November 2008
15 posts
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. It provides animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. The runtime is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, with Linux support under development via the third-party Moonlight...
Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about available wherever you happen to be. Imagine all your devices PCs, and soon Macs and mobile phones working together to give you anywhere access to the information you care about. With Live Mesh, you can spend less time managing devices and data and more...
MSN (The Microsoft Network) is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft.
Windows Live SkyDrive is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live range of services. SkyDrive allow users to upload their files to the computing cloud, and then access them from a web browser. The service currently offers 5GB, with a maximum upload file size of 50MB.
Half-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is the sequel to Half-Life. Taking place in and around the fictional City 17, Half-Life 2 follows the scientist Gordon Freeman. Dr. Freeman is thrust into a dystopian environment in which the aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident has come to bear fully upon human society. Freeman is forced to fight against increasingly...
Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free POP3 and IMAP webmail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to the general public. To this day, the service has remained in beta status. With an initial storage capacity of over 7 GB, it drastically increased...
Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based email service from Yahoo!. In early 2008, Yahoo! started offering unlimited mail storage even to its non-paying users, in response to heated competition in the free-webmail market segment.
A one address book solution to contact management. It doesn’t matter where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected devices or web applications.
Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups.
Qash is a free, simple and secure social personal finance website based in the Netherlands. Qash provides a Web-based tool that gives users a better understanding of how they spend their money and links them to a community dedicated to helping each other get more for their money. For the latest news visit our company blog at http://blog.qash.nl/
Windows Live Installer is a downloadable application that bundles several major Windows Live components together and allows users to install any or all of them from a single control panel.
Xdrive is an online storage service. Xdrive Desktop is an application to make your Xdrive storage space appear as a drive in Windows. Xdrive Desktop integrates Xdrive seamlessly with your computer — just like an external hard drive! Drag and drop files and entire folders directly into your account. Xdrive Desktop Features * Schedule multiple automated backups.
* Access Xdrive through...
Mozilla Thunderbird™, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also add in GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email.
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
An easy-to-use system tray launcher.
October 2008
35 posts
An Adobe AIR application that brings FriendFeed/Twitter/Flickr and many other online applications to the desktop!
Xdrive is an online storage service. Xdrive Desktop is an application to make your Xdrive storage space appear as a drive in Windows. Xdrive Desktop integrates Xdrive seamlessly with your computer — just like an external hard drive! Drag and drop files and entire folders directly into your account. Xdrive Desktop Features * Schedule multiple automated backups.
* Access Xdrive through...
A program for automatic background off-site backups.
Xdrive is an online storage service. This lightweight application utilizes Adobe® AIR™ technology, which allows you to easily upload files and folders right from your hard drive, desktop, USB devices, or removable storage drives directly into your Xdrive web storage. Xdrive Desktop Lite gives you the power to easily manage and organize all of your documents, photos, music, videos and more in your...
Component of TuneUp Utilities.
iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple in 2001 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple’s popular iPod digital media players. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download...
feedly: A more social and magazine-like start page for Firefox.
WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying a new skin.
Hulu is a website that offers free, ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.
Get Satisfaction is a direct connection between people and companies that fosters problem-solving, promotes sharing, and builds up relationships.
HP My Display is an application that makes it possible to adjust the color, brightness of your display with the Display Data Channel Command Interface (DDC/CI) protocol.
Live Search is the name of Microsoft’s web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. Live Search is accessible through Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN.com web portal. The search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search...
Tumblr is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, tumblelogs are frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences while providing little or no commentary.
Media Player Classic is a compact free software media player for Microsoft Windows. The application has a similar look and feel to the old light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4. Underneath, however, it is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player. This player is capable of VCD, SVCD and DVD playback, without the need to...
The Disk Cleanup Manager is a tool included in Microsoft Windows designed to help free up space on the computer users hard drive. It searches and analyzes the hard drive, and then it determines which files on a hard drive may no longer be needed and asks to delete those files.
Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through the Google Groups web interface, or by e-mail. They can also start new groups. Google Groups also includes an archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to...
Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 21 million active users based in more than 200 countries. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140m ($280m USD). Using a music recommendation system called “Audioscrobbler”, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all...
Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The...
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is a United States public corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), and provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was...
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer asked questions from other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver’s Knowledge iN. As of December 2006, it had 60 million users and 65 million...
Joost (pronounced ‘juiced’) is an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa).
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
csrss.exe is the main executable for the Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem. This process manages most graphical commands in Windows. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated.
StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
Pownce is a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Daniel Burka. Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends.
Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
Google Code Search is a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006 allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet.
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by...
MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its...
There are now more than a billion people online, many using the internet to engage in some kind of social activity. Over 4 petabytes of unique virtual content is generated a month, and incase you’re not sure, that’s quite a lot.
There’s virtual communication like email, instant message or video. People belong to virtual communities like social networks, image sharing or interest...
Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile. Ready for you to share with the world. Why? Because what you use on your desktop is who you are!
Google search is a Web search engine and it is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
Windows Calculator is a calculation application for Microsoft Windows.
ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows. Built with Adobe Air. Features * NEW (Version 0.11) J/K Shortcuts * NEW (Version 0.11) User preferences (Mac/PC) * Mac themed scrollbars and form elements * Full synchronization with Google Reader Account * Add/Remove/Manage tags * Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds * Search your feeds * Resizable viewing pane * Auto software update * Auto...