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I wrote about the free internet tv player, Miro in July, and have always liked it. The public preview 3 has been released and if all goes well, the first version will be out soon.
For those who haven’t heard of it, Miro is a free internet tv channel player for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It […]

If you’ve wanted to add Vista’s sidebar onto your Win XP without having to install a transformation pack or use Yahoo Widgets, you’re in luck. Thoosje’s Vista Sidebar for Windows XP is a free downloadable sidebar that works in Win XP. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is supposedly faster than the original Microsoft […]

There are a lot of free graphic editors available but not all have great features. Popular editors usually have better features but they’re not free. Idea Systems’ Active Pixels is a free image editor for Win XP/NT/Vista that offers numerous features usually found in commercial image editors.
The main menu looks just like most commercial image […]

Most people use Windows Run to perform pings and tracerts, but hardly use it to launch actual programs. While it is possible to use the run command to launch programs, most people prefer using the start menu just because it looks better.
Executor is a free program launcher that’s customizable and much more powerful than the […]

Apple has finally announced that the launch of Mac OS X Leopard is scheduled for October 26. Apple has promised that Leopard comes with 300+ new features. Now that’s how you release a new OS, unlike others (cough Vista). Don’t get me wrong, I’m a happy XP user heh.
The first thing you’ll notice is Leopard’s […]

Here’s another utility for YouTube regulars. The YouTube Batch Downloader is a nice tool for anyone who downloads lots of videos from YouTube. The application will let you download your videos and convert them to mp4, wmv, or mov files.

You can also use the program to merge videos. YouTube Batch Downloader supports User / Channel […]

If you’ve ever wanted to have Vista’s interface on Linux, you’re in luck. Vixta.org is a Fedora-based distribution that features the KDE Desktop Environment. Under the hood, this is still a Linux distro. On the surface however, well take a look.

Microsoft has yet to comment on the Vixta distribution. It’s possible that this version will […]

Most of you are familiar with the great posters from Demotivators.com. Those posters are easy enough to design using your favorite graphics software but what if I told you that you could make posters like those in seconds?
Poster Forge is a free poster maker that lets you create posters in seconds. There are three types […]