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 ...
Opera Updates to Version 9.6, Gets Faster, Adds Features [Featured Download] (4)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Popular web browser Opera just pushed out a new stable release featuring overall speed improvements, several cool feature updates, and a laundry list of bug fixes. Opera still has all the excellent features that made us declare that Opera is still in the browser race with its previous release, but this latest release is faster, and it continues to add innovative features that most browsers only support through third-party extensions. Keep reading for a ...
Opera Updates to Version 9.6, Gets Faster, Adds Features [Featured Download] (8)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Popular web browser Opera just pushed out a new stable release featuring overall speed improvements, several cool feature updates, and a laundry list of bug fixes. Opera still has all the excellent features that made us declare that Opera is still in the browser race with its previous release, but this latest release is faster, and it continues to add innovative features that most browsers only support through third-party extensions. Keep reading for a ...
RTM Notifier Puts Remember the Milk Alerts on Your Desktop [Featured Download] (16)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application RTM Notifier periodically checks in with popular to-do list web site Remember the Milk and displays notifications for time-sensitive tasks. The goal of the application is two-fold: On one level, it's just a notification tool, displaying pop-up alerts for due tasks. Beyond that, it's a desktop entry point for your RTM tasks. Both features could be improved upon (especially since RTM has an open API), but if you manage all your to-dos ...
Livestation Brings Streaming TV to All Platforms [Featured Download] (26)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms): Livestation, the previously invite-only streaming television player, has released its free desktop client for all platforms. The app cites an available 1,275 channels, but the majority are—how should we say—not essential viewing. Still, there's live CNN, BBC, NBC News, Bloomberg, and a smattering of local stations. The full-screen "carousel" view is pretty slick, as is reducing the player to a corner and having it always stay on top. After creating your account, ...
Screenshot Tour: Picasa 3 Beta's New Features (46)
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Windows/Linux: Picasa, Google's photo management tool, has quietly announced a new beta that adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, and many other features and changes. Actually, the biggest change in the new Picasa isn't in the software itself—it's a new "quick view" utility, which replaces the basic double-click viewing tool in Windows with a Picasa-friendly, drop-cloth-style window. Five new collage styles have also been added to the offerings, and Picasa's new "Move ...
Picasa 3 Beta's New Features [Screenshot Tour] (1)
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Windows/Linux: Picasa, Google's photo management tool, has quietly announced a new beta that adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, and many other features and changes. Actually, the biggest change in the new Picasa isn't in the software itself—it's a new "quick view" utility, which replaces the basic double-click viewing tool in Windows with a Picasa-friendly, drop-cloth-style window. Five new collage styles have also been added to the offerings, and Picasa's new "Movie ...
Oops I'm Late Calls Ahead When You're Running Behind [Featured Download] (22)
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Windows Mobile only: Free application Oops I'm Late uses information from your Windows Mobile phone's GPS in conjunction with your calendar to determine whether you're going to make an appointment on time. If you're not, the application can send an SMS, Twitter, or Facebook message to the attendees of your meeting letting them know that you're running late but on your way—including your ETA, so people don't have to wait around twiddling their thumbs until ...
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Ben said:
/want iPhone version.
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heidigoseek said:
This absolutely needs to be an iPhone app.
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shrutes said:
This could be interesting...
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LeapsandBounds said:
okay, i don't have a Windows Mobile, but this is what i need. No, what i need is to not be late, but i'm gonna be so this is what i need.
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Tim Bertram said:
Good Idea, I wonder how well it works.
Christian Guerreiro shared as favorite Wherever Change Directory Speeds Up Command Line Navigation [Featured Download] (10)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms): Free command prompt plug-in script Wherever Change Directory makes navigating around your system fast and easy from the command line on any system. After adding wcd to your system path and running it once to index your hard drive, you can simply type wcd desktop, and the command will use the most likely match to get you there. If there's more than one result (as pictured), you just type the choice you ...
GIMP 2.6 Adds 32-Bit Support, GUI Improvements [Featured Download] (32)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms): GIMP, the free, open-source graphics editor, has come out with a 2.6 version, and it's put some significant changes into the editor's interface and back-end operations. New to this version are support for 32 bits per color channel and a new GEGL-based backend (turned on and off in the preferences), polygonal and sectional selection with the Free Select Tool, better handling of windows, toolbars, docked tools, and menus, and a "brush dynamics" ...
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Calpurnius said:
It's a really good program. The GUI improvements will be welcome!
