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.

If you’ve been losing precious data to corrupted Microsoft word documents, this word recovery tool could be a life saver.

Stellar Word Recovery is Word recovery software designed to recover and repair corrupted Microsoft Word documents. Stellar Word Recovery is an advanced document-repair program which easily restores damaged Word files after certain instances like virus attacks, unexpected system shutdown, media read error, etc.

Want to give it a shot? Go to http://www.stellarinfo.com/word-recovery.htm for more info and trial 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/

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/

If you’ve been searching for a personal and business info manager that can serve you well but the price of most of them keeps turning you off, this freeware might just be what you need.

SEO Note is a freeware personal and business information manager for Windows. With this cool tool you can save all your personal and business notes in a single file, easily organize them and simplify your life easily.

Don’t you think it’s about time you stop spending quality time searching for phone numbers, names, plans and ideas? Why don’t you try out this software, it’s free.

Want to see if it will serve you well? Go to http://seonote.info/

Always running late? Well this alarm clock may be just what you need. Atomic Alarm Clock lets you alert yourself about important events so that you don’t miss them with different alarms and it also allows you to replace your Windows tray clock using different skins.

Alarm clock is more than just reminding you of events though, it also can run a program, log off, reboot, shut down, or power off. It’s also an atomic-time synchronizer and advanced replacement for Windows tray clock. The fact that it displays the time for any of the time zones, makes it a really useful tool. Over 100 skins are included in the distribution.

In the latest version, Atomic Alarm Clock 4.6 which just hit the software market recently, the latest major change is the inclusion of Multi-Language system.

Want to give it a shot? Go to http://www.drive-software.com/atomicalarmclock.html

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.

AV Music Morpher Gold is a powerful music editing software with real time morphing and audio file manipulating tools.

With this software, you can change voice & tempo, add beat, apply effect in real time or morph to new file. You can even extract or remove voice out of a song; and copy, cut, paste audio file in wave chart. With about 100 effects to apply, edit/mix, this software is really worth having. The fact that it also supports mp3, mp2, wma, wav, ape, ogg, au, and irc makes it real cool.

The cool changes in the latest version AV MUSIC MORPHER GOLD 4.0, includes:

• New combined voice remover-extractor;
• New surround sound effects;
• Improved multitrack editor;
• Improved voice remover;
• Improved voice extractor;
• Plus all Music Morpher 4.0 features. 

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