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Entries for October, 2009

Microsoft offers tool to burn Windows 7 ISO – or put it on a USB flash drive

If you have already downloaded – or plan on downloading – a purchased copy of Windows 7, you may need a tool to help you turn the bits into something bootable so you can actually start installing your new OS.

Easily Install Multiple Software Programs With Ninite

Installing multiple software applications can be quite a painstaking, time-consuming chore, but a Y Combinator-funded startup has just pushed a tool that aims to make the process very, very easy. And free of charge on top of that.

2009 State Of The Blogosphere

Technorati released the first installment of its 2009 State of the Blogosphere report.

The Best Portable Apps Suites

Once upon a time easy remote computing was a pipe dream, now people routinely carry gigs of data around on flash drivers smaller than a modest pack of chewing gum. Manage your apps and data with these portable application suites.

Better Paste Takes the Annoyance out of Pasting Formatted Text

Better Paste is a simple, lightweight application (or AutoHotkey script) that tweaks the default Ctrl+V paste shortcut such that it pastes plain text every time; if you want formatted text, simply hit Ctrl+Shift+V.

Microsoft Releases More Free Windows 7 Theme Downloads

Windows 7 already has a good batch of stylish themes and eye-pleasing wallpaper, and now Redmond has opened up its vaults and released new themes and wallpapers, some of them with sponsored partners.

I Just Made Love maps global lovemaking

If you want to know where in the world geeks are getting lucky, look no further than a new site called I Just Made Love. As the site’s name implies, users can place a marker anywhere on the map, showing where they just made love. Were you on a boat? That’s ok, you can drop [...]

Create one installer for dozens of apps with Volery

If you’re going to be buying a new computer soon, or if you regularly work on a number of different computers, you’re probably going to spend a fair bit of time installing the latest version of a bunch of applications that you use most frequently. And that means downloading a bunch of apps, and then [...]

Enable open web technologies in Internet Explorer

People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.