Showing posts from February, 2010

See Saw – Ad-supported online TV launched

Feb 27, 2010 0 comments

See Saw is a new ad-supported TV-on-demand service that launched last week with more than 3,000 hours of content. See Saw includes programme...

5 short links for today #30

Feb 26, 2010 0 comments

1. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever : Can you solve this? 2. Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python is a free e-Book that teaches you ho...

FreeFixer – Diagnostic and malware removal tool

Feb 26, 2010 0 comments

FreeFixer is a general purpose malware removal tool which helps you to delete potentially unwanted software, such as adware, spyware, browse...

ReadPal – Clutter and stress-free document reader

Feb 26, 2010 1 comments

ReadPal is a Microsoft Word document, text files, email and HTML page reading application for Windows that provides a pleasurable reading ex...

Can you describe everything in 10 words? Ten Word Wiki can

Feb 25, 2010 0 comments

It’s well know that Internet users suffer from very short attention span, but we can’t blame them. The overwhelming amount of information th...

Windows Vista look-alike Longhorn Linux

Feb 25, 2010 4 comments

Longhorn Linux is a distribution built on the core of Ubuntu that has a UI which looks like Windows Longhorn, the pre- Windows Vista build. ...

CloudDrive – Desktop client for Adobe Acrobat online storage

Feb 24, 2010 0 comments

Adobe offers free online storage space of 5GB through their Acrobat Document Service. But the service is a nightmare to use – you can upload...

Combine many stylesheets into one with CSS Mixer

Feb 24, 2010 0 comments

Some people like to use more than one stylesheet on their website. It may be for valid reasons, like presenting different styles for differe...

Create Windows 7 Start Buttons with StartOrbz

Feb 23, 2010 0 comments

StartOrbz is a freeware program that allows you to create Windows 7 Start Buttons. The Start Button or Orb can be changed easily with progra...

Format Factory – Audio/Video/Image conversion, DVD ripper, Video/Audio joiner and more

Feb 23, 2010 1 comments

Format Factory is a free program for Windows that lets you to perform a number of operations on multimedia files. Format Factory primarily h...

The Attack of the 50ft Robot [Free Game]

Feb 22, 2010 0 comments

Feeling the Monday Blues? Why not take out the frustration by ravaging an entire city to the ground? Yes, why not?

How to unlock cursor when running Windows Media Center on two monitors

Feb 22, 2010 1 comments

Windows Media Center has a big frustrating issue in a multi-monitor setup. When you run Windows 7 or Vista Media Center maximized on a secon...

Heavy duty yet free Nuance PDF Reader

Feb 19, 2010 0 comments

Nuance PDF Reader is a new entry into the growing field of free Adobe PDF Reader alternatives. There are already a few strong contenders in ...

ShadyURL turns URLs humorously suspicious

Feb 19, 2010 0 comments

We have seen a bunch of clever and amusing implementation of short URL services in the past. First came the fad of elongating URLs just for ...

5 short links for today #29

Feb 18, 2010 1 comments

1. Openfilm is the place where you can watch films from independent film makers free of cost. It provides a venue for users to watch premiu...

Interesting hard drive facts you probably didn’t know

Feb 17, 2010 1 comments

Everybody has one, but nobody gives it much thought – the hard disk drive. It’s just another device, another component on their computer sys...

How much your gadgets actually cost to build?

Feb 16, 2010 4 comments

When you fish out $200 for an iPhone or $500 for a PS3, have you ever paused to wonder how much the companies bore to build that gadget? Are...

TVersity streams content from your computer to TV, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii

Feb 16, 2010 0 comments

TVersity is a media streaming software package that can stream any video to any device regardless of the limitation of the device. It can do...

SE-TrayMenu – System tray Application launcher

Feb 15, 2010 1 comments

SE-TrayMenu is a dead simple application launcher for Windows. It resides on the system tray and gives access to a pop-up menu from where y...

KolibriOS – An OS on a 1.44MB floppy

Feb 15, 2010 7 comments

KolibriOS is a piece of programming marvel. An entire Linux distribution Operating system, and not just a blinking cursor on a terminal, bu...

