Friday, August 21, 2009

Vivia Video Editor!, Disc Usage Apps!



Gnofract 4D is a free, open source program which allows anyone to create beautiful images called fractals. The images are automatically created by the computer based on mathematical principles. These include the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and many more. You don't need to do any math: you can explore a universe of images just using a mouse. It runs on Unix-based systems such as Linux and FreeBSD and can also be run on Mac OS X.

Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine. It features:

* Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 10000 units and up to 250 players.
* Hundreds of large and highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with deformable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective bump mapped water, and custom skyboxes.
* Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories (physics engine).
* Many different Games, made just for Spring.
* A full featured lobby client to easily play multiplayer games with hundreds of players just waiting for you at any time. Including automatic game and map downloading, chat, friends list etc
* A lot of third party widgets to improve the gui, the gameplay and the visual.
* Complex 3rd party AIs (Bots) that can work very competently in many cases with multiple Spring engine games and mods.
* A powerful GUI designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement that is easily extensible via a Lua API.
* Frequent engine additions and bugfixes.
* Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any angle.

Read more at the official site!

Vivia video editor - Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video material. Vivia is Free Software with a GPL license.


6 Apps to monitor your disc usage
You may own a one terabyte hard disk, but the screen still shows an “Your disk is full” error message whenever you want to install a new application. Does this sound familiar to you?