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Marines to get their own flying car?

Logi Aerospace is developing a concept vehicle that’s meant to be a flying car specifically designed with the military in mind. But not just the military.

Should BP nuke its leaking oil well?

As a series of efforts to plug the catastrophic leak have failed, talk of an extreme solution refuses to die.

Test determines whether you’ll age like fine wine

Geneticists develop a computer model that they say predicts with 77 percent accuracy whether you should expect to live to be 100.

Alcohol 120% 2.0.1.1820

Alcohol 120 is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs and CDs In addition the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer so you can call them up at the click of a button Now includes Pre Mastering function and support for Blu ray format Alcohol brings new meaning to the word multimedia It is without a doubt a leader in its class bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program Now includes Alcohol Xtra A unique Pre Mastering function Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add new features allowing it to maintain it 39 s position as a leading software package Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and just call them up at the click of a button Store your most used or important CDs as images on your computer and run them at 200x speed from up to 31 virtual CD or DVD drives Alcohol is compatible with more than 99 of drives available It supports the latest image file types including MDS CCD BIN CUE ISO CDI BWT BWI BWS BWA and many more nbsp Changes in version 2 0 1 1820 2010 07 02 NEW Alcohol Audio Converter UPDATE Double space in file name or file description problem image file list xml file the AlcoholImageFileList version upgraded to alcohol 1 1 UPDATE Drive support updated Minor bugs found FIX On the fly copy in Copy Wizard would not work quot No space on disk quot error shown FIXImage Finder sometimes crashed Alcohol on certain systems FIXOptions in File gt Image file list gt Shell context menu wouldn 39 t work FIXProblem with wait for disc window when burning multiple disc 39 s Alcohol could not detect new disc 39 s being inserted on certain systems FIXWhen attempting to burn an already burned RW disc and selecting the option to erase the disc sometimes randomly erase woulD not be performed on certain systems FIXInvalid Image Size error when windows theme changed

Alcohol 52% 2.0.1.1820 Free Edition

Alcohol brings a new meaning to the word multimedia It is without a doubt a leader in it 39 s class bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add new features allowing it to maintain it 39 s position as a leading software package Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and just call them up at the click of a button And then run them at 200x the speed of some CD drives and without requiring the CD itself How about being able to make a backup of that CD onto another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you have created Alcohol 52 CD amp DVD emulation software can create virtual CD DVD ROM drives and play CDs amp DVDs without the need for the physical disc This piece of emulation software allows users to play CDs amp DVDs without the need for the physical disc Notebook users and PC Game players will benefit the most from Alcohol 52 It is not necessary to carry the physical discs and CD amp DVD ROM drive if users need to present their works to the customers from their notebook It is not necessary to insert the CD amp DVD discs if users want to play PC Games in their computer Alcohol 52 copies an quot invisible quot CD amp DVD disc to the harddisk

There are no limitations on this version other than the ability to create only 6 virtual drives Our retail version still supports 31 virtual drives Remember you can not run Alcohol 52 if you have Alcohol 120 installed on the same drive This version of Alcohol 52 is for private non commercial single home computer use only The license is provided personally to you and for that reason it does not allow you to make any duplicate copy to be sold borrowed assigned leased or transferred CD formats supported CD DA CD G CD ROM CD XA Video CD Photo CD Mixed Mode Multi session CD DVD formats supported DVD ROM DVD Video DVD Audio Support for all current ATAPI SCSI drives CD R CD RW DVD RAM DVD R DVD RW DVD RW Full support for IEEE 1394 Firewire and USB protocols

Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/3: What is this?

If you know what this is and where it is located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day Challenge.

Apple ’stunned’ to find iPhones show too many bars

Apple says it was “stunned” to find that its iPhones have been using a “totally wrong” formula to translate signal strength to bars on the phone since the iPhone was originally launched in 2007.

How 3 billion Crayola crayons are made

Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman gets a look at how the famous crayons are produced, and is too nice to keep such delightful information to himself.

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the Barnes & Noble Nook with Wi-Fi, the high-end Das Keyboard, and Samsung Wave smartphone.

The making of Crayola’s crayons (photos)

As part of Road Trip 2010, CNET’s Daniel Terdiman stops by Crayola to witness how the company produces more than 3 billion crayons a year.