Playing Frets on Fire with the official Red Octane SG or Gibson Guitar Controller shouldn’t be difficult to setup, but it’s a little more complicated than Plug-N-Play. Frets on Fire doesn’t seem to retain joystick settings when mapping the buttons from a Guitar Controller into the game. It may work for a little while, but I’m sure many have noticed that the controller setup is bound to fail. Mainly the Strum Bar fails to function during the game (which really sucks when you’re in the middle of a song, hell, or just trying to navigate the menus). This guide will show you how to properly setup your Guitar Hero controller to work flawlessly with Frets on Fire everytime!
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Replace the Windows Taskbar with the Mac OS X Dock

If you are a Windows user who always wanted to get rid of the Taskbar for a more sleek approach - look no further. RK Launcher for Windows is a tiny application that mimics the functionality of the Dock in OS X. It even captures many of the special effects such as the magnification of the dock icons when the mouse hovers over them, drag-and-drop adding and removing (complete with the “POOF” effect), the genie effect for minimizing windows, etc. The developer hasn’t worked on it for a bit (since 2005), but the beta works great for now!

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PSPad is by far the best text editor I have ever used on the Windows platform. No matter if you are a designer, PHP developer, programmer, database editor, or just a casual user of basic word processing this software does it all. It has a laundry list of features including:

• work with projects
• work with several documents at the same time (MDI)
• save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files
• FTP client - edit files directly from the web
• macro recorder to record, save and load macros
• search and replace in files
• text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
• templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates…)
• installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,…
• syntax highlighting according to file type
• user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
• auto correction
• intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
• full HEX editor
• call different external programs for different environments
• external compiler with output catcher, log window and log parser for an “IDE” effect in every environment
• color syntax highlight printing and print preview
• integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
• integrated free version of the top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
• export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format to file or clipboard
• column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, …
• reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
• line sorting with ability to sort on defined columns and drop duplicates
• ASCII chart with HTML entities
• Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
• spell checker
• internal web browser with APACHE support
• matching bracket highlighting
• PLUS MANY MORE!!!

PSPad is a free download and can be found at pspad.com

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SketchUp is a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. SketchUp was developed to combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today’s digital media.

Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation, the result is an interface that supports a dynamic, creative exploration of 3D form, material and light.

SketchUp combines a compact yet robust tool-set with an intelligent guidance system that streamlines the 3D drawing process.

An excellent easy to use program. We highly recommend it for case modders!!

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