Freeciv, a free strategy game, Civilization style

Most gamers are familiar with Sid Meier's masterpiece "Civilization". A state of the art turn-based strategy game with a long history and many fans.

We have good news for fans of the genre:

Freeciv is a free and open source turn-based multiplayer strategy game similar to Civilization II. Available for free download on Sourceforge, Freeciv 

has great support for many languages (over 30).

Game features:

• turn-based
• very similar to Civilization I and II
• diplomacy
• AI players
• 100+ nations to pick-up
• 50 playable units
• 126 players
• multiplayer support
• mod support
• it's a free game
• source code at your discretion

In Freeciv game you start as a leader of a tribe in 4000 BC and have to develop your nation by building cities, researching technologies, raising armies and conquering other nations.

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Disable yahoo messenger advertising, make your messenger faster

Did you notice how annoying Yahoo Messenger started to be with newer versions ?

You have enjoyed messenger until one day when everything started to move very slowly on your computer. The main reason for this behavior is the fact that yahoo messenger bombards you with adds. That's right, Yahoo wants more money and advertising is a good bet so it uses your computer resources to frenetically display all kind of adds in the lower part of the messenger's window.

Fortunately for you, there is a solution:

DISABLE Yahoo advertising server !

Instructions are very simple, you need to edit a file with a word processor, Notepad is enough:

1. Open a file editor (notepad) as an administrator

2. Locate and load this file:
C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

3. Add the following line at the end of the text file:

127.0.0.1   insider.msg.yahoo.com

And you are done, what you get is a slim and ready to use, faster ymessenger.

Alternatively you might be interested in downloading an older version of yahoo messenger, version 7, that one was clean and fast, no adds on it. download from here.

Chick Video Joiner

Chick Video Joiner 2.0.3 is a free audio as well as video joiner that has the ability of joining together many different smaller files into a much larger one. This tool that is extremely easy and efficient to use, is also quite powerful and can work quite fast, supporting different file formats while at the same time keeping up the quality of video.  Having support for many different video formats such as WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, 3GP, RM, MP4, MPEG, Animated GIF, RMVB, MPEG2, DIVX, QuickTime , MPEG1, SVCD-PAL, VCD-PAL ,VCD-NTSC, SVCD-NTSC, DVD-NTSC, DVD-PAL and other formats makes this video tool a must have software.

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