segunda-feira, março 20, 2006

Batalhas da História de Portugal

Para os mais distraídos, foi lançado este Domingo com o Correio da Manhã, o 1º Volume da colecção exclusiva «Grandes Batalhas da História de Portugal».

Tratam-se de 22 livros ricamente encadernados e ilustrados, que abordam as batalhas que marcaram a história Portuguesa desde a fundação do território até à guerra em Africa.

Um passado épico contado por ilustres historiadores, com a coordenação da Academia Portuguesa de História ~ Ministério da Cultura.

O primeiro volume tem o preço de lançamento de €1.95.
Os restantes volumes serão lançados às 4ª Feira, com um preço de €6.90 cada.

De notar que a ordem de lançamentos não é coincidente com a sequência dos volumes.

Teremos então:
  • 19 de Março - Vol. 22 - Guerra de Africa: Angola ~ 1961-1974
  • 22 de Março - Vol. 21 - Guerra de Africa: Guiné ~ 1963-1974
  • 29 de Março - Vol. 20 - Guerra de Africa: Moçambique ~ 1964-1974
  • 5 de Abril - Vol. 7 - As Campanhas da Índia: Batalhas de Goa, Swally e Diu ~ Séc. XVI-XVII
  • 12 de Abril - Vol. 17 - Campanhas Coloniais: Zambébia, Cambuemba, Manjamba da Costa e Barué ~ Séc. XIX-XX
  • 19 de Abril - Vol. 4 - Guerra Pela Independência: Batalha de Aljubarrota ~ 1383-1389
  • 26 de Abril - Vol. 10 - A Defesa do Ultramar: Guerra da Liberdade Divina, Batalha dos Montes Guararapes e Reconquista de Lunada ~ 1640-1661
  • 3 de Maio - Vol. 12 - Guerra das Laranjas: Campanha do Alentejo ~ 1801
  • 10 de Maio - Vol. 14 - Campanha de Montevideu ~ 1810-1822
  • 17 de Maio - Vol. 5 - Campanhas do Norte de Africa: Tomada de Ceuta, Expedição Conquista de Tânger, Tomada de Alcacer Ceguer ~ 1414-1471
  • 24 de Maio - Vol. 11 - Guerra do Rossilhão: Batalha da Montanha Negra e Combate de Banyuls ~ 1793-1795
  • 31 de Maio - Vol. 9 - A Restauração: Batalhas do Montijo, das Linhas de Elvas, do Ameixal e de Montes Claros ~ 1640-1668
  • 7 de Junho - Vol. 15 - Guerras Liberais: Vilafrancada, Abrilada e Batalhas de Almoster e da Asseiceira ~ 1822-1834
  • 14 de Junho - Vol. 6 - Guerra Luso-Castelhana do Séc. XV
  • 21 de Junho - Vol. 8 - A Perda da Independência: Batalha de Alcacer Quibir ~ 1578-1640
  • 28 de Junho - Vol. 18 - A Grande Guerra: Batalha de La Lys ~ 1914-1918
  • 5 de Julho - Vol. 2 - A Definição das Fronteiras ~ 1143-1297
  • 12 de Julho - Vol. 16 - Maria da Fonte e Patuleia: Guerra Civil da Patuleia e "Papeletas da Ladroeira" ~ 1846-1847
  • 19 de Julho - Vol. 3 - As Guerras Fernandinas: Combate Naval de Saltes ~ 1369-1383
  • 26 de Julho - Vol. 19 - Monarquia do Norte ~ 1919
  • 2 de Agosto - Vol. 1 - A Guerra da Reconquista ~ 1128-1250
  • 9 de Agosto - Vol. 13 - Guerra Peninsular: Batalhas da Roliça. de Vimeiro e do Buçaco ~ 1808-1814

Pela minha parte, irei adquirir alguns dos volumes.

quinta-feira, março 09, 2006

Commands and Colors: Ancients

Dei com este jogo num dos emails de recebi de novidades da AtlanticaJuegos, parece-me interessante, pelo que aqui vai mais um monologo...

