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September 2007 Magazine Contents
Digital Passion
Lead Feature
Sci-Fa
Think science fiction—as in motherships and cyborgs. Then think about what’s gone beyond fiction, what’s not, what’s being said today... think all such thoughts
Insight
Almost Intelligent
While they’re hardly sentient beings, our appliances today baffle us with what they can think of. Here’s what you need to know about the fuzzy logic that drives them
Tomorrow
Alterface!
Tired of the boring old window-icon-menu-pointer interfaces that we’ve been stuck with since the eighties? We are, too. We explore the reasons behind why things are where they are, and present a look at what’s to come
Droolmaal
Gaudy speakers to hang from your ceiling, a classy new cell phone and oodles of portable storage in this month’s Droolmaal. The pictures are pretty, and the things cost a pretty penny. Get your tissues ready!
Take A Crack At
Want to be called a Windows magician? We’re sure you can impress your folks real easy—just make the Yahoo! icon! vanish! from! the! toolbar! But make Explorer’s menu bar vanish at will, and then make it re-appear—and we’ll suitably reward you!
Digital Tools
Cover Story
centrePieCe
Sure, you can be the brave geek and assemble your family PC, but what happens when things go awry? The best thing about branded PCs is the tech support and peace of mind that come bundled with them... Here’s a comparison of the best in the market, for budgets big and small
Agent001
New Ways To Play Old Games
You may be used to the keyboard and mouse for gaming, but what if you want more? Agent 001 goes on the hunt for wheels, joysticks and more!
Know More About
Touchscreens
All you need to know about different touchscreen technologies and how they work—and also about the hype vs. the matter
3 Incredibly Useful Sites
In Theory And In Practise
One for the science geek; getting serious, one for he who seeks management wisdom. One for photo buffs.
Enhance
Access: Granted
Got data? Here’s our primer to Microsoft’s Access, and how it can make your life much easier
Digital Business
Test Centre
All-In-Wonders
It’s the era of the multi-functional device. So here’s our annual test: we’ve tested a bunch of these do-it-alls, starting with the most basic to the powerhouses that even the big corporates swear by
Trend
Cause For Concern
Everyone worries about their organisation’s security, and it’s one area where companies aren’t shy to pay through their noses. India’s companies, too, are taking steps to keep their data safe—they’re all aware of the gravity of the situation
Tech Careers
Powering The Tower
Join the wave of professionals heading into India’s all-too-booming telecom industry!
Smart Business
Cheapest Trumpet
Thought you needed wads of cash to promote your business? Here’s how you can do it on a shoestring budget! All you’ll need apart from small change is time
Digital Leisure
Test Centre
Talk Tonight
Webcams were never so cheap! Choose from among the best, and let your friends and relatives see you from miles away!
Game On
Here in this space, it’s quite an adventure for us: The Darkness is upon us, and we fly into it with Project Sylpheed, wielding the Sword Of The New World...
Touched by Tech
A Chain For The Chasm
Where do you go when you want to help the community? Stick to your armchair... some organisations will allow you to volunteer over the Net
*************************************
Fast Track To The Free Office
*************************************
DVD-DL Highlights
Gaming
Free
Fate By Numbers
Fate by Numbers is a Full Motion Video adventure game filmed against a green screen and featuring 3D pre-rendered backdrops. The adventure games includes over an hour of HD-video with professional actors accompanied by a soundtrack written for the game. Private eye Alice Sanger is assigned to get a briefcase, but quickly finds herself immersed in a web of corruption and shadowy motives. It becomes personal when she finds out that one of mysterious people behind the briefcase is none other than her ex-husband whom was declared dead several years ago. What follows is a mysterious journey through the layers of a future metropolis with 50’s noir influences.
De Blob
de Blob is a 3D game in which the player controls a ball of paint rolling through the city. The ball can absorb coloured NPCs to become larger and change its colour. With the paint, the player can then proceed to paint the entire city. Almost everything is paintable: buildings, trees, cars and using the paint trace even the ground. The main goal of the game is to paint all 17 landmark buildings.
