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Review: Robo Defense FREE is fun and addictive, but it ends too quickly

Robo Defense FREE is a tower defender that stands out for its quick and addictive gameplay. It's one of the most basic tower-defense games on Android, but that may make it one of the best. You have to pay up to unlock all of its levels and maps, but it's worth the $3.

This application comes as a toned-down version of the full game that only gives you 11 levels on one map. You'll unlock endless upgrades and gameplay with the premium version of the app. That's a refreshing change from the "freemium" tower … Read more

Review: Lock files for safekeeping with Encoding Decoding Free Portable

Encoding Decoding Free Portable isn't the easiest file locker to use, but it offers plenty of strong features. Its major downfall is that the files only work inside of this program once they're locked. You'll probably be fine with this once you see all the program can do.

Since this is a portable program, there's no installation needed and you can take it with you on a USB drive. The program supports regular file importing and drag-and-drop importing, too. Even though its layout is something out of a '90s sci-fi film, don't mistake it for … Read more

Review: WoT Monitor Gadget puts all your in-game stats into one package

WoT Monitor Gadget gives you all the information you need to monitor your game in a nifty package. It's not invasive like some desktop widgets, but is still packed full of information. If you can't get enough of this addictive MMO, this is a great widget to have.

If you don't know what a monitor gadget is, think widgets on an Android phone. These little-known goodies can be added to modern versions of Windows, with ease. This particular one lets you plug in your World of Tanks user info. to keep track of how you're doing. … Read more

Review: ClipGrab grabs videos from the most popular video-sharing Web sites

ClipGrab downloads and converts Internet videos with ease and offers more features than most other YouTube downloaders. It doesn't download very quickly, though, and the video and audio quality won't be the ideal. However, if you need a program that downloads videos automatically, you might want this one.

When you try to install this program, it will try to change your default browser and add some extra programs. If you dodge those, the program, itself, downloads very quickly. Its layout is very minimalistic, but it puts all the tools you need right in your face. You can search … Read more

Review: MP4Tools provides useful tools for processing MP4 files

MP4Tools for Mac aims to provide users with a number of capable tools for easy video editing and processing. Even though the menu seems rather difficult to interpret, the program proves to be a good application for processing video files.

At almost 49MB, this download takes a bit longer to complete. While the program is available with all of its functions for free, eliminating a pop-up dialog box and unlocking batch processing requires a $5.99 payment. After starting up quickly, MP4Tools for Mac's main menu is basic and lacks any graphics or user aids. A bar along the … Read more

Review: Process video files for use in DivX-enabled devices using AVItools for Mac

Despite its rather basic interface, AVItools for Mac offers all of the needed features of a functional video editor and processor, supports a multitude of video file formats, and would be a good tool for many Mac users who need to quickly convert their videos to AVI format.

With the free trial version, AVItools for Mac gives no restrictions other than disabled drag-and-drop features. Several pop-up menus announcing the full version, which requires a $5.99 payment, are distracting, but easily dismissed. The application, itself, starts up quickly, but its main interface is basic and lacks any attractive graphics. For … Read more

Review: Eusing Free Registry Cleaner repairs your registry safely and quickly

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner provides safe and quick registry maintenance for Windows computers. This program comes with its own installer and supports many languages. The overall performance is satisfactory but the user interface could use some improvement.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner features a basic interface divided into three sections--tasks, selections to scan, and the output window. You can choose to scan the entire registry or just portions of the registry that you feel are causing problems. Some areas of the registry that can be scanned on an individual basis are empty keys, applications, shortcuts, and other key areas. The scan … Read more

Review: Eusing Free Registry Cleaner Portable cleans a portion or your registry

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner Portable provides users who want to clean their entire registry (or just portions of their registry) with the ability to do so in a quick, clean manner. This program is a portable version of Eusing Free Registry Cleaner and therefore no installation is needed.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner Portable is a small program that allows you at any time to scan various regions of your computer for registry problems. Some areas that are scanned include files and folders, Windows fonts, shared DLLs, file extensions, obsolete software, a start menu, and invalid Active X keys. One of … Read more

Review: View disk space, manage mounted volumes with FreeSpace Tab for Mac

As a basic snapshot of available and used disk space, FreeSpace Tab for Mac works well and easily integrates into the Mac operating system.

Once initiated through the applications folder, FreeSpace Tab for Mac starts, but has no menu to speak of. The application installs a small icon on the Mac's top menu bar. Clicking on this brings up a drop-down listing of all available drives. A bar also visually represents the space used and what remains. This is clear and easy to read, and most Mac users will have no problem finding their way. Outside drives can also … Read more

Review: Facebook Layouts for Mac changes the look of your Facebook page

For those looking to change Facebook's layout, Facebook Layouts for Mac adds some flexibility to the social network's design, but it didn't always work as promised and ultimately has few options that would appeal to adult users.

The application's Web site claims it is compatible with the major Web browsers. When downloading the free add-on, the file format was only readable by Firefox and would not work in other browsers, like Safari, which is a disappointment. Once in Firefox, Facebook Layouts for Mac did install properly and worked after a restart of the browser. The add-on … Read more