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Google SketchUp

April 27th, 2006

Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them [...]

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A Better iPod Manager :: YamiPod

April 22nd, 2006

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Just check out some of the features:

mp3 and AAC files can be copied to/from iPod
read/write access to mp3 id3 and AAC infos
Growl support (Apple only)
News [...]

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RC4 Encrypt Your Torrents

April 20th, 2006

Torrent Freak wrote up a quick how-to for encrypting your torrent traffic in order to obfuscate your downloads. More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question. Not to mention the fact that [...]

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iAlertU :: MacBook Pro Alarm System

April 9th, 2006

iAlertU is based on the Carpenter’s Level Dashboard Widget by Pall Thayer but is a totally different idea. The iAlertU software utilizes the built in motion sensor technology, iSight camera and the infrared remote control turning your MacBook Pro into a high tech alarm system. iAlertU is aimed at being a tamper/theft deterrent system for [...]

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(( litefeeds )) mobile RSS

April 3rd, 2006

It works! Read feeds and post to your blog while mobile.
www.litefeeds.com
I have recently replaced my i-mate SP5 with a BlackBerry 8700c (for Cingular) and was looking for a RSS reader that was lite but functional. Well litefeeds is definitely the answer I was looking for as they not only provide me with the means to [...]

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XP on Intel iMac contest officially won.

March 16th, 2006

It is final, the judges have confirmed the winning submitter has a working solution and has XP runnong on his iMac 17″. The winner has won the final cash prize of $13,854 (before taxes?). Further updates are to be posted with further information regarding the final solution and implementation details.
This is [...]

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Google Jumps On The Widget Wagon :: Privacy Concerns?

February 25th, 2006

WHOOo WHOoo!! Last night Google jumped on board the Mac OS X Widget Wagon (WW for short (pronounced dub dub)) in a big way, and it was about time. Google released 3 new widgets, including one that connects you to a quick view of your Gmail account. This widget lets you see that last few [...]

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Google Page Creator Released

February 23rd, 2006

Google has released a Web 2.0 editor. Check it out. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It would be cool if Google used this engine on blogger.
UPDATE:
Nik Cubrilovic of TechCrunch is playing devils advocate with [...]

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Linbox Converter

February 22nd, 2006

Linbox Converter is a client/server application written in Python language. The client transfers to the server the MS-Office documents to convert. The server does the convertion into the requested file type (PDF, PostScript, HTML, text, RTF, or TIFF) and send back the result to the client.
Linbox Converter makes a company conversion project, from MS-Office to [...]

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Apple Safari Automatically Executes Shell Scripts

February 22nd, 2006

Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option “Open ’safe’ files after downloading” in Apple’s Safari web browser. This feature is activated by default. Its function is to automatically display images and movies after they are transmitted to the user’s computer, [...]

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