TitanTV offers one click PVR recording, Outlook .ics reminders and dozens of other fun features. Other options include 14 day programming search, reminders by RSS and favorite search by keyword. There are Stylish scripts available to tweak some visual settings too. TitanTV is free and registration is required for some of the more advanced options. Enjoy !
SABnzbd+ not only has an extremely geeky name, but it completely automates the complicated process of downloading files from Usenet. That is, if you don’t mind dealing with some python requirements.
Asian security companies might not be as famous as Western ones, but this doesn’t mean that they cannot develop good solutions. AhnLab is a less known company from Korea which delivers a surprisingly solid Internet Security Suite. To see how good it is, check out this review.
Security for Everyone – Reviewing AhnLab V3 Internet Security 8.0
The ASCII Generator lets you easily create those text designs that you always see in downloaded .nfo files. Just pop your text in the box and hit the button, and it’ll generate… you can also choose the "all fonts" item to see a list of every "font face".
It was only a matter of time before somebody came up with a way to search through google images and have them automatically convert into text. Toogle does this, although it only lets you find the first item in any search, so if you want to find a specific image in text you’ll have to do some crafty searching.
If you’ve done any programming work in Vista using Visual Studio 2005, you’ve probably already run into a problem where you opened a solution that requires VS to be in administrator mode in order to load the project. This especially happens for projects that require IIS access.
There’s a simple solution to this issue, just change the compability for vslauncher.exe to run as administrator. Nice and easy… hit the link for the details.
If you’ve ever tried to create your own apache .htaccess files to prevent hotlinking downloaders, or to lock out your website from hackers with a password, you should really try using HTAccessible, a simple GUI app for creating the files with a visual interface.
HTAccessible – Free software downloads and reviews – CNET Download.com
Ever get tired of clicking? Are you an ubergeek? If so, you should check out the latest version of the Mouseless Browsing extension, which lets you easily browse using just the keyboard. This update makes it work in Gmail, which was the reason I wasn’t using it before.
If you’ve never heard of the online VirusTotal scanning tool, then you’ve been missing out: You can upload a file to them and scan it with almost every virus scanning engine you can think of, to tell you if a file really has a virus or not.
This extension for Windows lets you just Send To \ VirusTotal to upload the files more easily.
VirusTotal – Free Online Virus and Malware Scan – Email/Uploader | via
If you are doing a lot of testing of different versions of Linux you typically download the LiveCD images of each one so you can “try it before you buy it”, so to speak. The problem is that you have to either burn them to disc or use an emulation platform like VMWare or VirtualBox. If you don’t want to bother setting all that up, you can use the simple MobaLiveCD application to run the LiveCD in a window, powered by the Qemu layer.
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