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Download Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gifDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comen-usCopyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/FormatFactory Kicks Media Conversion Ass and Takes Nameshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/05/formatfactory-free-windows-media-conversion/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/05/formatfactory-free-windows-media-conversion/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/05/formatfactory-free-windows-media-conversion/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Fine, it doesn't really takes names, but you won't care after you download and install this do-all media converter. FormatFactory's simple interface and broad file type support make it an excellent weapon of choice for media file junkies.

What could be better than a program that will convert audio, video, and image files from and to just about any format you can think of? How about one that does it all batch-style with minimal clicking? FormatFactory doesn't care what files you want to swap in what order, just feed it your sources and watch it go to work. Unlike a lot of similar apps, this one doesn't limit you to only video or audio, or even to one file at a time.

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]]>conversionconvertdvd ripperdvd rippingDvdRipperDvdRippingfile converFileConvergraphicsmediaLee Mathews2008-07-05T14:00:00+00:00DesktopOnTop shows your desktop, no minimizing necessaryhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/desktopontop-shows-your-desktop-no-minimizing-necessary/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/desktopontop-shows-your-desktop-no-minimizing-necessary/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/desktopontop-shows-your-desktop-no-minimizing-necessary/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

DesktopOnTop

Sometimes you want to open a file saved on your desktop, but you don't want to minimize all of the applications you're currently running just to get to it. DesktopOnTop can help. While Windows lets you add a "desktop" toolbar to the taskbar that will let you launch items saved on your desktop, DeskTopOnTop goes one step further and actually shows you a visual representation of your desktop.

If you just want a list, you can right-click on the DesktopOnTop icon in the system tray and get a start-menu lookalike with a list of programs and files on your desktop. But a left click brings up a picture of your desktop. Sort of. The first thing you'll probably notice is that the wallpaper doesn't match yours. If this bothers you, you can either change your desktop wallpaper to match DesktopOnTop (which nobody really expects you to do), or you can select a solid color that looks good with your desktop an adjust the program's transparency level.

DesktopOnTop is highly customizable and light weight. It uses about 8MB of RAM.

[via Freeware Genius]

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]]>desktopontopiconspreviewBrad Linder2008-07-04T18:00:00+00:00Backup your flash drives with USB Image Toolhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/backup-your-flash-drives-with-usb-image-tool/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/backup-your-flash-drives-with-usb-image-tool/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/backup-your-flash-drives-with-usb-image-tool/#commentsFiled under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Freeware

USB Image Tool

USB Image Tool is a utility for creating an exact image of pretty much anything you plug into your USB port. This isn't the same thing as copying and pasting all the files on a flash drive to a new directory or zip file. Instead, every chunk of data on your flash drive is saved in a single file that you can then burn to a disc, upload to an offsite storage location, or just save on your hard drive.

If you keep work documents, portable applications, or other important data on a flash drive, it's a good idea to back it up occasionally. USB Image Tool makes the process about as simple as can be. You plug in a drive, hit backup, and choose a location to store the image. You can also select a compressed file format if you want to save a little bit of space, but it takes longer to create a compressed image.

[via gHacks]

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]]>backupflash-diiskflash-driverestoreusbusb-image-toolBrad Linder2008-07-04T17:00:00+00:00Undelete Plus Offers Free, Fast File Recoveryhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/undelete-plus--free-fast-file-recovery/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/undelete-plus--free-fast-file-recovery/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/undelete-plus--free-fast-file-recovery/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Undelete Plus

We've gone through a ton of "simple" file recovery apps at Download Squad, and not all of them perform as advertised. Some take a painfully long time to scan only to report few - if any - recoverable files, dashing our hopes of retrieving that funny lolcat we deleted by accident.

Undelete Plus, however, is a champion at what it does. It quickly completes its scan for potential targets, displays them in a detailed list that includes likelihood to be recovered, size, date created, and path, and even gives you a second pane with totals grouped by file type.

