Archive for June, 2008
Locate32 Finds Files Quickly and Reliably [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free search utility Locate32 uses Unix-style databases and locate commands to find files by name, size, creation dates, or any other system criteria. While it can’t search the insides of files like Google Desktop, Vista’s Search 4.0 Preview, or other full-featured tools, it runs fast, simple, and seriously light on system resources. You [...]
Snackr.net - Cross Platform RSS Ticker
In their own words“It’s an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.â€Why it might be a killerThis is a great desktop tool that should be particularly [...]
Rhapsody Goes DRM-Free with MP3 Downloads [Digital Music]
Rhapsody, Real Networks’ music subscription service, has heeded the moves of Amazon and other restriction-free music sellers by opening up its own non-DRM MP3 store. The move also frees up MP3s bought over Verizon’s V Cast service. [via]
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June 2008’s Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]]
June’s been a busy month around here. Before you flip the calendar page to July, make sure you didn’t miss any of this month’s most popular posts. Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3“You already know about Firefox 3’s marquee new features, but now it’s time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even [...]
Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? [Ask The Readers]
Tele-commuter and IBM “social computing evangelist” Luis Suarez writes in the New York Times that he was able to cut down his weekly incoming email by 80 percent—seriously—by responding to messages that would normally start a chain reaction through wikis, blogs, and instant messaging instead. He also started picking up the phone more often to [...]
Flypaper.com - Create and Share Flash Content
What it doesFlypaper is a downloadable application that allows you to create and share Flash content with the people that you choose. Whether you are looking for an easy way of designing rich media presentations or you are looking for a dynamic way of conducting online training, Flypaper offers an easy to use and free [...]
CrystalDiskInfo Monitors Hard Drive Health and Uptime [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free utility CrystalDiskInfo keeps tabs on your hard drive health, including temperature, S.M.A.R.T. disk reporting, and the number of power cycles and run time on each disk. Although there is no silver bullet that can predict hard drive failure, if you’re paranoid about your data you might factor in how many hours a [...]
Make a “Gratitude Loop” for Your Next Presentation [Speaking]
Marketing whiz Seth Godin is right when he says that the thank yous dished out at the beginnings of conferences, large meetings, and other confabs are usually inelegant, rushed, and ineffective, boring the listeners and not really crediting the helpers. His suggested fix is to take or grab pictures of those you want to thank, [...]
RSSContentTool.com - Display Any RSS Feed
What it doesFeed Source from RSSContentTool.com is a simple to use application that allows you to display any RSS feed on your website or blog. Simply choose the feed that you’d like to display and then customize the widget by entering the size, how you’d like the text aligned, and the color and size of [...]
Audio-Convert-Mod Transforms Sound Files with No Fuss [Featured Linux Download]
Linux only: If you’ve got a batch of audio files to convert, or you’re just not keen on messing with a full-fledged editor to do the job, Audio-Convert-Mod, a free Linux utility, has you covered. The straight-forward app takes in files, asks you how and where to convert them to, and does the work—no fuss, [...]
