Puzzle game fans may want to check this one out. It’s called Treasures of Persia and it is set in Persia backgrounds. In the game, you play as a treasure hunter and your mission is to put gem chips and other pieces on the board in the right order, so that they self-destruct and relieve place for ever arriving new pieces.

Twilight rooms of a Persian palace offer picturesque settings for Treasure of Persia, a tricky multilevel puzzle. Treasure hunters who correctly join gem chips will be amply rewarded. Their names will be marked in history to awe and inspire others. It’s a simple game with nice scenery, so it’s worth checking out. If you are not a puzzle fan don’t bother, you won’t find this any bit interesting.  Puzzle fans go try it out and see if it catches your fancy enough to call for your money.

Go to http://en.realore.com/treasureofpersia for trial version and more info.

If more often than not you type similar data day in day out, this software can help you reduce the effort and time spent on typing. Quick-Type automates your typing for you. You simply give Quick-Type all the common pieces of text you type, along with a keyword for each of them. Then whenever you type that keyword in future, it gets replaced with your text.

The only problem I have with this software is it that though it does a good job, I think it would fare better as freeware getting donations than expecting people to cough up $15 for this kind of  typing tool. Right now it’s a shareware, so a trial version is available for free, check it out, and be the judge of whether it’s worth your 15 bucks or not. But I must confess it does what the publisher claims.

Check it out at http://www.quick-type.com/

Here is a free tool that is actually worth a lot! HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease.

With this application, you will enjoy online update of hosts file; and be able to enable/disable usage of hosts file. You will also be able to open Hosts file with one click; merge two hosts files; and use built-in hosts editor.

That’s not all HostsMan will help you prevent other programs of writing to the hosts; scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks; easily install newly downloaded hosts file; create encrypted backups of your hosts file; resolve host names; keep log of latest blocked sites; exclusion list and more.

HostsMan 3.0.42 is the latest new updated version and it has these latest changes:

• Changed: GetVolumeInformation is now used to determine file system;
• Fixed: HostsMan doesn’t save settings when configuration file does not exist;
• Fixed: some settings are hidden when configuration file does not exist;
• Fixed: behavior of HostsServer window on Vista;
• Fixed: checking for Peter Lowe’s hosts update fails;
• Fixed: minor bugs

If you are interested in this software, it’s free, check it out at http://hostsman.abelhadigital.com/  

If you’ve tried different download managers/ accelerators but you haven’t really gotten the desired result, you may want to give this a shot. Internet Download Manager can help to accelerate downloads, [the publisher claims by up to 500 percent] schedule downloads, recover and resume downloads.

The cool thing about Internet Download Manager is that features a smart download logic accelerator with dynamic file segmentation and multipart downloading technology to increase ftp, http and https downloading speed.

A new updated version has just been released, Internet Download Manager 5.11, the latest changes in this new version include:

• Completely redeveloped IDM scheduler;
• Added periodic synchronization of files and the possibility to create new queues for downloading or synchronization;
• Added new features on starting and stopping queue processing;
• Improved user interface;
• Added processing of context menu key, fixed tabbing order on all dialogs, added mnemonic keys to the main menu and the menu of IDM Grabber;
• Bug fixes

Want to give it a try? Go to http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

The gist about most software that are supposed to help you get downloads easily is that they are not ass fast as the publishers claim them to be but GSA Clip Spider is one software that lets you download movie clips easily. 

The cool thing about GSA Clip Spider is that it lets you download all the movie clips from a webserver automatically with or without sublinks. GSA Clip Spider is easy to use and gives you impressive results in a relatively short time. This cool download manager for movies searches all your favorite web links, spiders, parses, grabs, extracts and crawls all the movies you would have downloaded by hand.

GSA Clip Spider is a shareware so you can check out the demo version and see if it’s what you need. The demo version offers only limited functionality and does not include many functions available in the registered version, with the demo version you can to download  20 movie clips, so it’s enough to let you decide whether this is what your money or not.

Go check it out at http://www.gsa-online.de/eng/clip_spider.html

Good news for writers! Writers Project Organizer is manuscript orientated software for writers. If you’ve had problems with organizing our writing projects, this will put an end to such problems.

Designed to help you organize your writing projects to make you more efficient at your writing, this software is a must have for serious writers. This software organizes all aspects of your novel, short story or screenplay, from first draft to polished product. With Writers Project Organizer you can track word and page count, date started, date finished and date sold. Also included in the manuscript window are pages for character references, plot, outline, synopsis, theme/pitch, ToDo, notes, RTF notes and a submissions viewer.

One thing is worthy of note though, this is not a tool that will write your story for you, it’s not for lazy writers looking for a quick fix, it’s a tool for serious writers, it helps you coordinate your thoughts and writing events.

Want to give it a try? Check out the 15 day trial version and see if it can serve your writing needs. Go to http://pindersoft.com/wpo.htm

Desktoptwo is a free web-based desktop and the whole thing is in Flash, a pretty cool example of how far Flash has come. The name suits it well as provides the look and feel of your actual desktop and the applications that you normally access through your regular desktop.

The cool thing about this whole thing is the way it almost replicates the way you would use your actual desktop, for example it even lets you change the walllpaper!

It has a good range of functions such as word processor, email, contacts, RSS feed, MP3 player, Website Editor and a big 1GB of storage.

It doesn’t require any extra installation and is easy to use anywhere so it’s also worth checking out if you travel frequently but like your own personal space when it comes to your desktop!. Go check it out here.

Klipfolio is a pretty useful utility for anyone who regularly checks a lot of different websites. Its main feature is similar to RSS feeds in that it brings the updated content to you instead of you having to go to your favorite websites one by one to check for updates (It also includes the ability to add regular RSS feeds).

You add “Klips” from the Klipfolio websites which enable you to have updated content/links, weather, or system info such as memory usage, etc. I like how a lot of information such as a summary appears when you hover over the “headlines”, this saves a lot of time (or distracts you from getting anything productive done, depending on your point of view really!)

You can place it anywhere you want such as on the top/bottom or sides of the screen and it allows auto-hiding, which saves space. There’s a lot of “Klips” available for it at the Klipfolio website.

My only complaint is that it sometimes crashes (maybe thats just on my system) but i look forward to more stable releases. Apart from that, this is a potentially time saving and pretty customizable, easy to use, useful program.

Go here for more info …and its free!

LEGO Digital Designer lets you build anything in your imagination using virtual LEGO bricks, right on your computer screen.

This version has increased stability and a brand new set of LEGO elements for you to build with. You can also print out an inventory of your creation and take it to any LEGOLAND theme park or LEGO Store and purchase the pieces you need to turn your virtual model into a reality! It includes 763 brick types and a newly redesigned interface, along with partly built models to get you started.

LEGO fanatics young and old are sure to enjoy this program as are the people they live with, who won’t have to worry about tripping over anything as long as they are keeping it virtual!

Check out more info and download it here.

Need software to extract and save flash movies from the internet? Movie Extractor is up to the task.

Movies Extractor Scout allows you to save flash movies from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.

This software allows you to save flash movies, flash videos and flash games extracted from major browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers. You can easily save and store favorite flash movies on your computer using the “Favorites” feature.

Want to see if it’s what you need? Check it out at http://www.bytescout.com/moviesextractorscout.html