We tried the recovery on formats that typically gives these programs fits - images and video - and Undelete Plus recovered each one without issue. Granted, there are going to be times when it can't - no recovery app is perfect - but we were certainly impressed in our testing.

If you've accidentally wiped something important from your PC, do yourself a favor and download it. We guarantee that it will increase the likelihood that your spouse won't make you sleep on the couch because you trashed their favorite pic or song by 70%.

[ via WinAddons ]

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]]>data recoveryDataRecoveryfile recoveryFileRecoveryundeleteLee Mathews2008-07-04T14:00:00+00:00FlexTK Makes File Management Easyhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/flextk-easy-windows-file-manager/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/flextk-easy-windows-file-manager/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/04/flextk-easy-windows-file-manager/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

If you're like us, your hard drive is anything but tidy. That's because us power users can't be bothered to keep things organized - there are just too many awesome things out there to download, extract, and forget about because half of them turn out to be garbage.

FlexTK for Windows helps make short work of cleaning up after yourself, offering a full complement of file management tools in one handy package. Folder sync, duplicate file search, temp file cleanup, storage utilization, search, and an advanced organization module are all included. Navigation is handled beautifully in an explorer-like manner, tweaked by the addition of breadcrumbs and a "bookmarks" pane that allows you to quickly link your favorite locations.

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]]>cleancleaningduplicate filesDuplicateFilesduplicatesfile managementfile managerFileManagementFileManagersynchronizationsyncingLee Mathews2008-07-04T12:00:00+00:00Opera turns 9.51http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/opera-turns-9-51/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/opera-turns-9-51/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/opera-turns-9-51/#commentsFiled under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Browsers

Opera 9.5.1

Hot on the heels of Opera 9.5, the Opera team has released version 9.5.1 of their desktop web browser. The new version includes some recommended security and stability updates. But there are also some other handy changes. Here are a few highlights:

Fine-tuned the new default skin
Saved images no longer recorded in the file transfer window
Fixed an issue that could be used to display arbitrary code
Fixed a stability issue with Yahoo! Mail
64 bit Linux package now available

Overall you won't notice a ton of changes to the interface. But if you're currently using Opera 9.5, we'd recommend updating for the security enhancements alone.

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]]>operaopera-9.5.1security-updateBrad Linder2008-07-03T19:00:00+00:00Folder-to-Drive Alchemy With Visual Substhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/folder-to-drive-alchemy-with-visual-subst/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/folder-to-drive-alchemy-with-visual-subst/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/folder-to-drive-alchemy-with-visual-subst/#commentsFiled under: Windows, Productivity, Freeware

visual Subst

No, it won't really turn your folders gold, but Visual Subst does deserve a medal. It's little more than a GUI frontend to the Windows prompt's subst command, but if there's one thing we like more than commands that save repetitious typing it's pretty graphical systems to utilize them.

What subst does is create a symbolic link - assigning any folder on your system its own drive letter. Most of us aren't even close to using up all 26 letters, so why not set up a few of them as ridiculously short routes to get at our commonly used folders?

Visual Subst makes the process ridiculously simple, just choose an available drive letter, browse to your folder, and click the green plus. Just like that, your new virtual drive shows up in My Computer. Now getting at the temp folder is as easy as windows + r, t:, enter. Simple. Check the box at the bottom, and your new drives return after a reboot.

For a 110k application, Visual Subst is a no-brainer. You've got to have it, we swear!

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]]>drive lettersDriveLettersfolderfolder linkFolderLinkfolderssymlinkwindowsLee Mathews2008-07-03T12:30:00+00:00Trying to Quit? CostOfSmoking Will Make You Cry.http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/trying-to-quit-costofsmoking-will-make-you-cry/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/trying-to-quit-costofsmoking-will-make-you-cry/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/trying-to-quit-costofsmoking-will-make-you-cry/#commentsFiled under: Finance, Freeware, Time-Wasters

Smoking is widely considered to be one of the hardest "bad habits" to kick. Way more so than turning your underwear inside out and wearing it a second time.

