The True Meaning of Freeware

The vast majority of us will have, at some point, had freeware games or applications installed on our systems. If you’ve played an online Java or Flash based game, you’ve used freeware. In a very real way the Internet itself is freeware, a massive collections of scripts, information, tools and resources that are, for the most part, totally free. But what is it that motivates so many people to put so much work into a project, and then release it totally free of charge? There are a few misconceptions about freeware that I would like to clear up. 

1.) “Freeware programs are loaded with spy ware and Trojan horses” – not true. While it is true that some programs contain these types of malicious software, they are a vanishingly small percentage of the whole. The type of people who release programs like this are identical to spam mailers – criminal and beneath contempt. If you are worried about this then I suggest you only download software from large, well known freeware sites. These almost always check to ensure their programs are free of any malicious code. 

2.) “Freeware only works for X amount of days, or is crippled in some way”. Again, not true. Programs that work in this way are classified as Shareware, and are designed so that if you like the programs function you can pay the author for a full version. Freeware is never crippled in any way, and comes with no charge whatsoever – although donations are always appreciated! 

3.) “The only reason this is freeware is because no-one in their right mind would pay money for it”. This, unfortunately, is often a valid point. There are some truly abysmal programs out there. And even if the program is a good, helpful little tool, it doesn’t mean you would be prepared to spend £10 on it in a shop. However there are some absolute gems out there, like 7-zip for example. All I can say is, again, look for the big directories where the submissions are ranked. Look especially for the sites where users can leave their own feedback on a product, for example www.gamehippo.com is a superb site for freeware games. 

So what is the reason people make programs for free? The points above could explain it, to some extent. But that is not what freeware is really about. Freeware is about programmers wanting to share what they’ve created with the world at large, be it a useful tool, a kick-ass game or even a simple script. People who write freeware like to share what they’ve made, and maybe get some credit from the wider community for making something useful. So next time you find a useful piece of free software why not look through the about box to find out who made it. If they have a site then go visit, maybe leave a note in the guest book to encourage them to keep up the good work, to create more superb software. And you never know, the site may even contain that perfect piece of software you’ve been looking for.

Freeware Games: Get Your Games For Free!

If you wanted to play games now (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/tag/play-games-now), you'd need to lay out a great deal of money to bring your computer up to speed, and you'd have to spend a great deal more to purchase the games of your choice. However, if you're really not such an intense game player, and your budget isn't that big, you can simply look to freeware games (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/tag/freeware-games). 

As the name states, freeware games are free and available for anyone to download onto his or her computer and play. Whenever you see freeware listed you can be assured that it is fine to download. These games are not bad for your computer and a lot of people use them with no trouble at all. 

A portion of the freeware games is made up of the kind of old arcade games you enjoyed during your youth. Programmers can now copy those games because they have been around so long. They have improved some of the new games by adding modern graphics or special features so they are sometimes even more enjoyable than the old ones. 

In addition to old arcade games (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/tag/old-arcade-games), many software companies develop newer modern games that they could most likely sell on the market for at least twenty dollars or more if they truly wanted, but they tend to give them away for free as freeware. The graphics of these games are superb and can compete with the best selling retail games on the open market. Why pay over fifty dollars for a video game when you can get some similar or better for free? 

You might be asking why companies produce freeware games. There are many reasons for this. Most times, they are the beta versions of games that a company will wish to sell at a later date. By doing this, they can receive input about the game and fix any bugs or make improvements on it before officially releasing it; which they hope will develop more sales for the game when released. Companies can also ask players to pay if they want a special item or gift, as well as sell ad space within the game so that the game remains free. 

To conclude, you can download basically any type of game as freeware. There are thousands of enjoyable free games out there, so there has to be something for anybody. This trend probably will not end anytime soon, as freeware games are still being pumped out at a very quick rate.

Freeware Games And How To Find Them.

There are lots of different ways to have fun. A lot of what you choose depends on where you are in life, old or young. Today's youth enjoy computer-based gaming. There are many choices. Some of the games can be expensive, and gaming firms are getting a large portion of the spending money of the kids purchasing the games. Luckily, there are also a lot of freeware games. Game enthusiasts have made this a popular, and much cheaper, alternative for kids. A kid can download the game and play it with no charges involved. 

