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Bookmark This! April 1, 2008 posted by
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FireShot – super cool screenshot grabber for your browser

FireShot is a very cool freeware plug-in for Firefox that lets you grab screenshots of web sites quick and easy like. There’s a whole heap of things you can do with your screen grab, like annotate, draw and send via email but the single most important feature is the fact that you can grab a whole site, not just the part that’s visible at the time. This is SO useful that it’s worth the installation on its own. So there.  Unlike…


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Awesome March 31, 2008 posted by
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The Music Collection Generator – five tools for creating a great free music collection

The music industry wants to tax us for using our Internet connection? How quaint. Wasn’t there a protest about that sort of thing a while back? Oh yes, ‘no taxation without representation.’ That’s it. Anyhoo, while they’re trying desperately to retrieve a dead and gone business model, teh internets is moving on apace as ever. Here’s a set of tools which are perfect for building (or recreating even) your perfect music collection. First off you’ll need the most excellent Orbit Downloader. This freeware program…


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Free Software March 28, 2008 posted by
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Smart Shutdown – free instant shut down button for Windows

Smart Shutdown is a freeware Windows utility that lets you shut down your computer with one button click. There’s a bunch of configurations you can set up, including timed close down, reboots and hibernation. Nice one for the toolbox.   The program is based on an easy 1-2-3 interface and has an immense number of shutdown options. It allows you to shut down, log off, reboot, lock, turn off, hibernate, disconnect from the Internet or network, enter standby mode in Windows,…


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Bookmark This! March 26, 2008 posted by
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Clownsuits – search tools for hard to find files and stuff

Apparently there is now a growing class of online search tools called clownsuits. What are they? Search scripts that do an advanced Google search using specific parameters. Like Google Hacks but online. It’s basically a way to find ‘deep’ or ‘invisible’ web material like files and multimedia that generic searches miss. These tools are invariably nothing more than simple scripts which contain pointers to either specific file storage areas like FTP folders, or hosts like Rapidshare or social networks like MySpace. As with…


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Bookmark This! March 21, 2008 posted by
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Video Flip and Rotate – free video tweaking software quickly and cleanly puts things right

t Video Flip and Rotate. Nice little freeware tool that helps you beat the rotated video blues you get when using those tiny phone or digicam video cameras. It’ll handle the normal .avi and .mpg formats and works fast and cleanly. Small files convert quickly and the file size doesn’t grow hugely (around 24% which is reasonable considering). All in all one of those tools that could turn out indispensable one day. By the way, one new thing I really…


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Bookmark This! March 20, 2008 posted by
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Diagram Designer – freeware graphics editor for charts and stuff…

Diagram Designer is a freeware program for creating ‘flowcharts, diagrams and slide shows’. I suppose it could also be used for more exotic stuff like wireframing and the like. It’s Open Source, so the full source code is available if anyone fancies tweaking, forking or generally messing around.  Customizable template object palette. # Spellchecker (see below about dictionaries). # Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, ICO, GIF and PCX images. # Slide show viewer. # Simple graph plotter to…


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Bookmark This! March 19, 2008 posted by
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Secunia PSI – excellent freeware program scans, locates and patches potential security risks in your applications

Secunia PSI. Excellent freeware package scans your computer and locates old and vulnerable programs which should be updated and if necessary patches them for you automatically. The program will also flag end-of-life products which may contain security vulnerabilities so you can decide whether to keep or delete them from your hard drive. This is a superb tool for tracking potential security problems on your machine if, like me, you install a lot of different software programs, so this immediately goes into my full-time toolbox.  …


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cool tech March 17, 2008 posted by
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New Gray-Hoverman Super Antenna – television antenna geeks release radical new Open Source design

So a bunch of television antenna heads have come up with a massively improved design for a UHF antenna which they say blows away current designs. What’s more they’ve gone and released the design for this New Gray-Hoverman Super Antenna via a GPL license so it’s free for all. Now that’s what we call community action. [via Slashdot]  “Boy, this antenna is hot. I finally got it pointed right. After I did a search for channels, I got 23 digital channels, and this is…


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Free Software March 17, 2008 posted by
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10 Killer Firefox Extensions – nice useful add-ons for the world’s most flexible browser

10 Killer Firefox Extensions (that you probably don’t know about). Interesting list, and indeed most are new. The one that caught my eye and which I now have installed is HyperWords, which crams a very cool set of tools into one svelte package – search, copy, translate, convert….you get the picture. It’s a keeper. Tags: firefox, freeware, 10+killer+firefox+extensions


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cool tech March 13, 2008 posted by
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Quick Media Converter – free media converter rocks the kazbar

Quick Media Converter. Belgium freeware program does more than just convert a lot of media types to other types. It also features a webcam mode to record video from your webcam, and has Camstudio embedded so you can create screencasts of your Windows desktop and convert the footage into anything you like. There’s also a video portal included where you can upload videos for public and private consumption. Nice comprehensive little package all round (and it comes with some solid…


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Awesome March 12, 2008 posted by
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Crayon Physics – oooooooooh!

Crayon Physics. Petri Purho’s innovative game prototype is so much fun that it’s…well…beyond. There’s a full-on commercial version called Crayon Physics Deluxe coming. Oh my giddy feet.  You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects. With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects. Tags: crayon+physics, game, freeware


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Bookmark This! March 11, 2008 posted by
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MJPEG Surveillance – cool free motion sensing webcam security program

MJPEG Surveillance. Nice free security webcam program comes with motion sensing technology which starts the recording when it senses movement in any particular area of the room. It can handle multiple cameras and can convert the JPEG file stream into a proper WMV, DivX or MPEG4 video clip. Lots of other features too, including video editing and auto video recycling which records over the oldest videos first (useful for keeping hard disk space under control).  My best motion detection algorithm so…


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Free Software March 10, 2008 posted by
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WatchMe – freeware timer program keeps you on track

WatchMe. Freeware timers help you stay on top of that massive workload. Or buckle under the strain?  WatchMe is a simple timer program that can be used to time a number of different tasks or events together or indepenedently of each other. You can easily name each timer and track information about the tasks that you are timing – a great solution for those who need to track their time for billing, timesheets and more. Tags: watchme, online+application, timer


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Bookmark This! March 7, 2008 posted by
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50 Awesome Open Source Financial Tools – manage your money for free and laugh all the way to the bank

50 Awesome Open Source Financial Tools. Er…what it says on the tin. Free personal and small business finance programs which you can use to stay financially healthy and safe for ever. Hah! No really.  One of the great things about open source is that you know the software you’re using is made by real people, who understand real needs. In financial software, we see a great application of this “real people” effect, offering high levels of customization and ease of use….


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Awesome March 6, 2008 posted by
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Phun – awesome physics play box may devour hours of your life

Phun. 2D Physics Sandbox. Warning Advisory: don’t download this software unless you have time to spare. Especially don’t download this if you are in any way attracted to gravity, random shapes, puzzles, physics experimentation and other such pastimes. Video.  Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction. Tags: phun, physics+game, freeware


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