Create Documents from Gmail Threads

What's the quickest way to create a new document in Google Docs directly from Gmail? If you enable "Create a document" in Gmail Labs and you activate keyboard shortcuts, you can press g then w to open a blank document.

The experimental feature adds a new option next to each Gmail conversation that lets you create a new document from it. Gmail merges the content of all the messages from the conversation and it removes the attachments. A similar effect could be obtained by selecting "Forward all" and sending the message to the email address automatically generated by Google Docs.

Create Documents from Gmail Threads

nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation - About

nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation - About:

"Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...
How about not even to install them with Windows ?

nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components."

Google launches Mail Goggles to save you from yourself | Webware - CNET

Google launches Mail Goggles to save you from yourself | Webware - CNET

XBoard and WinBoard

XBoard and WinBoard are graphical user interfaces for chess. They display a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). They serve as front-ends for many different chess services, including:

Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others. A list of compatible engines is available.

Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat. A list of compatible servers is available.

Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program (which works with XBoard only) automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.

PGN viewer. You can use XBoard or WinBoard as a viewer and creator for game files recorded in PGN (standard chess notation).

XBoard runs on Unix systems, while WinBoard runs on 32-bit Windows systems, including Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, 2003, ME, and XP. I'm the primary author of both, though there have been many other contributors.

XBoard and WinBoard

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Talisman Flowers in Kanata, ON provides flower delivery service to the following areas and zip codes in Ontario:

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Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management

Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management

50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

DownThemAll! :: Firefox Add-ons

The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

DownThemAll! :: Firefox Add-ons

JBidwatcher: Free eBay auction sniping, bidding, and monitoring software

A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese) and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, an original, unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOSX from the same binary.

JBidwatcher: Free eBay auction sniping, bidding, and monitoring software: "i"

SurfTheChannel - Home

SurfTheChannel - Home

iMacros for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons

Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been dreaming of! ***Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.***

iMacros for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons

LEXILOGOS Online dictionaries, maps, documents - languages & countries

LEXILOGOS Online dictionaries, maps, documents - languages & countries: "Lexilogos is a comprehensive set of resources for the study of the languages of the world.



English dictionary
French dictionary
Online translation & web page translation"

Pipes: Rewire the web

Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs:

• combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it.
• geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map.
• power widgets/badges on your web site.
• grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.

Pipes: Rewire the web

URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites

URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites

Google Voice Search for iPhone

Six years later, Google Mobile App for iPhone introduces the same feature, but this time the search results are displayed in the same application. Google built a sophisticated platform for text-to-speech and speech recognition using data from GOOG-411 and we can already some of its applications in Mobile Google Apps, YouTube and in this updated iPhone app.

Google Voice Search for iPhone

Terry Richardson - Photo Slaves

Terry Richardson - Photo Slaves: "Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson’s vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative."

Terry Richardson - Photo Slaves

Terry Richardson - Photo Slaves: "Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson’s vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative."

Gmail: Stay logged in to two Gmail accounts at once

Have mulitple Gmail accounts, and sick of logging in and out in order to see both of them? Install the Firefox extension that allows you to use IE in Firefox. When you are using Gmail in Firefox, simply press the change browser icon, and you will be looking at the login screen. Log in and save user cookie, and you can switch to and fro between your 2 accounts.

Gmail: Stay logged in to two Gmail accounts at once

Voice and Video Chat in Gmail

"We've tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video. And we've built this product using Internet standards, such as XMPP, RTP, and the newly-standardized H.264/SVC video codec."

To try the new features go to http://mail.google.com/videochat and install the required plug-in (Windows-only, for now). After restarting the browser, open Gmail, select a contact from the chat section and see if there's an option named "Video & more". If you can't find this option, your friend didn't install the plug-in yet.

Voice and Video Chat in Gmail

Search CrimeReports.com Ottawa

Search CrimeReports.com
Ottawa

Winmail.dat Reader - Free winmail.dat converter to open files sent by Outlook and Outlook Express

Download - Winmail.dat Reader - Free winmail.dat converter to open files sent by Outlook and Outlook Express

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Use Multiple Google Accounts Simultaneously in Google Chrome

Google Chrome's incognito mode is less sophisticated than IE8's InPrivate browsing, but it has a feature that will be useful for those who have more than one Google account.

When you open a window in incognito mode (Ctrl+Shift+N), your cookies from the standard session are no longer available and you can easily log in to a new Google account.

