Fixstars Corporation, a lead developer of video compression technology, today announces the release of the latest version of its h.264 software encoder Accelcoder V2.0. Using this professional encoder, studios and postproduction houses can integrate an easy to use interface, high video quality fidelity and fastest MVC H.264 encoder for 3D Blu-ray productions in one inclusive turnkey solution. MVC Encoding for 3D Blu-ray Production: Studios are eager in meeting the growing demand for 3D home entertainment. Accelcoder helps studios update current workflows by integrating ...

What: PC users are often told that disabling the Windows Search index will significantly increase performance and reduce hard disk activity. PC optiminization specialist TuneUp investigates whether this tip if fact or fiction at blog.tune-up.com. The feature in question, Windows Search, creates an index of specific files, folders and other items, such as Outlook emails or Start Menu entries, that are stored on a user's hard disk. This index is loaded into the main memory (RAM) of a PC and allows for extremely fast searches. TuneUp conducted performance tests to find ...

Many Spanish holiday home dreams are turning to nightmares as developers go to the wall unable to finance their debts. Some 170,000 companies in the construction sector, 23% of the total, went bust in 2008 and 2009, the majority of them (64%) doing so in 2009. The devastation is set to continue for the foreseeable future. So where does that leave the buyers who've paid deposits to those bankrupt Spanish developers and have no home to show for it? Daren Wallbank, Director of innovative company http://www.ReclaimYourDeposit.com, has spent recent months looking into dozens ...

With a year-over-year 65 percent increase in traffic to the ForRent.com family of sites in August 2010, it is evident consumers are still actively seeking rental options despite the seasonal downtrend at this time. This finding supports the August 2010 quarterly survey conducted by the National Multi-Housing Council (NMHC), which identified a shift in consumer mentality toward short-term rental agreements and away from long-term mortgage debt. According to this survey, market conditions are more favorable for property managers as more and more consumers are turning to ...

The Trivani Foundation, a Utah based non-profit organization, will be holding its annual philanthropic convention for national as well as international distributors and guests. The event will be held at the Salt Lake Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 28th- 29th, 2010. The 2010 "Philanthropy in Motion" convention is intended to help Trivani distributors grow their business in order to fund the philanthropic sector of Trivani. The philanthropic sector of Trivani International is dedicated to providing immediate relief to children in impoverished areas, and ...

Celebrate in Pink is pleased to announce a fun campaign that will run for the month of October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The "Who's Got the Plate" campaign will feature folks from all walks of life sharing their reasons to celebrate in pink. Each day, new clips will be posted on YouTube (YouTube.com/user/CelebrateInPink), FaceBook (Facebook.com/CelebrateInPink), Twitter (Twitter.com/CelebrateInPink) and CelebrateInPink.com. On October 31, Celebrate In Pink will make a $50 donation to The Tigerlily Foundation in the name of each of the top three partiers with the ...

Award-winning comedian, Second City Conservatory Alumni and Certified Hypnotist Don Barnhart is being held over at Jack Didley's for a special Halloween Show after setting record attendance numbers. Barnhart has combined his comedy and improvisational skills to perform the most unique, interactive and funniest comedy-hypnosis shows in his home state of Washington. The Washington native and top national comedy headliner will return to his home state of Washington and perform his comedy hypnosis show Halloween weekend at Jack Didley's Comedy Club in Kennewick, WA. This ...

eBay Auction Ends Sunday, October 3, Honoring "Big Star" Founder. Ardent Studios in Memphis is calling on the community and Big Star fans worldwide to support a benefit auction for the family of founding member Alex Chilton, who died three days before the band's reunion concert on March 20. Chilton had been scheduled to play a concert with Big Star at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. The show instead took place as a tribute to Chilton, with guests Curt Kirkwood, Chris Stamey, M. Ward, Mike Mills, John Doe, Sondre Lerche, Chuck Prophet, Evan ...

