Alien Arena is completely free cross-platform First Person Shooter based on the Quake III engine. Today we'll take a look because geeks love cool games and free cool games are even better!
The one thing to watch out for during installation is unchecking the Crawler toolbar from being installed in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Before beginning a game you go into the Galaxy and choose a server and game to start in. You can also play as a single player.
This includes cool fast game play where you collect different power ups, armor, and weapons to shoot other aliens with over 40 different levels.
When your character is killed you get a quick view of the statistics of other players before regenerating.
You can choose between five characters, six game play modes like Capture the Flag and All Out Assault. The game is a 200MB download and is cross platform which can be played on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
Download Alien Arena for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Do you come across an interesting online radio station and wish you could easily record the program? Today we will look at a great free application that allows you to easily browse over 12,000 online radio stations and record them with one click.
Installation is a snap and once the app is running you can quickly start a search for different stations. To begin recording just click on the Record button.
While Recording there will be a red indicator in the EQ section. To stop recording just hit the record button again.
If you try to change the station while recording a warning message will pop up.
Right-click the taskbar icon to get access to different playing features and a few EQ settings.
There are some options you can change around like how the playback behaves and also recording options. It will split the stream to individual tracks and you can specify the mp3 bitrate.
They boast over 12,000 radio stations from around the world and if you don't find one of your favorites you can always add it.
Click on the heart icon to save a station to your favorites list.
It would be better with a better browsing feature and it definitely needs different skins (which are currently in development). Overall this is a great utility because there are so many different stations and recording them is extremely easy.
Download RadioSure for Windows
What is Eraser? 
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.
Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.
There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.
Eraser Features
Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP (32/64),Vista (32/64), Windows Server 2003 and DOS. It works with any drive including IDE, SCSI and RAID, and CD-RW's.
Uses the Guttmann (Default), Pseudorandom Data and US DoD 5220-22.M methods.
Erases Files and Folders.
Erases Files/Folders that were only previously 'deleted'.
Erases all hard drives using 'Darik's Boot and Nuke' method.
Erases Index.dat on Reboot
Erases Encrypted Files and Drives.
Erases FreeSpace on 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.
Erases contents of the Recycle Bin.
Erases Compressed Files and Drives.
Erases Network Files, Floppy Disks, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW.
Erases Windows Temporary Files.
Erases Internet Cookies.
Erases Paging (swap) file.
Erases Internet Cache.
Appears as an 'Erase' option on the Context Menu of Windows Explorer and Recycle Bin.
Comes with an Eraser Scheduler that allows you to create user-defined tasks.
Defeats File Recovery software applications Hardware tools.
Supports FAT32 and NTFS Files Systems.
Eraser is easy to use and comes with a dedicated support network.
Have you ever wished you could extend the time your able to use a free trial ?
Well you can, with freeware that will remove date protection from programs which expire after a specific date, enabling you to use most shareware or trial version software indefinitely.
* Start by opening Date Cracker
* Click Add
* Enter the description for your program
* Click the [...] button at the bottom of the screen
* Search for the executable file of the trial program
* Set the Simulated Run Date past the trial expiration date
* Click Run
That’s it, you’re now on your way to using your favorite trials hassle free.
A Few Tips:
The key is to run the software via Date Cracker when you run a trial for the first time.
Dates should be entered in full e.g. 2090/06/30
Conclusion:
It’s possible a license agreement may exist with a particular software manufacturer, so this may not work on some programs.
Developers are aware of such programs and could devise better algorithms so that their software would be better protected, however, there will always be a newer version of Date Cracker 2000.
Date Cracker 2000 is the best solution to completing your projects without depleting your budget.
License: Freeware
OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, Windows2000, WinNT4.x, WinXP
Download DC2000 ZIP (1.5MB)
If you’re unable to login to Windows because you’ve forgotten the administrator password, give Ophcrack Live CD a spin. It can crack even very tough passwords in a matter of minutes.
The GUI may not be impressive, but very functional. Real time graphs display the progress in the main window.
You gotta have a copy of this because you never know when your memory will fail!
1: You can buy a license again.
2: You can buy a product key finder program.
3: Or you can use free SoftKey Revealer.
Features:
- Displays Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista 32-bit product keys
- Displays Microsoft Office XP/2003/2007 product keys
- Displays over 700 software product keys
- Save to Text or Word (Word XP and above)
You’ve got the password hidden behind the dots on a webpage/window. But you don’t know what that password is. That’s when SnadBoy Revelation becomes a lifesaver of sorts.
You just need to drag a ‘Circled+’ icon to the text box where the password is and you’ll instantly see the password in the app’s main window. It seems like intimidating at first try, but the tool is actually quite easy to use.
Last week, I was able to recover my network’s password that I had entered on my modem configuration page using this tool. So you never really know when it could come handy.
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Note: DriverMax only works on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2003 (all service packs). Driver downloads are *only* available for Windows Vista and Windows XP users.
came across a wonderful open source archiver for windows, linux, and mac recently. It’s called PeaZip and yes it’s open source. Thank heavens. No more free trials!!!
PeaZip will unpack and archive to and from just about any type of file format. The only ones I ever deal with personally are tar and zip so PeaZip works absolutely perfect for me. Don’t be an idiot like me and get stuck on free trials (or even worse, purchasing the actual product) when you can get a tool that’s just as good like PeaZip. Why are people selling this type of software anyways? That’s for a whole other discussion so I won’t get into that. Just check out PeaZip or click here for the link.
The Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters. Enter the online Rasterbation Gallery to see what the images look like.
The Rasterbator originated as a web application at homokaasu.org, but it has gained so much popularity that the web server occassionally cannot handle the load and a standalone version was in place.
The standalone version is the same as the web version, except that downloading images from the web and image cropping are not supported, and you have to set the output size numerically (number of pages wide/high) rather than using a fancy drag handle. The results are exactly the same.
Download
Click here to download The Rasterbator Standalone 1.2! (866 kb)The zip file includes the application, its source code and SharpDevelop project files. The source code is licensed under the GPL.
