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Stomp 1.4 bumps up speed, includes support for Elgato Turbo 264

Stomp, billed as the ultimate video recompressor for the Mac, has just been upgraded to version 1.4.

Stomp is a wonderful piece of software for performing quick and painless video compression. There are a number of presets, such as iPhone, Apple TV, and YouTube, or Web for easy email-able videos (because we're all tired of receiving one gigabyte DV files of your baby's first steps). Stomp also includes video effects, cropping, and a set-and-forget batch processing mode.

Stomp 1.4 has a few choice new features:
  • New support for any QuickTime movie exporter, which means you can export your file as an MPEG-4, AVI, or WMV (if you have Flip4Mac installed).
  • Added support for the Elgato Turbo 264 device (the USB dongle).
  • Speed improvements to the encoding process.
The new version is a test release so the old cartographer's adage applies: here there be dragons. The demo will leave a nice, shiny watermark on any video you compress. Removing said watermark will cost you $29.95.

Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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