Suggestion: SmallDVD
From the suggestion box:
Here’s a great piece of freeware I use all the time. It’s called SmallDVD, and you can find it here. I’ve been capturing old video and needed an app that would allow me to create DVDs for academic purposes. SmallDVD allows you to load your own static background menu, load your mpeg encoded video, position your buttons, and SmallDVD does the rest. I love this app.
Posted Friday, May 1, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: RPTools
From the suggestion box:
I can’t believe this hasn’t shown up here before. This is a cross-platform RPG mapping and chat client of awesome proportions. Extremely flexible and easy to use. The site has great video tutorials that, while being a little out of date, easily provide more than just the basics of using this application. The main application is the maptools application (which is really just a java file) but there are a bunch of helper applications as well. Enjoy
Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Mahjong
Bernand Lerat dropped us a line to let everyone know about his Mahjong game. It has 120 levels and six themes: Christmas, Halloween, Asian, Easter, Wonderland and Future. The graphics are quite nice and the gameplay is what you’d expect from a matching-tiles game. Mahjong is shareware, and costs about $15 for a licence, but there are no restrictions and you can play for as long as you like without paying.
From the Mac freeware suggestion box.
Posted Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Zombie Holiday
Run and gun with lots of fun in this action game created by a game design student in England. I found the side-scrolling kinda tricky (lots of missed jumps), but the music, art and ’80s-retro atmosphere were irresistible.
From the Mac freeware suggestion box.
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Autorate
I rated a few songs in iTunes years ago, then promptly forgot about this feature. So along comes Autorate to do the job for you. It rates songs based on how often a track is played and how often it is skipped — giving rewards for plays and penalties for skips. It should be noted, though, that you can already create a smart playlist in iTunes based on play count and when the song was last skipped. It’s not quite the same thing, but the option is there.
From the Mac freeware suggestion box.
Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Dwarf Fortress
This ASCII adventure game has a huge following. The graphics may be simple, but the gameplay takes some brainpower. Download it here, but be sure to check out the wiki before you get started, or you may find yourself getting lost. Don’t let the complexity scare you — according to the suggestion box, “this game is amazing.”
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: The Ur-Quan Masters
An adventure game based on an old classic:
A great freeware game which is an open source port of the classic PC/3DO game Star Control II is The Ur-Quan Masters. I think it would be a great addition to the collection.
3DO, for the unitiated, was a video game console popular in the early ’90s. Wikepedia has details.
Posted Tuesday, March 3, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: AllMedia Collections
John Saxby dropped a line to let us know about his freeware program AllMedia Collections. Here’s how it’s described on the site:
AllMedia Collections is a set of freeware applications the purpose of which is to supply easy access to media files without having to plow through folders. The media files are associated together by being placed in collections (sets), they can also be categorised as in other media file organisational software. There is no limit to the classifications (categories) that can be applied to a media file, thus very low level categories can be applied. Varieties of collections can then be formed depending upon the number of different categories referenced by the collection.
Posted Monday, March 2, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Jumpman
As the suggestion says: “the game is just AWESOME!!!” And I have to agree . . .
In Jumpman, you jump on platforms that twist with your weight, while seeking the exit to the next level waiting for you in the background. If nothing else, you should watch the video. It’s mesmerizing.
Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 in Suggestions
Suggestion: Feedly
We were scrounging around in the suggestion box over the weekend and came up with this one for Feedly — a Firefox extension that organizes your Google Reader feeds into a slick magazine-style layout. It makes for a nice improvement over the barebones interface you get from Google, which is arguably a triumph of function over form.
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 in Suggestions
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