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Corel PHOTO-PAINT is an application with a long history and one that I have used off and on for as many years. This latest Version 9 is not all that different in outward appearance and the included feature set than the previous Version 8, or even 7 for that matter.

However, using this new Version 9 was a much better experience because of what I can best describe as refinement. Before getting into how Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 performed, let me first describe what the package contains and generally what it is designed to do. The name PHOTO-PAINT is about as broadly descriptive as you can get for such an image-editing product.

It has the tools, processes, and brushes that computer artists need for painting and digital photographers require to acquire images from scanners and digital cameras, color correct, manipulate, and incorporate in a publishable document containing not just photographic images, but graphic design elements and standard text and manipulated type fonts.

In addition to the main paint and image-editing application, Corel also includes Bitstream Font Navigator 3.0 to organize, view, and select fonts stored in your operating system. Canto Cumulus 4.0 is an acclaimed professional digital asset management application; Adobe Acrobat Reader for access to documentation in Acrobat .PDF format on disc; DigiMarc Digital Watermarking to record your copyright within images; Human Software Squizz an image morphing utility; Corel Capture 9 to record and save screenshots; and Corel Script Editor to automate processes.

The features within Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 are more extensive than just about any image editor consumer software product currently available. They include in part:

• Artistic media brushes that may be used directly and as cloning brushes to paint or repaint using all kinds of natural painting effects as well as more imaginative options.

• Layered object effects can be created to manipulate, composite, as well as add graphic elements like type with drop shadows over a photographic image.

• You can either open or save to a wide variety of graphics file types making resources created in a number of different applications available, as well as creating images in PHOTO-PAINT that can be used in other applications, including Adobe Photo-shop, MetaCreations painter, among others.

Ixla digital camera support is built-in providing easy access to the images stored by most of the popular brands and models of cameras.

• Full support is included for HTML output to create content for web publishing.

• Encapsulated PostScript Export includes enhanced color management to assure high quality printing and output to offset press reproduction.

• Images created in PHOTO-PAINT may be output in PDF format for web or offset printing targets.

• A Wizard is included which makes output to a pre-press service bureau easy.

More extensive and controllable access support of color management is included, incorporating the selection of one of a number of standard color workspaces with ICC profiles which may be imbedded in output files.

• And in Corel tradition the package includes a clip art library of 1200 items, 1500 royalty free photos, 750 floating objects, and 300 TrueType fonts.

Gear Pro is a professional CD and DVD recording capability.
As the most comprehensive DVD/CD-Recording software package for professionals, GEAR PRO Linux incorporates the latest DVD/CD-Recordable technology for Imaging, Mission Critical Archiving, CAD/CAM and Graphics Storage, Title Development, and Pre-master Testing.
GEAR allows you easily and cost effectively store text, large data sets, software, database, audio/video files and back-up information on compact disc with full control over the formatting and mastering process. GEAR Software is pleased to announce that GEAR PRO Linux now supports IDE DVD recorders!
Main features:
- Supports all current Linux kernel releases
- Creation of CD and DVD images for all industry standard disc types including CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- DVD mastering capabilities for both single and dual sided discs
- Physical format support for mastering DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10 and DVD-18
- Able to format discs using ISO9660, UDF (Universal Disc Format), Rockridge and Joliet file extensions
- Comprehensive CD and DVD recorder support for all industry standard media types including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R dual-layer, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW
- Support for DLT, Exabyte, and DDS/DAT recording devices for creating DDP (Disc Description Protocol) master tapes
- Conversion of CD and DVD discs or projects to industry standard DDP 1.0 or 2.1 images for professional disc mastering
- Jukebox and autoloader management for in-house mastering, unattended disc replication and multi-disc recording of large data sets for disc duplication
- Batch file scripting capability allows for unattended recording or backup operations to CD and DVD
- Support for links, pipes, device special files, etc with permission and group handling
- Complete command and message-logging capability provides for documentation, post process diagnostics and improved error resolution
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Functionality:
- back up mission-critical data to CD and DVD media
- pre-master audio, video, software and game titles
- archive graphics, databases, email, third-party generated data files, music, digital photos and video
- Create cross-platform discs compatible with Windows, UNIX and Mac platforms
- replicate DVD and CD discs using a jukebox
- distribute documents, marketing materials, and other data on a CD or DVD
- copy non-protected DVDs and CDs
- extract content from CD and DVD
- use the media in your CD or DVD recorder for near-line incremental storage
Formatting:
- Supports all CD and DVD formats including CD-Audio, DDP, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- Provides DVD mastering for single or dual layer discs
- Allows the import of DVD-Video disc images (VIDEO_TS folders) for the creation of DVD-Video titles
- Enables the creation and manipulation of all industry standard file systems and file extensions including ISO9660, UDF 1.02 to UDF 2.5, Rock Ridge and Joliet
- Fast virtual image building requiring less than 5% of the total image size to record
- Direct-to-disc recording of files to UDF volumes
Recorder Support:
- Supports all of the latest CD and DVD recordable drives as well as most legacy devices
- Supports jukeboxes and media changers
- Automatically initiates support for new recorders (automatic drive recognition) without requiring driver or configuration file updates
- Supports test writing, CD and DVD recording speed setting, C2 error checking, multi-session disc creation, disc formatting and other advanced recorder features
- Enables all recording methods including track-at-once, disc-at-once, session-at-once, raw recording and fixed and variable packet writing
- Provides the capability to extract data and audio tracks (ripping)
- Allows direct disc-to-disc CD and DVD copying

