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Free service TrapCall reveals caller ID information from blocked calls, unmasking numbers of blocked calls from telemarketers and prank callers with virtually no extra effort on your part.

Facebook’s new terms of service caused quite a stir this weekend, prompting many to drop their Facebook accounts altogether. Too hooked on Facebook to cut it off completely? It’s time you learned more about your privacy settings.

DynDNS.com is a line of consumer services operated by Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.). Specializing in affordable, customizable and globally-redundant domain name services and domain registrations, DynDNS.com has branched out into a variety of other fields including e-mail, SSL certificates, private WHOIS services, network monitoring services, and virtual private servers.

ManicTime is a detailed time-tracking application for keeping tabs on where your workday goes. Get a handle on how you spend your time with tags, graphs, and reports. If you were intrigued by previously reviewed RescueTime but were turned off by the idea of uploading all your data to the RescueTime servers, ManicTime offers a [...]

boxee just launched an iPhone remote app that turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a boxee remote. Among other things it makes text input much easier, since you can use the iPhone’s full QWERTY keyboard. If you are a boxee user and have an iPhone you should give it a try.

If you’re looking for a better way to manage your wish lists than Notepad, but aren’t interested in the more frilly web-based solutions, WishList is a lightweight and portable solution.

If you’re a Windows user, and seeing apps like Delicious Library leave you muttering words like “Apple-only,” “pretty,” and “stupid,” calm your nerves and peek at Libra. The Windows app shares more than a few similarities with Delicious Library, and can manage more than just your movie collection. You can import your collection from other [...]

Wired’s Threat Level blog has the story of Torrent Droid, a new Android app that lets you scan DVD-case bar-codes with your phone, looks up the title, and remotely starts a torrent download of the title on your home machine. The use-case on Threat Level is a someone out shopping, shooting bar-codes of DVDs and [...]

There are thousands of ads for apartment listings, jobs, used furniture, computers, and other items on CraigsList. And while the site offers some pretty decent search features, sorting through the results can be a bit of hassle. That’s where CraigsList Reader comes in. This free (and ad supported) Windows utility lets you conduct detailed CraigsList [...]

System admins and technicians deal with a number of frustrations in our daily work. One of the biggest: desktops that keep getting misused, abused, and trashed as a result of carelessness, malice, or a lack of common sense. Sandboxing programs are a great way to prevent these kinds of headaches. What do they do? In [...]