So what's in it for the people who put these games online for free? Most of these individuals are enthusiastic gamers who simply love to develop and produce new and exciting games. Freeware is simply a way for them to get their product out there are share it with likeminded others. It's sort of an "open mic night" for video games. 

Furthermore, freeware games often serve as a means to display their grudges against the developers of proprietary games. Say if a gaming enthusiast believes that some feature of a popular proprietary game is not up to the mark, he will try to build a game with similar objective and playing rules with the improved feature that was missing in the original proprietary game. 

There is no dearth of variety in freeware games. You can choose a freeware game from adventure online games (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/), shooting online games, driving games online (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/tag/driving-games-online), strategic games online etc. Lately, there has been considerable variety of games within these broad groups. 

Freeware games (http://www.letsplaygamesnow.com/tag/freeware-games) are often supported by the existence of pay-per-click ads. Usually freeware sites will feature a few advertisements, and if they are clicked, the site owner gets a small amount of money in return. At the end of a specified period, the dollar amount of all the clicks is tabulated and the owner is presented with his payment. 

Until recently, freeware games were not concentrated on creativity and novelty. On the other hand, there have been drastic changes lately. These days one can take part in role playing games with a huge number of participants at no charge. One can also create one's own simulation inside the online worlds. There is an infinite range of possibilities.

Web Development And The Big Time Out

One of the great debilitators in online business is simply the perceived (or real) lack of time. Business owners are used to moving forward. An online web presence can make them feel tied to an office chair learning skills they aren’t sure they want to know. 

It’s not uncommon for those who deal in full time web design to have individuals contact them for a site design, but have absolutely no idea what they want. Furthermore when the designer questions them the response might be, “I don’t know, just make it look nice.” 

Let’s not forget the core values or mission of the business. Many business owners have no idea how to answer those kinds of questions. They may stare blankly for a moment or two and there’s no more time for further deep thought so they go back to action – without answers. 

In many cases it is possible to answer some of the questions needed, but it may require taking time away from a familiar setting. It may also require more time than you think you want to give. 

If you can get to a place of concentrated contemplation you are likely to find yourself stripping ideas to their core to find out what your business is trying to accomplish and what your ultimate goals might be. 

As with almost any project you can turn frustration around if you will just take the time to come to terms with your vision. 

Sometimes we spend so much time ‘doing’ we never stop to ask the question, “Why?” 

This process can be a bit like taking a bus that drives around the park. You keep looking at the flowers and the park bench and long to sit in the quiet shade of a tree and just absorb the calming atmosphere. You know they will have a positive effect on you, but for some reason you just can’t seem to find the energy to get off the bus. 

It seems to me there are some sites that are misguided or rarely guided that could benefit from the process of self-evaluation. These sites may look nice, but there is a sense of disconnection that may not be easy to identify, but it’s fairly obvious to visitors. 

Creative energy is at a minimum while business owners simply tackle what seem to be the most urgent details. 

As more people gravitate to online business there needs to be a shift in the thinking of how one goes about doing business online. In many ways it can’t be approached in the same way a traditional business is developed, yet that is typically the way many new web commerce ventures choose to tackle the subject. 

You may discover your business will be more successful if you take some time for rigorous reflection. The time set aside can be a bit like an architect that takes the time to develop plans for a new building. You wouldn’t expect the architect to simply tell a construction crew to, “Go out there and build – something.” 

Work at ‘building’ your online business in a comprehensive way. Your effort can develop a firm foundation for long-term success.

The Battle of the Browsers – The History and the Future of Internet Browsers

With Internet Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla's Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 and yet only 3.76% by mid 1999? 

Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us – and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it. 

People often think that Internet Explorer has been the dominant web browser since the golden age of the internet began. Well for a very long time now it has indeed been the most popular browser and at times been almost totally unrivalled. This was mainly a result of it being packaged free with Microsoft Windows, in what some would later call a brutal monopolisation attempt by Microsoft. The last few years however have heralded the arrival of new, possibly superior browsers. Mozilla's Firefox has been particularly successful at chipping away at Explorers market dominance. So where did it all begin, and why were Microsoft ever allowed to have a hundred percent market dominance? 

