5 Sites For Old-School Gaming in Your Browser (7)
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Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-WastersEnough of this practical advice and useful downloads! I know you've been working hard, and you're probably itching for some fun and excitement. If you've read some of my previous Time Wasters, you'll know that I've got a soft spot for old school gaming.Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action! Neave Games specializes in making flash remakes of classic games, and has a few tasty selections ...
Teach your old iSight new tricks with Iris (6)
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Filed under: Photo, Video, Macintosh Iris is an OS X app that offers up some cool ways to use your iSight. Of course, it takes still photos and videos. That's useful, but Apple's built-in Photo Booth already offers those features. Iris goes a few steps further, offering a time lapse mode, a security mode (using motion-detection), and a webcam mode (for setting up live streaming).Each mode is highly customizable. In security mode, you can set ...
Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition available - safest way to try out FF3b5 (1)
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Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Mozilla, BetaThose folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable version was available for download. Actually, it might have been available immediately, but we didn't think to look for it until a few hours had passed.What exactly is a portable app? Well, in Windows, it basically means a version of an application that doesn't need to be ...
Docstoc Sync makes automatic backups of your docs online (4)
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Filed under: Internet, Office, Web services Online document storage and sharing service Docstoc has rolled out a new desktop application for Windows and Mac users that lets you automatically upload documents to the web service. Docstoc Sync stuff scans a group of selected directories for new files and uploads all supported file types to Docstoc where you can access them from any computer with a web browser and share them with other users with a ...
5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive - Download Squad (32)
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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Shareware, Freeware Hard drive prices are so low now that it really makes sense to use an imaging program. That way you've got a perfectly cloned backup of your system exactly the way you have it configured in case of a crash, which is much more convenient than reinstalling Windows, activating, and loading all your applications all over again. Here are four great apps to get the job done - without ...
4 "SpeedDial" Options for Firefox (11)
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Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers Opera's speed dial might be a cool feature, but there's no way it's going to make me stop using Firefox. It did, however, prompt me to take a look at the addons site to see what options the Firefox developer community had come up with.For thumbnailed pages, SpeedDial and FastDial (pictured) are both nice options. They don't build your pages automatically, but they're both highly customizable. Right click a tab, send ...
Joost to kill desktop client, provide browser-based video player? (8)
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Filed under: Internet, Video, Browsers Apparently a web browser really is the best place to watch online video. OK, that's probably not at all true. But thanks to YouTube, Hulu, and other Flash video based web sites, most users have gotten used to watching video without launching a separate application. So this week we saw Amazon de-emphasize the download feature of its online video store. Next up? It looks like Joost might end development of ...
Michael Moore to pull a Joss Whedon, distribute next film online for free (8)
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Filed under: Internet, Video Filmmaker Michael Moore is giving his next movie, Slacker Uprising, away for free on the internet. The film will be available to stream or download from Blip.tv starting September 23rd. The move is kind of interesting, since Moore's last film, Sicko was leaked online before its theatrical release, and Moore publicly stated he didn't have a problem with the leak. The difference is that this time, Moore's film will not have ...
Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld ad airs - Apple has nothing to worry about (7)
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Filed under: OS Updates, Apple, Microsoft Jerry Seinfeld, famous for developing a popular TV show "about nothing," seems to be at it again. Except this time he's part of a $300 million advertising campaign for Microsoft that also seems to be about nothing. And while nothing might be kind of funny in 22 minute segments that are always about something at their core, the first Microsoft commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld really does ...
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dumbest ad ever
Snag a pretentious street address for your snail mail (3)
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Filed under: News, E-mail, Productivity As a refresher, snail mail is the paper mail that arrives to your actual street address or PO box. If you think of it as a chore to open and then recycle or shred all the paper on a daily basis, Earth Class Mail which David Pogue reported recently, might be an option to try. For a fee, you can have your mail sent to a special PO box or ...