Calico Ladders, a leader in the production of permanent retractable fire escape ladders for residences, has announced a partnership with Amazon to distribute the Protector Home Fire Escape Ladder. The Protector Home Fire Escape Ladder is built with high grade aluminum for outstanding weather resistance and strength. When not being utilized, it easily folds and secures by twisting the release knob. The release knob is positioned at the top of the ladder, so it offers great burglar protection, but is easy enough for a child to use. "The team at Calico Ladders is very ...

Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Center, the innovative three-dimensional trampoline facility, announced today that it has inked a deal for a Minneapolis-area location that will open its doors to the public December 1. This deal marks Sky Zone's first foray into the state of Minnesota and will be the sixth Sky Zone location nationwide. Sky Zone Minneapolis will be helmed by local businessman David Hustrulid and his partner Jack Miller. A born and bred Minnesotan, Hustrulid previously owned four Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwich shops throughout the region and has embarked on ...

To celebrate its anticipated one-thousandth auction-house client, Internet live-bidding services provider LiveAuctioneers.com has announced details of a month-long promotion that will culminate with the awarding of a grand prize package valued at no less than $16,000. With 990 auction houses currently on its roster, the Manhattan-based company expects to record its 1,000th auction-house sign-up sometime during the month of October. "Because it is such a significant milestone for us, we've organized a fantastic prize for one of the auction houses that signs up with ...

The 2010 Global LBS Challenge culminated on September 20 with an awards ceremony held in Madrid, Spain, announced EMEA Global LBS Challenge Grand Prize Winner Mobilizy GmbH as the 2010 Global LBS Challenge overall CHAMPION. Mobilizy competed against the four other 2010 regional grand prize winners - Cypress Solutions (North America), Eterno Infotech (India), UYMobile (South America), and Visioglobe (APAC) - in the second overall Global LBS Challenge CHAMPION competition. Mobilizy presented its winning application, Wikitude Drive, to a panel of 12 ESNC judges and advanced ...

The hardest hit subdivision in Orlando for foreclosures gets a new website this month. The new Orlando site will feature separate sections for single family homes and condos. "MetroWest is ground zero for condo foreclosures in Orlando," said Marcus Burke, the site's developer. "But there's much more to MetroWest than condos, and there are some tremendous homes here, so we have created separate sections for single family homes and condominium sales." The Metrowest website features a feed for the Orlando MLS which allows buyers and sellers to search MetroWest real ...

As part of her ongoing mission to help men and women to raise their level of happiness and improve the quality of their lives, Chantal Beaupre will be hosting a complimentary teleseminar called "Overview the Truth About Being a Conscious Entrepreneur." This online event will take place on October 12th, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and will feature expert guest Kathleen Gage, known as "The Street Smarts Marketer." Kathleen Gage is an Internet marketing advisor who works with spiritually aware speakers, authors, coaches, and consultants who are ready to turn their information ...

This season's look is all about a full skirt and a small waist and when it comes to what tops to wear to complete this look there are plenty of options. The first and most classic is the cardigan, this when paired with the Shapeez Lacee Long cami peeking through underneath will give you that perfect and proper look. There are plenty of other options to pair with your full skirt, for example a fitted bracelet length sleeve sweater; that with Shapeez 'The Ultimate' underneath, can come in and give you that smooth bulge-free look while still keeping you comfortable. Need ...

HomeTech Renovations is hosting a course for architects on the use of Alternative Materials for Countertops and work surfaces at our studio in Fort Washington on Tuesday October 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. HomeTech Renovations is very excited to be hosting the Workshop for local architects regarding kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling. They will be providing a complimentary light breakfast which will start at 9 a.m. followed by the presentation beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m. After Taking This Course You Will Be Able To... • Understand the different ...

Continental Disc Corporation and Groth Corporation websites have been re-launched with five additional language translation options. Both websites, http://www.contdisc.com and http://www.grothcorp.com, now allow users the ability to click on the language of their choice to view information on Continental Disc and Groth Corporation products and services in that language. Groth Corporation's website was redesigned in April, 2010 to provide users with a contemporary and easy-to-navigate site and to more closely align the website's design with Groth Corporation's parent ...