Origins 

The truth is they never did have total dominance, but at times they have come very close. Microsoft actually entered the Browser Battle quite late on. Infact a man named Neil Larson is credited to be one of the originators of internet browsers, when in 1977 he created a program – The TRS-80 - that allowed browsing between “sites” via hypertext jumps. This was a DOS program and the basis of much to come. Slowly other browsers powered by DOS and inspired by the TRS 80 were developed. Unfortunately they were often constricted by the limitations of the still fairly young internet itself. 

In 1988, Peter Scott and Earle Fogel created a simple, fast browser called Hytelnet, which by 1990 offered users instant logon and access to the online catalogues of over five thousand libraries around the world – an exhilarating taste of what the internet, and web browsers, would soon be able to offer. 

In 1989 the original World Wide Web was born. Using a NeXTcube computer, Tim Berners-Lee created a web browser that would change how people used the internet forever. He called his browser the WorldWideWeb(http://www., which is still likely to sound familiar to internet users today. It was a windowed browser capable of displaying simple style sheet, capable of editing sites and able to download and open any file type supported by the NeXTcube. 

In 1993 the first popular graphical browser was released. Its name was Mosaic and it was created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. Mosaic could be run on both Unix, and very importantly, on the highly popular Microsoft Windows operating system (incidentally it could also be used on Amiga and Apple computers). It was the first browser on Windows that could display graphics/pictures on a page where there was also textual content. It is often cited as being responsible for triggering the internet boom due to it making the internet bearable for the masses. (It should be noted that the web browser Cello was the first browser to be used on Windows – but it was non graphical and made very little impact compared to Mosaic). 

The Browser Wars - Netscape Navigator versus Internet Explorer 

Mosaic's decline began almost as soon as Netscape Navigator was released (1994). Netscape Navigator was a browser created by Marc Andreessen, one of the men behind Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape was unrivalled in terms of features and usability at the time. For example, one major change from previous browsers was that it allowed surfers to see parts of a website before the whole site was downloaded. This meant that people did not have to wait for minutes simply to see if the site they were loading was the actual one the were after, whilst also allowing them to read information on the site as the rest of it downloaded. By 1996 Netscape had almost 90% market dominance, as shown below. 

Market Share Comparisons of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer from 1996 to 1998 

....................Netscape.......IE 
October 1998..........64%.........32.2% 
April 1998............70%.........22.7% 
October 1997..........59.67%......15.13% 
April 1997............81.13%......12.13% 
October 1996..........80.45%......12.18% 
April 1996............89.36%.......3.76% 

In these two years Netscape clearly dominated the internet browser market, but a new browser named Internet Explorer was quickly gaining ground on it. 

Microsoft released their own browser (ironically based on the earlier Mosaic browser which was created by one of the men now running Netscape), clearly worried about Netscape's dominance. It was not so much the worry that it would have a 100% market share of internet browsers on their Windows operating system, but more the worry that browsers would soon be capable of running all types programs on them. That would mean foregoing the need for an actual operating system, or at the most only a very basic one would be needed. This in turn would mean Netscape would soon be able to dictate terms to Microsoft, and Microsoft were not going to let that happen easily. Thus in August 1995, Internet Explorer was released. 

By 1999 Internet explorer had captured an 89.03% market share, whilst Netscape was down to 10.47%. How could Internet Explorer make this much ground in just two years? Well this was down to two things really. The first, and by far the most important was that Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer in with every new copy of Windows, and as Windows was used by about 90% of the computer using population it clearly gave them a huge advantage. Internet Explorer had one other ace it held over Netscape – it was much better. Netscape Navigator was stagnant and had been for some time. The only new features it ever seemed to introduce were often perceived by the public as beneficial for Netscape's parent company rather than Netscape's user base. (i.e., features that would help it monopolise the market). Explorer, on the other hand, was given much attention by Microsoft. Regular updates and excellent usability plus a hundred million dollar investment would prove too much for Netscape Explorer. 

