FlowerThinger lets you plant, tend, and enjoy a virtual flower garden. Plant up to 11 different types of flowers and watch as they grow and bloom, you can water and weed them too. Enjoy the outdoor sounds, weather, and garden friends such as butterflies and hummingbirds. Platforms: Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Keyword: Free Software, Network Administration, Network Analysis, Network Health, Network Monitoring, Ping, Shareware, Winamp

Desktop Messager is a utility allowing you to draw or write cursive texts on your Windows' desktop, thus leaving a visual message on your monitor if you have to go away for a while. Messages are fully customizable and can also be saved. Messages are displayed in the same sequence as they were... Platforms: Windows XP

Vandalize your desktop :) Desktop Graffitist lets you spray paint your desktop, and anything else that might appear on screen. DG is designed for recreation and creativity, and can be used for relieving stress and boredom. Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP

A Fake Progress dialog for your desktop to make your computer look busy so that you could can do something else - read the paper, stare into space, etc. Features include fully cutomizable titles, icons, speed and progress messages, it can also disable your screensaver. Platforms: Windows XP

Screen Melt is a fun prank that melts the existing screen image vertically. Install on a mate's computer, select as their screen-saver, and then set the wait time to 1 minute. When they are idly reading or whatever the screen melts like one of those old-school MSDOS pranks. Platforms: Windows XP

Click on the button to collect your bonus check (if you can) !! This is an amusing and harmless program, based on an old program by some unknown author. Win32 source code is also available. Platforms: Windows XP

Get ready for Halloween, Evil Smiley is a prank program that causes an evil smiley face to float around your screen. One of our users says - "hilarious if you're in the mood for fun, and your desktop fills up with cracked glass from misses and smudges from hits. Even if you score a hit, Evil... Platforms: Windows XP

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

NAPALM (freeware) lets you draw over your Windows desktop, using animated fire ink, and tweak the fire generator parameters. Allows saving/restoring of artwork & style and import of bitmap files. It is useless, thus absolutely necessary ;-) OK, maybe you can use it to leave notes on your desktop! Platforms: Windows XP

Keyword: Compiz, Screensaver, Winamp

Nasty Neighbour's Eyes say "Don't Stare at Me" while protecting your desktop when you are away from your keyboard. Double Click the left eye to stop it. Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP

Keyword: Freeware, Public Domain, Shareware

Langton's Ant - it's just eye-candy ;-) This program is based on an amazingly simple algorithm - An "ant" is walking across a two-dimensional array of bits, if the bit the ant steps on is 0 (color 2) the ant turns left, if the bit is 1 (color 1) the ant turns right, the bit the ant has just left... Platforms: Windows XP

Bored with the pale Explorer Toolbar within the colorful windows environment? IEmage offers a way to change your Toolbar Image locally, you just can display any BMP or JPG image independent of its size as a Background Image. This Picture will be visible in the Toolbar of the Explorer as well as... Platforms: Windows XP

Tired of hearing the same boring start sound every time Windows starts? StartSoundRandomizer sets a randomly chosen start sound which is played each time Windows is started. Simply download the program, place a shortcut to it in your StartUp folder, collect some .wav sounds, run the program and... Platforms: Windows XP

Keyword: Cd Cover, Cd Label, Colorpicker, Create Cd Cover, Freeware, Pick Color, Winamp

1g Food is a freeware version of recipe management programs. This software serves as a tool for you to store your recipe collections, whether it came from your own formulation, friends, colleagues or from www.1gfood.com. Print out cookbooks, create web pages! Large free databases totaling over... Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows. Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

Keep changes to your desktop icon layout once and forever. This is the final answer to the Windows desktop imperfection, keeping a strong backlog of icon layouts. Restore at resolution switching, or when the taskbar is moved. Optional tray icon, hotkey, and command line options for automated... Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

ZIP MAXIMA 1.0 allows you to locate all the existing ZIP Codes within a specific radius area in the US. Just enter the ZIP Code and radius area number (e.g. 30 miles/kilometers), and this application will provide you a complete list of the ZIP Codes and Cities in the entered area.ZIP MAXIMA 1.0... Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

Create professional looking Zip Disk Jewel case labels in seconds with this handy utility! Imagine -- with little or no artistic skill, anyone can produce astounding cases for home, professional, or business use. Try it today! Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.x

Easy to create and print a personalized reminder of major events in the world for any anniversary date between January 1st 1900 and December 31st 2007. Choose from 6 attractive ready-made templates, or use the blank template to print on most designer inkjet papers. Each contains news from Around... Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

Keyword: Anniversary, Gift, Greeting

Powered by a sophisticated algorithm, Younicate launches commands from speech recognition without mistake nor training. Add songs automatically to the organized collection to start. User-friendly sound feedback, acknoledges and automatically recognizes website links for internet explorer voice... Platforms: Windows Vista

Keyword: Recognition, Speech, Speech Recognition, Voice, Winamp, Younicate