If you're having trouble quitting, why not download CostOfSmoking for a massive dose of reality. It's an ugly, quickly assembled program (it looks like a packaged MS Access database) that will leave you absolutely gobsmacked. If you don't smoke and never have, this program will make you damn glad.

A quick run based on a ten-year, one-and-a-half pack a day habit at the current $12 a pack (oh, Canada!) pricing yielded the ungodly sum of $114,594. If that's not enough to convince someone that their habit is putting a serious dent in their potential savings, we don't know what is.

Try it yourself and see! We decided to run numbers on our average coffee habit - just to make sure we're in good shape - and was relieved to find out that our java vice came in at a much more reasonable $1,146.

[ Via FreewareNetwork ]

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]]>costsmokingsmoking cessationSmokingCessationLee Mathews2008-07-03T11:00:00+00:00Web developers can breathe a sigh of relief with Firebughttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/web-developers-can-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief-with-firebug/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/web-developers-can-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief-with-firebug/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/web-developers-can-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief-with-firebug/#commentsFiled under: Freeware, web 2.0, Browsers

Ahh... nothing like the sweet smell of website glitches in the morning. The web development junkies here at Download Squad know how it feels to spend hours tracking down stubborn CSS styles that have managed to magically disappear, or have cascaded themselves into places where no man has gone before. We can attest to debugging JavaScript into the wee hours of the night, and trying to get rid of that one extra pixel of whitespace at the bottom of the page until we give up and hope nobody notices.

If the above description fits a lot of your day-to-day activities, and you're a Firefox user, Firebug, something we covered a couple years ago in its infancy, is the extension for you. When we last looked at it, Firebug was a basic JavaScript console with a DOM inspector. However, since then, it's had a couple of layout changes, and has been given features that changed Firebug from a simple developer console to a powerful tool for all aspects of web development.

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]]>developerfirebugfirefoxjavascriptAdam Maras2008-07-03T08:00:00+00:00Rember the memory checkerhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/rember-the-memory-checker/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/rember-the-memory-checker/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/rember-the-memory-checker/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware

Contrary to marketing hype, Macs do crash and when they do you'll need to do some basic troubleshooting to determine the reason why.

If it appears to be a hardware problem, one thing you may want to remember is, well, Rember.

Rember is a front end GUI for Memtest and while you can certainly run Memtest in Terminal, Rember's GUI version makes it much easier to use.

The interface is broken up into 3 main parts:

How much memory you want tested
The number of times you want to run the test
Preferences

Once you decided on the amount of ram and the number of loops let Rember do the rest. Once completed, review the logs to determine if your RAM is the reason why your Mac is crashing.

Keep in mind that Rember is a GUI app that runs on top of your OS so some of your RAM will be in use and will not be available for testing. Think of it has a small trade off for not having to deal with the Memtest switches.

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]]>macintoshtoolsutilitiesJoey Celis2008-07-02T18:00:00+00:00Do you know what your hard drive has been up to?http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/do-you-know-what-your-hard-drive-has-been-up-to/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/do-you-know-what-your-hard-drive-has-been-up-to/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/do-you-know-what-your-hard-drive-has-been-up-to/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Knowing the status of your hard drive is a great way to prepare for problems that may potentially arise. And thank to CrystalDiskInfo obtaining this information from your hard drive couldn't be any easier.

CrystalDisk will gather data from your hard drive and will let you know its current temperature, the number of power cycles and even the number of hours the drive has been on. All this information comes in handy when trying to determine the root of a system crash or data failure, especially when you're dealing with an older drive in a crowded system case where cooling may not be optimal.

In our testing, the program was very easy to use and recognized our drive right away. Fortunately for us, we had no issues but if we did, we had no doubt that CrystalDisk would alert us to the problem so that appropriate steps could be taken.

