Shrink allows you to remove or change DVD region coding in a very simple way, you can also re-author the DVD and identify parts that you don't need and don't want on the backup disc to save disc space, you can selectively remove different language sub-titles and additional audio streams, moreover audio types can also be decided upon between 2-channel stereo, or 5.1 Dolby surround sound, software has a very insightful user interface which is easy to use and makes it very easy to choose what to keep, and what to not.

DVD Shrink can automatically compress the video to fit into a single disc and also allows the user to select compression settings for each video track independently to obtain the required disc size usually 4.7 GB, DVD Shrink can produces the resultant DVD either an a ISO image, or VIDEO_TS folder on the hard-disk for further processing, viewing or burning. The compression is very fast and you can see a preview while the compression is in process.

Smart Security is yet another great offering from ESET the makers of fast & stable anti-virus software NOD32, Smart Security is NOD32 anti-virus/anti-spyware bundled with integrated firewall and antispam protection, most anti-virus companies are now offering one suite for all computer security related tasks including anti-virus, anti-malware, firewall and spam protection like Windows Live OneCare and Norton 360.

Smart security beats the other security solutions hands down in scanning speed and low memory consumption with very good detection rates, the software is still in beta but is very stable the best thing about the software is it does not makes your computer slow as most other anti-virus software do.

Here are features at a glance:

• Anti-virus with anti-malware, firewall and spam filter
• Incremental updates for smaller update size – resulting in faster updates on slow connections
• Two operating modes for Basic and advanced users
• Intelligent cleaning without the need of user’s action
• Scanning on background saves system resources
• Intrusion detection system - detects and block various types of network attacks
• Custom rule sets - white and black listing