Crysis
Just finished it. I read a review this week that was spot on. Now we wait for Crysis episode two, when we probably need to steal some supercomputer from the army so we will be able to play it in low settings.
29-Dec-2007 | 23:23 UTC | Submitted by B
UBCD for Windows & Drive Image XML
The Ultimate Boot CD for windows is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.
I came across this package when searching for a free hard drive imaging program. I found DriveImage XML, which is nice, but is missing one option. When restoring your image you need access to the target drive as a secondary disk, and DriveImage XML doesn't come with some sort of self bootable version like most, if not all, commercial drive imaging programs. The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows solves this problem because it contains, as you might have guessed already, DriveImage XML.
DriveImage XML compressed and imaged my 5.7 GB C: Drive in 13 Min to 4.2 GB. Restoring took 7 min. Not very fast but fast enough for something you only do every once in a while. The Ultimate Boot CD is filled with a lot more great tools for testing, restoring, removing, undeleting and benchmarking stuff.
One thing though, because of the obvious copyright laws you have to build the CD yourself with the UBCD package and a Windows XP Disc. Instructions are available on the UBCD website.
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
Added: Software | System | Maintenance
27-Dec-2007 | 20:03 UTC | Submitted by B
The King of Kong
Like the classic arcade Donkey Kong? Then you have got to watch this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
20-Dec-2007 | 21:38 UTC | Submitted by B
Hard Drive Image
I have been looking around a bit for a freeware disc imaging program. I had the pleasure to fiddle around with acronis true image home. A nice program, but almost 140mb in download with a price tag of 50 euro. That has to become much smaller and free.
A few searches on Google has led me to The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, "A bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem." Lovely!
I am going to fiddle around with a few programs available on this disc and see if any of these are of any use for me and my raid 0 setup.
17-Dec-2007 | 15:55 UTC | Submitted by B
Time To Win Some Beers
24-Nov-2007 | 22:38 UTC | Submitted by B
You'll Never Be This Good At Games
Feel inferior by watching 10 of the godliest gamers in action.
24-Nov-2007 | 20:01 UTC | Submitted by B
The Dirty Heartbeat of the Golden Age
Reminiscing on the SP-1200, the machine that defined New York hip-hop.
20-Nov-2007 | 20:32 UTC | Submitted by B
Show Contents Of Password Fields
Now this is something that can be useful sometime. Paste the following line of javascript code in your browser at the address bar when you're at a page with asterisks in the password field. A dialog box will pop up showing the password. This should work in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera.
javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password") s += f[i].value + "\n"; } } if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();
Source: AKSN1P3R
Original source: Raymond.CC Blog
20-Nov-2007 | 20:19 UTC | Submitted by B
Sandboxie
There is one thing that isn't really smart when you're on Windows. Installing and uninstalling too many software. Eventually winrot will kick in. And this install and uninstall cycle is probably for testing some new piece of software, isn't it?
This is where Sandboxie comes into play. A newly installed program wants to perform write operations to your hard disk. Sandboxie will sit in between the program and your hard disk routing the data to a temporarily "sandbox", which you can throw away when you're done, leaving no trace on your hard disk or in your registry.
Sandboxie lives in your system tray, which you can right click for easy access to newly downloaded software or your internet browser. Internet browser! No more malware, unwanted toolbars or homepage hijacks possible. Sandboxie also adds a shell extension to windows explorer so you can right click the program you want to install, choose "run sandboxed", test the software, exit and the sandbox will delete itself.
Version tested: 3.02
Sandboxie
Added: Software | System | Virtualization
13-Nov-2007 | 21:30 UTC | Submitted by B
Twin Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros Tune
Remember, you can never have enough Mario.
07-Nov-2007 | 18:54 UTC | Submitted by B
Wanna Play?
30-Oct-2007 | 16:06 UTC | Submitted by B
AIM Lite
Quote: AIM Lite is a reference application for testing some new client technology developed here at AOL, with the goal of being a simple, fun, light IM client.
AIM Lite
Added: Software | System | Instant Messaging
18-Oct-2007 | 20:54 UTC | Submitted by B
RapidCRC
This is a tool for checking and creating CRC32 and MD5 checksums. Why the name? The author of this tool tries to use the fastest available open source (assembly) implementations for this task. One special option is direct support for CRC32 in the filename.
Available for download is just a binary, or an installer which optionally installs a right click shell extension and file association.
RapidCRC
Added: Software | System | File Hash/Verification
04-Oct-2007 | 21:03 UTC | Submitted by B
RatDVD
RatDVD takes a full featured DVD-9 movie and puts it into a highly compressed .RatDVD container format file of about 1.x GB in size while preserving all the features of the original DVD. You can directly play back the .RatDVD file in Windows Media Player or any other compatible player with all the options the original DVD movie would give you. You can also convert it back to the original DVD format, burn it and watch it on any DVD player.
Of course this program uses some kind of compression to achieve such a small file size. It is in fact a codec written by the author of the program itself, named XEB. Why did he write his own codec? First to create the option to store many of the original features of the dvd. Second to avoid the patents of codecs like XviD, H264 and others to keep the program free.
RatDVD
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | Codecs
30-Sep-2007 | 21:37 UTC | Submitted by B
Emulators
I finally sat down and added a whopping 22 emulators to the emulation page. A job long overdue. That page now finally lists emulators of Atari, Sega and PlayStation to name the most important.
The next update will be moving the retro originals, retro remakes and online classic gaming from the emulation page to the games page. I think that will be a better place for it, now that there is a separate games page. That update includes updating links from forum posts so that will have to wait until tomorrow after taking a long sleep. Hmmm ..
29-Sep-2007 | 23:47 UTC | Submitted by B
Emulators
The emulation page has been updated with 22 emulators. Added are emulators for Atari, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation, 3DO, MSX, Bandai WonderSwan and more.
Added: Software | Emulation
29-Sep-2007 | 23:32 UTC | Submitted by B
JkDefrag
This is, as the name suggests, a disk defragment and optimize utility. It can not only handle hard discs but also usb disks, usb sticks and floppies.
The program is available in several versions and is completely automatic by default, although you can control the behavior of every version through the command line. The windows GUI version is really bare bones, there are no buttons or pull down menus. It only shows its current action and progress in a high detail map of your hard disc. The command line version is for use in an automatic environment like the task scheduler, administrator scripts and so on. The final version is a screensaver version whose use should be obvious.
