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For anyone who spends a considerable amount of time on the computer, this situation should sound familiar. You have at least half a dozen applications running like your media player, windows explorer, your browser, notepad, instant messaging client, and your desktop feed reader. If you’re like me, you’ll probably open a few more programs and […]

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own hot keys for your most used applications and files, here’s a simple way. Register Hot Key is a free Windows application that lets you define your own hot keys to launch programs and open files.

The program sits in your system tray and you can remove any hot […]

When you need more hard drive space, you first need to find out which folders take up the most space. The usual routine involves opening Windows Explorer and setting the view options to ‘details’ and manually selecting each folder to see how much space it’s taking up. This makes freeing hard drive space a tedious […]

If you’re looking for a way to make your site or blog stand out, this just might be what you need. blipBack from Ojingo Labs is a video comment widget that you can install on your site that will let your readers leave a video message from their webcam or mobile phone.
You just need to […]

Setting up and scheduling an event with friends can prove to be difficult and sometimes impossible. The process of finding out when everyone will be available is usually a hassle. What if I told you there was a free and easy way to coordinate your team’s schedule?
Vern 2 is an updated web application from the […]

For those who’ve been looking for an easy way to turn their images into vector art, I’ve got just the thing. Vector Magic is a free online image converter that will let you convert your images to vector format.
For those unfamiliar with the term, vector images are images that can be resized with no resulting […]

Red Hat has just released the latest version of its popular Linux software, Fedora 8. The latest version includes a host of new features and improvements some of which are three cutoms spins (Games, Developer, Electronics Lab), Pulse Audio, Codec Buddy, new graphical firewall configuration tool, new look and feel, online desktop, and more.

Interested users […]

For those of you looking for an online image editor with more features, I’ve got just the thing. Splashup is a free online photo editor and managing tool that runs on all browsers. This isn’t really a new service, but its features and ease of use make it one of the best.
Some of Splashup’s features […]