Archive for the ‘Downloads’ Category

Breakaway

Posted on March 29th, 2008 in For Macs, Tech News, Downloads | 2 Comments »

No…we haven’t all of a sudden started to listen and idolize Kelly Clarkson…
Breakaway is an app for a mac!
Amazing :P
What happens is, when your headphones become unplugged, Breakaway will auto pause your itunes music. I know, this is kinda useless, but idk, a bit nifty. Saves you from having to pause it :P
Breakaway

Configuration Mania for FF

Posted on March 29th, 2008 in Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

I really want to know how many of you have gone into the guts of FF and been totally overwhelmed by the number of configuration options. The about:config page is just absolutely insane. Really powerful, but insane at the same time.
To help you….theres Configuration Mania. Its a firefox plugin that organizes most of the options available in about:config. Sure, there are still some other options that aren’t there, but really, those probably aren’t going to be used very often.
Check it out: Configuration Mania

Random Utility: IE Retitler

Posted on March 25th, 2008 in Time Wasters, Dumb Things That Happen, Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

This is a REALLY useless utility. This isn’t even like there’s a possible use for it, this program honestly, was made because it COULD be made.
IE Retitler does exactly what it says. It lets you retitle the screens of IE to whatever you want.
Funny…there aren’t any preferences, plugins, or help files. Really…all you can do with it is leave cute messages to yourself when you glance down at your taskbar or the IE bar. Have fun with it :P
Check it out: Brenton Fletcher’s Portfolio

To be frank though, there are some pretty nice little apps in this portfolio. Have fun flipping through it and downloading a few :)

Just…EndItAll!

Posted on March 24th, 2008 in Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

Indeed…sometimes, I have these bouts of insaneness and I open up task manager, and start killing memory hogging processes. This usually takes some time as I scroll through XP’s 60ish processes and Vista’s obscene 100 processes. Well…I shall do that no longer!
What you do with this little app is mark up system and critical processes, etc, that you want to keep. Press the big kill button and everything else goes poof!
However, what you really want to do before you do this, is know what you’re killing first. Because, honestly, for your own sanity, don’t kill processes you dont even know :P
First, figure out what all those nasty processes are, THEN do this. ;-)
Check it out: EndItAll

TouchPadPro

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

For all you people who have risked it and jailbroke your iphone, and it’s not a brick yet…heres a pretty awesome little app for your phone.
You can control your PC or Mac with your iphone/ipod touch. It’s essentially a touchpad with all the needs of a touchpad :P

Enough said, check out the link:
Touchpad Pro

Capster

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Downloads | No Comments »

An interesting application for today…this little app starts applications at startup according to if your Caps Lock button is on or off.
I know, this sounds a bit weird and probably useless…but…think about this.
For example, most people, open up IE (GASP) or FF, outlook, etc, once their computer turns on. Its kinda like your default workspace. Well…what if some days, you honestly just want to check something real quick and don’t want everything popping up, while most days you want everything there?
Capster! Set it so all your daily programs run if caps lock isn’t on, and if caps lock IS on, nothing loads. That way, when you’re logging in, you can determine how much stuff you want to load when you login. It could come in nifty :P

Check it out: Capster

Computer Virus Visualizations

Posted on March 8th, 2008 in Time Wasters, Photos/Videoes, Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Downloads, Tech News, Lacking a Category | 1 Comment »

Ever wondered what the code to a computer virus looks like?

Neither have I. But this guy has taken the actual source code of common computer viruses and turned it into a visual image of each computer virus.
I’d like to know more about how he did it, but the article doesn’t say, it just includes some very cool pictures.

Computer Virus Visualization

Noise Removal

Posted on March 6th, 2008 in Photos/Videoes, Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

No….it doesn’t remove all the noise that you hear while you’re trying to concentrate, although that would be REALLY nice.
This little program removes digital noise from photographs. This is really obvious when you’re either taking a photograph at high zoom (when camera starts digital extrapolating) or when you’re taking photos at night and you have a high ISO on. Its all the little red and yellow dots that appear over the image. This program learns as it fixes noise and removes it to provide a much cleaner image. Now…sadly, this thing is one of the few programs that is posted at flashladybug that…isn’t free :(
However, you can clear up a few photos using the trial edition which is for 15 days, or buy the full version for 20 bucks. Still kind of sad that it isn’t free. I had expected the standard edition to be free and the profession ed to be paid…but such is not the case.
Check it out: Imagenomic

Instant Eyedropper Tool

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 in Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

Funny how some of these programs pop up just when you need em.
Instant Eyedropper tool is a nifty little thing for graphic artists and web designers out there. I’m sure lots of other people could use it…but lets face it, who really needs hex code for colors other than graphic artists and web designers? :)

This thing sits in your tray, when you find a color you want to know the code for, you go and click and drag from the little circle in your tray. Drag it to the color you want to know about, and just let go. Result? Your clipboard now has the hex code in it. Just paste and off we go :)

If you don’t want it to auto pop into your clipboard, thats in the options too. Now, it will just display the hex code above the cursor.

Nifty little tool, and…its free as usual!
Check it out: Instant Eyedropper

Nubs

Posted on February 28th, 2008 in Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Tech News, Downloads | No Comments »

Here’s an interesting little program that I have found to be quite nice for the few days I’ve had it. Nubs allows you to use all 4 sides of your monitor as “taskbars.” When you drag a window to one of the sides, it makes a little “nub” on the side that looks like the taskbar minimized window. So, right now, I have firefox on the top of my screen, aim windows on my left, and the rest on the normal taskbar. This lets me organize a bit better, and I dont know, I seem to like it :P
Give it a shot, Nubs