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KidsMenu is a kid-friendly way to corral your kids towards pre-selected applications and keep them out of trouble when they are on your computer.

Firefox: Don’t stretch your fingers or move your mouse to get a tab refresh. The Reload Tab On Double-Click extension reloads pages with a swift double-click.

Mix things up on your desktop with some fun new icons. Web design blog Noupe has an awesome collection of the 50 most beautiful icon sets of 2008, ripe for you to pick from.

We’re all about ways you can start BitTorrent downloads on your home computer no matter where you are, and now popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay adds one more way: personal RSS feeds.

It’s the little things that make a Windows system great-like utilities that use less than 10MB of memory to make your life easier. Here are 10 apps that pack a lot of greatness into very little space.

If you’re looking for extremely granular control over file copying, and fewer failures, you don’t want to miss RichCopy.

Free application DropboxPortable makes the popular file-syncing application thumb-drive friendly, so you can access your synced bucket from your thumb drive no matter what computer you’re using.

Nintendo just rolled out its own pretty significant update for the Wii, so it only seems fitting that the homebrew community has now done the same, with the always prolific Waninkoko coming through with a new USB Loader that’ll let you play your “legal game backup collection” from any old USB mass storage device.

Android only: Android users looking to switch over to Google Voice full-time like I am, check out GV. GV provides calling and SMS support via your Google Voice number that isn’t perfect, but is close.

They had me a “Word Whore”… Join podshow hosts Preston Buttons & The Word Whore as they clumsily narrate their way through submitted works of Short Fiction: often painfully, always absent-mindedly and completely unincumbered by any relevent credentials…