Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For
Thursday, den 27. November 2008The 46 Free Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects We’re Most Thankful For
Firefox (see also: The Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3)
VLC Media Player (see also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC)
Ubuntu (see also: Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look)
Open Office (see also: A First Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0)
Pidgin (see [...]
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Attend Tech·Ed 2008 for free.. Online
Wednesday, den 26. November 2008
If you were like me, you were not able to convince you manager to send to you to Tech-Ed 2008, but you can still see almost every minute of the conference. Sorry no swag.
Tech·Ed Online
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Featured Freeware: Photology
Wednesday, den 26. November 2008
A simple interface is based on Microsoft’s .NET framework and features a dark gray background and large easy-to-read buttons for the programs feature set. Images are displayed as thumbnails, so you can flip through pages if you’re just looking to browse. Some editing tools are available for red-eye correction and image rotation, and you can [...]
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Evernote perks up its Windows Mobile app | The Download Blog - Download.com
Tuesday, den 25. November 2008
On Monday, Evernote, a good triple-platform note-taking service for Windows, Mac, the Web, and (multiple) mobile platforms (see all), updated its application for Windows Mobile phones (download).
Speed is the main story here, with text, photos, and audio notes uploading faster than before. Of course, depending on your carrier and the phone’s capabilities, this still may [...]
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Drop.io gets prettier, easier | Webware - CNET
Monday, den 24. November 2008
Drop.io, a file-sharing start-up that lets you easily toss anything from photos to phone calls in a "drop" (kind of like a virtual storage cabinet), has launched a new look.
The redesign makes the site look a little slicker, and certainly accentuates Drop.io’s "easy to use" mantra. It’s also clearly a consumer-oriented product now–in comparison, the [...]
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YouSendIt brings file delivery to Microsoft Office
Thursday, den 20. November 2008 File delivery service YouSendIt announced Thursday that it has released a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 that will allow users to send any file from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to recipients through the company’s service.
Based on my testing, the plug-in, which requires registration to download, works quite well. After surfing over to [...]
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Outlook plug-in Xobni gets deeper social hooks
Wednesday, den 19. November 2008
The popular Outlook extension Xobni (download) is getting hooks into additional data sources. The service, which to date has given users historial detail about the people they communicate with in e-mail, is now extending its lookup to more social networks and other data sources.
Now, when a user is viewing a person’s record, in addition [...]
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Windows 7 - The “Blue Badge” experience
Tuesday, den 18. November 2008
When Microsoft shipped the 6801 build of Windows 7 some of the unfinished features were hidden from view using an elaborate protection mechanism. This mechanism has now been rendered useless thanks to the work of Rafael Rivera who developed a tool called Blue Badge.
Understanding the risks involved in patching core system files, you may download [...]
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Dont Pay for GoToMeeting When DimDim Hosts Your Webinars for Free
Tuesday, den 18. November 2008
If you work in a corporate culture that’s fond of meetings, or an industry that involves lots of long-distance collaboration, you’ve no doubt heard an increasing amount about "webinars" lately. The web-based meetings, usually involving collaborative editing, whiteboard brainstorming, slideshow presentations, and/or live desktop sharing, are helpful when teaching [...]
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New Photo Sharing Service Announced: Windows Live Photos
Monday, den 17. November 2008
Today, the Windows Live team announced a brand-new photo-sharing service that integrates directly with the Windows Live Photo Gallery desktop software, a part of the Windows Live client applications. (More info on Photo Gallery is here). Simply called Windows Live Photos, the new online service lets you upload photos directly from your computer and create [...]
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Want 25 GB Of Free Online Storage?
Monday, den 17. November 2008
Amid all the news last week about the upcoming new Windows Live and new Windows Live Photos service, one thing that may have been overlooked is how Windows Live SkyDrive was tied into those announcements. According to a post on the SkyDrive team blog, the team is increasing the amount of online storage from 5 [...]
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Aero Shake For Your Vista PC
Wednesday, den 12. November 2008
Have you been eying the new Windows 7 features with envy? Well, now you can get at least one of them on your Vista computer: Aero Shake. Over at LifeHacker, they’ve released an app that lets you shake your active window to minimize all the other open windows, just like in Windows 7. Shake again, [...]
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Witty for Vista – a Great New Twitter Client
Monday, den 10. November 2008
From the Windows Vista Team Blog, I learned of Witty, a Twitter client for Vista. The software, powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation built into Windows Vista, runs like a "real" application and like some apps, can be minimized to the system tray. Like most Twitter apps, Witty lets you post updates, view timelines, view [...]
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Seven things you may not know about Windows 7
Monday, den 10. November 2008
1. Standard approach to mobile broadband Windows 7 treats cellular modems as a standard connection, much like a Wi-Fi network, popping them up in the same available wireless networks dialog.
Sierra Wireless has already said it will support the new approach, which should make life much easier for road warriors [...]
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Lifehacker’s Top 10: Top 10 Online Freebies and Deals
Saturday, den 8. November 2008Unless you’re a financial Jedi Knight or economic Sith Lord, you probably don’t have a ton of control over our turbulent economy. What you can reign over is your spending and saving—and when you know where they are, you can take advantage of deep discounts and general freebies across the [...]
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Stick Not just another Post-It note Knockoff
Wednesday, den 5. November 2008 Taking a cue from real-world Post-it notes, Stick provides an equivalent product for your computer desktop. A few differences from other sticky note programs make this a valuable asset for any PC.
The most noticeable is that notes, when closed, turn into tabs you can then append to the sides of your screen. This [...]
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