Commands and Colors: Ancients
http://www.gmtgames.com/cca/main.html
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/14105

Um jogo de tabuleiro com a mecânica de jogo que já conhecemos de um «Battle Cry» ou de um «Memoir'44», não fosse o designer o Richard Borg. Se a mecânica é a mesma, logo à partida gosto.

Este primeiro volume - estão previstas várias expansões - centra-se sobre as grandes batalhas entre Cartago e Roma, incluindo duas batalhas contra outros oponentes, que permitiram a Cartago aperfeiçoar um sistema militar que chegou ao ponto de dobrar a República de Roma.

Nas palavras do designer:

"Commands & Colors: Ancients depicts warfare from the Dawn of Military History (3000 BC) to the opening of the Middle Ages (400 AD). Quite an ambitious undertaking for one game, yet Commands & Colors by design is a unique historical game system which allows players to effectively portray, stylized battles from this time in history. The 13 battles, showcased in the scenario booklet, although stylized, focus on important terrain features and the historical deployment of forces in scale with the game system. The battles include Bagradas, Cannae, and Zama."

"The scale of the game fluctuates from battle to battle. For some scenarios, an infantry unit may represent a legion of fighters, while in other scenarios a unit may represent just a few brave warriors. But the tactics you need to execute conform remarkably well to the advantages and limitations inherent to the various units, their weapons, terrain and time."

"Unlike its younger brother, Battle Cry by Hasbro/Avalon Hill, Commands & Colors: Ancients is moderately more complex and contains additional historical details without the battlefield clutter. Most scenarios will still play to a conclusion in less than an hour."

"The command card system, drives movement, creates a true fog of war and presents both challenges and opportunities. There are four types of command cards: Leadership cards, Section cards, Troop cards and Tactic cards."

"The battle dice system resolves all combat efficiently and quickly. Each battle die has one Light, one Medium, one Heavy, one Leader, one Flag and one Swords symbol."

"The game mechanics, although simplistic, will still require strategic card play, historical tactics, timely dice rolling, and an aggressive yet flexible battle plan, to achieve victory."

Um jogo à maneira antiga...

Tempo de duração de jogo: 1h.

Algumas imagens:



Mapa:

One 22"x34" full-color mapsheet + three sheets of Terrain Tile Overlays (double-sided)
user posted image

Unidades
Five full-color sheets of unit labels to affix to the 345 wooden blocks.
user posted image

Cartas de Comando
60 Command Cards
user posted image

quarta-feira, março 01, 2006

WE3

Um cão, um gato... e um coelho...

WE3
Animal Weapon 3
user posted image

Acabei de ler, e de facto foi uma surpresa, e em GRANDE!

Uma história com impacto, passada num cenário misto de horror e sci-fi, onde 3 adoráveis animais de estimação - um cão chamado Bandit, um gato chamado Tinker, e um coelho chamado Pirate - são transformados em poderosos cyborgs assassinos, dentro de um sinistro programa militar secreto de investigação de armamento, tendo em vista a substituição de soldados humanos.

E agora, esses três adoráveis e desesperados animais, apenas querem voltar a «casa»....

Gràficamente muito bem conseguida, no ponto.

The Incredible Journey meets The Terminator...

Não posso deixar de recomendar.

I. M GUD. R. U. GUD 2?


Previews:
WE3 PDF (8.8Mb) Trailer (4Mb QT)

segunda-feira, fevereiro 20, 2006

Takara: Battleship Yamato

Com esta fiquei mesmo sem palavras...

Da Takara Toys, mais uma deliciosa e sublime peça de colecção:

Takara MICRO World :: Battleship Yamato

















Como podem ver acima, trata-se de uma peça à escala 1:700 em sete partes... literalmente... pois pode ser exposta completa, ou apresentado as 7 secções do Yamato.

Um mimo...
Bem que tenho feito publicidade a esta peça da Takara por cá, mais ainda não se consegue arranjar a dita, pelo menos que eu saiba...





quinta-feira, fevereiro 09, 2006

GameCube: Mala Oficial de Transporte

A ultima aquisição para a minha GameCube.
Uma mala de transporte oficial da Nintendo.

