Software for nuttin’.
PSP Video 9. Free software for converting your DVDs to PSP format for mobile playing fun. Or PSP Movie Creator, super simple one click conversion for $34.99. Or PSP X Studio, video conversion, web browser and game emulation in one box for $39.95. Yes, I think we can clearly see that there’s some kind of market building here. PSP X Studio Includes The Following Emulators: * Gameboy / Gameboy Color * NeoCD * Super Nintendo * Sega Genesis * Neo Geo…
So both Hriders.com and Mailnation.net offer free 1 terabyte email services, eh? Hmm…clever marketing, genuine altruism or common sense ahead of its time? Your call. We have been asked why we would do such a thing. The answer is simple to help people store large amounts of information in a safe and secure environment. We live in a world where natural and un-natural events take place, that can destroy homes or offices, when that happens many people loose all of their…
Goowy (re – for rich experience) gets the Ferret award for this month’s most inventive…ahem…name. Apparently it’s an online email (100MB), calendaring and contact manager service. For free. Mmm…not sure that the world needs yet another one of these shared life things. Or if it does, it really should be as uber cool as Ning, methinks. And yes, I hate myself for loving the Ning concept, because it’s going to become just so darned trendy! Shame on you Marc Andreessen….
MP3 Radio. Freeware MP3 software that talks to you. Works as an alarm clock. And stuff. Check it out and make sure to leave your PC on overnight, eh? With MP3 Radio, you tell the DJ what songs to play. You tell him what public service announcements to read. The DJ will even keep you up-to-date on the latest news headlines and current weather conditions. MP3 Radio turns your PC into a very serious Alarm clock radio. It even has…
Mailwasher Free. The free version of the veteran anti-spam program Mailwasher is back. I have to say that I’m noticing a significant – repeat significant – reduction in spam reaching my inbox. In fact 10 days ago I uninstalled Spam Inspector from my machine because it had become superfluous. Hotmail and my four main ISP accounts together are now delivering a mere handful of spam messages each day. The flipside is that one of my main ISP accounts is now…
DivX has just announced that they’re giving away their DivX Create bundle for Windows for free for today only as an anniversary gift. Pass it on! It’s not worth a huge amount ($19.99) but it’s a pretty cool way to convert your movies to the hottest compressed format on the planet. * Convert nearly any video to a DivX video file * Create videos with advanced interactive features * Playback all DivX video files including video-on-demand titles
ShortKeys Lite. Neat little text macro software, add in your chosen short key command (e.g. #a) and out pops your stored text, for instance your address. Very useful. The free version allows for 15 short keys to be set up. The $19.95 version is unlimited. Automate tedious and repetitive typing. Reduce errors. Type a few characters and ShortKeys will replace them with up to 3000 keystrokes. You will be amazed how much time ShortKeys will save.
Deep Burner. Free and very useful CD burning software. I’m so fed up with progs like Nero which can’t even do a simple thing like burn a bootable DS Linux CD without pfaffing about for hours working out the interface. Try this instead.
Free-Hotspot.com. Free WiFi hotspots across Europe and the world, it says here. Starting up next week. Apparently. Advertising sponsored. Probably. We will be providing free wireless Internet access at the Networking Lounge area during Ad:Tech in London this year. Drop by, check your e-mail and learn more about our exciting new network. free-hotspot.com is building a network of FREE HotSpot locations throughout Europe and around the world. Our partners include cafés, hotels, pubs, restaurants, retail centres and transit centres.
Firepuddle. BitTorrent P2P downloading for Firefox. Very Alpha and only for Firefox 1.5 beta. Caveat! This a HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL release which may crash and no doubt contains a few bugs. The purpose of this release is to demonstrate the progress of this project. It should not be used for any important downloads! If you are unsure, please wait till the beta releases.
Google Desktop Beta. Just installed this. Hate to sound like Google fan-boy, but it’s good. Integration – 9/10 (disappears into the desktop interface nicely) Usefulness – 7/10 (still trying to work out if it’s *that* useful) Speed – 7/10 (indexing kind of sluggish, no impact on day to day working though) Compatibility – 6/1 (breaks some stuff – see below – but seems OK) Community – 8/10 (plug-ins good) Comments: Breaks TruImage, needs more upfront explanation of the various desktop panel options, but the integrated desktop and web…
Google Secure Access. Not clear whether this works outside of San Francisco, but Google’s just introduced a secure WiFi service. Download the program, fire it up and it will automagically encrypt your data to and fro their servers. Very interesting Lucy, especially since it’s the fruit of a Google engineer’s spare time. Why did Google develop Google Secure Access? One of our engineers recognized that secure WiFi was virtually non-existent at most locations. As a result, he used his…
Orb. Freeware lets you stream your music, movies, video and live or recorded TV from your home computer to any laptop, PDA, mobile phone or remote PC. You can even set it up to stream navigation maps and info. Sounds uber cool, don’t it? When you connect from a mobile device or remote PC, Orb detects your connection speed and the upstream bandwidth available from your home PC. Orb streams content at the highest quality available to you, providing the…
Intercom Pages. Er…I’m kinda confused about this one. They’re billing it as ‘Free Call Telephone Sharing’, which sounds kind of similar to the phone call timeshare concept from the original Free World Dialup (which I see has now gone all commercial). Download the free software on 30th September and tell us all about it, eh? XP user can now call anywhere to anywhere planet wide for the cost of a local call or make free calls forever. Intercom Pages is offering…
Wikiwyg. Wow. Check out the demos (Firefox only at the moment though). Turn any HTML div into a wysiwyg and wikitext edit area.
