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Ever notice how the right-click menu in Firefox (and most other applications for that matter) is full of options you never really need? And the more add-ons you install, the longer your list of options gets. If you never find yourself using "View Page in ex Ext App," Menu Editor can help you clean ... Read more »

So, after years of speculation it turns out that there just may be something to this global warming thing that all the cool kids are talking about. Hard to believe, isn't it? Most of us probably thought it was just like that killer bee scare that used to be all over the news. They were supposed to ... Read more »

Microsoft announced two Windows Mobile updates today. First, a Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 will be available starting in June on devices from HTC, Sharp, and Toshiba. The bigger news is that Office Mobile 2007 will be available as a free download in the third quarter of this year. It ... Read more »

SimpleGTD is another in long list of online task management tools that attempt to adhere to David Allen's Getting Things Done system. On the surface, it's incredibly appealing; the makers of SimpleGTD have used Ruby on Rails to create a system that is stripped of the extraneous gunk that seems to ... Read more »

Mashable is an excellent blog that covers news at social networking web sites. And from the you are what you eat file, Mashable today has launched its own social network at my.mashable.com. Basically, My Mashable lets you share all of your social network accounts in one place. Well, not all of them, ... Read more »

Now that internet TV platform Joost is actually signing deals to get content you might actually want to watch from CBS, MTV, Comedy Central and other networks, you might be wondering how to watch Joost on your TV set. While Joost really does make watching online videos a bit more like watching TV ... Read more »

The folks at lifehack.org, (not LifeHacker.com) have cooked up the 17 best Firefox extensions that will make blogging easy. I'm sure you've seen some of these before, but just in case you haven't seen them all, they are: Google Notebook Session Manager coComment Speak It DocuFarm ... Read more »

LogMeIn has some lovin' for us Mac users, and has released an early preview of LogMeIn for the Mac platform. It seems "preview" is replacing "beta" as the label of choice for early release software these days. If you've used LogMeIn on a PC in the past, the experience of using it on a Mac will feel ... Read more »

Rssfwd is a web-service based tool which sends RSS feeds to your email, if that's your thing. Working people are getting highly saturated with mountains of email, and many still prefer it to the wilds of web 2.0 newness. Rssfwd caters to this subset of people, making email an interesting and ... Read more »

How many times have you wanted a way to change Windows XP's color scheme? Blue is nice, olive and silver are also good for a change when you get sick of blue, but what if orange, purple, or black is your favorite color, and you want your computer's desktop scheme to reflect that? Do you revert ... Read more »

Elaborate productivity tools are great but sometimes it's easy to get caught up tweaking them instead of actually being, you know, productive. Check Off is a handy little Mac-only tool that docks a simple check-off list in your menu bar and opens with just one click to remind you of all the tasks ... Read more »

Great day in the morning. Julie Amero -- formerly convicted pop-up porn teacher -- won a motion for a new trial under the order of Superior Court Judge Hillary B. Strackbein. State's Attorney Mark Smith -- who was responsible for Amero's previous conviction -- says the state will likely hold no ... Read more »

Democracy Player 0.9.6 is out, and the open source media player has added a host of new features for finding and watching videos on the internet or stored on your computer. Here's some of the new features: Democracy Player 0.9.6 fixes some compatibility issues with Windows Vista. Folder ... Read more »

You can take your web surfing to a whole new visual extreme with SpaceTime, a new PC software application that enables 3D searching, shopping and browsing. The images are loaded in visual stacks so you can see 10 results, each in their own window, all in a nifty 3D card shuffle. If you want to ... Read more »

Are you a female who is sick of reading Digg and finding that all the content was aimed at males? Wouldn't you rather be reading topics about aimed directly at women? No? What's that? You check Digg because tech savvy women are pretty much interested in the same thing as the men? Oh. Well. Um. ... Read more »

Last month in Portland, Oregon, approximately 250 people convened on Cubespace, a co-working space, for BarCamp Portland 1. BarCamp, if you aren't familiar, is an unconference - an Open and free event whose content and direction is decided by its participants. It's a great way for people to come ... Read more »

Finally someone, more specifically Ms. Del Cid has filed counterclaims against the RIAA under Florida, California, and Federal law. She's tired of the RIAA's nonsense and decided to uphold her right to defend herself and ultimately others, if this case turns out right. The claims Ms. Cid is bringing ... Read more »