Monday, January 28, 2008

Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week


The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by
our children. - Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)



Powered by ScribeFire.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

CrossLoop v2.02 Build 2008


CrossLoop is a free, secure screen-sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings.

[2.34M] [Win2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Just see the Video below to see how it works. Its a GREAT program.


Free On-Demand Listening Has Come To Last.fm

Free
On-Demand Listening Has Come To Last.fm

As of today, you can play full-length
tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.


Something we’ve wanted for years-for people who visit Last.fm
to be able to play any track for free-is now possible. With the
support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner-and
the artists they work with-plus thousands of independent artists and
labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music
available to play online for free, the way we believe it should
be.

Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and
Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening our coverage into
other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track
can be played up to 3 times for free before a notice appears telling
you about our upcoming subscription service. The soon-to-be announced
subscription service will give you unlimited plays and some other
useful things. We’re also working on bringing full-length tracks
to the desktop client and beyond.

Free full-length tracks are
obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and
labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song. Music on
Last.fm is perpetually monetized. This is good because artists get
paid based on how popular a song is with their fans, instead of a
fixed amount.

We will be paying artists directly.

We
already have licenses with the various royalty collection societies,
but now unsigned artists can put their music on Last.fm and be paid
directly for every song played. This helps to level the
playing-field-now you can make music, upload it to Last.fm and earn
money for each play. If you
make music, you can sign up to participate for free
.


We’re not printing money to pay for this-but the business
model is simple enough: we are paying artists and labels a share of
advertising revenue from the website.

Today we’re
redesigning the music economy. There are already millions of tracks
available, and we’re adding more every day. We will continue to
work hard to bring this to everyone in the world.

Take it for a spin.






Powered by ScribeFire.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Synapsis

Synapsis is a new escape the room game
from Robot Jam Games. You start with a cube on a desk and must work
through a series of clues in several rooms to complete the adventure
and escape the game. One really cool thing about the game is it's
absolutely free. There's no timer, but you'll find yourself wanting to
figure out how to get to the end as quickly as possible, just to see
where the clues take you. If you get stuck along the way, HERE is a
room-by-room account of how to locate all the clues and win the game Thanks to Jake Ludingtons MediaBlab


Powered by ScribeFire.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

BurnAware Free Edition

BurnAware Free Edition


CD/DVD burning


BurnAware Free Edition is an easy to use CD/DVD burning application
that enables you to perform the most common disc burning tasks,
including burning of data CDs/DVDs, Audio CDs, Video DVDs and disk
images (.ISO). It offers support for all all CD/DVD media types,
including Blue-Ray as well as multi-session support and file
verification. BurnAware Free Edition can create Audio CDs directly from
WAV, MP3, or WMA files, without the need for manual conversion.

Powered by ScribeFire.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of.
No adware, no spyware, just good software.

Web Browsing

firefox

Mozilla Firefox

The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
Download Page

Video Player / Video Podcasting

miro

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
Download Page

IM - Instant Messaging

gaim

Pidgin

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
Download Page

E-mail

thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
Download Page

RSS

rssowl

RSSOwl

Solid cross-platform RSS client.
Download Page

Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

cabos

Cabos

A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
Download Page
gnucleus

Gnucleus

A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.
Download Page
azureus

Azureus

A powerful, but complicated BitTorrent client. So many features you'll lose your mind.
Download Page

Video Playback

VLC

VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
Download Page
MPlayer

MPlayer

Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
Download Page
media player classic

Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
Download Page

DVD Ripping / Video Conversion

media coder

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
Download Page

Word Processing / Office Suites

open office

OpenOffice.org

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
Download Page
abiword

AbiWord

A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
Download Page

Podcasting

juice

Juice

Solid podcasting client.
Download Page

DVD Ripping

handbrake

Handbrake

DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
Download Page

Sound Recording

audacity

Audacity

Simple sound recording tool.
Download Page

Graphics / Photo Editing

gimp

GIMP

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
Download Page
paint.net

Paint.NET

Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
Download Page
inkscape

Inkscape

Vector graphics application.
Download Page

FTP / SFTP

filezilla

Filezilla

Excellent FTP program.
Download Page

IRC

xchat2

X-Chat 2

IRC client.
Download Page
Some more specialized free and open-source Microsoft Windows apps.

