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Freeware of the Moment

It is time to add coverage of the hyper local problems of broadband, video franchising, and other issues such as problems faced by municipalities. Patrick Hynes focuses on the battle between Cablevision and Verizon in the New York’s Long Island region. And if somewhere along … Read More »

Freeware of the moment: Web Developer for previewing native UPMC resolutions

Web Developer is actually a Firefox extension and literally has tons of key functionality to assist in website development. Given the UMPC motif lately, I’ll suggest it for folks that want to get a quick and dirty feel for web browsing in 800 x … Read More »

 
 

Freeware of the Moment- Pod CityGuides

If you are ever travelling to a city you have never visited you might be interested in todays Freeware of the Moment.  Pod CityGuides provides detailed information about 300 cities world-wide and offers them for download to be put on any 3rd generation or later … Read More »

Freeware of the Moment- YamiPod

Have an iPod but don’t like iTunes?  Want to control your iPod from Windows, OS X, or Linux?  You should check out our Freeware of the Moment, YamiPod.  This free program lets you control your iPod directly from the device, and in 21 languages at … Read More »

Freeware of the moment: Visual Directory Explorer

I just reclaimed over 57 gigabytes of storage capacity on my Windows Media Center Edition desktop. How did I do it? I needed some help, actually. The 250 GB drive was only showing about 60 GB free and I knew full well that I … Read More »

Free service of the moment: PXN8

James occasionally has a "Freeware of the moment", so I thought to shake things up with a free service instead. PXN8.com is a fantastic online service that allows you to … Read More »

Freeware of the Moment- Windows Marketplace

Today’s Freeware of the Moment is not a program, it’s actually an entire site. The Windows Marketplace is a site run by Microsoft and there are dozens of free commercial games available. A lot of the games are not that old and should … Read More »

BubbleShare, Simply Bubbly

By Jackson West When he’s not busy having lunch with Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates, Albert Lai is a passionate evangelist for his product, BubbleShare. The software, which allows you to quickly and easily create photo slide shows with voice and text notes and … Read More »

Money Money Money

Apparently, it is raining cash in Silicon Valley. John Battelle and the FM crew raised more cash from JP Morgan Partners, now knows as Panorama Capital. They are also investors in Vyatta, an open source router company I wrote about a few days ago, and recently … Read More »

Origami What?

The memetrackers are buzzing with this new device being planned by Microsoft, code-named Origami Project. Microsoft’s new toy that will change everything comes out later this week, but the buzz around it is as loud as an Aerosmith concert. Even The New … Read More »

Freeware of the Moment- RoboForm

Today’s Freeware of the Moment is a utility that is always running on my Tablet PC. RoboForm fills in web forms and passwords with the click of the pen (or mouse) and learns as it goes so you can easily log into secure sites … Read More »

Freeware of the Moment- TaskBlaze

A lot of people like to keep track of how much time they work on their tasks and those that use Outlook can benefit from a task time tracker that will record that time back in the task. Our Freeware of the Moment is a … Read More »

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The ability to burn ISO CD images is very useful at times but something that Windows XP cannot do. ISO Recorder is a simple and free utility that adds ISO image burning support for Windows XP SP2 and later. In Vista it adds … Read More »

Its a plane, Its a bird, no….. its FIOS TV. Despite a lot of noise about Verizon’s FIOS TV, Texans are having a hard time signing up for the service which is going to change the world. And those who have managed to … Read More »

Program author Ian Weiner has informed me a new version of GeckoTIP is now available and the new functionality makes it a Freeware of the Moment. GeckoTIP is the utility that enables the Tablet PC Text Input Panel (TIP) in Firefox so Tablet PC users … Read More »

Andy channels Aswath and they together point out that Skype+Netgear could have some serious ramifications. “Given that Skype is now ported to embedded devices, non-Skype users need to make sure that the router itself has not become a supernode,” writes Aswath. Andy calls is … Read More »

11.56PM: In case you were wondering, no I did not get lazy, or keel over. Instead, I was busy with the server transition. We have move to a better and cleaner “apartment” so to speak, thanks to our server land-lords, RackSpace, and hopefully have … Read More »

Use Skype but don’t want to spring for paid extras just to get voicemail? Those media streaming folks at Orb have launched V4S (voicemail for Skype, get it?) that allows you to send voice messages to any email or Skype contact, and retrieve your … Read More »

Photo Matt, aka WordPress Matt has launched Automattic . Automattic is a bootstrapped startup from a handful of people passionate about ….. WP, Akismet, bbPress, and WordPress.com Read More »

Updated: A few weeks ago, I had a healthy and civilized debate with the gents from 37Signals (followed subsequently with a podcast with questionable sound quality) on the issue of scale and scalability. I laid out my case, they responded with … Read More »

