Infected by Scott Sigler, Horror/ Dark Fantasy.

From Podiobooks.com “Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common - they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.

Meanwhile Perry Dawsey - a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey - awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.

The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded. Now Sigler storms the bookstore shelves with this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense in a heady mix that is equal parts Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King.

Infected will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood on every page.”

1. Prologue and Chapter 1. Download

2. Chapter 2 - 4. Download

3. Chapter 5 -9. Download

4. Chapter 10. Download

5. Chapter 11 - 14. Download

6. Chapter 15 - 17. Download

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from tremulous.net

Summary

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more…

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Feature List

• Flexible particle system - 99% of the in-game visual effects are configured using particle scripts.
• 16 buildable structures with in-game functions.
• Play as several alien classes with unique abilities.
• Customize your setup as a human and buy new weapons, armour and items.
• Scale the walls and ceilings as an alien waiting for an unsuspecting human.
• Realistic physics and motion - no bunny hopping or quick back peddling.
• Flexible map system - animated mapobjects, triggering, light flares, etc.
• Large weapons system - don’t like the weapon you have? Sell it and buy a different one, dozens of options.

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That’s right, there is an Open Source alternative to using Nero and all those other commercial CD/DVD burning solutions, it’s InfraRecorder!

InfraRecorder is a free open source CD/DVD burning solution for windows.

Some features include;

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

Visit the homepage here.

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“I was sitting with a dilemma this weekend, i wanted to watch a dvd on my computer but i had no software to play it with. WinDVD could not be found, but it is not free or open source, that’s why i went for a search for an Open Source Alternative - VLC Media Player was the choice, and it worked like a dream, easy to use and open source - my cup of tea — Enjoy folks”

VLC media player - originally named VideoLAN Client - is a flexible media player available for virtually any operating system including portal/handheld computers.

VLC plays all of the common media formats both video and audio - and plays you DVDs and todays popular DivX and MPEG4 movies. Most streaming media is support as well including Windows Media (wmv) and QuickTime. Advanced features include playing media directly off ISO files and skinable GUI. VLC is also available as a firefox plugin and as an ActiveX component - making it simple to view any embedded video format through your web-browser.

Download Link:

videolan.org

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Afrigator, our local African social media aggregator turns 1 today.

Happy Bday Afrigator!

The Afrigator team is doing a great job, keep it up.

Full article here.

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