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Entries for May, 2009

Hulu Desktop

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons.

jfupdater for Android OS

jfupdater Allows auto updating to the latest modified Android OS. This application let’s you staying up-to-date with JF rom updates. The application will check periodically for new ROM updates, and will notificate you when a new one is released. The application also allows you to automatically download and apply these updates

Glass CMD Enables Aero Transparency for the Command Prompt

Tiny application Glass CMD for Vista forces command prompt windows to use Aero’s glass transparency effect.

Android 2.0 “Donut” features demoed at Google I/O

We’re still trying to get used to the overwhelming joy of having Cupcake installed on our G1s, but it’s full steam ahead over at Google where engineers are already slaving away on the Donut branch that’ll eventually come to be known as Android 2.0.

Gmail Compactor Shrinks Left-Hand Links into Icons

Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail Compactor replaces Gmail’s standard top-left links-Compose, Inbox, Sent Mail, etc.-with clear icons, while also moving the search box underneath, saving left-hand space for links, labels, and other widgets.

Kill Frozen Windows Apps Easily [Windows Tip]

If you’ve used Windows for any amount of time, you’ve already had to deal with the dreaded (Not Responding) frozen application-so instead of using task manager, why not create a shortcut to auto-kill them?

Just Google it before you ask a dumb question

When will people learn to ASK GOOGLE before asking the family or company geek a dumb ass questions? 99% of the questions I get asked, I don’t know the answers either, but i sure as hell know how to use Google. If someone asks me “How to import my contacts in to Outlook?” I simply [...]

Windows 7 RC could be the best windows EVER

I just installed Windows 7, and so far it has been rock solid and could be the best windows version ever. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ Microsoft is not limiting the number of people that can test the OS. I recoomend downloading a copy and giving it a test drive.

Making the world’s knowledge computable

Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

EagleTec Nano flash drive makes losing data easier than ever

Still haven’t found a USB drive small enough for your needs? Then you might want to consider EagleTec’s new Nano flash drive now available from the ever dependable folks at Brando, which measures an impossibly tiny 19 x 15 x 6 mm and weighs in at a mere three grams.