Battle Royale

Japanese title: Batoru Rowaiaru
English title: Battle Royale

Story & Original creator: Koushun Takami
Art: Masayuki Taguchi

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Groups Scanlating: Illuminati-Manga / Manga-Sketchbook / Nezumi scans

Plot: In a world where teenagers are roaming wild, the Japanese government decides to hold "lotteries" where 9th graders enter and are picked to "battle it all out" on an island with other students. An island where even your best friend will become your worst enemy.
(vimanga.ru)

Status: 15 vol Complete

Download

vol1
vol2
vol3
vol4
vol5
vol6
vol7
vol8
vol9
vol10

Nine

Author(s)
ADACHI Mitsuru

Description: High school sports (mainly baseball) and romance story. 3 TV movies were made. The work that established his name in Japan as mangaka. Katsuya and Susumu join the Seishu baseball team. They've never played baseball before but they don't want to disappoint Yuri, a girl Katsuya recently met for the first time. Surprise: Yuri is the coach's daughter. Katsuya loves Yuri, and vice versa. But Yukimi too falls in love with Katsuya and causes trouble... Who will end up with who, and will Seishu team have success?

Genre
Comedy Romance Shounen Sports

Groups Scanlating: Manga Downloads

Download

Volume 01
Volume 02

Black Cat

Japan title: Black Cat
English title: Black Cat
Story & Art: Kentaro Yabuki
Status: Complete
Genre: Adventure, Shounen, Comedy

Groups Scanlating: Akatsuki Manga / Chronos' Time Guardians / Illuminati-Manga / Manga-Heaven / MeowMix / Sushi Bar Manga

Plot: Ex-assasin Train Hartnett and his partner, Sven, are bounty hunters, living a somewhat normal life. That is, until Train's ex-co-worker, the leader of a group of merciless villains with special abilities, decides to recruit him into their crime ring and change the world to their control.

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Volume 11
Volume 12
Volume 13
Volume 14
Volume 15
Volume 16
Volume 17
Volume 18
Volume 19
Volume 20

Akkan Baby

Now, I will upload Manga!



Title: Akkan Baby

Mangaka: MIYAUCHI Saya

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Shoujo

Groups Scanlating: Tsuzuku Jinsei o...

Description: High schoolers Yuki and Shigeru aren't dating, but still enjoy a highly active sexual relationship. Naïve and still very child-like in the way they think, it comes as a great shock to them when Shigeru discovers she's pregnant. The two are confronted with the decision of aborting the baby and wounding Shigeru, or to keep it and face great opposition from their parents and high school, and *gasp* miss their beloved Conflict concerts!

Status: Completed

Download:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

Lotus Notes gets a facelift: Version 8 beta review and visual tour

Computerworld has been a Notes shop for more than a decade, but I've yet to come across a colleague who's said "I love Notes!" or even "I like Notes a lot." Instead, I usually hear frustration -- and occasional swearing.

Which is a failure of execution, since the concept is a good one. IBM's Lotus Notes is one of those software packages that should make your life easier. It corrals white-collar must-haves such as e-mail, calendar and contacts into one coherent place, while offering some reasonably powerful database offerings.

But Notes has always come with annoyances. For instance, in Version 6.5, which we use at Computerworld, wrong names pop into e-mail "To:" fields based on, say, the first "Sharon" who shows up alphabetically in a directory. The recipient isn't simply suggested; Notes autocompletes the address unbidden. For those who hit Send without checking, messages head off to unintended recipients. Numerous e-mails meant for me have ended up in the in-boxes of other Sharons. And I've misdirected my own fair share.

Notes also has a well-deserved reputation for being somewhat user-hostile. Built-in help can be Byzantine, and customization tools are so scattered that it can be tough to find how to make a change even if you've seen an option several times before. Where was that "change the color of an incoming e-mail" tool? Is it in Mail > Tools > Rules? Or Tools > Preferences > Mail? Or File > Preferences > User Preferences > Mail?

That's why we pricked up our ears when IBM announced the public beta of Notes 8 for Windows and Linux, featuring an overhauled user interface. Lotus Domino 8 server is also in public beta, but our IT department didn't have the capacity to set up a test environment on short notice. Because I didn't have access to the full Version 8 server install, some of Notes' new features were unavailable to me. However, I was able to give the Notes beta a test drive as an e-mail and calendaring client.

I was eager to see whether Lotus Notes 8 built on the good and fixed the bad. Is there finally a decent UI to match its feature lineup?

Windows Live Hotmail to debut Monday

Monday will finally bring its completely revamped version of its popular online e-mail service out of beta and into full release.

According to sources familiar with the company's plans, Microsoft has been quietly rolling out version 1 of Windows Live Hotmail in smaller international markets such as Belgium and the Netherlands to test the new system. Monday's rollout give U.S. users and the other estimated 250 million Hotmail subscribers around the world access to the application, sources said.

Microsoft Thursday declined to comment through its public relations agency.

It's been a long road for the revamped online hosted e-mail application. Microsoft has been testing its new e-mail service, rewritten from scratch, since August 2005. The company rebranded it to Windows Live under Microsoft's new hosted services plan in November 2005. That strategy, introduced by Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, is aimed at making Microsoft's existing and new hosted online services more attractive to users and advertisers so the company can catch up to competitors such as Google Inc.

Microsoft named the service Windows Live Hotmail in February in order to retain the name by which users know it. Richard Sim, a Microsoft senior product manager, outlined the reasons for keeping the Hotmail brand on the Windows Live Hotmail team's Live Spaces blog when the name change was announced.

"Many users were extremely loyal to the Hotmail brand and perceived the [Windows Live Mail] beta as an upgrade to Hotmail," he wrote at the time. "In fact, our most loyal users have been very happy with Hotmail for years and while they loved the improvements in the beta, some were a bit confused by (the) name change."

The LiveSide blog, which tracks Windows Live services, also has been charting the progress of Windows Live Hotmail on a page dedicated to the new service.

Microsoft focused on improvements in speed and efficiency of the mail service, and also made it more powerful so it could potentially be used by businesses; it's the mail service in Microsoft's small-business hosted service, Office Live.

Windows Live Hotmail offers users 2G bytes of mail storage, and also allows them to import contacts from and also export them to other Web-based e-mail services, such as Google's Gmail and Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Mail. There also is a premium Windows Live Hotmail Plus Service for $19.99 a year that will offer 4G bytes of inbox storage and other expanded options.

Microsoft also revamped the mail service's user interface, and made sorting through and searching for contacts and messages more efficient and faster, according to the company.

More information about Windows Live Hotmail and its latest beta version can be found on the Windows Live services homepage.