5 short links for today #28

Feb 13, 2010 0 comments

1. openWYSIWYG is a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that's packed with every rich-text editing feature you will want for your web app...

What happened in my birth year?

Feb 13, 2010 0 comments

What happened in my birth year? is a new website by Philipp Lenssen, the creator of Blogscoped , that tells you what events took place glob...

Portable WinHosts: Easy way to edit Windows host file

Feb 13, 2010 0 comments

The Windows host file is a plain text that Windows uses to map hostnames to IP addresses, like a DNS resolver. The contents of the host file...

Alcohol 52% – Free CD/DVD emulation software

Feb 12, 2010 0 comments

No I’m not talking about the spirit you consume on late night parties. I’m talking about the unusually named optical disc emulation software...

Beware of Microsoft Windows anti-piracy update KB971033

Feb 12, 2010 26 comments

If you are running a pirated copy of Windows 7 or a copy with a non-genuine activation key, the smartest thing to do is to keep low profile ...

iTuner – Honey, I shrunk iTunes!

Feb 11, 2010 3 comments

I never really understood the attraction for huge UI on music players. Hello? it’s music, it’s for listening. Why do I need to have an inter...

The Minesweeper Controversy: How Flower Garden came into Windows Vista

Feb 10, 2010 8 comments

Every Windows user must be familiar with Minesweeper, the simple but addicting logic game, that first made it appearance on Windows 3.1 in 1...

How to mute audio ads on Spotify or automatically mute sound by window title text

Feb 9, 2010 15 comments

MUkoTE is a program with a unique purpose - mute sound of a specific application when the title of a window contains text patterns defined b...

Open Photoshop PSD files in Paint.NET

Feb 9, 2010 0 comments

Paint.NET is a powerful, free, image editing program for Windows that was originally intended to be a replacement for Windows default paint...

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

Feb 8, 2010 0 comments

Have you come across a Windows 7 theme which you feel could have been better if the Start Orb was different? Don’t let the Orb stop you – i...

VMMap - Memory usage analysis tool from Sysinternals

Feb 8, 2010 1 comments

VMMap is the latest addition to the pool of extremely useful utilities from Windows Sysinternals. VMMap is a process virtual and physical ...

FrontMotion Login - Animated Windows XP login screens

Feb 8, 2010 0 comments

FrontMotion Login is not your typical login screen changer. It spices up Windows login by replacing the boring, traditional image based logi...

Explore the oceans on Google Ocean Showcase

Feb 6, 2010 0 comments

Here is more news from Google Earth, but this time it has to do with the Google Earth plug-in and not the software. Google Earth 5 already ...

Historic WWII Imagery in Google Earth

Feb 6, 2010 0 comments

Google Earth 5 introduced a great feature called historical imagery which enables you to turn back the clock and see imagery of a location f...

How to find cheap filler items to avail Amazon’s free shipping offer

Feb 6, 2010 4 comments

If you have ever shopped at Amazon, you can’t possibly have missed the free “Super Saver Shipping” offer. Under this offer Amazon will waive...

Free download AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter

Feb 5, 2010 2 comments

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter is a, well… PDF to Word converter, of course. It’s a commercial product that typically retails at $30 for a...

Use Shutup.css to remove comments from websites

Feb 4, 2010 0 comments

Reader’s comments at the end of an article or blog post are an important part of the blog, but this is true only if the comments add value t...

Replace Text- Search and replace text in multiple files

Feb 4, 2010 0 comments

If you have a bunch of files and need to make the same edit on all of them there is no easy way to do it on Windows, or Word or Notepad. You...

5 short links for today #27

Feb 4, 2010 4 comments

1. If Murdered – A new website that lets you leave your voice before you die. The creator explains: “I thought up the idea for this site be...

Gmail doesn’t let you create a label named “buzz”

Feb 3, 2010 0 comments

Blogscoped reported this strange phenomenon: if you try to create a label named “buzz” in Gmail, it returns the message: “Sorry, you c...

5 best screen color pickers for Windows 7 (and XP)

Feb 1, 2010 13 comments

Ever since I switched to Windows 7 some of my favorite programs stopped working, among which was Absolute Color Picker – a screen color pic...

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