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It's not just a clone.

The comunity did a great work on this game.

Here a list of some features that makes this game better then the original.

- Better AI (vehicles don't crash often and the cpu player is not so dumb)
- Better Graphics
- More vehicle types
- Multiplayer
- Better construction tools
- Way more options to customize your game, from dificult to transit rules.

April 8, 2013, 6 new sites added. All links checked and working.

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Thanks

Steve

April 8, 2013, 8 new sites added and 1 dead link removed. All links here checked and working.

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Thanks

Steve

Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features:
https://jitsi.org/Main/HomePage

Hi, mr6n8,

Thanks for your post, but I understood that difference. I was simply trying to use that difference to explain to the previous poster that one of the reasons that I knew that I had downloaded the original Ringdroid app and had NOT installed the "social edition" version from the alternate developer was that I had NOT seen that additional blue and white emblem before. Just to be sure I'm being clear, the Ringdroid I downloaded was the original Ringdroid with the icon that had only the reddish note and yellow scissors you described and did NOT have the additional blue and white emblem.

I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.

Cheers

Radio Tray is an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible, making it very straightforward to use:
http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

Great Little Radio Player - A robust internet radio station streamer for Ubuntu and Fedora based Linux distributions. It connects to web sites offering radio streaming and lets you play radio stations directly from that locations. With Great Little Radio Player, you will have collection of 300 radio stations worldwide:
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Tabula helps you liberate data tables trapped inside PDF files:
http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/
https://github.com/jazzido/tabula#readme

just to visually clarify:

This is the good Ringdroid:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ringdroid&feature

This is the evil, crap, fake Ringdroid (Social Edition):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ringdroid.social&featu...

Both look like the same icon except that the Social Edition (the evil, crap, fake Ringdroid) has a white circle filled in with blue, & a white "in" written on the blue background.

About MyDefrag; Just a "heads up": mydefrag.com appears to be down today. I don't know if that means it is dead or just offline but...

Actually, if I could just get the Windows 7 Windows Explorer to work in Windows 8 that would be the nicest option :-)

Sorry Geert,... I probably didn't put my question very well at all.
What I was trying to say was,.. if I use spamgourmet, can I still use Mailwasher before opening my email client which is Thunderbird. ?
ie, will spamgourmet enable Mailwasher to hook up and display my incoming emails before weeding out the crap and passing the good emails on to Thunderbird. ?

The Ringdroid app linked from here is not a blue and white icon. It is redish note with a yellow scissors.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ringdroid

the Rindgdroid app with a blue and white emblem is from a different developer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.ringtonemaker#?t.....

Hi, mjuice7,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I just went to Google Play and checked out both Ringdroid apps. After reading them both, I'm quite certain that I had the one from the Ringdroid Team, and for three reasons:

1) Because of the obvious difference in the two icons (I'd never before seen the blue and white emblem in the "Social Edition" icon);
2) Because I've never heard of "song ginglin," but seem to remember reading something about the "Ringdroid Team" before; and finally (and most important),
3) Because I am cheerfully "anti-social" and heartily detest Facebook, Twitter, and all other annoying forms of "social media" or anything that even remotely smacks of that, so I would never download the "social edition" of anything!

Ringdroid is indeed a great app, but for now I'll play it safe and leave it off my phone unless I have a reason to load it in order to create a specific ringtone. I hope others enjoy it and find it "AirPush-free."

Thanks again for your post.

April 7, 2013,9 new sites added. All links here checked and working.

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Thanks

Steve

April 7, 2013, 6 new sites added. All links checked and working.

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If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.

If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).

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Thanks

Steve

hi yankiwi, i think you may find that you have downloaded a knock off copy of ringdroid from google play. it is called ringdroid (social edition) by song qinglin. a while ago i did the same as ringdroid had not developed their most excellent app for ice cream sandwich/jellybean at the time i needed it. it did exactly the same things as you have detailed..crap dropped all over my screens from airpush. i finally tracked this down with the excellent dr. web. as far as i know & have experienced ringdroid has never done what you have detailed. ditch the fake app & get the real thing. as you stated it is a great app.

Hi, Jojoyee,

Thanks for the info. I've never downloaded any app from any source other than the Google Play Store, so I'm sure it was that version of Ringdroid. I scanned with AirPush Detector, which found that Ringdroid contained AirPush, because I'd noticed occasional app icons on my home pages ("Slotto" and others). The unwanted app icons would only appear occasionally while I had Ringdroid installed, but they have never appeared since I uninstalled Ringdroid.

