Have you seen that amazing cube effect you can do when using Linux? Now you can enjoy it when using Windows thanks to this great and free application.

Yod?m 3D, a name taken from the acronym of Yet Another Desktop Manager 3D, that?s what we will enjoy, a really good virtual desktop manager whose main function is to create multiple virtual desktops and let us change between them with that fashionable 3D cube.

One desktop on each side of the cube, so you will have 4 desktops (upper and lower are not accessible)and your screen will be more productive than ever, and, of course, it will looks really amazing.

The rotation of the cube is done with the keys CTRL+SHIFT+Arrows, although you can custom it, but if you want the effect to be more special, use your mouse.

Note
The project has been renamed, you can find the new version called DeskSpace clicking here

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other good resources for freeware. Use at your own risk. I have only used a few of these links for software.

http://www.fantasticfreeware.com/
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/
http://www.tinyapps.org/
http://foss.librarianchick.com/
http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_all.html
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http://www.liberkey.com 

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With traveling and use of many different computers, many geeks (and geek girls) often find a need to have a uniform set of tools handy wherever we may be. I’ve put together a list of 25 invaluable portable apps that can be installed on an Ipod or Thumb Drive. These are really cool!

1. TrueCrypt – encrypt your thumb drive to protect your information
2. ToDoList – A tak management tool that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience. (Windows Only)
3. Portable Firefox – Leaves no personal information behind on the machine - you can take along your browser/extensions/bookmarks anywhere
4. Pidgin Portable – All-in-one instant messaging (supports AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, G-Chat, etc)
5. WS FTP32 – ftp client
6. FileZilla – yet another ftp client
7. Notepad2 – a fast light-weight advanced text editor with syntax highlighting
8. Notepad++ - this is one of my favorite text editors – now made portable
9. Color Cop – this is one of my favorite freeware apps – includes an eyedropper you can drag over any window to grab the color value. It then offers a palette of 42 complimentary colors to the one you’ve picked.
10. Ifranview – a light little graphics viewer/editor that packs a big punch. You can use it to work with screen captures, create slideshows and more
11. GIMP – the popular open source image editor packaged as a portable app – very robust
12. 7-Zip Portable – handles zip, gzip, tar, rar etc
13. Allway Sync – syncs files between your thumb drive and PC
14. Unknown Devices – helps you find out what the unknown devices in the device manager are
15. TestDisk – data recovery software that can recover lost partitions or make drives bootable again
16. UTorrent – my preferred bit torrent client – I love having this with me wherever I go
17. Roeder’s .NET Reflector – recently purchased by Red Gate, this still-free app can be used to explore .NET assemblies, understand relationships between classes and methods, find where types are instantiated and exposed or check that code has been correctly obfuscated before release. There are also over 30 add-ins available.
18. Process Explorer – formerly Filemon and Regmon, this is an invaluable sleuthing tool
19. TightVNC – based on the popular VNC remote control software, this version can live on a thumb drive
20. WinMerge – compares differences between files and merges changes. It has the same features as the desktop version
21. Text2Html – a text to HTML converter – converts text files into HTML format
22. Portable Apps Suite – this is the mac-daddy of them all – it includes Firefox, Thunderbird(email), Sunbird(calendar),ClamWin (antivirus), Pidgin(see above), Sumatra PDF Readable, KeePass Password Safe, OpenOffice, CoolPlayer (audio Player) and even a couple of games
23. Restoration – Recover accidentally deleted files – even after they were deleted from the recycle bin
24. Infra Recorder Portable – cd and dvd burning
25. RockXP – allows you to recover windows passwords or keys, change keys, display system password, and more – sneaky!

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Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself

Lyrics Plugin for Winamp
 
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Lyrics Plugin for Windows Media Player

 
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Mozilla Firefox

The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world’s best browser.
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Video Player / Video Podcasting

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
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IM - Instant Messaging

Pidgin

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
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E-mail

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
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RSS

RSSOwl

Solid cross-platform RSS client.
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Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

Cabos

A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
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Gnucleus

A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.
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Azureus

A powerful, but complicated BitTorrent client. So many features you’ll lose your mind.
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Video Playback

VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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MPlayer

Similar to VLC– plays loads of video formats.
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Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
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DVD Ripping / Video Conversion

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
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Word Processing / Office Suites

OpenOffice.org

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
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AbiWord

A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
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Podcasting

Juice

Solid podcasting client.
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DVD Ripping

Handbrake

DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
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Sound Recording

Audacity

Simple sound recording tool.
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Graphics / Photo Editing

GIMP

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
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Paint.NET

Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
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Inkscape

Vector graphics application.
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FTP / SFTP

Filezilla

Excellent FTP program.
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IRC

X-Chat 2

IRC client.
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Archiving

PeaZip

Fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats. PeaZip also features password protecting archives, keyfile support, system integration, a lovely interface, and much more.
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Note Taking

Freemind

An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
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Jarnal

Open Source note taking application written in Java
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Keynote

Open Source note taking application, very good. I use this myself extensively
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Personal Finance

TurboCASH

Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
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Quasar