JkDefrag is based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a standard system library in Windows. Most defraggers, including commercial ones, are based on this API. JkDefrag is therefore very solid and there is no risk of losing data. You can stop the program at any time with alt-f4, the close button of the window, the pulldown menu of the taskbar, the task manager or another utility and it will finish the current file in the background.
JkDefrag
Hold it. For everybody who would like more control through a GUI and not through the command line there is a separate frontend available which also doubles as a frontend for the former Sysinternals (now Microsoft) utility PageDefrag. This small utility will defragment your system files at reboot.
JkDefragGUI
Added: Software | System | Maintenance
18-Sep-2007 | 19:39 UTC | Submitted by B
Ghouls and Ghosts Remix
And the remix is made from ghost 'n goblins, ghouls 'n ghosts and super ghouls 'n ghosts. If you know the original games, you know they are hard to play. This remix is no exception.
That doesn't take away the fact that it is enjoyable to play and a good way to kill a few dead moments.
Ghouls and Ghosts Remix
Added: Software | Emulation | Retro Remakes
17-Sep-2007 | 20:22 UTC | Submitted by B
Toolbar Uninstaller
Quote: The Toolbar Uninstaller is a freeware program to get rid of unwanted toolbars. Many programs come bundled with a toolbar that gets installed automatically if you don't pay attention during the installation. Even freeware programs come bundled with toolbars.
At the moment it is able to find and remove 14 toolbars. It's still in a beta stage because it hasn't been fully tested yet on many toolbars.
I haven't tested this program myself because I don't have any toolbars to uninstall, but since it has received the 100% clean award by Softpedia I will add it here.
Toolbar Uninstaller
Added: Software | System | Malware Removal
09-Sep-2007 | 12:06 UTC | Submitted by B
Xbox 360 Laptop
Quote: A friend of mine asked back in May "Can you build an Xbox 360 laptop?" And I responded "Sure, can you pay for it?" He agreed, and thus I set forth on what was surely to be my most complex and insanely ridiculous videogame project yet.
http://www.benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_1.htm
08-Sep-2007 | 15:38 UTC | Submitted by B
Borders On The Internet
As you might have noticed with my previous posts, I don't like it when things are released on the internet just for one country, in this case the US. Actually in most cases it's released only for the US, like the web episodes for Battlestar Galactica, but that is another story.
How can they place borders on the internet? Only because of advertising? It's like passing out candy in a kindergarten but only to the girls in red dresses. You can't do that, that is cruel. Most of us geeks (admit it, we are) are like kiddies getting candy in a kindergarten when it comes to stuff like free games, we all want it. And since I'm a big kiddie, I take it. And I don't feel bad about it.
05-Sep-2007 | 20:20 UTC | Submitted by B
Command & Conquer
To celebrate the classic strategy game's 12th anniversary, Electronic Arts released it as a free download.
Command & Conquer
Added: Software | Games | Strategy
04-Sep-2007 | 17:54 UTC | Submitted by B
Fake Free Software
This must have happened to you at least once.
You install some piece of software, thinking it is freeware, and notice when you run it, it is crippled and you must pay to enable all functions. F*ckers. You go back to the website where you got it from and find some small letters claiming it is shareware, or maybe nothing at all.
Last night I had that again. It is annoying as hell.
02-Sep-2007 | 21:20 UTC | Submitted by B
True Combat: Elite
Quote: True Combat: Elite is a modern world total conversion modification of the free, popular, stand-alone FPS (first-person shooter) Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Meaning, True Combat Elite is an entirely free game, made by gamers, for gamers.
If have not installed this, but I assume by looking at the website and active forum it's a popular mod.
True Combat: Elite
Added: Software | Games | Shooters
29-Aug-2007 | 11:20 UTC | Submitted by B
New Untested Software, Part 2
Added 11 new items, still 103 items left to sort out.
If I should give an award for best application name, it would definitely go to PC Decrapifier for today.
29-Aug-2007 | 11:04 UTC | Submitted by B
Modern Ruines / Abandoned Cities
I have a 'thing' for that kind of stuff, I don't know why exactly. I do know that it fascinates me that after so many years they are still pretty much intact, or better left intact, not counting the demolition done by nature over the years.
Here are some examples I like:
The Silent The Complete - Modern Ruines in Finland. Lots of galleries with background information.
Gukanjima - An island near the westernmost shore of Japan. Everybody left when the coal mine emptied.
Mark Resnicoff - My journey to Chernobyl: 20 years after the disaster. Impressive story and great pictures.
28-Aug-2007 | 21:10 UTC | Submitted by B
New Untested Software
I have made a start weeding out the 143 bookmarks. 10 new items added to the untested page, 131 bookmarks to go.
28-Aug-2007 | 14:27 UTC | Submitted by B
143
That is the number of "untested software" bookmarks I have in my browser. Time for an update of the untested page? 
27-Aug-2007 | 20:47 UTC | Submitted by B
exeLibrary
This is not a piece of software, this is a website. On this website you can search for the unknown executable (xxx.exe) you have just spotted in your task manager. Is it legit or is it some kind of malware?
It will tell the threat level in the case of malware and if it's legit it will tell if it's critical to have it running. I once in a while disable stuff from starting up after identifying it. As you might know, lots of programmers find their piece of software very important, so some silly service or executable will have to run at all times when you start up your computer.
exeLibrary
Added: Software | System
27-Aug-2007 | 20:37 UTC | Submitted by B
Resurrection
I changed the design a bit. I kept the old design and the 100e2r concept in the back of my head.
The last layout bugs will be fixed in the next few days or so.
27-Aug-2007 | 18:49 UTC | Submitted by B
DVDStyler
Quote: DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. It is Free software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
DVDStyler
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | Video
18-Aug-2007 | 15:19 UTC | Submitted by B
ImgBurn
ImgBurn is a lightweight burning application for CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu Ray discs. It works on all Windows OS's from 95 to Vista including all 64 bit versions, Unicode file/folder names support is present. It is reported to work under Linux through Wine.
