Make Skype Calls with Fring on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Application] (38)
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iPhone 2.0 only: Free application Fring puts popular chat applications on your iPhone, including Skype—and the ability to make Skype voice over IP calls when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Fring puts all your chat buddies from AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and Skype on your iPhone, and lets you know who's online when. Chat your buddies whether you're connected via data or Wi-Fi, and make Skype calls (or Skype ...
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chexov said:
YES!
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zemlanin said:
Где бы взять микрофон для тача?..
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Standard Pixel said:
works great if you don't mind a 2 second delay.
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Darin said:
Another plus for the iPhone
cli.gs Brings Short URLs with Detailed Analytics [TinyURL] (16)
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Webapp cli.gs transforms your long URLs into short URLs with detailed click-through statistics. Unlike previously mentioned dwarfURL, cli.gs gives analytics junkies a rush with interactive AJAX graphs and detailed referrer data in addition to search engine references to the particular URL (or "clig"). cli.gs doesn't stop there: any time someone mentions your clig in social media, be it a blogger, on Twitter, or via delicious, the source is also calculated and treated as coming from ...
In Quotes Displays What Politicians Said About a Keyword [Politics] (25)
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Google Labs launches an addictive little webapp called In Quotes, which searches and compares things politicians have said in the news by keyword. So you can see what Obama and McCain have said recently about Iraq, health care, or energy. Hit the "Spin" button to get another quote (with a link to the source news story), or hit the politician drop-down to get quotes from the vice presidential candidates and others, from Hillary Clinton to ...
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Edison said:
Genial o uso da internet para comparar planos de governo.
FlyCast Streams Radio to Your iPhone, Runs in the Background [Featured IPhone Application] (17)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Free streaming radio app FlyCast can grab streams from more than 1,000 digital radio stations, but what's unique about it is how it does so. FlyCast can be set to conserve battery life by pre-buffering minutes of music, and only occasionally using your Wi-Fi or cellular connection to grab more. More importantly for multi-taskers, by disabling the "Quick Play" option in FlyCast's settings, the app can be set to open audio streams ...
Rudder Emails You Daily Financial Reports [Personal Finance] (14)
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Personal finance webapp Rudder wants to be your daily financial adviser—via email. Once you activate your account and feed it your financial data, Rudder sends you a daily email summarizing your fiscal state of affairs. Rudder aggregates the balances of your checking, savings, and credit card accounts and lists them alongside bills you've got due. Rudder offers a projected cash flow widget called "What's Left", which factors in pay dates, bills, and credit cards to ...
Decrypt and Remove Commercials from TiVo Recordings in One Step [TiVo] (30)
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You've recorded an entire season of Weeds on your TiVo DVR, and now you want to archive it on a hard drive somewhere commercial-free—and the free Perl program KMTTG can do all that in one step. While TiVo Desktop can transfer TiVo recordings to your computer or iPod, KMTTG downloads your TiVo's recordings, decrypts .TIVO files to a less proprietary file format like .AVI, and can detect and remove commercials to reduce the file size ...
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AdamB said:
for the TIVO viewers and owners out there... pretty cool
GoPlanit Plans Your Vacation For You [Travel] (18)
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Web-based travel planning service GoPlanit attempts to take the solo and tedious act of itinerary planning and inject it with a social element. Upon signing up for the service and selecting a destination city, GoPlanit can roll an itinerary for you. I told it I wanted to go to New York and I had no idea what I was doing. GoPlanit provided an instant travel itinerary I was able to tweak based on how active ...
DropBox Leaves Private Beta, Invite No Longer Necessary [Syncing] (28)
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One of Lifehacker readers' favorite file syncing tools, Dropbox, left private beta today and registration is now open to all. If you're unfamiliar with the service check out how Dropbox syncs and backs up files between computers instantaneously.
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Wesley said:
After using this a little while, this thing is awesome. Has PC, Mac, Linux, and very-iPhone friendly web page. 2GB storage. Nice way to share files across all my computers (which is annoying), and maybe to help back-up important stuff.
iSearch a Better Way to Find People Online [People Search] (24)
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New addition to the people search engine scene iSearch is a powerful tool for hunting down anyone online that offers better results than plain old Google in some cases. Search by name and location, screen name, phone number, school or company, and iSearch returns results from social networks as well as regular old web pages. My test searches for my co-bloggers were very detailed, and displayed many personal facts right within the results page. As ...