As I said, I really liked Ringdroid; it's a great program, does what it says it will do, and does it well, but until I'm sure that it's not going to load junk onto my phone, I'll only install it long enough to create a ringtone (which I rarely do), then immediately uninstall it. However, if others have better or newer information to the contrary, I'll be glad to hear it.

Thanks for the feedback Yankiwi. So far I've not experienced unwanted app icons on the home screen resulted from Ringdroid. Check if you have installed Ringdroid developed by Ringdroid Team or the Social Edition by another developer, and if you have installed the app directly from the Play Store.

According to the developer, Ringdroid is an open-source project and it does not contain ads. You may also email the developer to find out more.

This listing of Android apps is superb, as always, but I'd like to add a small note of caution about Ringdroid. It's a great program and works well, but when I repeatedly found icons for gambling and other unwanted applications on my home screen, I finally tracked down Ringdroid as the source. As a result, I uninstalled it, as I don't need to create ringtones regularly, and I can always reinstall it briefly if I want to create a ringtone, then uninstall it again.

If anyone has reliable information that this problem is no longer happening with Ringdroid, that would be good to know, but until that is known for sure, users should be aware that Ringdroid may install all kinds of junk apps on their phones.

Thanks for this great list!

aContacts hasn't been updated in over three years and its Play listing says "Not fully compatible with Android 2.0"

I've used Gishpuppy for years. Pretty much the same thing. Forwards to an existing addy so can be used by any mail client or Mailwasher. Integrates well with Firefox - not sure of others.

Well at first it did not work at all with my Firefox, but I went to recheck today for IE and it worked like a charm with Firefox and IE.

I am adding it in to all the audio pages.

Thanks

Steve

Dr.Web CureIt! 8 on-demand virus scanner has been released - http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/?lng=en . A favorable review by Martin Brinkmann at Ghacks.net can be found at http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/06/dr-web-cureit-8-on-demand-virus-scanner... .

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/security/11018-bitdefende...

Any thoughts on Bitdefender Free? Seems a bit light on options but detection rates sound excellent.

Best Android Navigation Apps

Add OsmAnd. By far the most powerful mapping App for Android.

Uses off-line OSM maps (no data download but online also available) and includes voice guidance, gpx track recording, contours, etc etc.

Is Carbon Copy Cloner free? It looks like it's croakware

http://help.bombich.com/kb/overview/carbon-copy-cloners-transition-to-a-...

CCC is no longer donationware. In order to grow our support and development team, we have made the transition to a commercial product. This will allow us to to continue offering frequent updates to our software, including new features. This will also enable our stellar customer support to remain that way. Transitioning from donationware to a commercial offering underscores our commitment to deliver the best Mac OS X cloning and backup utility on the market.

They probably employ a security filter that prevents the use of alias addresses. MC. Site Manager.

What do you mean exactly?
As Spamgourmet just forwards mails to your real e-mailaddress, it simply works. Whatever e-mail client you use.

Thanks for your comments. I see you are new to Gizmon, welcome! Your application request would reach more people if you put it in our free forum, see Freeware Forum tab at the top of the page and then go to the discussion thread - "I Want a Freeware Program that ...". Hope you find something that help!

Again Welcome!
Explorer40

You are correct -- it is getting on.
I would like to make a correction. Wilma cannot index networked drives.
It is still worth looking at if you need some of its unique features.

yes a good about config tweak , i have my Firefox set to open in new tab as-well

"... Simeranya is a music search engine that everyone needs. Basically it searchs videos and musics on most popular services on the world like YouTube, DailyMotion, SoundCloud, GrooveShark, MP3Skull, Izlesene and gives you the ability to download them as a mp3 without wasting your time on the web via video converter services ...":
http://www.simeranya.com/

A little known gem is the free search program Wilma from www.redtree.com. It searches within many file types, shows number of hits, displays all the found words in their context, can include or exclude any path or file types when indexing, will also index networked drives and is very fast. Simple and complex searches (using regular expressions) are supported. Can separately search for content, file name or folder name or combinations of the three. It needs no installation and is just run from a directory. Uninstalling is simply a matter of deleting its directory.

