FREE STUFF: Command & Conquer Classic

Download: Command & Conquer Classic

In anticipation for Command & Conquer 4, EA have released free versions of a few of the early Command & Conquer series. It is completely free and patched to work on more version of Windows besides Windows 95.

The free games include Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun and it's expansion Firestorm. Generals is not in that list, I'm afraid as they released classics related to the Tiberium series.

Assassin's Creed: Lineage Full Movie

Youtube: Assassin's Creed: Lineage Complete Series

I believe I've posted something about Assassins' Creed 2: Lineage previously. Assassin's Creed 2: Lineage follows the story of Giovanni Auditore da Firenze who is the father of Ezio, the character controlled by the player in the Assassin's Creed 2 game.

The film was originally released in 3 parts but this youtube video contains the full 30 minute movie.

Although SOME PEOPLE are already playing Assassin's Creed 2 on their PS3s (oh and XBox 360s) on the 17th of November, we PC users will have to wait til 2010. Til then, we have this movie to keep us company.

Youtube: Assassin's Creed 2

Assassin's Creed Wiki: Assassin's Creed 2: Lineage

Tools - IrfanView

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IrfanView is a free image viewer. It's pretty lightweight and very customizable with the number of plugins available for it. With the proper plugins, it can play mp3s or even movies, become an image editor or open a pdf file. I don't use those features, though since I have other programs doing that already.

But one thing that IrfanView has that I like very much is that it can perform batch editing. You can rename/convert/resize several items at once. Pretty useful to keep your images (or other files) properly organized.

Tools Archive

Compiled links of useful tools I currently use.

Image

GIMP - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.