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Srinvard said:
iSearch can be used to find people online. Just like pipl.com >;) mwhahaha
Duplicate Cleaner Ferrets Out File Dupes [Featured Windows Download] (23)
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Windows only: Hunt down multiple copies of the same file with Duplicate Cleaner, a lightweight and quick duplicate file finder. Add multiple paths to Duplicate Cleaner's search, handy for de-duping a media collection that spans multiple drives. Filter your duplicate search by file type, content, size, and date of creation. Additionally Duplicate Cleaner offers support for MP3 metadata, including artist, title, and album, a fantastic feature for weeding out a large music collection. For additional ...
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runbuck said:
Now here is something we all can use.
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Srinvard said:
Run this on both computers later, time permitting
Featured Windows Download: Insure Your Data with Personal Backup (14)
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Windows only: Freeware Backup application Personal Backup offers lots of flexibility for backing up important files both locally and over a network using FTP or SFTP protocols. The application itself is a bit daunting and cumbersome at first with numerous menus and features, so novices may want to stick to the easy-to-configure (and super easy to understand) wizard. However, the feature-set makes a lot of sense given the richness of the offerings, including the ability ...
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Goyal said:
@Bansal - This might be useful for you - you can use my system to setup Ubuntu based FTP server and backup using this
Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] (36)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Yahoo OneConnect is a free application that brings a handful of communication and social networking tools to your iPhone or iPod touch. Off the bat, the most notable thing about OneConnect is that it supports sending SMS messages to contacts in your Yahoo Address Book (provided you have a phone number in their contact card). That means you can text all day long from your iPhone (or iPod touch, if you have ...
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Matt said:
I don't have an iPhone but thought people who do would find this interesting
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Steve Sill said:
To get it for the iPhone you currently have to get it by first visiting the OneConnect site. Did so with my iPhone and when I pressed the Get OneConnect button it took me to the app store where I could down load it.
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Robert said:
oh hell yeah....
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sirmikester said:
I wonder how they are getting away with providing free SMS functionality in an Apple store app, also it must cost them something to send each message...
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AdamB said:
this almost makes me want an iphone... who am i kidding- i'll probably have an iphone by the end of the month
MessageSling Moves Your Plain Phone's Voicemail to the Web [Voicemail] (20)
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Newly-launched voicemail service MessageSling takes over your standard cell phone's voicemail and replaces it with one you can control from the web. Once you've signed up and typed in a single forwarding string to activate your MessageSling mail, you can see your voicemails in a Gmail-style inbox, listen to them in an embedded player, and label, archive, and search them later. The service promises voice-to-text translation in the near future, and can get emails with ...
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nlnnet said:
Seems like a good tool to those with N. American numbers
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Tallin said:
I just signed up with this, and despite a little bug while trying to record my greeting, it seems like a great service. It even allows custom greetings for different people.
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James said:
If I actually got any voice mail I might try this out...
MediaJoin Combines Several Media Files into One [Featured Windows Download] (10)
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Windows only: Free application MediaJoin—as its name suggests—combines several media files into one long file. Say, for example, you wanted to a three-part video or a live album into one long playable file. Just fire up MediaJoin, select the files you want to combine, and let the application do its work. MediaJoin can even string together files of different types, but be aware: doing so means transcoding files, which means you'll see some loss in ...
Air Sharing Transfers Files Between iPhones and Any System [Featured IPhone Application] (68)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Air Sharing, an iPhone/iPod touch app that's free only through Sept. 22, is a file storage application that works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems, as it uses the open WebDAV protocol to accept and share files through your file system or web browser. The app conveniently includes thorough setup and access instructions inside a tabbed Help section. Air Sharing adds unique icons to a whole lot of file types ...
Free: Lifehacker Readers' Free Replacements for Paid Tools (105)
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We highlighted a few of our favorite free replacements for paid tools about two weeks ago, and boy, did you respond. From Adobe replacments to Windows utilities, niche graphics apps to virtualization, our readers had a wealth of no-cost alternatives to recommend. We listened and compiled, so check out some of your fellow readers' best suggestions for extending your computer without expending a single penny. Photo by AGoK. Orb instead of Slingbox ($130) This one ...
