I had loads of fun with this site that lets you create faces using a number of presets that you can customize by altering their placement, size, opacity, etc. You can even see some of the faces others have created and saved. Check it out...Ultimate Flash Face

Introducing FOSSwiki, a list of over 250 Freeware and Open Source Software programs. Every program listed is spyware, adware, trojan and virus free. These programs were all hand picked for their excellence, some received high ratings when I reviewed them for Tucows and others were recommended to me.

I've been working on this project for a while now because I needed a place to keep track of all the software I recommend to my friends and family. Finally, the list has filled out enough that I think others will be able to benefit from this resource. I hope to keep it updated regularly as I often come across some really cool freebies. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to find out when new software has been added to the list.

Enjoy!

Don Casteel won a First Prize award of $5,000 from the Sun Grid Cool Apps Developer Contest for his 3D Fractal Rendering project. The application assists in the creation, rendering, and animation of IFS fractals in full 3D as volumetric density fields.

It was insipred by Apophysis and ElectricSheep, written in 100% pure Java - J3D, developed in NetBeans with the ComputeServer module and rendered on the SunGrid computeServer. You'll want to check out the animated render to get an idea of what the program can do... amazing! Congrats on winning the 5K, Don!