• media player for video and audio files
• supports every DirectShow codec out there like xvid, divx, avi, mpg, mpeg, mkv, wmv, mp3...
• dvd support (3rd party DirectShow dvd player has to be installed!)
• free zoom and fullscreen
• customizeable interface
• screenshot function
• import extra audiotrack
• easy internet-update (click help -> update)
• loop and partial loop
• multi language support (deutsch, english, espanol, francais, galego, italiano, magyar, nederlands, polski, russian, slovak and many more)
• no installation requiered
• easy to use
• 100% freeware
• and many more features...

FlightGear is a free flight simulator project. It is being developed through the gracious contributions of source code and spare time by many talented people from around the globe. Among the many goals of this project are the quest to minimize short cuts and "do things right", the quest to learn and advance knowledge, and the quest to have better toys to play with.

The idea for Flight Gear was born out of a dissatisfaction with current commercial PC flight simulators. A big problem with these simulators is their proprietariness and lack of extensibility. There are so many people across the world with great ideas for enhancing the currently available simulators who have the ability to write code, and who have a desire to learn and contribute. Many people involved in education and research could use a spiffy flight simulator frame work on which to build their own projects; however, commercial simulators do not lend themselves to modification and enhancement. The Flight Gear project is striving to fill these gaps.

There are a wide range of people interested and participating in this project. This is truly a global effort with contributors from just about every continent. Interests range from building a realistic home simulator out old airplane parts, to university research and instructional use, to simply having a viable alternative to commercial PC simulators.

Flight Gear and its source code have intentionally been kept open, available, and free. In doing so, we are able to take advantage of the efforts of tremendously talented people from around the world. Contrast this with the traditional approach of commercial software vendors, who are limited by the collective ability of the people they can hire and pay. Our approach brings its own unique challenges and difficulties, but we are confident (and other similarly structured projects have demonstrated) that in the long run we can outclass the commercial "competition."

Among the features:

• Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.
• Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
• Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)
• Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)
• Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
• World scenery fits on 3 DVD's. (I'm not sure that's a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.
• Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
• Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
• Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.
• Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.

TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus

TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.

TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable.

Feature List

TheSage allows you to look up words directly from most applications, offering multiple detailed definitions each coupled with its own thesaurus.

Some of the most interesting characteristics of TheSage are:

Features	Description
Comprehensive Dictionary	Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000)
Complete Thesaurus	Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...)
Example Sentences	A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage.
Pronunciations	+70,000 phonetic transcriptions.
System Integration	Look up words directly from most applications.
Information Integration	Each definition has its own specific thesaurus.
Cross-Referencing	Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup.
Wildcard Search	Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants.
Anagram Search	Only valid english words are returned.
Portability	Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB.
Clipboard Support	Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions.
Tabbed Interface	Previous lookups and searches remain readily available.
Structured Display	Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information.
Custom Appearance	Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display.
Multi-Session History	Quickly available via dropdown or the 'History' tool.
Concordancer	Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called 'reverse search'.
Semantic similarity	User-defined custom thesaurus.
Online search	Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage.
'As you type' tool	Browse TheSage's index real-time.
Phonetic search	Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database./td>
Spell-/sounds-like assistant	TheSage will help you if you can't quite remember the word you are looking for.
Speech	TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have TheSage read all or part of any lookup.

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From Softpedia :

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The Gimp works on many operating systems, in many languages. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Features:

� Full suite of painting tools
� Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
� Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
� Supports custom brushes and patterns
� Full alpha channel support
� Layers and channels
� Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
� Editable text layers
� Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
� Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
� Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
� Transformable paths, transformable selections.
� Quickmask to paint a selection.

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Description

Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the ability to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds.

Your journey starts as you compete on local courses. Win and you will unlock other courses and cups that will lead you to more exciting and challenging races. Only the quickest, smartest, and luckiest will win!

Features\

• Fun, easy to learn
• Exciting 3D courses
• Sophisticated physics result in thrilling rides down the mountains
• Collect herring while avoiding obstacles for high scores
• Race over a variety of surfaces, including fluffy snow and slick ice
• Race in various weather conditions and lighting conditions
• Create your own courses using any paint program such as The GIMP (no 3D modeller required)
• Suitable for all ages

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements: Pentium 200MMX, 64MB RAM, 20MB uncompressed hard disk space, 3D graphics card with full OpenGL support, 16-bit sound card

Recommended System: 400 MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, 20MB uncompressed hard disk space, TNT2/Voodoo3-class 3D graphics card or better, 16-bit sound card

Input Devices: Mouse and Keyboard required; Joystick/gamepad optional. Analog joysticks supported.

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Globulation 2 is a real-time strategy game which minimizes the amount of micromanagement present in the game by automatically assigning tasks to units.



The player chooses the number of units he wants to assign to various tasks, and the units will do their best to satisfy the requests. This allows the user to manage more units and focus on strategies rather than individual units jobs. There are three types of units: workers, warriors, and explorers.

There is no explicit technology tree although on most maps a pool is needed to train swimmers to fetch algae to build schools. Upgrades need workers that went through a school.

It can be played by a single player, through a local area network (LAN), or through the Internet via Ysagoon Online Game (YOG), a meta-server. It also features AI for playing with computer teams, a scripting language for versatile gameplay or tutorials and an integrated map editor.


Globulation 2 is a multi-platform (Linux distributions, BSD Unix, GNU Hurd, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, etc) free software package (released under the GNU General Public License version 3), included in several major open source operating system distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu and is rated 5 stars (out of 5) on Linux Game Tome.