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/

This is a video convertor that enables you to convert several different video file formats into the FLV (Flash Video) format. This is the popular format used on many video sites such as YouTube that enables instant playback of video files from a webpage.At the moment it supports AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, and WMV files. You can also choose the frame rate, bit rate, and audio-compression options. Conversion seems to work very fast too, always a plus! A useful detail is the several included presets, depending on your network speed type (dial-up or DSL, for example). You can also save settings for later use.

Overall, Riva is a great freeware tool for anyone looking for a reliable (and free!) way to convert video files for the Web.

You can get it right here and more info.

WarRock Is a free online FPS (First Person Shooter) game, it also comes with premium options if you’ve got some money you wanna spend. It’s totally free to play online once you download it, but the download is pretty big at a little over 600MB, so you better have a fast connection.

The story behind WarRock is that civil war in the fictional country of Derbaran has erupted. You get to use a large selection of deadly weapons and vehicles in story-driven gameplay. (In the air, on the land and over the sea.) Although there may be better games out there, you get what you pay for and this isn’t such a bad game considering it can be played for free.

Check out the site here to download it and find out more info.

A new updated version of RapGet has been released; RapGet 1.34b. In case you don’t know what RapGet is let me provide you with necessary info. RapGet (RAPidshareGET) is a downloader with code recognition for such share servers as rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, sendspace.com, turboupload.com, speedshare.org slil.ru and many others.

The fact that it has support for 67 free share services makes it a really useful tool. RapGet offers multilingual support – about 48 languages.

Want to check it out? It is free, go to http://www.rapget.com/en/ for download and more info.

There are some web editors purely or beginners. Then there are some for hardcore professionals. Best of both worlds – Roden Web Editor! An editor for both the beginners and the pros!

The beginners will get started immediately through ready-to-use document templates and wizards, and can also place tags and codes and effects anywhere on the page with little fuss. They’d find the easy to use interface of the program a big asset. For the professionals, the program holds enough juice in its capability to edit in many languages – HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

Intellisense – a code-sensing technology which helps you as you write code, code checking facility, myriad of built-in functions, FTP support, preview and capture, Search Engine Optimization, internal viewer for many documents and references support for various web languages and keywords, all these features make the latest release a very potent one, considering that it is available for free. Purists would still, however, look elsewhere.

(More info and download)

If you have been looking for a free application for the management of your DVD database, you need look no further; DVDAttache is up to the task.

DVDAttache is a free application for managing your database of DVD titles. What I love about this application is that no matter what kind of OS you are using there is a version readily available for you. DVDAttache has the following editions available: DVDAttache for Windows, DVDAttache for Mac OS X and DVDAttache for Linux.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.dvdattache.com/wp/index.php

NOTE: It works best with Windows XP, I’m not really sure about its compatibility with Vista.

Want to play PC games easily with or without joystick support? You need to check out Xpadder.

Xpadder simulates keypresses and mouse movements using a gamepad, allowing you to use your controller to play PC games with poor or no joystick support.

Cool feature supported include:

• Play PC games with poor or no gamepad support;
• Add gamepad support to emulated, internet and DOS games;
• Play multiplayer games with each player using their own gamepad;
• Control video/music players using their shortcut keys;
• Use a gamepad with a web browser or any windows application;
• No installation needed – run straight from the Zip file;
• Designed for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The latest version making the rounds in the software market is Xpadder 4.4, latest changes in this version include: (more…)

If you are a Windows User and you have been searching for a multi protocol IM client that is easy to install and very efficient, then you need search no further, Miranda IM is up to the task.

Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Designed to be resource efficient and very easy to use, this cool tool uses very little memory, requires no installation and can easily be carried around on a retrievable media like flash drives or floppy discs.

According to the publisher: “The goal of this project is not to duplicate the functionality of AOL’s ICQ Client, but to design a client that has the basic features that is designed for mouse-less operation with a small memory requirement.”

If you ask me, I’ll say the program does just that. This is not one of those software that are “all hype and no help”, it’s really cool and very efficient. Scour the internet and check out all top review sites, everyone agrees that this software is really something great.

Go to http://www.miranda-im.org/  to check it out. It’s open source, that means it’s free to use and even modify.