Do your kids prefer playing out this holiday season, causing all sorts of concerns for you? Well, you can stop them from doing so by engaging them into some interesting activity at home. Presenting a whole new bundle of enticing PC games would definitely be a great idea. One such intriguing game combo is Retro Game Pack 1.00.02, which comprises of 9 games that your kids surely would love to play. Games included in this bundle are Ant Attack, Letter Drop, Fire Fighter, Find the Flag, Letter Drop 2, Stamp Pad, Sliding Puzzle, Winged Warrior, and Supernova. All these games are easy to play and would give present challenges to your kids. They need to kill the spreading ants, stop the fire, beat the aliens, create stamps, drop letters to form words, and do more with different games.

Retro Game Pack 1.00.02 application installs 9 games on your PC and these games are accompanied with easy to follow instructions. You’re required to play the game using keyboard and you can make the equipment selection by clicking on it with the mouse. With the first ‘Ant Attack’ game you need to kill all the ants before they spread all over the place by using the insecticides. Likewise, you have to save the forest from fire that is spreading all over, by selecting the watering and other equipments as required. Further, it will make your kids learn and test new words by spelling them with Letter Drop and Letter Drop 2. Enjoy creating funny stamps and even modify the existing ones with the Stamp Pad. Have a fight against the aliens and enemies with Winged Warrior and Supernova. Make correct moves and solve the puzzles, and after that you can have fun finding the flag. With the collection it’s going to be a fun gaming ride for you and your kids.

The collection of Retro Game Pack 1.00.02 is truly praiseworthy that offer your kids lot of fun and amusement.

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Here is a tool you might find useful. It is called Foobar2000. It is a cool audio player for the Windows platform. If you want something different other than the common audio players, you should give this a try.

Supporting formats like mp3, mp4, aac, cd audio, wma, vorbis, flac and so much more; You should get an idea of how cool this tool is. The easily customizable user interface layout is also a plus for this software.

Other cool features that come with this tool that makes it worth checking out  includes:

• Gapless playback.
• Full unicode support.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Etc.

A new version just hit the software market, foobar2000 v0.9.6.2 with some cooler updates like:

• Media Library is now aware of newly installed decoder components and will re-check your folders for files that could not be indexed before
• New options to control tag fields searched by simple search queries, in Advanced Preferences
• Various bug fixes and cosmetic changes

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.foobar2000.com/

Oh! One really cool thing worth mentioning is that this is freeware so you can download it at no cost whatsoever.

Audio Editor Deluxe is a visual multifunctional audio files editor which allows you to perform various operations with audio data such as displaying a waveform image of an audio file, applying more than 20 sound effects and 6 filters.

Features: Audio Editor Deluxe is a audio processor. It records, lets you mix audio, add effects and filters and then edit too. To help in editing the audio, the recorded clips are presented as waveforms. Selection tools, markers help identify segments on which work needs to be done. Selection tools help select parts of audio file precisely. Markers help you select between different selections. Visual edit functionalities then let you Cut, Copy, Delete, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File and Insert or Delete noise or silence in an audio file. The clips are generated by direct recording or using existing files. You could record from the microphone or any other device connecting to the machine. Time markers measure up to 100th of seconds. There are three such displays. One shows the time of a clip being played or a recording being made. The other two show the time duration of selections and view time.

Display functionalities help you view the waveform and mark up areas precisely. There’s a set of effects that you can apply. The set of effects that can be applied include Amplify, Delay, Equalizer, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Reverse, Multi Tap Delay, Silence, Stretch, Vibrato, Echo and Chorus. Added to that there’s a set of filters that can be applied to process your recordings. These include Ban Pass Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter and Notch Filter. ID3 tags & media information can be edited/updated for including/changing/updating Album, Artist, Channels, Comments, Copyright, Genre, Title, Year information. Audio formats supported include Waveform audio (WAV), MPEG Audio (MP3 and MP2), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Audio CD Tracks, OGG Vorbis Audio, VOX Dialogic ADPCM
RAW Audio etc. It converts files from one format to the other easily. The application can rip audio CDs and save the audio in MP3, WMA, WMA and OGG.

Overall: A very nice and handy tool for processing audio clips that you may need. The interface is clean and intuitive too.

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PowerPoint-to-Flash SDK – A professional PowerPoint-to-Flash converting solution, such as Online Collaboration, Online sharing of PowerPoint presentations, Application for presentation of PowerPoint slide shows (converted to Flash), LMS, Authoring.

Features: PPT2Flash SDK for .NET, ASP.NET and COM provides the necessary conversion for getting a version suitable for online viewing. Online viewing may required for a whole host of applications. On line collaboration, sharing of presentations, slide shows on line, online seminars, net meetings and a range of others may use such PowerPoint presentations. Developers of such applications need a SDK that has this conversion built. This code package does just that and provides an environment where developers in .NET and COM technologies have a tool available. It includes a .NET interface that can be used in any .NET programming language like C# or VB.NET. You can use it with your web applications developed in ASP.NET as well. PPT2Flash SDK also includes a COM interface that can be used from any programming language that supports COM automation, like C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, etc.

Some of the main features include retaining of PowerPoint features, transitions, support of audio (MP3 & WAV) as well as video (MPEG, MOV, AVI, WMV), FLV generation. PowerPoint versions XP/2003/2007 are supported. Slide thumbnails Flash JS API lets you completely control how the output would look. Multiple languages are supported and the output file produced is small and lightweight. Adobe ActionScript is also supported. The kit has a wide range of support for most of the elements used in the presentations. For graphics/images GIF and animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF, EMF, WMF can be handled, Other Objects/Shapes (WordArt, Charts, Graphs, Diagrams, Autoshapes, Grouped Objects can be utilized too. Fonts, text background, transparency, hyperlinks etc are all handled appropriately.

Overall: It has quite a well rounded and extensive support features.

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Many users are tired of over-complicated CD burning applications that are getting harder and harder to use. Sometimes you can waste most of your time just trying to find a function. Cool Burning Studio focuses on what you want!

Features: This application is positioned as a simple to use burner software. This is in contrast with many other products that are quite complicated. The application also offers file back up as an additional feature in addition to the simple operation for disc burning being offered. The burner applications are so complex at times that figuring out the feature is quite complex. His application offers burning of discs quickly, easily. It offers maximum quality as well as minimum hassle.

Burning of data in the form of files and folders on data CD or DVD or even Blu-ray discs are possible with this application. Creating and burning disk images on CD/DVD and Blu-ray discs is easy too. You can both create and burn ISO, CUE/BIN image formats. You can rip music from CDs and burn music to audio CDs and MP3 discs on CD, DVD and Blu-ray in a variety of formats. Audio CDs can be created from WAV, MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files. Video DVD, VCD and SVCD burning features are also available. Making copies of audio, video or data discs are easy and the burn speed and related options get set easily. Erasing of rewriteable media features is also available. The disc types that can be handled include CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs/ DVD-RAM/ BD-Res.

Overall: Good features and ease of use makes this a really useful application. HD-DVD support also is included. That is not an useful feature any longer unless you have a HD player already. Copy creation goes with a responsibility of making sure you do not violate copyright issues.

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