Use Multiple Google Accounts Simultaneously in Google Chrome

Zamzar - Free online file conversion

Zamzar - Free online file conversion

Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software
Click on a category to see details of our conversion support:

• Document formats
• Image formats
• Music formats
• Video formats
• Compressed formats

xlsx, wpd, pub, pptx, docx, etc, etc...

Apple Releases ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 - Mac Rumors

Apple Releases ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 - Mac Rumors

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Apple’s MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD

Apple’s MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD

'Dry Copper' DSL from NCF

'Dry copper' DSL provides you with high-speed DSL internet access, plus use of a line (wires) to your residence (required if you aren't already paying for a line as part of traditional telephone voice service). People interested in 'dry copper DSL' typically want just internet services over the line going to their residence -- they get telephone services some other way, eg., by cellphone, VoIP (eg., over the dry copper DSL), or cable. If this is what you want, read on! If you have traditional telephone service, you are already paying for a line to your residence and thus should click here for NCF's DSL service for people already paying for a line to their residence.

Dry Copper' DSL from NCF

Google Web Accelerator Download

Google Web Accelerator Download: "Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show up in a snap. Learn more."

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page: "It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Add Page2RSS button to your browser

You can add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing. This is an easy and convenient way for you to create feeds for pages you are surfing."

Popular Posts from Your Google Reader Subscriptions

Depending on the number of subscriptions, if you don't visit Google Reader for 2-3 days, your reading list will have hundreds of new items. Google Reader doesn't provide a way to filter the items that are most relevant to you, so the best idea is to read the new posts from your favorite blogs and then go to "all items" in list view.

Another idea is to use the AideRSS extension for Firefox to restrict the reading list to the most popular items. AideRSS uses some arbitrary data that could measure the popularity of a post: the number of comments, Google Blog Search backlinks, del.icio.us bookmarks or the number of votes at Digg and reddit. All these values are used to calculate PostRank, a number from 1 to 10 that tells the popularity of a post among all the posts from the same feed.

Popular Posts from Your Google Reader Subscriptions

FireFTP - The Free FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox

FireFTP - The Free FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox: "FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers."

GMarks :: Firefox Add-ons

If you use Google Toolbar for Firefox only because you like the bookmarking feature, there's a much better option: GMarks. While there are other extensions that provide an interface for Google Bookmarks, John Marshall's GMarks adds a lot of value to Google's basic bookmarking service.

GMarks :: Firefox Add-ons

MSI Wind Review (Windows XP) Review

MSI Wind Review (Windows XP) Review: "MSI Wind (Windows XP)
This 10-inch mini-notebook has good computing punch and impressive endurance."

Synergy - share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

Synergy

ASUS | Eee PC

The Eee PC is here, bringing a whole new, highly mobile Internet experience. For starters there’s no technical manual. Buy it, take it home and the Eee PC works right out of the box! It’s so user-friendly, even a Newbie can get started right away. Mobility is another key feature of the Eee PC. It uses Solid State Disk (SSD) technology which provides for energy savings and quiet, shock proof, stable computing. The Eee PC is therefore the perfect tool for the outdoor enthusiast or any active person on-the-go. Weighing in at a mere 1kg, the Eee PC is an impressive little titan for school, work, or vacation.

ASUS | Eee PC

UltraVNC SC (SingleClick)

UltraVNC SC is a mini (166k) UltraVNC Server that can be customized and preconfigured for download by a Customer. UltraVNC SC does not require installation and does not make use of the registry. The customer only have to download the little executable and Click to make a connection. The connection is initiated by the server, to allow easy access thru customers firewall.

UltraVNC SC (SingleClick)

Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 - JungleDisk

Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 - JungleDisk

Skip Flash Intros in Google Search Results

Skip Flash Intros in Google Search Results

GARMIN Vista and LEGEND COLOR GPS Product Review

GARMIN Vista and LEGEND COLOR GPS Product Review

How To: Boost Your Wireless Signal With a Homemade Wifi Extender

It's amazing what a few sheets of tinfoil can do for the strength of your wireless signal. As shown above, by carefully folding tinfoil into a parabola, you can boost your wireless strength tremendously. The fellas in the video saw gains from 82% to just under 100%, though I only saw boosts of around five percent, so your mileage may vary. This project should only take about three minutes and will hopefully leave you with impressive results. If you don't want to attach unsightly parabolic boosters and you're using the same basic router as the fellas in the video, you can also upgrade your firmware to DD-WRT—a free hack that will turn your $60 router into a $600 router and allow you to boost your Wi-Fi signal from your router's control panel.