CrystalDisk is a free application available for Windows and is a bit of a must have tool in diagnosing hard drive errors.

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]]>harddriveutilitieswindowsJoey Celis2008-07-02T17:00:00+00:00Beeswax: command-line productivity apphttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/beeswax-command-line-productivity-app/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/beeswax-command-line-productivity-app/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/beeswax-command-line-productivity-app/#commentsFiled under: Text, Utilities, Linux, Productivity, Freeware, Unix

One of the longest ongoing debates in the productivity/Getting Things Done crowd is about which app works best for keeping tasks in order. Different factions support everything from power tools like OmniFocus to good old pen and paper. Apparently, though, some people miss classic command-line productivity apps like Lotus Agenda. If you're running a Unix-like OS, and you need a solid GTD system, you might find Beeswax, a free, Agenda-inspired app, worth a look.

It's a little tricky to explain how this works, so you might need to check it out for yourself, but we'll do our best. Basically, you have to-do items, and you have categories. If you assign sub-items to an item -- you know, something that takes multiple steps to do -- it's treated like a category. Items can be assigned to multiple categories, so everything is flexible. If you're someone who hates anything that requires a mouse, this is right up your alley.

[via 43Folders]

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]]>command lineCommandLinegtdproductivitytext-basedJay Hathaway2008-07-02T16:00:00+00:00Trillian turns 8, no Astra beta birthday gift quite yethttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/trillian-turns-8-no-astra-beta-birthday-gift-quite-yet/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/trillian-turns-8-no-astra-beta-birthday-gift-quite-yet/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/trillian-turns-8-no-astra-beta-birthday-gift-quite-yet/#commentsFiled under: Windows, Commercial, Freeware, Beta

We all love applications that take lots of little things and turn them into one big thing. When this concept is applied to instant messaging clients, one program should jump to everyone's mind: Trillian. Ever since its first multi-protocol release in 2000, many Windows users that want all the IM without all the hassle have chosen Trillian as their weapon of choice for tackling their instant messaging needs.

This week marks the eighth anniversary of Trillian's first release. Since then, Cerulean Studios has had over 35 million downloads, and has become one of the (if not the single) most popular instant messaging clients for Windows. Currently, there are two versions of Trillian offered. Trillian Basic, the free version, offers support for AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and IRC chat. Audio chat is available for all of the protocols that support it.

Cerulean Studios also offers Trillian Pro for $25 dollars; the beefed-up version adds support for more protocols like Bonjour, Novell GroupWise, and Jabber, along with support for video chat and third-party plugins for things like mail, weather, and news feeds. Trillian Pro can also combine your contacts who have multiple IM services into "metacontacts," which help you manage your contact list.

Currently in the works is version 4 of Trillian, called Trillian Astra. Astra boasts incredible new features, including its own IM service that helps to integrate the other IM connections, a web interface and an iPhone interface to allow you to chat on all of your protocols anywhere, and a much more streamlined user interface that supports dozens of colors and styles out-of-the-box. Currently, Trillian Astra is in a private alpha phase. However, their development team has stated that there will be a public beta at some point in the future.

Celebrate Trillian's 8th birthday by checking it out if you're looking for a solution to your all your IM needs.

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]]>Adam Maras2008-07-02T14:00:00+00:00Cybersearch Addon Puts Results in Your Awesome Barhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/#commentsFiled under: Mozilla, Freeware, Browsers

Search results in my awesome bar? Hell yes!

Firefox is already pretty amazing, but we're always looking for another add-on to make it even more kick-ass. Enter CyberSearch, an update of AwesomeSearch which adds tons of search functionality to your browser. It even displays results right in the Awesome Bar's drop-down.

Search results without Adsense ads? Oh, it's possible.

