Category — Technology

I love the word free specially when it comes to software. Lifehacker Kevin Purdy posted a nice snippet about new free software available at donation coder. Apps include one that show info about your music library and another one to monitor your system for bugs plus plenty more to accomplish various things like the image to text converter is pretty cool. And the best is that its all FREE!!

Sling has annonced a couple of products during CES 2008 which include the SlingCatcher, SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem as pointed by Ryan Block over at Engadget. I am really interested in the new version of the SlingPlayer Software which provides a 60min cache feature which will really make it easy to forward and rewind which seems to be a drawback when using the current software.

Finally Amazon is getting up to speed and competing with more websites that offer software downloads as an alternative for waiting to get it in the mail. As pointed out by Lifehacker Adam Pash. Right now its windows only and you have install the application to your computer for it to work.

Lifehacker Adam Pash points to a new torrent search site called YouTorrent which is specially good for finding obscure files as it searches through all the popular torrent sites. As usual Lifehacker is always on top of the coolest stuff.

Lifehacker Adam Pash points to a really nice new website call WiiHealthy which incorporates 30 to 45mins of Wii Sports providing you with a 10 week plan to lose weight.

Lifehacker Kyle Pott points to a really cool project to help people tech or no tech savvy create websites. It’s Open Source Web Design and  seems like really great idea.

Lifehacker’s Adam Pash points to a really good article about protecting yourself from downloading fakes and junk torrent files.

Lifehacker points to New York Times article with Bruce Schneier answering questions regarding your computer security.

 Lifehacker article posted by Adam Pash points out to a really nice app called Codec Installer which analyzes video files and

 if you don’t have the proper codec to play the file and it find it for you over the internet. Sounds pretty cool.

Lifehack has a really nice article with detailed descriptions of web based desktops. 21 web based desktops to be exact which is very surprising cause I didn’t realize there were so many options available.