If you’ve forgot the password of your instant messenger account or you just want to crack your girlfriends password, use MessenPass. It works with: Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ Lite, Trillian, Digsby and many other clients.
I’m pretty sure all geeks visiting our site work on different types of projects. One effective tool to define the deliverables of a project is to create a mind map. After trying out lots of mind mapping software, I’ve found a favorite – XMind. It does all the basics right, looks great, can save to different formats and it is open-source.
If you are interested in a solution which helps you manage your windows and multi-screen configuration, then try Acer Gridvista. It provides custom configuration for each monitor and a wide variety of presets for managing open windows. Definitely recommended to corporate geeks, working with many data inputs in parallel.
Acer Gridvista Information Page | Acer Gridvista Download Page
Use Firefox? Download videos off the Internet? If the answer is Yes to both of those questions, you might want to check out Video DownloadHelper. It’s a Firefox add-on that lets you easily download videos from many different sites like YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Movie2k, and more.
MovieMonitor tracks free, rentable and for purchase movies from 9 different sites. Sign up and pick a movie you’d like to watch and MovieMonitor will scan Amazon, Blockbuster, Comcast’s Fancast, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix and more for availability and price. While many selections are free, all movies will link to the above sites to make for a very streamlined experience. Sort by film, actor or director.
For all iPhone geeks, Microsoft has launched the free Bing application for iPhone. Some of the main features include:
- voice search;
- maps – showing multiple locations on a single map;
- Bing image of the day.
Want to know more? Check out the announcement from Microsoft and take the app for a spin.
Are you someone who likes to dig really deep into the hardware configuration of your computer? If so, HWiNFO32 is probably the best program ever for getting detailed system hardware information on the processor, hard drives, video cards, network cards, OS, and more.
Piriform, producers of popular apps CCleaner, Defraggler and Recuva, introduces Speccy, a 1MB download that will help you determine your computer’s basic hardware and software configuration. Though not as comprehensive as SIW or Belarc, this tiny tool will come in handy.
Download Speccy v1.00.057 beta From Piriform
via Neowin
Ever wanted a drive letter icon to pop up on your desktop when you plug in a flash drive? Desktop Media adds this feature without a lot of bloat.
Yeah, the title was a little sarcastic, but this application is actually rather useful. It prompts you every so often to take a break for a short amount of time, and even shows you how to do some exercises that will help prevent RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury).
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