Software & Game Downloads

Crysis Running on a MacBook Air (Windows 7 Gaming) – Check out how Crysis runs on the brand new 11 inch MacBook Air featuring an NVIDIA GeForce 320M. We installed Windows 7 via bootcamp in order to run this.

Native Linux game Smokin Guns running in Ubuntu 10.04, The game is a first person western shooter game, It is a game mainly to be played online but canbe played single player with bots if you really want! The game is rather good but challenging and as you progress you earn money to buy better weapons Download : www.smokin-guns.net

Len Komoroski, President, Cavaliers/Quicken Loans Arena – Len Komoroski was named president of the Cavaliers/Quicken Loans Arena, which includes the newly-christened Quicken Loans Arena The Q, in April 2003. He spent the previous seven years as senior vice president and chief of business operations for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. A seasoned business executive, Komoroski brings more than 25 years of experience in professional sports and entertainment to the organization. His leadership and business initiative bring a solid foundation from which the Cavaliers and The Q can continue to thrive and flourish. For the 2003-04 season, Komoroski oversaw the restructuring of how the Cavaliers approached the business community, including the development of a staff featuring some of the top sports marketing executives in the industry. The collective efforts both on and off the floor resulted in one of the top business turnaround stories in NBA history. The Cavaliers had the largest year-over-year attendance increase in NBA history, progressing from a league-low of 11497 per game in 2002-03 to 18288 in 2003-04 a 59%increase. Television ratings were up 300% and featured revised broadcast agreements resulting in the largest number of locally-televised games in team history. Radio ratings also increased by more than 200% and local merchandise sales grew by 500%. The Cavaliers also experienced the largest increase in corporate partnership revenue in the NBA …

• Conveniently store your instruments inside of this ottoman while keeping them organized and ready to play
• Storage space for drum set, gaming guitars, foot pedal, and microphone allow you to eliminate room clutter
• Drums attach to a telescoping support for easy height adjustment
• Ottoman will make a stylish and functional addition to any room in the house
• Compatible with both Guitar Hero IV and any Rockband version; measures 35 inches long by 19 inches wide by 17.35 inches tall

Amazon.com Product Description
Hide the band by keeping your instruments neatly and stylishly stowed with this gaming storage ottoman from Cohesion.

Keep your instruments organized and accessible. The black synthetic leather exterior offers a sleek appearance that will be suitable for any room in the house. The ottoman opens to reveal generous storage space for your instruments so they’re always organized and accessible. The ottoman measures 35 inches long by 19 inches… More >>

Cohesion BandBox Gaming Storage and Furniture Ottoman

With Microsoft DirectX windows technology you are able to experience a very high performance in sound and graphics which highly increases the pleasure of playing games. There are lots of versions which have been released by Microsoft for DirectX and the latest being DirectX 10. A comparison between Microsoft DirectX 10 Vs DirectX 9 will reveal integrated features in both, and their comparative advantages while using for playing games.

DirectX software has at its core, the Application Programming Interfaces which act as a bridge between the hardware and software making both of them understand each other. The advanced features of the high performance hardware such as sound cards, 3d graphics acceleration chips etc. get multimedia application enabled access with the help of Direct X. In other words, Direct X helps you experience better audio effects and 3-D graphics on your computer.

Windows Games are incomplete without the technology of Direct X. A Direct X makes window gaming an experience of a lifetime. It increases the level of realism in the game and adds effects to it like dynamic lighting, weather conditions and much more. All the versions of Direct X are capable of giving an enhanced experience to the person playing games.

A comparison between Microsoft DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 is necessary before you decide whether playing games on DirectX 10 provides you an enhanced gaming experience and more fun than playing on DirectX 9. Although it is true that Microsoft DirectX 10 is the latest bundle of technology which is used for multimedia applications and playing games, yet it is compatible only with Windows Vista. Some even argue that Microsoft DirectX 10 was introduced by Microsoft in order to force users to migrate to Windows Vista from Windows XP platform and make its Windows Vista popular.

However, there is no doubt about the fact that Microsoft DirectX 10 provides a much better gaming experience than DirectX 9 as it comes with many groundbreaking graphics technology. Newly introduced windows games which are designed with DirectX 10 scenario in mind takes full advantage of the generation next graphics technology used here. The dynamics added to the gaming technology helps in uplifting the level of realism in window games.

After adding a Microsoft DirectX 10 you get a world class performance even in games of older versions which were compatible with DirectX 9 and others. Actually the DirectX 10 card makes your PC provide best effects in graphics and sound and give an optimum result in graphics optimized games. Playing a Windows game with Direct X 10 is like adding a turbo charger to your gaming capabilities and getting an experience of a lifetime with Superb Audio and Video qualities.

A better gaming experience is provided by DirectX 10 as compared to DirectX 9 is clear as you can see that with DirectX 10 you can also play the games based on earlier versions such as DirectX 9. This is one of the reasons why more than 10 million users have switched to Windows Vista operating System since January 2007.

You can easily see the improvement in quality of the pictures and graphics when you compare the output produced both from DirectX 9 and DirectX10 as you will clearly see that the output produced from DirectX 10 is far better in graphics and clarity than that in DirectX 9. So, now if you have to choose between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 for playing games, you know which one to choose.

Out of the blue I started getting pop-ups and pop-unders all of them pointing to ads.free-windows-games.com, otherwise known as Free GamHelper. I did some research and found out that I was infected with a program that is both adware and browser helper object.

Adware is a program that was written to assist advertisers in getting their advertisements directly to you. Pop ups are the most common form of this directed advertising, but it can also occur in the form of pop-unders, banner ads, and floating advertisements. Adware programs are known to hog your computer’s resources. Both your processing power and your bandwidth are severely slowed, leading to a slower computer and Internet. Adware usually gets on your computer from being in a software bundle. That means that you intend to download and install one program, but extra stuff gets installed when you run the installation of the program you wanted.

Browser helper objects, also called BHOs, usually take the form of toolbars, but are known to not show up at all. They usually look like an added search bar when they appear as a toolbar. Browser helper objects are known to change your Internet Explorer settings such as your start page and default search page, as well as hijacking your search results. It is rare that a browser helper object is installed on its own. It is usually part of a bundle and is installed on your computer without you knowing about it until after the fact. Browser helper objects are also known for monitoring your web browsing activity and sending that information to a remote server so the ads you get are more “targeted” to your interests.

Through research I discovered that to remove Free GamHelper you need to have an anti-spyware program. I discovered there are a couple problems with this. The first problem is that there are a lot of programs that pretend to be anti-spyware when in fact they are really spyware programs themselves. The second problem is when you do finally find an anti-spyware program it may not do the job. Most anti-spyware programs only remove 80-90% of an infection often times leaving you still infected. There are anti-spyware programs out there that will remove 100%, you just have to look for them. Make sure to check for awards from places like Tucows and WUGNET, which are recognized in the computer industry as only being given to superior programs.