Touchless Adds Multi-Touch to Your PC with Your Webcam [Featured Windows Download] (21)
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Windows only: Microsoft Office Labs has released an open source multi-touch application framework called Touchless that uses your webcam as the input. Right now the Touchless Demo lets you play with four proof-of-concept ideas: Draw, Image, Snake, and Defend. The first is a free-form drawing application, while Image is an image manipulation utility that allows you to zoom in or out and move around on a map with marker gestures. The other two are games ...
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Shane Conder said:
This is pretty neat, but you need some bright, high contrast, and small object to really mess around with it. Or a marker to color your fingers.
InSSIDer Detects Wireless Networks [Featured Windows Download] (18)
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Windows only: Free applicaiton inSSIDer scans networks within reach of your computer's Wi-Fi antenna, tracks signal strength over time, and determines their security settings (included whether or not they're password-protected). Previously mentioned NetStumbler has long been a favorite for this sort of functionality, but it doesn't work well with Vista or 64-bit XP. inSSIDer, on the other hand, works like a charm on both Vista and XP, and it's open-source to boot. This must-have for ...
GPass Boosts Browsing Privacy, Circumvents Censorship and Filters [Featured Windows Download] (15)
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Windows only: Free application GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers. After you install GPass, launching an application using the proxy is as simple as double-clicking the app from inside the GPass interface. GPass will launch the program with all the necessary tunneling in place. GPass is easy to use, and requires no setup on your part unless you want to do a little tweaking. ...
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Sermed said:
Not a bad thing to keep around on a USB drive and use at dodgy international internet cafes.
TrayEverything Stashes Programs in the System Tray [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: TrayEverything is a lightweight portable application that minimizes windows to the system tray even when the program lacks native support for being parked in the tray. In addition to simply minimizing windows to the tray, TrayEverything also has options to add a button to the title bar of windows for minimizing to the tray, hot keys to minimize, and even using inactivity as a trigger to send a window to the tray. If ...
JPEGCrops Makes Bulk Cropping Images a Breeze [Featured Windows Download] (10)
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Windows only: If you need to crop a lot of JPEG images in a hurry, JPEGCrops is an invaluable freeware tool. Almost every image program offers the ability to crop images, resize them, and oftentimes do both in bulk. JPEGCrops stands out by allowing you to set the crop for each picture using a thumbnail system. Then, once you have set your specific crop for each photo it will batch crop and resize a set ...
Houdini Manages Hidden Files on Your Mac [Featured Mac Download] (5)
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Mac OS X only: You already know the command-line method for revealing hidden files on your Mac, but you have to Google the correct command every time—but free application Houdini saves you the trouble. Fire up Houdini to toggle hidden file visibility on and off, move, copy, open, or delete hidden files or folders on your Mac. Just from the few Mac users who have trouble trying out my todo.txt command line tool because of ...
M.I.A. - Boys (rmx’s) f. Wale (1)
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And so it begins… Wale jumps on M.I.A.’s Boys as well. But atleast we have a backstory courtesy of elitaste: So back in June of 2007 Wale met with Jay while he was still at Def Jam. On the way out of the meeting, MIA’s “Boyz” video came on TV and Jay jokingly said to Wale, “Man I should test you with that beat” as they were walking onto the elevator. Wale had been touring ...
Featured Windows Download: StripMail Cleans Email Formatting (4)
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Windows only: Anyone who uses email can dig up a popular forwarded message or deep conversation thread rendered nearly unreadable by formatting along the way. StripMail is a free program that not only strips the > characters out, no matter how many layers deep, but it can format the resulting text back into paragraphs. From this: > > Operations can also be performed one by one. Click "Strip" button to > > remove unwanted characters ...
Nodobe Viewer Brings Lightweight, Inline PDF Viewing to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension] (12)
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Nodobe Viewer is an inline document viewer for Firefox intended to replace the bloat of plugins like the dreaded Adobe Reader. Nodobe Viewer supports 38 different file types, including PDF, Microsoft Office documents, and OpenOffice documents. When you're about to download one of these document types but would prefer just a quick inline view, right-click the link and select Open Link in New Tab with Nodobe. The tool works in ...
Novo A-Patch para Windows Live Messenger 9 traz mais opções (1)
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Oito horas após liberar a primeira versão do A-Patch compatível com o Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta, Ahmad, o criador do patch (descobri o nome, valeu Ricardo!), libera uma atualização com 56 funções, número expressivo perto da anterior, que trazia apenas 7. Novo A-Patch. São cinco páginas de opções, quase todas da antiga versão estão disponíveis. Ainda faltam algumas, bem como atualizar a pré-visualização das mudanças, algo útil para saber o que muda com determinadas ...
Transfer Files Lightning Fast With FastCopy [Featured Windows Download] (6)
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Windows only: Free application FastCopy is a portable replacement for the standard Windows Explorer file copying mechanism. FastCopy's interface is rather cluttered but the file transfer speeds are fantastic. Copying ISO files, thousands of pictures, and other test files was extremely fast. You can opt to not overwrite, overwrite by newest or biggest file, and sync when transferring files with FastCopy. We've covered another popular file copier replacement here before, TeraCopy, and you might be ...
Application Monitor Automatically Restarts a Crashed App [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: Application Monitor is a free utility that monitors user-specified applications to ensure they're running. If a program is not running, Application Monitor restarts it. Let's say, for example, your roommate is prone to shutting down your BitTorrent client when you're away from your computer. You return home expecting the movie you'd been downloading to be ready for your viewing pleasure, then discover the download hasn't even been running. If you had set Application ...
ExtraOutlook Runs Two Instances of Outlook [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: If you want to connect to multiple Exchange servers with Microsoft Outlook simultaneously, a handy program called ExtraOutlook can run Outlook with two distinct profiles at the same time. On the downside, with ExtraOutlook you chew up twice as much memory and resources as you would with a single instance out Outlook. On the upside, you're freed from having to switch between profiles to stay up to date on each Exchange server you ...
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Finance and Applications: A Free Icon Set | Freebies | Smashing Magazine (18)
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We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. You can find our previous releases in our section Freebies. Today we are glad to release Fresh: an application and financial icon set. This set contains 59 raster and vector icons, designed by ...
Always Show the Subject Line When Composing a Gmail Reply (6)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey only: Unlike most other email clients, when you reply to a message in Gmail, the subject line doesn't automatically become editable—you have to click the "Edit Subject" link in order to change it. If you edit your email subject in reply to messages frequently, but hate to have to reach for the mouse to start in Gmail, there's now a Greasemonkey user script for you. Download the Show Editable Subject user script ...
Synkron Syncs Files and Folders Across Platforms [Featured Download] (20)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Free, open-source application Synkron is a powerful file-syncing utility that syncs files across platforms. The apps's marquee features include support for syncing multiple folders, automatic scheduled syncs, and restore capabilities for files that may have been accidentally overwritten during a sync. Apps like previously mentioned Dropbox boasting instantaneous sync between your PCs and the web are all the rage right now, but Synkron has its own appeal—namely that it's a local sync tool, so ...
Integrate Remember The Milk's To-Do Cow with Google Reader [Featured Greasemonkey User Script] (13)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Remember The Milk Cow in Google Reader Greasemonkey script integrates web-based to-do list application Remember the Milk with popular newsreader Google Reader. After installing the user script and reload Google Reader, you'll notice RTM's cow-head icon next to items in Google Reader. Clicking the link opens a RTM mobile window with the item's title, the URL for the post, and a default tag ('website') already filled in. This handy little addition ...
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