Category: Legal downloads
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System monitoring with great looks for the control freak
We don’t always have all the information we want about what is happenning inside the computer. Sometimes, we get too much of it. But these technical details don’t always appear in a way pleasant to the eye. However, this is what CoolMon has to offer. Free utility for Windows.
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Free video players for the PC
When you want to play video on your PC you often end up being chased by error messages about missing codecs or similar tough configuration issues. Initially, we saw some people bundling as many Codecs as possible in freely downloadable packs that where then distributed to the Internet. However, most of them where essentially a…
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Free FPS game to play: Daikatana
Daikatana was a good FPS game for the PC a few years ago, in 2000. The story is of one sword fighter in post-modern tehcnological Japan and gives a little twist to the FPS genre (and some of the adversaries were the strange robotic frogs). Today it is made available for free download from GameTap…
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No more music DRM
After EMI which decided to start pushing its music catalog in DRM-free MP3 format, others seem to be ready to go the way consumers wanted to. It is said that Warner and Sony are prepared to step back in front of the strong reaction coming from both the consumers and the distribution channel (most recently,…
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Sony Alpha 700 user manual
While I seemed unable to find the user manual of the Sony Alpha 700 D-SLR camera, there was the the Alpha 700 promotional brochure visible on the web. But if you really want it all (including the Sony Alpha 700 user manual), you should check the Sony documentation server.
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Missing codec? CodecInstaller
If you are downloading a large number of movie files form the Internet, you know that dreaded moment when your media player announces that it does not know what codec to use to read the file. You’ll get either no sound or no image or both. Here comes CodecInstaller.
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All images from the Moon
NASA finally decided to publish high-resolution scans of all the photos taken by the Lunar Apollo expeditions in the 60’s and 70’s. A huge publication work but that is welcome remembering the enormous successes and horrendous claims that accompany them.
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Mute your browser
Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.
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Free SciFi books
A few weeks ago ManyBooks.net started to make available a number of SciFi books in PDF format and without any unreasonable restrictions (this is copyrighted material that has been left in the public domain). Decided to give it a try and not knowing these books, I chose (randomly) to download Space Prison from Tom Godwin…