A Tale in the Desert is a massively multiplayer role-playing game set in ancient Egypt.

It uses the internet to allow thousands of players to play together in the same world. All of the characters you will see and talk to in the game are controlled by other people just like you, not by a computer.

A Tale in the Desert is the first online game to focus on long-term planning and long-term goals rather than combat. Goals include the creation of great works of art and architecture, becoming a powerful leader, and building wealth.

Construction:

Objective: To build a base of operations.

Similarities to: Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zeus, Capitalism

Explanation: Your base consists of machines that produce goods, ranging from simple objects like bricks and boards to highly customized goods like gearboxes, mixed paints, and cut gems.

The Challenge: Your base must be designed to operate efficiently and must take into account the values of the goods, supply, and demand.

Puzzles: As you unlock new technologies, you will need to figure out how they work and how you can use them to increase your efficiency.

Trading:

Objective: To make a profit trading goods and services with other players.

Similarities to: Master of Orion 2, Port Royale

Challenge 1: A Tale in the Desert contains too many goods for you to produce everything you need. You must trade to obtain the necessities.

Challenge 2: Learning skills is extremely expensive. To recoup the cost, you must figure out how to hire out your skills to other players.

Puzzles: You must figure out what your goods are worth, and what your time is worth. You must decide whether to give things away freely, and hope for generosity in return, or whether to trade on a more controlled, negotiated basis.

The Tests:

Objective: To increase your powers by performing ritual tests of character.

Similarities to: The multiplayer games you see on Reality TV shows.

The Challenge: There are dozens of different tests, each one a unique ritual that increases your powers. They run the gamut from building a pyramid, to breeding and exhibiting a scarab beetle, to winning a dueling tournament, to searching for hidden altars, to winning an election. They only have one thing in common: they all require you to strategize against other players.

Lawmaking:

Objective: To lift Egypt out of anarchy into true civilization.

The Challenge: A civilization must have rules: rules about who gets to own which piece of land, rules about what kind of pollution is permitted, rules about inappropriate behavior, rules about who gets to benefit from your research labors, rules about who owns which vein of ore. Egyptians must choose these rules for themselves.

The Puzzle: Can you do better than the real governments of today? Can you create a truly fair and just society?

ThinkTanks is a tank combat game designed to be a blast for the new and experienced gamer alike with lighthearted, fast paced pandemonium.
Either battling against brain-hungry bots in solo play or going head-to-head against others online, ThinkTanks has something for everyone.
Main features:
Tanks and special Weapons:
- Drive one of three tanks: light, medium and heavy. The light tank is quick, but with weaker armor. The heavy tank is an armored beast with a honkin weapon, and the medium tank is the best of both worlds. All the tanks can use weapon powerups, which give extra-special shots, and are just the thing for getting out of tight spots and racking up points. In addition to super-speed and area-effect projectiles, there are bounce back projectiles that bounce and skitter across the terrain and explode with deadly effect when they are near another tank.
Multiple Worlds:
- The richly detailed and vibrant worlds of ThinkTanks are designed to provide you with different challenges on different worlds. The rolling hills and lush valleys are great for long range sniping and dogfighting. The dark and spooky missions are harder to navigate, and you must keep your wits about you or you may get ambushed by others lurking in the shadows. The skatepark-like lava fields are great for highflying mayhem and aerial assaults. All the missions offer their own unique challenge and will provide hours of fun as you seek to refine and improve your fighting skills.
Bots:
- ThinkTanks Bots are some of the wackiest and interesting hunks of metal this side of the Crab Nebula. The cold-cunning and eagle eyes of the master HUM-Bot (and his annoying sidekick Ri-Bot) inspires fear in all. The strong and steady presence of the Bot Twins, Gul-Bot and Tom-Bot will give you a run for your money while the berserk Mal-Bot dives headlong off cliffs and runs circles around the dim-witted Gum-Bot.
Customize the experience:
- Custom Game creation and Bot Configuration allow for a true custom mission design enabling you to create custom battle scenarios. The Auto Drop Feature allows you to configure an online game and populate it with Bots who drop out when Humans join in. Password Protected Servers allow the player to keep out anyone but those they give the password to, allowing for private games with your close friends or for solo training missions. Our Child-Safe Filter can turn off player and server names and in-game chat messages, so parents can feel secure knowing their children will not be subjected to verbal abuse by "less-than-savory" characters.

