ooVoo – It’s like iChat for Windows
Sunday, den 10. August 2008ooVoo is an iChat-like video conferencing and chat tool for Windows, loaded with useful, powerful tools that make it a viable alternative for small work groups using conference calls and screen-sharing applications. A recording feature lets users tape video chats with other participants. Since the video and audio are being recorded to the hard drive, [...]
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Improve Vista’s Performace with RTI…
Thursday, den 7. August 2008
There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista. In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real difference in how the machine performed.
Before [...]
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Windows Explorer: Power Up Windows Explorer with Free Add-ons
Tuesday, den 29. July 2008
When moving, copying, pasting, browsing, and getting information about your files feels like tedious work—and it can in the feature-sparse Windows Explorer—you need some power add-ons that can help. Instead of completely replacing Windows Explorer with an alternative file manager, you can pick and choose the extra features you [...]
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Featured Freeware: FormatFactory could be the last converter you’ll need
Friday, den 25. July 2008Whether you’re looking to change a video format to save space or because you lack a necessary codec, the freeware FormatFactory could be the last converter you’ll need. It’s not perfect, but it handles 12 types of video formats, six audio types, eight image formats, and DVD/ISO conversions with speed and accuracy.
The interface [...]
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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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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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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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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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Put Your Start Menu On Steroids with "Vista’s Start Menu"
Tuesday, den 3. June 2008Vista 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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ObjectDock - Replace Your Task Bar
Thursday, den 15. May 2008ObjectDock from Stardock provids a skinnable and extensively customizable Mac-style dock. ObjectDock is Free and lets users replace the Windows taskbar completely.
ObjectDock can replace the Windows taskbar, and includes a Start menu link.
Colorful and animated, ObjectDock is so customizable it’s impressive. Not only can you choose your own icons to represent programs and [...]
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Get Vista’s Best Features in XP
Tuesday, den 13. May 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP’s shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that [...]
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Skyfire: Newest Demo of The Next Gen WinMob Browser Blowing Away the iPhone
Monday, den 5. May 2008
Skyfire: Product
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Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister
Sunday, den 4. May 2008MindMeister is a clear mind mapper if you’re fond of the traditional view. It supports attachments and notes on each node so you can annotate your thought bubbles as you go. It has a useful wiki-like revision view, and it will color-code your collaborators’ changes in the main map. I found it both intuitive to [...]
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No More Boring Wallpaper!
Wednesday, den 30. April 2008
If you’re like me, you’re constantly changing your background, perusing through a folder filled with potential wallpapers and then selecting a new one only to find, an hour later, that you want to change it again. (Or maybe I’m just a bit too into customization!)
For customizers like myself, there’s some great free software called John’s [...]
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Two New Ultimate Extras for Windows Vista
Friday, den 25. April 2008
For those running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, you’ll be happy to know that there are two more Ultimate Extras now available. The first is a new Windows Sound Schemes pack. In the pack are two new schemes, one is called “Glass” and the other is “Pearl.” The second Extra is a new DreamScene content pack. [...]
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Redmond Path Makes System Path Editing Fool-Proof
Tuesday, den 22. April 2008
Windows only: Anyone who’s edited their system path entries—the places where you tell Windows to look for programs you type into the command line—knows how awkwardly small the space given is to edit a huge string of text, and one misplaced character can nuke the whole thing. Redmond Path, a free download for Windows systems, [...]
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Windows Live for Windows Mobile Sans Messenger
Wednesday, den 9. April 2008
Jason points out that some mobile operators ship Windows Mobile with the full version of Windows Live, which includes Windows Live Messenger, others ship with a partner-developed Windows Live Messenger client instead.
If you’re in that last half, you might be missing out on all the features of a full Windows Live install, which includes [...]
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Cubedesktop - 3D Virtual Desktop
Wednesday, den 9. April 2008This is simply the coolest virtual desktop out there. Here is a great post from the folks at on10.net. Please note that this is not free, but it is worth the money.
Here’s a twist on multiple desktops: software from Cubedesktop increases your working space by offering you a 3D virtual desktop environment. With Cubedesktop, [...]
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Make an uninstaller your antispyware sidekick | Software news, tips, and opinions from Download.com editors - Download.com
Saturday, den 5. April 2008True story, happening now. It’s 1:48 AM on a Saturday morning and I’m hand-picking through a mountain of spyware and adware on a friend’s laptop. I’ve borrowed the laptop and Internet connection to "quickly" finish some work, then quickly realized this was actually going to take all night. After a 20 minute start-up churn, I [...]
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