FlightGear Live CD
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. The Live CD lets you start playing the game as soon as you boot—no installation, no changing files on your disk.
-Racer
-Privateer Gemini Gold
-TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
Demos
Anderson and the Legacy of Cthulhu
The player impersonates Robert D. Anderson, private investigator from New York, who travels to Germany during the first months of WWII in order to solve his most frightening case to research his origins. Arriving at the castle of his ancestors, he discovers an occult secret society among the SS, called “The order of the black sun”, revealing secrets powerful enough to endanger mankind itself.
-Tasty Treats Adventures—The Secret Recipes
-Tribal Trouble
Tools
Multimedia
LEGO Digital Designer
LEGO Digital Designer is quite simply the best virtual building system out there – with its “Click-Stick” method of 3D modeling winning praise from children, parents, teachers and design enthusiasts everywhere. And, as the virtual design platform behind a growing number of LEGO products, LEGO Digital Designer is here to stay. A host of improvements and new features are already in development, including an improved user interface, new connectivity, more life-like building, Technic compatibility and improved train building and animation.
K-3D
K-3D features a robust, object oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists. It is designed from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan compliant rendering engines.
Anime Studio 5.5
Anime Studio is your complete animation program for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com, or use it to produce full-length animation for film, video or streaming over the web.
-CaraQ maker 0.61
-DAZ Studio 1.7
-Stickman 4.8
-StudioLine Photo Basic 3.18.1
-Antechinus Animator Professional
-DigiCel FlipBook 4.55
-Filter Forge 1.009
-Flash Effect Maker Pro 3.5
-Grid Magic Senior 1.0.2
-MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 12
-PhotoProto
System
My Friend Mikey 2
Use your voice and/or your mouse to quickly navigate to any Website, and launch any program. Mikey is animated, moves, floats, and talks to you. Mikey also reads your mail (or any text) to you. Common commands are included.
Autopatcher XP July 2007 Update
The latest update for AutoPatcher. To use this, you’ll need to install the AutoPatcher May 2007 release and June 2007 update from the August 2007 DVD
-AirSnare 1.5
-Microsoft Windows Defender
-NVIDIA PerfKit (Windows XP)
-PC WIZARD
-Vista Transformation Pack 7
-Automize—Linux 7.35
-DataPilot 52
-Direct Access 1.6.2.1
-MindSoft Utilities XP 9.8c
-MobilEdit 2.4.5.4
-Panda Internet Security 2008 12.00.00
-Super Utilities Professional 7.65
PC-BSD
PC-BSD
PC-BSD has been designed with the “casual” computer user in mind. Installing the system is simply a matter of a few clicks and a few minutes for the installation process to finish. Hardware such as video, sound, network and other devices will be auto-detected and available at the first system startup. NOTE: During our tests, we discovered that PC-BSD’s hardware support can be shaky, so it might not install on all PCs
Also Included
-PC-BSD Disc 2 (the essential PBI installer pack)
-Java Runtime (JRE) 1.5.0.07
-KSmoothDock 4.5
-NVIDIA Driver 9746
-The Ur-Quan Masters 0.6.2
-VLC 0.8.6a
Productivity
The Free Office
FreeMind 0.9.0 Beta
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
-Action Point Of Sale
-FreeProxy (Windows)
-JAMES
-Maintenance Assistant
-Mozilla Thunderbird
-Squid (For Debian-based Linux distros)
-Tunir Accountant 2007
-WAMP5
Developers
Adobe FrameMaker 8
Adobe FrameMaker 8 software is a powerful tool for technical communicators that combines word processing and XML-based structured authoring with template-based publishing.