2000 – 2005 

These years were fairly quiet in the Battle of the Browsers. It seemed as if Internet Explorer had won the war and that nobody could even hope to compete with it. In 2002/2003 it had attained about 95% of the market share – about the time of IE 5/6. With over 1000 people working on it and millions of dollars being poured in, few people had the resources to compete. Then again, who wanted to compete? It was clearly a volatile market, and besides that everybody was content with Internet Explorer. Or were they? Some people saw faults with IE – security issues, incompatibility issues or simply bad programming. Not only that, it was being shoved down peoples throats. There was almost no competition to keep it in line or to turn to as an alternative. Something had to change. The only people with the ability and the power to compete with Microsoft took matters into their own hands. 

Netscape was now supported by AOL. A few years prior, just after they had lost the Browser Wars to Microsoft, they had released the coding for Netscape into the public domain. This meant anybody could develop their own browser using the Netscape skeleton. And people did. Epiphany, Galeon and Camino, amongst others, were born out of Netscape's ashes. However the two most popular newcomers were called Mozilla and Firefox. 

Mozilla was originally an open sourced project aimed to improve the Netscape browser. Eventually it was released as Netscape Navigator 7 and then 8. Later it was released as Mozilla 1.0. 

Mozilla was almost an early version on another open source browser, Firefox. With it being an open source the public were able to contribute to it - adding in what features it needed, the programming it required and the support it deserved. The problems people saw in Internet Explorer were being fixed by members of the open sourced browser community via Firefox. For instance, the many security issues IE 6 had were almost entirely fixed in the very first release of Firefox. Microsoft had another fight on their hands. 

2005 – Present 

Firefox was the browser that grew and grew in these years. Every year capturing an even larger market share percentage than before. More user friendly than most of its rivals along with high security levels and arguably more intelligent programming helped its popularity. With such a large programming community behind it, updates have always been regular and add on programs/features are often released. It prides itself on being the peoples browser. It currently has a 28.38% market share. 

Apple computers have had their own browser since the mid 1990's – Safari - complete with its own problems, such as (until recently) the inability to run Java scripts. However most Apple users seemed happy with it and a version capable of running on Windows has been released. It has had no major competitor on Apple Macs, and as such has largely been out of the Browser Wars. It currently holds a 2.54% market share and is slowly increasing. 

Internet Explorer's market share has dropped from over 90% to around 75%, and is falling. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft will attempt to regain such a high market share. 

Opera currently holds 1.07%. 

Mozilla itself only has a 0.6% market share these days. 

The Future of Web Browsing 

Web browsers come and go. It is the nature of technology (if such a term can be used), to supplant inferior software in very short periods of time. It is almost impossible for a single company to stay ahead of the competition for long. Microsoft have the advantage of being able to release IE with any Windows using PC. That covers over 90% of the market. They also have the advantage of unprecedented resources. They can compete how they wish for as long as they wish. So there is no counting IE out of the future of web browsing. 

Safari is in a similar position, being easily the most popular Mac web browser. Its long term survival is dependant upon Apple and the sale of their computers. 

These are the only two browsers that are almost guaranteed another five years of life, at least. Firefox may seem like another candidate, but the public is fickle, and one bad release, or if it seriously lags behind the new Internet Explorer 8 for long, could easily see its popularity quickly descend into virtual oblivion. 

However, it seems likely community driven browsers, such as Mozilla and Firefox, will be the only types of browser capable of competing with the wealthy internet arm of Microsoft in the near future. 

As for web browsing itself, will it change any time soon? Well it already has for some online communities. For example, if you want to buy clothes you could try entering an online 'world' creating an online virtual You to go from 'shop to shop' with, looking at products and trying/buying what you see. Some 'worlds' allow you to recreate yourself accurately including weight and height and then try on things apparel such as jeans to give you an idea of how you would look in that particular item. 

Will 'worlds' like this destroy normal web browsers such as IE ? - It seems unlikely. Traditional web browsers provide such freedom and ease of access that it is hard to see any other alternative taking over. However they are part of the new, 'thinking out of the box' wave of alternatives that some people will find attractive, and really who knows what the future will bring.