WebChunks Brings IE8's Slices to Firefox (6)
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Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browsers After testing the beta releases, one of the most promising features in Internet Explorer 8 is Web Slices. While it's a cool idea, it's not enough to drag me away from Firefox. Am I missing out on something? Not any more, thanks to the WebChunks addon.Add Webchunks to your Firefox installation, and then head over to the Internet Explorer 8 Gallery site. All of the web slices available there work ...
Django hits 1.0 (6)
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Filed under: Developer, News, Open Source, web 2.0Django, the open source web framework written in Python, has just hit the 1.0 milestone! My sincere congratulations to the entire Django team and community for all of their hard work.Django (pronounced Jang-oh), like Ruby on Rails, is part of the new-hotness class of web frameworks that has generated interest amongst lots of web developers. Loosely following the model-view-controller paradigm, Django's goal is to create complex database-driven website ...
How to organize your ideas in Gmail (15)
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Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Productivity, Google, Freeware, How-TosA friend recently asked me how he could set his Gmail up so that he could email himself ideas, and have them be automatically filed away into a specific label instead of clogging up his inbox. Gmail has a function called Filters which is similar to rules in other email systems, and it is very powerful and well-suited to this task. If you would like to ...
Google Chrome goes portable: Carry it on a USB flash drive (25)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Google, Freeware, Open Source, Browsers Want to take Google's new web browser Chrome for a spin, but don't want to install anything on your computer? While Google hasn't officially released a portable version, the browser is open source. So just a few days after the launch of Google Chrome, an independent developer has released Portable Chrome, Portable Chrome comes as an 11MB self extracting file. When you run the executable, all ...
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This is what I'm doing.
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Totally grabbing this for my thumb drive.
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Jesse said:
Very cool stuff coming from and through Google.
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Jamie said:
You know what? I'll run this for sure.
Roll your own 404s with Error Page Generator (5)
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Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web servicesPlain old 404 Web site error pages are so last century. Now you can make your own custom page with AllVoices' 404 Error Creator tool.Choose a person from a pre-populated list to create the background image, or upload your own. Then, add a title, a few comments, and click "create." Your new 404 error page is created in seconds, along with the code you need to save it for your ...
ScummVM 0.12.0: Now with GameCube and Wii support (6)
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Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Freeware, Open Source, iPhone The developers behind ScummVM, the open source tool that lets you run classic DOS games like The Secret of Monkey Island and Sam & Max Hit the Road are back with version 0.12.0. The update brings support for 5 new games including additional games in the Legend of Kyrandia series. The new version also adds support for new platforms including the ...
NewTabURL helps you stay on task with Merlin Mann's help (5)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser TipsLove him or hate him, productivity blogger Merlin Mann has come up with a great way to help keep yourself on track. The idea is to avoid the seductions of the web by stopping a moment to make sure that you're spending your time on what you really want to be spending it on. In his blog post on the subject, Merlin describes opening folders ...
Amazon replaces Unbox video store with Video on Demand (2)
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Filed under: Internet, Video Amazon has rolled out a new version of its online video distribution service. The most noticeable change? It's all about streaming video. Previously if you wanted to rent or purchase a movie from Amazon Unbox you had to download it to your computer. Now Amazon has killed off the Unbox name and launched Amazon Video on Demand which allows users to stream videos in a browser or to download them for ...
Sysinternals Tools Now Available as a Single Download (18)
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Filed under: Utilities, Microsoft, Freeware The MS Sysinternals crew has created a number of really useful tools, like the previously mentioned Desktops, TCPView, and Process Explorer. In May, Microsoft put all the downloads together in one place, at live.sysinternals.com.Fresh off the three-day weekend, they decided to simplify the download process even further by creating a single 8mb file containing their popular troubleshooting utilities. No, the file doesn't contain the oh-so-fun BSOD screensaver (coming soon to ...
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Zoho: on a roll and not looking back (1)
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Filed under: Business, Internet, Office, Web servicesAs usual, TechCrunch makes a good point about Zoho calling their offerings "still a bit all over the place." But the fact that Zoho now has over one million users and just launched Zoho Docs bodes well for the company (and the still-nascent online business suite business at large). Zoho Docs integrates Writer, Sheet and Show, allows some version controls, more organization features and access control lists. That's a ...