Visual C# 2008 Express Edition Beta 2
The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. This is the beta release of Visual C#
-EasyEclipse for C and C++ 1.2.1
-Windows Media Center SDK 5.2
-Audio Formats SDK 1.6
-Zend Studio 5.5
Entertainment
Channel 9
Microsoft Research TechFest—XNA, a depth-sensing camera, an LCD projector, and some genius
This is probably the world’s only example of real-time terrain generation with XNA through the use of a depth-sensing video camera and real world objects. Video provided by Microsoft Channel 9 (channel9.msdn.com)
-Byron Cook: Terminator—Proving Good Things Will Eventually Happen
Audiobooks
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge’s neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dirty golf. It all gets a bit thick, what?
-The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi
-The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Movies
The Amazing Mr. X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
-Dracula’s Guest
-Dracula’s Message
-Dracula’s Prisoner
Music
The Red Line of Hydrogen by Talley Lambert
This is the first album released by Talley Lambert, home recorded in 1999. The album is mainly guitar-based singer/songwriter folk-rock with a full band. Songs are generally acoustic, laid back, and introspective. Preview this album in the Digit media player!
Port Angeles by Alex Bailey
Port Angeles, the most recent album of Alex Bailey was cut in Winter 2006 in Seattle Washington. Recorded on a mini disc recorder with an upright house-piano, Port Angeles carves through winding country songs celebrating singer/songwriters of the last 30 years.
-Anomalous Material by JT Bruce
-Getting Back From Where I’ve Been by Kelly Allyn
-I Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Brad Sucks
-The Grasping Hands of Possibility by Ruined Machines
-underground horn by Daniel Brandell
-Words and Voices by Aesthetic Evidence
CD Highlights
Digit Exclusive
Ashampoo Magical Security
A Digit Exclusive! Ashampoo Magical Security is the successor to the popular Ashampoo Privacy Protector. The new program is now even easier to use, with a new look and even more powerful security. You need to be connected to the Internet to register for this exclusive full version.
Gaming
Free
Mono
The object, as far as there is one in this game, is to turn the screen from black to white, or vice versa. You do this by controlling a round white circle which is capable of shooting beautifully arranged displays of firepower at faceless coloured circles which float around the playing field.
The Breakdown—A Snack-Sized Adventure Game
The Breakdown is a fairly short point-and-click adventure game where you’ve broken down in the desert and are in need of repairs so you can return your lottery ticket in time.
-NaaC
-Eternal Daughter
-Halo: Hell on Earth Trilogy Edition
-Wandering Knights
-Zep’s Dreamland
Demos
-People Shooter
-RIP 3: The Last Hero
Entertainment
Short Movies
ExtraStrong
ExtraStrong is a short stop-motion animation that tells the story of a fight between two pieces of paper.
-Star Wars: A Clone Apart—Episode 1
Fun Software
Sketch Studio
Sketch Studio is an easy to use drawing program for children. Although there are a number of drawing programs available for children, Sketch Studio is unique in that it contains built-in drawing lessons.
Magic Whiteboard 1.8
Magic Whiteboard is a fun and colorful network drawing software, designed especially for kids’ entertainment
Music
Lies and Speeches by HYPE
HYPE is a Parisian band of 4 musicians whose taste for the pop melodies coupled with power rock’n’roll is somewhere between the West Coast and the London fog. They wish to share their sound—a “perfect blend of electric, pop lyricism and ‘entêtante’”—to fans all over the world
Tools
Multimedia
Flookey
Flookey is a free audio player that learns which music you like through observing your listening behavior and looking at your music library’s metadata. It then uses this information to suggest songs from your library that match your listening preferences, to create dynamic playlists, and to provide an intelligent way of navigating your audio library.
M.I.R. 1.2.05
Manual retouching of long image sequences with thousands of images can be a time consuming and tedious task. With M.I.R. HS-ART offers an efficient and easy to learn solution for manual retouching of any kind of single image defects. For example dust spots, bad splices, tears, and the like can be fixed with a few clicks. M.I.R. can also be used for real-time player of long image sequences. You’ll need a graphics card with at least 128 MB of RAM to use this program.
