Tag: FREEWARE

Opera 10.63 is now available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you already use Opera, it should have informed you that there's a recommended update available, or it may have downloaded and installed it by itself (if you previously allowed it to do that without asking). There are no new bells and whistles in this version, but there are many security enhancements, bug fixes and various ...

With all of the social networking and "check-in" services that are available these days, you might think you've seen it all. But there's one currently untapped, check-in-able experience left and that's media. GetGlue, a free app by AdaptiveBlue, thinks it has that niche covered, and in essence, it's like Foursquare for media. The idea is that every time you watch a TV show or movie, listen to ...

HTCSense.com is now available for owners of the upcoming HTC Desire HD and Desire Z smartphones. It's meant to be an online dashboard for your device and includes features such as contacts and SMS sync, remote locking and wiping, app recommendations and more. The service has some neat tricks up its sleeve. There are two ways of locating your device in case you've misplaced it: you can either ...

In true Apple style, FaceTime is both a neat reinvention of a previously uninteresting space and a service that comes with certain limitations. So if being constrained to Wi-Fi-only video calling and only if both ends use either an iPhone 4 or the newest iPod Touch are the kinds of things that annoy you and only hinder your use of mobile video chat, rather than make the whole experience user ...

Alexander Støver is a Norwegian musician and the man behind Binaerpilot, a pro-piracy 'chip music from the future' project, as he describes it. He's been at this since 2002, but now he's finished a full electro album called Nordland. Nordland is available to download for free from Binaerpilot in MP3 or FLAC form or can be listened to on Last.fm and Jamendo. The most popular songs seem ...

While I'm as excited as the next guy about Twitter's new Web interface, one shortcoming that I'd really like to see fixed soon is Twitter's lack of archiving. If you're not aware, once you get over 3,000 tweets on Twitter, you'll find that your oldest tweets start to disappear. Apparently, Twitter isn't purging them, and they still have them somewhere in their database -- but at that point, they ...

TimeComX is fairly similar to Shutdown Timer; the main differences are in the UI and the name. So, in a nutshell, it lets you perform an operation (run a program, restart, shutdown, lock the computer, play an audio file, etc.) when something happens. That "something" can be a timer running out or some "usage threshold" being crossed (for example, CPU level exceeds 25%). If I recall correctly, ...

Ahh, ... feature bloat, how we love thee. There used to be a time when Foobar2000 was the scrappy, fast, agile player on the market. It was up against Winamp, which had become so bloated that it was almost a joke. Today, years later, here's Foobar2000 weighing in at 29MB of RAM on my system. That's with the stock UI, no fancy skinning, and very few add-ons enabled (just the ones that come with ...

ClipUpload is definitely one of the neater tools that I've seen today. Once you fire it up, it nestles in a comfy spot in your system tray and waits. When you decide you want to send somebody a file, an image, or a long snippet of text, you just copy that file to your clipboard and click ClipUpload's icon once. That single click makes ClipUpload instantly upload your file to an online host ...

I recently went on a search to find a good color picker for Windows that was both portable and fast so that I could stop making the trip to Photoshop whenever I needed to find a color value. After trying a number of different applications, I was delighted to find ColorPix (an app from ColorSchemer, who is the developer behind the previously mentioned ColorSchemer Studio 2). ColorPix has an ...

What the Zuk is a (very) occasional feature, in which I review software that I have been using for many years, and which is instrumental for my work. These are the first tools I install on every new system, the reliable work-horse applications I turn to for every need. In every installment I will try to explain what makes this particular program special, and why I find it so vital for my ...

Shutdown Timer is a utility which shuts down your computer, logs you off, runs a file or does any number of other things once the CPU goes above or beyond a certain threshold, or the network downstream or upstream passes a threshold, et cetera. In simple terms, it's a tool which lets you shut down your computer once your downloads complete for the night. I've covered it before, but a new version ...

FreeApps is a software catalog with a twist. It has a ton of quality, freeware/open source offerings that are sorted by category. You browse the catalog, and then you tick the box next to every application that you'd like to install. You then hit Get Installer and download a small file (about 0.5MB). Run the file, and it downloads all of the applications that you've marked and sets them all up, ...

Nonags is a very, very old website, but it's still going strong. It is one of the most useful resources on the Web for real freeware. The utilities do what they're supposed to do, and they don't nag you to upgrade or spy on you. Nonags has a classic "directory" structure. It's divided into categories such as Audio and Video, Essentials, Internet, Office, etc. The site looks very no-frills and old ...

Foobar2000, the hard-core Swiss-army knife of the Windows music player world, has recently released version 1.1, which introduces a major new feature: Automatic component updates and removal, right from the UI. This is a big deal because Foobar2000 is extremely modular. There are components for just about anything, from playing files directly from within 7z archives, all the way to changing the ...