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DAILY UPDATE July 30, 2010 Running Linux and feel like you're missiong out? ABA Games are open source and some have been ported to linux by Evil Mr Henry. Several other game ports are there too. TORUS TROOPER .......... The racing meets Tempest game. "Torus Trooper is an abstract shooter.".....(free).....GO THERE! TUMIKI FIGHTERS .......... Shoot 'em up with a twist. "Salvage parts from enemies to enhance your firepower.".....(free).....GO THERE! Z-LOCK .......... Not by ABA Games, but it has a similar feel. "Z-lock is a Japanese shooter with a twist: your shot power is directly proportional to the number of enemies locked on to you.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 29, 2010 Part two of our look at ABA Games. Here is an interview with the man behind the madness, Kenta Cho (found via the wikipedia article). GUNROAR .......... Asteriods mixed with Cobra Triangle. "Guns, Guns, Guns! 360-degree gunboat shooter.".....(free).....GO THERE! TORUS TROOPER .......... Like a racing game Tempest style (personal fav). "Speed! More speed! Speeding ship sailing through barrage.".....(free).....GO THERE! rROOTAGE .......... Just fight bosses in your chioce of style. "Defeat autocreated huge battleships. Shootem up game.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 28, 2010 ABA Games .......... Imagine what classic video games would look like with just a little help from simple 3D graphics. You're going to find out. For the next two or three days I (Red) am going to feature some fun stuff from ABA Games. It's a Japanese site, but everything has an English section/page too. PARSEC47 .......... Vertical shoot 'em up. "Defeat retro enemies modernly. Retro-modern hi-speed shmup.".....(free).....GO THERE! TITANION .......... A cross between Galaga and Centipede. "Strike down super high-velocity swooping insects. Fixed shooter in the good old days.".....(free).....GO THERE! MU-CADE .......... Snake meets sumo wrestling. "The Physics Centipede Invasion. Smashup waggly shmup.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 27, 2010 TRACKMANIA NATIONS FOREVER .......... A free Steam racing game. "A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.".....(free).....GO THERE! AMERICA'S ARMY 3 .......... A free Steam FPS game. "Start playing America's Army 3 today. America's Army fans and new players alike can now experience America's Army 3, the official U.S. Army game, which has more authentic military elements including training, technology, weapons, and audio than any other military game.".....(free).....GO THERE! AVIARY TOOLS .......... An online image editor. "Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 8, 2010 This whole update thanks to Cuttheredwire and his skinnables.org. NASA MOONBASE ALPHA.......... Great strategy and simulation game. "NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.".....(free).....GO THERE! ZUGYA DX.......... Cool fun Japanese game. "Scrolling in all directions! Destruction! Destruction! Destruction! Destroy the enemy fortress destroyed by explosion Purazumabonba shooting super! Good score attack even burn! Break Through all 50 stages!".....(free).....GO THERE! ASSAULTCUBE.......... What is AssaultCube? AssaultCube is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Taking place in realistic environments, with fast, arcade gameplay, it's addictive and fun!".....(free).....GO THERE! June 27, 2010 Thanks for all your supportive email.... So many of you have been with us for such a long time.... So I did a little digging and here's some Shell City Fun. This is an early version. (Heh! This is still in my on-drive archive.): Shell City 1999 And here's another hoot--2000--and be sure to check out the old message board: Shell City 2000 June 23, 2010 Friends, we're only going to be posting intermittently over the next few weeks as we decide the fate of Shell Extension City..... This won't affect our other site, Daily Rotation, which is still updated every half hour, 24 hours a day..... Thanks for your patience. June 21, 2010 LEFT SIDER..........Shift the close, maximize and minimize buttons to left side of Windows Explorer. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! SYNC YOUR IPOD WITHOUT ITUNES..........Some of the best free alternatives to using iTunes to sync iPod to computer without iTunes .....(free).....GO THERE! INPUT DIRECTOR.......... Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard and mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other.....