Retro Galaxy is a 3D remake of the classic 1979 shoot-em-up Galaxian. If you remember the original then it should give you nostalgic and novelty value at best. Retro Galaxy is merely an in-between-tasks desktop time filler. If you’re in the mood to zone out for a few minutes and mindlessly shoot stuff, then by all means give it a go.

The object of the game is simple. Move the ship from side to side, dodge the aliens and their bombs while trying to shoot as many of them as possible. Points awarded for destroying aliens are based on color and flight status.

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adionSoft Fast Image Resizer is a simple, easy to use resizing tool for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. The front end is extremely simple, but don’t worry there are plenty of options under the hood. You simply set the output size from several preset sizes (or type in a custom size) then drag and drop your images onto the application!

You can set preferences for the resize quality, the level of JPG compression used, automatic rotation, location of resized files and EXIF handling.
Fast Image Resizer also has flexible output file naming options.

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AMP Font Viewer is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts.

It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories.

AMP Font Viewer supports TrueType, OpenType and Postscript Type1 fonts.

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TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted data storage device (hard drive, usb thumb drive, etc).

On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. The entire file system is encrypted – file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc.

Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk, the files are automatically decrypted on-the-fly.

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Rename Master is a free utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. Batch renaming that’s simple to use, yet still very powerful. Created by the clever people at Jackass JoeJoe’s Freeware Utilities.

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Hurrican is a freeware jump and shoot game created by Poke53280 that is based on the Turrican game series. Blast your way through nine action-packed levels filled with different enemies and powerups.

Hurrican is also completely customisable. Players can create and replace their own in-game content – graphics, sounds and languages. Players can also create their own levels via the downloadable level editor.

Review by Joystiq: “Hurrican is packed with vast, non-linear levels filled with weapons to find and swarms of enemies to use them on. The control scheme is a bit complex with several button combinations to memorize, but us old-school gamers are used to putting in effort to squeeze more fun out of our games.”

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CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

With CDBurnerXP you can burn all kinds of discs, audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks, burn and create ISO files, perform data verification after the burning process and create bootable discs. CDBurnerXP features a multi-language interface, has a bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
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Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger… How about not even to install them with Windows ?

nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.

With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components. Perfect for customising your Windows install after the XP SP3 update!

nLite supports Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 in all languages. It requires the .NET Framework 2.0 in order to run.

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MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.

With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

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Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s ftp password, online passwords, etc. The list is endless.

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database.

The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

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