Download Accelerator Plus 8.6.5.2 Beta

Category : Internet Tools

Size: 8.18MB
Publisher: Visit Website
Release Date: 2008-04-18
OS: Win 98/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3



Publisher's Description :

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) - The World´s Most Popular Download Manager with over 136 million users. DAP leverages patented technology, easy management of downloads and rich features including: multi connections, Download Security feature by ZoneAlarm, auto-recovery, privacy tools, faster downloads from fastest sources, preview of files as you download; broadband optimization; tabbed downloading. Availabe in 10 languages


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FileZilla Portable 3.0.8.1

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Size: 3183Kb



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FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or on a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.


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PhoneTooth 0.1.2

Description

PhoneTooth software allows you to send text messages with your mobile phone through bluetooth. It is an application written in Python and also allows you to send files to your phone.

Requirements:

· GTK+ version 2.10.x
· Python
· pybluez
· obexftp



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The simplest way to compile this package is:

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BonkEnc 1.0.6

Category : Audio - Video
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File size: 6472 Kb



4Musics Multiformat Converter - tool for converting between most popular audio formats. This program is intended and especialy convenient for automatic (batch) conversion of music files. With 4Musics Multiformat Converter you can make your music library in the easiest and the fastest way. The program is fairly simple to use. Tool that contains a lot of converters in 1 for converting between most popular audio formats: CDA, WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, AMR_NB, AMR_WB, M4A, MP2, RA3 AC3, AIFF, FLAC and MMF.


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Asynx Planetarium 2.20

Category : Home - Education

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File size: 4143 Kb



Asynx Planetarium lets you see 2500 stars, 88 constellations, all nine planets and the moonphase from 1600 AD to 9999 AD from any location on earth. Geocentric and heliocentric views also available.


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PhotoOnWeb 0.7.5.1

Category : Graphic

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File size: 6303 Kb



PhotoOnWeb is a software to create your own photo album with digital pictures and host it on the internet. The software offers quick and easy creation and customization of the album (more than 20 different templates to match the theme of your pics). Sort your photos in multiple albums, pick a template and click on the Publish button. It does it all for you, resizes the photos, builds the website and publishes it on the Internet.



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Nokia PC Suite 6.85 Release 14

Category : Business - Organize

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File size: 26230 Kb




Nokia PC Suite is a package of Windows-based PC applications developed especially for use with Nokia phones. Depending on your phone model, it lets you synchronize, edit, and back up many of your phone's files on a compatible PC through a wireless or cable connection.


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EMS SQL Manager for MySQL Lite for Windows 4.0.5.1

Category : Web Development

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File size: 21440 Kb





EMS SQL Manager for MySQL is a powerful tool for MySQL Database Server administration and development. It works with any MySQL versions from 3.23 to 5 and supports all of the latest MySQL features including views, stored procedures and functions, InnoDB foreign keys, user-definable functions, transaction-safe tables, new MySQL 5 Authentication Protocol, MySQL 4.x user privilege extensions, charsets and collations support for databases and tables. It offers plenty of powerful tools for experienced users such as Visual Database Designer, Visual Query Builder, and BLOB viewer/editor to satisfy all their needs. It has a new state-of-the-art graphical user interface with well-described wizard system, so clear in use that even a newbie will not be confused with it. Its Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to create/edit all MySQL database objects in a simple and direct way, run SQL scripts, manage users and administer user privileges, edit SQL queries, extract and print metadata, create database structure ...


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Vista Sidebar 2.3

Category : Desktop

Publisher's Description
Size: 5.08MB
OS: Windows XP/Vista



Vista sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and lots of more search engines. It has also gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets.

The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft Sidebar with more extras and works on Microsoft Windows Vista and XP. Thoosje´s Vista Sidebar is also part of the Vista Transformation Pack that turns your XP OS into Windows Vista.
Last update - 12 February 2007.


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HandBrake for Windows 0.9.2

Category  : Audio - Video

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File size: 3455 Kb



Handbrake is a utility that can convert standard DVD's into a compressed format of your choice. mp4 with AAC audio or AVC with h264 video and AAC audio. It also lets you crop the image to get rid of the black bars to bring down the size even more and lets you choose options as to how you want it encoded.

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IE7Pro

Category : Internet Tools

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File size: 2.05 Mb



IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.