How To: Boost Your Wireless Signal With a Homemade Wifi Extender

Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router

Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in embedding Linux in your router. I found this project especially attractive because: 1) It's easy, and 2) it's totally free.

Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router

YouTube Annotations

YouTube added a new feature for video creators: annotations. "Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos. Use them to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene) or link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video."

YouTube Annotations

Two Quotes on Simplicity | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

The first is by Antione de Saint Exupéry, author of The Little Prince and a pioneer in aviation:

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

The second is by William of Occam (1288-1347) You might know the name from Occam's Razor.

It is vain to do more with what can be done with less.

Two Quotes on Simplicity | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

TinEye - Upload an Image and Find It on the Web

TinEye tries to do that and the best part is that it mostly succeeds. The new image search engine, powered by Idée's technology and currently in private beta, has an index of 487 million images (Google's index is at least 12 times bigger) and manages to find identical versions of an image or alterations. According to the FAQ, "TinEye frequently returns image results with colour adjustments, added or removed text, crops, and slight rotations. TinEye can also detect images that are part of a collage or have been blended with another image."

TinEye - Upload an Image and Find It on the Web: "TinEye - Upload an Image and Find It on the Web"

Ensode - Free PDF Unlock Online Utility (Beta)

Some PDF documents prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing it's contents. This sometimes presents a problem since the author of the PDF might have used a font that is not available in the sytem trying to read it. This page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload a PDF, once uploaded, a version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions is displayed in a new browser window.

To unlock a PDF file, enter it's location in the "PDF file to unlock" field, by either typing it in the field or clicking on the "browse" button, then navigating to it's location.

The unlocked version of the PDF will be displayed in a new browser window, opened in the default PDF application for your system (usually Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Ensode - Free PDF Unlock Online Utility (Beta): "Free PDF Unlock Online Utility"

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

A Conversation About Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

The following video, created by Andrew Filippone Jr. and titled 'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett, analyzes the hostility between the three companies and Microsoft's absurd strategy to buy Yahoo. "The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule. The one-on-one interview between Charlie [Rose] and his guest begins as usual but quickly goes awry, so much so that Charlie is warned that, somewhere, a man named Steve is not happy."

The "dialog" reminds me of the repetitive and nonsensical phrases from Eugene Ionesco's plays and it's much more interesting than all the news about Microsoft and Yahoo.

A Conversation About Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

t may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "Your trial period has expired!" nagware, it's time to replace stinky Windows software with its superior (but lesser-known) alternative. Last week we asked what software you should never install on your PC, and over 200 comments later, you compiled quite a list. Today we're going to take a walk down the Crapware Hall of Shame, point and laugh at the worst offenders, and highlight some better choices. Photo by chelseagirl.

Application to Avoid: Adobe Reader
Indictment: Bloatware
Superior Alternative(s): FoxIt Reader or Sumatra PDF
Notes: There are much worse offenders on this list than Adobe Reader, which has gotten more performant over the years. Keep in mind that Adobe deals with some PDF's (like ones with editable form fields) better than FoxIt. If you don't want to ditch Adobe Reader entirely, here's how to tweak Adobe 8 for speed.

Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

Subscribe to Authenticated Feeds in Google Reader

Google Reader is one of the many online feed readers that don't support authenticated feeds. This special kind of feeds requires a username and a password before displaying the content to protect sensitive information. An example of authenticated feed is Gmail's feed for unread messages, but you'll also find password-protected feeds for internal bug reports, private email distribution lists, etc.

FreeMyFeed wants to solve this problem by creating feeds that don't require authentication. The site acts as a proxy between the original feed and your feed reader, while promising that your credentials are safe. "Usernames and passwords are never stored on the server. The usernames and passwords are only parsed to retrieve your RSS feed and then are discarded." Rob Wilkerson explains that the credentials "are encrypted using a rotating algorithm and included in the new URI."

Subscribe to Authenticated Feeds in Google Reader

Two Quotes on Simplicity | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

he first is by Antione de Saint Exupéry, author of The Little Prince and a pioneer in aviation:

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

The second is by William of Occam (1288-1347) You might know the name from Occam's Razor.

It is vain to do more with what can be done with less.

