Freeware & Opensource Applications & Games
Zelda Classic is the name of a free RPG. I’m sure most of you have been playing Zelda on Nintendo 8-Bit. This is the same game but with a twist! There’s some new quests and better graphic (you can choose to play with the classic graphic if you prefer that.) There’s also some new enemies and items.
Website: Zelda Classic
Simutrans is a game such as Transport Tycoon. You should transport gods and passagers from one destination to another. You have to build roads, railroads, tunnels, airports and buy the vehicles.
Website: Simutrans
I’m sure a lot of you have played the classic board game Risk. Here’s the same game but for your computer. You must have Java installed to run the game.
Website: Risk
UFO: Alien Invasion is a game where you must fight a brutal alien army. Build your base, prepare your team and try to destroy your enemy.
The game is based on a modified Quake2 engine.
Website: UFO: Alien Invasion
Ubuntu version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) was released today. Ubuntu is a free operating system. You can do pretty much anything you can do in Windows in Ubuntu. Surf the web, listen to music and watch movies… If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet I suggest you give it a shot! You don’t even have to install it on your harddrive!
Just download the ISO-file and boot from the CD.
Website: Ubuntu
KeePass is a program made to help you manage all your passwords. I’m sure you know that you never should use the same password at more than one account. And with all the accounts you’ll create you need to remember more and more passwords.
Add all your passwords to KeePass and protect them by one master password. When you need a password you don’t remember, just login to KeePass with your master password and then you can see your password in plain text. All passwords are stored in a encrypted database.
Website: KeePass
ImgBurn is a great little application for creating and burning image files in many different formats: BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can burn discs for CD, DVD, HD DVD And Blu-ray.
You can run ImgBurn under Windows and Linux if you use “Wine”.
Website: ImgBurn
FreeCommander is a free file manager for Windows. Some of you might have been using Total Commander, and FreeCommander is more or less a free clone of Total Commander.
FreeCommander got features like:
Tabs
Built in archive handling
Copy, move, delete, rename files and folders
and lots of more nice features. If you still use the built in Windows file manager, then do yourself a favor and try FreeCommander.
Website: FreeCommander
Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing program. It’s easy to learn and use and you can add many different special effects to your photos, resize pics, work with layers and many other nice features too.
This is a great program for basic photo editing.
Website: Paint.NET
K-Meleon is a small and very fast webbrowser. It’s based on the Gecko layout engine. (the same engine as Firefox).
K-Meleon is released under Open Source terms. Some of the features is tabbed browsing, block popup windows, themes and skins and a lot more.
Website: K-Meleon
