March 2009
101 posts
Gmail to Get Multilingual Translation [Rumors] →
Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their…
Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post →
One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you’re a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great…
XWindows Dock Provides an OS X-Style Dock in... →
Windows only: If the application dock on your friend’s Mac fills you with envy, you might want to check out XWindows Dock, a full-featured OSX dock clone. XWindows Dock certainly isn’t the…
Google Contacts Gets a Proper Standalone Page... →
We pointed out a standalone Google Contacts page once before that used a URL from deep inside Gmail, but it looks like since then Google has made it even simpler to access your contacts: Just…
Customize Your Gmail Labels with Unicode... →
Inspired by previously mentioned tinyarro.ws URL-shortening service, reader David decided to try inserting helpful Unicode characters in his Gmail labels to give more context to each…
Magnifique Customizes Your OS X Theme [Downloads] →
Mac OS X only: Not keen on Leopard’s default theme, or just prefer to ditch the status quo for something more your style? Free application Mangifique quickly and easily swaps custom…
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education... →
It’s easy to forget these days that the internet started out as a place for academics and researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with these free…
Hunch: Flickr Founder to Turn Indecision into... →
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake has revealed her new startup, Hunch.
The goal of the service is to help people make decisions by using a series of questions (a decision tree) that can…
Connect with your Extended Family on Facebook →
Facebook has made it easy for you to connect with other family members who may or may not be part of the social networking site yet. You can go to this page and create a private group on Facebook…
Apple Begins Selling Contract-Free iPhones at... →
First it was AT&T selling iPhones off-contract, which suggested a stock clear-out, and now it’s Apple, which all but confirms the sell-off.
Apple began selling contract-free iPhones at…
Install Ubuntu on a White MacBook [Dual Boot] →
It’s not too hard to install Ubuntu (just out with a new beta) on most computers. MacBooks, however, have a few unique quirks, especially if you want to keep OS X. FOSSwire has a thorough…
Using Google APIs in an iPhone App →
Shared by Baljinder
Good tutorial for anyone interested in doing iPhone app development based on Google API.
Guest post by Tom Saxton, Idle Loop Software Design
In September, my small software…
Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing... →
Google Docs takes another step toward becoming a proper document tool, adding a full-fledged find and replace toolbar, as well as a browser-based SVG drawing tool. Docs had a kind of…
ScreenToaster - Online screen recorder. Capture... →
Free Online Screen Recorder
Share Netflix Ratings on Facebook →
Netflix API is resulting in some cool mashups lately. The other day we wrote about semantic movie search engine Jinni making use of the API. Today, Netflix has announced integration with…
Use Macros to Control Your Computer with Your... →
Windows Vista only: The Vista for Beginners weblog walks through the process of setting up and using speech recognition macros that save you time by automating keystrokes with a voice…
Fizy Finds and Plays MP3s on the Web Quickly... →
Free music search engine and player Fizy doesn’t do playlists, offer downloads, or fancy looks. What it does have is more than 75 billion MP3s in its index (supposedly), and a really fast…
Free Online Invitations and Party Planning with... →
Party planning and online invitations to plan an exceptional event.
Search Google Images by Color [Google School] →
Weblog Google Operating System points out a new search option in Google Image Search that filters images by color. Color search isn’t available as an operator yet, but a simple URL…
8 Javascript solutions to common CSS problems →
CSS are definitely a great technique for web designers and web developpers. Though, cross-browser problems and lack of CSS3 support in modern browsers are a real problem for your creativity. Today, I…
100 Free Useful Mac Applications (Part I) | Tools →
“toread” is an email-based free bookmark service. You can bookmark your “toread” web pages by just clicking the bookmarklet on your brow …
OpenStreetMap Provides Open Source Maps [Maps] →
For a quick set of directions it’s tough to beat Google Maps, but what if you need to use the map data for publishing or other projects? OpenStreetMap is free, editable, and remix-friendly. …
Australians who live on slumdog millionaires’ row - and love it. http://tr.im/hCG2
Lifehacker, Gizmodo Blogs Now Available Under... →
Lifehacker, Gizmodo Blogs Now Available Under Creative Commons
Some good news here.
All content published on popular Gawker blogs like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, etc. is now available under a …
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 →
IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems. http://tr.im/hzxs
Twitter Tip: Add a ‘Tweet This’ Link to your Blog... →
Twitter Tip: Add a ‘Tweet This’ Link to your Blog on WordPress or Blogger
Twitter can be a great source of traffic for your blog. To give you an example, my article on bookmarklets was on…
Why Everyone on Twitter Needs NutShellMail →
Why Everyone on Twitter Needs NutShellMail
NutShellMail, in a nutshell, is a free web based service that helps you manage* one or more Twitter accounts via email.