Having had a chance to sleep over the whole Yahoo-del.icio.us thing, a few thoughts…. 300,000 is the number of del.icio.us users. When Flickr sold out, it had about 250,000 users. I think this reinforces that even in Web 2.0 Scale & Size Matters. Future … Read More »

Maybe this will put those baseless rumors of BellSouth buying Vonage to rest. The Atlanta-based bell operating company has teamed up with 8×8 Inc and will use Packet8 as a “private label provider” for its BellSouth Digital Phone service. Andy had alluded … Read More »

This one snuck right under the radar. Microsoft has released the MS Location Finder which is pretty cool: Microsoft Location Finder is a client-side application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or PC into a location determining device without the addition of any separate … Read More »

NBC Gets on Board with iTunes, brings my favorite TV show online. Read More »

Everybody needs a good screen capture program, especially anyone who blogs regularly. Even if you don’t, sending a screen grab to a tech support person can often be the easiest and quickest way to explain your problem. FGWndGrab is a free utility that … Read More »

Paint.NET is simply the best free alternative to Photoshop and the recently released version 2.5 Rc2 earns it a repeat spot on my Freeware of the Moment list. The developers have added so many new features to this new version that it would require … Read More »

So you use iTunes but don’t have an iPod to sync your fave tunes with? Just download the free iTunes plug-in BadApple and you can instantly sync your entire library with any MP3 player that mounts as a USB mass storage device. If … Read More »

Scoble has finally figured out that user generated content is another way of saying (digital) slave generated content. Read More »

I love iTunes and the advanced library management tools inherent in the program. Now that iTunes is a very nice podcatcher I use it almost exclusively for handling my music library. There are still some features that I always wished Apple would integrate into … Read More »

NowPos, yet another voice to email service. Like Waxmail. via Aswath Weblog Read More »

I stay in OneNote all day and anything that makes the powerful program even more useful is great. Any utility that does that and is free just makes my day. It also makes my Freeware of the Moment list so here it is. … Read More »

You can never have enough high quality fonts that look good everywhere, especially on web sites. Vitaly Friedman has compiled a list of 25 fonts that are license-free that can be freely used in your documents. Some of these look really nice so … Read More »

The big mergers have finally been concluded, and there is a lot of people who are wondering what BellSouth’s future is going to be. BellSouth CEO Duane Ackerman had rejected an overture from SBC, according to USA Today. He had waffled on a … Read More »

Light Reading: Level 3, Cogent Kiss & Peer Up Read More »

A few months ago, I had written a piece about the coming of mobile television, (which is different from what folks like MobiTV already do) and the competition between Nokia and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. MediaFLO essentially is a parallel wireless network that uses 700-Megahertz spectrum to … Read More »

Oh now keeping in with this week’s previous posts, here are some “mandatory Google update.” In case you were looking here is a little job posting for Google TV. Also there is news that Google is leasing 270,000 square feet in a Chelsea telecom … Read More »

Well, Skype CEO and newly minted billionaire, Niklas Zennstrom just learnt the horrible truth about Skype – something we Skype users have known all along. It ain’t perfect. Apparently, he was muffled by a bad connection, when trying to Skype in his keynote speech over … Read More »

Thank You. The readers and the community got me here, now I hope I have the energy to continue. But one more time – thank you all! Meanwhile, Sumit Chachra has won the “March to 5000 post” contest. His guess was closest to the actual … Read More »

Pocket PC Thoughts tells you how to bring some nice juicy MSN’s Virtual Earth goodness to your Pocket PC. It should rock on a WiFi enabled device, I am pretty sure. My project for tomorrow! Read More »

Bloggers drive trends, mainstream media ratifies them, say SteveG and Rafat Ali. Here is their podcast about being a media hub. Read More »

What’s next from Google? Google Wallet?, the much awaited PayPal killer. There is the same 404 error on the Google Wallet page as we saw in Google Talk! (Of course this could be one big load of c..p)Good work, Google Rumors. … Read More »

Microsoft has a free PowerToy that does not show up anywhere on the Microsoft Download Center yet provides a simple way to mount ISO images.  The Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP will mount a number of CD image formats, including the popular ISO, … Read More »

You’ve seen versions of Linux that run off CD that can be used as full Linux systems and are especially useful for recovering from boot problems, even on Windows XP computers.  You’ve seen those live CD distros and thought to yourself, wouldn’t it be wonderful … Read More »

Not having learned the lessons from Slate and MSNBC, Microsoft is once again flirting with content. This time, by launching a blog media network. Essentially what it is doing is taking a page from Jason and Nick’s playbook, and copying it. Unfortunately, at first blush, this … Read More »

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