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TopDesk gives Exposé to Windows
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Is it Expose for OS X? Is it Flip for Vista? Actually, it's both ... TopDesk for Windows proves you don't need a billion dollar RD budget to create a better application switcher for XP.
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You say tomato, I say Spamato!
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Do you want to go into business being a direct-to-the-public reseller of leading erectile dysfunction drugs? No? Then you need a decent spam filter... and this open source, GPL-licensed filter is superbly effective.
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IM for political dissidents and privacy nuts
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Released by Hacktivismo, a subdivision of Cult of the Dead Cow, ScatterChat combines the Gaim instant messenger with end-to-end encryption and Tor, an open source onion router that disguises the origin and destination of packets.
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Adobe Lightroom beta hits the net
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Ask any PC dabbler. They inevitably want Windows, Office and 'Adobe Photoshop because they have a digital camera'. WTF?! Don't get me wrong, Photoshop is a fantastic power-tool, but dude, it's like, $1100, and you wouldn't want to pirate software right? Adobe has answered our prayers with Lightroom.
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An amazing free screensaver
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Electric sheep is an awesome grid-computing screensaver that was created by San Francisco-based video artist, Scott Draves. It's free, open-source, and generates inspiring fractal animations on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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Adobe's Flash new player less of a CPU hog
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Adobe has released its first major version of the Flash player since it took over the reigns from Macromedia. It is promising Version 9, code named Blaze is 10 times faster at certain tasks, making it less of a CPU hog than Flash 8.5.
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Opera 9: a foxier browser?
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The latest Opera browser has an inbuilt torrent client as well as 'gadgets' like the Mac OS X Dashboard or Yahoo Widgets. It's certainly the most impressive version of Opera yet and a serious competitor for Firefox.
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X1 Enterprise desktop search now free
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The world of free desktop search has scored another kill: the X1 Desktop Search Enterprise Client, once $US75 ($102.50), is now free. X1 is distinguished by its ability to index an incredible 370 file formats.
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Microsoft's Skype killer unveiled
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Windows Live Messenger 8 is out, and it's clear that Microsoft has Skype firmly in its sights. The MSN Messenger successor has a big focus on PC-to-landline and PC-to-PC calling along with a batch of other interesting features.
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Ringtones used for covert communication
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Next time an annoying teenager approaches you, turn your phone towards them and activate the mosquito. However, if you are over 25, beware: teenagers may turn it against you.
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Songbird takes flight, iTunes killer?
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If you're sick of the big memory footprint and CPU utilisation of iTunes or Windows Media Player, a new media player from the people who made Firefox is a promising new option.
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Firefox 2 alpha 3 ready for testing
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Mozilla has released the alpha 3 release of Firefox 2, codenamed Bon Echo. One of the key improvements in alpha 3 is microsummaries, which provides changing information attached to a bookmark.
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HOW TO: Rip an audio stream to a file
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Many of us no longer have a working tape recorder in the house, so recording a favourite radio program that you can't bear to miss isn't as easy as it once was. However, if the station also streams to the web, you may be in luck. There are quite a few tools that let you rip streaming media off the web. Here's how.
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Better Outlook searching
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Sure, Google Desktop Search is a better alternative to the grinding search of Outlook death. But it can't index offline PST files, meaning you have to keep all those archives open at all times. Thankfully, there is a better way.
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Top 5 best Firefox extensions
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The PCs at APC are so clogged with plug-ins and add-ons that the system tray often resembles a bowl of jelly beans being attacked with a stun gun. But even on a plain vanilla XP install, here are five Firefox extensions that you absolutely must not be without.
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