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| NetworkLocation 2.0 goes official |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:00 am |
| Tags: Management, Manager, Network Location, Networklocation, Utilities, Wireless |
| can't-live-without Mac OS X utilities. I move between home networks, multiple coffee shops, wireless on campus and friends' houses, and allowing NetworkLocation to adjust all my settings automatically in the background is easily worth the $25 price tag (though upgrade licenses are free for 1.x owners). Heck, I'd go so far as to say |
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| rooSwitch for easy, restorable application profiles |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 9:16 am |
| Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Productivity, Reviews, Applications, Macs, Utilities Backup |
| applications, macs, reviews, utilities backup Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31. |
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| Featured Windows Download: Defrag your hard drive with JkDefrag GUI |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Defragment, Disk Space, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Hard Drives, Top, Utilities, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application JkDefrag GUI is an advanced hard drive defrag application that provides a graphical user interface for the open source JkDefrag command line defrag tool. JkDefrag puts the standard Windows defragger to shame with scheduled defrags, file optimization, and options to include/exclude directories. On the fun end of |
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| Web Utilities: See how a your site renders in virtually any browser with BrowserShots |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Design, Web 2 0, Web Applications, Web Browser, Web Utilities, Webapps |
| Tired of running 5 different operating systems to check your web design against different browsers? Web app BrowserShots takes screenshots of sites on different browsers using different operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Supported browsers include: BonEcho, Firefox, Konquerer, Opera, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Internet |
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| PC Inspector File Recovery |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Utilities |
| Recover lost data--even if your older system's FAT or boot sector is damaged. |
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| Featured Windows Download: Replace Add/Remove Programs dialog with MyUninstaller |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Cleaning, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Utilities, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application MyUninstaller is a light-weight replacement to the Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog, similar to previously-mentioned Revo Uninstaller. The main difference: Rather than going for an impressive feature set of uninstall capabilities like Revo, MyUninstaller is a very simple, bare-bones uninstaller. It runs from a |
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| CoverSutra iTunes controller 50% off today only |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 8:50 am |
| Tags: Controller, Coversutra, Itunes, Last Fm, Maczot, Utilities |
| Filed under: Software, Productivity, iTunes, Deals I'm a big fan of CoverSutra, Sophia Teutschler's sexy and incredibly useful iTunes controller. It gives you global keyboard shortcuts to skip and pause songs, display album artwork in a jewel case in popup notifications or permanently on your desktop, and it can even interact with the Last.fm |
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| Browsershots: View Your Site in Multiple Browsers |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 6:30 pm |
| Tags: Browsers, Cool Web Sites, Utilities, 2976, 4199 |
| If you're a Web designer or have ever built a Web site, you know how difficult it can be to make sure that your site looks the same in every browser. Small differences in the rendering engines for Firefox, Internet Explorer (even between IE6 and IE7!), Safari, and the other popular browsers can mean your page looks great in one browser and |
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| Geek To Live: Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Feature, Geek To Live, Top, Utilities, Windows |
| Power users need power utilities, and Windows' default system programs barely get the job done. Over time third-party developers have stepped and build superior replacements to programs like Notepad, Paint, Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt. Get the simple jobs done smarter, faster and more efficiently with some of the best Windows |
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| Dockables: Control your Mac from your Dock |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Control, Dock, Dockables, Mac, Themes, Utilities |
| Filed under: Software, Productivity We have a pretty wide array of choices when it comes to controlling our Mac, but Dockables adds even one more way to do things like shut down, start a screensaver or sleep the display. More of a collection of tiny apps than a full-blown utility, Dockables simply installs a folder in your Applications folder |
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| Sumatra PDF Viewer: Fast and Simple PDF Reading |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Free Downloads, Utilities, 3431, 1378, 378 |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader is still the king of PDF viewers, but that might only be by market share, the same way Internet Explorer is still the king of Web browsers. An ever-growing group of people is rising up against the system-slowing Adobe monopoly and trying out other free, open-source PDF readers that promise to leave a small system footprint, |
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| Business group calls for urgent targets on renewable energy |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:31 am |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Electricity Energy Utilities, Environment, Alternative Energy, Government Politics, Federal Government, Australia |
| The Business Council for Sustainable Energy says new renewable energy targets are urgently needed to increase levels of green power generation. |
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| New alliance to mount anti-nuclear election fight |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:22 am |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Electricity Energy Utilities, Indigenous, Environment, Alternative Energy, Conservation, Nuclear Issues, Government Politics, Elections, Federal Government, Activism Lobbying, Nuclear Energy, Australia, Alice Springs 0870 |
| Anti-nuclear campaigners say they are confident they can make the future of the nuclear industry in Australia an election issue. |
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| How To: Back up your PC's hard drive |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Backup Utilities, How To, Windows |
| What, you're still not backing up your hard drive? If the looming possibility of the blue screen of death on the PC with all your precious data on it still keeps you up at night, check out Wired's howto on backing up your computer. Like we did back in January of '06, they recommend SyncBackSE first off for your Windows backup needs, but those of |
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| Play Audio URLs from the iPhone Command Line |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 9:15 am |
| Tags: Audio, Command Line, Commandline, Internet, Iphone, Playaudio, Unix, Urls, Utilities |
| Filed under: Hacks, iPhone You never know when instant karma is gonna getcha. Take my playaudio application. Yesterday, I was chatting with some developer buddies about maybe putting together an Internet radio application and discussing the fact that the Celestial iPhone framework is essentially QuickTime repackaged. While talking, I decided to |
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