The service will…
Get Birthday Reminders of Orkut Friends in Google... →
Get Birthday Reminders of Orkut Friends in Google Calendar
If most of your friends and family members have a presence on Orkut, you’ll be happy to know that you can now track their birthdays in…
Get YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp Previews... →
Google’s been busy making sure you never have to leave their products to view the content your friends share with you. They recently made YouTube videos watchable in Gmail chat, and now…
Avira AntiVir Updates to Version 9, Adds Spyware... →
Windows only: Avira AntiVir is one of the most popular antivirus applications available, and the latest upgrade to version 9—which adds anti-spyware and anti-adware features to the free…
iPhone 3.0 Might Include Copy & Paste [Rumors] →
Digg founder Kevin Rose apparently let go with some rumors about where this Tuesday’s iPhone 3.0 software update will take Apple’s smartphone. If what Rose said at his Diggnation SXSW party…
Premium App Store Rumors Surface Once Again →
On the eve of the iPhone 3.0 event, rumors are once again circulating that Apple will introduce a Premium section of the iTunes App Store, in order to provide a venue for developers to…
Calibre Manages Your E-Book Collection [Downloads] →
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’ve got a virtual pile of e-books but no good way to organize them, Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, complete with Cover Flow-like looks and network sharing. …
Last.FM Downloader Lets You Download Last.FM... →
Windows only: Last.FM Downloader is a lightweight application for grabbing music from the popular streaming music service Last.FM and saving it for local use. Unlike some of the similar…
PDF-to-Word Web Tool Open to All [Conversion] →
PDF-to-Word, the free, surprisingly accurate conversion tool we’ve previously demonstrated, moves out of closed beta and is open to all. The operation remains the same: upload a file, choose…
To English Bookmarklet Quickly, Easily Translates... →
We’ve been all about Google Translate ever since it introduced automatic language detection, but language detection isn’t the default, and even then, it could be streamlined. Enter the To…
Put News On Your Desktop With GeekTool [GeekTool] →
Mac OS X only: Reader Rodolfo Novak posts a useful script to add RSS feeds to your desktop using the GeekTool desktop overlay tool. Yesterday Rodolfo showed us how to put the current…
New Craigslist App Released for iPhone and iPod... →
One of the more useful websites on the Internet is Craigslist and there is a new app from Splashdata that helps you search listings with ease. iCraig allows you utillize an iPhone-esque interface to…
Become a Mac Power User: System Preferences →
The great thing about using Apple computers (loaded with OS X of course), is that some of the tasks that can be frustrating and difficult on another operating system are simple and…
Your Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets →
This guide will help you understand the advantages of bookmarklets over add-ons, how to install bookmarklets followed by a list of essential bookmarklets that should work across all popular browsers…
Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free! →
Using our PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice,…
iPhone 3.0 Will Be Revealed March 17 [IPhone] →
Apple announced an iPhone event today where they’ll be giving “a sneak peek at the iPhone OS 3.0 software.” Gizmodo suggests this might coincide with the unveiling of a rumored touchscreen…
Google Voice Emerges from GrandCentral,... →
Remember GrandCentral, the one-number-to-rule-them-all webapp that got everyone excited before Google bought it and closed its doors for almost two years? Well it’s back, and now it’s…
DocJax Finds and Previews Documents on the Web... →
Sure, Google can search by file type, and even preview some files as HTML. But DocJax is built for just the docs, ma’am, and offers a more robust preview of everything it finds. DocJax…
DocJax - Docs right everywhere !!! →
DocJax Finds and Previews Documents on the Web. DocJax understands most of the search box tricks you learned over at that other, dominant engine, so site:microsoft.com outlook would return all the…
Evernote for Mac Gets Big Update, Supports Safari... →
Mac OS X only: Our favorite free non-paper note-taking app Evernote has updated its Mac version, adding support for Growl, Safari, note merging, and gobs of performance and usability…
Songbird 1.1 Grabs Album Art in One Step, Runs... →
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art…
Mobile Signature Makes One-Line Email Socially... →
In the depths of email overload desperation, I wished email had a 140-character limit like Twitter updates. In response, two people recommended doing what Kevin Rose does: Set your…