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War Inc: Free First Person Online Shooter Game
Free Online Backup Service with 10 GB Backup Space: Digital Lifeboat
Every Time Zone For Viewing World Time Zones
Google Shortcuts App For Android
Rank Checker Free SERP Checker to Check Keyword Rankings

War Inc: Free First Person Online Shooter Game

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

War Inc is a free online shooter game for all the game lovers who like to play online games. If you're into multi-player first person online shooter games, you may like War Inc. The game has two options, free and paid. Both offer the same features.

Slow and Large Download

The installer for this online shooter game, War Inc is only three megabytes. Once you download the installer package, the easy stuff is over. Upon launching the installer, you'll be connected to the War Inc servers for the full installation package, which is two gigabytes. The server for this installer package is slow. I can download files this size from Microsoft, Digital River, and other large sites in around fifteen to thirty minutes. It took me almost ninety minutes to download the full installation package for War Inc. To me, especially as a non-gamer, this is completely unacceptable.

The installation itself, or at least the first part of it, took almost another twenty minutes. This is about what I expected for a two gigabyte installation download. The install went cleanly and smoothly, no surprises and no glitches. That was a good thing. Then things got "interesting" and frustrating. I launched the game (or thought I did) after the installation was complete. And then the patching began.

The first patch that was installed was for the twenty-fourth of January. This was a large update and took about twenty minutes. Then it installed the next patch, for the twenty-fifth. Another fifteen minutes. The twenty-sixth was next, and then finally came the twenty-seventh. This process was a major pain. A professional gaming company would have made cumulative patches to make things run more smoothly for their users.

Online Shooter Game with Confusing Game Play

The controls for the game were pretty easy to come by. Not being a gamer, I read most of the documentation pretty carefully. It clearly stated that free users as well as paying user are able to play solo games. I chose what looked to me to be a solo game, but when I entered the game environment, in big bold red letters across the top was printed the message "Waiting for five other players to join". Huh? Waiting for five other players doesn't sound like a solo play game to me.

Oh well. Moving on, I went through trying to play the game. I started moving though the environment. It was a little confusing at first, but I attribute that to not liking video games. I spent about twenty minutes in the environment, the whole time with that annoying "Waiting for five more players" message. I didn't see a single person or animal the whole time.

If I were a serious gamer, I'd say pass this one on by as quickly as you can. Spend the money for one of the good games from the major studios. If you're not a serious gamer, or can't afford to pay what the major gaming studios are charging, give it time. War Inc online shooter game is still a Beta product and all I can do is hope that as it evolves through the Beta process, the company will work out the kinks and deliver an enjoyable gaming experience.

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War Inc: Free First Person Online Shooter Game was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Online Backup Service with 10 GB Backup Space: Digital Lifeboat

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Digital Lifeboat is a free online backup service for PC which automatically backups your PC like a breeze. This online backup service uses industry standard 256-bit AES encryption for file encryption.

With the help of this online backup service you can protect all valuable data like music, videos, photos, user directories, etc. Moreover you may also check your backup status easily. With the help of this online backup service you can restore you data like a breeze, but restoring may take time depending on your backup data.

This free online backup service offers 10 GB free space for backup. The best thing is that if you refer your friends to this online backup service you would get an extra 1 GB for each friend you refer. So refer your friends and maximize your free space for backup.

This online service backups all your data in its cloud. Moreover, you can pause backup anytime, you can also select files for backup by right clicking on the icon of Digital lifeboat in the system tray.

Don't forget to check out IDrive reviewed by us.

This online backup service is available in free version as well as in premium version with unlimited backup space.

For using this online backup service you need to add your PC to this service by clicking on "Add a PC" button. Adding a PC means that a software gets downloaded into your PC, you need to install this software and start the backup process.

After installation you will come across Digital lifeboat control center. Look for a "D" icon in your system tray which offers few control options.

Moreover, you may also right-click any file and make the file included for backup from the context menu.

Some key features of This Free Online Backup Service :

Completely free online backup service.
Automatically backups your data.
Offers 10 GB free space for backup.
Pause backup process.
Restore your files.
Get additional 1 GB for each friend reference.

How To Use This Online Backup Service :

Go on to the homepage of this online backup service and Sign up with your email address.
Click "Add A PC" button for adding your PC.

A software of Digital lifeboat gets downloaded into your system.
Follow the installation procedure for installing Digital Lifeboat software.
You will come across Digital Lifeboat control center.

Run the backup service from the Digital Lifeboat control center.
Now it will automatically backup you data like a breeze.
For restoring your data go on to the restore tab in control center and click "next" to start restore process.

Digital Lifeboat is one of the best, easy to use and straight forward online backup service which allows you to backup or restore you precious data like a breeze. Try this out absolutely free.

