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Tribler, a decentralized BitTorrent client

Jun 29, 2009 0 comments

Tribler is a new, open source BitTorrent client developed by researchers from several European universities and Harvard that provides comple...

PowerSlave – Different power schemes for different times

Jun 29, 2009 0 comments

Windows Power Management is a tool that enables the user to configure how long the computer should wait for user input (key press, mouse mov...

Nokia Sports Tracker – a workout tracker and diary

Jun 28, 2009 0 comments

Nokia Sports Tracker is a workout diary application for GPS enabled Nokia devices such as the N and E series and other compatible Nokia phon...

[Sunday Treats] A Work in Progress – A short film

Jun 28, 2009 0 comments

A Work in Progress is a short film by Wes Ball that tells the story of a lonely girl as she searches for a friend, in a combination of both...

LinuX-gamers, a Linux Live DVD of games

Jun 27, 2009 0 comments

Not all Linux distributions contain the same stuff, not linux-gamers at least. This Linux live DVD is exclusively for gaming. The project ha...

How to make Word documents read only, selectively editable or password protected

Jun 26, 2009 21 comments

A lot of users prefer PDF documents over Word documents because they are read-only by nature, and hence tamper proof. But did you know that ...

VDrift - Open source, 3D racing simulator

Jun 25, 2009 0 comments

VDrift is a cross-platform, open source, drift racing simulation game released under the GPL and available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and ...

Editra, a new open source text editor

Jun 25, 2009 0 comments

If you feel that Notepad++ or it’s numerous equivalent has too many functions you never use, you can try Editra, an open source, multi-plat...

MouseShade puts a virtual spotlight around the mouse pointer

Jun 24, 2009 1 comments

One of the most important aspect of doing a presentation or demo is to be able to guide the audience to look at a particular area of the scr...

NetDrive maps remote FTP drives as local drives

Jun 24, 2009 0 comments

FTP clients are so cumbersome to use. A tiny window to browse files on your FTP server and another tiny window to browse files on your local...

5 short links for today #8

Jun 22, 2009 0 comments

1. VocabGrabber is a small utility to analyze your writing, vocabulary and how frequently you use certain words. Insert any text (up to 20...

CodySafe, another start menu for USB drives

Jun 22, 2009 1 comments

Remember the 3 start menu tools for USB flash drives? There is another one I totally forgot to add. It’s called CodySafe. CodySafe’s menu...

Advanced Dork brings advanced Google search to Firefox

Jun 22, 2009 0 comments

The built in Google search that you can access from Firefox’s context menu by highlighting a word on a page is a basic search. But you must ...

[Sunday Treats] The Danish Poet – Short animation movie

Jun 21, 2009 0 comments

The Danish Poet is a short animation movie by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann, that won the 2007 Academy Awards for the Best Short ...

Weekend Games: Cargo Bridge

Jun 20, 2009 0 comments

For the last one hour I have been playing a game called Cargo Bridge . It’s one of those games that can seriously hamper your productivity. ...

Unattended software installation with Windows Post-Install Wizard

Jun 19, 2009 5 comments

After every Windows reinstall an average user spends several long hours remembering what applications they had installed, and then re-instal...

gMote brings mouse gestures to Windows

Jun 19, 2009 1 comments

We use shortcuts all the time in the form of keyboard hotkeys and often mouse gestures in browsers like Opera or Firefox. While Windows has ...

Wednesday Games: Little Wheel

Jun 17, 2009 0 comments

Who said only weekends are fun? Take a break and play Little Wheel. Little Wheel is classy point and click flash game that takes you to a...

DoubleDesktop doubles the width of the desktop

Jun 17, 2009 0 comments

Sometimes one desktop isn’t enough. We then use virtual desktop programs. At it’s core, DoubleDesktop too is a virtual desktop manager, but ...

Backup any files to email with Backup To EMail

Jun 17, 2009 0 comments

One of the most secure places to backup copies of documents, images and even media files is your email account. The idea is simple: if you n...

DoubleTwist – Manage, view and sync your media files across all devices

Jun 16, 2009 0 comments

DoubleTwist is a new, free media manager for Windows and Mac that simplifies media management, syncing with portable devices and sharing. ...

5 Gmail Notifiers to keep tab of your Gmail messages

Jun 16, 2009 14 comments

It’s funny how more than one application can have the same exact name and still exist in perfect harmony without their respective owners sui...

3 tools to add a start menu to USB flash drives

Jun 15, 2009 3 comments

Menus are a convenient way to access applications on a drive or computer, and they also help in organizing the stuff. Portable application s...

Autorun Eater monitors and deletes suspicious autorun.inf files

Jun 15, 2009 0 comments

Many viruses, malwares and other malicious programs execute themselves by way of autorun.inf files. These autorun files are present at the r...

[Sunday Treats] Jhoola – A short animation movie

Jun 14, 2009 2 comments

A cute award winning short movie.

5 short links for today #7

Jun 13, 2009 1 comments

1. MorgueFile : Despite the morbid and peculiar file name, MorgueFile is a good free stock photo website. It functions both as a photo sha...

DelayedExec improves Windows startup by delaying startup programs

Jun 13, 2009 1 comments

Every time you start Windows your computer becomes unresponsive for several seconds. This is the time when all your startup programs are loa...

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