(free).....GO THERE! Follow Daily Rotation's Top Headlines on Twitter.... June 17, 2010 DOWNLOAD GOOGLE BOOKS..........Google Books offers a vast library of books and magazines. Some books and magazines are provided as full digital copies that can be read online while others are only available as previews or summaries. Download options are not provided on Google Books which leaves users with no other choice than to read the books and magazines online or use a third party tool to download them .....(free).....GO THERE! DUAL MONITOR TOOLS.......... Dual Monitor Tools is a software package for Windows users with dual or multiple monitor setups. All the tools are open source and free, and each tools is independent so you only need to install or run what you want.....(free).....GO THERE! TRANSFORM WINDOWS VISTA TO WINDOWS 8.......... You might wish to change and try something new and original, something which has not been released yet…like Windows 8! Here is a great, free package which turns and transforms your boring Windows Vista to Windows 8.....(free).....GO THERE! June 15, 2010 MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC HOME CINEMA.......... This project is based on the original "Media Player Classic." Many new player features have been integrated in this player, such as: An option to remove Tearing, MPC Home Cinema in Your Language (see all languages), Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform, Support for EVR renderer, Bugs and vulnerability fixes, All previous features from the Guliverkli Project (MPC) from Gabest.....(free).....GO THERE! ON TOP REPLICA..........You can clone whatever window is on your screen and watch it in a small thumbnail that always keeps on top of all other windows (even if it hasn't mouse focus). So, for example, you can watch a movie while coding. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! SINGLE-USE CODE IN HOTMAIL.......... The new Windows Live Hotmail includes several new security features, notable among which, is the Single-use Code feature.....(free).....GO THERE! June 14, 2010 WIN EXT..........Customise your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features. WinExt consists of a bar docked to the top or bottom of the screen and gives access to wide range of features while you work at your computer. The menus system serves you programs and documents with very few mouse clicks. You can set up your own menu structure that fits your needs by adding the files and folders you use most frequently. Below the menu you find an optional infobar with status indicators for CPU, memory, battery, and hard disk drive usage. This bar helps you monitor your system and gives easy access to the file manager and task manager. .....(free).....GO THERE! SECURE IT..........Are you tired of trying to remember all the different User IDs and passwords you need? SecureIT can help. SecureIT is a small utility designed to hold items of sensitive information in a single file for easy retrieval. The data items are encrypted and a password is required to access them. SecureIT has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. It allows for the easy addition and amendment of the data items .....(free).....GO THERE! SUPER ANTISPYWARE.......... Advanced Detection and Removal, Light on System Resources and won't slow down your computer, Repair broken Internet Connections, Desktops, Registry Editing and more with our unique Repair System! Real-Time Protection, Prevent potentially harmful software from installing or re-installing!.....(free).....GO THERE! June 11, 2010 AUTORUNS.......... This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP. Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 TRAINING KIT FOR DEVELOPERS..........Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7. Thanks to The Windows Club .....(free).....GO THERE! INSSIDER..........inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, this was created, an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.....(free).....GO THERE!/A> June 10, 2010 Friends, we're taking a day off..... But we bet you can still find something good HERE June 9, 2010 PASSWORD CARD..........You have dozens of accounts on all kinds of websites and other systems, each of whom wants you to pick a secure password. But they all have different rules, and anyway, you can't even remember one secure password that consists of a random string of letters and numbers, let alone dozens of them! So, you use simple, easy to remember (and easy to guess) passwords, or you use the same password everywhere. We all do it. But in these days of identity theft, that is a very bad idea! Enter PasswordCard. A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords Thanks to Sequimtech Blog.....(free).....GO THERE! VM TWEAKER..........VM Tweaker is a hidden features tweaker for VMWare .vmx files. Features: VM BIOS Tweaks, Time/date syn between host and guest; MAC address tweaking; UUID keep switch(VM 5.x-like); Hardware compatibility switch(esx/hosted); Tweak amount of VGA RAM .....