-Free Fast MPEG Cut 2.3.2.1
-SCREEN2EXE
-Wavosaur
-A4 Flash Menu Builder 2.14
-HyperCam 2.14.01
-Livid Union 2.1.2
Digital Passion
Lead Feature
Sci-Fa
Think science fiction—as in motherships and cyborgs. Then think about what’s gone beyond fiction, what’s not, what’s being said today... think all such thoughts
Insight
Almost Intelligent
While they’re hardly sentient beings, our appliances today baffle us with what they can think of. Here’s what you need to know about the fuzzy logic that drives them
Tomorrow
Alterface!
Tired of the boring old window-icon-menu-pointer interfaces that we’ve been stuck with since the eighties? We are, too. We explore the reasons behind why things are where they are, and present a look at what’s to come
Droolmaal
Gaudy speakers to hang from your ceiling, a classy new cell phone and oodles of portable storage in this month’s Droolmaal. The pictures are pretty, and the things cost a pretty penny. Get your tissues ready!
Take A Crack At
Want to be called a Windows magician? We’re sure you can impress your folks real easy—just make the Yahoo! icon! vanish! from! the! toolbar! But make Explorer’s menu bar vanish at will, and then make it re-appear—and we’ll suitably reward you!
Digital Tools
Cover Story
centrePieCe
Sure, you can be the brave geek and assemble your family PC, but what happens when things go awry? The best thing about branded PCs is the tech support and peace of mind that come bundled with them... Here’s a comparison of the best in the market, for budgets big and small
Agent001
New Ways To Play Old Games
You may be used to the keyboard and mouse for gaming, but what if you want more? Agent 001 goes on the hunt for wheels, joysticks and more!
Know More About
Touchscreens
All you need to know about different touchscreen technologies and how they work—and also about the hype vs. the matter
3 Incredibly Useful Sites
In Theory And In Practise
One for the science geek; getting serious, one for he who seeks management wisdom. One for photo buffs.
Enhance
Access: Granted
Got data? Here’s our primer to Microsoft’s Access, and how it can make your life much easier
Digital Business
Test Centre
All-In-Wonders
It’s the era of the multi-functional device. So here’s our annual test: we’ve tested a bunch of these do-it-alls, starting with the most basic to the powerhouses that even the big corporates swear by
Trend
Cause For Concern
Everyone worries about their organisation’s security, and it’s one area where companies aren’t shy to pay through their noses. India’s companies, too, are taking steps to keep their data safe—they’re all aware of the gravity of the situation
Tech Careers
Powering The Tower
Join the wave of professionals heading into India’s all-too-booming telecom industry!
Smart Business
Cheapest Trumpet
Thought you needed wads of cash to promote your business? Here’s how you can do it on a shoestring budget! All you’ll need apart from small change is time
Digital Leisure
Test Centre
Talk Tonight
Webcams were never so cheap! Choose from among the best, and let your friends and relatives see you from miles away!
Game On
Here in this space, it’s quite an adventure for us: The Darkness is upon us, and we fly into it with Project Sylpheed, wielding the Sword Of The New World...
Touched by Tech
A Chain For The Chasm
Where do you go when you want to help the community? Stick to your armchair... some organisations will allow you to volunteer over the Net
*************************************
Fast Track To The Free Office
*************************************
DVD-DL Highlights
Gaming
Free
Fate By Numbers
Fate by Numbers is a Full Motion Video adventure game filmed against a green screen and featuring 3D pre-rendered backdrops. The adventure games includes over an hour of HD-video with professional actors accompanied by a soundtrack written for the game. Private eye Alice Sanger is assigned to get a briefcase, but quickly finds herself immersed in a web of corruption and shadowy motives. It becomes personal when she finds out that one of mysterious people behind the briefcase is none other than her ex-husband whom was declared dead several years ago. What follows is a mysterious journey through the layers of a future metropolis with 50’s noir influences.
De Blob
de Blob is a 3D game in which the player controls a ball of paint rolling through the city. The ball can absorb coloured NPCs to become larger and change its colour. With the paint, the player can then proceed to paint the entire city. Almost everything is paintable: buildings, trees, cars and using the paint trace even the ground. The main goal of the game is to paint all 17 landmark buildings.
