Time Magazine: Why Two Browsers are Better than One

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"The just released Mozilla Firefox 2 may be better than Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7, but you'll probably want to use both.."

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Google Earth coordinates for all of Wikipedia

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"Wikipedia contains the geographical coordinates for thousands of cities, landmarks, and other geographical features. One clever soul has taken a snapshot of the geocoordinates Wikipedia makes available and put them together as a .KMZ file that you can load into Google Earth. There are tens of thousands of coordinate pairs in the nearly 2MB file"

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Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

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""In this article, I introduce you to some of the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that can be downloaded for free. I walk through using each of the add-ins, but because I am covering so many I only have room to introduce you to the basic functionality...""

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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

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"Joel Spolsky's amusing and informative screed on the proper way to interview and hire software developers. (This is updated from the older, previously-dugg version.)"

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Review: Firefox 2.0 is a solid improvement

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"Not to be outdone by the debut of Internet Explorer 7 last week, the Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0 with a minor makeover, a few new features, and a number of enhancements to existing features. It's not a drastic change from the 1.5 series, but Firefox 2.0 bring enough improvements to make the upgrade worthwhile."

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Search across tabs in Firefox with Showcase

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"Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system."

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Firefox 2 is NOT released!

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"Downloading Firefox builds before the "official" release can cause problems for both Mozilla and for end users. "Preed the Release Engineer says: friends don't let friends download Firefox before it's released.""

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Skype 2.0 for Mac goes gold

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"Skype for Mac 2.0 goes gold today, which means that we?ve tested it, you?ve tested it and we all agree that it does a pretty good job. Download it now and video call your friends, family, colleagues or anyone else you?d like to see face to face."

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Firefox 2.0 Available To Public!

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"The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups."

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Internet Explorer 7 is better than IE 6, but doesn't beat Firefox

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"CNET discusses IE 7 and compare it to Firefox."

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111 free Photoshop plugins

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"The Plugin Site (aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. Take your pick from categories such as Image Effects, Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each plugin is rated according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you can easily see if the plugin is Mac or Windows compatible..."

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Google To Unveil Election Mapping With Google Earth

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"Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks."

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Only porn is more popular than Diggnation

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"Having a look at the Most Popular Channels on the Democracy Channel Guide comes up with an interesting find. Diggnation is the 4th most popular Channel after three porn channels including ""French Maid TV" :) Maybe Lala needs to make some guest appearances to boost the ratings."

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Microsoft working on a Secret Vista Product:

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"Keep your eyes peeled for some big software announcements to coincide with Windows Vista?s release. Microsoft said several developers are working on products to make the most of Vista?s advances, and we were told that Microsoft bigwig Jim Allchin, co-president of its platforms and services division, described one as "the best Windows application""

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How to Install Internet Explorer 7 Bypassing Genuine Windows Validation...

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"Internet Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by Microsoft. Nearly four years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, in the face of growing competition from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft has finally given the old IE platform a facelift. Optimized design along with new cool interface, favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and..."

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Democracy: the free and opensource Internet TV platform - New Version

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"You've probably watched hundreds of tiny videos on websites. It's tedious. Democracy Player makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes internet TV. It's free."

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Official Microsoft's Extensions Site for IE 7

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"Microsoft's official directory for IE7 Extensions."

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New Vista License Terms may Prohibit Installation on a Mac

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"Microsoft has published the licensing terms for Windows Vista; containing clauses that specifically address usage of Vista in a virtualized environment. For both Home Basic & Home Premium editions, they state that "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.""

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Songbird 0.2 Released

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"Today, we proudly launch Songbird 0.2 "Developer Preview". New in 0.2: * Cross-platform support: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux * Multi-language support: 30+ languages * Play the Web: Play as you browse, Web pages as playlists * Developer life-cycle tools: Doxygen, Trac, SVN"

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Major New Version of Democracy Player - Open Source RSS Video Player

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"This version is faster, adds Flash playback on Mac, and has a new 'Search Channel' feature. With this feature, you can auto-download any items in a video RSS feed that match a keyword search. The interface has also been reorganized. For Windows, Mac, Linux."

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imeem - New Social Media Network that will give you More!

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"imeem is a great new social media network that will allow you to browse for tags in a different and cool way and will give you lots of stuff to enjoy from right from the web. You can search and listen to music, watch videos, find playlists, upload photos and share just about everything with your friends online."

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Microsoft to release an open-only OpenDocument Format filter for Word

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"Microsoft soon plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. The Word plug-in is the 1st installment of MS's plan to add support for the OpenDocument, or ODF, standard which has gained interest from government customers. This is the same format that MS fought in Mass. earlier this year."

