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It is difficult to believe another year has passed, but we have tons of games and reviews to show for it. And what better way to celebrate the year than with a look back to give credit where credit is due by giving props to those special titles that stood head and shoulders above the rest. This will be our third annual "Best of" feature and, like each year before, we invite you to participate.
This year we are doing things a little differently than previous years, however. The nominations for the year's best games were hand-selected by us from all reviews published here within the calendar year, 2006. We have identified several categories and we will be choosing one from each to represent the year's Best Casual Gameplay of 2006.
You can play along by voting for one game in each category. Simply click the "Vote" button under the entry of your choice on each of the following pages. You don't have to vote in every category, but we ask that you limit your voting to only one game per category. Once you vote for a game, you will be automatically taken to the next page, and you will not be able to change your vote. So think carefully about each selection.
We will publish the results along with our picks right here beginning on January 1st, 2007! Thank you for all your visits, your comments, and your support. All of us here at JIG Casual Gameplay would like to wish you a very happy new year.
Here are the categories:
* Action or Arcade, * Adventure, * Interactive Art or Fiction, * Multiplayer, * Music, Audio, or Rhythm, * Platform, * Point-and-Click, * Puzzle, * Simple Idea, * Simulation, * Tactical or Strategy, * Webtoy, * Word, * Download (free), * Download (other)
If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you can’t find anything usable on your PC?
Web offers many useful resources one should always keep in mind searching for textures. Below you’ll find a hand-picked selection of some useful resources related to textures and background images. We tried to pick the best ones which offer quality and professional content without annoying advertisement.
Following repositories offer “free” textures, which means that you can use them for both personal and commercial projects according to the license mentioned on the web-site you’ve downloaded the images from. The images in this article have been taken from the sites described in this list...
There are two dominant modes of employment for software developers - permanent and contract. The woefully misnamed "permanent" staff member has a conventional employer/employee arrangement with a company, receives paid sick leave and annual leave, and is afforded a certain amount of legal protection regarding rights and conditions. A contractor is not an employee of the company in the usual sense, but a hired gun who is contractually engaged by the company to provide services for a fixed period of time. Contract periods are typically in multiples of three months.
A decision all developers must make when entering the job market is whether they are seeking a contract or permanent role...
Welcome to osalt.com open source alternative - your quick guide to the best open source software.
Open vs. closed
Find open source alternatives to your favourite commercial products. Browse through our software categories and compare pros and cons of both commercial products as well as open source software.
Why open source
By choosing an open source product, the user obtains a number of advantages compared to commercial products. Besides the fact that open source is always available for free, it is a transparent application, in that you are invited exclusively behind the scenes to view all source code and thereby to suggest improvements to the product. Furthermore, every product is covered by a large dedicated network, or community, who is more than willing to answer any questions, you may have.
Yadis! is an easy-to-use backup-tool which will protect your personal data within minutes. It's intuitive design will guide you through a few steps, and before you know it, your personal data is brought in safety.
R The story about Yadis!...
When you use a backup-tool, it's often a hard job to learn to know all of the features. And when you've finally managed to understand every possibility of that tool, you realize it's not just that what you wanted.
That's why we've created Yadis! Take a look around and discover all of it's advantages...
* It's FREE
* It's small
* It's easy to use
* You can fully decide what to backup
* It copies one on one your files to allmost any destination you want
* You don't need Yadis! to access the backed-up files
* The marked folders are backed-up real-time (no scheduling needed!). You make a change? Yadis! makes a backup
* When your backup destination isn't available, Yadis! remembers the changes you have made. Whenever the location becomes available Yadis! starts backing up the changes.
...2006 saw some interesting keyboards come out of the woodwork. You have your flashy, backlit keyboards such as the Logitech G11 gaming keyboard and the Saitek Eclipse II. Then you have oddball keyboards like the label-less DAS keyboard II for ubergeeks or the AlphaGrip for…well we're not sure whom the AlphaGrip is for. From normal to oddball keyboards, we've got you covered in this roundup, including our latest list of categories that include the best media center keyboard, best ergonomic keyboard, and plenty more...
