2008 February

Wanna blow something up?
Blast Miner is a physics-based puzzle game, where you’ll use gasoline, dynamite and stones to cause huge explosions in your search for gold! Unlock medals and achievements, based on your performance, and discover multiple game endings! There’s also a puzzle editor where you can create your own levels for more blasting [...]

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture in a house’s 2D plan, giving you a 3D preview.
[25.19M] [Win2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Although it would be nice if we all had easy access to money whenever we needed to pay some bills, that’s not exactly the reality of life. With the economy the way it is, many people are having a hard time paying their bills, and even if you do have some steady income, you’ll still [...]

I keep seeing ads for business card scanners and they make it look convenient — but do they really work? –Jason
Having just returned from our annual franchise trade association conference, this question couldn’t have been timelier.
As with any large conference, we often return with a stack of business cards with miscellaneous notes scribbled on them [...]

Gnomie Levi Mahoney writes in with some wise eBay advice:
Hi, Chris! Recently I have been selling quite a few things on eBay. Most sales are great, and the customers are very pleased with the items, but you get a few people who are just not happy with what they bought and leave negative feedback. I [...]

Rules in Outlook can be imported and exported which means you can move your rules between computers and e-mail programs. When you export a set of rules, you save them to a file with a .rwz extension.
To export rules in Outlook 2007:

Open Outlook 2007.

From the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts.

If you have more than [...]

The Kingston CompactFlash Ultimate 266x Card offers an amazing minimum sustained write speed rating of 266X, making it perfect for advanced amateur and professional photographers who need reliable flash memory that can keep up with the most demanding assignments.
With an ultra-fast transfer rate of 45 MB/second read and 40 MB/second write, the Kingston CompactFlash [...]

Wake up and smell the coffee!
The Smokestack Coffee Company is polluting the town with bad coffee! Open your own Coffee Shop and take back the town! Swap coffee beans, milk, sugar and other tasty ingredients to prepare a menu full of tasty blends. Hold on tight for a fully wired rollercoaster ride through 7 [...]

15 mostly free downloads selected by PC World were among the winners and finalists at the 2007 and 2008 Independent Games Festival. Playable, fun, and sometimes quite weird, here are five of ‘em:

flOw
Wriggle your way through the ocean deep as an insatiable worm-thing.

Battleships Forever
Dismantle your enemies piece by piece in this tactical real-time strategy game.

Synaesthete
Guitar [...]

Easy Web site creation tools have risen in popularity, and there are plenty of services to choose from if you’re looking to create a Web presence for something. Of course, if you’re wanting to build a site for your business or for some other serious and somewhat professional endeavor, then it only makes sense to [...]