Net Sieve

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.

Download Nexuiz freeware.

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.

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.

Inventory tracking can be an absolute nightmare. When you have a business that is exciting and reinvents the term “adventure” every day, it can be even worse. I mean really, if you’re running a power sports business, the last thing you want tying you down is hard to track business details.

Lucky for you, CommanderNE.com has inventory tracking software to make your life with parts for motorcycles, boats, ATVs, and all other kinds of power equipment so much easier. For example, their motorcycle microfiche (aka Electronic Parts Catalogs) make identifying and tracking motorcycle parts a breeze. The software even interfaces with suppliers’ computers.

Visit CommanderNE.com to see a short video on how the process works.

Just in case you’ve been looking for a super media store online, I’ve located one for you and it just happens to bear the ever so appropriate name “Super Media Store.” This reseller and wholesaler site has an outstanding array of media at outstanding prices.

You can get your CD and DVD media (including Mini DVD, cDVD and Blu-ray), packaging case, ink and toner cartridges, computer hardware and memory, label printer, and toner cartridge needs all met in one place. They are located in California so the western U.S. gets the best shipping deals, but if you play your cards right you can get free shipping. Can’t get better than that.

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!

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether a zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc.

The original motivation behind this project was to create a convenient way to extract files from installation packages without pulling up a command line. It ended up being able to support every kind of archive format found.

Download the Extractor free. Source code is also available.

OptionsOracle is a free tool for stock options strategy analysis. It is a powerful tool that allows testing of different options strategies using real-time options & stock-market information.

Features include:
The OptionsOracle wizard – a sophisticated options strategy screener that allow you to check customized or pre-configured strategy over multiple stocks.
OptionsOracle volatility analyzer – a historical and implied volatility calculator that helps you analyze the historical volatility of an option compared to its actual implied volatility for similar time periods.
OptionsOracle also includes a multi-portfolio manager with the ability to quickly navigate between accounts and saved strategies.

Download OptionsOracle freeware.