Despite the name, it can not only burn images (including BIN, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI), it can also read to image, build iso's from files on your harddisk or burn them directly to disc. It will automatically detect if you are trying to build or write a video dvd and you will be presented with a layer break selection screen if needed for your dual-layer discs. Bootable discs are also an option and the image queue system can be handy if you need to burn a lot of different images, especially if you have multiple burners. Some other small functions are changing the volume label and displaying the media code of your media.
It does not have a 1:1 copy function and can not circumvent copy protections including decryption of dvd's. This program is from the creator of dvd-decrypter, so if you know about that story you'll know why these things are not included, if not read the article on Wikipedia.
Anyway, I have been using this program for quite a while now, and I'm using it exclusively for all my data burning. The interface is as clean as it can get and it really is lightweight.
ImgBurn
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | CDR/DVD
02-Aug-2007 | 18:02 UTC | Submitted by B
DeepBurner (free edition)
DeepBurner is a burning program.
* DeepBurner is simple
* DeepBurner is easy to use
I am using this for a couple of weeks right now.
It works very handy and you can do the things that you want from a burning program. Like create a data cd/dvd, burning iso's and making labels.
It has a simple interface, but that are the things i prefer nice and simple.
This is a good and free program to use.
Grtz DvA
DeepBurner
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | CDR/DVD
01-Aug-2007 | 16:34 UTC | Submitted by DvA
Games Section
A new section was added to give the more modern games a place on this site.
Maybe, in the future, the new games section will be merged together with the emulation and retro gaming section to one big gaming section.
For now: Games
02-Jun-2007 | 18:14 UTC | Submitted by B
DM2
Quote: DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them standing always on-top over all other windows, roll to caption, resize, align to screen borders, hide, set the opacity etc. DM2 also helps with Open/Save dialog boxes, by providing user-defined menu with favorites and recent files and folders. Plenty of program's settings options will satisfy most of requirements.
And that is not all! DM2 also supports custom plugins, which further enhances the program and that usually covers some more specific functionalities. So, from this aspect, one may think of DM2 as a small, but robust manager for all kind of plugins. Find what you need, plug it in, and use it:)
DM2 is free for use. Source is released under the terms of the GPL license.
DM2
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
30-May-2007 | 20:25 UTC | Submitted by B
Sim Abandonware.. Resurrection!
Quote: Welcome to Sim Abandonware.. Resurrection! This is a place where we offer the classic Maxis-made Sim games such as SimAnt and SimFarm available for download, accompanied by a brief description/review of it, and some screenshots.
Added: Software | Games | Retro Originals
28-May-2007 | 21:03 UTC | Submitted by B
ECM (Error Code Modeler)
Quote: ECM (Error Code Modeler) lets you prepare CD image files (such as BIN, CDI, NRG, CCD, or similar) so that they'll compress far better in programs such as WinRAR. [..] The space saved depends on the number of sectors with unnecessary EDC/ECC data in them, which will depend on the specific type of CD.
ECM
Added: Software | System | Compression
27-Apr-2007 | 14:33 UTC | Submitted by B
Contig & Power Defragmenter GUI
Quote: There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful for performing a general defragmentation of disks, but while most files are defragmented on drives processed by these utilities, some files may not be. In addition, it is difficult to ensure that particular files that are frequently used are defragmented - they may remain fragmented for reasons that are specific to the defragmentation algorithms used by the defragging product that has been applied. Finally, even if all files have been defragmented, subsequent changes to critical files could cause them to become fragmented. Only by running an entire defrag operation can one hope that they might be defragmented again.
Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible.
Contig
Quote: Power Defragmenter is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) application for program Contig by Sysinternals. Contig is a very powerful defragmentation application designed for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems.
Power Defragmenter GUI
Added: Software | System | Maintenance
26-Apr-2007 | 20:49 UTC | Submitted by B
nintendo8.com
Play 8bit Nintendo classics online.
nintendo8.com
Added: Software | Games | Online Classic Gaming
07-Apr-2007 | 10:27 UTC | Submitted by B
FreeUndelete
Quote: FreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery program for deleted files.
In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems FreeUndelete is the utility to help.
FreeUndelete
Added: Software | System
31-Mar-2007 | 10:53 UTC | Submitted by B
bsnes
Quote: bsnes is an emulator that began development on 10/14/2004. The purpose of the emulator is a bit different from other emulators: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code.
The emulator does not focus on things that would hinder accuracy. This includes speed and game-specific hacks for compatibility. As a result, the minimum system requirements for bsnes are quite high. Excluding unemulated special chips, the compatibility is now at around 99.25%.
The emulator itself was not derived from any existing emulator source code, such as SNES9x. It was written from scratch by myself. Any similarities to other emulators are merely coincidental.
bsnes
Added: Software | Emulation | Nintendo Emulators
19-Mar-2007 | 20:07 UTC | Submitted by B
Orbit Downloader
Quote: Orbit Downloader is a great speed, super light, easy-to-use free download manager. It is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocols. Using Orbit Downloader, you can almost download everything online with 500% faster speed, like youtube video, rapidshare files, flash and streaming media etc.
It works like advertised and integrates nicely with IE, Firefox, Opera and Maxthon.
Orbit Downloader
Added: Software | Internet | Browsers Related
15-Mar-2007 | 19:18 UTC | Submitted by B
World's Most Important 6 Sec Drum Loop
The amen break loop.
07-Mar-2007 | 20:46 UTC | Submitted by B
Stuck in Customs
I really dig those hdr photos and stuckincustoms.com has got some great ones.
24-Feb-2007 | 17:10 UTC | Submitted by B
Virtual PC 2007
Quote: Virtual PC lets you create separate virtual machines on your Windows desktop, each of which virtualizes the hardware of a complete physical computer. Use virtual machines to run operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2. You can run multiple operating systems at once on a single physical computer and switch between them as easily as switching applications instantly, with a mouse click.
I always use this to test new software. I have a clean XP installation in a safe place and use a copy of that as my crashbox. Every once in a while I throw away the crashbox and make a new copy of my clean installation. Works like a charm and keep my real installation much cleaner and tidier.
Virtual PC 2007
Added: Software | System | Virtualization
21-Feb-2007 | 19:35 UTC | Submitted by B
EasyMame
EasyMame is a MAME frontend with a simple and intuitive GUI.