Sepi Asefnia, president of SEPI Engineering & Construction (http://www.sepiengineering.com), a firm which provides civil engineering and planning services to private and public sector clients across the southeast, has announced that Andy Kiley, PWS has been named environmental project scientist. In this position, Kiley's primary responsibility will be performing and managing wetland and stream monitoring and associated reporting. Additional responsibilities include designing wetland and stream restoration sites, wetland delineation, stream delineations as well as natural ...

Bahamas Destination is now providing Bahamas Wedding Brides with Priority Treatment. And this Priority treatment allows you to to reduce the time spent getting your Bahamas Marriage License and Certified Copy of Marriage Certificate. With this new service persons wishing to get married in the Bahamas can now apply for their marriage license online. And once the do they they are given a Registrar General Office Priority Number which allows them to get priority treatment when they visit the office. Thereby reducing the time it takes for them to get their marriage license. In ...

Enterprise cloud applications will be just one of the subjects being discussed at the Cloud Computing World Forum Asia - http://www.cloudcomputinglive.com/asia - taking place at The Mira Hotel, Hong Kong on the 17th and 18th November 2010. The two day conference will look at the emergence of cloud computing applications being delivered as a service so companies don't have to buy and maintain hardware and software to run them—or huge IT teams to manage and maintain complicated deployments. Together with leading service providers, the program will feature a number ...

Stop by Happily Ever Active's Booth #4434 at the ABC Kids Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 10 - 13, 2010 to meet Author, Jillian Moriarty. Jillian will be launching her new book "Live Happily Ever Active: Heartfelt, Healthy & Interactive Life Lessons for Families of All Ages." Pre-order your book at the show and receive a 10% discount! Once a woman finds out she is pregnant, she changes her whole lifestyle for her unborn baby. No more acrylic nails, no hair dying, no smoking, no alcohol and most importantly, eating healthy and exercise for the growing ...

Speakman Company is proud to introduce the SE-4300, The SE-4300 replaces Speakman's current line of GravityFlo portable eyewashes. Portable and gravity operated, the SE-4300 is the next best thing to having a plumbed eyewash in your facility. The SE-4300 is the industry's only portable eyewash that offers an optional side fitting drench hose. The optional SE-4920 drench hose attaches easily to the side discharge port and provides the ability for spot body flushing. The SE-4300 has a 20 gallon capacity tank which provides a run time in excess of the ANSI Z328.1 required ...

With the shrimp harvesting season now underway in the Gulf of Mexico, an improvement in the seafood situation can be observed, leading to hopes within the shrimp industry of a significant rebound in production1. While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had (in consultation with Gulf states Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas) originally closed roughly one third of the gulf, only 23% of gulf waters were closed in August to the harvesting of seafood. Concerns around Safety of Seafood Oil related toxins known as polycyclic aromatic ...

ZapfInsurance.com serves consumers throughout Texas, from Odessa, San Antonio and Austin to Laredo, Houston, Dallas and everywhere in between, by providing the affordable health insurance plans that Texas consumers deserve, with a convenient no-hassle online resource center. Insurance shoppers are able to review and compare several plans from top insurance companies side by side, using the integrated self-service quoting engine. ZapfInsurance.com provides Te xas health insurance plans provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Assurant Health, Aetna, PacifiCare, Humana, ...

Sheffield has been named as the UK's new corporate e-learning capital in an article published in eLearn magazine, the New York based e-learning magazine with a worldwide readership. Having stated: 'when many industries first gain maturity, the individual companies that make up the sector often begin to cluster in certain geographic regions', the article goes on to claim that Sheffield is becoming a magnet for e-learning businesses. In the early days of industry, clustering happened because an area had advantages in natural resources that were used in a particular ...