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Giveawayoftheday.com has a fantastic piece of software up for grabs today.  Evernote (beta), which is an application that allows you to take notes, web clipping, images, etc. and keep them in order.  This new version (still in beta) also allows you to synchronize your notes with other computers that you have Evernote installed on. 
There [...]

SkinStudio 6 was released today! SkinStudio is a free application designed to easily create skins for WindowBlinds for both Windows XP and Vista.
“SkinStudio 6 is a complete rewrite of previous versions of the program. Over time, as the number of elements of Windows that could be changed increased, the older [...]

Defraggler is a new utility I discovered recently, and it comes from the same folks who make CCleaner. One of the big benefits of this application is that it lets you select files or folders to defrag, not just the entire drive. I have used it on several Vista machines, and the defrag [...]

FriendFeed popped out of nowhere for me.  I hadn’t heard or seen of it until I saw a blog post from Robert Scoble.  With so many networks out there like Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, etc. it’s sometimes hard to keep track of all the people you follow.  FriendFeed helps out by displaying what exactly your friends [...]

For anyone who has an iPhone, or an iPod Touch for that matter, I’m sure you know all about web applications that were designed specifically for the iPhone.  Apple.com has a dedicated section of web apps where people can submit their own, and it’s a great place to find some of the best.  The list is [...]

I read this PressPass article this morning from Microsoft. Apparently Microsoft plans to reduce the prices on several versions of retail editions of Vista with the launch of SP1.
“Since its release, Windows Vista has seen solid sales through the first year of availability, primarily through the sale of new PCs. Stand-alone retail sales, while not [...]

This past Sunday I discovered a trojan on my main desktop PC. Later on that day I discovered it had also made its way to my laptop. It had disabled some Windows applications, and just to be on the safe side I decided to just back up my data, and restore a disk image with [...]

After being in beta for quite a while, Microsoft officially released Windows Live SkyDrive. During the beta testing users had up to 1GB of online storage, but today it was upped to a whopping 5GB! In addition to the increased storage, SkyDrive also rolled out in 35 countries as well.
I have been using [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about the release of CursorFX, which is the replacement for CursorXP. CursorFX allows you to easily and safely change your Windows cursor to one of the thousands already available for download.
The original release was a little bumpy, so today an update was released that fixed a host of [...]

Stardock has released Tweakvista 1.1. TweakVista has become one of the most popular tweaking tools for Windows Vista. It lets users safely “tweak” various Vista system settings to let users get Vista running to their desired preference.
TweakVista 1.1 is merely the first step on the journey to let users start tweaking Vista themselves. [...]