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Hedgewars: a fun, competent Worms clone

Samer — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:17:45 +0000

Description: Hedgewars is multiplatform, a free turn-based blast-em-up in the vein of Worms. It features a wide range of weapons, multiple maps, and excellent graphics and audio. Offers single player, multiplayer, and (in theory) multiplayer over the internet modes. If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many Worm clones and offshoots here’s the reason: Worms [...]

3RVX: stylish, hotkey-enabled volume control

Samer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:37:16 +0000

Description: 3RVX is a free program that offers volume control through hotkey and/or middle mouse wheel combinations. It also visually represents the volume levels and volume changes on-screen and in the program’s system tray icon. Ever wished that you could raise/lower or mute your PC volume using hotkeys and/or the mouse wheel? With 3RVX you can [...]

Desktask: display your Outlook tasks and calendar items on the desktop

Samer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:46:08 +0000

Description: Desktask is a freeware companion to Outlook that displays Tasks and Calendar events for the entire week on your desktop. Desktask will periodically access Outlook and refresh its displayed data according to a user-defined time period. If you use Outlook (as I have to do for work) you might have wished that there was a [...]

MobaLiveCD: launch Linux LiveCDs from within Windows

Samer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:16:40 +0000

Description: MobaLiveCD is a free program that can run Linux Live CD’s on Windows in emulation mode without the need to burn the Live CD ISO into a CD and boot into it. What this program enables you to do is quickly run Linux in virtual mode from within the Windows environment. I came across MobaLiveCD [...]

Slax: boot into a portable Linux on a USB

Samer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:55:06 +0000

Description: Slax is a Slackware-based Linux operating system that can be run on Live CD, booted from USB, or run from RAM. It is small in size yet highly customizable and comes with a full range of pre-installed applications. Slax is a USB-bootable Linux that allows you to take a portable desktop environment with you wherever [...]

PrinterShare: share any printer over the internet

Samer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:51:50 +0000

Description: PrinterShare is a free service that allows your computer to share printers with any other computer, given that both are online and running the PrinterShare software. Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Imagine the following: computer A has a printer attached to it, while computer B does not. If both are online and running PrinterShare, [...]

Microsoft Image Composite Editor: a powerful, user friendly panoramic image stitcher

Samer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:20:56 +0000

Description: Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced, free program that can combine overlapping images from a single scene or location into a larger, high-resolution panorama that incorporates all constituent images. Output images can be exported into a wide variety of formats including tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom. I will have to [...]

OSD Mute: displays Mute status on the desktop

Samer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:11:58 +0000

Description: OSD-Mute is a tiny free app that displays a semi-transparent “Mute On” message on your desktop whenever the system volume is muted. I found this little gem over at the Donationcoder forum. It’s a little Autohotkey-based app that displays a semi-transparent “Mute On” message on the desktop whenever the PC volume is muted. Yes my [...]

Satsuki Decoder Pack: open any media file from any app with this nifty decoder pack

Samer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:11:28 +0000

Description: Satsuki Decoder Pack auto-installs a collection of media decoders and filters on your system. It will allow you to view or open almost any media file or DVD using the enclosed Windows Media Player Classic or from within any other application. In order to avoid conflicts and clutter this pack does not include codecs, [...]

xNeat Clipboard Manager: a lightweight clipboard manager with a number of useful functions

Samer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:52:42 +0000

Description: xNeat Clipboard Manager is a free clipboard manager program that allows you to maintain a history clipped text, files, and folders and to use these to perform a number of useful functions, including pasting historical items, searching for clipped text in Google, translating clipped text, making clipped items “permanent” (sticky) for later use, and [...]