These quotes mean a lot to me and were found, most recently, at the beginning of Chapter 5 of Tim Ferriss' book The 4-Hour Workweek. More on that later.

Two Quotes on Simplicity | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

Viewfinder - Integrate Photos in a 3D World Model

Viewfinder is an interesting technology that wants to bring photos to a software like Google Earth and display them as part of the satellite imagery.

"Geotagged photos, geographically indexed on a world map, either manually or via GPS, are an increasingly popular phenomenon. However, current implementations treat maps, and particularly 3D models, in fundamentally different modalities than photographs. The result is that photos tend to hover like playing cards, seemingly suspended over the world, remaining 2D objects in a 3D environment, and negating the transformative experience that we think should occur when combining images and a 3D world. (...) It's possible to place a photo in a 3D model in such a way that it appears seamlessly aligned with the model."

Viewfinder - Integrate Photos in a 3D World Model

Spitzer Podcasts and Vodcasts

Spitzer Podcasts and Vodcasts

HP Upline

HP Upline: "Data disasters don’t have to devastate. HP Upline protects your digital world – whether your hardware fails, your computer is lost or catastrophe strikes. HP Upline also lets you share photos with friends and family, access work files from anywhere, and more"

PicLens, Full-Screen Slideshows for Image Sites

PicLens is a browser add-on that detaches the images from a web page and lets you explore them in interesting ways. The add-on, which is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, works for a small number of sites: image search engines and photo sharing sites, as it requires to understand the structure of a web page.

PicLens, Full-Screen Slideshows for Image Sites

Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems

Life is very likely the most complex phenomenon in the Universe manifesting an ... all » extraordinary diversity of form and function over an enormous range. Yet, many of its most fundamental and complex attributes scale with size in a surprisingly simple fashion. For example, metabolic rate (the power required to sustain the system) scales as approximately the 3/4-power of mass over 27 orders of magnitude from molecular levels up to the largest multicellular organisms. Similarly, time-scales, such as lifespans and growth-rates, increase with exponents which are typically simple powers of 1/4. It will be shown how these universal quarter-power scaling laws follow from fundamental generic principles embedded in the dynamics and geometry of underlying networks, leading to a general quantitative theory that captures essential features of many diverse biological systems. Examples will include animal and plant vascular systems, growth, cancer, aging and mortality, sleep, DNA nucleotide substitution rates. These ideas will be extended to discuss social organisations such as cities and firms: to what extent, if at all, can we think of these as very large organisms and therefore as an extension of biology? Analogues to metabolic rate and behavioral times in cities scale counter to their behaviour in biology. Driven by innovation and the creation of wealth this has dramatic implications for their growth, development, sustainability and pace of life which, left unchecked, potentially sow the seeds for their collapse. Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. Prior to joining the Santa Fe Institute as a Distinguished Professor in 2003, he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is one of only approximately ten Senior Fellows.

Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems

Google's Design Guidelines

1. Useful: focus on people - their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Fast: every millisecond counts.
3. Simple: simplicity is powerful.
4. Engaging: engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Innovative: dare to be innovative.
6. Universal: design for the world.
7. Profitable: plan for today's and tomorrow's business.
8. Beautiful: delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Trustworthy: be worthy of people's trust.
10. Personable: add a human touch.


Google's Design Guidelines

DVD Flick

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.

DVD Flick

Searchme, Inc.

Searchme lets you see what you're searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you'll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you're looking for, before you click through.

Searchme, Inc.

YouTube Chromeless Player Example page

YouTube Chromeless Player Example page

Beta.BookLamp.org

Beta.BookLamp.org: "BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long? The technology behind BookLamp allows you to find books that are written with a similar tone, tense, perspective, action level, description level, and dialog level, while at the same time allowing you to specify details like... half the length. It’s impervious to outside influences - like advertising - that impact socially driven recommendation systems, and isn’t reliant on a large user base to work."

Adding Page Numbers to Google Documents

Adding Page Numbers to Google Documents

Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook

One of the most popular requests for Google Calendar was synchronization with mobile devices and Outlook. After launching a sync tool for Blackberries, Google Calendar now offers a small utility for synchronizing events with Outlook.

By default the synchronization is bi-directional, but you can change this when you install the utility or from the options dialog. The only significant drawback is that you can only synchronize your main Google Calendar, but a future update should remove this limitation.

Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook

[object HTMLImageElement]

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the 'mirrored' website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

http://www.httrack.com/

How To: Turn your laptop into a wireless hot spot

If you've only got one wired ethernet connection and a room full of internet-starved laptop users, you can quickly turn your laptop into a wireless hot spot without any extra software. CNET TV has a video tutorial that demonstrates how you can turn Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Mac OS X laptops into wireless broadcasting hot spots. CNET even shows how you can add security to the wireless signal to keep intruders out. The process is painless in Vista and OS X, but requires a few steps in XP. Anyone know how to accomplish the same task in Linux? Share in the comments.

How To: Turn your laptPublish Postop into a wireless hot spot

Extend Your Brain With Evernote (Private Beta Invites)

We are all dealing with information overload. Some of the most useful Web startups are the ones that help us deal with the never-ceasing flow of data washing over us every day. Evernote is one of those startups. A Windows version of Evernote has been around for a few years, but it is now releasing a Web version in private beta, as well as a new Windows client, mobile software clients for Windows Mobile and PocketPC phones, and a mobile Web version. (A Mac client and mobile clients for Java phones, iPhones, and Android phones are in the works). The first 200 TechCrunch readers to sign up here can try it out before its more general release in March.

Extend Your Brain With Evernote (Private Beta Invites)

Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders

Schedule wake-up phone calls. Lots of useful features.

Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders

File Destructor 2.0 - Hype Magazine

Want to play games on your Playstation but got a deadline for an exam or report that didn’t match your gaming ambitions?

Then you have come to the right place.

Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.

File Destructor 2.0 - Hype Magazine

Call the Future.org

CallTheFuture calls the specified number with the given return name.Please understand that this is a demo only and the limit is often maxed out. If so, please try later.

Call the Future.org

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list of addresses, after the jump.

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

Howcast - Browse Videos

Howcast is also announcing an $8 million series A financing, led by Tudor Investment Corp. In addition to their own site, they already have a Youtube channel (where they split advertising revenues with their former employer). The Howcast team also has signed distribution deals with Myspace, Verizon for its Vcast phones and FiOS TV, Joost, and ROO. JetBlue is the launch advertiser. Howcast faces competition from Expert Village, 5min, and Instructables (even though the latter uses step-by-step images more than video).

The site is launching with professionally-shot instructional videos on everything from “How to Paint a Wall” (see embed below) and “How to Groom Your Cat” to “How to Get Laid.” There is a familiar formula for each one: The Howcast graphic, an intro explaining what you’ll need for the task at a hand, and step-by-step instructions explained in a voiceover. The video player on the site lets you jump to different chapters or steps, lets you zoom in for a better look, and provides the transcript as well. Viewers can add comments in the form of tips, warnings, and facts to each video. And the Flash-based site lets you browse the video directory on the left hand side while you are watching a video without interrupting it or going to a different page.

Howcast - Browse Videos

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

We're really excited to bring you forms! Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and you'll get the spreadsheet automatically.

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

VMware: Virtualization, Virtual Machine & Virtual Server Consolidation - VMware

Virtualization is changing the computing landscape. Learn how virtualization can help you save time and money while achieving more with the computer resources you already own.

VMware: Virtualization, Virtual Machine & Virtual Server Consolidation - VMware

TripIt | Organize your travel

TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to...

• Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book
• Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more
• Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device
• Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues

TripIt | Organize your travel

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Know-How | Smashing Magazine

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Know-How | Smashing Magazine

Featured Download: Set Up and Control Your Anonymous Browsing with Vidalia

Windows/Mac/Linux: Vidalia, a free, open-source, cross-platform application, makes setting up and configuring Web proxy tool Tor a snap, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously with a turn on/turn off utility. VIdalia sets up your system and helps you connect to, and monitor, Tor relays around the world, even letting you see the route your browsing is taking at the moment. You can also monitor bandwith usage and set up your own Tor relay if you want to contribute, but Vidalia's main appeal is the bundling of software and configuration tools that make Tor easy enough for anyone to use. Vidalia is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

Featured Download: Set Up and Control Your Anonymous Browsing with Vidalia

Fog Creek Copilot - Home

The Fog Creek Copilot^SM service allows people to help their friends, relatives, and customers fix their computer problems by connecting to their computers via the Internet.

Unlike other remote assistance services, Fog Creek Copilot is secure, easy to use, works through virtually all home or office firewalls, and requires no installation or configuration.

Fog Creek Copilot - Home

PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser - PDFTextOnline

PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser - PDFTextOnline

Revo Uninstaller Freeware - uninstall, delete, remove unwanted programs and traces easily

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove any unwanted application installed on your computer.

