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-Chrome quote: "Help me understand"-

Dreams about sitting on benches and awkward conversations this week.

I'm relatively busy at the moment, so today's post will be brief but (hopefully) meaty.

Freeware Tools/Games Worth Getting

Vuplayer and Meow MultiSound are quite handy for those of us that like to grab music from the hidden files of games (which is fair use in my book) -- generally the music is in some strange format that Windows Media Player frowns at in consternation. Vuplayer is also just an all-around well-designed music player, and it plays and exports a zillion formats.

Knytt and Within a Deep Forest are games made by that genius, Nifflas. Wonderful pixel art, music, and pleasantly frustrating gameplay. You really have to try them to understand... and anyway, they're both free, although WaDF can occasionally trip false alarms with overeager antivirus programs, so be aware.

Finally, for those of us still a bit sore about the whole "Vista" shenanigan comes a program actually made to work with Vista -- and the title even proclaims it! LogonStudio Vista can be used to replace that swoopy blue-green stuff that comes default on the logon screen with something a bit more personal. The program, as I understand it, is a fairly simple "hack" of sorts, but it's still a pretty neat little feature, especially when others see your logon screen and wonder how you did it.

Reality check. I've been running all of these on my computer for some time now, so I can vouch for their lack of infection; you always have to be careful with freeware because often there's a reason it's free.