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16 (or so) apps I'm thankful for

It's Thanksgiving day for those of you in the United States, time to reflect upon the things for which you're truly thankful. While I'm sure there are many more noble things to list, this is Downloadsquad, after all, and what would be more fitting than a list of programs I appreciate?

16. Cabos. I rarely use a Gnutella client any more. When there is the odd song stuck in my head that necessitates a one-off download, Cabos is what I use. It's got a clean, simple interface, and it works - and that's really all I'm after.

15. Flash Player. Damn you, Adobe. Now that v10 has taken care of some of the CPU and memory issues, it's hard to begrudge Flash. There are just way, way too many addictive little games and excellent web applications that have been built using it.

14. FastCopy. My boss also runs a DJ business, and transferring his multi-hundred gig library from drive to drive was starting to drive me insane. After stupidly giving Windows a crack at the job once, I quickly hunted down a better tool for the job. FastCopy with the buffer cranked up made (relatively) short work of the task.

13. Find and Run Robot. It's not quite a flashy as the more popular Launchy, but it's much lighter on resources and gets the job done just as well. There are also tons of great extensions for it. For those who swear by the power of the keyboard, FARR is a must have.

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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Web services, Social Software

Blog editors compared, voted on

Blog editors compared, voted onWe asked you which RSS readers you use, and we even asked why you might not use RSS at all. Now Lifehacker has gone and posted the results of a poll they ran of which blog editors their readers use to create content for all those RSS feeds. Not surprisingly, online editors (what I would assume are the editors from each respective blogging service) won by a landslide. With the easy option out of the way, however, desktop blog editors followed in this editor: Performancing, w.bloggar, ecto (my personal favorite, since it fares a bit better on Mac OS X) and BlogJet.

What do you DLS readers think? Does Performancing simply not cut the cake, or is ecto the last editor you'd ever touch? Sound off.

Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, Browser Tips

What are your favorite Firefox add-ons?

Firefox Add-onsWhat is your favorite, most cherished Firefox add-on? Some of mine are Gmail Manager, Colorzilla, IEtab, Download StatusBar, Viamatic Foxpose, Performancing, Tab Mix Plus, GooglePreview, Googlepedia, AdBlock, FlashBlock, Gmail Skins, and DownThemAll. What makes the best mix of Firefox add-ons is never the same for anyone. Everyone has different preferences and tastes obviously. This is why Firefox has advantages over IE, since IE is not customizable by any means. Your personal style can be adapted to Firefox, not IE particularly. I understand the need for security and privacy online, which is Microsoft's reason for locking down the UI so much, but can't we have security without losing that precious functionality we all crave so much? So, security issues aside, if you were stranded on a dessert island with nothing but Firefox, and only 5 add-ons, what would they be? What are your personal top five that take all the other extensions milk money? Which five reign supreme? You decide.

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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