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

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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.

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NTPWEdit – Windows NT password resetter and remover

We set the computer an access password to prevent unauthorized use of our PC. But sometimes we may forget or misremember the password and can not enter the system, thus shut ourselves out. In this case, reinstalling the entire operating system is obviously an inadvisable option. Instead, you can use NTPWEdit this tiny app to modify or remove any existing password of local system accounts easily.

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Torque 3D – Premier free and open-source game engine

Torque 3D (full name: Torque Game Engine, TGE for short) is free, open-source and cross-platform 3D game engine developed by GarageGames (originally developed by Dynamix for the first-person shooter game Tribes 2 released in 2001) under the MIT license. It features powerful and complex rendering system, high-speed network transmission, authentic real-time editing, script editing system, as well as maximum flexibility and performance across a wide-range of hardware, and a full suite of tools for producing high-quality Windows and browser-based games development.

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Gaia Sky – A comprehensive tool for learning about the universe

Gaia Sky is a free, open-source and cross-platform (based on Java) 3D astronomy visualization software developed by ZAHUniversität Heidelberg from Germany. It is designed to map about 1 billion fixed stars in the Milky Way where our planet is located, based on the framework of ESA‘s Gaia mission, and supports VOTable, FITS, CSV and all formats supported by the STIL library.

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VirtualDub – Fast linear video capture and encoding solution

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.

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Tails – Live Linux OS aimed at completely preserving Internet privacy and anonymity

According to the developers of Tails: NSA (National Security Agency) has taken a number of approaches to put pressure on many free software projects and their developers. And, during a LinuxCon technology conference, the founder of Linux, Linus Torvalds revealed that the NSA hoped to install a backdoor in his operating system. In other words, for even Linux distributions, they are not absolutely safe now.

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