CyberSearch also lets you set up keyword or letter patterns that tell it to restrict sites to specific URLs - preface your search with 'techy' and you'll only get results from Lifehacker, CyberNetNews(go figure), and Download Squad (we had nothing to do with that, we swear!).

Since it's built on Google's API, you're still getting the same results you'd get if you went to Google first anyways. Hello, efficiency!

You can download the extension from Mozilla's repository.

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]]>add-onaddonaddonsextensionfirefoxmozillamozillafirefoxsearchLee Mathews2008-07-02T13:00:00+00:00FireShot Does Browser Screencaps One Betterhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/fireshot-does-browser-screencaps-one-better/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/fireshot-does-browser-screencaps-one-better/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/fireshot-does-browser-screencaps-one-better/#commentsFiled under: Blogging, Freeware, Browser Tips, Browsers

The FireShot extension for Firefox is a powerful capture utility

Anyone that blogs about websites and has tried before knows that getting a decent screencap of a web page can be tricky. Enter FireShot, a Firefox extension that makes quality captures child's play.

Install the add-on and you're given FireShot creates a tiny menu on your navigation toolbar that gives quick access to full-page and visible area capture functions. It does a great job at rendering pages, even those with Flash animations. Support for saving as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and BMP is built-in, as well as exporting to just about any editor.

What really sets FireShot apart, though, is the integrated upload feature. Select it, and you can resize your image on-the-fly and post it to FireShot's free image hosting repository with minimal effort. If there's one feature that helps sell a piece of software to us, it's how much time and effort we can save by using. FireShot makes putting browser screencap online so easy we almost feel lazy doing it. Almost.

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]]>add-onaddonaddonsextensionfirefoxscreencapscreencaptureLee Mathews2008-07-01T20:00:00+00:00The power of PowerPoint in a flash moviehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/the-power-of-powerpoint-in-a-flash-movie/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/the-power-of-powerpoint-in-a-flash-movie/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/the-power-of-powerpoint-in-a-flash-movie/#commentsFiled under: Business, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Commercial, Freeware

Ever created a PowerPoint that everyone in your organization wanted a copy of? Sure you could go ahead and clog up your corporate email server with the 200MB + file or you could just convert your PowerPoint to a smaller flash file with iSpring and publish it to an internal or external website (slideboom account required) for others to view.

Converting your PowerPoint presentation to a flash movie couldn't be any easier as the iSpring installation puts the conversion buttons right in your PowerPoint menu bar. In addition to the one click conversion iSpring also allows for some customization such as generating HTML codes, looped and automatic playback, slide advance via mouse click as well as changing the duration of the slide.

iSpring comes in 3 flavors ranging from the free version which we tested on up to the Ultra version which allows the creation of E-learning content to additional playback controls. In our testing we found the free version more than adequate for most PowerPoint presentations.

So before you send that PowerPoint thru your company email, try converting it with iSpring instead.

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]]>flashpowerpointJoey Celis2008-07-01T11:00:00+00:00Optically challenged computers rejoice!http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/optically-challenged-computers-rejoice/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/optically-challenged-computers-rejoice/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/01/optically-challenged-computers-rejoice/#commentsFiled under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Virtual drive software isn't new, but with the recent surge of ultra portable notebooks that do not have built in optical drives this is a good time to go over one of the free emulation software out there, Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive.

For those that may not know, a virtual drive emulates a physical drive, in this case an optical drive. This way you can mount a disc image and use it as if a physical disc was inserted into an actual drive.

CloneDrive gives you the ability to mount up to 8 virtual drives at once. Simply right click the virtual drive under My Computer and select the image you would like to mount or just double click the image file itself.

One nice feature of CloneDrive is that it also shows a history of what's been mounted before making it easy to swap out images without the need to browse your computer.

Keep in mind that you will need to convert your CD/DVD to an image format before using CloneDrive. But once you have, loading programs are only a mouse click away.

