Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5
Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Search, its free desktop search client the other day. And while there are dozens of excellent desktop search clients, including a few good free ones, it seems inevitable that people are going to compare Windows Search to Google Desktop. Because you know, any time either company releases something [...]
Sobees widget engine launches private beta
While we often find ourselves thinking “the last thing this world needs is another desktop widget engine,” we might be willing to make an exception for Sobees. While we’d forgive you if you mistook Sobees as nothing but a desktop widget engine like Google Desktop, Yahoo! Widget Engine, or Vista’s gadgets and the Dashboard in [...]
Google turns off the lights for Earth Hour today
Google users in the US, UK, Canada, and a handful of other countries will notice that the page has gone black today. Do not adjust your monitors, this is intentional. Google is trying to draw attention to Earth Hour, an initiative to convince people to use less energy. Now here’s the thing, last year there [...]
How To Jump To Favorite Folders In File Open Save Dialogs [DirectFolder]
Quite sometime back we had spoken about how to add your favorite folder to your file open / save dialogs and also followed it up with a trick on how to access multiple favorite folders with a simple click in the file / open save dialogs. Those tricks are still very much useful but if [...]
How to Install Toolbars in Firefox
Firefox comes with Bookmark and Navigation toolbars built into the program. These toolbars provide necessary functions, but you may be wanting more from your browser. To have more, you can download install toolbars, such as the Google toolbar. Things You’ll Need:
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How to Add Songs From a CD to an iPod
With the rise of the iPod, compact discs are quickly going out of style. Now an entire music collection can fit in the palm of your hand. But don’t start using those CDs as coasters just yet–hang on to your favorite tunes by taking a few minutes to add songs from a CD to an [...]
Yahoo! Messenger 3 adds voice, in beta
Our friends on the Yahoo! Messenger team dropped us a note alerting us to their newly released Yahoo! Messenger 3 Beta 3 for the Mac. What’s the big news with this beta? As you might recall previous betas made Messenger a Universal Binary and added tabbed chats. New in this beta: voice calling. That’s right, [...]
Fedora 9 beta Linux distro released
Fedora 9 beta is available for download today, with a final release scheduled for April 29. The latest version of the free (as in beer) cousin of Red Hat Linux comes with a number of major updates, including support for the latest versions of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments. Here are a few highlights: [...]
Google Docs Gets a Menu
After updating the toolbar, Google Docs replaced the tabbed interface with a traditional menu. The File menu looks cleaner and integrates the revision history, the Edit includes some of the options that are missing from the toolbar (cut/copy/paste) and also the HTML code editor. It’s amazing to see that Find & Replace is still in [...]
