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Google’s beloved web-based email client has always been ripe for third-party design customization, but now Gmail is officially riding the interface customization train by offering 30-some new themes to spice up your inbox.

Well I am back from Vacation, I will now resume my normal schedule of posting the goodies. Thanks to all for your support.

Grab and save pieces of pages. forget sending links, send snippets. Instead of a plugin, Snipd relies on bookmarklets – special bookmarks that can be dragged into a browser’s shortcuts toolbar, but don’t require any installation. And to further streamline the process, Snipd doesn’t require users to create accounts before they get started (they’ll be [...]

If you’re looking for an alternative to the image viewer and editor built-in with Windows, try FuturixImager. Open images from your machine to create a slideshow or import images from a camera or scanner. View file information including EXIF image meta-data, print images, and even edit them with the simple image editor that allows you [...]

TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. TeamViewer-like LogMeIn-offers free and paid accounts for remote controlling any PC. Unlike LogMeIn, TeamViewer is free for all non-commercial users.

“The Morning After,” copyright Zina Saunders 2008, from The Party’s Over, a “hilariously scathing visual chronicle of the McCain/Palin presidential campaign. (Via This Isn’t Happiness.)

Ever since video game consoles moved to optical discs, manufacturers and users have battled over backups. Manufacturers fear that if they allow users to burn disc backups, users will download and burn games they haven’t paid for. Users argue that the discs they paid for are so easily scratched and ruined that it’s absurd for [...]

While network planning and design isn’t usually part of my job, I do sometimes need to put together a quick sketch of a client’s systems to help me oragnize a plan of attack. Network Notepad is exactly what I was looking for – a small, free app that lets me lay out network devices, servers, [...]

Free application Hitman Pro scans your system for malware using not one, not two, but eight different anti-malware applications. Essentially, Hitman Pro is a helper utility that runs up to eight different cleaning tools when you tell it to.

XXClone is a very easy-to-use app for cloning a system drive while still in Windows. It’s been faster than Macrium Reflect for me, and Macrium’s free version doesn’t support incremental backups. After the initial copy, synching the new changes is obviously a lot quicker than re-cloning the entire drive.