EasyMAME
Added: Software | MAME | Frontends
16-Feb-2007 | 19:45 UTC | Submitted by B
Launchy
Quote: Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
Just type in a few letters and launchy gives you several options to choose from. There's really nothing much more too say about it, it works perfect, looks sweet and is open source. What else do you want?
Launchy
Added: Software | System | Program Launchers
11-Feb-2007 | 21:12 UTC | Submitted by B
ICE Mirror
Quote: This utility creates or maintains an exact duplicate of the original directory. ICE Mirror will compare the mirrored directory to the master directory and correct any disparities. ICE Mirror allows ultra fast mirroring because it performs incremental updates. In other words it only copies files that have changed. If only a few files have been updated, it performs very fast.
It took me a few hours last night before I found a mirroring program that is not only free, but also very straight forward. Most of the programs I found wanted to do scheduled backup or continuously monitoring, with no way to do a manual backup at a time you select, and were loaded with crap like search toolbars. Thank God for Virtual PC.
ICE Mirror is, like I said earlier, very straight forward. You select your master and mirror directory, select how it should compare the files and select a full mirror or just append new files. Only comparing is of course also possible. It is also possible to call it from the command line so you can use it for scheduled backups if you want.
ICE Mirror
Added: Software | System | Maintenance
11-Feb-2007 | 09:39 UTC | Submitted by B
Everybody's Dragging!
Start dragging.
01-Feb-2007 | 21:35 UTC | Submitted by B
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Quote: Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic sidescroller games. which utilizes the platform independent libray, SDL and since Version 0.98 with the OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer developed in C++.
Basically, it's just a Mario clone with a level editor. Remember, you can never have enough Mario.
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Added: Software | Games | Retro Remakes
29-Jan-2007 | 21:07 UTC | Submitted by B
Bring the Noise
The electro funk daddy superstar break.
28-Jan-2007 | 22:48 UTC | Submitted by B
Penumbra
Quote: Check out one of the best, if not the best, horror games ever to make its way to your hard drive. [..] Penumbra is currently available as a technology demonstration, some say it's too scary to even try. If you dare, we dare you to take a peek. [..] The physics engine, using Newton Game Dynamics, allows the player to interact with object in new ways where doors drawers needs to be pulled open and doors barricaded to keep the evil out. Each object creates unique sounds based on surface and force, you can never predict how anything will behave or sound in this world.
Penumbra
27-Jan-2007 | 23:53 UTC | Submitted by B
freeCommander
freeCommander is an alternative to the standard Windows explorer with a dual-pane view. It has quite a few functions and some are very handy like the built in file viewer for hex or binary files, built in archive handling, file splitting and wiping, MD5 support and folder comparison/synchronization. And there are quite a few more.
According to the author you can copy the content of the installation directory to your usb stick and use it anywhere. He even talks about a floppy, but the installation directory is 2.8 MB big, so you'll have to weed it out first.
freeCommander
Added: Software | System | Replacements
27-Jan-2007 | 22:44 UTC | Submitted by B
ISO Recorder
Quote: ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.
Just a no nonsense shell extension.
ISO Recorder
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | CDR/DVD
26-Jan-2007 | 21:12 UTC | Submitted by B
Thanks Bill!
.menuheader a{
float:right;
margin:1px 3px 0 0;
padding:0;
}
/* IE7 Hack */
*+html .menuheader a{margin:0 4px 0 0;}
/* IE6 Hack \*/
* html .menuheader a{margin:0 4px 0 0;}
/* */
18-Jan-2007 | 21:06 UTC | Submitted by B
FileMenu Tools
With FileMenu Tools you can customize the context menu of windows explorer (the right click menu).
You can add some really useful commands that makes everything just a little bit faster, like 'move to', 'delete and no move to recycle bin', 'copy name', 'copy path', 'delete locked file', 'advanced renamer' etc etc.
A really nice one is 'move to'. It opens a screen where you can select the destination, but in the same screen you can also create a new folder and add folders to your favorites for future 'move to' actions.
You can enable and disable items from other applications, which of course is a useful option, but you can't reorder them. That was actually the kind of thing I was looking for.
FileMenu Tools
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
17-Jan-2007 | 09:55 UTC | Submitted by B
EncSpot Pro Now Free Of Charge
Quote: EncSpot is an application which reports useful facts about your mp3 collection. The most famous feature is its ability to guess which encoder was used to encode each file. It will also give you a general idea of the audio quality of the file.
For files encoded with Lame (and that's what everyone's using, right?) EncSpot can read the 'Lame Tag' which gives detailed information on the switches used when the file was encoded.
EncSpot Pro
14-Jan-2007 | 00:00 UTC | Submitted by B
Beginners Guide To Computer Hardware
Oh yeah! The ultimate computer hardware guide.
12-Jan-2007 | 22:06 UTC | Submitted by B
FreeMind
Quote: FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.
Wikipedia: A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
FreeMind
Added: Software | System | Information Managers
11-Jan-2007 | 22:15 UTC | Submitted by B
The Amiga is dead. Long live the Amiga!
Very nice article about AmigaOS 4.
Quote: On the plus side, an unexpected Christmas pressie: on December 24, Amiga, Inc. released AmigaOS 4.0, the all-new PowerPC version of the classic 1980s operating system.
The bad news is rather more serious, though - just a month earlier, the only remaining PowerPC Amiga-compatible went out of production, as Genesi announced that it was ending production of the Pegasos.
So although there is, at long last, a new, modern version of the OS, there's nothing to run it on. Bit of a snag, that.
--
Sad really. The Amiga still gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling when I think about it.
07-Jan-2007 | 14:37 UTC | Submitted by B
CrossHair
Quote: CrossHair displays two full-screen lines intersecting your mouse cursor when you press a hot key. As you move the mouse cursor, the lines follow over any program or window. The program is tiny, and runs completely transparently until you call up the crosshairs. It's useful for eyeballing any kind of chart or tabular data on screen, and for aligning objects in graphics or design applications.
From the same author as the very handy Startup Control Panel.
CrossHair
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
06-Jan-2007 | 15:00 UTC | Submitted by B
GeSwall
Quote: GentleSecurityWall ensures safe use of internet and network services. It enforces mandatory access control policy, which maintains confidentiality of your data, prevents damage from intrusions and malicious software: viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers etc.
Underlying technology bridges strong GeSWall security with great usability. Being non-intrusive for a user GeSWall requires no or minimal configuration and enforces protection once installed.
