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"Although Infogrames tright to make an action-packed battle for territory out of it, 7 Colors is simply a puzzle game riding along on the Tetris hype. Funnily enough, the game was also invented by a Russian, Dmitry Pashkov. The target is simple: try to gain control over the playing field, by filling all the diamonds with your color, before your opponent does it.

It's a turn-based game which can be played against a computer or against a human player. It can even be played over a LAN or a serial link to another computer (not tested). Each player gets to pick a color out of the available 7 (which is where the game gets its name from naturally) and all diamonds of that color adjacent to you own diamonds become yours. Then, all your diamonds are turned into the color you chose. Sounds confusing? Play it for 3 seconds and you know what I mean. If you manage to create a link between edges of the playing field, you conquer the entire enclosed space and gain lots of territory."


A blast from the ancient past, I only just discovered this little gem
after messing around with Poshu's Gaming Cockroach led me to look at Tetris clones and variants,
when I saw this one that allowed human competition over a LAN.

An example of a great implementation (in 1991) of a good game idea.
The unzipped executable run folder is only 222 KB!
If you can run DOSBOX then you may want to give this one a look.
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New AVR IDE: LUNAAVR

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Good evening
It is not of a highest interest to most of the people here, but I just discovered a freeware Multiplatform AVR Microcontroller IDE on this German Website:
http://avr.myluna.de/doku.php?id=en:about
Works on Windows, Linux and MacOS, seems it has a simulator, AVRdude programming interface,etc ..., native language between Basic and Pascal, no need installation. In English and German.
For the interestred folk, it may be worth a try, as we have no Atmel IDE available on Linux or Mac.
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Office pack Standard, not propietary software:
http://download.documentfoundation.org/ ... si.torrent
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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http://www.ultrapico.com/expresso.htm%20---%20regex
http://www.sqliteexpert.com/ --- DataBase management personal edition free. click "download" bottom right hand of page.

I have No Affiliation to any of these products.

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I found myself in need of a new compression program for Windows that could handle RAR (and RAR5) and 7z and was FREE and fast and did not suffer from feature creep. I found an extremely good program called Bandizip. It is my new program of choice and the only one I recommend.
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Kuron wrote:I found myself in need of a new compression program for Windows that could handle RAR (and RAR5) and 7z and was FREE and fast and did not suffer from feature creep. I found an extremely good program called Bandizip. It is my new program of choice and the only one I recommend.
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http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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It's a fact that Windows fonts slow down your computer. Every font that gets installed on your PC slows down the boot-up time and slows down your normal operational speed.

Many programs that you install automatically add their own set of fonts, and very soon you can end up with a frenzy of unnecessary fonts clogging up your computer. Unless you use all of these fonts regularly, they are simply wasting your system resources.

Font Frenzy is a font manager designed to help you to view, install, and uninstall your fonts - it can help you "defrenzy" your whole font folder and put an end to font frustration and slow boot-up times.

Font Frenzy allows you to strip away all your excess fonts and restores your system to only the fonts that are essential to Windows, giving you the maximum performance speed possible.

I found it today:)
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ricardo wrote:It's a fact that Windows fonts slow down your computer. Every font that gets installed on your PC slows down the boot-up time and slows down your normal operational speed.

Many programs that you install automatically add their own set of fonts, and very soon you can end up with a frenzy of unnecessary fonts clogging up your computer. Unless you use all of these fonts regularly, they are simply wasting your system resources.

Font Frenzy is a font manager designed to help you to view, install, and uninstall your fonts - it can help you "defrenzy" your whole font folder and put an end to font frustration and slow boot-up times.

Font Frenzy allows you to strip away all your excess fonts and restores your system to only the fonts that are essential to Windows, giving you the maximum performance speed possible.

I found it today:)
Damn!
Richard!
I was dying to know something like that!
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http://www.freeoffice.com/de/

Fast, better compatibility to MS-Office than LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Definitely worth a try if you do not agree with the new Microsoft licensing... I tried it a few weeks ago and my wife is currently using it. Works fine here.
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I'm using the full version of SoftMaker Office since a long time (on Windows).
I'm very happy with it, and I can recommend it, too.
It is also considerably faster than LibreOffice and OpenOffice, so it's well suited to be used as portable version on a USB thumb drive.
( I don't know what are the resrictions of the free version, though. )
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I use Softmaker Office Pro on linux and windows. It's the best and more compatible as microsoft himself.
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