The Wizard’s Castle is very similar to a game that I played on my mom’s IBM when I was a lad of fifteen. Games were never good quality back in the early eighties, and we’ve really grown a lot since then.  The Wizard’s Castle is a reminder why computer games grew up.  Read the rest of this entry »

Google launched docs.google.com around a week back which is a combination of two Online Google Applications : Writely(Google Docs now) & Google Spreadsheets. Before these two applications were separate but now, all your documents created in either Google Docs or Spreadsheets are shown in one interface which is very convenient feature for those who use (or planning to use) both of these applications. All your documents are stored online which means that you need not fear about power outages and hard disk failure and for editing/accessing your documents you need any computer with a browser and an internet connection.

The best thing about these Google Applications is that they are free, easy to use and you can have collaboration with others which means working on a same document or spredsheet with others at a same time. You can publish your documents as web pages which can be accessible to everyone or you can make them private. Documents can also be published to your blog and the tag assigned to the document will be used as the categor of the blog post. You can save files to your own computer in DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODF, PDF, RTF and HTML formats. Read the rest of this entry »

Its estimated that a large percentage of computers are infected with spyware, so its important that you take the necessary precautions to ideally prevent it getting on your computer in the first place, but failing that, it’s necessary to scan your computer and remove any spyware that may have already installed,as many spywares can secretly install themselves on your computer in the background, just by visiting a webpage, without you having to even download or install anything.

It’s very likely you already have some of this unwanted spyware already on your computer. So this is why you need a program such as this, and this one has been around a long while now and has a very good reputation. I recommend you grab this free download and then i can almost guarantee it’ll find some little nasties you didnt know were there, let me know how you get on!

More information and a free download here

Even after you uninstall them, many program leave traces behind, which can clutter your computer after a while, slowing it up and even leading to errors. “Your Uninstaller” is an uninstaller program that cleans all that clutter and leftovers off your computer.

You simply uninstall the unwanted program through “Your Uninstaller”, it calls up the unwanted program’s default uninstaller and uninstalls the regular way, and then after that, it works its magic, scanning for leftover files, folders and registry entries that would normally be left behind by many programs if you dont use a third party uninstaller such as this one. Ive been using this for over a year and i highly recommend it for people who like to keep their computer running smoothly and error free and anyone who wants a safe, clean way to try out new programs from sites such as this one your reading now!

More info and a free download here

Streaming Audio Studio is the complete suite of tools for analyzing, recording, and editing audio. That would be enough to recommend it, if it didn’t also convert audio formats, help you to make loops, and capture and clean up crusty old recordings. It supports the most popular audio formats, the ones you expect like wav, mp3, wma, but some other out of the way ones too like vqf and ogg.

But as the name implies there is more to this software than just a nifty audio editing package. It streams otherwise inaccessible audio streams to disc as MP3 so you can now record all those broadcast shows for later consumption or for use on your MP3 player or iPod.

Stream over to http://www.streaming-audio.net/ for more details and a download.

Echo the Mouse is a gentle reminder of the days of gaming when there was a time limit. Back then, the whole point is to make your gaming experience was to make it a brief distraction, not like the games of today where it will totally suck you in until you can’t do anything but to defeat “just one more level”.  Read the rest of this entry »

Free Audio Recorder is a simple program that enables you to record any sound you can hear on the speakers on your computer. You can record sounds with this program you can’t normally access because they are streamed and not passed through the audio system, but Free Audio Recorder does and it records them onto your hard disc as a file. You can set the recording quality from minimal 11500 up to 44100 CD quality.

There’s really not much to it, it’s a not a do-it-all swiss army knife; it’s just a tiny program which does just one job really well. Plus it’s a pretty much three clicks and you’re out. And you can’t argue with that price. If you need to record streamed radio and make audio CDs or MP3s out of it, then this is the ideal software for the job.

Go to the home page and download it here

Mozilla Firefox is a free, Open Source, cross-platform Browser with features like tabbed browsing, integrated pop-up blocker, built-in customizable search bar, built-in RSS reader, extension manager & many such time saviing features.

You can easily import your favourites from Internet Explorer inside Firefox which is called ‘Bookmarks’ in firefox. It’s a most downloaded freeware application for home users and well acclaimed by many media companies like Wall Street Journal, Forbes etc. Although Microsoft is implementing most of these features in their upcoming Internet Explorer 7 but i have found it slow compared to Firefox. Spreadfirefox.com Statistics says that Firefox had 200 million downloads in August 2006. And there are many extensions available which can further enhance your browsing experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Spyware Doctor is one of those untils which you either love or you hate. It’s doing a necessary job; all PCs suffer from malware of some kind almost all the time, it’s just a case of how badly it affects performance. The only way to be totally free of it is to scan regularly OR you can have a program do it for you.

Spyware Doctor is one of the auto scanners, and it nips infection with spyware (also adware, Trojan horses, keyloggers, spyware cookies, adbots, spybots, browser hijackers, phishing attacks) and other malware in the bud, live, instantly and as it happens.

It does cost $29.95 to buy once the trial has finished, but it does provide you with very clean machines, and if you run a few of them then some kind of automatic spyware solution might be the only answer. Spyware Doctor is fast, efficient, clearly laid out and does the job beautifully.

For more info scan over to: PC Tools

If you have a need to make a DVD, then you need a DVD maker. Not many applications, even DVD burning programs, have the ability to make (or author) a DVD. Normally you have to use custom DVD authoring software, and while software such as this is coming down in price, it is still not very widespread or cheap. Video DVD Maker FREE is in fact free, so in that sense the price is definitely attractive.

The program lets you capture video from video sources, like TV tuners, webcams, DV cameras, and also import video files from Microsoft AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, Windows Media WMV, ASF, and Quicktime MOV.

This is a great utility and does this one job really well. Obviously it’s designed to make you want to upgrade to the Pro version, which you can for a price, but if you want to you can just use the Free version for ever. This is a much better idea than time limited versions of software; give out a cut-down special edition and a Pro version, and charge only for the Pro version.

Get your free download at the web site http://www.videodvdmaker.com