I'm still looking for the one lightweight outbound only firewall/application sandbox. Outbound only, because inbound is protected by my smoothwall box.
Most of the times I skip the applications that come in a free and pro version. Free as in crippled without the nice functions. It seems to be ok with this one.
Somehow it didn't report to me when I updated my clrmamepro from within the program, it did with firefox and thunderbird. More testing seems to be in place.
GeSwall
Added: No. Not yet.
02-Jan-2007 | 23:32 UTC | Submitted by B
Raunak.info
Raunak Mehta wrote three small utilities that maybe could be of some use for you.
Raunak.info
Added: No. All written in .NET
28-Dec-2006 | 20:28 UTC | Submitted by B
Driver Collector
Quote: Driver Collector is a tool designed to find and collect installed windows drivers for the hardware you select on your PC. Once you tell it which type of drivers you want to collect, it will copy them to a specific folder. This can be very handy when preparing for a format and reinstall of Windows, especially when you or a client have since lost the computers driver disks.
Source: Technibble
Added: No. It will be added if the original homepage is online again.
26-Dec-2006 | 20:52 UTC | Submitted by B
ZuluPad
Quote: ZuluPad is a notepad on crack. It's a place to jot down class notes, appointments, to-do lists, favorite websites, pretty much anything you can think of. The great thing about ZuluPad is that it combines the best parts of a notepad with the best parts of a wiki, a concept made popular by Wikipedia. The basic idea has been called a personal wiki or a desktop wiki.
In addition, you can create a ZulySync Online account, so you'll have access to your data on every computer with an internet connection.
ZuluPad
Added: Software | System | Information Managers
22-Dec-2006 | 21:41 UTC | Submitted by B
vLite
Quote: Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly.
From the same author of nLite.
vLite
Added: Software | System | Windows Tweakers
16-Dec-2006 | 20:16 UTC | Submitted by B
GOM Player
Quote: GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system [..] GOM has a registered patent for playing broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. [..] You can customize the player by creating your own skin, setting toggle keys, VMR modes, detailed resolution among others. It also provides features such as an overlay mixer, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files, unicode support, key frame based RW/FF and many more!
GOM Player
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | Video Players
11-Dec-2006 | 19:45 UTC | Submitted by B
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
The MicroProse classic is released as freeware. The 15mb Railroad Tycoon download includes the full game as well as the manual and reference cards.
It is a DOS based game, but they included DOSBox in the installer, so you can run it without problems on your modern system. The old school manual based copy protection is left untouched, so you need to answer a question which can be found in the included manual.
Railroad Tycoon
Source: Download Squad
Added: Software | Games | Retro Originals
08-Dec-2006 | 20:59 UTC | Submitted by B
BitTorrent Buys uTorrent
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17278
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit … ewsLang=en
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07-Dec-2006 | 22:26 UTC | Submitted by B
Universal Extractor
Quote: Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.
As written on the website, it will extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source or compression method used.
For the testing I did, this is correct. It extracted any installation package I threw at it including one with upx compression. I always used (or tried to use) WinRAR for this, but that only works for some packages. When installing you can choose for explorer context menu integration for easy extracting.
Universal Extractor
Added: Software | System | Compression
07-Dec-2006 | 20:58 UTC | Submitted by B
Infinite Mario Bros!
You can never have enough Mario.
06-Dec-2006 | 22:27 UTC | Submitted by B
Unwanted Spam
A few days ago I completely opened the forums for guest posting. I just removed the first unwanted spam post and created the first ban.
For the record, I'm doing fine without those little blue love pills, thank you. Stop spamming it.
06-Dec-2006 | 21:21 UTC | Submitted by B
Spam
http://www.ip-adress.com/
http://photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tu … photos.php
http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
http://www.icogitate.com/~ergosum/publi … -fonts.htm
http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html
http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php
http://www.boconcept.us/Decorate_with_F … 64231.aspx
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/
http://cssmania.com/
http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/
http://www.zamzar.com/
http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/20 … c-as-mp3s/
http://truehacker.blogspot.com/2006/12/ … rials.html
http://www.linuxeq.com/
05-Dec-2006 | 14:14 UTC | Submitted by B
Firebug
Quote: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Normally I never post about Firefox extensions, but for this one I would like to make an exception. I can sum up all the features, but if you develop websites you should really check this one out.
Firebug
05-Dec-2006 | 09:21 UTC | Submitted by B
Come On. Let Yourself Go!
Angry bloggers are probably the most fun to read.
03-Dec-2006 | 07:05 UTC | Submitted by B
Evil Player
Quote: Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows. Some of Evil Player's key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular formats (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD).
If you are a minimalist, and like all your software bare bones without too much frills, Evil Player might be the audio player for you.
It does not come with support for lossless audio, Speex, Musepack, WMA and Audio cd out of the box, that is being handled through plugins. Only a small standard Windows window with your playlist is displayed, with no visible controls. Everything is controlled via a right click pop-up menu or hotkeys. It does not have an equalizer, support for skinning or ID3. The memory footprint is not high indeed, but it is a small fraction higher than foobar2000 on my computer.
Evil Player
Added: Software | Digital Audio | Miscellaneous | Audio Players
30-Nov-2006 | 21:07 UTC | Submitted by B
HTML Kit
Quote: HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable and free development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.
When I started writing (x)html/css I used notepad, just typing in and learning the code. That is the way I still do it, except notepad got replaced with notepad++.
I am always open for new things so I installed this and tried it, but these kind of programs are just not for me. It seems like a nice program, but personally, I don't have any use for it.
So, to be honest, I can't give a positive or negative review. I will leave that up to you to decide for your own. Let me know if it should be added to the software pages or not, until then:
HTML Kit (BDA)
Added: No
27-Nov-2006 | 21:32 UTC | Submitted by B
Spam
All web design related online tools this time.
http://browsershots.org/
http://www.browsrcamp.com/
http://www.octagate.com/service/SiteTimer/
http://www.4webhelp.net/us/timestamp.php
http://www.seologs.com/ip-domains.html
http://converticon.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11 … enerators/
26-Nov-2006 | 22:21 UTC | Submitted by B
Lossless Audio Checkers
I added two tools that both can scan a directory for errors in your lossless audio files. One for Wavpack, one for FLAC. I imagine this can be a great time saver when you have GBs full of those files.
