Free Utilities
Foxmarks Beta Available for Firefox 3
Foxmarks Beta is available for Firefox 3. Foxmarks is a Firefox extension - not only it uploads your bookmarks on your account (http://my.foxmarks.com) on the Web for easy access from any computer, Foxmarks also synchronizes them to your other computers as well.
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Foxmarks Beta is available for Firefox 3. Foxmarks is a Firefox extension - not only it uploads your bookmarks on your account (http://my.foxmarks.com) on the Web for easy access from any computer, Foxmarks also synchronizes them to your other computers as well.
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When One Webcam is Not Enough
It is common that computer user might have multi sessions of Instant messaging clients, while most of them support video chat, only one client can use the Webcam at a particular instant. But that can be changed with the new freeware ManyCam.
ManyCam is an utility that creates a “virtual” Webcam, which replicates your currently [...]
It is common that computer user might have multi sessions of Instant messaging clients, while most of them support video chat, only one client can use the Webcam at a particular instant. But that can be changed with the new freeware ManyCam.
ManyCam is an utility that creates a “virtual” Webcam, which replicates your currently installed camera. It then lets multiple applications access the video stream without conflict.
Once you’ve installed it, you need to set ManyCam as the primary input for program that you want to use. The program comes with some fun features such background customization, overlaid fun cartoon eyes, movement tracking.. Download HERE! (thanks Scott B.)
DivX on the Go
DivX is a highly compressed video format. You can either purchase a DivX Certified Mobile Phone, puchase Coreplayer, get the free TCPMP or download the free DivX Mobile Player at the DivX labs.
You can convert your own video to the DivX format by downloading PocketDivXEncoder, Dr. DivX or DivX Converter. If don’t have any [...]
DivX is a highly compressed video format. You can either purchase a DivX Certified Mobile Phone, puchase Coreplayer, get the free TCPMP or download the free DivX Mobile Player at the DivX labs.
You can convert your own video to the DivX format by downloading PocketDivXEncoder, Dr. DivX or DivX Converter. If don’t have any content or you need video now and don’t want to wait, check out the DivX Mobile Media site. On your phone, go to mm.divx.com
An updated Beta version of DivX Mobile Player .90 is now available for Windows Mobile Professional and Windows Mobile Standard. There is no update for Symbian at this time, but check back for an update soon. There is no version available for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Garnet OS phones.
To see whether your current phone will support the DivX Mobile Player check out the technical section of the FAQ.
2 Great Free Utilities: CCleaner and PC Decrapifier
Give the Feng Shui feel to your new (and not so new) PC with 2 great simple cleaning utilities:
PC Decrpifier: Remove all the bloatware packages that you find on a new PC you buy. The utility is a simple executable that doesn’t even require installation. The version 1.9.1 has just been released. Some of [...]
Give the Feng Shui feel to your new (and not so new) PC with 2 great simple cleaning utilities:
PC Decrpifier: Remove all the bloatware packages that you find on a new PC you buy. The utility is a simple executable that doesn’t even require installation. The version 1.9.1 has just been released. Some of the newly detected apps are: Norton 360, Microsoft Office 2007 Trial and Activation Assistant, Quickbooks Financial Center, Napster, Memeo nt Games (again!) and Symantec LiveUpdate.
- CCleaner: Quickly get back easily few hundreds MB of your hard drive. The new version adds support for the Firefox 3 beta plus performance improvements and bug fixes. CCleaner scans your PC for unnecessary temporary and log files, cookies, memory dumps, etc.
Free VITO FindMe: Send Your Location to Your Friend
VITO FindMe is a free GPS utility for Windows Mobile Device that will help your friends immediately find your location just by sending an SMS.
After installing VITO FindMe you set a codeword and give it to your friends. They just send you an SMS with this codeword and in return receive an SMS [...]
VITO FindMe is a free GPS utility for Windows Mobile Device that will help your friends immediately find your location just by sending an SMS.
After installing VITO FindMe you set a codeword and give it to your friends. They just send you an SMS with this codeword and in return receive an SMS with your coordinates. Now all they need to do is to input the coordinates into the search box at Google Maps and see your location.
