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Firefox addon Glydo discovers related videos, news and tweets as you browse

Sep 29, 2009 1 comments

Glydo is an interesting addon for Firefox that automatically parses the page you are viewing, analyzes the contents and retrieves related ne...

Calibre – Ebook management software

Sep 29, 2009 1 comments

Calibre is a free, open source and cross-platform ebook management software that allows one to organize, save and manage ebooks, in and betw...

StandaloneStack – Leopard like stack for Windows

Sep 29, 2009 0 comments

StandaloneStack is a pretty application launcher that brings the stylish Leopard-like stacks to Windows. One major advantage of Standalone...

Things you didn’t know VLC media player can do

Sep 28, 2009 35 comments

For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VL...

Stykz - Stick figure animation software

Sep 28, 2009 1 comments

Stykz is a free multi-platform stick figure animation program that does all that Pivot StickFigure Animator , the original stick figure anim...

Diagnose Bios beep codes with Beeping Bios Codes

Sep 26, 2009 2 comments

Beeping Bios Codes is a simple tool that explains the various BIOS beep error codes given when the system won’t boot. It lists all beep cod...

GLC_Player: Lightweight 3D model viewer and manager

Sep 25, 2009 0 comments

GLC_Player is an open source software that can be used to view 3D models like those created using Autodesk Maya, 3D Studio Max, Blender, Son...

Free HideIPVPN unblocks Hulu, Pandora, BBC iPlayer, Spotify and more

Sep 25, 2009 12 comments

There are several web services which are locked to particular regions. Hulu and Pandora, for instance, are available only for US residents. ...

How to create a bootable USB drive with Windows XP Recovery Console

Sep 24, 2009 18 comments

The Windows XP Recovery Console can be brought up in three ways. From Windows XP installation disc By installing the Recovery Conso...

Run polls on Twitter with StrawPoll

Sep 24, 2009 0 comments

StrawPoll is a web service that lets you create and run polls or surveys among your Twitter follower. Simply register at StrawPoll, compose ...

Liaise introduces the smartest Microsoft Outlook plug-in ever

Sep 24, 2009 1 comments

Liaise is a new email addon for Microsoft Outlook Express 2003 and 2007, recently launched at the DEMOfall 09, that automatically analyzes ...

View multi-page articles in a single page with PageZipper

Sep 23, 2009 0 comments

Probably one of the biggest Internet annoyances is the multiple-page article phenomenon. Often when an article is too long it’s broken down ...

Firefox addon Invisible Hand shows you the best price deals

Sep 23, 2009 3 comments

Invisible Hand is a unobtrusive plug-in for Firefox, which subtly alerts you whenever a deal better than the one you are viewing is availabl...

Tintii makes selective coloring child’s play

Sep 23, 2009 0 comments

Selective coloring is a processing technique where most part of a colored photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in ...

Add shortcuts to folders to Explorer context menu with Folder Guide

Sep 22, 2009 0 comments

I use a number of different ways to keep my work and others folders at my finger tips. I use the Quick Launch Toolbar generously, which for ...

Turn your photos into a 3D animated face

Sep 22, 2009 3 comments

Motion Portrait is a Japanese application that can turn any portrait-style photo into a living 3D animated face. Just upload any photo by c...

Lock your PC using a flash drive with Predator

Sep 21, 2009 0 comments

You can lock a Windows PC by pressing Win+L. This locks the screen displaying the Windows logon screen. Nobody can use your PC unless they e...

LiveBrush – A unique motion controlled drawing tool

Sep 21, 2009 0 comments

LiveBrush is a drawing application based on the Adobe AIR platform. The most wonderful feature of LiveBrush is it’s unique motion control br...

Gimp, GimpShop and GimpPhoto

Sep 21, 2009 0 comments

Among all image editing applications Photoshop hold a special place. Not too far below is Gimp. Gimp is a very good open source image editor...

Prevent cut, paste, copy, delete and re-naming of files and folders

Sep 18, 2009 0 comments

Preventing users from messing around with your file system is one of the toughest thing to implement on a Windows machine. I discussed this ...

Partition Find & Mount – Access lost partitions as disk drives

Sep 18, 2009 0 comments

Partition Find & Mount is quite a unique piece of software. It’s a deleted and lost partition recovery software that helps you recover p...

My Writing Nook – Online writing tool for novelist

Sep 17, 2009 0 comments

If you are looking for a web based word processor, Google Docs or Zoho Writer or the recently launched Microsoft Office Online should be mor...