Added: Software | Digital Audio | Lossless
25-Nov-2006 | 09:09 UTC | Submitted by B
Computer Gaming World Archive
Quote: Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions in PDF format of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981.
Added: Software | Emulation | Miscellaneous
14-Nov-2006 | 20:20 UTC | Submitted by B
It's Time To Waste Some Time
Line Rider
Pretty useless, but before you know it, the clock is 15 minutes further. Be sure to check out the videos!
12-Nov-2006 | 19:34 UTC | Submitted by B
Sylpheed
If you are looking for an alternative email client, other than Pegasus Mail or maybe Mozilla Thunderbird, Sylpheed might be the program for you. Sylpheed is a lightweight, feature full, cross platform email client with a nice intuitive interface. Some of the features are:
[list]3 paned display.[/list][list]Full keyboard control.[/list][list]Supports internationalization (30 languages).[/list][list]POP3, IMAP4rev1, SMTP, NNTP and IPv6.[/list][list]Junk mail controls.[/list]
For a full feature list visit the website.
Sylpheed
Added: Software | Internet | Email
12-Nov-2006 | 18:56 UTC | Submitted by B
Layout Bug 1, Part 2
Normally I use the Firefox plugin HTML validator (based on tidy) to check if my pages validate. If I see the green icon down right, it's ok (enough). Sometimes I check my stuff with the html validator by w3c. 2 errors, hmm.
I know it doesn't matter that much, it shows correct in every browser I could check, but it's a sport to me. Call me anal if you like to.
W3C Error:
<img src="img/header.gif" alt="header" id="imgheader" />
Correction:
<div id="imgheader"><img src="img/header.gif" alt="header" /></div>
A small and simple correction, but then it shows that 2 pixel gap again I was talking about in my former post, even in Firefox on Windows. It is nice to find the rendering difference between Firefox on Ubuntu and on Windows, but not in my design, thank you very much.
So, as a temporarily solution I gave the main div a negative top margin again, but the gap is 2 pixels on Firefox and three on safari.
I'll try to solve it in the near future, now it is time for some nice cold beers. Cheers!
10-Nov-2006 | 22:45 UTC | Submitted by B
DupKiller
Quote: DupKiller is one of the fastest and the most powerful tools for searching and removing duplicate or similar files on your computer. Complicated algorithms, built in its searching mechanism, perform high results -- rapid file search. A lot of options allow to flexibly customizing the search.
It's fast. And it can also scan removable media (floppy, cd, usb, etc), exclude files from scanning, delete files directly from harddisk or to the recycle bin and lots more.
DupKiller
Added: Software | System | Maintenance
10-Nov-2006 | 21:48 UTC | Submitted by B
Spam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goopymart/ … 362502502/
http://reperia.com/
http://pmm.typepad.com/photos/uncategor … iken_1.gif
Source: linkdump.be
09-Nov-2006 | 20:45 UTC | Submitted by B
BSOD
You probably have read that Microsoft acquired sysinternals.com some time ago. Sysinternals once wrote a 'blue screen of death' screensaver. Now it is available from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint … creen.mspx
Microsoft wants you to have BSOD's. Heh.
09-Nov-2006 | 20:04 UTC | Submitted by B
Retrospec
Quote: Retrospec are a team of coders, graphics artists and computer musicians who have gathered together to bring you the best remakes of old 8 bit games and new original games with a decidedly retro feel that we can.
At the time of writing there are 33 games finished with classic titles among them like 'Attack of the Mutant Camels' and 'Deflektor'. They also have an 'in progress' list, so you can see what is being worked on right now.
As you probably can expect most versions are for Windows, but some are also compiled for Mac and Linux (and even one for BeOS). Some even have the source code available, so ..
Retrospec
Added: Software | Games | Retro Remakes
09-Nov-2006 | 17:41 UTC | Submitted by B
Mouser
A small app to move your mouse with your keyboard. Written by an editor from lifehacker.
Hack Attack
07-Nov-2006 | 21:58 UTC | Submitted by B
Layout Bug 1 Fixed
I finally fixed a strange layout bug. Firefox2 on Linux and Safari on Mac showed a little gap between the top bar and the rest of the page.
On Windows I was able to fix this problem by giving a negative top margin to the main div. This worked fine, also on Firefox2. But not Firefox2 on Linux (screenie).
I solved it by removing the negative margin and adding:
Code:
#imgheader {display:inline-table;}
/* Hides from IE-mac | Various stupid IE fixes \*/
* html #imgheader {height: 1%}
#imgheader {display:block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */I also needed to remove the left and right margin from my html and body css entry, because the background got shifted (because of the top bar margin-top) at exactly the place where the margin would set in.
On Safari the bug is killed, so I'm guessing it works fine on Ubuntu know too.
Now to fix Layout bug 2. 
05-Nov-2006 | 21:05 UTC | Submitted by B
New Untested Software
Internet
Open Pandora - Expose Pandora on your desktop.
Hamachi - Zero-configuration virtual private networking.
TED - Torrent Episode Downloader.
Gizmo - VOIP program.
System
TaskSwitch XP - Alt-tab manager.
Real7ime - Real media converter.
Pixel Ruler - Virtual screen ruler.
HD Tune - HD information tool.
Added: Software | Untested
05-Nov-2006 | 16:11 UTC | Submitted by B
Tray It!
There are several programs that can minimize an application to the systray. Tray It! being one of them.
The nice thing of this program is the possibility to assign applications to it, that should be minimized to your systray when you click the minimize button. So, no extra buttons or mouse clicks to minimize it, configure it once and use the standard minimize button of your application.
Tray It!
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
05-Nov-2006 | 12:08 UTC | Submitted by B
Spam
http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/
http://binaural.jimtreats.com/
http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/edisonia/very_early.htm
http://overdrawn.net/mario/
http://autopatcher.com/
http://www.channelchooser.com/
http://www.chooseandwatch.com/index.html
http://digguser.blogspot.com/2006/06/up … ength.html
http://www.camera2photo.com/2006/08/25/ … al-camera/
04-Nov-2006 | 19:11 UTC | Submitted by B
New Untested Software
Digital Audio
Bauer stereophonic to binaural - DSP.
Internet
AJAX IM - Browser based instant messaging.
