eBay Seller Taking Advantage of Open Source Software

A seller on eBay is offering well-known, easily (and freely) obtainable open source Windows applications. The applications are going for $10 per item to $15 for a "software power pack" which contains programs like The GIMP, Audacity, and even Mozilla Firefox. We should be educating people about open source, not charging them for it.

read more | digg story

Available Now - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta Download

While playing around with Adobe Labs website download URL's and found this page to get the Photoshop CS3 beta before its officially released sometime tomorrow. Good luck, I already downloaded a copy of the Mac and Windows version.

read more | digg story

Ultimate List of over 150 (!) Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now. My favorites: FolderShare (a P2P application to synchronize folders with other users (or your devices)), Virtual Desktop Manager, Alt-Tab Replacement (however I think that TaskSwitch XP is better) and ISO recorder

read more | digg story

URL Fixer: Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

URL Fixer is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com -asking first, if you enable confirmation. (via DownloadSquad and LifeHacker)

read more | digg story

Making Labels with Openoffice.org Templates - Tech-Recipes.com

Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc. but they really make life easier when you use them for labels. The spacing for your label documents has to be extraordinarily precise to make sure that the text is printed exactly where it needs to be. This Howto will help you use Openoffice.org templates...

read more | digg story

Slickr (Flickr Screen Saver)

Slickr is an OpenGL flickr screen saver that shows images by: user (favorites, set, tags, contacts), groups, or everyone (tags, recent). It can also display local images. For ideas on groups and tags, go to the flickr explore page at http://flickr.com/explore/

read more | digg story

What's New For You in Photoshop CS3

In each version of Photoshop, Adobe releases features that are of use to different types of users. Some features are tailor-made for photographers, for example, while others are better suited for designers. Let's take a look at who will benefit from some of the new features in Photoshop CS3.

read more | digg story

Have your own photo gallery in 5 minutes using free software

Do you like gallery tools such as Flickr, but want to control your photos, or get rid of any of their limits? Now you can have your own custom gallery using PHP, a script called Picy, and 5 minutes of your time!

read more | digg story

blummyWiki - personal wiki via bookmarklet

Blummy the bookmarklet management bookmarklet has received a major upgrade. The blummyWiki is a personal notebook that can be used to store notes or favorite URLs. The cool thing: as it's stored on a server it can be shared between browsers and computers.

read more | digg story

Host your own photo gallery with Gallery2

This week, I'll show you how to install Gallery2, a free, open source web application that lets you publish and manage your digital images for web consumption on your own web server, whether it's your home server or hosted account.

read more | digg story

New WP Tiger Admin 3.0 Released

The WordPress Tiger Admin plugin has been updated to version 3.0. It's been completely redesigned, and has much better compatibility with the newest WordPress features.

read more | digg story

Gallery 1.5.4 Released

Version 1.5.4 of the popular PHP photo publishing software has been released. Primarily a bug fix release this time around, with definately worth checking out!

read more | digg story

Democracy Player 0.8.5 Released (including an Intel-Mac Version)

A new version of Democracy Player, the most popular dedicated video RSS client, was released today. IN THIS RELEASE: a new Intel-Mac version, stand-alone torrent support, fullscreen controls on Windows, and an advanced 1-Click subscription system. Democracy Player is 100% free / open source and is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

read more | digg story

DocMAN Categories

This tutorial will show you how to add a category in DocMAN

read more | digg story

Register using a fake email address - then grab the emails from dodgeit.com

To avoid spam, send your registration forms to *(anything)*@dodgeit.com, then go to dodgeit.com and type in *(anything)*. Your email will be available with complete anonymity. No prior setup or login required.

read more | digg story

New Firefox Digg Extension (Dugged)

Adds a duggmirror link to websites listed on digg.com.

read more | digg story

Software for Starving Students 2007.01 Released

The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at: http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html -- Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). They have best-in-class programs gathered onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows).

read more | digg story

BadVista.org: Tagging Vista at Amazon.com

The BadVista campaign is encouraging supporters to take a minute and visit the Amazon page for each of the Vista versions and leave tags that express their opinion about the software, so that other potential users will have a chance to learn about the unadvertised Vista “features” that lock them out of their own computer.

read more | digg story

Fauxto.com: Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor

This is the first online image editor that I know of that includes photoshop-style layers. It is still in early beta at this time, but it shows a lot of promise

read more | digg story

Digg.com worth $106 Million Youtube worth $969 Million - Whats your site?

dnScoop is a many domain tools wrapped into one convent package. A domain traffic tool, a domain whois tool, a domain history, a domain popularity, domain appraisal (site value report), a link value appraisal (link value report), pagerank check, an inbound links count, an indexed pages check and more.

read more | digg story

Deligio.com - Discover and share software

This week the Dutch new start-up Deligio launched a new search engine which focuses on finding software. Deligio enables the user to easily search and find software, shareware and freeware.

read more | digg story

Make XP Look Like Vista

Despite Windows Vista being out for a few months now, not everyone is ready or willing to make the big "switch" just yet. Some people are waiting for the time to buy a new PC, some are not upgrading because their hardware isn't up to it, and some well.....just don't want to. So I'm going to show you how to get a Vista-like desktop on XP.

read more | digg story

How to Build Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) with single Boot Screen wpics

This is a tutorial with lots of screenshots on how to build a triple boot system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft) with a single boot manager. + wiping HDD, installing, backing up GRUB's MBR, modifying boot.ini and Vista's bcdedit records. I hope you'll like it.

