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Here’s a cool freeware alternative to the standard post it note programs you can find around the Web:

Stickypaper is a sticky note application that has much more functionality than most of its kind. It enables you to create normal sticky notes as well as pictures, real-time notes with RSS, and just about anything else with its fully scriptable system.

The documentation is in Japanese, but the program is in English. It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out if you have basic familiarity with these type of apps. Also, this application requires GDI+.dll (883 kB). Download Stickypaper and the .dll file here.

Enjoy responsibly. Or not.

Take a look at IcoFX, a freeware icon editor.

You can easily create icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista. In the integrated workspace you can preview, save, and change icons with resolutions up to 256×256. Convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the tools and more than 40 effects, icon creation is made easy. IcoFX also has retouching tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen.

Give it a go. It’s free.

If you’ve been looking for a cool screen capture program for creating your videos, don’t waste any of your money before trying out oRipa. Check it out:

oRipa Screen Recorder is a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activity in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as music and voice through the PC’s microphone.

oRipa Screen Recorder is great for making all kinds of movies, including:

1. Make software, Web site and product introduction demos and tutorials.
2. Real time record audio narration to your captured videos.
3. Turn PowerPoint presentations into movies.
4. Enhance your online help documentation.

Download the oRipa Screen Recorder freeware now.

Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth: “The Mother Of All Games.”

Scorched 3D adds among other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and Internet play. Scorched 3D is free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems. The graphics are surprisingly complex and beautiful. Enjoy them while you’re blowing shit up.

And yeah, it’s freeware. Woot.

… “Change the Way You Change the World” by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather Grant McLeo.

Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, the authors present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, even individuals. You may just want to pick up a hammer and take a swing at changing the world.

Visit ChangeThis for a free download of “Change the Way You Change the World” and many other mind expanding explorations into current thought. Bookmark it.

If music is your thing, today’s download will be just your thing. Presenting Traverso – a free, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master interface for both professional and home users.

By supplying many common tools in one package, you don’t have to learn different applications – lowering the learning curve in a big way. Moving Audio Clips, adding and removing effects plugins or creating all-new tracks during playback is safe, which gives the chance for instant feedback. Traverso is a complete solution from recording to CD mastering so download away.

I haven’t tried Lens, but its creator, Markus Welz, says it is a very useful tool for software developers and computer graphics artists who need single-pixel-accuracy. Lens will assist you by magnifying the area around the mouse pointer. Unlike with many other magnifying tools you don’t have to pause during the process of magnification. Lens continually updates its window and always stays on top.

Among many other features it is possible to measure distances between two pixels within the Lens-window. The magnification factors range from one to ten fold.

A menu pops up when you click on the Lens-window with the right mouse button. Download Lens freeware.

If you enjoyed the first person shooter computer game F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), you’ll surely dig F.E.A.R. COMBAT.

COMBAT is a free online multiplayer version of the horror-themed F.E.A.R. It will allow gamers who don’t own boxed copy of F.E.A.R. to take on those that do online. Gear up for battle with an arsenal of 12 weapons. COMBAT offers 19 multiplayer maps and also supports the download of user-created content such as original maps and mods. There are 10 different gameplay modes and contains the same anti-cheating software as the boxed copy of the game.

Fire away!

… “The RenGen Manifesto” by Patricia Martin.

Martin brings her energy and enthusiasm to this inspiring manifesto which celebrates a new cultural trend: a renaissance generation that values creative and intellectual activity which will bring a rebirth to our current beige state of living.

Visit ChangeThis for a free download of “The RenGen Manifesto” and many other mind expanding explorations into current thought. Bookmark it.

MuralPix Wallpaper Changer is a program which automatically creates wallpapers for Windows from selected JPEG images and changes them in specified period of time. This is cool if you’re a photographer or if you just have an archive of images from the Web. MuralPix will create a permanently changing background from the folder you specify. Also, MuralPix Screen Saver makes a slide show from your images when the PC is idle for a specified period of time. Images can be changed with transition effects.

MuralPix can be downloaded in 3 versions, which differ only in number of sample images included, and thus in the size of the package. A broadband connection is best for downloading the extended version.

Minimum version: Contains MuralPix and no sample images (3.0 MB)
Basic version: Contains MuralPix and 5 sample images (3.9 MB)
Extended version: Contains MuralPix and 50 sample images (10.8 MB)

Download MuralPix Wallpaper Changer