Tag: DOWNLOADS

I was recently playing around with Windows Gadgets, trying to find a decent clock gadget for multiple timezones. Selection was pretty grim, and I ended up settling for an okay-looking gadget, just because I was sick and tired of searching. Then, I was reminded of TimeLeft; it's a true classic. It's one of those modest utilities that has been around pretty much forever (check out the Windows XP ...

Over at Popey.com there are a whole slew of new screenshots of the upcoming Ubuntu One Music Store, which will eventually appear in Ubuntu10.04 Lucid Lynx. It was widely reported that Amazon would provide the backend for the Music Store, but it now looks as though 7Digital will be handling things instead. I'm not surprised, as 7Digital is actually available in more countries. Amazon has, for ...

Download Manager Tweak is a pretty useful Firefox add-on. One thing that always kind of irked me is that I cannot delete downloads from within Firefox. Well, now I can! The add-on does quite a few more things. You can see your downloads in a window, sidebar or tab (a-la Opera). It's quite configurable; the toolbar at the top of the window can be toggled, for example. I'm more of a Download ...

Today is Safer Internet Day, an annual event coordinated by the folks at InSafe -- who are all about promoting responsible Internet use. We've covered a number of great tools in the past that have the same aim, so what better day to take another look at them? Web Of Trust (WOT, Pictured) WOT is a community-powered trust and ratings system. With nearly 26 million sites rated to date, it's one ...

Here at Download Squad, at least a few of us are in love with Dropbox for file-syncing, storage and sharing. It's a great app with a lot of uses, and after months of using it, I'm still discovering new Dropbox tricks. For example, Lifehacker just picked up on a way to start torrent downloads remotely via your Dropbox account. Let's say you're at work, and you don't want to download several ...

Panic claims that, with Unison, they've created the best Usenet reader for Mac. Well, they're absolutely right. Unison looks good enough to make Usenet seem like it belongs in 2010, and it's more functional than anything else out there. The new version 2 kicks things up a notch with new navigation features, a great threaded message view and a file search function. Let's be frank: people go to ...

While you may be familiar with Frostwire - the Gnutella app built on Limewire's open source code - you may not have heard about Frostclick before. It's an effort to give exposure to great free (legal) content like software, music, and videos which you can download, of course, using Frostwire (or your preferred client in most cases). Just over a year ago, Frostclick and Frostwire joined forces ...

Maybe you won't have the chance to get pumped and show off your gold RTM DVD like Steve Ballmer, but if you've got a TechNet/MSDN subscription your downloads are finally ready. This means that those of you with access who have (wisely) avoided downloading anything from other sources can now get in on the action. As you can see in the screenshot of my Google Reader feed, the Windows Automated ...

I'll admit I felt a little dirty after visiting MySpace for the first time in years, but I had a good reason. There's an announcement up at www.myspace.com/Windows with some good news for free music fans. In partnership with ReverbNation, they're giving away more than 1,000 free MP3 / M4A audio tracks. The goodies are all available at www.reverbnation.com/windows, and unlike a lot of massive ...

After years of trying to convince us that, no -- we really shouldn't want a way to watch YouTube content offline, the company has officially confirmed that they are rolling the ability to download YouTube videos. The program is still evolving, but right now, both free and paid downloads are available from a small list of providers. I'm can't help but be struck by a sense of ...

There's a new version of Google Chrome available for download. Well, sort of. It'll be a few days before Google pushes version 0.3.154.9 out to users, but you can download it today from FileHippo. The update brings a few security enhancements, including a fix for an exploit that could be used to redirect your browser. There's also a new warning message that pops up asking if you're sure you want ...

Now that torrent technology has become one of the most popular ways to distribute large files, it's important to find the right Bittorrent client. If you're on a Mac, that's Transmission. I used to be a fan of Azureus (now called Vuze), but I switched to Transmission because it's less cluttered and takes up a lot less screen real-estate. Transmission's not bare-bones in terms of features -- you ...

I love the RIAA. They make sure the hard working bands that record the music we love can still squeak out a living in the face of an ever-growing number of freeloading downloaders. Without them, how many talentless, lip-synching, manufactured performers would be able to afford homes in Orange County and multiple Bentleys? In the interest of helping our readers stay out of jail and avoid massive ...

When it comes to download management, it seems like Windows has always been ahead of OS X. That might still be true, but it's definitely up for debate, thanks to a very smart app called Leech. It's got the basic features that all good download managers provide: you can use it from within the browser, and it allows you to pause downloads, or resume them after a crash. Good start, but Leech really ...

When you go to download a file from the web using Internet Explorer, you can choose to save the file or run it from its current location (which basically means download the file to a temporary directory to run it without cluttering up your default download directory). But when you go to download the same file using Firefox, you can only save. There's no option to run the file. OpenDownload is a ...