Showing posts from June, 2010

Bonkey - Backup files to Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles and more

Jun 30, 2010 1 comments

Bonkey is an open source, Java based backup application that can backup data to FTP, network drives and most storage devices, but it is spec...

Share optical drives over a network with Paragon Net Burner

Jun 30, 2010 0 comments

Paragon Net Burner is a software application that allows you to share optical drives such as CD/DVD or Blu-Ray drive over a network and remo...

Customize the colors of Windows task manager

Jun 28, 2010 0 comments

Don’t like green? Then download Se7en Task Manager Modder, a portable application that allows you to change the color scheme of the graph, g...

How to edit text in your favorite text editor from anywhere

Jun 28, 2010 0 comments

Here is a scenario: Say you want to write an email but rather than typing directly into the text box in your browser, you prefer to compose ...

Bend is a stylish but simple text editor

Jun 28, 2010 4 comments

Want your text editor to look good while you code? Try Bend, an open source, text editor “dressed up to look sharp.” Bend exploits XAML / ...

Google encrypted search moves to a new domain

Jun 28, 2010 0 comments

Early this month Google announced that they were going to move encrypted search from https://www.google.com to a new hostname because scho...

Guardian live blogger captures the crazy moments of an epic Wimbledon match

Jun 27, 2010 0 comments

Last Friday, history happened on Court 18 at Wimbledon tennis ground. The match that will never be forgotten from Wimbledon 2010 between Ame...

What happens when you search ‘world cup’ in Google?

Jun 27, 2010 3 comments

Why is Google the most popular search engine? Because of things like this: type “world cup” in Google and see what it brings.

uTFilterManager - RSS filter manager for uTorrent

Jun 26, 2010 1 comments

uTFilterManager is an open source, standalone application that works in conjunction with uTorrent and allows setting up of pre-configured RS...

Free download Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Centra

Jun 26, 2010 0 comments

The CyberLink DVD Suite 7 Centra combines 13 multi-media solutions for your surround-sound home theatre and entertainment centre. Enjoy full...

Free download StudioLine Photo Classic 3 Plus

Jun 25, 2010 0 comments

StudioLine Photo Classic Plus is an easy-to-use yet powerful management and editing application for digital photos. Images can be imported f...

Flickr-Getty deal brings photo sales option to Flickr

Jun 25, 2010 0 comments

Massively popular photo sharing website Flickr has introduced a new option which allows photographers to publicly nominate their images for ...

Onbile - Create a mobile version of your website for free

Jun 25, 2010 0 comments

In early 2009 we looked at some of the options we had for creating mobile version of a website . Back then we had quite a few different and ...

Make free calls on Skype for a month

Jun 24, 2010 0 comments

Skype is celebrating world cup football by offering free calls to any of the 32 playing nations. The offer is available for a month, during ...

New update brings free music streaming, TV and more to Bing

Jun 24, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft wants to make Bing your new entertainment hub. On Tuesday, the company hosted a Hollywood style, celebrity-laden event at the Soho...

How to add crash protection for custom plugins in Firefox 3.6.4

Jun 24, 2010 1 comments

Firefox 3.6.4 was released yesterday, and as already published , brought added stability to the browser with the so called “out of process p...

IE9 preview 3: More outstanding demos

Jun 24, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft is determined to leave the ghost of the past behind with Internet Explorer 9, and they are damn serious about it. Earlier this yea...

VLC 1.1.0 drops support for SHOUTcast stations

Jun 23, 2010 0 comments

Terrible news for SHOUTcast lovers who use VLC to stream music from their favorite stations . The SHOUTcast module is no longer available in...

Block spam SMS with SMSBlocker (free till June 28)

Jun 23, 2010 2 comments

After the epic failure of Do Not Disturb (DND) and National Do Not Call (NDNC) Registry, subscribers have only one route to respite – spam S...