FlightGear Live CD
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. The Live CD lets you start playing the game as soon as you boot—no installation, no changing files on your disk.
-Racer
-Privateer Gemini Gold
-TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
Demos
Anderson and the Legacy of Cthulhu
The player impersonates Robert D. Anderson, private investigator from New York, who travels to Germany during the first months of WWII in order to solve his most frightening case to research his origins. Arriving at the castle of his ancestors, he discovers an occult secret society among the SS, called “The order of the black sun”, revealing secrets powerful enough to endanger mankind itself.
-Tasty Treats Adventures—The Secret Recipes
-Tribal Trouble
Tools
Multimedia
LEGO Digital Designer
LEGO Digital Designer is quite simply the best virtual building system out there – with its “Click-Stick” method of 3D modeling winning praise from children, parents, teachers and design enthusiasts everywhere. And, as the virtual design platform behind a growing number of LEGO products, LEGO Digital Designer is here to stay. A host of improvements and new features are already in development, including an improved user interface, new connectivity, more life-like building, Technic compatibility and improved train building and animation.
K-3D
K-3D features a robust, object oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists. It is designed from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan compliant rendering engines.
Anime Studio 5.5
Anime Studio is your complete animation program for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com, or use it to produce full-length animation for film, video or streaming over the web.
-CaraQ maker 0.61
-DAZ Studio 1.7
-Stickman 4.8
-StudioLine Photo Basic 3.18.1
-Antechinus Animator Professional
-DigiCel FlipBook 4.55
-Filter Forge 1.009
-Flash Effect Maker Pro 3.5
-Grid Magic Senior 1.0.2
-MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 12
-PhotoProto
System
My Friend Mikey 2
Use your voice and/or your mouse to quickly navigate to any Website, and launch any program. Mikey is animated, moves, floats, and talks to you. Mikey also reads your mail (or any text) to you. Common commands are included.
Autopatcher XP July 2007 Update
The latest update for AutoPatcher. To use this, you’ll need to install the AutoPatcher May 2007 release and June 2007 update from the August 2007 DVD
-AirSnare 1.5
-Microsoft Windows Defender
-NVIDIA PerfKit (Windows XP)
-PC WIZARD
-Vista Transformation Pack 7
-Automize—Linux 7.35
-DataPilot 52
-Direct Access 1.6.2.1
-MindSoft Utilities XP 9.8c
-MobilEdit 2.4.5.4
-Panda Internet Security 2008 12.00.00
-Super Utilities Professional 7.65
PC-BSD
PC-BSD
PC-BSD has been designed with the “casual” computer user in mind. Installing the system is simply a matter of a few clicks and a few minutes for the installation process to finish. Hardware such as video, sound, network and other devices will be auto-detected and available at the first system startup. NOTE: During our tests, we discovered that PC-BSD’s hardware support can be shaky, so it might not install on all PCs
Also Included
-PC-BSD Disc 2 (the essential PBI installer pack)
-Java Runtime (JRE) 1.5.0.07
-KSmoothDock 4.5
-NVIDIA Driver 9746
-The Ur-Quan Masters 0.6.2
-VLC 0.8.6a
Productivity
The Free Office
FreeMind 0.9.0 Beta
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
-Action Point Of Sale
-FreeProxy (Windows)
-JAMES
-Maintenance Assistant
-Mozilla Thunderbird
-Squid (For Debian-based Linux distros)
-Tunir Accountant 2007
-WAMP5
Developers
Adobe FrameMaker 8
Adobe FrameMaker 8 software is a powerful tool for technical communicators that combines word processing and XML-based structured authoring with template-based publishing.
