Archive of the Category 'Software'

Games For Windows LIVE is Now FREE

Wednesday, den 23. July 2008

 
Kevin over at Gamerscore Blog has the details: I love getting achievements when I play games. I love having the same friends list shared between my PC games and my XBOX 360. And I love not having to pick games from a list of servers, but just having matchmaking that [...]

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WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late

Wednesday, den 23. July 2008

 
Just a week and a half ago WordPress for the iPhone was announced with a pretty killer screencast detailing what you could do with it. Tuesday morning it finally showed up on the app store (download it here), and I’ve had ample time to play with it. The good news is that it’s very enjoyable [...]

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Mail Forward for Windows - Webmail to POP Tool Review

Tuesday, den 22. July 2008

 
Mail Forward for Windows fetches mail from Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, POP or IMAP accounts and forwards it to any other email address reliably and without much fuss.
Pros

Mail Foward forwards Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, POP and IMAP mail to any address
You can have Mail Forward process mail periodically and automatically [...]

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Featured Windows Download: DVD Catalyst Rips DVDs to Friendly Formats in One Click

Monday, den 21. July 2008

 
Windows only: Free application DVD Catalyst Free rips videos from DVDs to device-friendly formats for your iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox, smartphone, and more in one simple click. Normally we prefer previously mentioned HandBrake for this job, but DVD Catalyst Free is much friendlier if a quick and simple [...]

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Facebook Fans Rejoice As New App for Windows Mobile

Tuesday, den 8. July 2008

 

Earlier we told you about Snap2Face, a Windows Mobile Facebook app that let you upload your photos from your phone to Facebook.  But now, a real Facebook app has launched. Thanks to Macrospecs, Inc., you can download FriendMobilizer, a new software app for Windows Mobile phones that gives you full access to your Facebook account. [...]

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Xobni: Free Outlook Plug-in: Get your outlook Under Control

Thursday, den 3. July 2008

Xobni integrates into your Outlook installation and shows you more about your e-mails than Outlook ever could. For each person who sends you e-mail, it shows you who else they communicate with a lot–their de facto social networks–and it finds their phone number from inside their e-mails. It also shows you all conversation threads you’ve [...]

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bigBrains FREE Software and Service List of 2008

Thursday, den 3. July 2008

I am complying a list of my favorite free software and services.  I am trying to keep the list short, so I will only list the ones, that I feel are the most important to have.

Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag: download
CCleaner - Home: www.ccleaner.com
avast! antivirus 4.x Home Edition: avast_4_home.html
IE7Pro - The Ultimate Add-On [...]

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Dashwire 2.0 improves phone-management software | SO COOL…….. Try it NOW

Wednesday, den 25. June 2008

 

Dashwire (review), a dashboard for synchronizing and managing the contents of your mobile phone online, has let loose with Dashwire 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. Tuesday’s release enriches the syncing client application with photos and with Facebook and Twitter updates.

Sharing media and status messages makes Dashwire way more fun.
The previous version of the [...]

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Creative Docs .NET – A Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator!

Wednesday, den 18. June 2008

 
If you’ve ever needed to create vector graphics, but your pocketbook came up a little short on the cash needed to purchase Adobe Illustrator, you now have another alternative: Creative Docs .NET. This completely free tool (for personal use) offers a lot of features that will help you make professional documents like manuals, [...]

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Dia - GNOME Live! – a Free Visio Competitor

Monday, den 16. June 2008

Windows/Linux only: Open-source application Dia is a robust flowchart and diagram tool. Like a free version of Microsoft Visio, Dia provides you with all the tools you need to create anything from a simple flowchart to a powerful and complex diagram, and files can be saved in many formats, including a [...]

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SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta

Monday, den 16. June 2008

 
Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developers Preview is software that runs on your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device that lets you use your phone as a Bluetooth SideShow-compatible device. With SideShow, you can access info on your PC and control some of your computer’s functions. You can check your email or calendar, run a [...]

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Free Zune Video Converter 1.0 – Not only free, but one of the best

Wednesday, den 11. June 2008

I have tried about a dozen different converters for Zune, some free, some hack, and some commercial products. Free Zune Video Converter is simple and it works.  You end up with a perfectly formatted little video for the Zune, with the minimum number of steps. Some of the Codec geeks out there may like [...]

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Print to PDF for free with doPDF

Sunday, den 8. June 2008

 
doPDF is a fairly simple program. Even though it’s utterly bereft of features beyond its main function–to let users create PDF documents from within any program using the native Print option–it’s still worthwhile because it does the basics very well.

Along with whatever printer you’ve got hooked up that shows up in the Print dialog [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts: Open a Command Prompt Anywhere with Vista

Wednesday, den 4. June 2008

 
open-command-window-here.pngThe How-To Geek technology weblog highlights an incredibly handy Windows Vista feature that opens a command prompt in any system path through a simple shortcut: Shift-Right-click. Let’s say, for example, that you’re browsing a folder deep in the bowels of your hard drive, and you want to work with files in that folder from [...]

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Get Your Hands on the New Live Writer

Wednesday, den 4. June 2008

 

Windows Live Writer has got to be, hands down, one of the most popular tools out of the whole Windows Live lineup. I know many a blogger (myself included) who can’t live without it. That’s why the recent release of the Windows Live Writer Tech Preview has everyone talking. The Windows Live Writer Tech Preview [...]

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Put Your Start Menu On Steroids with "Vista’s Start Menu"

Tuesday, den 3. June 2008

Vista Start Menu changes the look and enhances the usefulness of Vista’s main menu.
Power Downloader spends a lot of his time looking at ways to improve Windows Vista. He still doesn’t use it for his primary computer, but there are some cases where it’s clearly better than Windows XP. One of them, however, is not [...]

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Get the ODF Office Plugin Now

Tuesday, den 27. May 2008

 
You may have heard the news about the upcoming Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2007, that will let you access more document formats like the XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1. The ODF format is becoming quite popular these days because it’s a free and [...]

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IE7Pro adds even more features to IE

Thursday, den 22. May 2008

 
The one must-have add-on for Internet Explorer is IE7Pro. It gives Microsoft’s browser many of the features that Firefox aficionados consider essential, such as mouse gestures, ad blocking, user scripts, and other basic tweaks. Now IE7 users can add a session manager and prefetching to that list.

IE7Pro’s session manager lacks polish but gets the [...]

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iWindowsMobile Launches Updated ZoomBoard

Wednesday, den 21. May 2008

 

Their URL is simply iwindowsmobile.com, but their header image puts a heart in there, so I guess we could call the site iheartwindowsmobile.com. Regardless of what it’s called though, the site offers up a treasure trove of downloads and apps for Windows Mobile devices, the latest of which is a refresh of ZoomBoard.
This new [...]

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ClearContext tames Outlook

Tuesday, den 20. May 2008

 

Update! I forgot to mention that you can get access to the ClearContext beta by using the invite code webware on the ClearContext site.
The Outlook plug-in Xobni (download) has been getting a lot of press recently, but it’s not the only Outlook helper out there.
On Monday, ClearContext, which has had a paid, enterprise-level e-mail [...]

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