Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks
Thursday, den 31. January 2008
BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard [...]
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The only Internet Explorer 7 add-on you’ll ever need
Wednesday, den 30. January 2008
The tech community’s love affair with the Mozilla Firefox browser shows no signs of waning, but the fact is, most people still use Internet Explorer. If it’s such a terrible browser, why does it remain so popular? Part of the reason may be that it’s so tightly integrated with Windows: It takes an effort to [...]
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Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser Review from Brighthand.
Tuesday, den 29. January 2008
"A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial commenting on how horrible browsing the Web is on most mobile devices. Amazingly, there’s already a solution for this problem, at least for some users. It’s called Skyfire, and it is far and away the best web browser for Windows Mobile I’ve ever seen.
This application offers just [...]
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Windows 7 isn’t headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011.
Tuesday, den 29. January 2008
Hey, it’s not Microsoft’s fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it’s certainly a long ways away any way you slice it. Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime in 2009, Microsoft has apparently gotten in touch with WinVistaClub and set the record [...]
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SkyFire: Speedy Windows Mobile browser with Full Audio, Video, Images, Dynamic Flash, Ajax & Java support
Tuesday, den 29. January 2008
SkyFire is a new mobile browser in private beta for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices that gives you a complete Desktop PC-like browsing experience from your mobile phone. You can watch any web video, listen to any web music, stay connected on any social network and browse any webpage with embedded content that you normally [...]
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Grab and convert YouTube videos in one go -
Monday, den 28. January 2008This is a good way to pump up those Zunes.
There are tons of YouTube video-grabbing downloads out there, but relatively few also convert those FLV files for later viewing on a cell phone, iPhone, or other flavor of mobile device. Since we don’t like using two apps when we can use one, here’s a hand-picked [...]
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SCREEN2EXE - Quick and free way to Screencast
Sunday, den 27. January 2008
SCREEN2EXE is an easy-to-use tool to capture desktop activity and save it as a self-playing .exe file. The program will capture mouse movements, clicks and even optional audio comments from your microphone. You can choose to record the entire screen or just a selected area, configure the recording quality and also the frame rate. The [...]
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This could be the first video footage of Windows 7
Saturday, den 26. January 2008Obviously a lot of people cried fake when those screenshots purporting to show Windows 7 Ultimate popped up — possibly because they looked a lot like rebadged Vista screens — so the blogger who originally posted the images has followed up with a video for proof. And we do have to say, if this is [...]
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5 Programs for Tweaking Vista
Saturday, den 26. January 2008
Was TweakUI your favorite PowerToy? Have you been searching for something similar for Vista? Several different programs are available that may be what you’re looking for. Here’s a quick list:
TweakVI is a software program designed just to tweak and optimize Vista. The program comes in 3 editions - basic, premium, [...]
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BurnAware Free Edition - Free CD and DVD Project Burning
Saturday, den 26. January 2008
BurnAware Free Edition is probably the prettiest in the interface department for this collection and offers a step-by-step procedure for your burning projects. A launch window lets you choose the type of project you want and leads you through the process to completion. Navigating your directories is easy with BurnAware’s file management system and adding [...]
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Last.FM Becomes "World’s Best Jukebox": Bigger Than iTunes, All Four Majors Onboard
Wednesday, den 23. January 2008
Web 2.0 musicmeister Last.FM and CBS’s "unprecedented new service" is a leveled-up Last.fm: It is "the most complete, licensed music catalog" in the world with music from all four major labels and 150,000 indie labels, or what they’re calling "the world’s best jukebox." It’s all available on demand (right now!) without logging in, is free [...]
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RocketDock - Like having the Max OS X’s Dock in Windows
Wednesday, den 23. January 2008RocketDock behaves much like the Mac OS X Dock. Its smoothly crafted icons sit in a skinnable Dock interface that can be "stuck" to any side of Power’s desktop for instant launching of programs. He can minimize Web pages and documents to RocketDock, make the icons "bounce" as the program launches, and he can drag [...]
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Microsoft rolls out Zune 2.3 software update with fixes aplenty - Engadget
Wednesday, den 23. January 2008
Not to be confused with the Zune 2.3 firmware update, Microsoft is today pushing out the Zune 2.3 software update, which brings with it a whole slew of fixes but no real new features. If the rundown of those fixes given by the ever-helpful Cesar of the Zune Insider blog are any indication, however, it [...]
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Zumobi to climb onto Windows Mobile phones
Tuesday, den 22. January 2008
Microsoft and Zumobi, a content distribution platform for mobile phones, announced on Tuesday a partnership that will preload Zumobi (download here) on select Windows Mobile phones.
Zumobi’s downloadable app (available now for Windows Mobile 5 and 6) offers an interface of 16 tiles to help users access key content quickly. Each tile is a widget that’s [...]
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zAlternator - Sync with WMP11, Winamp, MediaMonkey, iTunes(?)
Monday, den 21. January 2008
Finally, a release candidate of zAlternator is here! Yay! zAlternator is a program that will allow the Zune to be picked up and synced with programs other than the Zune program. It has been fully tested and proven to allow the Zune to be picked up and synced with the Zune program (duh), Windows Media [...]
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An introduction to Office Live Workspace
Sunday, den 20. January 2008A message from the Office Live Workspace team: Stop emailing yourself files! :)
An introduction to Office Live Workspace
Office Live Workspace is a free service - currently in private beta - for document access, storage and sharing "in the cloud". The service will [...]
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How To: Disable Vista’s Aero Effects for Certain Programs
Thursday, den 17. January 2008
You may like having Vista’s pretty-fying Aero effects enabled while you’re working, but many modern games can make you want to devote every last bit of memory and power to their 3-D awesomeness. The How-To Geek shows how to easily disable desktop effects by editing (or creating) a shortcut [...]
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Last.fm on Windows Mobile
Wednesday, den 16. January 2008
Last.fm is a web service that offers a social network for discovering and listening to new music. And now, Last.fm has arrived for Windows Mobile! Well, technically, the software is under development and still experimental, but it’s exciting nonetheless. The Pocket PC version has the scrobbling functionality and radio, but the Smartphone version can only [...]
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How To: Batch Resize Images with IrfanView
Wednesday, den 16. January 2008
Windows only: Lifehacker readers love free image viewer and processor IrfanView, so much that whenever we mention how to rename or resize images with other programs, someone’s guaranteed to bring up IrfanView in the comments. So now that you know how to batch process images in Photshop, ImageMagick, and Photo Drop (Mac), tech site [...]
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Geotagging Photos on a Budget: ATP GPS Gadget Does It Like a Card Reader
Wednesday, den 16. January 2008
If you’re a keen geotagger of your imagery, then a recently announced $150 device from ATP Electronics may be just the ticket. Dubbed the GPS Photo Finder, it works in a rather carefree way: you just have to carry it around with you while you’re shooting, and then insert [...]
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