Interesting Historical Facts

Welcome to the North Pole - Beginning at 2:00 am MTN on Christmas Eve, you can track Santa Live as he makes his historical journey around the world. This is exciting, as Santa travels fast and NORAD Santa Cams take photos of Santa and his reindeer. Platforms: Any Browser

Scientific data tables, more interesting than it sounds, really! Constants, data tables and formulae from the areas of Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Geography with an inbuilt calculator, moon phase tool and other scientific trivia. The menus are fully configurable through the... Platforms: Windows

USA Map Game is an interesting online game to name as many as you can of the states of the United States of America in the time allowed (90 seconds). Click the 'Start' button and begin typing the names of the States, as each name is completed with no spelling mistakes it appears on the map and... Platforms: Any

Are you looking for an interesting tutorial software? Do you like tackling logical problems? Or do you just want to test your brain skills. Try out this program designed to examine and practice the abilities of your intelligence using logical problems in the area of mathematical operations, words... Platforms: Windows

Want an understanding that goes beyond what you get from memorizing facts, and formulas. Can you visualize how a circuit or device works? Try the free tutorial and see how interactive learning works for you. Note: scroll down the web page & click on the download link "Download Learn Electronics... Platforms: Windows

The Game of Pig is a simple folk jeopardy dice game that takes its root from Probability, one of the interesting areas of mathematics. Pig game is an interesting dice rolling game, that involves probability ideas, practice with mental addition and strategic thinking, and the opportunity to relate... Platforms: Windows

Hexxagon is a simple and interesting logical board game, played by two players, here the computer being the opponent. This simple Hexxagon game is derived from the abstract strategy board game Othello. The game starts with a total of 6 balls lying in 6 corners of the hexagon, 3 balls for each... Platforms: Any Browser + Java

Greenfish Painter is an interesting painting program. In this program, you cannot find the usual rectangular selection, lasso, gradient fill or text tools, instead, you can paint with a virtual brush, calligraphic pen, charcoal, or chalk. G/F Painter provides a virtual canvas to imitate real... Platforms: Windows

The tag gives us some flexibility in HTML page design & an interesting use of fonts can add a little zip to a page. Handy Dandy Font Viewer is a little widget that will help you see how different fonts, at different sizes look through your browser. You can use it online or download it. Platforms: Windows

Time, Money & Activities gives you some interesting statistics on buying and time spending habits over your lifetime. If you've ever wondered how much money you could save by kicking the smoking habit or how much time you spend watching tv compared to the amount of time you devote to your kids,... Platforms: Windows

PolyMon is an Open Source system monitoring solution that can be used to generate email alerts and analyze historical trends of monitor counters, uptime statuses & more. It currently includes monitors such as Ping, SNMP, Windows Performance Counters, SQL, TCP Port, Windows Services, etc. New... Platforms: Windows

kdb+ is Kx Systems flagship product: a unified platform for realtime and historical databases, event processing and general data oriented programming. This release is a full version of kdb+ but is limited to a 32-bit address space, it is for personal non-commercial use only. Kdb+ is designed to... Platforms: Windows, *nix

mInstaller is a useful and easy to use setup creator with many interesting features. Main features include: small size of the program, installing module and uninstaller; strong zip-like compression; ability to change colors of all controls of the setup window; ability to create folders (groups,... Platforms: *nix, Windows

Kwik Facts is a US oriented desktop reference presented in the form of a Digital Web Book. The 2007/2008 edition of Kwik Facts puts the following information right on your desktop: Monthly Calendars; Holidays & Significant Dates; Phases of the Moon [Full, New, First and Last Quarters]. Metric... Platforms: Windows

Scientific data tables, more interesting than it sounds, really! Constants, data tables and formulae from the areas of Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Geography with an inbuilt calculator, moon phase tool and other scientific trivia. The menus are fully configurable through the... Platforms: Windows

Developers Tips and Tricks is a very useful collection of tricks and techniques for software programming and development, that works to save time and effort, and working in vain. These are the most interesting characteristics of the program:* intergated editor with support for coloured syntax in... Platforms: Windows

It is clear that for the youngest children one of the most entertaining games is drawing. ABC Drawing School 1.1 is an interesting and pedagogic tool that helps them have fun but also develops their intelect and skills (and also helps familiarize them with the computer).The program guides them... Platforms: Windows

Natwarlal Chess 0.14 is an interesting and completely free chess game, which lets you, with some options, make the games more interesting. For example you can make a move and then go back and try again (something you can`t do normally, and the program won`t get angry with you).Also, if you have... Platforms: Windows

SUMo 1.0.1.23 is an interesting utility that makes a kind of inventory of all the software installed in your PC. It automatically detects them and then checks to make sure they are all perfectly updated. To do this it connects to the Internet to download the latest updates that are missing, and... Platforms: Windows

1TOPIX is a free info aggregator where you can get all your the most interesting forum news in one spot and share them with others. If you are a member of different web conferences, message boards or on-line discussions our off-line forum reader can help you to save time with your account info... Platforms: Windows