... Best General Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution
Logitech unloaded a bombshell when it released "the world's most advanced mouse." We looked past the marketing jargon, gave it a long test drive, and concluded that Logitech was right, and this is by far the best mouse out there, period. Why? It's almost too hard to describe in few words.
Aside from its laser sensor, range of up to 30 feet, and longer battery time than most cordless mice, the MX has four distinct, new features that could very well change how we navigate through files and programs. At the top of the list of innovations is the huge upgrade to the scroll wheel, which has two modes of operation—line-by-line scrolling and free-spin scrolling. Free-spin scrolling allows the scroll wheel to become a flywheel capable of traversing thousands of spreadsheet rows or hundreds of word-processing pages with a single flick. Other advanced new features are the document quick flip wheel (or button), one-button search, and a zoom slider. All of these buttons could add up to an overload of options, but with Logitech's software, SetPoint, customizing them to fit your needs is a snap.
The MX also has a very unique and aggressive shape that allows your thumb to nestle inside the mouse, while your fingers comfortably grip the mouse. In this thumb groove you can access the document flip wheel, as well as access two buttons above...
Today VicMan Software announces that all graphics software developed by our company goes free. We are happy to let you enjoy all the benefits of our software for free - as a gift for Christmas and New Year. Edit your holiday photos, show them off in amazing 3D galleries, enhance your creativity with our software, which is free from now on!
We invite you to experience the advantages of famous VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor Pro, easy-to-use Photo Toolkit, superb My Pictures 3D Album and other products free of charge and encourage you to download and install their fully functional versions. All products listed at our web site www.vicman.net are pure freeware, contain no ads and may be used without limitations.
VicMan team re-focused efforts around web projects, and the first of them is considered to be announced shortly. Our registered users get a special bonus – the free accounts for the web services mentioned above.
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Restaurateur Denise Cerreta at her cafe in Salt Lake City, UT, One World Cafe, where customers are invited to barter and pay what they think the meal is worth...Where "Check Please" is Your Call
At a new breed of "Robin Hood" restaurants, diners pay what they can afford -- and what they think the meal is worth...
Well, that's a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial games - for free. Every day we offer licensed game titles you'd have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away games, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give away every good piece of software, sooner or later. For software giveaways check Giveaway of the Day.
Imagine, for discussion's sake, that you don't have $50 million, so you can't build and market a full-scale World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) clone. Suppose, too, you don't have rock superstar Bono on speed-dial, and unlike BioWare/Pandemic Studios, you can't finance your new MMOG through his $300 million Elevation Partners holding company. To get still more outlandish, let's say you cannot easily lay your hands on a paltry $3 million - no, really, work with me here - so you couldn't even produce a smaller-scale "casual MMOG" like Puzzle Pirates or Gaia Online or Dofus. Assume, hypothetically, you - just you, together with maybe two or three other indigent programmers - have six months of savings and a budget in the low four figures. How would you create and market a full-featured MMOG? ...
Bringing the world of freegames together. 1323 freeware games | 141 online games | Total: 1464 free games
CodeX Apps Personal Edition(v1.1) is released
This article is tagged with Uncategorized, Posted by m.Sharp, November 11th, 2006
Revolutionary virtual office software for Mac & PC that focuses on both personal works and collaborative team works
Beijing, China. - Nov. 11, 2006 - SevenOnline Technology & Trading Co,. Ltd., after 12 months of development, today proudly released the Personal Edition of “CodeX Apps”, which is a software designed for both Mac and PC. The “CodeX Apps” consists of two major components that covers personal works and team works respectively. Built with Web 2.0 technologies, the “CodeX Apps” is the easy-to-use yet powerful information solution for individuals, small businesses, and educational projects.
