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I have an old Samsung i730 cellphone running Windows Mobile 2005. I have long wanted to watch podcasts on it, but I have never really found a good way of doing so. But now I finally have something that seems to work. I have downloaded Apple’s iTunes software for my Windows XP PC. In iTunes [...]

Lifehacker has a list of the Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools. They have polled their readers, and the winner is Recuva. Recuva is free to both personal and commercial use, and it runs on Windows from 98 to Vista. The Recuva developers are currently working Windows 7 and 64 bit support.

On May 3, 2009 Independent Online Cinema released The Hunt For Gollum. It is a 40 minute film inspired by Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings, and by Peter Jackson’s filmatization of it. The actors in The Hunt For Gollum even look like the ones in Peter Jackson’s movies. In The Hunt For Gollum [...]

The gHacks blog has a post about the 5 Things Linux does better than Windows. Reading it got me thinking about a situation I had recently. I had close to 40 thousand text files, and I needed a list of all unique files. I wouldn’t even know how to attach that problem in Windows. With [...]

Are you planning a road trip in America this summer? If so, you may want to check out Lonely Planet’s new guidebook series “US Trips”. There are six books in the series covering different parts of the United States: Arizona New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Trips California Trips The Carolinas Georgia & the South [...]

VLC Media Player version 0.9.9 has been released. It is mainly a bug-fix release. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform media play. It supports a large number of multimedia formats, and it can stream sound and video between computers. VLC is one of my favorite media players. I especially like how it can [...]

Instacalc is a web application that gives you a fully functional calculator right in your browser. It supports unit and currency conversions, and it can do trig and log functions. You can embed live calculations in a website. For example, I have embedded some simple calculations below, and you can modify them as you wish. [...]

Ubiquity is Mozilla’s new tool that adds a command line to Firefox. We reported on it back in August 2008. Since then there have been a number of enhancement and upgrades to it. It is a very useful tool. In fact, it is so useful that I often wish I could use it from anywhere [...]

A while ago, Google bought GrandCentral, but then we haven’t heard anything from them until now. GrandCentral is emerging as Google Voice. It is Google’s way of letting you do more with your phone calls. You can, for example, have one phone number that will ring both your home phone and your cell phone. You [...]

Gmail has added an “Undo Send” feature reports Wired, Lifehacker, and Mashable. The Official Gmail Blog explains that the “Undo Send” feature can be found in the Labs section of your Gmail account. Enable it, and you get five seconds after each time you send a message to undo the action.