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Free Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun (plus the Firestorm expansion) full downloads released by EA Games!!

A welcome promotional by EA on the eve-ish of C&C4: Tiberian Twilight, the only price you have to pay to get your hands on C&C, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun (plus the Firestorm expansion) is to take the time to burn/extract some ISOs.

Command & Conquer Classics Download

I have added a new page for my uni projects, so you can see what I’m doing (reports, programs, etc.)

It is accessible from the navigation bar on the left.
http://www.samliew.com/school.php

Today I took a look at my website/blog stats, and wow, the visitors to my website prefers to use Firefox to IE. IE has been losing ‘support’ since two plus years ago, and it still is. This is because IE tends to crash/give more problems much more than Firefox, and Firefox is user-friendly, easier to customize and less prone to virus/spyware.

For me, these are the add-ons that I have installed on Firefox, and I recommend you try them out as it really increases productivity.

• Adblock Plus
  - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu – the banner won’t be downloaded again. (samliew: you save bandwidth too!) Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.
• AutoPager
  - The AutoPager Firefox extension automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content. (samliew: Works with most popular sites, but you also can create rules for your favorite sites to automatically load the next few pages.)
• Better Gmail 2
  - Better Gmail 2 is a compilation of Greasemonkey user scripts that add features to Gmail. Add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file-type attachment icons, row highlights, and more.
• British English Dictionary
  - Automatically spell checks whatever you type like a word processor.
• Download Statusbar
  - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. (samliew: highly recommended! install this and disable the default Firefox download window.)
• FlashGot
  - Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. (samliew: works well with the above plug-in. I use this to download YouTube videos and embedded MP3 from websites)
• Greasemonkey
  - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript script.  Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://www.userscripts.org (samliew: if you read manga at www.onemanga.com, install my onemangahelper script)
• Greasefire
  - If you installed the above plug-in, now you can get scripts for whatever page you visit on the fly. When you visit a web page that has compatible user scripts on userscripts.org, this extension will highlight the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar.
• PDF Download
  - This plug-in allows you to choose what you want to do with PDF files when you click on a link to it, either viewing as PDF, downloading it, or letting the company convert it to HTML for you (free!).

The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.

There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store, manage, retrieve and view files. Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation. In some cases it is necessary to regularly get copies of files from another location to add to primary location; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping track of whether the locations are synchronized in their heads. Other users may use two or more applications to provide this functionality.

Now there is an easier way. SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.

We have collected feedback from the discussion forum on the Windows XP Professional Photography web site, from customer feedback surveys, from a large number of professional and hobbyist photographers at Microsoft, and from various world-wide forums, sites, reviews and blogs on the web. Based on your feedback, the following features were added to this release of SyncToy:

• Dynamic Drive Letter Assignment: Drive letter reassignment will now be detected and updated in the folder pair definition.
• True Folder Sync: Folder creates, renames and deletes are now synchronized for all SyncToy actions.
• Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching.
• Filtering Based on File Attributes: The ability to exclude files based on one or more file attributes (Read-Only, System, Hidden).
• Unattended Folder Pair Execution: Addressed issues related to running scheduled folder pairs while logged off.
• Folder Pairs With Shared Endpoints: Ability for folder pairs associated with the same or different instances of SyncToy to share end-points.
• Command line enhancements: Added the ability to manage folder pairs via the command line interface.
• The SyncToy engine has been rearchitected to provide scalability and the ability to add significant enhancements in future releases.
• Sync engine is also more robust insomuch that many single, file level errors are skipped without affecting the entire sync operation.
• Sync Encrypted Files: Sync of Encrypted files works when local folder and files are encrypted, which addresses the common scenario involving sync between local, encrypted laptop PC folder and remote, unencrypted desktop PC folder.
• 64-Bit compatibility
• Folder pair rename
• Sub-folder Exclusion Enhancements: Descendents creates under excluded sub-folders are automatically excluded.
• Folder Pair Metadata Moved: Folder pair metadata removed from MyDocuments to resolve any issues with server-based folder pair re-direction setup.
• Removed combine and subscribe actions.

Download SyncToy v2.0

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FormatFactory v1.65 – 16949 KB

FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Source files support RMVB.

FormatFactory’s Feature:
1 Supports converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone, ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom, Rotate/Flip, tags.
6 DVD Ripper.
7 Supports 40 languages

http://www.formatoz.com

support@formatoz.com
http://www.formatoz.com/download.html

Freez DVD Ripper v1.5 – 3685 KB
Freez DVD Ripper is a DVD ripping tool to rip your favorite DVD movies to popular DivX/Xvid AVI files, H.264 MP4 files, and even iPod MP4 video files with fast DVD ripping speed and excellent quality.
With Freez DVD Ripper, you can choose which titles and chapters, audio tracks, and subtitle tracks of the DVD you want to rip. You can also choose the output video format from AVI (DivX MPEG4), AVI (Xvid), MP4 (H264) or iPod MP4 Video. You can also set the video size, bitrate and framerate, audio channel, bitrate and frequency.
Freez DVD Ripper has a user-friendly interface and you can rip DVD with only a few clicks. Enjoy it!
Key Features:
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to MPEG-4 DivX / Xvid AVI format.
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to H.264 MP4 format for Apple TV, PSP.
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to iPod MP4 format.
- Can rip both encrypted or unencrypted DVD movies.
- You can select DVD source from both hard drive and real DVD.
- You can select the titles and chapters to be ripped from DVD.
- You can select the audio tracks and subtitle tracks to be ripped from DVD.
- Set the output video resolution, video bitrate (up to 2500 kbps) and video framerate.
- Set the output audio channel, audio bitrate and audio frequency.
- High-speed conversion.
- User-friendly interface without any complicated settings.
- Free to use and free registration.
SmallVideoSoft.com
support@smallvideosoft.com
http://www.smallvideosoft.com/dvd-ripper/
http://www.hellopdf.com/smallvideosoft/freez_dvdripper.exe

Transposer v4.0 – 1040 KB
Transposer originally started out as a program used to transpose a chord file into a different key. Since it was first release in 1998 many features were added to make it more user friendly and usable in general. But the main function of Transposer is still to transpose chord files to an easier key for you to play and/or sing.
What can Transposer do?
- As I mentioned previously, it can transpose. In addition to this a list of some of the functionality include-
- Open multiple files simultaneously
- Configurable printing.
- Add or remove borders, titles and logo.
- Print single page or all open pages.
- Preview page.
- Configurable font style, colour and size.
- Duplicate file. Enables you to  edit file while keeping to original open.
- Dock-able toolbars.
- Auto scroll function.
- Configure scroll start delay. Enables you to get ready before scrolling starts.
- Configure amount of line to scroll every x seconds. Speed of slow down scrolling to suit your style.
- Wrap to begging of song at the end.
- Hide chords to print a songbook with just the words.
- Bar chord dictionary shows you bar chords in the CAGED shapes everywhere on the neck.
- Add your favourite tools to the tool menu for easy access.
- Check for updates on the web.
- Save and load songs to and from play lists. Now you can create a play list beforehand and the just load it when needed.
- Normal windows cut and paste functionality.
- Use a footswitch to move between songs. Now you have the freedom to move backwards and forwards between songs without taking your hands of you instrument.

What does it cost? It is free.

Anton Oosthuizen webmaster@mothership.co.za

Screenshot:
http://www.mothership.co.za/gfx/transposer1.gif http://www.mothership.co.za/transposer.htm
http://www.mothership.co.za/download/setup_4.exe