Flame Fractals truly beautiful
computer generated designs.
The Peer's "For Sale" page
Free online games
Paper Pilot
Flash Element TD
Bauns
SilverSphere
You Don't Know Jack
All Hallow's Eve
De-animator
Flash Flash Revolution
White Chamber
Virtual Police: Genome War
Unique IQ Tests
Tarot Card Reader
Smart or "Stoopid" (my
score: 21)
Unclaimed property and lost
money!
Here are the state-sanctioned unclaimed funds
registries...
National Association of Unclaimed
Property Administrators
(Click on the link for 'Owners' and then click on the link to 'Find
Property' -- this will let you select your state.)
Missing Money
Both of these sites link you to databases in each state where you can search online.
Game-Service sites
GameTap (A-) $9.95/mo
Pogo (B-) $5.99/mo
MSN Games (C) $14.99/mo
Steam (A) per-game purchases
only
BitTorrent (D+) per-game only
Manifesto Games (B+) per-game
only
Chris Laurel A space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
Elanware, Inc. Displays a dynamic world map clock and almanac information panel with many different graphical configurations.
Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund, Florian Schmitz Burns CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-R/RW discs. It's a great solution if you want something with a few extras and don't need anything fancy and bloated (and costly) like Nero or Roxio.
Frank Bannon Move game pieces across a grid to connect as many like pieces as possible. Remove the connected pieces and gain points. The more pieces removed at one time, the more points are scored. Game pieces can be changed between playing cards, marbles, dominos, blocks, and others.
Mp3tag is a FREE, powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit and manage mp3 ID3-tags, filenames, APE-tags and Vorbis Comments of audio files.
Mark McIntyre Citrus is a software alarm clock. Set as many different alarms as you'd like, Uses your existing media player; MP3, WMA, and any other media types are supported as long as you have the right media player installed
BitTorrent, also known as the "Mainline" client, is developed and distributed by the company of the same name. It was written in python by Bram Cohen, who invented and developed the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. Because it truly is "official," all the optimizations and updates to the original BitTorrent code will be reflected in the official client first.
Wired News rating: 9/10
The µ is for micro, and "microTorrent" is a very, very tiny BitTorrent client. The entire application is 170 KB, and it packs enough features into that small package to compete with beefier applications like Azureus. The memory footprint is also ridiculously small. Even so, the client is responsive, fast and can handle a large workload without choking.
Wired News rating: 9/10
If you're looking for a slew of features -- and really, I mean a ton of features -- then Azureus is for you. I often call Azureus the "kitchen sink" of BitTorrent clients. It supports plug-ins, so what it doesn't have can be slapped on after the fact. It's built in Java, which hurts the user experience and brings up some compatibility issues, but it also means that Azureus can run on any platform where Java can be installed.
Wired News rating: 8/10
It may not be the prettiest client that we reviewed -- in fact, BitComet may very well be the ugliest -- but it works exceptionally well, and its automated set-up options make it a great place for new users to start. It has all the standard features one would expect in a BitTorrent client, plus some fresh twists that set it apart.
Wired News rating: 7/10
It runs on Mac OS X only, and it's still young, so it's not for everyone, but Bits on Wheels exhibits most of the features beloved by Azureus users and it doesn't totally hose your computer's resources once the torrents start to pile up. In fact, Bits on Wheels has been my primary client for a while now, and I routinely use it share a dozen or so torrents without seeing even the slightest hiccup on my machine.
Wired News rating: 6/10
TeamSpeak is a quality, scalable application which enables people to speak with one another over the Internet. TeamSpeak consists of both client and server software. The server acts as a host to multiple client connections, capable of handling literally thousands of simultaneous users. This results in an Internet based teleconferencing solution that works in a variety of applications such as team mates speaking with one another while playing their favorite online game, small businesses cutting costs on long distance charges, or for personal communication with friends and family.
Ventrilo is the next evolutionary step of Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software. Ventrilo is also the industry standard by which all others measure themselves as they attempt to imitate its features.
By offering surround sound positioning and special sound effects on a per user, per channel, per server or global configuration level the program provides each user the option to fully customize exactly how they wish to hear sounds from other users or events.
10 faces of computer malware
Avira AntiVir
MS Security Essentials
MS Event Viewer
X-RayPC
SystemLookup.com
VirusTotal
Online Armor
Wireshark
- Process detectors
- MS Process Explorer
-
HiJackThis
- (users upload logs to HijackThis or NetworkTechs)
- (experts goto WindowsSecurity's HiJackThis forum)
-
GetSystemInfo
- SystemLookup.com
(processes by CLSID or filename)
- SystemLookup.com
(processes by CLSID or filename)
- Malware scanners
- Malware removal tools
F-Secure
(Java) scan & clean
Trend
Micro (Java or Active-X) scan & clean
Panda
(Active-X) scan only [not for
servers]
McAfee
(Active-X) scan only
Symantec
(Java) scan only [not for
servers]
If your
system powers on, but won't load into Windows, if you cannot get to any of
the above sites, or if you go to them and they won't run, you could have
either a hardware problem or one of the new, extremely bad infections.
Rule out hardware issues by disconnecting it from everything except the
keyboard, mouse and display, then running memory and hard disk tests. If
the system passes those tests, then it's most likely a malware infection.
In that case, use another computer to goto the new
Vipre and Malwarebytes
partnership web site and download both programs to a flash drive.
Follow the instructions to clean your infected system with Vipre Rescue in
Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt (get there by hitting
F8 during boot). Do this for each login
account on the computer, rebooting between scans. Then restart the
computer in standard Safe Mode (again with
F8) and install Malwarebytes, followed by a full system
scan. Note that each of these scans will take a VERY long time; be patient
and hang in there. After all, the alternative is:
If this fails to get your system up and running, you may have to wipe it
out by doing a complete reload. The effectively takes the computer back to
the way it was when you purchased it. If you're not comfortable doing this
yourself, call your local computer tech and explain the steps you've taken
so that they can tell you what's going to be needed in order to recover
your PC. I hope you have a backup because at this point you're looking at
possibly losing everything!
Software checking:
Check out the new
Secunia Software Inspector, which checks operating systems and common
applications—including browsers, browser plug-ins, IM clients, and media
players—to report whether you have the latest version and all the patches
installed. There's also an option to look for apps in non-standard
locations.
Full URLs (for pasting):
http://support.f-secure.com/ols/start.html
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym
http://vipre.malwarebytes.org/
http://secunia.com/software_inspector/