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Blue Screen of Death Top 10 Images

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"Hilarious Blue Screen of Death images you have to see! Includes possible first ever Windows 1.0 Blue Screen of Death!"

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Software that reveals which paintings are authentic

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"Spotting a forged painting is a laborious process, typically involving hours of painstaking analysis by art experts. But a computer program could slash the time it takes by spotting the telltale patterns and techniques used by individual artists."

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Microsoft helped company finance legal battle over Linux, investor says

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"Microsoft Corp. helped a Utah company raise money for its legal challenge to the open-source Linux operating system, an investor said in a court filing.In a sworn statement, Lawrence R. Goldfarb, a founder of BayStar Capital Management of Larkspur, Calif., said he invested $50 million in The SCO Group Inc. at the urging of Microsoft executives"

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Google AJAX Search API beta Version 1.0 Available

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"Includes APIs to Google News results, Maps results for more geos and Intranet use."

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Internet Explorer 7 to go gold this month?

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"The final release of IE7 is fast approaching ? and I mean really fast ? and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it?s available for download. We want to ensure that you are ready and the information below will help get you there."

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Backing Up and Cloning OS X

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"How you do your backups will determine what backup utilities you need to use. Backing up HFS+ filesystems with resource forks. Backing up normal unix files. Mounting disks from remote computers onto Mac OS X. All you can find in this tutorial."

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A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools

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""In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here's what I've discovered, followed by my requirements.""

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Vista RC2 Out, Last Build Before RTM

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"As expected, Microsoft on Friday issued the second release candidate of Windows Vista - the last public build before the next-generation operating system is released to manufacturing."

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Windows Vista RC2 Gallery

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"Check out screenshots of the last pre release build of Vista."

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Microsoft blesses Datacenter users with limitless OS copies

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"Microsoft, of all companies, continues to lead the way with free and loose licensing terms around server virtualization software and multi-core processors"

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HOWTO: Diagnosing Bad Memory

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"Does your Windows-based PC crash for no apparent reason? Well OK, mine does too, but does yours crash often? At random times? With Nasty blue Screens of Death? If the answer is "yes", you may very well have a memory problem. Read what tools to use and how to use them to diagnose your RAM."

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MozEx Firefox extension

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"The MozEx Firefox extension lets you define external applications to handle common in-browser actions."

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The Firefox development team returns from Redmond

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"In August Microsoft invited members of Firefox's development team to the Microsoft campus. At the time, it was unclear whether the Firefox team would actually accept the invitation. Now we have discovered that a handful of Firefox developers did journey to Redmond, and one member of the team kept track of the experience in his blog."

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Vista's Virtual Kill Switch

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"Microsoft denies that Microsoft Software Protection is a "kill switch" for Vista, even giving it a Q&A in its mock interview announcing the program. Technically, they're right, perhaps. Switching a PC into a degraded functionality where all you can do is browse the Internet doesn't kill it; but it's arguably a near-death experience. (Via ZDNet)"

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Microsoft likely to ship Vista on time: analyst

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"Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund sent a note to clients saying that Microsoft may be ready to send the final test version of its much-anticipated Windows upgrade later this week or next week, indicating that Vista will be available for business customers in November and retail PCs by late January."

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Digg.com Decreases Work Productivity by 43%

Being a lover of technology and apparently having no self-discipline I found myself spending way too much time on digg and other social websites lately. I decided to do something about it. Attached is a simple script to redirect access to certain, ehem, non-productive sites on a schedule of your choosing.

You can read more about it here.

How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched

We all know how to criticize; we learned a lot about it from our older brother or the bully at school. But the problem is how to critize well.

You can read more about it here.

Hilarious McDonalds ad: Illegally downloading food

This ad was found at the Gatech management building, thought I'd share it.

You can read more about it here.

Feed Mailer: Email based feed aggregation

Feed Mailer allows access to RSS feeds through email. This is especially useful for those users that have limited Internet access or are in environments that prohibit certain computer use such as government or education institutions. It also enables less savvy hat are more comfortable with an email interface users to benefit from RSS feeds.

You can read more about it here.

Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7 (runs from USB and CD) Now Faster

Firefox Portable - the portable version of Mozilla Firefox that runs from a USB flash drive, iPod, CD, etc - now starts up even faster than before. It also has improved Unicode and Live CD support on Windows 95/98/Me. Grab a copy today.

You can read more about it here.

Hidden Password Generator In Windows Xp

You can use some online password generator to get a strong password. But did you know that in Windows Xp you can generate a random password.

You can read more about it here.