Firefox 3.6.4 has crash protection for plugins

Jun 23, 2010 0 comments

The Mozilla Blog reports that a new version of Firefox – version 3.6.4 has been released and can be downloaded from the Firefox website . F...

Devuvuzelator kills vuvuzela buzz from World Cup matches

Jun 22, 2010 0 comments

Stardocks, in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London, has developed a vuvuzela killer to filter...

Free download screen capture tool Ashampoo Snap 3

Jun 22, 2010 0 comments

Software publisher Ashampoo has been regularly carrying out promotional campaigns where they make products available to the public for free,...

Google to launch paywall service named Newspass

Jun 21, 2010 0 comments

The word is out in the blogosphere that Google is readying to launch a paid content service to be called "Newspass" by year end. T...

5 short links for today #39

Jun 19, 2010 2 comments

1. 9 New Uses For Your Old iPhone : Plan on upgrading to the latest iPhone 4? Great, but what do you do with your old iPhone or iPod Touch t...

Automatically switch to HD when playing YouTube videos in full screen

Jun 19, 2010 0 comments

Want to watch YouTube videos in the best available quality? There is an option for that. As Alex Chitu showed, you can just click on the dr...

Remove objects from photos with Photo Scissors Pilot

Jun 19, 2010 2 comments

Removing an object from a photo is never an easy task. It depends a lot on the content of the photograph, the object you want to remove and ...

Security flaw makes PPTP VPN useless for hiding IP on BitTorrent

Jun 18, 2010 3 comments

With mounting pressure from anti-piracy outfits on governments to implement stricter copyright laws and record labels suing people left and...

SSD Tweaker improves SSD performance

Jun 18, 2010 0 comments

SSD Tweaker is a portable, open source software gives you centralized access to all the popular SSD configuration points for both 32-bit and...

HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon brings encryption to the web

Jun 18, 2010 0 comments

Inspired by Google’s encrypted search option, EFF and the Tor Project today  launched a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS...

Google Chrome gets built-in PDF viewer

Jun 18, 2010 0 comments

The Chromium blog announced that the latest Google Chrome developer build for Windows and Mac includes a plugin that allows viewing of PDF...

How to prevent IE8 from launching new iexplore.exe for every new tab

Jun 17, 2010 1 comments

A major but rarely advertised feature of Internet Explorer 8 is the way the browser handles creation of new tabs. Most browsers, including O...

MagicDisc installs virtual drive without rebooting Windows

Jun 17, 2010 1 comments

I hate restarting my computer. It is not because of the time wasted or the interruption; it’s because of inconvenience. With 30 to 40 browse...

Use Windows Vista/7 Reliability Monitor to track system stability

Jun 17, 2010 0 comments

Windows Vista and its successor has some great tools that give users and administrators the power to troubleshoot system stability issues an...

Google encrypted search is moving to a new hostname

Jun 16, 2010 0 comments

The recently launched Google encrypted search is causing problems for school authorities. Schools are no longer able to block queries for a...

ISS crew captures spectacular view of earth’s atmosphere

Jun 16, 2010 0 comments

A breathtaking new image taken by astronauts on the International Space Station clearly shows the various layers of Earth's atmosphere d...

YouTube launches breaking news video feed

Jun 16, 2010 0 comments

Google is testing out a new feature that will enable netizens to get breaking news stories in the form of user uploaded videos on YouTube, a...

OnTopReplica – Clone a window, miniaturize it and keep it on top

Jun 16, 2010 0 comments

Once in a while I stumble across an application software that is pure genius. OnTopReplica is one. Sometime you need to monitor the progre...

Konami Code based Easter eggs on popular websites

Jun 15, 2010 1 comments

Hiding jokes, goofs and gags in programs, commonly known as Easter eggs, is a popular form of ‘entertainment’ programmers like to indulge th...

Bing Destination Maps creates cool hand sketched directions

Jun 15, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft Bing Map has an awesome set of ‘Map Apps’ that offers more conventional functionality to simple driving directions. Among these in...

