Winamp is been my favorite player since long, tough I was not satisfied with Winamp 3 version, which was a big let down in terms of performance and resource utilization. Winamp 5 has renewed its promises and its getting better and better.

Good thing about Winamp is that it has a variety of skins to choose from, tough the basic modern skin being my favorite. The free version is feature-rich but lacks full speed MP3 encoding, for that you have to shell-out around 25$.

Publisher Information:

Winamp is a multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. It also now plays streamed video content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. Winamp 5 includes support for classic Winamp skins and Winamp 3 (Modern) skins; a fancy new Modern skin; the same classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel; a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support (AAC@2x in the Free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in the Pro version); CD-burning support (limited to 6x in the free version); advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams; global hot-key support; a new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in; options for disabling plug-in exception-handling for developers; a new Winamp icon; and the addition of XP manifest.xml to winamp.exe.

Version 5.32 includes Winamp Dashboard, Winamp Remote, Unicode filename and track support.

• New! WINAMP REMOTE beta - get your music anywhere
• New! WINAMP DASHBOARD beta - your daily feeds
• Digital Music Store - 2,500,000 songs
• In2TV - Free episodes of classic TV
• Rips CDs to aacPlus, AAC, WMA
• Rip to HE-AAC
• Burn CDs
• Portable Device Sync
• SingingFish Media Search
• Plays aacPlus, MP3, AAC
• Plays additional formats: WMA and more!
• Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins
• Full Support for Classic Skins
• Full Support for Modern Skins
• Plays Videos (NSV, WMV, and more!)
• Enhanced Media Library
• Online Services
• Browse SHOUTcast Radio & TV Stations
• Browse Winamp Music Videos & Songs
• Integrated AOL Video Content (News, Sports, Movies & more!)
• AOL Radio Featuring XM
• SHOUTcast Wire (podcast directory)
• Predixis MusicMagic (Learn More about dynamic playlists)
• Bundled Visualizations

Get Winamp 5.32 It's a Good Player!

Labels: Software, Winamp

Have you grown up playing Contra or Mario? Do you miss playing all those games? Well, you don't have to make it a thing of the past.

Modern day games are flashy, 3D, lot more complex and movie-style scripts but the true gaming experience is from retro games, game play at its best.

Recently I bought a PC GamePad because I wanted to play all the old-school games, yeah true, I wanted to play Contra on my PC, believe me its possible. In next five minutes you will learn how you can play thousands of your favorite games on a click of your mouse.

Disclaimer: I do not provide any pirated games. Download at your own risk!

You need:

1. A Nintendo NES Emulator (software)
2. A Nintendo SNES Emulator (software, optional)
3. A GamePad (hardware, optional)

Download FCE Ultra and install it.

Download Game Roms. These are my favorites Contra and 110-in-1.

If you really want to experience Gameplay buy a cheap GamePad, will cost you around 4$ i.e Rs. 200 for Indian readers.

To setup GamePad go to Config->Input->Configure. This is little tricky.

After configuring all the buttons, go to File->Open and select the game you want to play.

Voila! you are ready to go back to memory lane. Roms are available at www.romnation.net

Labels: Fun, Gaming, Software

Are you bored of the same wallpaper on your desktop every time you start your computer? Wallpaper Changer is what you are looking for.

Whenever I see any cool wallpaper I just download it, but the problem is I don't like to change it myself. The other problem for me is that I cannot decide which wallpaper to select from all my favorites.

Wallpaper Changer is Microsoft power toy. Wallpaper Changer replaces the desktop wallpaper in regular intervals set by the user. One can preview slideshow, set the source folder which contains all the images.

One feature I like the most is that one can select a special folder for each day, or for any special day, like suppose for Christmas I want my desktop to just display all wallpapers which I have specially downloaded for Christmas. For example If I want to display a special wallpaper on my Girlfriends Birthday which is on 18th December, I should create a folder Dec_18, on the 18th of December all the Wallpapers will rotate which I have specially downloaded for my Girlfriend. The next day the software will display regular Wallpapers.

One thing I don’t like about the software is that it does not read subfolders, means you have to stack all the Wallpapers in one folder itself.

Microsoft describes Wallpaper Changer as

Make your computer desktop more dynamic, interactive, useful, and fun. The Wallpaper Changer PowerToy allows your desktop wallpaper to change automatically. It also lets you choose which images to display. Select the folder of images to display as a slide show and set the display interval to change wallpaper every few minutes, hours, or days. The simple intuitive interface is easily available from the system tray.

Rating:

Download Wallpaper Changer.

Have Fun!

Labels: Fun, Software