August 24, 2015

Downloading the Internet with Free Download Manager

While I was impressed with the features of Internet Download Manager, I didn’t agree with the cost to features ratio. It seemed a bit excessive to me, so the search began to see what else I could find. It was a nice program, but there are plenty of other apps that resume downloads, spawn multiple threads and organize files as they’re downloaded. That feature set just isn’t worth $24.95. I went through plenty of apps and finally arrived at what I think is a damn nice one that not only has almost all the same features, but actually comes with a price tag of free. Let’s have a look at Free Download Manager. It’s not the most awe inspiring name, but it packs a lot of punch and the first thing I noticed, it actually looks a lot like IDM. Looks aside, how does it work? I threw a couple of files at it, and had no issues with multiple […]

July 27, 2015

Drop Tower Ride Limited Time Building (LTB) – Building Payout

Well this is new. Since I’ve been working on the Crusty Handlebar I haven’t been into the Money Buildings section. Turns out there’s a new building in there, the Drop Tower Ride. It has a small footprint, but it’s a tall lanky thing. This is an LTB in the sense it probably won’t last very long. I just started construction on my first one and will put up the second as soon as the first is complete. The initial cost is $121,957,500 with an income of $1,355,083 every 24 hours. Like the Crusty Handlebar, it will cost $30Billion to upgrade and will net $40Million per day. No prize for each level, but it will keep pushing up the IPH for those who wish to construct it. Level Cost Income 1 $121,957,500 $1,355,083 2 $203,669,025 $2,710,166 3 $340,127,272 $4,742,791 4 $568,012,544 $7,452,957 5 $948,580,948 $10,840,664 6 $1,584,130,183 $14,905,913 7 $2,645,497,406 $19,648,704 8 $4,417,980,669 $25,069,036 9 $7,378,027,717 $31,166,909 10 $12,321,306,287 $40,652,490 Total […]

July 24, 2015

Crusty Handlebar Limited Time Building (LTB) – Building Payout and Upgrade Cost – Crime City

This time around we have the Crusty Handlebar which sounds like something you will catch if you go looking for love in all the wrong places. That aside, it is the latest building and we finally get one with a small footprint. Unlike previous buildings that take up half the hood, this one is nice and compact. The initial investment is pretty heft at $120M. Which gives you an income of $670k per 12 hours. It’s not too bad. The total investment will be $30Billion which will collect $20M. That’s not too good. Like the previous buildings, it’s going to cost a lot, but return only little. The main attraction of this building is the much smaller footprint. If you have the cash you should be able to find a place to stash this thing. With mods you can drop the total price to around $15Billion and increase the income to $66M per day. If you max out two of […]

July 16, 2015

Putting Internet Download Manager through it’s paces

When you start looking for video download tools for YouTube or download accelerators it’s almost inevitable you will end up with links to Internet Download Manager. With all these links going around I figured I would download it and give it try in my Video Download Gauntlet of Death. Ok, there really is no gauntlet of death, but I did have several video and download tests that IDM didn’t handle so well. IDM is free to try for 30 days with a price of $24.95 to keep using it. Seems a bit expensive considering all the free tools out there. First off, IDM is supposed to speed up, resume and schedule downloads. After trying it with several different network connections I didn’t really see any difference. On a big connection it downloaded at high speed, but then again, so did everything else. On a slow connection, it was still slow, just like everything else. It does organize files into categories […]

July 13, 2015

Wireshare – Document Reader, Multi-Format Video Player, Music Player, Photo Gallery

I was checking out some apps that would play different video file formats as well as let me read different kinds of documents, who knew it would be the same app that let me accomplish both. I stumbled on Wireshare which reads the usual document formats like PDF and TXT, but also handles Docx and ePub. Ok, this has my interest, but it didn’t stop there, the video file formats supported included AVI, FLV, and WMV. Whoa now! So I can get the a lot of the power of Goodreader and VLC in the same package? Yes please! In fact, the list of supported files looks a little something like this: #1 Basic document :pdf,epub,txt,chm,key,numbers,pages,doc,docs, xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,rtf,rtfd, htm,html #2 Picture: png,jpg,jpeg,gif,tif,tiff,bmp,tga #3 Compressed files:rar,zip,tar #4 Audio:mp3.wav,m4a,aac,caf, #5 Video:mp4,mpv,m4v,mov,rmvb, rm, vob, asf, wmv, flv, avi, f4v, mpeg, mpg, ts, the m2ts; Over the weekend I put Wireshare through it’s paces. I transferred over some video files to see if they would play. […]

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