Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Platinum Arts Sandbox – 3D Game Maker
This is an open source application that is designed to help potential game designers create 3D games. This is based on the cube2 engine that is a famous 3D game engine. With this you can easily create your own games with custom worlds, levels, adventures, quests, and so on. Modifying an existing game in this is as easy as the click of a button. There are many games that have been created by people using Platinum Arts Sandbox. The sandbox itself has different game modes like sidescroller, machinama, kartmode, RPG (Role Playing Game), and many others.
This software is intended to help kids and adults who have dreamt of gaming application learn how easy it actually is to create games in real life. To make this a great experience for kids, the entire designing screen is made very easy to use and control. Apart from its ease of use, this has other features like power scripting language, height maps to create 3D landscapes, ability to import common object model formats, popular sound format support and support for major IDE.
Website: Platinum Arts Sandbox – 3D Game Maker
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
AutoGK – Easily Convert Your DVDs To Divx Or Xvid
Auto Gordian Knot is a software that is created to backup DivX and XviD video files. This is one of the best utilities to rip your DVDs to DivX or Xvid.
This also supports may input formats like DVD, VOB, MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, DV and direct video streams. Any of these input formats can be converted to XviD od DivX formats. This also converts Audio tracks while maintaining a high quality of sound. This allows input streams in the form of AC3, DTS, PCM, MPA and converts them to AC3, DTS, MPA, CBR/VBR or MP3 sound formats. The surround sound quality in the converted videos will be maintained when you convert videos from this as it supports high quality 2 track audio for AVIs.
With this you can not only retains the subtitles, but you can also add your own subtitles. Other additional features of this software include support for HDTV, variable frame rates, auto-crop, auto input source detection and automatic deinterlacer. With this you can also split the video tracks into sizes that fit into CDs.
Website: Autogk – Easily Convert Your Dvds To Divx Or Xvid
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
NVU – WYSIWYG HTML Editor
NVU is a free open source software application that can be used to build web pages using a WYSWIG editor. WYSWIG stands for “What You See Is What You Get”. This means you can see the output of the document while you are creating it. NVU, pronounced as “N-view” is a word processor advanced syntax analyzer which easily rivals with well used programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web. But this is a free application. No money and no licensing hassles.
Using NVU is very easy. To get yourself started off with your own website, all you need is a hosted domain space. You can create web pages and just host them on the web server. NVU has a built in site manager which can be used to connect with your remotely hosted files via FTP. This is as good as a programming IDE can get when you are getting it for free.
Website: Nvu – Wysiwyg Html Editor
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Scorched 3D – Strategy Game like Worms with a Twist
Scorched 3D is a modernized version of the old Scorched Earth DOS game. This game has great 3D graphics with some great animations. This game is similar to Worms, which involves turn based game play, but with 3D graphics and several other enhancements. This game is completely free to download and install and it is available for Windows, UNIX versions like Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solarix, and so on.
This is a great game to play with other players online. This is simple to learn and play and enjoy. You can with up to 20 players online. This is a simple game where you have to adjust your power and trajectory, and shoot. You have an inventory of weapons that you can upgrade using your prize money. You can play your own game of your liking by setting environmental and economic conditions or play existing games on online servers.
To make things always exciting, Scorched 3D has a set of users online who are always creating new maps and players. You can join online forums and discuss the game strategies and updates.
Website: Scorched 3D – Strategy Game Like Worms With A Twist
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Translate.Net – Translate Words And Phrases
There are a number of different languages in a world and applications / websites have to support all these. If you have seen some of the famous site like YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo etc, provide content in different languages, you now have the solution to that. Translate.net is an application that helps you translate simple words and phrases from one language to another. This uses simple word-to-word conversion between languages. The dictionary that is used by this is a freeware dictionary that is also used by sites like Google translator, Wikitionary, Yahoo Babel fish translator, Systran translator, Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus, and so on.
This is a completely free download. To use this you need to just download and install Translate.Net. This software requires to be connected to the internet as it needs to get an updated list of dictionary words each time it performs a search. Here you type in the phrase you want to convert, select the languages and press Translate. It is as simple as that.
Website: Translate.Net – Translate Words And Phrases
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