The two major components in CodeX Apps are: “vClipper”, which is a perfect information organizer for individuals, and “ProjectCenter”, which is a collaboration platform based on project management.
This “CodeX Apps Personal Edition”(PE) includes the “vClipper” only, and is absolutely free to use.
With CodeX Apps PE, you can:
- Write and store your notes, ideas, photos, files, and nearly everything.
- Manage your data by “tags”.
- Make lists fast with drag and drop re-ordering.
- Import bunch of your files and images just by a few clicks.
- Generate quick presentations using your images.
- Arrange your schedules with “Color Labels”.
- Share your documents with everyone by exporting them to a universal accessible, web-friendly document.
- Import “Extended Documents” that are exported by Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition...
Forget about high priced version control and configuration management systems. Forget about central servers. Simplify your code development with Code Co-op, the affordable peer-to-peer version control system with wiki bug database. With Code Co-op your team has complete access to your projects on- and off-site regardless of a network connection. Integration with many IDEs is seamless and project changes are distributed automatically enabling you to focus on what's important — your development.
* Collaboration from any location using Email, LAN, or VPN - no server required.
* Complete access to your project regardless of a network connection including your bug database
* Robust functionality to give you control and security over all your assets
* Seamless integration with Visual Studio, Borland C++ Builder & Delphi, and other development tools.
FileMenu Tools lets customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. It lets configure the following aspects:
* Add some build-in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders.
* Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific
folder or delete specific file types.
* Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
* Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
Everyone knows a lot about something, whether it's quasars, quilting, or crayons. But the converse is also true: there are a lot of things that most people know nothing about. And unfortunately, that doesn't seem to stop them from sharing their opinions.
That's one lesson I took away from my recent survey of the growing collection of social question-and-answer websites, where members can post questions, answer other members' questions, and rate other members' answers to their questions--all for free. The Wikipedia-like, quintessentially Web 2.0 premise of these ventures--which include Yahoo Answers, Microsoft's Live QnA, AnswerBag, Yedda, Wondir, and Amazon's new Askville--is that the average citizen is an untapped well of wisdom.
But it takes a lot of sifting to get truly useful information from these sites. Each boasts a core of devoted members who leave thorough and well-documented answers to the questions they deem worthy. And most of the sites have systems for rating the performance or experience of answerers, which makes it easier to assess their reliability, while also inspiring members to compete with one another to give the best answers. But not all of the Q&A sites do this equally well; after all, the companies that run these sites are selling advertising space, not information.
In an attempt to flush out the best of the bunch, I've spent the past few days trying to identify what unique advantages each one offers. I also devised a diabolically difficult, two-part test. First, I searched each site's archive for existing answers to the question "Is there any truth to the five-second rule?" (I meant the rule about not eating food after it's been on the floor for more than five seconds, not the basketball rule about holding.)
This software works hard, so you don't have to. Processing can take up to 30 seconds. Thanks for your patience.
7. The gift of simply being who you are.
Most people live under a merciless tyranny: the tyranny of constantly needing to live up to someone’s expectations. Our own expectations can be bad enough, full of unrealistic dreams and unfulfilled hopes. But when you add two other sets of expectations—those of the people around us and those imposed by our society—the combined load can be crippling. Much of the unhappiness and frustration to be found in organizations is caused directly by people struggling with unrealizable expectations. With performance appraisal season coming up, now is a very good time to see all these demands for what they are: either attempts by your own ego to increase its status, or attempts by others to get what they want by using you to provide it for them.
As if this load wasn’t bad enough on its own, we often add another: a willingness to accept responsibility for outcomes or events that are nothing to do with us. Maybe we all like to exaggerate our own importance. Maybe we need to feel some measure of control over our world. Whatever the reason, most of us assume that we can influence events that are, in reality, due to blind chance. And that other people are far more concerned and interested in us that they truly are—which is, typically, scarcely at all.
