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Twitter Is Getting in the Wine-Making Business

Twitter may not be making any money as a web service just yet but it looks like it's trying its luck in more diverse fields like wine making. The microblogging service is launching its own wine label today, called Fledgling Wine, in collaboration with the Crushpad DIY winery from San Francisco, Twitter's ow...

15 October 2009
10:13 GMT

Download New CrossOver Mac 8.0.1

Just days after updating CrossOver Games with support for new games, the people at CodeWeavers have updated CrossOver Mac, the company’s flagship software application for Mac OS X, to version 8.0.1. A changelog was unavailable at the time of the posting, but you can download CrossOver Mac 8.0.1 right now via So...

4 September 2009
10:59 GMT

CrossOver Linux 8.0 Review

One of the main reasons people have to stick with Windows is because certain applications that they use on a daily basis don't have (quality) alternatives on Linux. Some can't live without Microsoft Office, others think Internet Explorer is the best browser and, of course, graphics professionals or photogra...

17 June 2009
07:54 GMT

CrossOver 8.0 for Linux Brings Support for IE7

CodeWeavers, through Jeremy White, announced today the release of a new version of its CrossOver application for both Linux and Mac operating systems. CrossOver 8.0 brings support for Internet Explorer 7, Quicken 2009 and a lot of fixes for supported applications. Version 8 also represents another year of dramatic ...

16 June 2009
11:01 GMT

Download CrossOver 8 with Snow Leopard Support

CodeWeavers has released a new version of CrossOver for Mac and Linux. The update brings new application support, while improving the way CrossOver handles supported applications like Quicken 2009, Internet Explorer 7 and Photoshop CS2. “I am pleased to announce that we have shipped CrossOver 8 for both Macint...

16 June 2009
10:54 GMT

Binge Drinking in Women Is on the Rise, Study Shows

Enjoying a glass of wine every now and then at the end of a hard day’s work can be just what the doctor ordered but, in the case of many women, they may have taken this a little too far. A new study into the drinking habits of British women has provided evidence that binge drinking and increased alcohol consump...

6 May 2009
13:21 GMT

Live Five Years Longer by Drinking Half a Glass of Wine Daily

It's common knowledge that drinking wine can be beneficial to your health, but its long-term effects on the human body have never before been analyzed at such a large scale. In a study lasting for 40 years, between 1960 and 2000, Dutch researchers monitored the life expectancy and drinking habits of more than 1,...

1 May 2009
12:01 GMT

CrossOver Games 7.2.0 Improves Support for WoW, Spore

CrossOver Games, the application that allows Mac Intel users to run most Windows PC games on Mac OS X, has just received an update, adding improvements for City of Heroes, fixes for Guild Wars, improved support for Spore, World of Warcraft, and more. General DirectX improvements will allegedly improve many other game...

27 February 2009
03:52 GMT

CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for Linux Released

Jeremy White from CodeWeavers announced last night in a press release the immediate availability of CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for the Linux and Macintosh operating systems. The new version comes as a bug fix release for the previous versions, but it also brings some interesting features. One of these new additions will b...

27 February 2009
01:59 GMT

A Daily Glass of Wine Increases Risk of Cancer in Women

While, in the past, both red and white wine have been attributed benefits that range from a better digestion to preventing heart-rhythm disturbances, a new study comes to warn women of the dangers of a large glass of wine consumed daily. The latest Oxford University research brings out that a daily intake of wine (or...

25 February 2009
13:11 GMT

Man Who Turned Werewolf from Wine Tells His Story

We are often told that werewolves and vampires are only imaginary beings that make certain movies as great as they are. However, it could be that the appearance of both mythological killers is deeply connected in our own reality, in a condition known as porphyria to be more precise. Until not long ago, scientists did...

20 January 2009
05:06 GMT

Study Shows Beer and Wine Increase Risk of Cancer

Although numerous other studies have shown that both wine (be it red or white) and beer are beneficial for one’s health if consumed moderately, a new finding of the World Cancer Research Fund reveals that two units of alcohol “increase the risk of bowel cancer by 18 per cent and liver cancer by 20 per cen...

29 December 2008
03:46 GMT

Wine and Fish Extremely Beneficial for the Heart

The health benefits of wine and fish separately are common knowledge by now, with both doctors and nutritionists encouraging us to integrate them into our daily meals for a boost in stamina and wellbeing. A recent study led by Dr. Romina di Giuseppe of the Catholic University in Campobasso, Italy, has showed concrete...

20 December 2008
12:31 GMT

Electricity Turns Young Cheap Wine into Fine Vintage

Most likely, many of you don't have access to or cannot afford a glass of exquisite wine and have to abide by a bottle of average plonk that a true connoisseur would call sewage. Perfect wines take way too long to be obtained; the required conditions are not easy to reproduce, while the know-how of the process i...

18 December 2008
10:28 GMT

Heavy Metal Wines

A recent study has indicated the presence of heavy metals in more than 100 types of red and white wine from a dozen countries, including, in alphabetical order, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. UK researchers claim that the beverag...

