Today, on August 31, marks the 13th anniversary of the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert. C&C: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game of the Command & Conquer franchise.

It was first produced by Westwood Studios, but later released by Virgin Interactive in 1996. This games has been sold over 25 million copies to date. To mark this occasion and in a promotion for C&C’s upcoming sequel, Red Alert 3, Electronic Arts is offering the original Red Alert as a free download today.

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More and more useful tools and applications are being developed using Adobe AIR. From instant messenging clients to image editing tools, you’ll find them all.

Clockmaker Icon Generator is small free application that lets your generate CS3 style and web 2.0 icons. It is just a three step process, type the icon name, pick the background colour and press Create Icon button.

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There are many online tools that provide different kind of information about websites, but none them provide accurate and up-to-date statistics. Most such services are paid, but here’s one service that is free to use and provide results equivalent to paid tools.

QuarkBase is a free online tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc.

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Streaming videos from video-hosting sites (i.e YouTube, Metacafe) is not supported by all handsets. If you have ever wanted to watch and download your favourite clips on mboile, I suggest you give VuClip a try.

VuClip allows you to stream videos on your mobile phone and optionally download them in mp4 format for later watch. It works on almost all video-enabled handsets.

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With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new feature called WIndow Sidebar. It lets you access information quickly. It contains a few gadgets in it by default, like a big clock, RSS headlines, Picture album slideshows etc.

You can also add your own gadgets which are available for free download from the Windows Live Gallery. I have compiled a list of 5 Vista gadgets that I can’t live without when I’m using Vista.

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