BeamFile - Send large files.
Pandora Wrapper - Run Pandora in your systray.
CSpace - Secure, decentralized, user-to-user communication.
System
AbiWord - Word processing program.
Evolution - Linux email/calender/pim for win32.
AxCrypt - Right click file encryption.
Video
CamStudio - Record all screen and audio activity on your computer.
Added: Software | Untested
04-Nov-2006 | 19:00 UTC | Submitted by B
Visual Task Tips
Quote: Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, as seen in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista.
It works like it says, nothing to configure thus a very simple program. One thing though, it does not show actual previews for minimized windows. It only shows a cached thumbnail preview copy if one is available, otherwise it shows nothing.
Visual Task Tips
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
04-Nov-2006 | 13:49 UTC | Submitted by B
Frontpage Changes
I have reduced the number of images on the frontpage. A simple screen shot can be better than a thousand words, so that will be added if needed. Other images/logos will not be added anymore just because an image has to be added.
Frontpage reviews will also be shortened, or better, splitted in two posts faster. The chunks of text in one post is too big now.
03-Nov-2006 | 21:42 UTC | Submitted by B
Infamous Adventures King's Quest III
Quote: We are a game development group focused on bringing adventure games back into the mainstream by updating classic adventure games as well as creating new masterworks of our own.
Infamous Adventures did a VGA color remake of King's Quest III, Roberta William's 1986 hit.
Infamous Adventures King's Quest III
Added: Emulation | Retro Remakes
03-Nov-2006 | 21:18 UTC | Submitted by B
New Untested Software
CDR/DVD
CDBurnerXP Pro - CD/DVD burning solution.
ImgBurn - Image Burner.
System
Menu Inventor - Create an alternative start menu.
Programmer's Notepad
Added: Software | Untested
03-Nov-2006 | 20:37 UTC | Submitted by B
I'm Archived!
When I was active on my Commodore Amiga (way back), I spend many, many hours fiddling with ProTracker.
To my surprise I found a module I created on the Amiga Music Preservation site. That one was ripped of a music disk I once created, and somebody once uploaded for me on some bbs. I can't remember the bbs name anymore. I believe the uploading was done on a 2400 baud modem.
B's MOD
02-Nov-2006 | 21:50 UTC | Submitted by B
Naomi
Quote: Naomi is able to constantly monitor all internet connections, protecting children from inappropriate online material - such as obscene or violent contents; pornography, pedophilia and erotism in the form of images or texts; sites that popularize drugs; gambling games; terrorism; hate propaganda; occultism; sects; blasphemy, etc.
Naomi does not rely on a simple list of banned sites; instead, it examines in real-time all the data being transmitted and received through any internet application - such as web browers, chat programs, news readers, etc.
It works quick and dirty: if it finds inappropriate online material it shuts down the application.
Naomi
Added: Software | Internet | Protection
31-Oct-2006 | 21:37 UTC | Submitted by B
ScummVM
SCUMM stands for "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion". It is a utility used to create the famous LucasArts adventure games. VM stands for Virtual Machine.
Quote: ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
On ScummVM's download page you can find two full games. 'Beneath a Steel Sky' and 'Flight of the Amazon Queen', two great games to get you started.
ScummVM
Added: Software | Emulation | Miscellaneous Emulators
30-Oct-2006 | 21:57 UTC | Submitted by B
WhatPulse
Do you feel that you could have moved your hands, keystroke by keystroke, across the globe twice every day? Interested in finding out just how much you type a day? [from whatpulse.com]. WhatPulse is a little program that just sits there counting how many keystrokes, mouse clicks, and mouse movement you do during a day. You then have a profile on the WhatPulse website that provides you with tons of stats about your keystrokes, clicks, and movement. It also ranks you with the other thousands of users.
The program itself also includes several features including recording keystrokes and exporting to an .html file your most used keys (you can stop and start the recording of keystrokes). Note: it doesn't record in what order keys are pushed, just the total a key is pushed, it is NOT a key logger.
I have been using WhatPulse since 2004 and its great to see how much I type/click in a day. A new recent feature records how far you move your mouse (in miles) each day. Whether most of your typing is IM's and Emails or if your a developer or programmer, WhatPulse is awesome.
WhatPulse
Added: Software | System | Information Tools
26-Oct-2006 | 23:07 UTC | Submitted by two.five.three.two
FlashMute
I like to listen to music with my headphones on. I play that music from my computer. In the meantime I'm surfing the web a bit, clicking on vague links. Then it happens: you surf to a site with background music at about 500% the volume of the music you are currently listening to. You know, the louder the better, because you have to be different than the rest. Or maybe you are just stuck in the 90s.
I'm sure I'm not the only one this happened to, because Einar wrote FlashMute.
Quote: FlashMute is a tool which allows you to mute/unmute Flash movies loaded in a browser exclusively, or alternatively all sounds produced by the browser.
It lives in your systray and with a simple mouse click it shows a volume slider and mute option. What else do you want?
FlashMute
Added: Software | Internet | Browsers Related
26-Oct-2006 | 20:57 UTC | Submitted by B
ColorPic
ColorPic is a free color picker for Windows. I recently just came across this little program and now I can't stop using it. Of course it helps if your into graphic/web design. Basically it allows you to select with your mouse any color on your screen from any program (its not limited to only working inside of IE or Photoshop, it works anywhere). Before finding ColorPic I used ColorZilla which is an add-on for Firefox which allows you to do the same, just inside the browser.
Some of the great features include the colors being shown in hex and decimal, your able to adjust the hue, saturation and RGB values, and you can save multiple color palettes. Two other amazing features is first; a magnification area which allows you to see exactly what color your attempting to get. Your also able to use your arrow keys to nudge the pointer as the hand isn't always so steady.
ColorPic is able to run on Win95 and above (I've tested it on Win2k and Vista). Its very stable and contains NO spyware, malware, or any other unwanted files.
ColorPic
Added: Software | Miscellaneous | Graphic
25-Oct-2006 | 07:27 UTC | Submitted by two.five.three.two
ClamWin
ClamWin is a free and open source antivirus for Windows 98 and up. Some features include scanning scheduler, automatic database updates, standalone virus-scanner and menu integration to Windows Explorer. Currently ClamWin doesn't provide real-time scanning, however with additional software this can happen (read below).