Delete/Send files to Recycle Bin via Command Line

Jun 14, 2010 0 comments

When you delete files on a Windows PC using the command line, the files bypass the Recycle Bin and get permanently deleted from the disk. No...

Acronis Drive Monitor helps predict Hard drive failure

Jun 14, 2010 0 comments

Acronis, a provider of HDD backup, disaster recovery and security solutions for Windows, has announced the release of a new free disk monito...

Radian, the radial application launcher

Jun 14, 2010 1 comments

We have seen application launchers of all shapes and sizes . Here is a new launcher with a new shape. Radian is a radial application lau...

Musicy – Listen to and Rip streaming radio stations

Jun 12, 2010 1 comments

Musicy is an open source Internet radio station player that allows you to listen and rip streaming station at the same time, perfect for tho...

Free download iSkysoft FLV Converter for Windows

Jun 12, 2010 0 comments

iSkysoft FLV Converter for Windows can convert popular video formats to FLV or vice versa and extract audio from video files. FLV Video Con...

5 short links for today #38

Jun 12, 2010 0 comments

1. Everyone on TV reads the same newspaper : Everybody on TV and in movies reads the same newspaper, it seems. And they've been reading ...

Trix performs common tasks with a simple click, aids productivity

Jun 11, 2010 0 comments

TriX is a one of a kind productivity tool for Windows which brings dozens of commands to your fingertips and performs several simple tasks w...

Windows tweaker X-Setup Pro is now free

Jun 11, 2010 0 comments

X-Setup Pro is a tweaking application for Windows that allows you to easily change over 2,000 settings that are normally hidden inside confi...

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 now available for download

Jun 11, 2010 0 comments

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 final is now officially available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Those who are running the Release C...

Palringo – Multi protocol instant messenger for cell phones and desktop

Jun 10, 2010 0 comments

Palringo is a multi platform, multi protocol-supporting Instant Messaging client for mobile phones and desktops. With Palringo you can login...

ISOBuddy – Disk image format converter

Jun 10, 2010 0 comments

ISOBuddy is a software that can convert almost any image file format to the universally accepted and standard ISO format. Like the previousl...

A Complete Beginner's Manual for Ubuntu 10.04

Jun 10, 2010 4 comments

Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is a comprehensive beginners guide for the Ubuntu operating system. It features comprehensiv...

Password protect video and media files with GreenForce-Player

Jun 10, 2010 1 comments

GreenForce-Player is a portable media player that borrows its looks from VLC media player. Unfortunately, the similarity doesn’t go far. The...

Thanks Google. That picture explains everything

Jun 9, 2010 6 comments

Google has announced the completion of a new and improved way of indexing the web called Caffeine. You may have heard the term because Goog...

HP to launch cloud based printers with email addresses

Jun 9, 2010 0 comments

Soon you will be able to snap pictures with your cell phone and mail them to your printer and have the printouts waiting for you when you ge...

Microsoft Office Web App is now available on SkyDrive

Jun 8, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online office suite, which was under beta for a while has finally opened its doors to users all over the worl...

Free download AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter 3

Jun 8, 2010 3 comments

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter is an efficient application to convert Adobe PDF files to well-formatted Microsoft Word documents. I have ...

Can’t go to space? Send your face instead

Jun 8, 2010 1 comments

NASA wants to send a picture of you to space. No, seriously. If you upload a head shot of yourself to their Face in Space website, your pict...

High resolution cutaways/cross-sections of airplanes

Jun 7, 2010 0 comments

If you love airplanes and have a fascination for aviation you will love the image section on FlighGlobal.com.

Bring back File Type Association and Edit File Type option in Windows 7

Jun 7, 2010 2 comments

Have you tried changing the default program association for a particular file type in Windows 7? If you have, you must have noticed that the...

RecycleBinEx – Enhanced Recycle Bin Manager

Jun 7, 2010 0 comments

RecycleBinEx is a software that adds great functionality to the simple designed, poor and neglected Recycle bin of Windows. It extends and e...