read more | digg story

Google content blocker (humorous)

why see anything but ads?

read more | digg story

iTunes 7 breaks OurTunes and inhibits open sharing

The widely distributed update to Apple's popular music app: iTunes 7, leaves many users in the dark. Users of pre-7.0 versions are no longer able to browse music on the same local network. Also, the popular java-based application OurTunes is rendered useless if your target library uses v7. Lets work together to find a fix.

read more | digg story

Live Documents is Powerful Stuff

A new service called Live Documents allows Windows PC users with Office already installed on their computer to syncronize documents across multiple users over the Internet. The next step for Live Documents should be to look for a partner amongst the online office players to make their service work across applications as well.

read more | digg story

Firefox Pop-up Notepad Bookmarklet

This is a cool little bookmarklet with which you can make a quick text note in a pop-up and save it directly from your browser. Thanks to Baris Unver for the inspirational spark.

read more | digg story

Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

read more | digg story

Simple hack to disable USB drives in XP - Perfect for public machines

A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards.

read more | digg story

New release of My Exposé, an Exposé-like application for Windows Vista

Simon Ferquel has released a new version of My Exposé, the application that provides a similar feature to Mac's Exposé, giving you an overview of all open windows on your screen. Display your windows using the keyboard, the mouse or even your voice! This is still a pre-release (he calls it CTP) version, but it's pretty stable and bug-free.

read more | digg story

Zestr: A Free AJAX Based Book, Movie, Music and Game Organiser

With Zestr you can organise all your books, movies, music and games online. You can even import your collections from Delicious Library to save you having to enter them all again! RSS feeds let you access your collections externally (such as from your blog).In a beta stage at the moment so why not grab an account (free!) and help shape it.

read more | digg story

Google's Silent Monopoly Redux (Google Responds - Issues Public Statement)

Based on the thoroughness of the statement and the use of the word "precedent" in the second sentence, it appears that the Google PR team huddled with the legal team and issued a statement.....

read more | digg story

Drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons!

Free program that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to re-order them! No extra hotkey or lame extra steps, just drag 'n drop... sooo useful.

read more | digg story

111 free Photoshop plugins

The Plugin Site (aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. Take your pick from categories such as Image Effects, Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each plugin is rated according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you can easily see if the plugin is Mac or Windows compatible...

read more | digg story

rbtestdox - TestDox for Ruby

Ruby port to TestDox.

read more | digg story

Dabble Commons - Free version of their online database package

Dabble, a paid web based database just released a free version. Functionally, it’s the same as the paid service except that data you keep in a free application is publicly accessible. Their paying customers pay for private databases. So if you have some public information you want in a database this is good news!

read more | digg story

XBList

Check out your XBox Live Friends list on your desktop in buddy-list form, complete with your friends' Halo 2 Emblems and quick links to their Halo 2 stats.

read more | digg story

Gallery 2.1.2 Security Fix Release

This release adds no new features. It fixes a minor information leakage in Gallery 2.1 and 2.1.1a and a major session ID disclosure in all versions prior to Gallery 2.1. Note that these flaws only affect installations where Gallery's storage folder is accessible directly from the web, which we strongly discourage during the installation process.

read more | digg story

Digg All bookmarklet: Lets you digg all stories submitted by your friends

My friend and bookmarklet meister Jesse came up with this cool bookmarklet that lets you automatically digg all the stories that your friends have submitted.

read more | digg story

New math-library: Eigen 0.9.1 released

Eigen is a lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra: vectors, matrices, solving systems of equations... It's very complete apidocumentation shows its mature state already: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~jacob/eigen/dox/

read more | digg story

Opera Mini 3.0 out now

The beta period is over, Opera Mini 3.0 is now available for download, almost as an early birthday present for me. If you have a Java MIDP-capable mobile phone, this is the application you should have installed. Opera Mini gives you access to the full web on almost all mobile phones, at least the ones with Java and data support, and not just a smal

read more | digg story

Great anti-piracy message (picture)

A funny anti-piracy message I recently came across from the makers of USB overdrive.

read more | digg story

HOWTO Drupal with LDAP authentication

Drupal has a fantastic feature, the hook_auth to allow any third party to interact in the authentication process. This is used to authenticate against other Drupal sites over XMLRPC, it is used in the experimental openID integration, to allow authentication against any database, and so on. And off course to authenticate against an LDAP directory, u

read more | digg story

DocMAN Files

This tutorial will show you how to add a file in DocMAN

read more | digg story

Top ten tips for a successful Intranet

So you're thinking of building an Intranet? The question is, how can you make something that everybody uses and that actually achieves your goals? What? You're not sure what your goals are yet? Well that's probably the biggest mistake of all failed Intranet projects.

read more | digg story

Fun with ASCII image conversion

I was pretty bored at work, so I made this image to ASCII conversion site.Check it out and give me some suggestions!

read more | digg story

Firefox or Internet Explorer? Rocketboom Interviews New Yorkers

Which do you use... Firefox or Internet Explorer? Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom interviews New Yorkers. You might find their answers interesting.

read more | digg story

SmartSetr, A Better Way to Build Sets on Flickr, Seriously Rocks!

Eric Appel has developed one of the best Flickr apps I've seen yet. It's called SmartSetr and it allows you to use Smart Sets to organize your sets on Flickr. Smart Sets are a far more efficient way to build sets and allows you to build sets based on tags rather than having to go through Flickr's organizer and add each manually going forward.

read more | digg story