AdventureMaker, The Free Adventure Maker

 The screenshot of the program.

Type: Game Creator
OS:  Windows 98, XP, Vista
Package: Installer (approx. 16 MB)

AdventureMaker is a game creator from The Adventure Maker Team. As they say in their website, it's a freeware (there's also the full edition that requires you to purchase it).You don't have to pay anything to download the free edition. You can create point-and-click game and software that runs on PSP, iPhone, and Windows. It's a free complete game creator ever I found in internet. The package contains all you need to create a game: Icon Editor, Music Composer, Drawing Program, and Batch Resizing Program. All in one package. 

You can add some plugins into this program to make other effects or to add some functions you need. The official site gives you a link that contains all plugin you need to enhance your AdventureMaker program.

The free edition have some limited features that the full edition have. In the free edition you can't dceate and modify the plugins. You also can't put modification on your project using VB. And the project must be for non-commercial use. But this doesn't make the free version isn't good at all. You can still use some standard features that enough to create a simple and good game. 

This program is not only for making a game. It also can make presentations, interactive magazines, or educational softwares. These are the standard projects that can you make with this program. Of course there are some extras for the full version

For other informations, please go to this link and try it yourself!

Notepad++

Type: Editor

OS: Windows.

Package: Installer (3.3 MB)

Notepad ++ is a free text editor (also source code editor) that runs in Windows OS. It's suitable for HTML programmers and other language programmers. Notepad ++ offers some extra menus comparing with the old Notepad. The extra menus offered by Notepad ++  are Search, Encoding, Language, Setting, Macro, Run, TextFX, Plugins, and Window. There are two menus from the old Notepad that in Notepad ++ has been deleted. The menus are Format and Help (in Notepad ++ Help menu changed to ? menu, the very right menu).

The most interesting menu from Notepad ++ is the Language menu. It contains about 65 languages (and some of them are very popular like HTML, C, C ++, Pascal, Python, PHP, even VB!). It makes this program become multi-language editor; you can edit or make whatever programs you want with only one editor! And it's also free.

The Run menu allows you to run your script in the proper program. If you make a web page, you can see what you've done by choosing one of the four browsers that offered in this menu.

The latest version of Notepad ++ is Notepad 5.6.8 (size 3.3 MB). Stay connect with the internet, because occasionally there are also some updates for this program.The official site of Notepad ++ is:

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

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Freeware - The Solution For Lower Budget User

Consider yourself as a student with a minimum allowance. You need to finish some task that requires you to make some papers. When you see your computer, you realize that you don't have any MS Office Softwares installed. So what will you do? Are you will go to the warez sites to download MS Office crack softwares? Or maybe borrow the installation CD from your friends? Well, that's all risky. It can make your computer unsafe by harmful software hiding inside the warez. And borrowing is seems like an illegal action due to the software license. So what should we do in this situation?

If you want to find some free software for non-commercial purpose that is free and reliable, you may look for the freewares. Freeware is almost same like the commercial software, the main difference is it's free! Yes, you don't have to pay any charge to download it, and it's still legal to share it with your friends. It also legal software, protected by GNU License that makes sure it will stay free of charge.

Almost all of the commercial softwares have their freeware version. For example, MS Office's freeware version is Open Office. The quality of the freeware is not like the last decade that very poor in features. Many freewares now are quite satisfying and, in some level, pretty similar like the commercial version.

There are various types of freeware, you can choose what software you want and find the freeware version of that software. Wanna play a movie or maybe your mp3 playlist, try to use K-Lite. It's better than Windows Media Player, because it can play some file extension that WPM couldn't play. And since K-Lite contains some code pack for some unknown files for WMP, we can "teach" WMP to recognize them so it can also play them. Wanna editing your family photos but don't have a Photoshop? Try using GIMP. Maybe you need some time to learn it, but it essentially similar. Even Mozzila, Opera and Internet Explorer 8 are freeware. It's same to some lprogram languages like Java and Python.

Wanna have them safely? Download them not from the mirror, but through their official download links. Get curious? Start googling from now! Happy downloading to you all!!

Yafeth T. B.