Facebook Privacy Defender

Jun 7, 2010 0 comments

With constant privacy policy changes, murky details and entangled information sharing settings, Privacy Defender might just be the solution ...

How to use VMware Guest Console to control Guest OS from host remotely

Jun 5, 2010 0 comments

VMware Guest Console is an incredibly powerful application from VMWare Labs that allows you to control the Guest operating system running on...

Load Tabs Progressively in Firefox

Jun 5, 2010 2 comments

Do you open large number of tabs in the background, so many that the page you are viewing starts to crawl because your Internet connection i...

Now try Google docs without a Google account

Jun 5, 2010 0 comments

Those who haven’t tried Google Docs before, can give the cloud based office suite a trial run over at Google Docs Demo . Google launched thi...

Resize, move, extend, split and merge partitions with Partition Assistant

Jun 4, 2010 1 comments

When Partition Magic was under PowerQuest it was under active development – it was regularly updated and new and useful features were added ...

Joulemeter – Software to measure power consumption of a PC

Jun 4, 2010 0 comments

Ever wondered how much power is required to run a desktop computer or laptop? Freeware software Microsoft Joulemeter will give you the answe...

Free download Xilisoft HD Video Converter full version

Jun 4, 2010 22 comments

Xilisoft HD Video Converter is a commercial video converter tool that can handle HD video formats such as AVCHD (mts, m2ts), H.264/AVC, MKV,...

Free download SAP Crystal Presentation Design full version

Jun 4, 2010 0 comments

SAP Crystal Presentation Design, formerly known as Xcelsius Present software, is an easy to use data visualization software that can create ...

Paragon Partition Alignment Tool improves hard disk and SSD performance

Jun 3, 2010 4 comments

What is Partition Alignment? To understand what partition alignment is we should first see how disk clusters and sectors are arranged on a...

Two convincing Opera like themes for Firefox

Jun 3, 2010 0 comments

A lot of people seem to find the default Opera theme ugly. This was true for Opera 9.x but the latest skin on Opera 10.x is pretty sleek. So...

Google lets you change the homepage background image

Jun 3, 2010 0 comments

Google is know for it’s minimalist design and clean homepage. But that’s about to change. Taking a cue from Bing, Google today rolled out a ...

Symantec joins public DNS bandwagon with Norton DNS

Jun 3, 2010 2 comments

Symantec Corp recently unveiled a new initiative called Norton Everywhere that attempts to take Norton beyond the PC and extend trust to ne...

Free download WinUtilities Pro full version

Jun 2, 2010 0 comments

WinUtilities Pro is yet another commercial system cleaning/tweaking application for Windows that is currently up for grabs. This application...

VMWare Tweaker lays bare dozens of hidden VMWare settings

Jun 2, 2010 4 comments

VMWare is a popular virtualization software for Windows. When you create a virtual machine on VMWare, the application saves all the settings...

GiMeSpace Desktop Extender

Jun 2, 2010 0 comments

GiMeSpace Desktop Extender is a sort of virtual desktop manager. I use the words ‘sort of’ because unlike typical virtual desktop applicatio...

XBMC Media Center will no longer support Xbox

Jun 2, 2010 0 comments

XBMC Media Center, which we reviewed earlier , recently announced that they will be no longer supporting the Xbox platform.

How to hide an image inside text in an HTML page

Jun 1, 2010 0 comments

Last week I showed you an old trick using which you can hide one image inside another image in such a way that the hidden image is revealed...

Opera 10.60 Alpha 1 is the fastest browser, for now

Jun 1, 2010 2 comments

The developers at Opera Software pushed out a new version of their flagship product just months after they publicly released Opera 10.50. Wh...

Easy way to get full size pictures on Google Image Search

Jun 1, 2010 0 comments

If you use Google Image Search to download the full sized version of images from the results page, you must have noticed that Google makes i...

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