Articles October 25, 2006

A Brief History of Star Trek Games

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From a cult classic of 1960s television to present-day blockbuster, Star Trek has managed to maintain a sizable audience over the decades; and add to it consistently with strategic changes to the formulae that makes it so popular. One of the most prominent reasons for Star Trek’s success is its ability to cobble together so many different facets of storytelling into one neat package to appeal to a broad, but not disconnected, audience.

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Articles October 25, 2006

Media Monkey

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MediaMonkey manages your music collection like no other program. It
helps you organize your audio files, edit tags, and easily retrieve
missing album art. It can rip CDs to any number of formats (including
cult faves like FLAC and OGG), convert existing audio files to any
number of formats, normalize volume levels across all your tracks, and
much more.

Download of the Day: MediaMonkey (Windows) - Lifehacker

Articles October 25, 2006

Share any size file with MediaFire

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Web site MediaFire is a free file hosting service that allows
unlimited file sizes and uploads, as well as unlimited downloads of
files.

The service is really well made, especially the upload progress
page, which gives you a nice view of your upload progress, speed, and
estimated time to complete the upload. Add to that the unlimited
everything for free, and you’ve got what looks like a pretty saucy file
sharing service. In the wake of YouSendIt migrating to more of a pay
service, a lot of readers have been looking for a new host; while there
are a lot of options available (see the comments), MediaFire is the only one I’ve seen with the unlimited upload size. -Adam Pash

Articles October 24, 2006