Easy to use Accounting package
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Chat Clients

aMSN

MSN Messenger client written in TCL/TK aMSN Messenger

X-Chat

IRC Client X-Chat

More Web Browsing

K-Meleon

Fast, nice web browser.
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Amaya Browser for Windows

W3C developed web browser and editor for multiple platforms
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Screensaver

Electric Sheep

Immersive, trippy screensaver.
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More Filesharing

Frostwire

GNUTella client based on the Limewire codebase.
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Also see: Poisoned - Azureus

3D Graphics and Modeling

Blender

Powerful 3D Modeling software.
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Also see: Kerkythea (illumination engine) - Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Quesa

Stars and Outer Space

Celestia

Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).
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Stellarium

“Renders realistic skys in realtime.” See what you would see if your city wasn’t so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.
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Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis

Games

Marathon: Aleph One

Engine for Bungie’s free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.
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Zombies

3D zombie strategy game.
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Armagetron Advanced

3D Tron game.
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BZFlag

First-person tank game.
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Battle for Wesnoth

Fantasy / Strategy Game
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Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble

Free File Hosting

CC Publisher

Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
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Security Tools

NMap

Easy to use port scanner for Windows
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Wireshark

Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Ethereal
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TrueCrypt

Creates encrypted virtual hard drives for extra security
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ClamWin

Open Source Anti-Virus. Very good at detecting viruses. Can be plugged into hMailServer for e-mail protection LIMITATION: Real Time scanning not implemented yet
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Eraser

Delete files securely off your hard drive utilizing DoD standards
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MP3 and Audio Tools

MP3 Gain

Easy to use MP3 manipulation tool for Windows. adjusts sound levels on MP3’s so they are all the same
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MP3 Book Helper

This program provides rapid Mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2) and Ogg/Speex/Flac Vorbis tags editing and file renaming functions. Mass Tag editing is done using special variables and Regular Expressions.
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musikCube

Open Source MP3 Player, ripper and organizer written using the .NET Framework
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Utilities

Cobian Backup

Backup software.
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7-Zip

File archiver.
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Developer tools

XEmacs

The classic, super customizable editor, for Windows.
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KompoZer

Easy to use, open source WYSIWYG html editor
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SharpDevelop

Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms
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Notepad ++

Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
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SciTE

Source code Editor for Windows and X
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Web Developer Server Suite

Very good WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very thouroughly tested on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (preliminary testing on Longhorn Server underway). Highly Recommended.
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Mapping Tools

Nasa World Wind

Mapping tool similar to Google Earth for Windows. Must have the .NET Framework installed.
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Other

Graph (graph plotting software)

Startup Manager (pick what you want to launch on startup)

freeotfe “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs. 

 

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WebcamMax-Add videos, pictures and effects to virtual/real Webcam and broadcast on messengers

Read below, also check there website here
http://www.webcammax.com

For all webcam programs (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Camfrog, Skype, Paltalk, Yahoo, ANYwebcam, Stickam). Enable PinP, Dual Camera, Play List, Free Paint, Photo Slides and Skin Changing. Mask moves with your head. Customize effects. Modify effects by mouse. More than 1800 free effects online. Video Recorder, Snap. Share webcam in 16 programs.

Compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista 32bit OS.

Version: WebcamMax 4.2.1.4

Check Out These Demo Videos Of It In Action

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bld2UfNK7AU

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMZyexulf4&feature=related

* For all webcam programs no matter you have a real webcam or not, such as ICQ ICQ, AIM AIM, MSN MSN, Camfrog Camfrog, Skype Skype, Paltalk Paltalk, Yahoo Messenger Yahoo Messenger, ANYwebcam, Stickam …

* Add videos, movies, flash, desktop screen, pictures, floating text to webcam.
* Add a variety of effects (Fire, Water, Mosaic, Distorting Mirrors, Smiley) over webcam.
* Enable PinP, Dual Camera, Play List, Free Paint, Photo Slides and Skin Changing.
* Magic Mask Effects move automatically with your head.
* Compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista 32bit OS.
* Customize Effects Properties, such as color, position, size, speed and etc.
* Webcam Video Recorder, Snap.
* Modify effects by mouse.
* Accept dropping files.
* Camera zoom feature.
* Fast switch between virtual and real webcam.
* Share webcam in 16 programs.
* New effects DIY.
* More than 1800 free effects online.

Quote:

A slick interface, simple installation, and tons of customization features make WebcamMax an excellent option for using your Webcam with multiple programs simultaneously… –Download.com Editor

Installtion And How To Make It Work

This is if your settings are at a default

First make sure you have Webcam Max 4.2.1.4 (Inluded!!)

First

Run the setup file in the first folder (setup)

*** UPDATED Second

Run the program after install (Just once) and then close again

(Please note you will be running the trial version this then creates the folder where you place your maxdata file)

Then go to

C:\Program Files\WebcamMax
and rename the normal webcammax.exe to whatever. (just for backup)
then place or copy the webcammax in this folder to here.

Then go to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Webcammax
and place the maxtreme in this folder.

run webcammax now.
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