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DVD Flick 1.2.2.1

Category : Audio - Video

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File size: 7198 Kb




DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.


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Webopi 1.2

Category : Internet Tools

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File size: 980 Kb



Webopi is a way to add and read reviews of any website: An item in an online shop, CNN's article, hosting company offer... and it doesn't matter whether a possibility of leaving a review is or is not given by the owners of those websites.


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Night of the Hermit v1.2

Category : Games

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Size: 5.16MB
OS: MS-DOS, Windows (All)



Night of the Hermit is a home-made fan adventure game which is inspired by the excellent adventure game series "Monkey Island" from Lucas Arts, Night of the Hermit can run on both DOS and Windows systems.

If you´ve ever played any of the classic point-and-click adventure games you´ll feel right at home with Night of the Hermit.

It has now been 8 years since that pesky Guybrush left the Island. Herman has spent all of the money that he earned from that game, and things have started looking pretty bleak. Then one day a message in a bottle shows up, saying that his grandfather has died and left him his big mansion on Badger Island, somewhere in the Caribbean. So with visions of starting a new life, Herman packs his few belongings and sets out to claim his inheritance. But the thing about bottle mail is that it´s slow, very slow. So by the time Herman gets to Badger Island, he finds that someone claimed the mansion years ago, and turned it into the sleazy Crippled Badger Motel. Herman decides to spend everything that he has left (which is 12 dollars, 45 cents, and some moss) for one night at the motel, determined to find a way to reclaim what is rightfully his. And this is his story.
Night of the Hermit has been downloaded over 14,000 times according to Wired Magazine.


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TVUPlayer 2.3.4 Beta 1

Category : Desktop

Publisher's Description
Size: 3.46MB
OS: Win 2000/XP



TVUPlayer is a free program that enables viewers to watch high quality live Television programs around the world.
TVU networks brings you programs from around the world that you can´t get from your local cable and satellite providers.


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WordFusion Free 1.57.2

Category : Web Development

Publisher's Description
File size: 33500 Kb



WordFusion Free allows you to create Forms to collect, store, organize and reuse information. Anyone can develop and deploy dynamic forms in minutes, and because Forms are saved in industry standard XML format they are easy to share with other users by simply copying a file. It achieves this by providing a powerful designer to produce highly customized and user friendly Forms for any purpose. It also integrates with most other data sources to make use of your existing data. The form designer works without limitations for both designing and using forms. It also comes with trial functionality for document assembly provided by WordFusionPro.


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Album Art Downloader 0.8.0.0

Category : Home - Education 

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The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts.


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Fortop FLV Player 1.0.71212

Category : Home - Education

Publisher's Description
Size: 499KB
OS: Win 98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista



Fortop FLV Player is a powerful but completely FREE utility for you to play Adobe Flash Video (FLV) files. It supports all versions of FLV videos with different codecs, including Screen Video, Soreson H.263, on2 vp6, etc.

The Fortop FLV Player also supports change window size at will, full-screen mode, comprehensive FLV information display, full keyboard shortcuts, and the most important is, it allows you to extract mp3 music from FLV videos.

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Construct 0.87

Category : Programming

Publisher's Description
Size: 6.55MB
OS: Win 2000/XP/Vista



Construct is a development studio geared for creating DirectX games and software in a WYSIWYG environment. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way.

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No programming or scripting is needed.
Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine
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Smaller, faster specialized runtime for applications
50+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to database access

Construct runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista and is 32-bit software. A graphics card with pixel shader 2.0 is recommended.


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Microworld Anti Virus & Spyware Toolkit Utility 9.6.9

Category : AntiVirus

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Size : 21.77 MB



Scans your computer completely and provides reports of any viruses that it finds.
Microworld Antivirus Toolkit Utility is a standalone tool to scan for viruses, spyware, keyloggers and more.

Using this application, you will no longer have to be afraid everytime you download something from the Internet.

