Light Artist is a program that allows you to add realistic lighting effects to your photos. The cool thing about this program is that it allows you to easily make your ordinary and undistinguished photos sunnier, romantic and if it’s gloomy you want, it’s gloomy you’ll get, it’s all up to you.

With this program, you can modify the light color, add multiple light sources, change the surface qualities of the image and add various ambient illumination effects. But that’s not all, using one of the image channels as the texture channel you can add 3D relief to your images. Ain’t that Cool?

The latest version which hit the software market sometime towards the end of last month is Light Artist 1.5. If you’ve been using a previous version go get the new version fast, it’s free, not a trial version, but totally free.

Go to  http://vicman.net/lightartist/ for free download and more info.

In summary here are the features you will enjoy with Light Artist 1.5:

• Load and save jpg, bmp;
• Add multiple light sources to the image;
• Adjust light source type and parameters;
• Add 3d relief to the images.

Once again head on to http://vicman.net/lightartist/ for a free download.

If you loved the old game, PONG, you are definitely going to find this one interesting.

eXtreme Pong 3D is a remake of the old game “pong”. With three modes: Fun, World championship, and a normal game, this game is a cool one for pong lovers. The Fun-mode is designed to add an extra fun edge to the game, during this mode of the game, some special symbols appear on the playground which take effect if you strike them with the ball.

The game is played in 3D and you can play against the Computer or against up to 3 friends. You will love the fact that you get to be in total control of the game as you can either use the mouse or even the keyboard. You also get to choose the playground and the skin of the ball you prefer.

In the latest version, eXtreme Pong 3D 1.3.0, these latest improvements have been done:

• German and English language fixes;
• Many bugs fixed;
• Stats added.

Sounds like something you might be interested in? Visit http://www.medien-ecke.de.vu/

For English translation, click on the British Flag on the site beneath “TRANSLATIONS.”

Here is a game you should check out. Turret Wars is a fast paced 3D arcade game where you battle against enemy gun turrets, finding and destroying them before they find and destroy you.When the popular update, Turret Wars 1.2 was released,some cool features were added. these include:

• 2 fantastic new environments;
• Armor power-up bunkers;
• Mega Blast power-up bunkers;
• Communications tower bonus points bunker;
• Overhead bomber runs that drops bombs on the playing field;
• Revised and expanded scoring system;
• Improved visuals and effects;
• Redesigned interfaces;
• Enhanced high scores ladder.

But the latest updated version which was just released recently is Turret Wars 1.2.2 and it has these changes:

• Game timer has been fixed for out of time games;
• MegaBlast carry over from game to game has been fixed;
• Incorrect environment textures in Canyons and Arctic Fortress have been replaced;
• Extended characters have been included in registration screen for non-us keyboards/OS.

Want to check it out? Go to http://games.sector3.com.au/

Fbilling System – Invoice Maker is simple software used for accounting and invoice creation in a small business. You can create invoices related to purchase, sales, etc. with product and customer details. It has separate database for customer’s details, products details and services. These entire databases can be appended and edited as per requirements.
 
You can also design your invoice with your company’s logo which can be printed as well as sent to the clients through emails. This application searches for the customer’s name and product to be added in invoice through pop-up menu. It also calculates the bill amount as well as discount applicable and displays it in invoice. You can also add comments to your invoice.  You can also save your invoices as PDF files or HTML files. All the invoices and other data are stored as backup files to prevent loss of data.  You can maintain accounts for more than one company in same software and same computer. This software also has powerful calendar. Other important features are password protection, easy to use interface etc.

Fbilling Software main features:

• Easy to overview & easy to use, self-evident screens;
• Unlimited company, simple and quick invoice creation;
• Print or email professional-looking invoices with Your company’s logo;
• Calculate discount rates on invoices;
• PDF support. Email your invoices or reports in PDF format;
• Create various invoice reports, payments reports;
• Each document can automatically be attached and sent by email;
• Multi-currency support;
• Extensive software settings, simple to set-up, learn and use;
• Built-in software updater & built-in database backup;
• Ideal for small and medium business;
• Low price

Etc.

