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Bookmark This! November 30, 2009 posted by
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Fast App Store – excellent search engine helps you find mobile phone apps instantly

The FastApp Store aims to be a one-stop shop for all your mobile phone software applications. The site features a mix of free and commercial programs crossing the mainstream platforms…you know, iPhone, Android, Nokia, Blackberry…MySpace? Anyhoo, it’s fast, clean and you can personalise it to your platform instantly, which makes for usefulness. I also love the way they’ve done the categorisation, which makes it a snap to filter the search results in an instant. There’s over 123,000 apps on there…


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Bookmark This! October 23, 2009 posted by
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Rebel EFI – the super easy way to install Mac OS X on your PC

Rebel EFI is a new software program which lets you rapidly and easily install the very shiny Apple Mac OS X operating system onto your Intel based PC. The tool costs $49.99 and has probably already caused untold damage to the arteries of various Apple execs around the world. There’s a free trial download available on the site. It’s just not Apple’s week is it?  Featuring Psystar’s newest technology for allowing for the smooth interfacing between operating systems and generic Intel…


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software October 23, 2009 posted by
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OccupyBaby – technology to the rescue of wimpy parents

OccupyBaby is a new iPhone application which is designed to replace the parents and keep baby happy until at least puberty. No wait…until they get back from teh movies. No hold on… For a mere 99c, you can stick your very precious handset in front of a psychotically motivated wrecking machine and watch with amusement as $1000 + of hardware is smeared in chocolate, ice-cream or that revolting mush in a jar they call lamb and pea stockpot. I’d say…


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Bookmark This! October 20, 2009 posted by
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Jotti’s malware scan – one online virus scanner to rule them all

Here at the Ferret we don’t like malware. But scanning for it can be a mite tedious when you’re just about to get stuck into testing the latest greatest free application and you realise your virus definitions are out of date. That’s why we’ve reviewed several free online virus scanners in the past. But if you’re a bit more paranoid you probably wouldn’t trust the results of just one virus scanner, which is when Jotti’s malware scan would come in…


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Jotti’s malware scan – one online virus scanner to rule them all
general October 19, 2009 posted by
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tintii – Selective colour highlighting tool without Photoshop

Sometimes photos just look better in black and white than in colour. Sometimes, they look even better when you selectively highlight a point of colour in the photo but to do this you usually need to be fairly confident using Photoshop or other image editing software. tintii is a free, tiny application for doing simple colour highlighting without much fuss. You simply open the photo in tintii and it preselects the base colours (reds, greens, blues) in your image and…


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Mobile Tech October 9, 2009 posted by
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TXTBlocker – stop your kids texting while driving

TXTBlocker is a software and online service combo which locks off a registered mobile phone from making or receiving text messages or calls while in a car. It uses cell and GPS data to determine location and speed and decide whether the phone is actually in a car, and once it thinks it is, boom, the service is automatically limited. It doesn’t jam the phone in the traditional sense, so the subscriber can use the online dashboard to set up…


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software July 13, 2009 posted by
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Tmax Window – a 100% compatible alternative to Microsoft?

You’re fed up with Windows, it’s eaten your printer driver and your wifi hasn’t connected for weeks. What do you do? Well if you’re Korean company TmaxCore you sit down and over 4 years you build a new operating system. They didn’t stray far from the path, their new OS is called Tmax Window and its makers claim it will support all current and future Microsoft Windows applications as well as running Linux apps. A very big call. They are…


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Tmax Window – a 100% compatible alternative to Microsoft?
software July 11, 2009 posted by
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CliffsNotes To Go – cheat sheets on your iPhone

CliffsNotes call them literature study guides, I call ’em cheat sheets. Which ever way you dress it CliffsNotes To Go are available on your iPhone and iPod touch for 99c each. So far they’ve got Huckleberry Finn, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Scarlet Letter and To Kill a Mockingbird, with more to come. Remember kids, you can’t take your phone into your exam. Often imitated but never equaled, CliffsNotes are the original and still most widely recognized study guides in…


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CliffsNotes To Go – cheat sheets on your iPhone
software July 9, 2009 posted by
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EZ Internet Timer – fixes those meddling kids

Are the kids kicking your bum at World of Warcraft or COD4? Well show them who’s boss by installing the EZ Internet Timer on their PC. You can create and set up to 6 different timers for surfing, email, IM, internet etc. You can also program shutdowns based on the number of hours someone has been online. It even works if the PC is in Safe Mode. There’s a free 14 day trial and you can buy a 3 PC…


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EZ Internet Timer – fixes those meddling kids
software June 24, 2009 posted by
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YouTube Mate – download and convert YouTube videos

YouTube Mate sounds like an Australian telling you where those funny videos can be found on the internet. Turns out it’s a little more eloquent. YouTube Mate allows you to download multiple videos at once and even to recode them for use on portable media players, iPod, Zune etc. You can download a trial, or purchase it for US$34.95. Cucusoft YouTube Mate is the most powerful YouTube assistant on the planet. It is free for downloading videos any playback. YouTube…


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YouTube Mate – download and convert YouTube videos
Recommended June 23, 2009 posted by
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Maxto – Maximise your monitor space

Maxto is a tiny little program that helps you use your multi monitor or large monitor way more effectively. It divides your screen up into regions and when you drag a window into one of them and maximise, it will only fill that region. Makes having multiple windows and big screens much easier to use. Theres a a free trial and after that it’s US$10 per year. MaxTo is a program that lets you maximize windows to different parts of…


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Maxto – Maximise your monitor space
Eco Friendly June 9, 2009 posted by
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FILEminimizer Office compresses files and creates space

Need more space on your jammed up computer? Balesio’s FILEminimizer Office helps you do just that by compressing all Microsoft Office files mightily. The software compresses pictures and embedded objects up to 98%, including PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. The makers claim you can reduce a 50MB file to less than 1MB while keeping the file format intact and easily readable. Best of all, folks receiving files via FILEminimizer Office don’t need to have the software to view…


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FILEminimizer Office compresses files and creates space
software June 5, 2009 posted by
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Babylon 8 – one click translation software

Babylon 8 is a simple to use software translation tool for Mac and PC. There are plenty of translation websites around but Babylon runs on your machine and gives you context translation as well as translating entire passages, websites, pdf or Word documents with just a control+click. It’s fluent in 75 languages. There’s also dictionary definitions from 1,400 sources including Britannica, Oxford and good ol’ Wikipedia. Free download and trial of course and there’s a special deal on at the…


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Babylon 8 – one click translation software
software June 3, 2009 posted by
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Sir Insult-a-Lot – olde worlde insult generator on tap

Sir Insult-a-Lot is a $0.99c insult generator for the iPhone which works on the shake and take model. Shake the handset, and out pops a darstedly Muttley type insult with which to beat your foes. You can also add your own variants to spice things up. Fun for all the family.  Sir Insult-a-lot is a fun application that generates over 20 million unique insults on the fly. Shake your iPhone to generate a new insult or use the “Spin” button…


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