Here are some key features of "Microworld Antivirus Toolkit Utility":

· Scans your computer completely and provides reports of any viruses that it finds.
· Checks for all illegal dialers that are present on your computer and informs you of the same.
· Informs you of any background illegal sniffers or tools like spyware, adware, keyloggers etc. running in the memory of your computer.
· You can add this utility to the startup list of programs on your computer so that it scans your computer every time you start using it.
· When you download this utility you will get it with the latest updated list of viruses so that it scans your computer for all known viruses.
· No need to install. Just download and run the MWAV toolkit to scan for viruses.
· Provides multi-language support.


Limitations:
· Only identifies the malware, will not remove it
· Some features are disabled

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AmazingFree International 1.63

Category : Internet Tools

Publisher's Description
File size: 3462 Kb



AmazingFree watches Amazon according to the task set up beforehand. If an item can be ordered, it will order automatically (a setup of the number or a suggested price is also possible). A full automatic order and 1-Click ordering are supported, and also it can also have a mail transmitting function that can also be sent to a cell phone.


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Panda Antivirus 2008 3.01 Final

Category : AntiVirus

Publisher Descriptions
Size : 46.64 MB
Requirements:
· Processor: Pentium 150 MHz or faster
· RAM: 64 MB
· Hard disk: 150 MB free space
· Internet Explorer 5.05
· CD-ROM drive
Limitations:
· 30-day trial




Transparently updating Antivirus solution for Windows, that keeps your computer protected
Panda Antivirus is the latest generation of antivirus solution.

Its innovative technology and ease of use make it the most powerful antivirus on the market.

Panda Antivirus features a new UltraFast scan engine, 30% faster than its predecessors, Panda's exclusive SmartClean technology, which not only disinfects viruses but also restores system settings damaged by the latest trojan horse technologies, and its low use of system resources.

Coupled with a new best-of-breed truly automatic update system which takes advantage of your Internet connection to transparently update the virus signature files incrementally and its new innovative ease of use interface, Panda Antivirus Titanium is the first truly "install-and-forget" antivirus for the home user."

Here are some key features of "Panda Antivirus Titanium":
· Latest generation antivirus
· Powerful AntiSpyware
· AntiPhishing
· Protection against dangerous websites
· AntiRootkit


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Memory Games 5

Category : Games

Publisher's Description
Size: 680KB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP



Free Memory game for kids : The tiles hide 16 identical pictures, all mixed up. Your task is to find all the identical pictures. Click on the tiles, to open the images. If you find two identical pictures, the images will stay uncovered.


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Crusader Tank

Category : Games

Publisher's Description
Size = 980KB



It is the year 30287. The Black Cult sect enslaves the humanity with its psychotronic weapons of mass destruction turning people into frantic cult followers.

You are a brave knight of a secret crusaders’ order. You have an extremely important mission: you need to get to the heart of the Cult and destroy its leader using a new psychotronic-resistant super-tank.

Your tank is deployed far behind enemy lines where you are going to start your mission from.


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Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 1.2

Category : Graphic

Publisher's Description
Size: 710KB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/Vista



This program is a professional, yet easy to use tool for creating icons, cursors, and other small pixel graphic images.
It has a wide range of features, including:
Opening and saving in ICO, CUR, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats
Creating icons up to 256x256 @ 32-bit
Creating Vista(tm)-compatible, PNG compressed icons
Advanced selection handling (marquee, lasso and wand tools, saving/loading selections from files)
Creating and testing cursors
Extracting icons and cursors from executable files
Dynamic color depth: you do not have to specify it explicitly, Greenfish Icon Editor will determine it for you.
Various gradient styles for filling shapes
Lots of filters including Remove matte, Drop shadow, Inner/Outer glow and Bevel
File drag and drop support
Sample icons are included
No installation required, Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is absolutely portable
It is FREE!


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IRIS 5.52

Category : Graphic

Publisher's Description
Size: 2.75MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/XP



Iris is a software that offers numerous and powerful functions of image processing in the field of the digital astronomical images. Iris is particularly optimized to exploit the images that come from CCD cameras.

Iris will load and save pictures in the formats FITS, PIC (proprietary format), raw or BMP. Iris can read also the images of the Buil-Thouvenot Atlas, a CD-ROM which contains 4649 images of 6600 objects of the deep-sky.

