Surprisingly

A xenohistorical expedition to recover artifacts of "the Ancients" takes on a surprisingly human and personal tone in this far-future sci-fi story. Simple Planetfall-like puzzles, thoughtful prose that establishes moods with parsimony. Short but not rushed. Well worth playing. Platforms: Mac

Manage your Windows startup and make your computer faster. NitroBOOT is simple and intuitive, yet surprisingly powerful. You can disable programs from starting with Windows, delay their start, or confirm their start. NitroBOOT has been known to make the Windows boot up process 3 times faster by... Platforms: Windows

Joe`s Farm is a surprisingly addictive Sokoban remake that, well, looks like anything but a Sokoban remake. Astonishing 3D graphics, witty levels, cool farm world and lovable Joe are waiting for you. Platforms: Windows

Eggy Boy is surprisingly addictive game. Help and control Eggy Boy as he searches his home where his family and friends reside. The game Eggy boy has 7 levels. In each world there is wonderful scenery and background music. In each world Eggy boy has to carry a new challenge. Help Eggy boy to... Platforms: Windows, Windows CE

H-Craft Championship looks surprisingly good for an indie racing game--after all, major publishers spend millions polishing the graphics for games of this type, and its impressive that a small team was able to produce something that looks so nice. The game is science fictional, in that the... Platforms: *nix

MacX Free iPod Ripper for Mac is a surprisingly full-featured yet completely free Mac DVD to iPod ripper which works perfectly to free convert any DVD to iPod, iTunes, MP3 files on Mac OS with high speed and top quality. This free iPod ripper allows you to remove various DVD copy protections like... Platforms: Mac, Other

Today's children may be extremely well-versed in movie characters, Harry Potter's rivals and computer terminology, but when it comes to practical knowledge of such areas as geography, they may well appear surprisingly helpless and uneducated. This adverse modern globalization effect leaves an... Platforms: Windows

Web Help Desk is surprisingly affordable, incredibly easy to use IT help desk software with Web-based ticketing, change management, IT asset management, knowledge base, and more! SolarWinds' helpdesk software streamlines the help desk ticket process from request to resolution, manages and... Platforms: Windows

Surprisingly, I never came across the simple solution of aggregating data using accumarray. Accumarray needs indices supplied to aggregate too. Combining this with the Unique function, the user can quickly and conveniently aggregate data using any available and appropriate funciton supported by... Platforms: Matlab

Adds a box to your page/post edit screen with links and edit buttons for all pages, posts, tags, categories, and links for convenient linking.This plugin contains a self-caching feature so that the HTML code does not need to be recompiled every time the box is displayed, making it surprisingly... Platforms: PHP

Minute Timer X is a utility to help people time events and have lost their egg timer! Set up an event of any number of minutes and seconds (default is 1 minute). The ticking, 10-second warning and final buzzer sounds are all configurable. A simple application, but surprisingly useful for timing... Platforms: Mac

Introducing AutoGraf, a whole new metaphor for Cocoa with automatic, self-updating diagrams of your classes, and intelligent, visual browsing of code documentation. The AutoGraf Advantage Think of AutoGraf as the best way to understand your code. Using the AutoDoc code parser that is optimized... Platforms: Mac

FastPval is a two stage p-value computation software which compute the empirical p-value by two stage ranking strategy, it can produce very low P-value based on huge dataset. This fast and powerful tool takes advantage of a delicate cutoff which separate the exactly significant area. Compared to... Platforms: Mac

A simple hack to allow blocking calls to be made in Python background threads but with gevent-based scheduling (so that other greenlets can run while the call completes). It does this using the self-pipe trick, normally used for avoiding race conditions in signal handling but surprisingly nifty... Platforms: *nix

ReadPlease is a text-to-speech application designed to give your computer a human-sounding voice so that it can read any text to you, from Web pages, email, or the clipboard. Award-winning software, ReadPlease 2002, shatters the myth that computers must sound robotic and monotonous. Just imagine...

When you delete a file from your system, where does it go? To the recycle bin... right? Clean out your recycle bin and the files are gone for good... right? WRONG! You can't see your deleted files, but they're still there, lingering in the background, stored on your hard disk as magnetic... Platforms: Windows

Vector Eye is a great raster to vector converter that exports to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Ps and Eps. It recognizes all major raster formats (BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and makes the web raw materials. Raster images made from pixels acquired from scanner or CCD camera can be translated into... Platforms: Windows

The Water Garden Screen Saver is a virtual water garden with flowing water, birds, butterflies, and several varieties of Koi. Advanced 3D graphics, true water physics, sound effects, and detailed 3D plants that sway in the wind provide a surprisingly realistic experience. The registered version... Platforms: Windows

The most popular logic puzzle in Japan. It is very simple to learn, requires no calculations, and provides a surprisingly wide variety of logic situations. The rules are simple. Each row, column and minibox comprises the numbers 1 through 9. The solver must complete the missing numbers. So the... Platforms: Windows

CreateInstall Free Edition is a freeware flexible builder of professional installations. Building your installation projects is easy using the simple user interface and wizards. The resulting installation can produce a compact file with a choice of compression methods. The final installation can... Platforms: Windows