Chalk is an original, freeware variant on the side-scrolling shoot-em genre. Make your way through enemy territory while dodging bullets, objects, and hostiles, all the while using your trusty … chalk … as a weapon. “Chalk” employs innovative game dynamics based on performing on-screen gesture drawings in order →
AuthorStream Desktop: easily insert YouTube videos into Powerpoint
AuthorStream Desktop is a free PowerPoint Add-on that makes it easy to search for and insert YouTube videos as well as images from the web into your PowerPoint files. Users on other computers that you might share your PowerPoint files with will need an internet connection →
Battlefield Heroes: wacky, fun, online wargame
Battlefield Heroes is a third person, online only action game. It’s free-to-play, supported by optional micro transactions, and can only be launched through your web browser. It’s created by EA DICE, the developer behind the famous Battlefield series. War is an ugly, bloodstained affair. When two nations →
BumpTop: Your Desktop in 3D
BumpTop is a cool little addition that can make your Windows desktop a little more organized and add a bit of pizazz to the experience. It adds physics and depth to your normal, boring desktop. You can slide files and icons around on the “floor” or →
Tubemaster Plus Plus: download media from media sharing sites (including encrypted sites)
Tubemaster Plus Plus (the sequel to previously mentioned Tubmaster Plus) can download media (video/audio) from video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, MySpace, Dailymotion and others, as well as encrypted media from “ani-leeching” websites sites such as Imeen, Pandora and Last.fm. TM++ can also perform on-the-fly →
Double Vision: watch web video while you work
Double Vision is a freeware program designed for viewing web video (such as YouTube, Netflix, and Fancast) while you work, by providing a semi-transparent player that shows through all other windows and programs that are visible on your desktop. Imagine that you’re at work pulling reports →
Hulu Desktop: high quality, browser-free videos optimized for a “Media Center” style experience
Hulu desktop is a free desktop client for Windows and Mac that connects to the Hulu service and plays Hulu videos and programs within a sleek, feature-rich interface, without the need for an internet browser. It features a spectacular look-and-feel, high-definition video, and offers the ability →
Volvo The Game: race Volvo’s S60 Concept car in this free simulator
Volvo The Game is a free 3D driving simulator featuring the Volvo S60 Concept car. It also features virtual recreations of two racetracks, the “Eco Drive Arena” in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Chayka race track in Kiew, Ukraine. Game modes include competing against computer controlled opponents as well →
Twingly Screensaver: visualize the blogosphere in real time
The Twingly screensaver is a free screensaver that displays blog postings visually on a representation of the globe in real time as they are published on the internet. Twingly, if you hadn’t hear of it, is a blog search engine similar to Technorati with some underlying →
Songbird: an Open-Source, Cross-Platform Music Player
Songbird is a an open source, multiplatform music player intened to rival players such as iTunes; but does it have much more beyond the basics? (…) →
BB Flashback Express: powerful, free screen-recording program
BB Flashback Express is a free screen recording program that can capture your PC’s screen, sound, and webcam video and supports capturing graphics/animations, including 3D graphics. It offers a high degree of control over your video (output resolution, quality, file size, recording modes, mouse autoscroll, and →
How to convert DVDs into iPhone, iPod, PSP or AVI formats (for free)
This article will describe an easy, straightforward way to convert DVD videos, including commercial/encrypted DVDs, into any of a handful of popular video formats; specifically iPhone/iPod/PSP (MP4 or M4V), as well as AVI. It will use two freeware titles in the conversion process: Handbrake and DVD43. If you’re →