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Label + Envelope Designer Plus is a shareware used to design the labels, envelopes and postcards. This easy to use application can give your labels, envelopes and postcards a very artistic look and gives you the creative satisfaction.

Salient features of this application are as follows. It allows you to print on both sides of the paper. It allows you to print barcodes and Arc texts on your labels. Its design wizard is the most exciting tool which allows you to design your label or envelope with the help of images, texts, etc. You can also choose from a variety of layouts. It also has a tremendous database support for importing the contact lists or other details to be included. You can also create the post cards with the amazing professional photographs. You can also save and send your creations in the form of graphic files. It also supports both black and white and color printers.

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PowerPoint to Video is a simple and powerful PowerPoint to video tool for your business and personal needs. It can convert PowerPoint presentations (ppt files) into video (AVI) files step by step. You just need to follow an easy step by step process for the required conversion. You have to add your ppt file, set the video size, just click on start, play and stop buttons to record your video file. Your presentations can be shared with everyone at your organization.

PowerPoint to Video can put all your original creations with animations and special effects in ppt files. You can also avail the facility to attach sound from any musical instrument including microphone, CD player, or background music, etc to your video file. This way you get a video file which you need to first burn on VCD/DVD disc that can be played on TV, VCD players etc.

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Need a tool for synchronizing and displaying lyrics? Minilyrics is up to the task.

Minilyrics is a fascinating lyrics viewer for synchronizing and displaying lyrics of the currently playing song. The good thing about this software is that it does this in many types of media players including Winamp, Windows Media Player, itunes, MusicMatch Jukebox, Quintessenial Player, foobar2000, and even RealOne.

Make your music come alive with streaming lyrics, check out Minilyrics. The latest version in the software market is Minilyrics 5.2.2760 and it has these latest changes and upgrades in its features:

New:

• Display lyrics in Windows Media Player Visualization area;
• Display lyrics in iTunes Visualization area;
• Support Windows Media Center;
• Support AlbumPlayer;
• Support XMPlay 3.4;
• Add downloads and rating info in the lyrics search result;
• Rate lyrics.

Fixed:

• Auto hide MiniLyrics on playing movie;
• Use Winamp 5’s default theme color;
• Other minor bugs;
• Auto search lyrics with incorrect song title.

Improved:

• Auto choose the file encoding when saving lyrics.

Go to http://www.crintsoft.com/  for more info and download.

This is for those who know what they are doing. ATI Tray Tools is a free utility that runs in the system tray and provides easy right-click access to all of your ATI video card’s crucial settings. With this software you can change anisotropic filtering + antialiasing levels in Direct3D and OpenGL.

That’s not all this application also lets you adjust image quality and turn on/off special driver features. And if all you want to do is to play around with your core and memory speeds, this is the right tool for you. With minimal system resources being used, this software is really worth checking out.

Go to http://www.radeon2.ru/atitray for more info and download!

English Version available here: http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

Little Fighter 2 is a freeware game for the PC. It has multiple characters with various different moves and special moves.

Control is either by joypad or keyboard and there are a variety of gameplay modes: tournament modes and battle modes. You can have up to 4 human players on one computer at a time, but don’t worry if you’re playing alone as the computer AI makes it pretty playable.

The cartoony graphics may or may not suit your taste, but it’s a free game so it’s worth trying out to kill some boredom. If you should find out that you really like this game a lot you can even by action figures from the website. Check it out here and download the game.

Here is a file archiver that comes highly recommended, 7-Zip.

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. It also compresses to ZIP 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip.

The cool thing about this open source tool is that it has an additional powerful command line version and FAR Manager support. 7-Zip in available in two editions: 7-Zip (32-bit) and 7-Zip (64-bit)

Want to check out 7-Zip, go to http://www.7-zip.org/