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…)

Here is a block puzzle game worth checking out. Befuddled3 is a one of a kind, true 3D block puzzle game that will test your speed, sorting abilities, and problem solving skills.

The 3D environment in which the game is played makes it so much fun. You will have to rotate around the board, rotate to a different height, angle, and zoom in and out to move blocks around the board.

Grassy plains, deserts, mountains, jagged plains, and caverns are some of the environments you can choose from to play the game in. There are special environment effects such as fog, darkness, and rain that can make the levels more difficult to complete.

Some of the features of this cool game include:

• 50 standard levels;
• True 3D puzzle game;
• Level builder to create your own levels;
• Online score board;
• Awesome 3D graphics.

If you are a lover of block puzzle games, you will definitely love Befuddled. Go to http://www.brightbug.com/befuddled3.html for trial download.

If you are a great music fan like I am you are going to love this freeware. Desktop Album Display allows you to place the covers of your favorite music albums on your desktop, but that’s not all with this software you can use the album covers on your desktop to launch your favorite media player providing you cool and easy access to your favorite tunes.

Just yesterday, a new version of this software was released. The new version is Desktop Album Display 1.50. The major changes in this new version include:

• Added support for additional media players
• Large improvement on the rendering of the album covers

This has two effects, improve the quality of the covers to ‘Photoshop’ rendering standards and the decrease in memory usage by 75%

How about that,  having your favorite music albums plastered on your desktop to reflect your taste and to give you easy access to your music.

Want to check it out, go to http://www.jgaudencio.com

Here is a good tool for organizing and animating your photos. TurboDemo Album is a perfect tool for organizing and animating your photos. It offers animations like balloons, sound and annotations. You can also add comments and background music to your photos. It allows a quick editing of your photos.

What will TurboDemo Album help you achieve?

• Create your very own digital photo albums with TurboDemo Album
• Animate your Photo Album with effects and various objects
• Compose pictures from weddings, vacations, and all your special events
• Add funny effects like text balloons and text notes to your slide show
• Organize and distribute your Albums as you wish.

Want to check it out? Check out the trial version and see if it’s worth your financial investment.

Visit http://www.turboalbum.com/eng/index.htm for more info and download.

JLC’s Internet TV is a program for watching free online TV channels. You will enjoy the fact that it gives you a wide range of choices as it automatically finds over 1400 channels and have an online updater to keep the channel list updated.

Still not sure this is for you, check out some of its cool features:

• Watch over 1400 online TV channels for free!
• User friendly interface with inbuilt channel list
• Channel updater which keeps your list synchronized with the list at World Wide Internet TV
• Program updater automatically keeps your program up to date
• Powerful search function lets you easily find any channel
• Favorite list to keep a track of your favorite channels
• Absolutely NO spyware/adware or malware included!

The latest major change in the latest version is the inclusion an installer.

Want to check it out? Go to http://jlc-software.com/index.php?page=internet_tv.html

If you are using YouTube and you’ve been looking for something to help with your video streams then you need to try out SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube makes your videos stream faster and play smoother, reducing buffering problems and video “hiccups”. One really cool thing you will really love about this tool is that its unique video search lets you find the latest and hottest videos around the web easily. But that’s not all the “Recently Accelerated” list gives you instant access to the last videos played, so you can have easy and quick access to your favorites.

The new version, SpeedBit Video Accelerator 2.0 Beta, which was released a couple of days ago, now supports more site. So it’s no longer just a YouTube thing.

Here are the latest changes in the new Beta Version:

• Added acceleration for dailymotion.com
• Added acceleration for metacafe.com
• Added acceleration for grouper.com
• Added acceleration for itunes.com
• Search mechanism upgraded to a new Solr based search engine

Want to check it out, it’s freeware!!!! Go to http://www.speedbit.com/video%5FAccelerator/

Here is a video chat tool worth checking out, Camfrog Video Chat.

Camfrog Video Chat has real video chat rooms where you can see and hear many users on webcam at a time. What are the cool features you will enjoy with Camfrog Video Chat? A live directory of users with photos, a live video chat room directory, instant messaging, a contact list, and an extremely easy to use UI.

The cool thing about is that no webcam is required to hear or see people, but it is recommended.

The latest version, Camfrog Video Chat 3.91.22594 which was just recently released has these changes:

• Multimedia upgraded to maximize compatibility with all systems
• Some usability upgrades
• Parental controls now turned on by default for users 13-15 years of age
• Users 13-15 do not have user profiles

Want to give it a shot? Go to http://www.camfrog.com/

If you love scrabble and word games, you are going to love this game, WordZap.

WordZap is a word game where you race your computer opponent to create the most unique words from a given set of letters. When opponents make the same word, it is zapped from both lists. As you get better, your computer opponent becomes cleverer to match your ability.

WordZap is a fast-paced addictive word game you can play over the Net — or against the computer. Though the game is interesting, if you are not into word spell games you may find it boring. But for those who love playing with words the game is fun.

The only thing you may hesitate about this game is its price, $20 may seem to much for something hat would have better success as freeware. But you can have as well time with the trial version and see if it’s worth your money.

Check it out HERE or visit http://www.wordzap.com/

This is a cool little program that adds cool effects when you click on icons in your PC such as folder or program icons.

It has plugin-based effects, so users can create their own effects and it includes 3 pretty cool looking ones as default. Some extra ones can be download from here. You choose which particular effect you want to use by right clicking on the tray icon and clicking “Plugins”.

This program has apparently been made just for fun, so depending on your point of view, you will either think its a cool addition to customizing your computer, or just another thing that doesn’t do much.

Whatever your opinion, it’s free, so to see it in action, go try it out as its easier to see working than it is to try and describe it click here for more info and to download it.

This is a free online service which enables you to add comic book style captions to photos. You can then send your friends the url of your captioned photo.

It’s simple to use, you simply go to the site and then enter the url of the photo you wish to add a caption to, this can be your own photo, or one you find online, anything at all really. On the next screen you can type your caption in a speech bubble. To position the speech bubble you just click and drag the edge of it.

On the next screen you just click “save scene” and now you can bookmark the url or send it to your friends.

Pretty cool site that’s sure to get some laughs when you add funny captions to your friend’s photos. Check it out here.