MAJOR PROBLEMS! It's not Firefox, it's Comcastic

It appears that there is a disconnect between Google and Comcast going on right now (breaking news?). We've gotten a number of field reports from users of Comcast's cable internet service across the state who are unable to connect to Gmail, Google, and Blogspot. One of our "internet outage spotters" chronicled a tech support conversation he had in

You can read more about it here.

Google Calendar Launches New Features

Updates include weather forecasts, moon phases, and support for 17 new languages.

You can read more about it here.

New, Free Collaborative Notes Site for Students by Students!

Just in time for midterms, NoteMesh is a new website that allows students to add class notes in a wiki format, so everyone in the class can view, add, or edit the same notes. Created by UT students, NoteMesh is an excellent resource for posting those tough unanswered study guide questions and letting other students fill them out for you!

You can read more about it here.

Car Accident on Google Earth

A car accident in Brussels that caused a miles long traffic jam can be seen on Google Earth.

You can read more about it here.

Lightroom Beta 4 OUT!!!

User interface changes, tone curve adjustment changes, better filtering and searching for files, better performance, and other improvements based on user feedback!! Check it out!!

You can read more about it here.

Complete Backup Guide: What, When and HOW TO

As everyone knows, backup is the Most Important Thing for computer user. Everyone knows this, but almost noone actually makes regular backups. Hey, come on! Read this article and start a new life from Monday!

You can read more about it here.

Until Garageband comes out for Windows, this will do nicely!

Every Windows PC has a Garageband like program. It is small, with a tiny memory footprint. Is mostly ignored by everybody, but this video demonstrates a lot of its untapped potential...

You can read more about it here.

Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth

A satellite photo in Google Earth (or Google Maps) shows a cruise ship which was capsized by a Typhoon back in 2003. See photos and links to the location, and a ground-level photo of the ship shortly after it happened.

You can read more about it here.

RunFatBoy has just launched

After a very long awaiting the "Exercise for the rest of us" has just launched

You can read more about it here.

Maps - Satellite, Street, Theme Maps

Satellite, street maps and more from national geographic.

You can read more about it here.

"Open Command Window Here" Built Into Vista, But Must Be Unlocked

You can now open a Command Prompt for any directory in Vista without having to download a Powertoy. However, they do keep it hidden to protect users from, well, themselves. All you have to do though is hold down the Shift key and right-click on a folder (if you just right-click without the Shift key you will not see the option).

You can read more about it here.

Is Xgl Really Worth It? Microsoft vs Mac OSX

Perhaps I am missing something here, but why in the world is anyone worried about whether or not Xgl is outdoing the efforts of Microsoft's Vista? Seriously, we already know that Vista has problems of its own, and this is not even counting the fact that Xgl outperforms Vista's Aero hands down without the need for extra video card upgrades.

You can read more about it here.

Download The First Release Candidate Of Firefox 2 RC1

This is the first release candidate for Firefox 2 RC1, which is due for release on September 26. A portable version is also available for those people who want to test it out real quick.

You can read more about it here.

Want a faster Windows XP? Here's how!

A recent study of our team on how to better our Windows XP systems led us to investigate a countless number of details on how to better your performance and machine. Some of the working tweaks you can do to your Windows XP can really be a blessing to your systemâ??s speed. So visit us to know how to get a faster Windows XP step by step.

You can read more about it here.

Despite all the good freeware, people still paying for security software

Why bother, when so much is available elsewhere at no cost? Because free often means cobbling a package together.

You can read more about it here.

Cool, Free ultimate digg.com screensaver.

There were times when it was pretty cool having that fancy starfield screensaver on your computer, back then. Now, if you know where you can get quality news, then you're most probably aware of Digg.com. Get rid of that aquarium, dump that 3D Boxes and remove your Playboy screensaver, they've become obsolete.

You can read more about it here.

Which these Photos were Manipulated or are Real? Take the Quiz

Test your pop culture literacy by determining which are the hoax photos (i.e. those that have been manipulated in some way) and which are real. For each image, click either HOAX or REAL to begin scoring the test. When you're done, click the box at the bottom of the page to see your score

You can read more about it here.

Introducing Disco: Full-featured disc burning for real people

The dev team behind AppZapper have finally released some screenshots of their "secret" new project, Disco. (Mac OS X only.)

You can read more about it here.

Choose How Often Google Crawls Your Site

Bigmouthmedia reports that Google Sitemaps has a new feature that allows you to choose how often Googlebot crawls your site. You can select from 5 values, from slowest to fastest, but you must know that a faster crawl uses more bandwidth. For the moment, this feature is still experimental, so you may not find it in your Google Sitemaps account.

You can read more about it here.

