Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 29th, 2009
FreeLords – Turn-Based Strategy Game Similar To Warlords
If you are an avid computer gamer, you might know the old strategy game WarLords. If you like that game, here is something that you will love. FreeLords is a strategy game that is on the same lines as the classical WarLords, but it is free. You produce armies, and you conquer more territories using your army. This is a game that is still under development, so you can expect a whole set of new features to come up in the following releases.
The latest version of this game has a whole set of new graphics, better ways to move around the game screen and lots of new dialogues. To make things great, this is in java making it portable on any system. You can download this and start playing now as this is a freeware. You dont have to pay for anything here. Just download, install and play.
Website: Freelords – Turn-Based Strategy Game Similar To Warlords
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Pixelformer – Create Your Own Icons, Avatars And Buttons
Pixelformer is a new tool that will help you create small sized images like icons, avatars and buttons. This tool is designed to help you create smaller images. This incorporates different classes of bitmap graphics and unique features of images which are particular to the size. For example, standard icons are 32 x 32 pixels in dimension. The Pixelformer application lets you create the unique properties of this image using the inbuilt image editing tools. As this is application has all required support for smaller images, the end result is more efficient than high end sophisticated image editors.
This application is carefully designed to make sure it has all required features and no unnecessary controls hampering your efficiency. The user interface is made very simple so that beginners can learn using this quickly and professionals can utilize their skills to the maximum.
Some of the features of Pixel former include unrestricted image dimensions, variable color depths, support for semi transparent images, multiple layer support, free-form image masking, dynamic palette generation, multiple file format support, icon extraction capability, support for Vista icons, and deep undo buffer.
Website: Pixelformer – Create Your Own Icons, Avatars And Buttons
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
SIW – Gathers Detailed Information about Your PC
This is a great utility that you can use to get all the information about your windows system. SIW is a utility that scans your system to get all the system properties and stores in a file. You have the option of saving the results in any kind of a report file. This can be TXT, CSI, HTML or XML. This software collects information in 6 major categories:
– Software Information: Information about Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses
– Hardware Information: Information about Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, Ports and other devices that are connected to your computer.
– Network Information: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
– Network Tools: MAC Address Changer, Neighborhood Scan, Ping, Trace, Statistics or other such software that may be installed on the system.
– Miscellaneous Tools: Information about your systems shutdown and restart functionalities and information about access properties. This even shows you lost passwords on your system.
– Real-time monitors: Information on CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
Website: Siw – Gathers Detailed Information About Your Pc
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
HFS – HTTP File Server
This is an application that uses HTTP to send and receive files. In the current scenario everyone has internet. Transferring files over HTTP with HFS works great in this scenario. This is different from classic servers as it has a very easy interface and it runs right out of the box. With this accessing your files remotely over a connection is a piece of cake.
This also has some useful features like virtual file system, easily customizable operations, HTML templates to manage your interface, bandwidth control, log of activities, complete control over connections, user accounts and a dynamic DNS updater. This also provides two user levels – easy and expert. You can use the one that suits your needs best. This also is a freeware application.
Website: Hfs – Http File Server
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Notepad2 – Just Like Notepad But With More Features
Among all the applications on your PC, one of the most useful is perhaps notepad. This is a very simple text editor, but you can use this for almost anything. Programmers especially know the power of notepad. If you have proper programming experience, then you could write any program on notepad.
To make life a bit easier for you, Notepad2 has all the features of notepad, but it also has special features like syntax highlighting, and text coloring. This is all you need to write a program. This is based on the Scintilla source code editing component. This is a simple light weight freeware application that is easy to install and use. To use this application all you need to do is download and open the file. This runs right out of the box. This is a great application for developing PHP, HTML and other such codes.
Website: Notepad2 – Just Like Notepad But With More Features
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Greenshot – Free Screenshot Program
When it comes to capturing and editing screen shots, greenshot is one of the best options available on the net. This is a revolutionary screenshot tool that has been optimized for productivity. This works very fast and is very easy to use. If you are commonly creating documents or videos where you will be using screenshots of your screen often, you will find this tool extremely helpful.
With the Greenshot screen capture application you can capture a part of the screen or the whole screen within a second. Once you have a captured screenshot, you can apply your own shapes and colors to the screen shot. With this, you have option to capture a window, a region of the screen or the complete screen. Once you have the image captured, you can save it any format you like.
This is a freeware, so you can download and use if without paying any money.
Website: Greenshot – Free Screenshot Program
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
ColorPix – Grabs Color-Codes From Anywhere On Your Screen
ColorPix is a freeware application that can be used to pick any color form any part of your computer screen. This is a useful little application that can pick any color based on the position of your mouse pointer. To make things simpler, this has an inbuilt magnifier that magnifies a portion of the screen so that you can pick the color of a particular pixel.
This is a great tool for professionals and home PC users who develop graphical applications. This is a tiny application that you can keep out of the way so that you can have the entire screen for your usage or you can keep it on top of all applications. If you are an extensive user of photo editing applications like photoshop, you will definitely love this tool. Installing this is extremely easy. You just need to copy the files to your system, and you are ready to start using it.
Website: Colorpix – Grabs Color-Codes From Anywhere On Your Screen
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Warzone 2100 Resurrection – Free Real-Time Strategy War Game
Among strategy games, here is one that is a combination of action and strategy. This game is published by Eidos interactive. Warzone 2100 resurrection project is completely free and can be downloaded and played without any licensing issues.
This game is based on a futuristic situation where mankind is almost destroyed by nuclear missiles. Among the remaining people, you are the commander of the forces of The Project. Your aim is to rebuild the earth as it was by controlling your forces. The game offers a complicated extensive tech tree through which you advance. There are over 400 different technologies that you can uncover. In Warzone 2100 resurrection project, you will have a wide variety of weapons and units. You need to use this to come up with the best tactic during gameplay. This game requires good planning and strategic skills. You can play this game in different modes – campaign, tutorial, single-player, multi-player and skirmish modes. Each mode has been designed to give you a different experience in gaming.
Website: Warzone 2100 – Free Real-Time Strategy War Game
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
NetPanzer – Multiplayer Tactical Warfare Game
This is a tactical game that is based on quick tactical action and unit management in real time. This is a multi-player game allowing multiple users to have fun as opposing teams. As the game progresses, you will have to take new decisions in moving your units and positioning them that. The game progresses quickly and destroyed players re-spawn with a new set of units to manage.
This game also has additional features like map generator. You can use the map generator to create a custom map that you think will be most challenging. This is a freeware application. You can download and use this without paying any money.
Website: Netpanzer – Multiplayer Tactical Warfare Game
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
DateInTray – Displays The Date In The Windows Tray
This is a useful little application that displays the current date in the system tray. This shows the date in a small box just beside the system time. Previously, you will have to double-click the system time and wait for the clock to load to check the date. This was an even bigger problem if you do not have the privilege to change the system date. But with this life is easier and there are less troubles.
With this, you can get the date by moving the cursor on top of little date icon in the system tray. To make calendar references more easily, this displays a calendar on clicking the date icon. You can use this to browse any date by days and months. This is set up to start as soon as windows loads so that you will have the date at your fingertips anytime you are in front of your computer screen.
Website: Dateintray – Displays The Date In The Windows Tray
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