Visual C# 2008 Express Edition Beta 2
The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. This is the beta release of Visual C#
-EasyEclipse for C and C++ 1.2.1
-Windows Media Center SDK 5.2
-Audio Formats SDK 1.6
-Zend Studio 5.5
Entertainment
Channel 9
Microsoft Research TechFest—XNA, a depth-sensing camera, an LCD projector, and some genius
This is probably the world’s only example of real-time terrain generation with XNA through the use of a depth-sensing video camera and real world objects. Video provided by Microsoft Channel 9 (channel9.msdn.com)
-Byron Cook: Terminator—Proving Good Things Will Eventually Happen
Audiobooks
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge’s neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dirty golf. It all gets a bit thick, what?
-The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi
-The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Movies
The Amazing Mr. X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
-Dracula’s Guest
-Dracula’s Message
-Dracula’s Prisoner
Music
The Red Line of Hydrogen by Talley Lambert
This is the first album released by Talley Lambert, home recorded in 1999. The album is mainly guitar-based singer/songwriter folk-rock with a full band. Songs are generally acoustic, laid back, and introspective. Preview this album in the Digit media player!
Port Angeles by Alex Bailey
Port Angeles, the most recent album of Alex Bailey was cut in Winter 2006 in Seattle Washington. Recorded on a mini disc recorder with an upright house-piano, Port Angeles carves through winding country songs celebrating singer/songwriters of the last 30 years.
-Anomalous Material by JT Bruce
-Getting Back From Where I’ve Been by Kelly Allyn
-I Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Brad Sucks
-The Grasping Hands of Possibility by Ruined Machines
-underground horn by Daniel Brandell
-Words and Voices by Aesthetic Evidence
CD Highlights
Digit Exclusive
Ashampoo Magical Security
A Digit Exclusive! Ashampoo Magical Security is the successor to the popular Ashampoo Privacy Protector. The new program is now even easier to use, with a new look and even more powerful security. You need to be connected to the Internet to register for this exclusive full version.
Gaming
Free
Mono
The object, as far as there is one in this game, is to turn the screen from black to white, or vice versa. You do this by controlling a round white circle which is capable of shooting beautifully arranged displays of firepower at faceless coloured circles which float around the playing field.
The Breakdown—A Snack-Sized Adventure Game
The Breakdown is a fairly short point-and-click adventure game where you’ve broken down in the desert and are in need of repairs so you can return your lottery ticket in time.
-NaaC
-Eternal Daughter
-Halo: Hell on Earth Trilogy Edition
-Wandering Knights
-Zep’s Dreamland
Demos
-People Shooter
-RIP 3: The Last Hero
Entertainment
Short Movies
ExtraStrong
ExtraStrong is a short stop-motion animation that tells the story of a fight between two pieces of paper.
-Star Wars: A Clone Apart—Episode 1
Fun Software
Sketch Studio
Sketch Studio is an easy to use drawing program for children. Although there are a number of drawing programs available for children, Sketch Studio is unique in that it contains built-in drawing lessons.
Magic Whiteboard 1.8
Magic Whiteboard is a fun and colorful network drawing software, designed especially for kids’ entertainment
Music
Lies and Speeches by HYPE
HYPE is a Parisian band of 4 musicians whose taste for the pop melodies coupled with power rock’n’roll is somewhere between the West Coast and the London fog. They wish to share their sound—a “perfect blend of electric, pop lyricism and ‘entêtante’”—to fans all over the world
Tools
Multimedia
Flookey
Flookey is a free audio player that learns which music you like through observing your listening behavior and looking at your music library’s metadata. It then uses this information to suggest songs from your library that match your listening preferences, to create dynamic playlists, and to provide an intelligent way of navigating your audio library.
M.I.R. 1.2.05
Manual retouching of long image sequences with thousands of images can be a time consuming and tedious task. With M.I.R. HS-ART offers an efficient and easy to learn solution for manual retouching of any kind of single image defects. For example dust spots, bad splices, tears, and the like can be fixed with a few clicks. M.I.R. can also be used for real-time player of long image sequences. You’ll need a graphics card with at least 128 MB of RAM to use this program.
-Free Fast MPEG Cut 2.3.2.1
-SCREEN2EXE
-Wavosaur
-A4 Flash Menu Builder 2.14
-HyperCam 2.14.01
-Livid Union 2.1.2