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Derek Springer said:
New version of GIMP is out! (aka free, open-source alternative to Photoshop)
Christian Guerreiro shared as favorite VLC 0.9 Revamps Interface, Playlist Features [Featured Download] (19)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC 0.9.3, the bug-fixed, updated version of our favorite cross-platform, hardly-ever-fails media player, is available for download. New to this version are a revamped interface and reorganized menus, an improved playlist tool for more traditional audio-only file browsing and listening (and native playing of YouTube videos), enhanced album art and metadata tweaking, Last.fm submissions, and much more. If you've already grabbed a new copy of VLC from an update, are you liking the new ...
PrinterShare Eases Remote Printing Across Operating Systems [Featured Download] (32)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Free peer-to-peer printer-sharing tool PrinterShare cuts out the network fiddling and router tweaking necessary to share a printer from, say, a Mac system at home to your Windows PC at work. The PrinterShare system requires signing up each computer on your network and assigning it a name, but once you're set up, sharing and accessing printers is truly simple. Files you send to be printed remotely are encrypted by default, and free ...
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rorowe said:
Could have used this about 2 months ago.
Google Toolbar 5 Released for Firefox (13)
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All platforms running Firefox: Google has updated their toolbar for Firefox, and it integrates GOOG services with your browser chrome better than ever. Frankly, we're not so big on browser toolbars around here, but if you're a dedicated Google Apps, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Bookmarks, and Notebook user, the Google Toolbar looks really useful. Probably the most impressive feature is the ability to set up profiles—like "Personal" and "Professional"—and associate web form auto-fill information with them, ...
Google Toolbar 5 Released for Firefox [Featured Download] (1)
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All platforms running Firefox: Google has updated their toolbar for Firefox, and it integrates GOOG services with your browser chrome better than ever. Frankly, we're not so big on browser toolbars around here, but if you're a dedicated Google Apps, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Bookmarks, and Notebook user, the Google Toolbar looks really useful. Probably the most impressive feature is the ability to set up profiles—like "Personal" and "Professional"—and associate web form auto-fill information with them, ...
xVideoServiceThief Downloads Video from Over 50 Sites [Featured Download] (33)
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All platforms: Download your favorite online video clips from YouTube, 5min, Metacafe, and more than 50 other online video sharing sites with free open source application xVideoServiceThief. Enter a URL of nearly any online video and xVideoServiceThief will automatically download the video (unless you specify otherwise). Videos can be downloaded to either FLV or AVI formats. For an alpha build, xVideoServiceThief has a few bugs; not all services were tested error-free. The application does, however, ...
Christian Guerreiro shared as favorite EASEUS Partition Manager Professional Free Today Only [Featured Download] (5)
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Windows/Linux only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering up the "Professional Edition 2.0" of EASEUS Partition Manager, a free tool for formatting, moving, and resizing partitions on a hard drive. In addition to the tools offered in EASEUS' (previously mentioned) free version, the pro version offers support for 32- and 64-bit XP and Vista systems, includes a Linux version, and lets you create a bootable CD/DVD to use the tool when your ...
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Get it while it's Hot.
Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Detects Wireless Networks [Featured Download] (23)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is a cross-platform Wi-Fi tool that displays available networks on a very cool radar map. More specifically, the app searches for Wi-Fi networks, displays strength, detects rogue access points, and helps you tweak your network for the best signal. The downside: Xirrus Wi-Fi monitor is only available in widget/gadget/desklet form. That means that in order to use it, on XP and OS X you have to install the Yahoo ...
Kevin O'Shea shared as favorite Rockbox 3.0 Supercharges Your MP3 Player [Featured Download] (18)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Open-source MP3 firmware Rockbox has released its first major update in three years, adding support and stability for more MP3 players and playback of more file types. Rockbox has long been the best tool to breath new life into an aging MP3 player, from first through 5.5 generation iPods to iRiver, Sandisk, and Archos players (see all the supported players here). Rockbox features include Last.fm support, album art, games, video playback, and tons more. ...
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Ryan Kelley said:
I'm really thinking of adding Rockbox 3.0 to my current 5th gen 80 gb iPod Video, thoughts? Anyone had any success so far?
Lightning/Sunbird 0.9 Fixes Hundreds of Bugs, Improves Calendar Views [Featured Download] (4)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Lightning and Sunbird, Mozilla's calendar and task-management apps, have upgraded to 0.9 releases that fix hundreds of bugs and improve functionality. Along with general fixes to stability and memory consumption, the calendar views in both the stand-alone Sunbird and Thunderbird add-on Lightning have been overhauled, and events that span multiple days now actually look like they do so. This is the last release Lightning will see as an add-on, as it's being ...