3 November 2008
08:19 GMT

Watch Out, Your USB Port Might Get You Drunk

While the possibility of sipping liquor directly from a Universal Serial Bus interface might seem a dream for a lot of computer users out there, that's not at all the subject of this article. No, we're talking about a brand new wine, whose name is inspired directly by the famous port that can be found on pr...

30 October 2008
05:18 GMT

CrossOver Giveaway Complete, Serial Codes Still Good to Go

The CrossOver (Great American Lame Duck Challenge) giveaway is now officially over, CodeWeavers says. No more serial numbers will be generated. Still, those who got their chance to sign up for one will be receiving theirs via e-mail over the next few days. Read on to see how the giveaway affected CodeWeavers.“T...

29 October 2008
07:36 GMT

Download CrossOver for Linux, Free of Charge

Believe it or not, CrossOver, a software that lets Linux and Mac OS X users install popular Windows applications and games, is free for download (yes, FREE)... but only for one day! That day is today (October 28th, 2008), so you better go grab the serial number right now from the CodeWeavers website. Hurry up, becaus...

28 October 2008
00:07 GMT

Glass Making Damages Environment

Although, unlike plastic, glass is spared the environmentalists' finger pointing to it as a polluting material, the process of its creation is not as friendly.Obviously, when opening a bottle of wine, one might possibly be concerned by the prospects of a terrible hangover rather than the impact that the creation...

3 October 2008
04:18 GMT

Wine Helps Fight Arthritis

The question of whether or not wine consumption is good for our health has been the subject of long and heated debates. There are those who argue that the amount and "miraculous" properties of the beneficial substances found in the millennia-old elixir outweigh the risks of regular alcohol consumption. And there are ...

5 June 2008
05:05 GMT

Temperature Increase Will Completely Paralyze Wine-Making in the UK by 2080

A new study claims that if climate change continues at this rate, then by 2080 areas such as the Thames Valley, some areas in Hampshire and the Severn valley would ultimately become too hot to be able to continue wine production. The study was published today in a book written by Emeritus Professor Richard Selley fro...

26 May 2008
10:09 GMT

Improve Your Liver Health with a Daily Glass of Wine

Moderate wine consumption never harmed anyone - in fact, a study carried out by UC San Diego School of Medicine shows that a daily glass of wine can be beneficial for your health, especially in combating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. By comparison, people who never consume alcohol have double the chances of cont...

20 May 2008
05:12 GMT

New LG Wine Phone Brings Bigger Displays

LG launched a new mobile phone under the name of "Wine", the SV390 / LV3900 model, coming after another Wine, the SV300, which hit the market in the summer of 2007. The new Wine is obviously an improved device, although it has the same clamshell form factor, and it was presented these days in South Korea, LG's ...

24 April 2008
04:52 GMT

Take Your Bike to Slovenia

A cycling holiday may seem like a pretty far-fetched idea when you're sitting at your desk, lounging in a comfortable leather chair and typing away at your computer, however for those of you who harbor a mild interest in cycling, doubled by love for the outdoors and an even deeper love for wellness and spa treat...

21 April 2008
10:28 GMT

Wine Saves the Brain

Beer or wine? A new Swedish research carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg and published in BJS bets on the wine. Started in 1968 and made on 1,458 women, the survey revealed this alcoholic beverage protects against dementia. At the beginning of the study, the subjects rated how much win...

11 April 2008
05:01 GMT

How Red Wine Treats You of Cancer

French are real lover boys thanks to the consumption of red wine. Resveratrol, an antioxidant polyphenol found in red wine, red grapes and pomace (winemaking residue), has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer and tooth decay, while also hampering bacterial infec...

26 March 2008
17:41 GMT

Wine 0.9.57 and Compiz Fusion 0.7.2 Are Out!

Hear ye, Hear ye! Two of the most used applications for Linux systems just got out of the oven! Have some Wine 0.9.57 and taste some Compiz Fusion 0.7.2! The developers added some new "ingredients" to the recipe of good apps and fixed those that created problems.Let's take a look at the "recipe" for Compiz Fusio...

7 March 2008
11:13 GMT

The Amazon Winery

The wine business has always been very profitable, as has any alcohol business, for that matter. There are always scores of people wanting to celebrate something or drown their sorrow, and alcohol in any form has been known to be one of the best ways to do that.Amazon.com, the world's biggest online shopping web...

7 March 2008
03:44 GMT

Google Sponsors Improvements for Wine

Last week, Dan Kegel, a software engineer at Google, posted a message to the Wine mailing list where he described a few of the improvements to Wine that Google sponsored.Kegel said that Google hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine, because Photoshop is one of the applications that Linu...