Note Taking

freemind

Freemind

An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
Download Page

Jarnal

Open Source note taking application written in Java
Download Page
keynote

Keynote

Open Source note taking application, very good. I use this myself extensively
Download Page

Personal Finance

Turbo Cash

TurboCASH

Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
Download Page

Quasar

Easy to use Accounting package
Download Page

Chat Clients

AMSN

aMSN

MSN Messenger client written in TCL/TK aMSN Messenger
XChat

X-Chat

IRC Client X-Chat

More Web Browsing

KMeleon

K-Meleon

Fast, nice web browser.
Download Page
Amaya

Amaya Browser for Windows

W3C developed web browser and editor for multiple platforms
Download Page

Screensaver

electric sheep

Electric Sheep

Immersive, trippy screensaver.
Download Page

More Filesharing

Frostwire

GNUTella client based on the Limewire codebase.
Download Page
Also see: Poisoned - Azureus

3D Graphics and Modeling

blender

Blender

Powerful 3D Modeling software.
Download Page
Also see: Kerkythea (illumination engine) - Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Quesa

Stars and Outer Space

celestia icon

Celestia

Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).
Download Page
stellarium icon

Stellarium

"Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.
Download Page
Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis

Games

Marathon: Aleph One icon

Marathon: Aleph One

Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.
Download Page
zombies icon

Zombies

3D zombie strategy game.
Download Page
armagetron

Armagetron Advanced

3D Tron game.
Download Page
BZflage logo

BZFlag

First-person tank game.
Download Page
Battle for Wesnoth logo

Battle for Wesnoth

Fantasy / Strategy Game
Download Page
Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble

Free File Hosting

CC Publisher

CC Publisher

Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
Download Page

Security Tools

NMap

Easy to use port scanner for Windows
Download Page
Wireshark

Wireshark

Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Ethereal
Download Page

TrueCrypt

Creates encrypted virtual hard drives for extra security
Download Page
ClamWin

ClamWin

Open Source Anti-Virus. Very good at detecting viruses. Can be plugged into hMailServer for e-mail protection LIMITATION: Real Time scanning not implemented yet
Download Page
Eraser

Eraser

Delete files securely off your hard drive utilizing DoD standards
Download Page

MP3 and Audio Tools

MP3 Gain

MP3 Gain

Easy to use MP3 manipulation tool for Windows. adjusts sound levels on MP3's so they are all the same
Download Page
MP3 Book Helper

MP3 Book Helper

This program provides rapid Mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2) and Ogg/Speex/Flac Vorbis tags editing and file renaming functions. Mass Tag editing is done using special variables and Regular Expressions.
Download Page
musikCube

musikCube

Open Source MP3 Player, ripper and organizer written using the .NET Framework
Download Page

Utilities

Cobian Backup

Backup software.
Download Page
7-Zip

7-Zip

File archiver.
Download Page

Developer tools

XEmacs

XEmacs

The classic, super customizable editor, for Windows.
Download Page
KompoZer

KompoZer

Easy to use, open source WYSIWYG html editor
Download Page
SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop

Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms
Download Page
Notepad ++

Notepad ++

Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
Download Page

SciTE

Source code Editor for Windows and X
Download Page

Web Developer Server Suite

Very good WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very thouroughly tested on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (preliminary testing on Longhorn Server underway). Highly Recommended.
Download Page

Mapping Tools

World Wind

Nasa World Wind

Mapping tool similar to Google Earth for Windows. Must have the .NET Framework installed.
Download Page