Spacetime is a program that presents Web pages and search results as floating slabs that can be flipped through, organized, and navigated in 3-D.

SpaceTime users can “fly” through search results such as Web pages, pictures, and eBay auction items. By turning your view to the left, right, up, or down, you can see all the Web pages you’ve previously called up and zoom in on the one you want.

When you launch SpaceTime, you’ll see a Web page address bar at the top of the screen as well as a bar for entering search terms. As with Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, a user can select different search engines; SpaceTime’s search bar includes Yahoo and Google (and their respective image-search functions), Flickr, and eBay. Web pages and search results are shown in the center of the screen and float against a light-blue background with clouds. At the bottom of the SpaceTime screen, there is also a two-dimensional timeline that shows a thumbnail view of each search you’ve made or page you’ve called up.

The lasting value of programs like this is usually questionable,as the novelty value soon wears off,. But I guess maybe in the future as computers continue to become more powerful, we might be seeing more things like this.

Check it out here to download it or see the demo presentation.

Here is a cool emulator worth checking out.

iDeaS is a Nintendo DS emulator that can run NDS games on Windows PC with OpenGL. So far, it has emulated the ARM7 GBA processor at 100%, but the ARM9 dual screen processor at 90%.

The plugin system came originally from UltraHLE N64 emulator so that further support can achieved without looking at the source code of the emulator.

The latest version, iDeaS 1.0.1.5 which has just been released has these changes:

• Added LDRD and STRD opcodes;
• Added HuffUnComp BIOS function;
• Added Square Root BIOS function;
• Added command line options;
• Added zipped rom support (the emulator slows down);
• Added basic frameskip;
• Added support for M3, Supercard CF and Supercard One files;
  Added Run to Cursor(F6) and Step Over(F8) in debugger;
• Added support for Shadow Polygons;
• Added support for .ds.gba and .sc.nds files;
• Added Rotation feature;
• Added Save/Load game capability;
• Fixed unaligned memory access on LDRH opcode;
• Fixed a bug in textures management;
• Fixed a bug in 3D matrices management;
• Fixed a bug in LIGHT_VECTOR register;
• Fixed a bug in NORMAL register;
• Fixed a bug in GXSTAT register;
• Fixed a bug in Extended Draw Mode management;
• Fixed a bug in microphone support

It’s Free! Go to http://spazioinwind.libero.it/linoma/ideas.html to check it out!

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/

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.

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.

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.

Are you really interested in some creative and funny artwork like cartoons, logos, etc? Here is something very interesting for you. It is a shareware tool named Intocartoon Pro.

This software application is fantastic tool to convert photos to various other forms. This tool can convert your photo into a cartoon, an avatar, an illustration, an icon or even a water color image. The perfection level of this tool is so high that images can even be assumed as handmade. All this can be achieved just in seconds.

You need to download a photo from any external device from hard disk to thumb drives and DVDs. This photo file can be in any format like JPG, BMP, and GIF etc. Intocartoon Pro uses it to create the desired artwork for you. The art work can be colored as well as black and white as required. Let’s draw!

(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.

If you loved the game, Minesweeper, you will definitely like this crazy remix.

Crazy Minesweeper is a crazy remix of the classic Minesweeper. You are expected to find all mines of different power on the game field and survive. It’s a challenging and interesting game so you are sure to have loads of fun. New rules change logic of playing and makes the game more challenging and interesting.

Changes in the latest version include:

• New smiles images in Classic mode;
• Now flags used in Classic mode to mark cells with mines;
• Records now saved in user’s application data folder;
• Several bug fixes for large fonts;
• Several improvements and bugixes in GUI.

The only downside to this game is the fact that it’s shareware, it would have been more successful as a freeware.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.astatix.com/crazyminesweeper.php

Warning: If you don’t like games like minesweeper this will be a waste of your time and money.