Bendita EBay...
Aqui pelo burgo este tipo de material já é uma verdadeira miragem...

Adquirida a um EBayer do UK por um preço módico, e chegou em perfeitas condições.
A mala nunca tinha sido usada.




quinta-feira, fevereiro 02, 2006

SEGA: Anuncios Bizarros...

Estavamos nos inicios de 1990, e a SEGA gozava um estatuto de dominio nas consolas.

Podia muito bem fazer aquilo que queria, tal era a dominancia de consolas como a Megadrive.

Em termos comparação de sucesso, essa consola era como a PS2 nos nossos dias. Bastava dizer o nome... Todos conheciam a consola, todos queriam uma - eu não tive nenhuma - e até a GameGear era tão cool na época como será agora uma PSP...

Os anuncios da SEGA na TV e nas revistas tinham o seu estilo e eram bastante badalados.

Mas algumas vezes o poder subiu-lhes à cabeça... e deu nisto...





























sexta-feira, janeiro 27, 2006

SteelDog: How to Paint

Steel Dog: http://www.steeldog.info

Steel Dog: How to Paint Video

Basic overview of our how to paint video series.
Contains useful information on painting many types of miniatures. Techniques include nonmetallic metal dry brushing highlighting and many other guides to painting.

E' um apanhado do video original, mas mesmo assim tem cerca de 30 minutos de duração.

E para bom entendedor:
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
se tiverem interessados em passar o video para outro suporte...

Vale a pena dar uma vista de olhos.

segunda-feira, janeiro 16, 2006

Freeware

Uma relação de software freeware que encontrei por ai, pode sempre vir a ser util...

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation:
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

Video codecs:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players:
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AdShield - http://www.lossepladsen.dk/all4you/TheLostWorld/AdShield.php
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/
Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html
Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/
Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp
Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html
Peerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/
Process Explorer (aka ProcessXP) - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain
WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/
XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/
YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm

quinta-feira, dezembro 01, 2005

GameCube: Pack Resident Evil 4

E prontos... a tentação foi mais forte...
Não consegui resistir à promoção a decorrer em algumas das lojas nacionais - como a FNAC e o MediaMarkt - e acabei por adquirir o pack GameCube abaixo, de edição limitada, por €50... vendo bem, isso é o preço actual do jogo que acompanha o pack...

O conteúdo do pack é o seguinte:

















e inclui o jogo Resident Evil 4.

Agora vou ter que comprar um cartão de memória e dar inicio à loucura GameCube...

sexta-feira, setembro 02, 2005

A Morte de um Panther (Colónia, Alemanha, Março de 1945)

Uma história passada no final da WWII, ETO (Teatro Europeu de Operações), e que sinto vontade de partilhar.

A historia do Panther 131 (Ausf.A), II./Pz.Rgt. 33, 9 Pz.Div., e dos eventos dramáticos que levaram ao seu fim trágico, num embate final contra o T26E3 Pershing do Sgt. Robert Early, E Company, 32nd Arm.Rgt., 3rd Arm.Div «Spearhead», durante a tomada de Colónia, 6 de Março de 1945.

Irão encontrar de seguida imagens e videos sobre este trágico evento.

Uma vista sobre o largo da Catedral de Colónia, onde o desenlace final desta historia ocorreu:



Tudo se inicia com o abate de dois Shermans, por parte do Panther 131, com resultados trágicos para 4 membros dos tanques aliados:



Em resposta, temos o embate final entre o M26 Pershing e o Panther, e o fim trágico do tanque alemão e da sua tripulação, após 3 hits mortais:





Algumas páginas com mais imagens deste embate:

Pictures From Newsreal Footage With M26 Knocking Out Panther In Cologne

- http://home.earthlink.net/~crcorbin/ColognePictures.html
- http://home.earthlink.net/~3adspearhead/ColognePictures.html

Mise à mort d'un Panther par un Sherman en Allemagne

- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/did.panzer/Mise_mort_panther.html

Mais do que as imagens, nada mais realista do que o relato de soldados envolvidos nestes trágicos eventos, e ver em filme como o fim ocorreu:

Cologne Panther ~ History Channel [ 17Mb ]
(este vale mesmo a pena, pela força dos relatos e das imagens...)