ClamWin combined with Winpooch (adds real-time scanning) and the Mozilla FireFox plugin (scans files downloaded using FF) gives you the best protection for your computer. ClamWin is very stable and is in active development. There is also a portable version of ClamWin that you can fit on a flash drive, iPod, CD, etc. I personally have it stored on a flash drive and on my iPod Nano.
I have used ClamWin for awhile now and never had a problem. It always does its job. It's able to scan just about all files including archives. If you've had problems with your anti-virus scanner or looking for a new one, give ClamWin a try.
ClamWin
Winpooch
ClamWin FF Extension
ClamWin Portable
Added: Software | System | Anti-Virus
24-Oct-2006 | 18:54 UTC | Submitted by two.five.three.two
Dark Room
Here is something that I have been using for a while, every now and then.
Maybe you will recognize this problem. You are trying to concentrate on writing something for your blog, an important letter or something similar. But you constantly get distracted by other stuff on your computer, a rss program that pops up some news, a new email that arrives or maybe a new msn message from that cute boy/girl you got the hots for. Wouldn't it be nice if you were in some sort of room, for a little while, alone with your words?
Hog Bay Software probably had the same problem, so they wrote WriteRoom. A full screen 'notepad' with black background and lemon green letters. Yes, that old school terminal look. In the words of Hog Bay Software "A full screen, distraction free, writing environment". Nice! If you are a Mac user ...
Luckily a Windows user also liked the idea, and cloned the program to Windows naming it Dark Room. Great! Somebody else even wrote a (Sun) Java version, so all Linux people can use it too.
WriteRoom - Mac
Dark Room - Windows
JDarkRoom - Mac/Windows/Linux
Added: Software | System | Text/Coding
23-Oct-2006 | 22:10 UTC | Submitted by B
Private Message Mod
I just finished installing the private message mod. This is an addition to the forum software which allows private messaging between registered users.
It is not part of the original package because the author of the forum software wants to keep it as light as possible. Good choice I think. If you want extra functionality you can add it. If you don't, you don't have to carry the extra weight that comes with a stock install.
Next mod? I don't know .. I want the forum as simple as possible actually.
23-Oct-2006 | 20:14 UTC | Submitted by B
winLAME
For some reason the main problems people have with audio files is converting/encoding them. winLAME is an audio encoder for Windows that has a small, simple, and clean GUI while providing a step by step wizard for encoding audio files. It's very light and fast at loading.
I have personally tested winLAME on Win2k and Vista and encoded about 200+ audio files (mostly to mp3's) and never crashed. Nero and Winamp provide the same services however what drives me to winLAME is how quickly it loads, processes, and doesn't steal resources.
So, for anybody who is looking for a small program with a clean user interface and does any audio encoding at all or is having problems with your current program, give winLAME a try. winLAME is free, open source, and contains no unwanted files.
winLAME
Added: Digital Audio | Miscellaneous | Frontends
22-Oct-2006 | 22:40 UTC | Submitted by two.five.three.two
Notepad ++
Notepad++ is a free code editor and notepad replacement with support for more than 40 programming languages including XML, HTML, PHP, JS, CSS, Python, Ruby and many more. The program is extremely light and very fast with features such as syntax highlighting/folding, multi-document, search/replace, zoom, bookmarks, indent guideline and much more.
I am a webdesign and developer by day (and night) and spend hours each day staring at code. After bouncing around from several code editors I found Notepad++ had all the features I would need (and some that are just nice to have). The syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and multi-document are a must have for any coder.
Notepad++ is free, open source, and in active development (with new features often). So if you do any code editing at all you need to check this program out. The only downside to this program is it's only available for Windows (95-Vista), so sorry Mac and Linux guys.
Notepad++
Added: Software | System | Text/Coding
22-Oct-2006 | 22:31 UTC | Submitted by two.five.three.two
Link Removed
Removed the link to X-Setup Pro. The program is not free anymore.
Thanks to Remmer for the tip.
22-Oct-2006 | 19:48 UTC | Submitted by B
RocketDock
RocketDock is a program launcher for the mouse. It is a similar type of program like Apple's dock or MobyDock/Y'z Dock/Objectdock for Windows. You'll probably get the idea already, so further introduction will be unnecessary.
RocketDock is fast, stable and very pretty.
I use this side by side with a keyboard launcher (TypeAndRun) so I can quickly launch my programs with whatever I'm using at the moment.
Warning: Once you're used to RocketDock you will feel very naked if you are behind another computer without this program. The same applies to TypeAndRun too.
RocketDock
Added: Software | System | Program Launchers
21-Oct-2006 | 14:15 UTC | Submitted by B
Open For Public!
Yesterday (I believe), I read some article about how to create a successful blog/cms. I believe it was on digg or something. One thing that the author mentioned was that you should never start before everything is setup 100%.
Well .. Maybe he is right. But I'm not going that route. I think it is time to test everything out in the wild. From my experience in my day time job, I know that real time users will always find bugs you didn't think about or find with testing. And there will always be some punk who breaks something. 
I have opened everything to the public and I will see how everything holds together. That is, if there are users interested in registering. 
20-Oct-2006 | 21:06 UTC | Submitted by B
Taskbar Shuffle
In a lot of programs you can move around columns to set them up in an order you like. uTorrent being a nice example of that. Why didn't Microsoft add that ability to the taskbar? Grouping of similar taskbar buttons (TweakUI) is already a nice addition, but not really complete.
I know when I'm working behind my computer the taskbar gets overly crowded. So a bit of rearranging would come in handy.
That's where Taskbar Shuffle kicks in. Drag and drop and rearrange your taskbar the way you like it. Like in TweakUI, you can also set your taskbar button grouping preferences in Taskbar Shuffle. So all in all this is a simple, yet complete taskbar arranger.
Taskbar Shuffle
Added: Software | System | Enhancements
20-Oct-2006 | 20:43 UTC | Submitted by B
Website Progress
It has taken some time, but the new setup is nearing completion. phew ... I believe I dreamt css last night.
#head {
pillow-left:20px;
snore:auto;
}
/* Fix stupid IE bug \*/
* html #head {pillow-left:10px; height:0%}
/* End stupid IE bug */
Blegh!
All that is left now is testing and correcting small layout bugs that I find. I hope I can release everything to the public before the weekend starts.