This free utility works on Windows Mobile 2003(SE)/ 5.0/ 6.0 Smartphone with built-in GPS receiver or external Bluetooth GPS receiver.
Download and get the free registration code HERE!
Harmony Media Player with 3-D CoverFlow Album Art
We assume you have iTunes program installed on your Windows Vista PC. Harmony is a media player that extracts from iTunes library (presumably located in the My Music folder). Harmony uses the 3D capability of Windows Vista to exhibit an unique 3-D CoverFlow style album art. As bonus, Harmony uses Amazon API to get all [...]
We assume you have iTunes program installed on your Windows Vista PC. Harmony is a media player that extracts from iTunes library (presumably located in the My Music folder). Harmony uses the 3D capability of Windows Vista to exhibit an unique 3-D CoverFlow style album art. As bonus, Harmony uses Amazon API to get all your missing album arts for you!
The media player uses Windows media player technology. Files based on MPEG-4 (.m4a) or Apple’s music format (.aac) will be displayed by the application but not playable. To play these files in Harmony, try the media player plugin (free) from Corban.
Harmony via LifeHacker
Twit Today: Twitter Plug-in for Windows Mobile
A quick way to update your Tweed with this lightweight Today Plug-in called Twit Today.
You can enter your update right on the Today screen and click OK to send.
In case you need to see other Tweeds or your timeline, click on the twitter logo, it launches your default browser at the mobile Twitter site [...]
A quick way to update your Tweed with this lightweight Today Plug-in called Twit Today.
You can enter your update right on the Today screen and click OK to send.
In case you need to see other Tweeds or your timeline, click on the twitter logo, it launches your default browser at the mobile Twitter site http://m.twitter.com/
Note: Install in memory is required. To set your username and password, go to the Options dialog for “Twit Today” from the Today screen control panel applet. Download Twit Today HERE!
Google Docs 100% Offline/Online
Google Docs, an online version of the Office Suite from Google (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation), now has 100% online/offline capability.
Google initial offering of offline capability was limited to viewing/editing word processing documents only.
When you are offline, just click on your Google Docs desktop icon and know that your Word documents, presentations and spreadsheets [...]
Google Docs, an online version of the Office Suite from Google (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation), now has 100% online/offline capability.
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Google initial offering of offline capability was limited to viewing/editing word processing documents only. When you are offline, just click on your Google Docs desktop icon and know that your Word documents, presentations and spreadsheets will be stored on your computer, at your fingertips. Unfortunately only support English language access for now. |
[Source Google Docs Blog]
Microsoft Live Search Mobile
Mobile search platform is getting lots of attention from Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Each company offers similar services mainly around local search, maps, directions, etc..
Microsoft Live search offers client app reside on Windows Mobile and Blackberry. For other phones, user have to rely on their mobile Internet browser to use the services.
Using this [...]
Mobile search platform is getting lots of attention from Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Each company offers similar services mainly around local search, maps, directions, etc..
Microsoft Live search offers client app reside on Windows Mobile and Blackberry. For other phones, user have to rely on their mobile Internet browser to use the services.
Using this client app, user can:
Search/Save/Playback Flash Videos With mooFlair AIR
mooFlair is an Adobe AIR app. It is built on AIR runtime platform meaning it can run online or offline from your desktop. This application helps you to manage (search, aggregate video RSS, download and watch both online and offline Flash-based (.flv) videos.
The RSS section allows to browse each categorized RSS Feeds or [...]
mooFlair is an Adobe AIR app. It is built on AIR runtime platform meaning it can run online or offline from your desktop. This application helps you to manage (search, aggregate video RSS, download and watch both online and offline Flash-based (.flv) videos.
The RSS section allows to browse each categorized RSS Feeds or search directly from the most popular video content providers (YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, etc..). You can hover the mouse over the search results to play back; save, etc..
Existing .flv files including h.264 encoded videos can be imported to mooFlair.
The player window is resizable to your liking. The author kindly creates a Web based demo for test run.