20 February 2008
10:59 GMT

Google Throws Its Weight Behind Linux Slapping Windows

One aspect of the Linux vs. Windows face-off that has so far perpetually tilted the balance of force in favor of Microsoft's proprietary operating system is the rich ecosystem of software and hardware solutions built around the platform. The open source Linux operating system fails to enjoy similar support from ...

18 February 2008
11:16 GMT

Why Do Red Wine and Grapes Make You Sexier?

French are real lover boys due to the consume of red wine. Resveratrol, a product found in red wine and known for its antioxidant and anticancer effects, has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer. But resveratrol, a type of polyphenol, is abundant also in red win...

30 January 2008
03:35 GMT

Expensive Wines Trigger More Pleasure in the Brain

A $150 pair of jeans is much better than a $30 one or is it just an illusion? You are paying in fact for the brand, but no matter what, you'll always think that more expensive stuff is better. This has got scientific support with a new research published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Aca...

16 January 2008
03:00 GMT

The Mystery of Pinot Noir Decoded

A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to an European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. It is said that the quality of a wine is in th...

19 December 2007
02:46 GMT

Some Very Old Foods

1.Researchers were taken by surprise a few years ago when they found two wine bottles under the ruins of a London building destroyed in 1682. The cork tap of one bottle had rotten and the wine had turned into vinegar, while the other bottle was hermetically encased because of its tap fixed by wires and wax. With a sp...

5 December 2007
06:55 GMT

Square-Enix Offers You a "Wine Fantasy"

This is not yet another installment in the neverending Final Fantasy series, but rather a new and original title that introduces you to the world of fine wine tasting. Keep in mind that we're dealing with a DS game that comes with a bottle of wine, courtesy of Square-Enix's partner, Mercian. This original ...

7 November 2007
09:25 GMT

New Technology Tells You If a Particular Wine Will Give You Headaches!

Let's face it. There wasn't 'just one glass' too much…last night you scored a new record and you cannot even remember how you got home. And now you're saying "It's the last time I do that!"… of course… until the next time. Now, a new device made at University of California, Berkeley, an...

2 November 2007
05:10 GMT

No Matter What Kind of Alcohol a Woman Drinks, This Will Destroy Her Boobs

After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, ...

28 September 2007
14:36 GMT

Red Wine Saves Men's Sexuality

Now, we know why the French are real lover boys. And this, even at old ages. A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has discovered that nutrients encountered in red wine could decrease the risk of prostate cancer. Even when successfully operated, the surgery of prostate cancer presents a high risk of...

3 September 2007
13:51 GMT

What Gives The Wine Its Peppery Aroma?

A good wine's quality is the result of a combination between a sandy soil and the hot and dry summer, besides the grape variety. The strain of yeast used in the fermentation process can also give particular features of a top quality wine, like smell, color and flavor. Now, Australian chemists have come with the ...

17 August 2007
06:37 GMT

What's Behind Wine Poisoning?

Doctors say that a cup of wine per day is pure health. But sometimes just one cup can send you to hospital and it's not because of alcohol abuse. A Spanish team has found that wasp venom in wine and grape juice seems to be the cause of wine poisoning, severe allergies induced by small quantities of ingested wine...

16 August 2007
06:25 GMT

How to Determine the Age of Wine Based on Its Radioactivity!

A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to a European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. But what about a bottle of wine costing $ 160,0...

29 June 2007
15:11 GMT

Beer, Found Healthier Than Wine

"The beer belly" is a misnomer as the beer per se does contain many calories.But beer is indeed an appetite stimulant and its consume can lead to storing pounds. Beer also has high levels of purines, which boost the levels of uric acid in the joints, aggravating the gout.Black beer was once promoted as a rich source ...

28 May 2007
14:51 GMT

Red Wine Found Beneficial for Man's Sexual Health

It's interesting that in many languages, when people toast, they make a hail for good health "Prost!" in German languages, "Salud!" in Spanish, "Sanatate" in Romanian and so on. This wishful thinking is based on the subconscious belief that the content of the glass is really beneficial for the health. Indeed, fo...

22 May 2007
17:51 GMT

A 2,200-Year-Old Wine !

At least some of the amphoras suspected to be 2,200-year-old dug in a Bosnia-Herzegovina swamp are believed to have carried wine, as expressed by experts on Monday. "A preliminary analysis showed amphoras, found at what are believed remains of the first-ever discovered Illyrian ships, were used for transporting wine...

10 April 2007
07:20 GMT

Wine Can Induce Cancer

They say "Good wine, long life!"But a new research at Queen's University points out the fact that the notion of "natural" foods may hide a high risk for cancer.Actually, some common foods and alcoholic beverages like wine, cheese, yogurt and bread present some minute levels of carcinogens (cancer inducing compou...

9 March 2007
06:01 GMT

... Get Cork

Your strategy of "conquering" a girl includes a bottle of good wine or Champaign, but have you ever wondered where does the cork come from?Cork is the product of an oak!In some coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, like Spain, France, Italy, but also in the African coast (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and outside (Portuga...

5 March 2007
10:46 GMT


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