Drivermax is a program that can backup and re-install your system’s drivers on Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Whenever you need to re-install your operating system,it can get awkward to find and reinstall all your systems drivers..but drivermax claims to turn this potentially time consuming and problematic step into a 5-10 minute job that only requires one restart. It can easily backup all of your systems drivers then simply use it to collectively reinstall these if you should ever need to do so.

The user interface is entirely wizard based; any chosen task is conveniently broken down into 2 or 3 simple screens.
It can also generate a report that lists all installed drivers and includes information such as the version numbers and dates.
This program is registerware (yours to keep for free when you register).

Check it out for more info and the download.

Do you have an ever growing collection of files, data, mp3s etc that you have stored on discs and find it hard to keep track of? If your answer is yes, then CD Storage Master may be useful for you. It allows you to keep a searchable database of all your cd/dvd data.

You can track or search by many parameters such as file name, size, time created, modified,etc and also the metadata of files (like MP3 ID3 Tags, image info, Audio CD internet CDDB information, and more). In addition it can read these details from inside compressed archives.

It also has ‘Active Storage Monitor’…a neat feature to notify you if you insert a disc that isn’t already in its database.

So if you have a big collection of data on discs this might be real useful to catalogue and search them.

Check it out here for more info and a full list of features and filetypes it supports.

Need good emulation software to copy discs? Check out Alcohol 52%.

Alcohol 52% is CD/DVD emulation software that allows users to copy discs. With this cool software, you can store your most used or important CDs as images on your computer and run them at 200x speed from up to 31 virtual CD or DVD drives.

The good thing about Alcohol is its compatibility with most drives available. It supports the latest image file types including – MDS, CCD, BIN, CUE, ISO, CDI, BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA and many more.

This software works well with all Windows OS except Windows 98.

Check out the trial version and see if it’s what you need at http://www.alcohol-soft.com/ 

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!

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.

Lovers of Christian music will definitely want to have this on their PC. Christian Music Toolbar is 100% FREE and it allows you listen to Christian radio directly from your browser. If you love Christian music you will really enjoy this because it gives you the opportunity to listen to and change stations as you browse the internet.

One other good thing about this free toolbar is that it installs and uninstalls in seconds, so if you decide you don’t want it, it is to get rid of unlike some software that are very hard to uninstall.

This software opens you up to different brands of Christian Music as you get a number of genres of Christian Music, over a 100 great stations to choose from. It also comes with a Google search box, and a favorites section.

If you are really into Christian Music what are you waiting for? Go get it, listen to the Best of the Best of Christian Music regularly.

CLICK HERE for more info and 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/

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.