Aviary launches web based audio editor Myna

Sep 17, 2009 0 comments

Aviary, the online service that offers a number of web based applications for graphics designers, is now targeting amateur sound artists and...

5 short links for today #16

Sep 17, 2009 1 comments

1. Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs – This is not the first time anybody has attempted to put together a li...

Dazzboard – Web based iTunes alternative

Sep 17, 2009 0 comments

Still using that bloated iTunes to transfer music back and forth between handheld devices and the computer? Do your computer a favor, just g...

ABRViewer – View Photoshop brushes without opening Photoshop

Sep 16, 2009 0 comments

ABRViewer is an open source utility that allows one to preview Photoshop brushes without having to load them first in Adobe Photoshop. It ha...

First laptop discovered in 1937 Flash Gordon comics

Sep 16, 2009 0 comments

Probably the earliest depiction of a communication device resembling a laptop has been discovered in an ancient Flash Gordon Comics by a cer...

4 free wireless network scanners

Sep 16, 2009 1 comments

If you are out with your laptop or smartphone and need to find an Internet connection, the first thing you will require is a good Wi-Fi scan...

Readtwit - Read only links from your Twitter feed in RSS format

Sep 16, 2009 0 comments

One of the biggest complaints that people, including me, have with Twitter is that it’s difficult to actually follow people. Most people fol...

Abbee Commercial Free FM Radio records radio minus ads and RJ talk

Sep 15, 2009 0 comments

I have a love-hate relationship with my FM radio. I love listening to music on the FM radio channels, but I can’t stand the radio jockeys. T...

Diagnose and repair your music collection with MP3 Diags

Sep 15, 2009 1 comments

First, answer the following questions: Do you download music from the Internet? Have you ever bought MP3 music CDs? Do you rip ...

Windows Run commands you probably never knew

Sep 14, 2009 37 comments

The Windows Run box is a very useful utility to launch programs and applications quickly. There are more than a hundred run commands that le...

Watch movies in ASCII in VLC media player

Sep 14, 2009 1 comments

VLC media player has an amusing ability, targeted especially towards nerds, to playback movies in ASCII art. The option to enable this is ri...

Specto – Growl like system notification for Linux

Sep 14, 2009 0 comments

If you remember, just days ago I wrote about a software called Snarl inspired by the much famous Growl application for Mac OSX. Growl allow...

5 short links for today #15

Sep 9, 2009 0 comments

1. Where We Do What We Do : A place to view and share pictures of your workplace. Visitors can rate pictures and leave comments. There are ...

Coral IE Tab – Improved IE tab addon for Firefox

Sep 8, 2009 0 comments

Even though most websites today are web standard compliant, there are still some sites that refuses to render correctly on any browsers othe...

Nimi Visuals 10.2 released with more new visual effects and features

Sep 8, 2009 1 comments

Remember Nimi Visuals? We covered this neat little Windows visual effects and customization tool some time back when version 10.1 was releas...

Blogging without a database: 7 database-less Content Management Systems (CMS)

Sep 8, 2009 23 comments

A Content Management System without a database seems so unorthodox that one might feel that it shouldn’t have been put into practice in the ...

WorldWide Telescope Aphelion released with new features

Sep 7, 2009 0 comments

Microsoft has made available a new release of WorldWide Telescope desktop application as well as an upgrade to the web client. The new relea...

TMonitor – Real time CPU clock monitoring

Sep 7, 2009 0 comments

One of the many interesting features of the Intel Core i7 processor is the Intel Turbo Boost technology. While most modern processors are ca...

outSSIDer – Sound alerted open WiFi network scanner

Sep 5, 2009 0 comments

outSSIDer a free Windows software that scans your neighborhood for open, unencrypted WiFi networks so that you can surf for free. Whenever i...

Zim – A Wiki on the desktop

Sep 5, 2009 0 comments

Zim is an open source WYSIWYG text editor for the Windows and Linux platform that takes word processing and note-taking to a new level by br...

Browser Chooser makes the default browser flexible

Sep 3, 2009 4 comments

Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome ... when we have so many browsers to choose from, why stick to only one? I use at least 3 ...

Blaze – Intelligent task automater and application launcher

Sep 3, 2009 1 comments

Blaze is a an open source application for Windows that can be best described as your personal desktop assistant. It has a remarkable feature...

5 short links for today #14

Sep 2, 2009 1 comments

1. Goollery : A fun collection of projects related to Google build by various people. Really nice collection but not entirely complete. I co...

Everything you knew about proper CD handling is wrong

Sep 2, 2009 8 comments

How many times have you shouted at people for putting CDs on the desk the wrong side up? You must have taught countless number of people to ...

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