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PortableTor is a thumb drive friendly version of the popular anonymous browsing software, Tor. The application is actually a tweaked bundle of the Tor-GUI Vidalia and the proxy-server Privoxy. Once you extract PortableTor and fire it up, it automatically launches the two apps and connects to the Tor network.

XBConnect is software that runs on your PC and will let you play Microsoft Xbox/360 games and Sony PSP games with players from around the world. Imagine plugging your Xbox/360 or PSP into a LAN that went around the planet. Load up Halo, Halo 2, Rainbow Six 3 or any other compatible game and you [...]

The VirusTotal Uploader adds an entry to your right-click Send To menu that automatically uploads a file to online virus scanner VirusTotal, which scans the file for viruses using 39 different antivirus applications.

Free app Install-It puts a small auto-starting application on any removable drive that makes installing applications a double-click affair. After downloading the Install-It package, you’ll want to extract its files to somewhere you can reach, like your desktop, and open up the Install.ini file in your favorite text editor. This file is simply a list [...]

Ryan Gardner did wonders when he proved that multitouch was a real possibility on the G1, and now Sir Luke Hutch has taken things one giant leap further. Put simply (or as simply as possible), he has figured out a way to demonstrate full working multitouch on a stock T-Mobile G1, and he even provides [...]

WindowsPager is a free and light-weight application for managing virtual desktops. The application is just over 300k and uses around 5MB of system memory.

Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux. The site has an extremely simple design, lacking even a search function. The newest wallpaper is displayed on the main page, all previous ones are available on the archive pages.

Like the look of OS X Leopard’s Stacks feature-which provides attractive, quick shortcuts of any folder on your desktop-but you’re on a Windows PC? Free application StandaloneStack brings Leopard-like stacks to your quick launch toolbar.

CentralOps.net This site is a collection of Internet utilities developed by Hexillion using its HexGadget components. Most of the utilities have ASP or ASP.NET source code available.

It looks like Google just updated their favorite icon for the second time in less then a year. Don’t see it? Visit  http://google.com/favicon.ico and refresh the page. Below, more about the old, new and newest ones.