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]]>emulationvirtualJoey Celis2008-07-01T10:00:00+00:00Cocoalicious: Browser for Del.icio.us bookmarkshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/cocoalicious-browser-for-del-icio-us-bookmarks/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/cocoalicious-browser-for-del-icio-us-bookmarks/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/cocoalicious-browser-for-del-icio-us-bookmarks/#commentsFiled under: Internet, Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware, Social Software, web 2.0

Cocoalicious is a really slick -- but, unfortunately, Mac-only -- dedicated browser for your Del.icio.us bookmarks. If you're a bookmarking junkie, and you have way more sites saved to Del.icio.us than you could ever hope to keep track of, this could be an ideal solution for you. It's laid out a bit like Apple Mail, with your tags running down the left side, your bookmarks on top, and a browser pane at the bottom.

You can put bookmarks directly into Cocoalicious -- it syncs with your Del.icio.us account -- or use the bookmarklet to add stuff to Cocoalicious straight from your browser. This way you can take advantage of autocompletion, tagging by dragging, and other features that make Del.icio.us easier. Cocoalicious also supports Spotlight, so you can search for your bookmarks straight from the Finder!

[via Lifehacker]

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]]>bookmarksCocoaliciousdel.icio.usdeliciousfolksonomyos xOsXtaggingJay Hathaway2008-06-30T14:00:00+00:00Windows Steady State Bulletproofs Your Systemhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/windows-steady-state-bulletproofs-your-system/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/windows-steady-state-bulletproofs-your-system/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/30/windows-steady-state-bulletproofs-your-system/#commentsFiled under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware

Windows StreadyState

So you're thinking, "Hey, I want to be totally irresponsible with my computer and load it up with crapware!" Really, isn't everyone getting tired of having to be so stinking responsible on the Internet all the time? We certainly are. We're ready for system protection that isn't afraid of our reckless browsing, indiscriminate downloading, and general apathy towards good computer usage habits.

...Which is why we love Windows Steady State. It creates a cache file in which your operating system operates, meaning any harmful changes can be undone by simply emptying the cache. After downloading it's a snap to install - just a few obligatory clicks and the usual EULA mumbo-jubmo and you're set.

Our first test was pretty a pretty low-intensity workout. We surfed, bookmarked, set up a POP account and downloaded a few messages, and cluttered up the desktop with a dozen or so hilariously named folders. After issuing the old Windows - U - R we waited anxiously for the system to reboot.

There it was, just as it had been before - no trace of any of our activity. The desktop was still tidy, no favorites or emails were anywhere to be seen. So far so good, but let's try some real abuse!

Continue reading Windows Steady State Bulletproofs Your System

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]]>freewareprivacysecuritysoftwarevirtualizationvistawindowswinxpxpLee Mathews2008-06-30T11:00:00+00:00NFReader: Light weight RSS reader, perfect for flash driveshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/nfreader-light-weight-rss-reader-perfect-for-flash-drives/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/nfreader-light-weight-rss-reader-perfect-for-flash-drives/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/nfreader-light-weight-rss-reader-perfect-for-flash-drives/#commentsFiled under: Internet, Windows, Freeware

NFReader

Remember back when the only software worth having was the kind that fit on a single floppy disk? NFReader would have fit right in. You know, if RSS and floppy disks had coexisted a bit longer. NFReader is an RSS reader for Windows that weighs in at less than 1MB. It also doesn't require installation, which makes it a perfect candidate for throwing on a USB flash drive.

You won't find a ton of features in NFReader. There's no way to tag, star, or share items. You can just mark articles as read or unread. But you do to choose whether you want to use HTML or just read the plain text versions of each article.

Like any good RSS Reader, NFReader will let you import or export OPML files. So if you typically use an online RSS reader like Google Reader or Bloglines, but want to test out a desktop reader, you can export your web-based feed list and import it in a matter of moments.

[via Lux.Et.Umbra]

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]]>nfreaderrssrss-readerBrad Linder2008-06-28T10:00:00+00:00