Archive for January, 2009

Free CD to MP3 Converter by Eusing Software is a Windows program that does exactly what the title says — it’s a free program that converts CD audio to MP3 (and a few other formats too). Free CD to MP3 Converter converts the .CDA files found on audio CDs into the following formats: MP3 WAV Ogg Wma Free CD to MP3 [...]

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“Roundup: Ten Best Looking (Free!) Screen Savers” by Apartment Therapy Unplugged is a list of links to 10 free, stylish screen savers. Most of the highlighted screen savers are creative takes on clocks and calendars, but you will also find a Steve Jobs quotes screen saver, flying windows and a global news feed.

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If the time comes that you need to perform a few searches on zip codes, you may find yourself spending a lot of time sifting through search engine results trying to find a good tool that works well. Fortunately Of Zen and Computing has decided to do that job for you — we’ve cut through [...]

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iClipper is something like copy & paste for the iPhone. iClipper lives in your Safari bookmarks menu and lets you copy text from a web page and paste it into an e-mail. How to install iClipper iClipper is installed by adding it to the bookmarks menu of Safari on the computer with which you syn your iPhone. [...]

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Mobile Colloquy is a new app that brings portable Apple style and usability to the old school world of Internet Relay Chat. With Colloquy from the App Store, you can connect to IRC and chat right from your iPhone or iPod Touch. IRC basics Internet Relay Chat is a real-time chat system in which users connect to [...]

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CopyGator is a feed monitoring service that can let you know when your content is re-published elsewhere on the web. The CopyGator service analyzes millions of blog posts, compares their content and figures out which ones are similar and which ones are exact copies. The problem of duplicate content Anyone who publishes information on the web is [...]

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“My Facebook Nightmare” by Mark Neely is a play-by-play account of how a scam artist hacked the author’s Facebook account and used it to solicit money from his friends. The story teaches us to be skeptical of strange requests over the Internet, even from friends. Hacked Facebook account Mark Neely recently had his Facebook account hijacked and [...]

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Netflix is working with a variety of partners to further the next generation of video rental — on demand rentals delivered to your television over the Internet. One of the latest announcements regarding this effort is Netflix’s partnership with Microsoft to bring movies to your TV over Xbox Live. Requirements In order to rent movies and tv [...]

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The Firefox web browser can keep a multitude of web pages open in the same window under different tabs, and it has a handy set of keyboard shortcuts that let you quickly navigate between those tabs. Cycle through open tabs This first set of keyboard shortcuts for switching Firefox tabs is similar to ALT/CMD-Tab: Ctrl+Tab: Hold Ctrl and [...]

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DriveLook is free forensic data recovery software for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. DriveLook is able to scan a local drive, remote drive or drive image for any set of words you choose and display the results, along with their surrounding text. In an article about the program titled “Forensic Data Recovery [...]

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