#4738

Visual Studio Code – Free, open-source and cross-platform modern code editor by Microsoft

At the Build 2015 developer conference, in addition to the release of Microsoft Edge browser and the preview version of the brand new Windows 10, the biggest surprise was the release of Visual Studio Code - a free, open-source and cross-platform code editor for programming modern Web and cloud applications. Its direct competitors are Sublime Text, Atom, Vim, Notepad++, Brackets, etc. In order to improve its competitiveness, it even provides keyboard shortcuts installation for them all.

#4737

Tiled – Best free, easy-to-use and highly flexible level editor

Program & Develop [ Mac Software ] [ Linux Software ]

Tiled (full name: Tiled Map Editor) is currently the most popular, powerful and flexible tiled map/level editor for all types of 2D games, developed by Thorbjørn Lindeijer in 2008 (written in Java, therefore it's cross-platform). It is identified as an edge tool for 2D game developers to quickly create game maps.

#4732

FPS Creator – Make your own first person shooter games with only mouse clicks

Program & Develop

FPS Creator (FPSC for short, now called FPS Creator Classic = FPS Creator X9) is a classic and foolproof First Person Shooter game engine bringing stunning visuals. It was developed by The Game Creators in 2008, then it changed its name to FPS Creator Classic in 2016 and was released as a free and fully open-source project with many model packs on GitHub. As a result, FPS Creator X10 became its final version update, which should be the predecessor of GameGuru.

#4730

[v7.4] Avira System Speedup – Successor of 360Amigo System Speedup

System-Related

Avira used to be bundled with TuneUp Utilities for sale, but it's a pity that AVG successfully became a listed company (i.e.: went public) in 2012 and acquired TuneUp Utilities as a whole - became now AVG PC TuneUp, which directly made the marriage between Avira and TuneUp Utilities impossible. After that, the Norman company from Norway once got very close to 360Amigo System Speedup (now ToolWiz's developer from China) by way of bundling too, but in the end Avira took over 360Amigo before Norman. Then 360Amigo was first offered as an OEM component of Avira's advanced versions of security software, and then fully acquired.

#4726

Mousotron – Mouse and keyboard usage measurement and statistics tool

Interest & Life

Yesterday (2018/10/05), I suddenly thought of a interesting question: how many times do I click the mouse in front of my computer every day, and how many times do I hit the keys on my keyboard? It may seem like a meaningless thing, but that can motivate me to work hard in another way, from another level. Then I searched and found at least 5 measurement and statistics tools that can record and display the mouse and keyboard usage, and one of which is Mousotron. Other tools such as Application Usage Statistics, WhatPulse, OctoMouse and RSIGuard will be slowly added to AppNee.

#4725

[v21.1, v25.05] Avast Cleanup – Secure toolkit for PC tuneup, cleanup, repair and optimization

System-Related [ Mobile ]

Avast Cleanup and Avira System Speedup finally passed AppNee's software audit rules and were included by us. This post is for Avast Cleanup (next one will be Avira System Speedup) - a new generation of comprehensive PC cleanup, optimization and tuneup tookit released by Avast Software from Czech Republic.

#4717

VirtualDub – Fast linear video capture and encoding solution

Multimedia

Although VirtualDub is only a free and very compact video capture and multimedia clipping software, its functionality is not a bit worse than Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Studio, and other professional products. The main functions of VirtualDub can be divided into two parts: one allows user to edit existing short video files; the other can be used with your video capture card or camera to make real-time dynamic image capture.

#4715

[v6.4] Proxy Switcher – Automatic anonymous browsing via proxy servers

Network Application

Proxy Switcher is a powerful, professional-level proxy server searching, testing and managing software. It automatically downloads a proxy list from the Internet (displaying the country each proxy server resides in at the same time), analyzes whether it is available, and displays some status information like connection speed in real time. Especially, it allows you to quickly switch between network environments such as proxy connection and direct connection, which is very convenient.

#4711

[v1.9x] CrossFTP – Powerful FTP and cloud storage client/server

Upload & Download [ Mac Software ] [ Linux Software ]

CrossFTP is a powerful, stable, easy to use, portable and cross-platform FTP/FXP/SFTP/FTPS/Cloud Storage client software developed by CrossFTP Software from China. It was written in Java, takes the interface design similar to Windows Explorer. Users who are familiar with FlashFXP and CuteFTP will probably like it.

#4709

WineBottler – Turn Windows-based programs into Mac apps

[ Mac Software ]

Users who are new to the Mac world from Windows often run into some nagging problems. For example, some software are only available on Windows; and some web pages must be opened using Microsoft Internet Explorer. For lazy computer users, it is not realistic to have them install an extra Windows OS or use a virtual machine such as Apple's Boot Camp, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation or VirtualBox to solve the problem. This case, you can give WineBottler a try.