Free Online Backup Service with 10 GB Backup Space: Digital Lifeboat was originally published at I Love Free Software

Every Time Zone For Viewing World Time Zones

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

Every Time Zone is a free online world time zone website which allows you to view world time zones without any confusion. This online tool shows a Green scale which shows your current local time and other time zones across the world. The green scale can be dragged to either side for viewing your local time zone and time zones around the world. You will also see purple color bar which cannot be dragged and shows the current local time.

Every time zone lays down a simple and easy way to view world time zones, otherwise time zones are really very confusing. This online world time zone website is really very useful when you need to manage the painful job of fixing online meetings with several people in different time zones. With the help of this online world time zone tool, you can easily choose a time suitable for all the time zones, and further schedule online meetings according to that time which suits every one across different time zones.

Don't forget to check out free world time zone clock.

Key Features Of Every Time Zone:

Easy to use because of its simple user interface.
Shows your current local time on the Green scale.
No download or installation required.
Shows other time zones on green scale.
Drag the green scale to view time in different time zones.
View World time zones without any confusion.

Also, check out free world clock software.

Every Time Zone is one of the coolest and straight forward online service which allows you to view world time zone without any confusion. Click here to try this out absolutely free.

Every Time Zone For Viewing World Time Zones was originally published at I Love Free Software

Google Shortcuts App For Android

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

Google Shortcuts app is a free Android app that offers direct link to Google websites on Android. This app is really a smart app in Android Market that offers different Google Shortcuts on Android. It becomes a long and pesky process when we type full address on Android browser to open any Google content on Android. For e.g. if we want to open Picasa or Google reader, we have to type full address in the address bar or search for the app in Android Market to access the contents. All this process seems to be very long and irritating. For this, Google Shortcuts app is the apt solution for accessing across 45 Google contents on Android.

This Google shortcut app contains links to the popular Google websites. All you need to do is, just open the app. Scroll down and select the content you want to access. Then tap on "Web" option to open the shortcut on Android browser or tap on "App" option (if available) to access the content from Android Market.

Google Shortcuts app is very simple app and really works well on Android. Some of the Google services supported by the app are Google Plus, YouTube, Google Reader, Picasa, Android Market, Orkut, Shopper, Gmail, Adwords, Translate, Bloggers, Remote TV, Google Contacts, Google Calendar and much more.

You can also check out Google Plus apps for Android reviewed by us.

Some Key Features Of Google Shortcuts App:

The app provides 45 Google Shortcuts on Android.
The interface provided by the app is very simple and looks smart on Android.
You can also place shortcuts according to your requirements.
Enable/Disable any Google Shortcut according to your requirement.

You can access Google Shortcuts from Android browser or from Android Market.
The settings options in the app is highly customizable.
The app is very fast and intelligent.

Also, check out Android Google Docs app reviewed by us.

How To Install Google Shortcuts App On Android:

Scan – QR Code below.

Go To – Android Market and search Google Shortcuts app.
Tap on – Install option.

The free Google Shortcuts app will be automatically installed. Click here to download Google Shortcuts app from Android Market. Now no need to head on Android browser or Android Market to access any Google content on Android. Just directly access any Google content on Android with Google Shortcut app.

Google Shortcuts App For Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

Rank Checker Free SERP Checker to Check Keyword Rankings

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:00 AM PST

Rank Checker is a free SERP checker which lets you check how your website ranks for different keywords. It is a SERP checker, and lets you check rankings of multiple keywords in one go.

This free SEO Software is mainly used for SEO purposes and to check the ranking of any website on different search engine's results for search. It is very useful for SEO professionals.

If you are looking for a free keyword rank software to keep a track of how your website is coming up in search results for those keywords, Rank Checker is a great free tool to have on your PC.

Here are some of the features of Rank Checker:

Rank Checker is completely free for use. You need to create a free account to download it.
Rank Checker is actually an extension for Firefox only. So make sure that you have a Firefox browser installed in your system before downloading the Rank checker software.
You can specify keywords for which you want to keep a track of ranking. You can also upload multiple keywords and domain combinations in one go to keep track of ranking of multiple websites.
The Checker shows the ranking for three different search engine providers i.e. Google, Yahoo and Bing.
You can also save the results of your search with a given keyword so that you can access it easily.
There is also option for you to export the history as a CSV file.

Also check out SEO toolbar for Firefox, and Alexa Chrome Extension.

How To Check Keyword Ranking by Using Rank Checker:

To use this software you need to install it on your Firefox browser.
Then you have to open the Rank Checker window from the options in the Firefox Toolbar.
Once opened, you have to enter the Domain name and the keyword for which you want to check the ranking of the site.
Once you have done that save it with a specific keyword group and click on start.
This will show the ranking of the site.

Its as simple as that. It comes with some advanced features as well that you can easily explore.

Rank Checker is a great tool to have handy to keep track of ranking of keywords. You can use it often for your popular keywords to proactively find if your ranking is going up or down.

Download Rank Checker free (requires creating a free account at SEOBook).

Rank Checker Free SERP Checker to Check Keyword Rankings was originally published at I Love Free Software