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Fun with new games, iPod gimmicks, music and more...
Fred Showker
What a great time for the holidays, playing games and making the iPod more fun and much more useful! Enjoy this week's download fun!
Reckless Drivin' 1.5 is an action game for the Mac in which the player drives a car through 2-dimensional levels as fast as possible, leaving as much destruction as possible on the way. Version 1.5 now uses OpenGL, resulting in much smoother graphics, and offers registration from the application.
Ruckus Buck's Dangerous Mines is a Mac OS X version of the popular minesweeper game title -- it has all the fun elements of the classic game but has been rebuild from the ground up and has 3 different modes of play now, including Classic, Free Edge (open the board around the edge), and Gauntlet (play against the clock to clear the board). Dangerous mines also sports a Environment system that allows for engaging background audio. From thunderstorms to Spooky forests, environment sounds are driven by a system that allows for non repeating audio so it sounds real, not just a looping sound. Players can also make their own environments to share with others. Each Environment can have custom sounds and images. Picture
Burning Monkey Solitaire is the hugely popular suite of solitaire card games for Mac OS and Windows featuring "joke-telling chimps, singing gorillas, flaming arrows, and flying pigs." The 2005 Edition includes more animations, more jokes and the following new Solitaire games: Up, Cruel, Black Hole and Pile On!.
Listen to your documents on your iPod. Take any document or web page and convert it into an MP3/AAC track in iTunes using your Mac's built-in text-to-speech capabilities. From there it's a quick sync to your iPod and away you go!
Automate your iPod -- Automatically launch applications and scripts whenever you connect an iPod to your Mac. Auto-sync your personal information via iPod It. Backup your vital data or sync folder contents between your home and work Macs (sample AppleScripts provided). The possibilities are endless!
iPodRip 3.7 puts control of the iPod back in your hands with the ultimate iPod companion. iPodRip supports recovering your songs and playlists, playback of audio files and much more. - Supports any file the iPod does - Recovers all songs, meta data and associated playlists to iTunes - Recovers and reconstructs your playlists in iTunes based on the songs already in iTunes - SmartSync rules based import of songs - Print, HTML and XML support - Stand alone jukebox with menubar controls and song information; and a lot more!
Who needs a PDA when you have an iPod? Transfer your PIM data to your iPod or iPod mini so it's available whenever you need it; iPod It supports transferring information from Entourage, Stickies, Mail, Address Book and iCal. You can even download weather forecasts and news headlines directly to your iPod.
Guitar Rig 1.2 is the latest version of the "complete solution for the modern guitarist. The free update adds four more stomp boxes to the guitarists arsenal, all "painstakingly modelled after popular real world units." At this price however, we can't consider this 'shareware' ...
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Check these out and let us know how you like them. Remember, all UGN readers would like to know your opinion on the best shareware and freeware... send in your reviews and have them published here in the User Group Network!
Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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