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Evri.com: Zeitgeist for news

Robert Headley — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST

Every year Google releases a zeitgeist, a list of everything that is popular on the web based on their search data. But what if once a year just isn't enough for you? Then you turn to Evri.

Evri is a site currently in beta that uses news sources on the web to chart the popularity of different subjects in the categories of People, Places and Things. Clicking on the individual circles in the flow chart opens up a list of news articles in which they appear. Using Evri.com is certainly one way to keep up to date on whats hot and what's not.

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Google's social graph

Robert Headley — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST

Brad Fitzpatrick, the developer responsible for Livejournal and OpenID is up to it again. This time, he let us know on the Google Code blog, that the API for Social Graph is now available.

Social Graph is an API that functions like a Pagerank for social relationships. The idea is that when you join a new social network you don't have to manually add previous relationships because it can populate your list based on your connections from other networks, your blog, or the web.

Social Graph works by indexing sites that use the XFN (XHTML Friends Network) and FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) open standards in order to gauge relationships between people.

Filed under: Developer, Web services

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TUGzip: Decompress anything

Robert Headley — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:00:00 EST

Have no idea what an ACE file is? Got a few ISO files laying around but you have no idea what they are? Well peek inside using Freeware archival utility TUGZip. TUGZip opens every archive format you could possibly care about, and several more, you probably don't.

Archive formats - ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1
Disc image formats - BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and Nero's NRG

TUGZip can also create archives in most of these formats, Including self extracting archives. All the wile using a 3 pane explorer interface (or you can change it via options to a more standard one or two pane. TUGzip also includes an explorer context addon, so you can compress files into your favorite archive, without even having to open the program. All of this, and blazing fast too.

[ via Ghacks ]

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Crossloop: Remote Desktop for everyone.

Robert Headley — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST

Crossloop is a remote desktop application with an easy to understand interface. You can literally get up and running in minutes without knowing a thing about ports or protocols.

There are other applications that will let you connect to another PC over ther internet like LogmeIn or VNC. But neither is as easy to use as Crossloop. Normally, remote desktop applications require that the host PC to run a server which can be complicated to set up, not so with Crossloop. The person needing assistance just installs crossloop and runs the main application, then goes to share, and gives the access code to whoever is helping them. That person then enters access code and all the difficult stuff is handled by the Crossloop server.

Crossloop recently created a social network, connecting people who have problems with people who want to fix them. You can even build up expertise, a type of karma system that reflects on how effective you are.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Beta

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Defraggler drops a beta, picks up 64-bit support

Robert Headley — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST

Defraggler, a free Defrag utility from Piriform, the makers of CCleaner and Recuva has released a new beta.

Unlike the default windows defragmenter, Defraggler allows you to defrag individual files or folders. Often, if a program isn't running smoothly, it just needs a quick defrag and its ready to go. All with a beautiful (and colorful) GUI. Heres some of the changes.

More stable
Added support for multiple drive maps
added 64-bit support
USB drive support
UI Tweaks

A single EXE, Defraggler is portable. So it works just fine from a removable USB drive.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Beta

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Split Browser: Because sometimes, tabs just aren't enough

Robert Headley — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:00:00 EST

We love us some Firefox. It's open source, relatively exploit free, and extensible, so you can make it whatever you want. It's also not Internet Explorer; So that's a plus.

What really helped to establish Firefox as the favorite of the tech savvy is tabs. But sometimes, your strengths can be your weakness. Ever try to follow information from several tabs at the same time? Enter Split Browser by Shimoda Hiroshi.

Split Browser is a Firefox extension that allows you to have multiple websites on the screen at once. It also enables some pretty heavy productivity enhancements. For example, there is a tack like icon in the top left corner of each frame, that allows you to scroll simultaneously in several frames at once. And you get all this without opening up a dozen tabs.

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla

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