The antidote is simple: accept yourself for who and what you are. Take some time to look carefully at events, distinguishing where you can truly influence the outcome, and where nothing will change, whatever you do. Don’t take on additional burdens of guilt or responsibility for what you cannot affect. If other people try to hand you responsibility for something that is outside your control, politely hand it back.
We are conditioned by our society to value achievement. That is no bad thing in itself, but it very easily loses its moorings in reality. When that happens, you are no longer able to see when enough is enough...
It is difficult to believe another year has passed, but we have tons of games and reviews to show for it. And what better way to celebrate the year than with a look back to give credit where credit is due by giving props to those special titles that stood head and shoulders above the rest. This will be our third annual "Best of" feature and, like each year before, we invite you to participate.
This year we are doing things a little differently than previous years, however. The nominations for the year's best games were hand-selected by us from all reviews published here within the calendar year, 2006. We have identified several categories and we will be choosing one from each to represent the year's Best Casual Gameplay of 2006.
You can play along by voting for one game in each category. Simply click the "Vote" button under the entry of your choice on each of the following pages. You don't have to vote in every category, but we ask that you limit your voting to only one game per category. Once you vote for a game, you will be automatically taken to the next page, and you will not be able to change your vote. So think carefully about each selection.
We will publish the results along with our picks right here beginning on January 1st, 2007! Thank you for all your visits, your comments, and your support. All of us here at JIG Casual Gameplay would like to wish you a very happy new year.
Here are the categories:
* Action or Arcade
* Adventure
* Interactive Art or Fiction
* Multiplayer
* Music, Audio, or Rhythm
* Platform
* Point-and-Click
* Puzzle
* Simple Idea
* Simulation
* Tactical or Strategy
* Webtoy
* Word
* Download (free)
* Download (other)
You might read a post on this blog and decide I'm full of crap. That's fine. I often am full of crap. I encourage you to leave a comment explaining why you feel this way. And, while you're at it, feel free to point out any errors or inaccuracies in anything I've written. This kind of simple, immediate, highly visible public dialog is why I believe so strongly in comments as an essential part of blogging.
But sometimes a mere comment isn't enough. Maybe you have your own blog. Depending on the depth of your feelings on the matter, you might want to write an entire post on your blog explaining, in great detail, specifically why I'm full of crap. Then you'd publish your post for the world to see. But how do you know that I, the target of your vitriol, have read your post? How do you know that I can even find your post? You could email me directly, but that feels a little too intimate. Or, you could leave a comment linking to your response, but that feels like additional work ...
You probably know a ton about your favorite bloggers - what they think about the subjects they write about, maybe some of their work and life history... you may even know what toothpaste they use. But how much do you know about all the other people who read their blogs? And how much do they know about you?
For all this talk of a global conversation throughout the blogosphere, there's a lot to be desired. It's a two-tiered system, with bloggers talking amongst each other and the majority of the readers looking on from the fringes. You may get to call out something from the sidelines by leaving a comment, but things could be so much better. For everyone.
MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.
Readers can become friends with other people who read your favorite blogs. See what else they're reading. Check out their MySpace and Friendster profiles and view their Flickr photostreams. Authors can learn more about their readers individually and as a group. What do they like and what are they ignoring? What are they reading elsewhere on the Web?
MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part.
1 “Focus on the user and all else will follow ... Pages load instantly." “Focus on those invited for the limited beta test .... Pages have loading times anywhere between a second (Google web search) to half a minute (Google Calendar), and they may also stall completely (Google Analytics)."
2 “It’s best to do one thing really, really well. ... our hope is to bring the power of search to previously unexplored areas" “Release as many different products as you can, if necessary, make them Beta, Labs or Test products. ... our hope is to bring the power of search to products like Google Spreadsheets or Picasa Web Albums in 2007, if we find the time."
3 “Fast is better than slow." “Fast is better than slow, but sometimes, complicated algorithms need quite a bit of time to finish calculating. Don’t you know anything about computer science?"...