Cologne Panther ~ Spiegel.TV
(as imagens do fim...)

Um excerto retirado de um grupo de discussão:

This is a pretty grizzly bit of footage to watch both for the poor old Sherman crewy with the smoking stump where his lower leg was and to see the Panther crewy get cooked as his vehicle goes up. But "After the Battle" Mag No.104 covers this the incident pretty throughly and adds a few more pieces to the puzzle along with a ton of pics. Though there are a lot of shots around in numerous books of this Panther taken after the incident burnt out in the square in various positions presumably after being shunted around a bit.

Apparently this lone Pz.Rgt.33 Panther either had mechanical trouble or was left behind as a rearguard in the Cathederal square down Marzellan Strasse and was simply "playing Possum". To the approaching US tanks in Komödien Strasse it appeared to be KO'd or abandoned with its gun depressed and turret turned away, before suddenly traversing its gun to their horror which is how it managed to take out the first 2 Shermans at such a close range killing 3 of the crew from at least one in the process.

The Sherman crewman who lost a leg from the Panther hit was apparently the Gunner not the TC according to the article. He was carried by the Bow Gunner Oliver Griffin who had himself also been blown out of his own hatch by the blast but was amazingly uninjured. Thus by elimination the TC was therefore killed along with the driver and loader if 3 men died.

The nearby T26E3/Pershing of Sgt. Early of E Company, 32nd Arm.Rgt., 3.Arm.Div. was called up and gunner Clarence Smoyer fired 3 T33 shots as it rounded the corner which led to the Panther cooking off soon after.

One hit was at the base of the mantlet as the turret was turned to 2 o'clock so if deflected downwards, and it did so above the RHS of the hull roof (ie. above the Bow Gunner). One hole is on the upper RHS hull side and the last below the sponson line (but above the top run of tracks) - these can be seen glowing as 2 orange holes in the footage as the tank begins to burn. So it would either have been the Bow Gunner and/or the Loader who was killed not the driver - who is seen making a hurried getaway.

There is some doubt as to the veracity of the notion that the Pershing's gun was actually gyro-stabilised as the photo caption of this incident in Belton Cooper's otherwise excellent "Death Traps" claims between p.198 & 199 and it wasn't just lucky shots if it was indeed still on the move. This has been debated on other DGs previously incl. AFVN in Dec 2000 and many Allied buffs don't think the T26E3s were stabilised as that book implies;

"An M26 Pershing comes around a corner and faces a Panther tank, (not in photo). The Panther expects the M-26 to stop before firing but gunner Clarence Smoyer's tank had a gyro stabilizer which let him fire when moving."

But Hunnicutt seems to think only the 105mm T26E2 and the later M26 has stabilized fire control and not the early 90mm E3, though whether some from this first batch of Zebra Mission ones had it unofficially installed is perhaps possible, as one of the German crewman after capture when asked why they hesitated engaging the Pershing, he apparently replied they was waiting for it to stop before firing which if so, obviously didn't happen...

There are a ton of shots of the Panther around once Cologne was taken as it sat there for months after and became a backdrop for every GI to pose against for a happy snap. Theres also this great colour pic of it burnt out and rusted bright orange taken a few weeks/months later clearly showing the upper hullside hole in a colour pic aircraft book by Jeff Ethell who's title currently escapes me - "Mighty Eighth in Color" or similar maybe??
The driver is clearly seen escaping in the footage and these stills by diving headfirst out his hatch and "ATB 104" states on p.22 that 3 men got out but that 2 others burned to death inside (The TC appears to be one and probably the loader is the second). On page 23 it states that;

"The three escaped crewmen were captured shortly after when a group of 30 German policemen emerged from a shelter beneath the cathedral (the so-called Dom-Bunker), surrendering to the first Americans they saw: four reporters...the Americans found the three Panther crewmen in the emergency aid post below the Dom: Leutnant Barthell Bortr had three leg wounds, Obergefreiter Otto Koenich a burned face and the third man lay dying on his bed."