Recent Posts Tagged With 'productivity'

• Pixelmator 1.4 adds new paint engine

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 13:58 in photo, design, Macintosh, productivity

  Pixelmator has earned a following by doing the tasks most people use Photoshop for, but doing them much cheaper. That's truer than it's ever been in the new version 1.4, which adds a new painting engine, new brushes, and support for Photoshop brush f...

• Favicon Generator: favicons made easy

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 12:01 in design, productivity, utilities

  Have you ever seen a site with a really awesome favicon -- that tiny icon that shows up in bookmarks and address bars -- and wondered how to get one yourself? Favicon Generator makes it totally simple, with two different ways to get exactly the icon ...

• Microsoft Office 14 screeshots leaked

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 22:58 in Microsoft, productivity, office, beta

  Someone get a mop, the leaks are everywhere.Several screenshots of Microsoft Office 14 - which is currently in alpha testing- have been leaked by Russian site Wzor. beta versions are scheduled to appear sometime in May with the full release slated f...

• Mouseless for Firefox updates with better support for web apps

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 06:44 in internet, freeware, productivity, utilities, mozilla, browsers

  Mouseless has been mentioned on Downloadsquad before, and it's steadily improved since Jordan Running first posted about it.The latest version offers improved support for dynamic web apps like GMail and Facebook. The number of "clickable" links has a...

• Openfire: cross-platform Jabber server

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 13:51 in internet, freeware, windows, Linux, Macintosh, productivity, text

  Openfire is an open-source Jabber (XMPP) server that provides an easy way to offer and maintain internal instant messaging (including voice and video chat) for your company or organization. There are server plugins available which can add archiving ...

• Add Leopard-style folder stacks to Windows

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 21:15 in freeware, windows, productivity, utilities

  I'm not a Mac user, but OSX has a lot of nice features - several of which have been translated into Windows shell enhancements. I've been using the Stacks docklet in RocketDock for quite a while. It's a very handy way to navigate frequently accessed ...

• Hot Corners adds OSX-style magic corners to Windows

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 20:34 in freeware, windows, productivity, utilities

  I'm a big fan of applications that extend the power of my keyboard, but I like being able to to teach my mouse some new tricks as well.Hot Corners is a application that allows you to assign a number of actions that occur when your mouse hovers over t...

• Textflow parallel word processing app now in public beta

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 20:31 in productivity, office, text

  Textflow is an Adobe AIR-based collaboration app that allows you to incorporate changes from several different people into one Word document. Sending your draft to everyone you're working with, and then manually combining all of their versions is a p...

• Frengly does translation, but does it beat Babelfish?

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 07:01 in productivity, web services, utilities

  The biggest players in the online translation game are Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate. They both have their unique charms, but a site called Frengly might offer a little competition. Its selection of languages isn't quite as extensive as Googl...