I’m painting some signs for the upcoming Lone Star Round Up car show in Austin and wanted to mix up my stable of fonts. Found some great free ones at DaFont.com. Favorites are Sparkly, Brewsky and Dick Van Dyke. Search “retro” to get more classic styles.
Of course the most fun you can have with fonts is to modify them into your own style. I print out a sheet with the full alphabet, then paint or draw my modifications.
I have too many fonts on my computer. No really. Creatively this is a good thing except when I’m trying to find the perfect font for a project but can’t recognize them by name. It’s frustrating to highlight a word in my document and keep changing the font manually to decide which one is right. Wish all programs showed the font’s name in the font itself.
But no point wishing… gotta head to the freeware. I found two interesting programs at Freeware Home – FontPage and FontViewOK. From the makers:
FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system. You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and also 3D. In addition, you can also compare two selected fonts and preview fonts that are not yet installed on your system. FontPage can also print a sample page for selected fonts or print a list of all installed fonts.
FontViewOK – It’s a well known problem, you remember what a font looks like but its name is forgotten. FontViewOK creates a quick visual overview of all installed fonts. Dual font preview for quick comparisons and you can also customize the right font preview text, text-type, size and color. Printing with print preview function; Changeable font size, style and color; Installation of FontViewOK is not required, can be run from a USB stick.
Sick of aggressive advertising that takes over your computer and bogs you down with crap? Worried that spyware is tracking your every move and worse?
Then it’s time to download Ad-Aware Free, a tool that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known adware and spyware data-mining, tracking components and much more. When the tool finds malware it lists the results and lets you choose to remove or quarantine the components. It’s a lot more powerful than this review suggests, but the free version has limited real-time protection, only processes are scanned and scans can’t be scheduled
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Relax a little, will you? Get on your computer and kill something.
Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive). The game is meant to bring death match back to the basics, with fast paced action, perfect weapon balancing, and very excessive battles.
Version 2 of Nexuiz includes a single-player campaign with completely new advanced bot AI, five new maps, new particle effect system, weapon changes, and complete precompiled bumpmapping with GLSL shaders. The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since then it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times, and the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.4 and new releases being developed.
Spring always reminds me of the need to care for the Earth – while we still recognize it. Here’s a free download that can help you in your efforts to diminish your carbon footprint. If you have one.
Calculate your carbon footprint with this easy to use calculator software. Enter in data to figure CO2 generated from activities including transportation, energy, trash or waste, recreation, purchasing habits, food, and more. Lear n where you can go green by calculating your carbon footprint and then focusing on areas where you can make the most positive impact on the environment. The software gives you CO2 footprint details from each category. For transportation you can enter in up to 6 different cars and their respective fuel efficiency, airline travel, bus travel, and rail travel.
To figure your energy use and carbon footprint, you can enter in your location, number of people in your house, as well as energy use from fuel oil, natural gas, and electricity. Also included are indirect carbon footprint categories like recreation habits, purchasing habits, waste, recycling participation, food, and more. Different units are available so you can calculate your carbon footprint in metric units or English. You can also print out a summary of your carbon footprint results.
Enjoy.
Tired of finding out you don’t have the correct codec for whatever application you’re trying to run? Goes without saying. Here’s relief in a free package: Windows Essentials Codec Pack
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential Audio and Video DirectShow Codecs and Filters for Windows, that enables you to play and view almost all music and video files downloaded from the Internet. It adds support for (S)VCDs and XCDs as well as 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many other formats. Essentials Codec Pack also includes Windows Media Player Classic. An integrated auto-update can automatically check for updated codecs.
Gets 5 Stars from 5 reviews. No adware or spyware. Sweet. Download your essentials at Snapfiles.
Bitmap Font Writer is a free program that let you draw text using a font where each character is drawn in a bitmap file.
If you’ve drawn your own bitmapped font in for example Photoshop, you are forced to manually Copy & Paste each character in order to combine them into a word. This gets pretty tedious if you’re doing buttons for a website, as an example. The purpose of Bitmap Font Writer is to make this procedure smoother.
By arranging your font in ASCII order and put markers to define the width of each character you may load the image into Bitmap Font Writer which the combines the characters for you. Then you simply copy everything to the clipboard to get it back into your painting program.
Sweet! Download it now: Bitmap Font Writer
Can’t say I’ve seen this freeware before – hope you have some bitchin’ use for it:
The program “Satellite Antenna Alignment” is used to calculate the angles necessary for installing satellite dishes. The main difference from similar software is the possibility to calculate the position for all satellites at once. Thus, you get a clear picture about what satellites can be physically visible from the location where the dish will be installed. It should be kept in mind that the program makes a purely theoretical calculation according to formulas and in real circumstances a lot of additional factors should be taken into account when a satellite dish is installed. These factors include various obstacles (buildings, trees), the landscape, the altitude, transponder orientation, polarization, etc.
Anyone may use this software free of charge for private, non-commercial usage. Knock your satellite selves out.
Problems with Windows programs refusing to go away. Yeah, we all do. Got your answer here – for free.
Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from “Windows Add or Remove Programs” control panel applet.
With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application’s data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program’s regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application’s data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.
Your prey awaits as you go into “Hunter Mode” Revo Uninstaller’s powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from auto starting) and to get information about your installed and/or running programs. Go tiger!
Providing your staff with an easy, one-button click to submit their time or store a timesheet layout for future use, Senomix Timesheets’ simple structure enables a user to log on and register their work hours within a minute of effort. Project status, timesheet, billing and invoice reports allow you to keep on top of your team’s current work in progress, with archived timesheet information available for reference when constructing schedules and effort estimates. As Senomix Timesheets may be used with any Java-compatible PC, your office can coordinate the work of employees running Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems without the administrative headache of managing multiple applications on multiple platforms.
Billing codes may be added or removed by an administrator at any time to refine the detail at which effort is logged, with estimates for effort hours or completion dates recorded at the precision which suits your project.
Able to adjust task information as a project matures, managers may temporarily remove billing codes which do not currently apply to a project, or add details to project work which has grown in complexity over time.
With Work in Progress reports, database exports, invoice generation and QuickBooks / Peachtree import capability, Senomix provides a timesheet solution ready for integration with your office payroll and billing system.
Download the fully functional Evaluation Version – provided free of charge for 2 users and up to 10 timesheets.
So grab it you biz types.
