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November 20, 2008 6:26 PM

Spiderweb Software has released Geneforge 5: Overthrow for OS X. The fifth game in the fantasy RPG series brings the saga its conclusion, allowing players to determine whether the Shapers or the rebellion will achieve victory. The game features over 80 areas to explore, five different factions from which to choose, and dozens of possible endings depending on choices made during the game.

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Spiderweb Software brings you Geneforge 5: Overthrow, the final chapter in their fantasy epic. Return to the world of the Shapers one final time. Explore a vast, war-torn world, create and mold your own army of strange, powerful monsters, and choose a side to help lead to final victory.

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Apple has released an update to iTunes to version 8.0.2. The update is available in your Mac OS X software update.

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iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

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German site Spiegel.de is today reporting on a newly discovered iPhone vulnerability. The vulnerability purportedly forces a phonecall to be initiated simply from visiting a webpage in Safari.

The vulnerability was initially revealed by ComputerBild earlier in the week but was transcribed in more detail today by Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT).

SIT has revealed that it notified Apple of the vulnerability one month ago and that a fix will be available via a firmware update on November 21. The report corroborates earlier reports that the latest iPhone OS would be released on Friday November 21.

Select any photo in your iPhoto album, or choose to send an image file on your hard disk. Beam a contact from your Address Book. Choose a memo from Mark/Space Notebook (included) to Fliq to a friend. Thousands of people worldwide are using Fliq every day, and thousands more are downloading Fliq every week. Its a sharing revolution!

A list of Switch Sound Format Converter features follow but a quick way to try it out is to download and install now. Features:

• Simple and intuitive interface.
• Converts a variety of different audio file formats (including WMA, MOV, AIFF formats) into MP3 or WAV format.
• MPEG Layer-3 encoding done using the LAME codec, providing complete control over mode and bitrate selection.
• Wave encoding allows configuration of encoding technique, bit rate, sampling rate and number of channels.
• Ability to play tracks prior to conversion.

IBM posted the $3 million bond required by the court to continue the case against Mark Papermaster.

Germans documenting an exploit that forces an iPhone to dial an unwanted number have also potentially tipped users off to the imminent release of Apple's widely anticipated 2.2 firmware upgrade.

ImageMagick is a robust collection of UNIX tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, or from the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming languages. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. ImageMagick's focus is on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs.

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

• Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
• Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
• Create a montage of image thumbnails
• Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
• Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
• Create a composite image by combining several separate images
• Draw shapes or text on an image
• Decorate an image with a border or frame
• Describe the format and characteristics of an image

MacWorld Sweden caught the attention of iPhone users when they reported that Swedish carrier Telia is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and wo...

In this week’s show: Yang steps down, Adobe shows off its new Flash platform, TVs fail the recycling test, robots take over California, Nintendo leads in the game console war, Intel launches a new processor and new auto tech is on display in New York.

The latest OmniPlan update fixes several bugs including one that duplicated tasks and affected performance.

To use Mac Sequence View, simply drag and drop your ABI chromatogram files onto the program icon. A report will open in your default browser window. You can sort by different measures of quality by clicking the column headers. You can click the link (that is the sample name), and a window will pop up displaying the trace (4 color peaks). You can quickly determine if the basecalls are correct by looking at the DNA trace files. We also provide quick links to BLAST and VecScreen, and a detailed help page.