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Quickly create Windows icons or scale images

Wed, 2009-07-22 01:01

All of us do spend a huge chunk of our day sitting in front of the computer staring at our desktop.

Our eyes have gone weary seeing the icons of my documents and my computer again and again.

Wouldn't it be nice to give the icons a personal touch?
Maybe put a picture of your idol or some cool picture.

Author: John Doe

Top 5 Windows FTP Clients

Sat, 2009-07-18 18:55

A FTP client is a basic necessity for the any developer.
FTP clients allow you to transfer data from the hard drive to the web hosting server.

A good client could easily update data, create mirrored sites and even help make quick changes at the host.

Author: John Doe

Windows bandwidth monitoring with Netstat Live

Sat, 2009-07-18 13:36

It would be handy to have some method to know the Internet usage and the bandwidth availability, since most of the Internet providers limit the user with a cap transfer.

Netstat Live is one such application which gives the user, the available bandwidth, the throughput of download and upload data, irrespective of using either a modem, cable modem, DSL, or even local network.

Author: John Doe

Firefox 3.5.1 Released

Sat, 2009-07-18 10:03

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.1 that fixes the annoying bug of long load times on Windows, closes some security holes and makes it a bit more stable.

Resources:
Download | Changelog | Release Notes

Author: CoolGoose

4 + 1 Free Quake like First Person Shooter Games

Thu, 2009-07-16 22:21

Here's a quick list of some pretty nice gameplay wise First Person Shooters (FPS) games that you can play on Windows, Mac, Linux.
They won't be visually gorgeous but you'll have lots of fun and the community in general is fantastic :)

Author: CoolGoose

VLC media player 1.0.0 Release

Tue, 2009-07-07 19:48

VideoLAN project announced the release of VLC media player 1.0.0
VLC media player 1.0.0 Ubuntu Linux
For those of you that don't know

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Resources:

Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

Battle of the Twitter clients: TweetDeck vs Seesmic Desktop

Sun, 2009-07-05 14:37

Anyone who is connected to the Internet knows that the most of the current business models should be modeled around social networks to provide a good PR, and Twitter right now is one of the most talked about platform.

Now with this in mind many companies brought forward many social platform applications that can connect and manage multiple accounts with popular networking sites.
TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop are two such applications,both offer a good set of features but which one is better? Lets take a look at both applications.

Author: John Doe

10 windows security tips for beginners

Fri, 2009-07-03 17:54

Well, aren't you tired of using tools that should offer you improved security but just make your system slower ?
Well here are a few tips for you to make your Windows a bit more safer and smoother.

Author: John Doe

3 Alternative CD Ripping applications on Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Wed, 2009-07-01 23:54

The age of the "mighty" Blu-ray discs is here but still ever wondered where you can get those free cd ripping softwares for your PC or Mac?
Well here's our choice of some alternative ripping software that you may or may not know about.

Author: John Doe

Firefox 3.5 Released

Tue, 2009-06-30 22:48

After several delays Firefox 3.1 3.5 is released.

Download | Firefox 3.5 Features

Author: CoolGoose
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