Excelsior JET suite is a complete solution for protection, acceleration and deployment of your Java applications.
Excelsior JET Optimizer converts your applications classes and jars into highly optimized Intel x86 code and creates a native executable for Microsoft Windows or Linux platform.
Excelsior JET Runtime is a complete Java Virtual Machine that works with both Java classes and the executables produced by the Optimizer. It implements the Java SE platform, versions 5.0 and 1.4.2.
Excelsior JET Installation Toolkit facilitates rapid creation of complete installation packages for your optimized Java applications. Installation of the JRE on end-user machines is not required.
Excelsior JET Optimizer and Runtime have passed the Java Compatibility Kit test suite and are certified Java Compatible on a number of platforms.
Main features:
- Transform your Java applications classes and jars into conventional binary executables (EXEs and DLLs on Windows, executables and shared objects on Linux) that run without the Sun JRE
- Optimize applications that use any part of J2SE 5.0 or 1.4.2 platform API YESYES
- Optimize applications that rely on the Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C/C++/Deplhi via JNI and Invocation API
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C++/VB6/VBA via COM (Windows only)
- Optimize applications essentially relying on dynamic class loading
- Optimize JIT compilers cache with the AOT compiler
- Reorder code and data segments of the resulting executables for faster startup and memory use reduction
- Turn your Java applications into Windows services using the supplied API and tools
- Pack resources (images, audio, etc.) into the resulting executables
- Create application setups based on Excelsior Installer (Windows only) or a third-party setup authoring tool
- Create compact Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- Make applications display a native splash screen instantly upon startup
- NEW! Generate trial executables
- NEW! Create arbitrary shortcuts with custom icons in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- NEW! Create file associations in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)

CAM Expert is a CAM extension of QCad. It features automatic creation of G-Code, HP/GL and many other formats. CAM Expert is very flexible and can be configured to create almost any text based vector graphics format.

The conversion process from CAD to CAM can also include various optimizations such as cutting contours from inside to outside and optimization for shorter cutting paths.

Puzzle Pirates is an online game in which you play a Pirate character in an ocean world. Hundreds of your fellow player Pirates swarm these Isles and Sea-lanes.
For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg.
Pirates can wander around on land and sail the thirty-seven seas with their crew. When your Pirate sails, or swordfights, or navigates, the appropriate Puzzle game is launched. Good Puzzling thereby brings victories and accrues great fortunes to you and your fellow Pirates.
Thus Yohoho! brings you Puzzling fun in a social Piratical setting, where every Puzzle game contributes to the greater story of your Pirate, her Crew, and the Ocean world.
Main features:
- Yohoho! brings fun Puzzle games into a persistent world game.
- A Thousand Pirates or more sail the Ocean. Are they with ye, or against ye?
- A full new Pirate introduction to shake the landlubber out of yer.
- Pirates. Everybody loves Pirates.
- Intuitive, simple and eye-catching user interface.
- Pirates can explore Ports, sail and battle at Sea, and engage in commerce.
- Sailing a voyage is a team venture, each Pirate performs their Puzzle Duty and shares in the booty.
- A host of nine fine Puzzles, with many more to come.
- A vast and exhilarating Ocean world of islands and archipelagoes.
- Join a Crew of fellow Pirates, perhaps one day form yer own and be Captain.
- Join with other Crews beneath the same Flag so that ye may together perform greater deeds.
- Easy communication between Pirates, Crews and Flags.
- Colonize an untouched Island and develop it into a thriving Pirate mecca.
- Trade, allowing Merchants to develop businesses and trade in Commodities.
- Strong player vs. player gameplay with appropriate controls to ensure fun for all parties.
- A good player experience with proper support, live in-game participation and gameplay creation by the live team.
- Regular ongoing additions; new Puzzles, Adventure Islands, Houses and more coming.
- Treasure: Gold, Jewels, Artifacts. Every Pirate loves Treasure.