Windows Vista: The

"I have taken the liberty of taking 28 screenshots to compare the 4 different interfaces available in Windows Vista: Aero Glass, Vista Standard, Vista Basic and Windows Classic. These screenshots were taken on the same applications and layouts to give you a feel of the exact changes it makes to an user experience."

You can read more about it here.

Xtorrent public beta 1 reviewed

The much hyped Mac BitTorrent client from my friend David Watanabe is now available for download. Even though it?s still in testing, we?ve decided to do a review of it.

You can read more about it here.

Original Resizr Online Image Resizing Tool

This tool lets you resize your JPG, PNG, or GIF files, with output in JPG or PNG. Quality is adjustable (for JPG). It's designed to be extremely easy to use, for people who can't use photoshop. It's got a neat little javascript image scaler, too. Note, a recent digg story showed a bad copy of this.

You can read more about it here.

Software That Decreases The Performance Of You Computer The Most

I have always wondered how much some of the software that I use decreases the performance of my computer. The PC Spy is trying to make people aware of the worst software that is out there, and to no surprise Norton Internet Security 2006 is at the top.

You can read more about it here.

Firefox Easter Egg: The Book Of Mozilla

I was browsing through Wikipedia today when I came upon their Blue Screen Of Death article. It was a lot of fun to read but one thing that really struck me as interesting was this about:mozilla ?Easter Egg? that they mention. The Book of Mozilla has been something that even the first version of Netscape has had in it.

You can read more about it here.

How to synchronize Outlook with Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, others

This is a tutorial (with diagram) on how to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld.

You can read more about it here.

Cool Bandwidth Gauge

Nothing special but wins points for the design.

You can read more about it here.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Yes, you're right, you've seen it before, but it's being updated quite frequently. Take a look. Read on

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Windows designed to play classical music when the computer is broken

It's true, you've got problems in Windows and classical music plays. It's not a joke, it's supposed to happen!

You can read more about it here.

Free video editing software list for all platforms.

A list of Free video editing software for all platforms.

You can read more about it here.

New Version of Digg Thumbs Released - No Reg Req

Digg Thumbs is a Firefox extension which improves digg by adding website screenshot thumbnails next to each digg listing. This update fixes all reported bugs with positioning, video thumbs, my #1, etc and is completely free, no tokens required.

You can read more about it here.

µ

The final ingredient for a really full-featured bittorrent client has just been released to the public, after a long period of closed beta testing. Get it, test it, provide feedback, enjoy!!

You can read more about it here.

BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works

The BitTorrent simulator is a nice graphical representation of how and why BitTorrent works.

You can read more about it here.

How to Run Asterisk on Windows with AstWind

AstWind is a package that allows you to run Asterisk on top of a Windowsoperating system using coLinux. A port ofthe Linux kernel, coLinux runs cooperatively alongside legacy operatingsystems on a single PC. It allows one to freely run Linux on Windows2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software.

You can read more about it here.

Talk to MSN Messenger Users from Google Talk

GTalk2VoIP is a site that promises to transform Google Talk into a full VoIP application, so you can call from Google Talk to a phone number or from a phone number to Google Talk. Another interesting thing you can do is to talk to a MSN Messenger

You can read more about it here.

Goodbye to Dreamweaver, Goodbye to WYSIWYG

>From blogging to full fledged web development, Circle Six Design is kicking Dreamweaver out and going with a far more ingenious solution... TextMate. This is the beginning of a series detailing the adventures of setting up a non-Dreamweaver web-dev environment. This post includes a mod for TM that adds auto-thumbnailing to the blogging bundle.

You can read more about it here.

PowerController: iTunes alarm clock

PowerController is easily iTunes alarm clock for Mac OS X! Alarms can wake your computer from sleep, play any playlist in iTunes, and gradually increase the song volume. PowerController runs in the background and is configurable through System Preferences, so you won't have another app hogging dock space!

You can read more about it here.

SlickRun-A Free Floating Command Line Utility for Windows [170KB]

Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.

You can read more about it here.

NYC Cop seen playing solitaire in his NYC Squad Car

Niceto see they run windows, but do these computers do anything else besides solitaire? :-)

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AppADay.com Software Jedi ONLINE NOW

>From the site "I plan on writing an application everyday for 30 days straight. May the world benefit from the purposeful destruction of my personal life."

You can read more about it here.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 Released

An the 1.5.0.7 update to Mozilla Firefox has been released, containing improvements to product stability and Several security fixes.

You can read more about it here.

Google's Picasa 2.5 Now Out Of Beta

Google's Picasa 2.5 photo managing software has worked its way out of Beta, believe it or not. The release notes detail all of the new features but here is a brief overview for those that have not been venturous enough to play with the Beta:

You can read more about it here.

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