April 19, 2011
AGD Interactive games have now brought Mac fans one of the best presents ever: Sierra’s “King’s Quest III: To Heir Is Human” remade for Mac OS and Windows. Fans have had the pleasure of playing the original King’s Quest III adventure game since the Sierra days, but we can now enjoy the fun with improved graphics, game-play and vocal recordings.
April 12, 2011
LibreCAD Beta 4 is a free 2D open source CAD client, which can be used for all manner of 2D design, including architectural plans, engineering drafting, graphic design and the design of mechanical parts. The LibreCAD client is quite advanced for open source CAD software, allowing layer control and complex item selection processes. It’s free for Windows, Mac and Linux.
April 11, 2011
There’s no shortage of quality free media players to entertain your eyes and ears, regardless of your computer or operating system. With cracking cost-free solutions like VLC and iTunes alternative JetAudio, you really shouldn’t be paying for this sort of software. Universal Media Player, or UMPlayer for short, is yet another addition to the media player category.
April 7, 2011
So Guitar Hero is dead, or so say publishers Activision. Rockband is the last remaining “band sim” for your console, and after bitterly disappointing sales of Rockband 3 it probably won’t last long either. There’s a couple of possibilities as to why these games are no longer that attractive in the public’s eyes. Maybe it’s the cost?
March 31, 2011
In the same vein as the recent flurry of console emulation articles, today we’re focusing on classic computer platforms of decades gone by. Whilst there were quite a few, we’ve chosen 5 of the most popular and well-known systems along with their respective emulators.
February 17, 2011
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is useful, but less so if you want to help a friend with something. If they need your help to begin with they probably can’t set up their router’s port forwarding to give you access. Gitso allows for reverse VNC connections, meaning your port settings need to be set instead of your [...]
February 10, 2011
Welcome to the era of information overload. We are bombarded by lots of information everyday and going through it one by one in real time is too hard for a normal human to handle. That’s why modern society invented tools to help them save the important information to be read later. Examples of such tools [...]
February 3, 2011
Whilst on the hunt for worthy Linux BitTorrent clients I came across a handful of feature-packed apps, all vying for my attention. I immediately took to Deluge and qBittorrent, mainly due to the similarities with the fantastic uTorrent. After using Deluge for a good few months I started to notice the odd crack under the [...]
January 27, 2011
There’s a couple of decent, free office suites available these days. As well as the usual applications, cloud-based services like Google Docs make accessing your work from anywhere a doddle ““ but you’ll need a reliable Internet connection to do any work. It is for this reason that it’s always advisable to have a set [...]
January 21, 2011
Years ago, when I was in high school, I remember getting very addicted to turn-based adventure strategy games like the popular Ultima series. The allure of these games is that they draw you into the plot with an interesting and emotional plot with intrigue and adventure.
