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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Reclaim your RAM
Tuesday, den 1. April 2008
Even in these days of cheap RAM, where you can get an extra gigabyte of the stuff for around $40 or so, there’s not much you can do about must-have programs that leak memory short of seeking out an alternative. That doesn’t mean you’re tied to incessant program restarts and operating system reboots, though: a [...]
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Create Your Own Bootable Vista SP1 DVD
Monday, den 31. March 2008The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a "slipstreamed" Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from Service Pack 1 included. The guide utilizes the previously mentioned vLite tool, and requires a Vista installation CD—but you create the new DVD from inside your existing Vista install, so don’t [...]
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Windows Tip: Add Custom Options to the Windows AutoPlay Dialog
Monday, den 24. March 2008
The Windows AutoPlay feature is the bane of many-a-PC user, particularly because of nasty DRM histories and other intrusive business, but what about when you actually want to use the AutoPlay feature? For example, let’s say you’re a fan of Lifehacker’s very own DVD-ripping tool, DVD Rip, and you want your computer to automatically start [...]
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Microsoft: Vista SP1 ready for download
Wednesday, den 19. March 2008Well, Amazon was at least half right. As the retailer predicted, Microsoft did make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for download on Tuesday via Windows Update and on its Web site.
Still unclear is when it will start being available on retail shelves. Amazon said it will start shipping boxed copies with SP1 [...]
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Hulu Is Open for Business: Watch your favorite TV. Anytime. Anywhere.
Wednesday, den 12. March 2008Hulu is finally out of beta on now open to the public. loaded with content from NBC, News Corp., Sony, MGM, as well as their various subsidiary channels like FX, Sci-Fi Channel and so forth, offering anything from full episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Buffy to SNL Digital Shorts and an entire Russell Crowe flick, [...]
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The Daily Download: Bold, stylish Zune themes are a knockout | Software news, tips, and opinions from Download.com editors
Monday, den 10. March 2008
The Seattle giant’s search for a sleek, cool iPod competitor produced the Zune, and the Zune’s youth culture appeal produced Microsoft’s Zune-flavored desktop theme. Couple that with the Firefox Zune theme created by the prolific theme meister Brett Bodine–also known as Bodizzle–and you’ve got yourself a bold, sleek screenscape in orange and black gradations, with [...]
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Auslogis Free Disk Defrag
Monday, den 10. March 2008
Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today’s modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. Version 1.4.11.275 includes is a bug fixing release.
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Disk Defrag - Reclaim the Speed Of [...]
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The Ultimate Link List of Everything MIX!
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything and try out the sites that were featured (like Hard Rock’s Memorabilia). The Ultimate Link List is here! Here we go.
Downloads:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86)
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 [...]
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Try out IE8 Now with the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008New and exciting features
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to [...]
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Microsoft shows IE8 at Mix
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, a prospect that had general manager Dean Hachamovitch struggling to figure out what to cover.
“I’m so excited that I had to figure out how to focus,” he told the crowd. The marketing folks naturally suggested he point to three major advances, but [...]
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Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
While Microsoft is not releasing a completely online version of its Office on Tuesday, it is releasing Office Live Workspace, an online-collaboration tool for Office that works in cooperation with the desktop application suite.
Workspace enables users [...]
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Record Free Screencasts with uTIPu
Sunday, den 2. March 2008Windows Only: Record free screencasts with the robust, freeware screen recording utility uTIPu. uTIPu includes the ability to both record audio and draw on your screencasts, and even has left and right click indicators to really help your viewer follow along. In addition, free accounts with 250 MB of storage are available for uploading and [...]
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How To: Recover Files Using Vista’s Built-In Shadow Copies
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn’t a complete backup solution, but it could be a life-saver in certain situations. As The How-To Geek blog points out, however, it’s pretty hard to find, let alone extract files from. Luckily, a [...]
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