From the Command window you can execute numerous commands in on-line mode. The on-line mode of Iris is extremely practical, notably to make repetitives operations. When you will master it you will have a powerful productivity tool in hand.
Finally, Iris possesses functions helping the Audine CCD camera construction. The project Audine was developed by the Association of the Users of Electronic Detectors (AUDE). Iris is a part of this project.


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Google SketchUp 6.4.112

Category : Graphic

Publisher's Description
Size: 32.55MB
OS: Win 2000/XP



Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you´ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.


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FreeRIP MP3 3.05

Category : Audio - Video

Publisher's Description
Size: 1.71MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/2K/NT/XP



FreeRIP is a free software that can record digital audio tracks directly from compact discs, without going through your sound card. You can save tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encode them to Ogg Vorbis and MP3 compressed format.


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EditPad Lite for Windows 6.3.1

Category : Business - Organize

Publisher's Description
File size: 3183 Kb




EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.

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Foxit Reader 2.2 Build 2129

Category : Business - Organize

Publisher's Description
File size: 2130 Kb



Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

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WEB/CD Slideshow Creator v1.0.2

Category : Desktop

Publisher's Description
Size: 1.0MB
OS: Win 98/ME/2000/XP



WEB/CD Slideshow Creator is a simple (but effective!) slideshow program that lets you select a directory (or set of directories) and copies it all into one directory to display all of the images contained within as a slideshow.

If you`re looking for a simple method to share some of the thousands of digital photos you`ve taken with you digital camera then look no further.

Take your Digital Photos and quickly transform them into dazzling Slideshows to share with your friends and family over the Web or on CD.
This application is a highlight of simplicity and practicality. It will let you turn out Slideshows in a fraction of the time for you Website or CD.


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Stellarium 0.9.1

Category : Home - Education

Publisher's Description
Size: 36.91MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3



Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Features:

Sky:
over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
images of nebulae
realistic Milky Way
very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
the planets and their satellites

Interface:
a powerful zoom
time control
multilingual interface
scripting to record and play your own shows
fisheye projection for planetarium domes
spheric mirror projection for your own dome
graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

Visualisation:
equatorial and azimuthal grids
star twinkling
shooting stars
eclipse simulation
skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

Customisability:
add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

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TheWorld Browser for Windows 2000 XP Vista 2.0.6.6

Category : Internet Tools

Publisher's Description
File size: 1354Kb



TheWorld Browser is a tiny, fast, safe, powerful, multi-tabbed with multi-threaded frame browser, it is a freeware with no function limited. It has a new, powerful multi-threaded window frame, which can avoid web page being out of response. It is optimized to avoid any case of out of response. In any test case, if a web page's browser window is out of response, the other windows will not be infected.

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Golfmaster 3D

Category : Games

Publisher's Description
Size = 1,24MB



Golf Master 3D delivers a great 3D golf experience right to your desktop online. Putt your way through 18 unique courses.
Play smart because your scores are kept in the Scorecard.
Much easier to learn and play than traditional golf sims, Golf Master 3D is perfect for the duffer in everyone.

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Free PDF to WORD Doc Converter 1.1

Category : Desktop

Publisher's Description
Size: 1.08MB
OS: Win 98/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista





Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF to MS Word file. The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any part of the PDF file. It is a standalone program - you can convert PDF to Word Doc without Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word installed. And it´s totally for FREE!

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Vista Magic Package 3.0

Category : Desktop

Publisher's Description
Size: 9.86MB
OS: Windows XP



VistaMagicPack is a simple program that will change your XP interface to look like the new Windows Vista! This program includes themes and some 3rd party programs that will make your Vista experience even better! Some updates include adding to the theme, adding new themes, and adding new programs

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WengoPhone for Windows 2.1.2

Category : Business - Organize

Publisher's Description
File size: 12,130 Mb



WengoPhone uses IP phone technology to connect you to other users and etablish call to any number in world. You’ll be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends in no time. When you subscribe you'll receive a french phone number so you can receive calls from any phone line to your computer.

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K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.6.8 Beta

Category : Audio - Video

Publisher's Description
Size: 13.51MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3


K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn´t contain any conflicting codecs.
It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
There are 3 packages available: Basic, Standard, and Full.

This Full Pack contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

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