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Alert Thingy v3 adds support for business apps
Version 2 of Alert Thingy may have just been released last month, but version 3 is here now.V3 has been tweaked to include features that make it an excellent addition to your work desktop, including support for Basecamp, Yammer, and Huddle. Alert Th...
ID Software makes another push for Quake Live beta testers
In case you're out of the loop on this one, let's bring you up to speed. ID Software has dusted off Quake and plans to release Quake Live, a completely free, browser-based FPS.Free? Yep.There will, of course, be in-game advertising to generate reven...
Yawffer monitors, safely freezes Windows processes
Yawffer is a utility for windows that monitors the time and your computers CPU, memory, and disk usage. You can set it to show some or all of this information in the corner of your computer display, and you can easily adjust the font, size, and color...
Freebyte Task Scheduler: Portable task scheduling
Freebyte Task Scheduler is a free utility for windows that lets you schedule daily, weekly, or one-off jobs for your PC. You can use it to run a backup utility every night at midnight, or start your streaming audio player when your favorite radio sho...
Monitor and close inactive Windows tasks with JustCloseSomeTasks
JustCloseSomeTasks is one of those rare utilities that does exactly what you think it would. It closes some tasks, but not all of them. The free Windows program monitors all of your running programs. And if you haven't used one of those apps in a whi...
Search Twitter with Windows 7's federated search
It wasn't that long ago that you had a chance to look at a gallery of seven different Windows 7 federated search connectors at work. At the time, I'd found .osdx files for sites like Flickr, YouTube, and DeviantArt.As more people play with the beta, ...
How To Run Chrome on 64-bit Windows 7 [Windows]
So you got your windows 7 64-bit running, complete with new BSODs, and now you want to install Google's chrome just to discover it doesn't work. Don't worry, because you can fix it. Just right click on the Google Chrome Icon, modify the Chrome Prope...
Openfire: cross-platform Jabber server
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 ...
Keep your application installers updated with Ketarin
We've covered applications that attempt to download and install the latest versions of your Windows software in the past. But Ketarin takes a different approach. You can enter a list of applications you want to track, and it will automatically check ...
FastAero adds Vista-like transparency to Windows XP
FastAero is a Windows XP utility that adds a transparency effect to some program windows. The effect is similar to one of the components of the Aero Glass interface on Windows Vista: You can see through borders of some programs and more easily see wh...
Windows Pager creates Linux-like virtual desktops in Windows
There are plenty of applications that will let Windows users work in virtual desktops. And Windows Pager is one of them. But it has a few nice features that make it worth checking out. First of all, like Desktops and VirtuaWin, Windows Pager lets you...
Livedrive provides unlimited online storage
Livedrive is an online storage service that offers two advantages over most services in this space: Unlimited file storage Integration with Windows Explorer When you install Livedrive (and reboot your computer), you'll notice an L drive show up in...
Upload files to 100+ hosts from your Windows desktop
If you're a frequent uploader of files, Zoom's File & Image Uploader is well worth a download.It supports more than 70 file hosting services, including popular options like Mediafire, Megaupload, Rapidshare, Sendspace and 23 image hosts like Imagesh...
Windows 7 Beta to ship in early January
A number of sources were reporting a mysterious Windows 7 Beta download link that appeared on Microsoft's Windows 7 page. Of course, it would be fairly easy to screenshot a page, make a few edits, and post the doctored image as "proof," so I took th...
LittleShoot is LimeWire for your browser, and then some
LittleShoot is a new peer to peer application from the makers of LimeWire. But unlike LimeWire and most other P2P file sharing applications, LittleShoot is browser-based. You can search for audio or video files, images, documents, or applications in ...
Easily and completely remove the Microsoft XPS doc writer
I do my best to minimize confusion and headaches for my retail customers. One thing that never fails to confuse and annoy is the Microsoft XPS Document Writer.Most of them have no idea what it is or how it got added to their list of printers. To avoi...
Zviewer beta 2 turns Firefox into a web-based media center
Over the weekend the folks at ZeeVee released a new beta of Zviewer, a PC-based browser for finding and watching web video. ZeeVee makes a set top box that's designed to provide a similar service for $499. But the desktop software is free while in be...
Add Leopard-style folder stacks to Windows
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 ...
Raptor manages downloads for Rapidshare Free users
There are plenty of good download managers available for Rapidshare Premium members, but what about those of us without a pair account?Raptor is a good option for handling multiple RS downloads with minimal fuss. Just copy the download URL, click the...
Microsoft: Internet Explorers 5 through 8 vulnerable to attack
There's a bug in Internet Explorer that allows attackers to execute malicious code on your machine under certain conditions. When Microsoft first acknowledged the vulnerability a few days ago the company was under the impression that only Internet Ex...
Anti-Malware Toolkit updated, supports loads of new apps
Lunarsoft, producers of Anti-Malware Toolkit, have been hard at work since I mentioned it on Downloadsquad back in August.The handy updater now supports 37 different downloads in five categories, including: Spyware: Spyware Blaster, CCleaner, RogueR...
Google: Gmail gets the Google Docs PDF viewer
Google has long offered Gmail users the ability to open PDF attachments as HTML files without downloading the file and firing up Adobe Acrobat, Foxit or any other PDF viewer. But you lose a lot in the translation when you convert a PDF file to HTML. ...
MS Web PI provides an easy way to roll IIS, SQL, .NET
WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installers have been around for ages, and provide an easy way for anyone to quickly set up a platform for developing web apps on their Windows desktop. If, however, you're looking to play in the Microsoft sandbox, t...
Rohos Min Drive creates protected partitions on USB flash drives
Rohos Mini Drive is a free Windows utility that will let you create a hidden, password-protected and encrypted partition on any USB flash drive. In theory you could use the software on your hard drive as well, but it really comes in handy if you have...
Windows Vista Ultimate RED edition coming next week
Microsoft is set to release the (PRODUCT) RED version of Windows Vista Ultimate on December 15th. Dell has been selling computers preloaded with this special version of the OS for a few months now, but starting next week you'll be able to to buy a st...
Clone2Go: Batch video converter for Windows
Clone2Go is a video conversion utility for Windows that accepts videos in a variety of formats (including WMV, MPG, MP4, or 3GP), and includes at least as many output options. What sets Clone2Go apart from some other video converters out there is tha...
Hot Corners adds OSX-style magic corners to Windows
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...
VideoCacheView lets you save web videos you've watched
Nir Sofer writes great Windows apps. His programs are tiny, they're portable, and they're unbelievably useful. VideoCacheView is yet another in the long list of great NirSoft creations.If you watch a lot of web video on sites like YouTube, VideoCache...
Flash Drive Reminder reminds you to unplug your flash drive
Flash Driver Reminder is a different kind of nagware. While some applications will pop up a nag message reminding you to register or pay for your software after you've been using it a while, Flash Drive Reminder actually provides you with a useful na...
Require passwords to launch programs with Empathy
If you need a way to prevent users from launching certain programs on an XP or Vista Home system, have a look at Empathy.Users of XP Pro or Vista Business/Ultimate don't technically need to bother with a program like this. It's fairly easy to use se...
