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XBMC is the best media center application. Period.

Aug 28, 2009 0 comments

XBMC Media Center, formerly called XBox Media Center, is a rock solid open source and cross-platform media center solution for Windows, Linu...

Golden Hour Calculator tells you when to capture perfect sunrise/sunset photos

Aug 28, 2009 0 comments

Golden Hour (or magic hour) is a term often used in photography, that denotes the first and last hour of sunlight during the day, when a spe...

1 million public domain books for download in EPUB from Google

Aug 27, 2009 0 comments

Google just announced that it will now let people download public domain ebooks on Google Books in the EPUB format in addition to the PDF f...

Nottable - The highly flexible, portable laptop stand

Aug 26, 2009 0 comments

Have you ever taken your laptop with you to the toilet? Or did you ever wish you could use your laptop while lying down comfortably on a bed...

Add a link to your last blog post to your email signature

Aug 26, 2009 1 comments

Some bloggers and webmasters put links to their blogs on their email signatures. It’s another way of publicizing. But when your contacts see...

Windows 7 Sidebar for Windows XP and Vista

Aug 26, 2009 1 comments

The Windows 7 sidebar includes some major improvements over Windows Vista sidebar. Firstly, the sidebar itself is turned off by default. Sec...

Play the protein folding game for science

Aug 25, 2009 0 comments

What is Protein Folding? Proteins are the workhorses in every cell of every living thing. Proteins keep our bodies functioning and healthy...

OfficeTab brings tabs to Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Aug 25, 2009 3 comments

I love tabs. Taking cue from web browsers, developers have started embracing the “tab culture” and now we often see tabs in various random a...

Snarl - Global notification system for Windows

Aug 24, 2009 0 comments

Snarl is a notification software for Windows inspired by the famous Mac application Growl, that allows the user to receive notification from...

Dinky Page – Quick, disposable web page

Aug 24, 2009 1 comments

For the sake of convenience, everything has to be disposable these days. Disposable plastic bags, razors, spoons, cups, and even disposable ...

Amazing software creates 3D models from images and videos

Aug 24, 2009 0 comments

Sometime ago I wrote about a technique the animation industry and the game industry often use to eliminate a bulk of the back-breaking work ...

[Sunday Double Treats] Ratrix Hero and 10 Minutes

Aug 23, 2009 0 comments

This Sunday I bring you two entirely different short movies – one is a humorous short animation while the other is sad and thought provoking...

BatteryCare helps prolong your laptop battery’s life

Aug 22, 2009 0 comments

BatteryCare is not just a simple battery monitoring utility. It goes a step ahead by giving you detailed information about the condition of ...

Free personalized short URL domains

Aug 22, 2009 1 comments

At one time there was no less than 100 different short URL services. Most of them are dead unfortunately. Well, of course, you can start you...

New portable Auslogics Task Manager

Aug 22, 2009 0 comments

We have reviewed a healthy number of task managers in the past including a top-5 list . Now there is another one to add to the lot. Renown...

PyRoom – Distraction free writing for Linux

Aug 21, 2009 0 comments

We have a seen a couple of distraction free Word processor for Windows like Darkroom , FocusWriter and Writespace . For Linux users there i...

Smokin' Guns – Open source First Person Shooter

Aug 21, 2009 0 comments

Smokin' Guns is a free, open source first person shooter game for Windows and Linux based on the Quake 3 engine but set on the old wild ...

Okawix - Download Wikipedia for offline reading

Aug 21, 2009 0 comments

Okawix is an open source project that allows you to download the entire content of Wikipedia, and that too in your preferred language with o...

Quark – Matrix styled system lockdown for PCs

Aug 21, 2009 0 comments

The easiest way to lock your computer when you leave your desk is to press Win+L, provided your user account is password protected. You can ...

iMesh – The only legal, RIAA approved P2P file sharing software

Aug 20, 2009 0 comments

With the recording industry breathing down the necks of illegal file sharer and suing anyone they can find from dead grandmothers to single...

Woofer – The reverse Twitter, where 1400 characters is minimum!

Aug 20, 2009 0 comments

Think Twitter’s 140 characters is too limiting? Are you tired of forcing yourself to think small? Try Woofer, a new initiative that forces y...

Windows Live Movie Maker out of beta, but ignores Windows XP

Aug 20, 2009 0 comments

Good News: Windows Live Movie Maker, which debuted last year as a beta, is now available for download as a stable release. Bad News: It do...

Are your videos choppy in Firefox? Here is the fix

Aug 19, 2009 17 comments

Since version 2.0, Firefox has a session restore feature which enables you to continue browsing from where you left even if you restart the ...

Vectir - PC remote control via Bluetooth or infrared

Aug 19, 2009 1 comments

Vectir is a remote control software for Windows that allows you to control  applications on your PC such as media players (Winamp, iTunes an...

17 useful Google Chrome Extensions

Aug 19, 2009 6 comments

Google Chrome’s support for third party extensions might be still in it’s infancy, but already dozens of different extensions has been writt...

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