It is better then Gmail system but overall it is only okay. What I would like would be something like a stickie that displays on the screen, something that can talk to google calender and an android app for when I am on the move.

Those morons at Amazon keep wanting to install on the C drive!
I don't allow storage on MY operating system drive.
They don't have enough sense to let the user decide WHERE to install the program!

I know this is a late addition to this thread, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents, as I use LogMeIn hundreds of times a day for work, and TeamViewer several times a day to connect to my home computer (and vice versa). Both have different strengths. The previous poster brought up the fact that you need to create an account for LogMeIn. Well, yes, that's how you connect to remote computers with LogMeIn. You browse to LogMeIn.com on any computer on the planet that has an Internet connection, log into your (free) account and then access the computers associated with your account. Advantage: access remote computers from anywhere on earth on just about any hardware with an Internet connection.

However, when I want extremely stable remote access with file transfer capability, I use TeamViewer. I've forgotten I even had TeamViewer open and came back the next day, and it was still connected! That's stable. LogMeIn is nowwhere near that stable - sometimes it will disconnect for no apparent reason in one session. It also has built-in timers, which will disconnect you after a certain period of inactivity.

File transfer is also something I use quite often, and could not do without, between my work and home computers. Rather than opening a new email, attaching documents, mailing it to myself and opening and downloading them on my home computer, I can just zip them right to my home desktop with TeamViewer.

Both are equally as fast, in my experience. It depends a lot on both Internet connections.

Logmein is easier to install, in my opinion, which can be nice. TeamViewer isn't that easy. However, once it is installed, TeamViewer can't be beat for convenience (once it's configured) - open it up, double-click your remote computer and you're on.

Bottom line; It really depends upon what you want your remote access to do for you.

Like you, I searched and sampled many cloud storage offerings. I want a product that fits my file system and does not force me to move and copy files in order to fit their system. The best service I have found is SugarSync (several reviews on Gizmo's site).
- YOU set the folders you want to sync to the cloud
- Select any or all of the cloud folders to sync to any or all of your devices
- Compatible with PC, Mac, iPhone, Android
- Select folder(s) to share and sync with other SugarSync users
- Can share a file and/or folder with non-SugarSync users
- Multiple file versions are saved in the cloud
- Free app, free 5GB storage
- Very easy to set-up and use in the background without changing your current filing system.

It took a little bit of a wait to get zoolz but after the initial Genie Timeline set up to 'shadow' and upload my C: drive all is well and Genie is incremental so any changes I make are uploaded every six hours.Remember that I warned everyone about the initial uploading seems to take like FOREVER but all is sweet after...enjoy!

You're welcome Peter56.

Unfortunately I don't see Epson LQ-570+ has a printer driver for Linux. I usually go for an HP printer as quite a number of its models have good driver support for Linux.

I've used the spamgourmet service for about three years, and it does exactly what it says it will. I'm completely satisfied, and wholeheartedly recommend it.

Peter...

You can use the advanced mode on the Spamgourmet. There you can specify a specific email address or domain that will not advance the consumed count. In that way, the Spamgourmet will just relay the email and you could still use your registered email address on that site.

yes it is a shame Rainlender isn't available on android I did wonder whether to leave as my top pick because of this fact but because this is a review a for desktop software I decided it still was the best of this type of program and deserved to stay as top pick.

The Connection Manager (ConnMan) project provides a daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system.

ConnMan is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated. It is a fully modular system that can be extended, through plug-ins, to support all kinds of wired or wireless technologies. The plug-in approach allows for easy adaption and modification for various use cases:
http://connman.net/

Where do you see this, getting more Space by inviting friends?
I can't see anything that just looks like on the main site for my cloud!

Thanks for suggesting Rainlender - have been using it for a month or two and simply love it. Can be set up to be completely unintrusive and yet super easy to access and use - love how it integrates with desktop and can be skinned for extra button functions as well as looks. I'll be getting the paid version the minute they make this compatible with android so I can snyc between my devices (that is unless I can find something just as good that also integrates email and contact info!).

Thanks for the great article. Am using the awesomeness that is Rainlender Lite for my To-Dos and Reminders for now, and will check out your two top picks.

As well as brand new software and services I would recommend flagging existing products which have had significant developments in functionality and/or a complete redesign which, as a consequence, warrant a new review.

Thanks Anupam! That did it. [You live and learn all the time :),even at the expense of looking like a fool sometimes, lol.]