(free).....GO THERE! TWELVE MUST-HAVE GOOGLE CHROME PLUGINS.......... The following is a list of 12 plugins that you will absolutely want to have if you use Google Chrome: (1) LastPass, (2) Clip to Evernote, (3) Xmarks Bookmarks Sync, (4) Postponer (an unofficial Read-It-Later extension), (5) Click&Clean, (6) Shareaholic, (7) Feedly, (8) Join Tabs, (9) Inline Search and Lookup, (10) SEO Site Tools, (11) ChromeMailer, and (12) Chrome Link Checker.....(free).....GO THERE! June 8, 2010 WINOMETER.......... This small utility measures your computer activity. It counts the keyboard / mouse presses and computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse. You can easily set it up to be automatically loaded on startup if you would like to have captured all your activity. Every day is saved into history, so you can make statistics of your activity (averaging..). You can also export your whole history to a CSV file (comma separated values) which may be used later in e.g MS Excel. You can do it using the right click menu or directly from the command line (e.g. winometer.exe /exporthistory history.csv) Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! SPECCY..........Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. It really will bring up lots of valuable info that other similar tools do not present .....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEM RESCUE CD.......... SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It requires no installation. It can be used on linux servers, linux desktops or windows boxes. The kernel supports the important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).....(free).....GO THERE! June 7, 2010 MINI-TOOL PARTITION RECOVERY.......... MiniTool Partition Recovery is a Free Partition Recovery Software for Windows. MiniTool Partition Recovery can recover lost and deleted partitions from IDE disk, SATA disk, SCSI disk and Removable disk. The partition recovery function can retrieve the lost partitions quickly & easily. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system. MiniTool Partition Recovery can run under 32/64bit Windows 2000 Pro./XP/Vista/Window 7. It's a must-have partition recovery software and free for home users.....(free).....GO THERE! HARD DRIVE ERASER..........Hard Drive Eraser will shred a drive partition beyond any possible recovery .....(free).....GO THERE! BI-LITE CUBE-IT ZERO.......... BI-Lite CUBE-it Zero is a FREE OLAP Cube builder for SQL Server which brings building cubes within the grasp of anyone familiar with MS Access or SQL Server. CUBE-it Zero bridges the gap between Access Queries and OLAP CUBES. CUBE-it Zero extends the reach of OLAP cubes to everyone by enabling the creation of cubes using a simple 4 step process. Whilst not a replacement for a data warehouse, CUBE-it Zero, delivers fully functional SQL Server OLAP cubes that do not require the foundation of a data warehouse.....(free).....GO THERE! PROX FETCH.......... ProxFetch is an application for fetching public proxies from different web sites. This is stable and completely free proxy grabber for Windows OS. Released under LGPL license with a closed source code. You need GTK+ runtime installed to be able to run ProxFetc.....(free).....GO THERE! June 3, 2010 COOL CURSOR PACKS FOR WINDOWS..........Go ahead and choose a new mouse cursor.....(free).....GO THERE! SMART DEFRAG..........Smart Defrag has the world’s fastest defragmenting engine. Specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting time. Smart Defrag doesn’t just use simple defragmentation. It also streamlines your file system, places the frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk, enabling your computer to run at top speed with the most stability. .....(free).....GO THERE! SAN MONITOR..........SAN Monitor to Manages Storage Performance. You work hard to keep your network humming like a finely-tuned space cruiser. The last thing you need is an errant storage array slowing data flow—especially when that array is sitting somewhere in a datacenter far, far away. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could keep a close eye on storage performance from the comfort of your command center, otherwise known as your cube? Now you can! Our free SAN Monitor delivers the real-time visibility you need to stay steps ahead of infrastructure evils that threaten to slow storage performance .....(free).....GO THERE! All original material on this site is Copyright © by R. Helmer. No material from this site is to be mirrored, redistributed, archived or transmitted without the author's or copyright holder's express written consent. |
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