KL-Detector is a freeware program which promises to find out whether your keystrokes are being surreptitiously monitored by a keylogger without your knowledge. It won’t remove a keylogger, just detect it. It’s one of those utilities you hope you’ll never need, but worth keeping a note of just in case, eh? [Check out I Hate Keyloggers too. It’s $30.00 and prevents hardware or software keyloggers from recording your keystrokes by blocking the log file.]  Use KL-Detector to find out whether your activity is being recorded…

PandoraBrowse. At last you can listen to your favourite Pandora custom music streams without having a browser window dedicated to the purpose. Because this free little utility minimises it to the system tray. Nice.  PandoraBrowse is a mini browse for the Pandora.com music service. PandoraBrowse lives in your Windows systray and gets off your taskbar while still playing music!

Grocist. Billed as a barcode driven grocery list application. You scan barcodes of empty containers you’re throwing away (or recycling?) in the kitchen, and the software automatically creates a shopping list for you, using an online UPC database and laptop. I think it’s a fab idea, but it doesn’t go far enough. Why not dump the PC entirely and go straight from barcode scanner to smartphone? That way you can scan wirelessly from scanner to smartphone, and do the lookup and grocery…

Paint.NET. Freeware photo and image editing program. You need the .net stuff to make it work though, which I think is a bit of a drag. Anyhoo, it’s free, so let’s not be churlish, eh?   Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by…

Microsoft Group Shot. Cool little app from Microsoft Research which lets you select the faces you want in your photo. So if you do three photos of your mates round a table, you can select the best of each and combine them in one ‘super image’. Remember kiddies – the camera never lies! [Via Metafilter]  MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite…

UnPlug. I’ve got to say, one of the ugliest Firefox extensions I’ve seen, but it appears to work as advertised. Lets you download video which is embedded in a web page.  UnPlug is different from the VideoDownloader extension – The Videodownloader extension takes you to the videodownloader.com website, which then tells you where the video is kept based on the website’s address. UnPlug will search what’s on the page for where the video is using a few different methods. It…

The folks at Reflexive Arcade are celebrating their 9th birthday by giving away the superb Ricochet Xtreme video game for free. The offer only lasts until the 15th October, and of course you have to register to download the activation code (yuck!), but trust me, this is simply the best breakout – break the bricks – arcade game ever. Go get it. Now!  You register, go to your email and click on the authorisation, then go and download the trial…

Panic Button. A Windows freeware program which makes it super easy for a user to grab an error message screenshot, add a note (i.e. what they were doing at the time it happened) and automatically email it to a pre-configured email address. Designed for those of us who act as unofficial tech support to friends and family. We know who we are, don’t we guys and gals? Of course there are some who’d say ‘you must be crazy if you think…

Mozy. Free, automatic backup service. Free gives you 2 GB of space, for more (i.e. up to 30 GB) you’ll have to pay $4.95 a month. Download the software, set it up and press go. Mmm…doesn’t xDrive offer 5 GB for free?   * 2GB of free, secure storage (Get more through Mozy Plus or our referral program!) * Open/locked file support * Block-level differential backup * 128-bit SSL support (to secure your data during transport) * 448-bit Blowfish encryption…

Katie, of the DigitalLife 2006 Show to be held in New York next month, writes to us:  “We would be thrilled if you would let your community know that we are offering FREE tickets to this year’s event (regular price is $15). To redeem these tickets, just use the source code “INSIDER” on this page, where you can print out your own tickets: http://digitallife.com/tickets.html.” We have a community? Who knew? Anyhoo, get ‘em or ignore. It’s your call.

Hubble Wallpapers. Yowee, you can now get Hubble desktop wallpapers in a variety of resolutions. For free too.

Makeitone. Freeware which lets you combine a set of MP3 tracks into a single file to make it easy to transport and play. Nice way to make albums out of a collection of tracks.  …we are designing applications to help you pack/join your music files in a single file – whilst still allowing full playability, tag editing and unpacking. You can keep all the songs, from one album, in a single file. Easier to handle, transport and hassle free playing.

Juice Receiver is a free multi-language, multi-platform podcast receiver and organiser. Nothing really new, but still worth a look. And I like the logo. [via Digg]  Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your…

The Democracy Player is a freeware media player which has the potential to really blow the whole online television concept wide open. It’s open source, built totally on standard technology, has a great feature set (including 600 preset channels) and can download BitTorrent files as well as standard video podcasts, mpegs of all flavours and the rest. It even comes in Mac, Linux and Windows flavours. Could this do for video what Netscape did for browsing? [via Boingboing]  Stop squinting at tiny web…

Lister. Cool bit of freeware that auto-scans your computer and creates an HTML or XML list of your media. Sorted by album and artist if you want. Very Useful.  Lister is a Windows program that will scan your cluttered collection of media files and create an orderly list of your media, sorted by artist & album, in XML format. What’s so great about that, you ask? With the generated XML file and an XSL processor you can create almost any…