With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry items so you can delete them.

Revo Uninstaller Freeware - uninstall, delete, remove unwanted programs and traces easily

Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah. - Boing Boing

Eckersley's BitTorrent controller flickers for a second, showing that his computer is "seeding" our file to the Melbourne computer. Then everything stops. The transmission fails, and to an untrained eye, the problem appears to be with BitTorrent.

But Eckersley is running a Net monitor application called Wireshark, which works like an online customs officer checking the packets going out of the computer here and into the one in Melbourne. What Eckersley finds is damning. Someone or something has interceded in the transmission and told the computers to stop talking.

Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah. - Boing Boing

The Back of the Napkin teaser page

When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers.

The Back of the Napkin teaser page

Featured Windows Download: Make Office 2007 Docs Readable Anywhere with Docx2Rtf

Windows only: The latest editions of Microsoft Office might have made some welcome interface and functionality improvements, but the newer .docx file formats can leave your co-workers (and your other computers) struggling to open its files. Free conversion utility Docx2Rtf can take whatever Office 2007 (or OpenOffice) files, and then display them for copying or save them as Rich Text Format, the standard nearly every text editor can understand, as well as PDF if you want. The conversion isn't always perfect, due to RTF's limited special characters and images, but Docx2Rtf can make it easy to send out documents to recipients across the computer spectrum. Docx2Rtf is a free download for Windows systems only. To convert older Word documents, try using Google Docs as a go-between.

Featured Windows Download: Make Office 2007 Docs Readable Anywhere with Docx2Rtf

Raylight by DVFilm

Raylight Encoder Pro - $195
Integrate your Quicktime workflow by encoding AND editing DVCProHD / DVCPro50 Quicktimes on the Windows platform. Works with any Windows application that can read and export Quicktime, including Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, Quicktime Pro, and others. Fully compatible with Apple DVCProHD and DVCPro50 codecs. Features real-time full-screen playback in the Quicktime player and high-quality decoding and encoding.

Raylight by DVFilm

RescueTime : Product Tour

RescueTime : Product Tour: "The Dashboard
The RescueTime Dashboard is your starting point, giving a bird's eye view of how you spend your time. Remember: RescueTime doesn't record what apps or sites you have open, but rather what app or site you are paying attention to!"

Eye-Fi » Home

Photos shouldn’t be trapped in your camera. Set them free.

The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.

No cables, no waiting, no hassles.

Eye-Fi » Home

xplorer² tour: introduction to empowered file browsing

xplorer² tour: introduction to empowered file browsing: "xplorer² is what windows explorer should have been. We've kept the best bits and threw away the inconsistencies and irritations, all in a small and nimble, easy to use package.

At first glance everything looks familiar: the classic tree/view user interface, clean and clutter free, should get you started immediately. xplorer² will get you in all places you keep your digital wealth, including namespace extensions like FTP, zipfolders, webfolders etc."

7-Zip

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. But you can make a donation to support further development of 7-Zip.

7-Zip

iPhox - Software Headlines

iPhox - Software Headlines: "iPhox: iPhox is an open standards based implementation. You can call to and from other sip networks. You can call hardware / software clients around the world. You can manage an addressbook, talk to other users via Instant Message. All using open standards so you can use other clients and communicate with other services seemlessly. All at no cost!"

Web Hosting by DreamHost Web Hosting: Web Sites, Domain Registration, WordPress, Ruby on Rails, all on Debian Linux!

Web Hosting by DreamHost Web Hosting: Web Sites, Domain Registration, WordPress, Ruby on Rails, all on Debian Linux!

Ten years is a long time in this business.

We've seen competitors come and go.

We've seen features explode and prices plummet.

We've seen random people set up shop in our parking lot.

We've seen how much customers like our sales. So we're having another one. Right now. Today.

Thanks for ten wonderful years. We're here to stay.

• 500 GB Disk Storage
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JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 ™ - Jungle Disk

JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 ™ - Jungle Disk

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 ™ Storage Service.

• Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15¢ per gigabyte
• No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment
• Your data is fully encrypted at all times
• Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability
• Access files directly from Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder, and Linux
• Automatically backup your important files quickly and easily

Unlike other services, with Amazon S3 ™ there is no mimimum and no maximum amount of data you can store. You pay only for the actual amount of storage you are using.